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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86670	The testimony of the everlasting gospel witnessed through sufferings.	Hubberthorn, Richard, 1628-1662.; Atkinson, Christopher.; Lancaster, James, d. 1699.; Tofte, Thomas.	1654 (1654)	Wing H3237; Thomason E818_23; ESTC R207402	6,326	9

City and him safe keep untill he shall be delivered from thence according to the Law and hereof fail not This 9th of December to Mr Edward Hunt keeper of the common prison in the said City Thomas Tofte Maior ANSVVER The cause of my coming I did declare before one of your Justices called and was examined before him I told him it was to see a friend in the Castle who was Prisoner there and after I had been there with him was moved to go where their Minister of the Law called was sitting in a house neer the Castle who said little unto me because it was undenyable that a spoke who own Justice and reasoned with the people in the same room of the things of God and so came and was passing out of the City a quarter of a mile the Word of the Lord came to me Thou must go back again and witnesse forth my Name in their Market among the people and at his command I was obedient and went and declared forth that was given me to speak amongst them which made the people astonished and many did follow me as you call them rude in running to hear the Truth declared forth in the Market as the Apostle of Christ who reasoned in the Markets dayly and went from City to City preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom and were persecuted from city to city this is called disturbance now as it was then and what peace did I break going on declaring forth the Truth which none could object against that heard it and by your Officers called as he said he might know the ground why I spoke so and shewed him I was commanded of the Lord and being brought by him before one justice called was examined and could not find me by his Law a transgressor and bade him carry me to the Maior and he did so and he did examine me upon the grounds of my faith and of my outward means where it was and what quantity it was and being not ashamed declared my self at full to him of both as it will further appear by an examination before the Rulers of this City and so by the Maior as aforesaid am here in their bonds and imprisonments doth abide me in obedience to the commands of the same that Paul was guided and so by the same generation of Rulers as was in those dayes am I here a sufferer and to die if I be called to it for a testimony of a good conscience and in the Market I cleared my conscience in witnessing forth the Truth Christ Jesus the Light of the world who hath enlightened every one that comes into the world and cald people to repentance and said the mighty day of the Lord was coming let all flesh dread and fear before him and bade them take heed to the Light of Christ in them which shewed sin and evill in them loving it theere was their teacher hating it there was their condemnation this was the Word of the Lord sent by me which was no peace to earthly hearts and minds but a sword as Christ saith and this was disturbance of the peace of the City of Norwich called by the Rulers who now am in their bonds for this declaring let all judge what peace it is they live in when the Word of the Lord disturbs them But to that of God in all consciences am I sent to speak which is his own witnesse against transgression in man and by it man sees his transgression and acting contrary to that there is mans condemnation but who as loves it the Light of Christ in the conscience their deeds are brought to it to be tryed that they may be made manifest and here is the wicked nature disturbed and judged in the particular and they are called disturbers in whom the Light of Christ doth guide in the Generall and to that which doth disturb the wicked nature do we speak that sin and unjust dealing may be confounded and the soul brought from under it that God alone may be glorified to whom honour and glory belongs A Servant of the Lord to exhort people to the light of Christ in them that they may be turned from their dark wayes they lived in to serve the living God in Spirit and in truth JAMES LANCASTER From Norwich the 13. of the 10. month 1654 An Episte written in the bonds of the Gospel to be published abroad amongst the Inhatants of ENGLAND Rulers Magistrates and People I A Prisoner of the Lord Jesus Christ doe unto all the world clear my conscience in the presence of the Lord and am free from the bloud of all men who seek the bloud of the innocent and by the wickednesse of the deceitful hearts would insnare the simple and number them amongst transgressors who are not found in any transgression but are set free by the Son and are heirs of the promise according to the will of God who hath called me out of the world to testifie against the world that their deeds are evill and for the same am I hailed before the Judgement seats against whom there is no Law for in the Law of God which is according to that in every mans conscience doe I abide and am free from all bondages and Lawes without that are acted in the will of man and by such a Law is the innocent persecuted and cast into prison to suffer amongst the transgressors that the Scripture might be fulfilled upon them as Christ said as they have done unto me so shall they doe unto you the Servant is not greater than the Lord John 15. 18 19 20 21. and this we are witnesses of and are brought to suffer for his name sake and am not onely willing to suffer but to die for the testimony of Jesus Though all the chief Priests and Rulers which are not called by the Law of God as the Ministers of God and of God were but doe seek to insnare and bring into bondage that which God hath set at liberty for it is the same nature that doth imprison the seed within which doth imprison and persecute the Servants of the Lord in whom the seed is raised up without in the Saints And whereas I am sent to the Goale of Norwich by a Mittimus by the hands of the Rulers I am moved of the Lord to clear my conscience unto all the world that I am free and not guilty of what they lay to my charge though by it they seek to persecute The Mittimus NORVVICH These are to require you to take into your custody the body of Christopher Atkinson herewith sent who lately came into this city from Kendall in Westmerland and can give no account of his livelihood nor shew any lawfull cause of his coming hither but onely to declare the Truth as he calls it THO. TOFTE Mayor ANSVVER To these things for which I am accused and am imprisoned by the Rulers of this City I am bold to declare the truth that out of Countries and kinreds hath the