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A91466	The fruits of a fast, appointed by the churches gathered against Christ and his kingdom, who go about to mock God with their outside-worship, and appointed fasts, and dayes of voluntary humiliation. Or, A declaration of the persecution of a messenger of the Lord, by a people who go under the name of Independants, in Essex, who have set themselves in the enmity of their spirits to oppose the truth of God, calling it a lye, and persecuting his messengers as deceivers, and wanderers, wherein their persecuting spirits is made manifest, and them to be in Cains generation, and stranges to the spirit of Christ, which vener persecuted, and so are noen of his, Rom.8:9. And also, of the unjust dealing of Judge Hills, ... And also, severall queries, that was sent ot the priests and magistrates, shich may be serviceable for them, or any other to answer, whom they do concern. / By ... James Parnell.	Parnell, James, 1637?-1656.	1655 (1655)	Wing P530; Thomason E854_14; ESTC R207483	31,427	32

THE FRVITS OF A FAST Appointed by the Churches gathered against Christ and his Kingdom who go about to mock God with their outside-Worship and appointed Fasts and Dayes of Voluntary Humiliation Or A Declaration of the persecution of a Messenger of the Lord by a people who go under the name of Independants in Essex who have set themselves in the enmity of their Spirits to oppose the Truth of God calling it a lye and persecuting his Messengers as Deceivers and Wanderers wherein their persecuting Spirits is made manifest and them to be in Cains Generation and strangers to the Spirit of Christ which never persecuted and so are none of his Rom. 8.9 And also of the unjust dealings of Judge Hills who sate upon life and death at the last Assizes at Chansford which began upon the eleventh day of the sixth month And also Severall queries that was sent to the Priests and Magistrates which may be serviceable for them or any other to Answer whom they do concern By a VVitness and sufferer in outward Bonds for the unchangeable Truth of God by Cains Generation who am known to them by the name in Colchester Castle JAMES PARNELL LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert and are to be sold at his Shop at the Black-spread-Eagle neer the West-end of Pauls 1655. THE FRUITS OF A FAST appointed by the Churches gathered against Christ and his Kingdome c. FIRST I shall give unto the Reader a declaration of the work of God in my Soul and the conversion of my heart from darkness unto his marvelous Light and from the power of Satan unto God and out of the path of death into the path of Life where I now walk in the Light of my God with the Ransomed of the Lord who are travelling towards the Holy City and also the cause of my coming forth into the World to declare the truth for which I now suffer Bonds by the persecuting Generation wherein I once lived a Child of wrath as all are by nature and when I was loved of the world while I followed the vain courses and wayes of the world where by nature I was led in imitation of others being in that nature which is prone unto the same the time I was sent unto the Schools of humane learning for to learn the humane wisdome for which end the Schooles are profitable but for the attaining of heavenly wisdom and knowledg they are as far unprofitable and many bookes that are there read are much for the corrupting of youth and the nourishing of the wild prophane nature which then ruled in me and I was as wild as others during the time I followed the School and after I was taken from the School I stil continued in the same nature growing and encreasing in sin and iniquity following the vain courses of the wicked world also was trayned up in the customary way of the worship of the world which is held in the Idols Temple every first day of the week but no conversion there was wrought but all still continued in the old nature both Priest and people young and old and as was the people so was the Priest all walking in darkness and blindness by form custome and tradition but ignorant of the pure light which is the guide and reacher of the faithful which oftentimes did reprove in secret when I was a lone but then I knew not what it was but oftentimes it did strike me into a consideration of my wayes and doings and set life and death before me so that I have sometimes promised within my self never to do the like again but the promise being in the wil made it did not stand but when the temptations came the careless mind got out again and led me still to delight my heart in the vanity which my eye did see and my ear did hear which all passed away with the using thereof and left me to the judgement which was due unto me for my iniquity which did follow me time after time calling me to repentance and the more I did incline my mind and draw nigh to it it also did draw nigh to me and so the goodness of God led me to repentance and the Grace of God wrought in my heart a Reformation and so I was found of him when I sought not and thus