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A84839	The West answering to the North in the fierce and cruel persecution of the manifestation of the Son of God, as appears in the following short relation of the unheard of, and inhumane sufferings of Geo. Fox, Edw. Pyot, and William Salt at Lanceston in the county of Cornwall, and of Ben. Maynard, Iames Mires, Ios. Coale, Ia. Godfrey, Io. Ellice, and Anne Blacking, in the same gaole, town, and county. And of one and twenty men, and women taken up in the space of a few dayes on the high wayes of Devon, ... Also a sober reasoning in the law with Chief Justice Glynne concerning his proceedings ... And a legall arraignment for the indictment of the hat, ... And many other materiall and strange passages at their apprehensions and tryals ...	Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1657 (1657)	Wing F1988; Thomason E900_3; ESTC R202187	140,064	174

the Administration of the Law ought not accusations to be by way of Indictment wherein the offence is to be charged and the Law expressed against which it is Can there be an Issue without an Indictment or can an Indictment be found before proof be made of the offence charged therein And hast not thou herein gone contrary to the Law and the Administration thereof and thy dutie as a Judge What just cause of offence gave G. F. to thee when upon thy producing of a paper concerning swearing sent by him as thou said'st to the grand Jurors and requiring him to say whether it was his hand-writing He answered read it up before the Country and when he heard it read if it were his he would own it Is it not equall and according to Law that what a man is charged with before the Countrie should be read in his and the hearing of the Country When a paper is delivered out of a mans hand Alterations may be made in it to his prejudice which on a sudain looking over it may not presently be discerned But hearing it read up may be better understood whether any such alterations have been made therein Couldst thou in justice have expected or required him otherwise to do considering also how he was not unsensible how much he had suffered already being innocent and what endeavours there were used to cause him further to suffer Was not what he said as aforesaid a plain and single answer and sufficient in the Law though as hath been demonstrated contrary to the Law thou didst act and thy Office in being his accuser therein and producing the paper against him And in his liberty it was whether he would have made thee any answer at all to what thou didst exhibite or demand out of the due course of the Law for to the Law answer is to be made not to thy will Wherefore then wast thou so filled with rage and fury upon that his Reply Calmly and in the fear of the Lord consider Wherefore didst thou revile him particularly with the reproachfull names of Jugler and Prevaricator wherein did he juggle wherein did he prevaricate Wherefore didst thou use such threatning language and such menacings to him and us saying thou wouldst firk us with such like Doth not the Law forbid reviling and rage and fury and threatning and menacing of Prisoners soberly mind Is this to act like a Judge or a Man Is not this transgression Is not the sword of the Magistrate of God to pass upon this as evill doing which the Righteous Law condemns and the higher power is against which judgeth for God Take heed what ye do for ye judgo not for man but for the Lord who is with you in the judgement Wherefore now let the fear of the Lord be upon you Take heed and do it for there is no iniquitie with the Lord our God nor respect of persons nor taking of gifts said Jehosaphat to the Judges of Judah Pride and Fury and Passion and Rage and Reviling and Threatning is not the Lords It and the principle out of which it springs is for judgement and must come under the sword of the Magistrate of God and is of an evill savour especially such an expression as to threaten to firk us Is not such a saying more becoming a Pedant or School Master with his rod or ferula in his hand than thee who art the Chief Justice of the Nation who sits in the highest seat of judgement who oughtest to give a good example and so to judge as others may hear and fear weigh it soberly and consider Doth not threatning language demonstrate an unequalitie and partialitie in him who sits as a Judge Is it not a deterring of a Prisoner from standing to and pleading the innocencie of his cause Provides not the Law against it saith it not that Irons and all other Bonds shall be taken from the Prisonor that he may plead without amazement and with such freedome of spirit as if he were not a Prisoner But when he who is to judge according to the Law shall before-hand threaten and menace the Prisoner contrary to the Law how can the mind of the Prisoner be free to plead his innocency before him or expect equall judgement who before he hears him threatens what he will do to him Is not this the case between thee and us Is not this the measure we have received at thy hands Hast thou herein dealt according to Law or thy duty or as thou wouldst be done unto Let that of God in thy conscience judge And didst not thou say there was a law for putting off the Hat and that thou wouldst shew a law and didst not thou often so express thy self But didst thou produce any law or shew where that law might be found or any judiciall president or in what Kings Reign when we desired it so often of thee having never heard of or known any such law by which thou didst judge us Was not