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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A34155	The Complaining testimony of some (though weak and of the least) of Sions children in this day of their sore calamity occasioned at their meeting to seek the Lord at Abingdon in Barkshire the second day of the eighth month, 1656 : being a short narrative of the inhumane dealings of some officers and souldiers who said they had order from their lord for so doing.		1656 (1656)	Wing C5611; ESTC R29672	6,804	10

THE Complaining Testimony of some though weak and of the least of Sions Children in this day of their sore Calamity occasioned at their Meeting to seek the Lord at Abingdon in Barkeshire the second day of the eighth MONTH 1656. Being a short NARRATIVE Of the inhumane dealings of some OFFICERS and SOULDIERS who said They had Order from their LORD for so doing Mal. 3. 15 16. And now we call the proud happy yea they that work wickedness are set up yea they that tempt God are delivered Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another and the Lord hearkned and heard and a book of remembrance was written for them that feared the Lord and thought upon his Name Act. 7. 34. I have seen I have seen the afflictions of my people I have heard their groanings and am come down to deliver them LONDON Printed for Livewel Chapman at the Crown in Popes-head-Alley 1656. To the faithful Remnant of the Womans seed who keep the Commandments of God and the Testimony of Jesus together with every Impartial Reader WHen the Lord did first engage our hearts to wait upon him according to the ensuing Relation it was much upon some of our spirits that we should see the glory of God though we could not apprehend the manner of his appearance much less could we in the least suppose his answer would be as after was manifest But the onely-wise God who knoweth how to order all things for his glory can make the wrath of man praise him and the remainder thereof rest●ain upon which account the ensuing Relation being thought necessary to be published is presented to your perusal hoping that as experience of his goodness hath been some refreshment unto us who have subscribed the same being all of us personally present some at the one part others at the other part of the transactions therein mentioned and sufferers in some degree or other in the same it will administer some refreshment unto you also that we may be thereby united with on● heart in one common Cause though contemned despised and reproached by those who did formerly walk with us hand in hand therein from which they have so openly Apostatized and also what you and we must expect from them unless the Lord should leave us to betray him with a kiss as they have done But we trust that relying upon his grace he will keep us by his mighty power through faith unto the day of salvation when we shall with rejoycing say Lo this is our God we have waited for him we will be glad and rejoyce in his salvation Your poor unworthy brethren desirous to be found faithful in this day of Zions tribulation Of the Ch. at Abi. John Tomkins Iohn Combes Simon Mayo Edw. Stennet Plalip Lockton William White Rich. Green Rich. Terrel Simon Peck Of the Ch. at Oxf. Rich. Tidmarsh Rich. Quelch Of Hull Thom. Cann Pet. Tindal Of London Iohn Pugh Iohn Green Fran. Walton Ioseph Neat Tho. Buttivan Ric. Parnham Iohn Rye Rich. Denton Tho. Whe●ler Iohn Tusucl Ioh. Portmans Iohn Clark Iohn Armiger Iohn Woodly Fran Young David Parry Iohn Clements Iohn Iones● Iohn Waters Hen. Forty of Tatnes Churches Rich. Steed of Dartmouth Churches George Allom of Exeter Churches Of Northwalsham● Hen. Simmons Thomas Ruddock Tho. Hide Tho. Helsden William Wainsord of Norwich Fran Langden of Cornwal Hen. Preston A Word to such of the Army especially those of 〈…〉 Troops as are in any measure sensible of the 〈…〉 this DAY and mourning for the same IT was and is still upon our hearts that the Lo 〈…〉 grieved for the great transgressions of the Sodomitish generation among whom they live might be delivered before the judgements of the Lord break forth for if his wrath be kindled yea but a little blessed are all they that trust in him and therefore for your sakes was this short Epistle penned to the end that if the Lord so please you might be no longer deceived with vain words by those from whom you do suppose that the great things you first engaged for on the behalf of Christ and his people might be attained and that they might return from whence they are fallen and do their first works though the bottom upon which they now stand seems to us to give little ground of hopes for any such thing for men do not gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles Besides they persecute that Spirit appearing in any of those who are but enquiring the way to Zion with their faces thitherward witness the many prisoners now suffering for the Cause of our Lord Jesus besides the cruel usage of others mentioned in this ensuing Relation This therefore we desire to leave with you in the fear of the Lord That you would flee out from the midst of them and deliver every man his soul that you may escape the judgments of God and be free from the blood of your brethren which you will unavoidably be involved in so far as we can discern if you continue in your present station as some have been already in these last transactions and if so as you partake of their sins you will partake of their plagues Thus leaving you to the perusal of this Relation hoping that it may be of some use either to convince or else to leave this further Testimony That if you perish your blood will be upon your own heads though it be otherwise longed for and prayed for by Your unworthy brethren mourning with you and praying for your return Of Northwalsham Hen. Simons Thomas Ruddock Robert Hide Tho. Helsden Of Norwich Will. Waynford Of Cornwal Fran Langden Of Hull Tho. Cann Peter Tindal Of London John Pugh John Green Fran Walton Jos Neat. Tho. Buttivant Rich Parnham John Rye Rich De●●● Tho Whce●●● John Tu●●d John Portmans John Clarke John Armiger John Woodly David 〈◊〉 〈…〉 The complaining Testimony of some of Sions children though most unworthy or A short Narrative of the inhumane dealings of some Officers and Souldiers at Abingdon the second day of the eighth Month 1656. IT having pleased the Lord to take unto himself a choice and eminent Servant of his to wit Joh. Pendarves Minister of the Gospel and Pastor of that Congregation at Abingdon whose interring we did meet to solemnize the 30th of the 7th Month that being one end of our coming together judging it our duty to perform the last office of love to so faithful a Servant as he was indeed a Prince in Israel who did in his life time naturally care for Sions welfare wholly giving himself up unto the Lord's work and hereby a price and oportunity was put into our hands to bring many of the Lord's people together from several parts of the Nation in this dark and gloomy day to seek his face for the understanding of his minde and will what his Remnant remaining faithful in this great day of Apostacy ought to do To which end there were several heads agreed upon according to which they