he both wrought the will and the deed of his own good pleasure and plucked me as a brand out of the fire to make me a vessel of honor to his name all living eretnal prayses be to his name for ever my soul shall praise and magnifie his name for ever For I may wel say with Paul Of sinners I was chiefe for according to my years J was as perfect in sin and iniquity as any in the Town where I lived yea and exceeded many in the same so that there was as little hopes of my conversion as any in the Town and yet though it is a place of many people J was the first in all that town which the Lord was pleased to make known his power in and turn my heart towards him and truly to seek him so that J became a wonder to the World and an astonishment to the heathen round about but they was such enemies to goodness and so given up to idolatry that as much as before they had loved me in my vain conversation so much the more thdy hated me in my conversion yea and my Families came to insnare me and lay wait for me for to intrap me but when they could not prevaile Psal 41.9 they stood afar of me and reproached me with lyes and proved my greatest enemies yea and my Relations became my adversaries and laboured to destroy what God had began in me because that thereby J came under the reproach and shame of the world because J could not conform to the world in their invented facious customes and traditions and their words wayes fellowship and worship but was made subject to the law of God and could not respect persons neither in word nor deed then the beast which rules in proud flesh was disturbed who before ruled in peace while he was worshipped but when I came to see proud Lucifer Rev. 13.38 the lust in man to be the beast which all the world worships and wanders after but these whose names are written in the book of life therefore J could no longer follow the world in blindness for by the power of God my eye was opened so that J did behold their idolatry and therefore J could no longer be conformable to them so that their rage and persecution arose against me and J became a mock in the streets yea and was I accounted as one not worthy to live amongst them yea and they said he that killed me would do God service but he that had called me out from amongst them unto himself that I might no longer follow the vain courses of the world nor set my delight no things below but that I might serve

Justice and Equity in his heart without putting off a hat to a Magistrate and he that so doth Whether is he fit to be called a Magistrate that calleth such a one a contemner of authority and commits him to Prison for mis-behaviour and whether this be Justice or Equity yea or nay 20. And you that pleads this Scripture Be subject to every Ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether is it for the Lords sake that a man would have his Fellow-Creature to stand with his hat off before him or for his selfes sake and whether then it is to be obeyed yea or nay 21. And he that for the Lords sake and for conscience sake cannot so rob God of his Glory and honour as to bow to or Worship any creature but God alone who is the Creator Whether ought he to be imprisoned for misbehaviour or a contemner of authority yea or nay according to the law of equity and whether this is to be called liberty of conscience according to the Law of England yea or nay Now all you that profess your selves christians and the Scripture to be your Rule take the Scripture and prove your practise by the Scripture amongst all the christians or else let the life and practise of the true christians judge you and condem you and own your selves to be in proud Hamons nature and so liable to Hamons judgement and henceforward look to your Office to rule for God and not for your selves and then you will not stand upon such frivolous things for it is a frivolous thing to look for the putting off the hat and is no part of true nobility or christianity Given forth for the clearing of the truth to which the Nations must bow I. P. Here followeth a Copy of a Note that was written against the Idolls-Temple which was iudged a contempt of the Ministry THis is the Idols-Temple where the worship of the Beast is upheld down with it down with it 1 Cor. 8.10 Rev. 13.7 8. Dut. 12. God that made the world and all things therein dwels not in Temples made with hands Act. 7.47 48 49. Act. 17.21 neither is he worshipped in Idolls-Temples made with mens hands Act. 17.24 God is a spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth for the Father is seeking such to worship him Iohn 23.24 All the world wonders after and worships the beast but those who have their name written in the book of life Rev. 13.3.4.8 And they that worships the Beast receives his mark in their foreheads Rev. 13.16 as sprincking Infants and worshipping the works of their own hands Isa 2.8 And following the imagination of their own hearts such must drink of the wine of the wrath of the Almighty powred out without mixture Rev. 14.9 10 11.12 This Idoll-Temple that is made with hands is a place