what we demanded of thee reasonable and just Was that a savory answer and a●cording to law which thou gavest us viz. I am not to carry the law books at my back up and down the Country I ●m not to instruct ye Was ever such an expression heard before these days to come out of a Judges mouth Is he not to be of Counsell in the law for the Prisoner and to instruct him therein Is it not for this cause that the Prisoner in many cases is not at all allowed Counsell by the law In all Courts of justice in this Nation hath it not been known so to have been and to the Prisoner hath not this been often declared when he hath demanded Counsell alledging his ignorance in the law by reason of which his cause might miscarry though it were righteou● viz. the Court is of Counsell for you Ought not he that judgeth in the law to be expert in the law Couldst thou not tell by what act of Parliament it was made or by what judiciall President or in what Kings reign or when it was adjudged so by the common law which are all the grounds the law of England hath had there been such a law though the words of the law thou couldst not remember Surely to informe the Prisoner when he desires it especially as to a law which was never heard of by which he proceeds to judge him that he may know what law it is by which he is to be judged becomes him who judgeth for God for so the law was read to the Jevvs hy which they were to be judged yea every Saboath day this vvas the Commandement of the Lord But to say instead thereof I am not to carry the lavv books at my back up and down the Country I am not to instruct ye To say there is a lavv and to say thou wilt shew it and yet not to shew it nor tell where it is to be found consider whether it be consistent with savouriness or truth or

smiting your friends you will not have Christ to reign you will not have sin to reign in your markets and streets and if they reprove sin in the gate he is made a prey upon that doth it you will have pleasures to reign and not have them reproved he is called a mad man among you that doth reprove you or a fool you will not have drunkards reproved nor swearers nor cursed speakers in the ale-houses or in the streets abroad but he is looked upon to be a peace-breaker or a gatherer of tumults And here you may see what you will to reign that which the sword should be turned against which the Lambs of Christ turn against therefore against the Lambs of Christ ye turn your swords And again hirelings and such as seek their gain from their quarter such as divine for money and such Teachers as teach for money that go in Cain's way and Balaam's way these ye will have to reign and cannot endure they should be cryed against and will not have Christ reign but uphold them with a Law that none shall speak to them while they are speaking without a Prison Was ever such Christians seen Are ye not gone beyond the Jews in the letter for the Jews in the spirit might speak to them Were there ever so many imprisoned in their time of any of the Jews in the spirit as now by you who are Christians in the letter the Christians in the spirit that be in the spirit that gave forth the letter see ye now in the steps of the Jews walking and rather worse but it is that which John saw the Beast the Dragon and the false Prophet should all make war against the Lamb and the Saints but the Lamb should get the victory and overcome Let this be read among all the Synagogue-teachers and Professors who call it either Synagogue Temple or Church who are crying up your Church and the Scriptures among you as you may reade the Jews did the Temple of the Lord and the Law of the Lord was with them and the Prophet told them they did commit adultery they did steal they sware falsly they walked after their abominations and they walked after the vanity of their own hearts both Priests and People given to covetousness they were all out of the old-way Therefore for these things did the Lord visit them and doth you who are found in these steps and persecuting them that be in the life that gave forth Scriptures and are come to the Church that is in God During the time aforesaid was the general Assizes at Exeter for the County of Devon of which chief Baron Steel and Baron Nicholas were Judges before one of whom viz. Judge Nicholas were these who were thus imprisoned at the Assizes brought and the rest also as they were taken on the high-wayes in the time of the Assizes of this Judge Considering his place and office justice might have been expected and a vindication of the Law and a zealous helping those to right who had thus suffered wrong but no such thing found they from him but the contrary even the same spirit ruling and working in him as made the Law aforesaid and put it in execution against he Innocent who could not be found Transgressors of any Law of the Nation For as the Sessions made a Law and set up Watches to apprehend them if they were but found travelling on the high-wayes and did so apprehend and imprison them without so much as making proclamation or giving publick warning forbidding such to travel in that Countrey after such a day but immediately as soon as they had made their Law put it in execution on those who were in their way before it was made or had publick warning thereof or the allotment of a certain space of time of it to take notice which the Law of the Nation observes so the Judge will have a Law of his own making as to the Hat for that there is no Law of the Nation that requires a man to put off his Hat and imprison him for not so doing and