for N●ght-birds and Skrich Owles to meet each one with his male Jer. 34.13 14 15. to the dishonour of the only true God that dwelleth in temples made without hands at new Ierusalem where the tabernacle of God is with men Rev. 21.3 Drunkards and Swearers Revilers and Scoffers and Scorners proud and wanton ones Hypocrites and Dissemblers envious Haters Backbiters Persecutors Iustfull covetous ones and Earth-worms meets here the fearful and unbelieving peevish perverse contentious ones meets in these Idols-Temples to satisfie their lusts and saith the Lord these people draw neer me with their mouths and honour me with their lips but their hearts are far from me but in vain do they worship me teaching for Doctrine the traditions of men Mat. 15.7 8 9. But know you not that no unrighteous person shall inherit the Kingdome of God 1 Cor. 6.9 10. But must be cut down and cast into the Lake that burneth Rev. 21.8 Be not deceived God is not mocked such as you sow such must you reap Gal. 6.7 And to whom you yeild your members servants to obey his servants you are Rom. 6.16 For he that commits sin is the servant of sin and so is of the Devill Ioh. 6.34 1. Ioh. 3. This is a Deceiver that stands up here every first day of the week to deceive the people he is proud and Covetous and speaketh a divination of his own brain but not from the mouth of the Lord and so makes the people light and vain Ier. 14.14 But the Lord is against him hold him not up for he ran and the Lord never sent him therefore he profits not the people at all Ier. 23.21 22.32 but hath stoln the Letter which is carnall with it to feed the carnall for carnall ends and lucre and so hath a form but denyes the li●e and power and therefore from him turn away 2 Tim. 3.5 therefore spend not your moneys for that which is not bread nor your labour for that which profiteth not Isa 55.1 2 for all the children of the Lord are and shall be taught of the Lord and in righteousness shall they be established and they shall be far from oppression Ier. 31.34 Isa 54 13 14. 1 John 2.27 He that hath an car to hear let him hear what the spirit saith and be deceived no longer J. P. Here followeth severall queries that was sent to four of the chiefe Priests in Essex with some more added which may be serviceable for them or any other to answer whom they do concern SEverall queries unto Priest Sammes Priest Sparrow Priest VVillis and Priest Stellum and your gathered Churches by you to be answered according to Scripture which you profess to be your rule Query 1. How and by what was you called to the Ministry which you profe's 2. What is the Gospel which you pretend to preach and how did you receive it and whether your Gospel be free and without charge as the Apostles was yea or nay 3. What do you Minister from and what do you Minister to in the naturall man and what is the end of your Ministry 4. What rule have you in the Scripture to take a Text of the Apostles words and speak from it what you have studyed with your Uses Points Tryalls and Motives and Applications 5. Whether do you speak by the same infallible spirit as they did that spoke forth the Scripture yea or nay 6. And whether he that hath the same infallible spirit need study how or what to preach 7. And whether it is not as lawful now for Fisher-men Plow-men or Herds-men to preach if they be called to it and fitted for it by the same power and spirit as they was in the dayes of old and whether Christ is not the same yesterday to day and for ever according to Scripture 8. And whether any now ought to teach and preach in the name of Jesus but who are caled to it and fitted for it the same way as the holy men of God was spoken of in Scripture 9. Whether do you own immediate Revelation now yea or nay 10. What is a Minister of Christ and what is a

Minister of Antichrist and do you distinguish the one from the other 11. What Scripture hast thou to give unto the world Davids conditions to be sung in a Meeter 12. What rule have you in the Scripture to abide in a certain place and to agree with the people for so much a year for preaching as 40 60 or 100. or 200. l. as you can get it 13. How and by what are you gathered and united who calls your solves a Church 14. And what is the Church in God and whether to it you be come yea or nay 15. What is the Baptisme into the Church and whether to it you be come yea or nay 16 And Scripture have you to sprinckle children with water and to what end do you do it 17. Whether you be of one heart and one mind as the true Church was yea or nay 18. Whether you have passed from death to life yea or nay 19. What is the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ and whether to it you be come yea or nay 20. Whether he that believes is not born of God and whether he that is born of God doth not commit sin yea or nay 21. Why do not you maintain your Teacher but let him rob the world instead of robbing other Churches and so is chargeable unto the world 22. Whether do you own and hold up the first Priest-hood that took Tythes or the second Priest-hood that