denies him hearing or justice whatever be his innocency or sufferings if he puts not off his Hat to a Seat of Justice will anon appear when this new-found Indictment of Hats shall be scann'd as in some part it hath already been in the Letter aforesaid sent to chief Justice Glynne and presently he will have it put in execution though his Law be made after the fact done after their so appearing unto which they could not bow in conscience to the Law of God of which he is convinced to be a Transgressor that respecteth persons for he that doth so committeth sin Nor can it be bowed to in respect to the Law of the Land which declares against arbitrariness which Law arbitrariness subverts and overthrows which arbitrariness his duty is to do justice upon being entrusted with the execution of the Law and this his Law standing in his own will the founder thereof it is arbitrary and not to be obeyed but in the overthrow of the Law of the Land and a slighting of all the blood shed in the wars against arbitrariness and is less to be endured and submitted to in him than in any of the Judges and chief Justices that have gone before him whom justice hath cut off for arbitrariness or in Strafford Canterbury Charles Stuart or of any of these later generations since it is but the other day that these Nations came out of many years wars and dreadfull desolations and destructions even to the hazarding of all to vindicate the Rights and Liberties of England and the Laws the guard of them from will and power And this Judge was one who in that day appeared against that generation and for that cause was made a Judge by the Parliament and therefore for him to act against Law which he is sworn to execute not to make And the Legislative Authority that made him a Judge and the righteous ends of the Wars for Liberty and Law in which he appeared and these innocent servants of the Lord who have been all of them alwayes faithfull to the honest interest of the Nation and many of them for it have drawn the sword and fought in the field from first to last because they cannot submit to this his will which is contrary to the Law of God and the Nation and the righteous ends of the Wars is the more abominable and to be denyed and witnessed against Thus then were the proceedings of this Assizes as to these Before Judge Nicholas they were brought by Officers before him they stood covered in conscience to the command of the Lord that their Hats should not be taken off he commanded that so within the compass of his will they might be brought Their names he asked one after another they gave their names in meekness and in the fear of the Lord and the Clarke of the Assizes wrote them down to record the contempt of his will he

then commanded every one by name to put off his Hat This they could not do for conscience sake Wrath and fury presently appears that in rage he commands the Gaoler to have them away who with violence pull'd thrust them suffer them to speak for themselves he would not nor enquired what were their offences or the cause of their imprisonment or wherefore they were brought before him but caused them with such misusages to be sent and returned to prison And this was what generally they all received at his hands as they were brought before him and thus evilly were they all intreated The morrow after such returns in custody were ●hey brought before him again and placed amongst the Fellons and Murderers By that time Bills of Indictment as to the breach of his will were made ready Their Hats now he commands to be taken off which the day before he commanded not to be taken off that he might charge them with contempt His Bills are read and with many false accusations are they charged therein as being men of an ill name fame life and reputation and that they came into the Court with their Hats on in contempt when by constraint they were forced thither and much more filth too noysome to rake up And to these their Indictments he demands of every one particularly guilty or not guilty thus numbring them amongst transgressors A Copy of the Indictment whereunto to plead was by one of them demanded as the Law required this he denies the Prisoner replyed that he was an Englishman and had served the Common-wealth of England from the beginning of the Wars till Worcester fight at which he was and had suffered imprisonment by the enemy and the loss of his goods and was driven from his outward being by the enemy four years together and now desired as to all but the priviledge of the Law and that if he had come violently into the Court there seemed to be some ground for their Allegations but by constraint he was brought in Whilst he was thus speaking the Judge kept talking to the people to keep them hearing of him and then commanded him to be taken away whom they had away throwing him before them and whilst he was away he fined him 20. marks and imprisonment till payment he said then he thought he should lye long enough upon which word the Judge bad them fine him 20. pound which was done accordingly Nor was there a Copy of this Indictment granted to any of them though every one of them answered to the demand guilty or not guilty in meekness and in the fear of God to this effect that they were innocent and had broken no Law and that they were not guilty of the things charged in the Bill which they denied And libertie they desired to speak further and to the Jury to whom he spake much whereby to incense them against the Prisoners and told them the Hat was the chiefest matter they were to enquire into