took no Tythes and which do you deny seeing you pay tythes and your Teacher takes tythes yea or nay 23. Why do you own and hold up such that are called of men Master and have the chiefest place in the Assemblie and stand praying in the Synagogue and love greetings in the Markets which Christ himself cryed wo against 24. How is Christ the light of the world and how doth he enlighten every one that cometh into the world if it be not in the conscience and whether that Light which comes from him be naturall yea or nay 25. How is the light the condemnation of the world if it be not in the conscience 26. And how is it said that he that doth evill hateth the light and wi●l not bring his deeds to the Light lest the Light should reprove him if it be not in the conscience whether that be a natural light which reproves for sin yea or nay 27. How did Paul turn peoples mindes from darkness to light if it be not in the conscience and whether that light was naturall which Paul was sent to turn the mindes of the Gentiles unto 28. Whether that light which shines in darkness be not one and the same with that which shines out of darkness yea or nay 29. And whether the light of the world be not a saving light in the least measure yea or nay and how can that be said to be naturall 30. Whether the Light which Iohn came to beare witness of was naturall or spirituall 31. How hath the grace of God which bringeth Salvation appeared to all men if it be not in the conscience and whether it be naturall 32. How doth it stand with the impartiall God to give to one man a measure of grace and not to another and yet require obedience from all 33. Whether the slothfull servant hath not a Talent as wel as the faithful though he hide it in the earth and what is that Talent 34. What is the account that God wil require of every one in the day of Judgment and how can he call all justly to an account and reward them according to their deeds if he hath not given to every one a Talent 35. What is that which leads to repentance and whether that which leads to repentance be not in the conscience and whether it be naturall yea or nay 36. And where do you read in the Scripture of a naturall light to be in the conscience 37. What is the redemption and what is the end of Christs coming 38. Whether the redemption by Christ be not as ful in every in every respect as the fall by Adam and what is the fall by Adam 39. And whether you do not go about to make the commands of Christ unjust who saith Be ye perfect as your heavenly father is perfect and you say it cannot be while you are upon the earth then how is it your rule 40. Will you own a purgatory or where is the place betwixt heaven and earth where man shall be clensed if not upon the earth seeing no unclean thing can inherit the kingdome of God 41 Whether do they deny Christ come in the flesh that witness forth perfection from sin here or they that tel people they can never be perfect or be wholly set free from sin so long as they are upon the earth and whether such be not the Ministers of Antichrist yea or nay 42. Where had you this Doctrine to tell people the light in the conscience is naturall and that Christ hath not enlightned every one that cometh into the world 43. And whether in this you do not bring another Doctrine in opposition to the Doctrine of Christ who saith he is the light of the world and doth enlighten every one that cometh into the world 44. And where had you this Doctrine to tel people they could never be wholly clensed or be set free from sin so long as they are upon the Earth 45. And whether this be not in opposition to the Doctrine of Christ who saith Be ye perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect 46. Whether God justifies any in their sin and whether sanctification go not before justification yea or nay 47. Whether you do not seek justification by works who put one another upon prayer and duties observations Ordinances and commands without the Light in imitation of the Letter and whether these be not your own works which are done out of the light yea or nay 48. What is your own righteousness and what is the righteousness of Christ and how do you distinguish betwixt the one and the other 49. And whether he that is justified by the righteousness of Christ doth not dwel in it and it in him and whether he that dwels in the righteousness of Christ doth sin yea or nay 50 Whether any can walk according to the Scripture but by the Light of Christ and whether any that are guided by the Light of Christ do or can act contrary to the Scripture and whether this Light be not a sufficient guide if it be owned and followed 51. How is the Scripture left unto the world for a rule who know not the Light seeing to them it is a parable and as a book sealed 52. And what is the word and whether there be any other word of God then one 53. What is the death that hath passed over all men forasmuch as all men have sinned and whether this death you ever passed yea or nay 54. What is that which is lost which Christ comes to seek and what is that which