but the Prisoners he would not permit to speak to the Jury as he vvould not let them make in their own defence commanding the Gaoler to keep them silent when they attempted to speak in their own behalf and calling for a Gag he commanded the Gaoler to Gag them onely one of them who was last called being required to answer whether he came in with his Hat on or no saying if he might have libertie to speak he should not onely declare freely and honestly and with vvords of soberness and in the fear of God as to his having his Hat on but also why he did so and as to things charged against them having got a little liberty so to do said I shall declare freely from the light and life of Christ in my heart and soul that I came not in with my Hat on in contempt of the Court or of any man therein neither had I come there if I had not been brought and I am free from any prejudice in the least toward any man and authority I own and such as rule well ruling for God according to the righteous Law of God and are for the punishment of evill doers and the praise of them that do well such I honour in my heart but as for putting off my Hat it is that which never was required by any that ruled for God nor yet of the Heathenish Kings and Emperors as we read of and in obedience to God I stand and the same nature that commands us to put off our Hats the same commanded to Preach no more in the name of Jesus and such commands of men we cannot obey for conscience sake and the Heathenish Customs which are contrary to the holy men of God and to the righteous Law of God and to all Scriptures and also to all naturall Laws I cannot be subject to but unto God the higher power which is of God which rules over all but the Customs of the people are vain Jer. 10.3 But longer the Judge would not permit him to speak and called for a Gag as aforesaid and he attempting to speak a word or two farther he and the rest were all forced with violence from the Bar and neither suffered to speak for themselves or to stay their tryall And the Jury being in confusion some said they were young in it and desired time to consider but the Judge asking others and they saying guilty he presently commanded them to be fined in 20. marks a piece and to lye in Prison till payment which Judgement being called and standing without the Bar for he said they needed not to come any further the Judge pronounced upon them but as to the Infringement of any Law or miscarriage in word or deed in particular nothing was laid to their charge And as for the women who vvere taken up and imprisoned as aforesaid against whom he could not have the advantage of a Hat he returned to Prison till they should find sureties of the good behaviour being taken up they and the rest as they were peaceably travelling the high way to visit the Prisoners and imprisoned as hath been said whereby the Law was every vvay broke upon them who ought to have been protected and justice to have been done them upon those who robb'd them on the high way and not to be instead thereof further oppressed Thus hath this Judge headed the Justices and to their Arbitrary Law aforesaid and the wicked executions thereof added another of his owne made after the act was done when they came before him to have been righted according to Law by which will of his he causeth them further to suffer as hath been said not so much as enquiring or asking wherefore they were imprisoned or what was the cause of their being brought before him nor permitting them to speak for themselves or of the usages they had received but commanding that their Hats should not be taken off that he might have occasion against them then commanding their Hats to be taken off

those who come to visit them the Letters he finds on such he breaks open and detains as he pleaseth their Cloaths and Pockets he searcheth and rifles their persons he abuseth with filthy and unsavory expressions he searched a womans head for Letters with his own hands taking her fowl Cloaths out of her Hat and searching them also A Cheese sent to Edward Pyott the Gaoler violently took away saying he would carry it to the Mayors for therefore was the Watch and Ward set at every Gate to stop all things that should go to and from them which is not restored to this day And William Salt after his being taken by order of the Sessions out of that noysome poysonous hole called Domesdale where he had been ill in his body walking to Poulsons Bridge that parts Devon and Cornwall being a mile or thereabouts out of the town to take the wholesome ayr upon encouragement thereof and of Captain Bradens having given securitie for their true Imprisonment for that very end that they might not be closely restrained and cruelly used as they had been by the Gaoler This Mayor having notice thereof caused to be taken and brought before him having set out Scouts and Watches to meet him at his return and having himself rifled his Pockets and taken away his Letters to the darke house he committed him telling him he would shew him a Law to morrow and after he had lyen two nights and a day there by his order sent for him and scoffed him and asked him whether he would go into Devonshire again and so sent him to the Gaoler who was a Prisoner in the County prison a prisoner upon security for his true Imprisonment over whom the Mayor had no power but the same Spirit of crueltie ruling in him against the Innocent as in the Gaoler he seeks and takes every opportunitie to manifest it and in this merciless act hath exceeded the Gaolers unreasonable practice and inhumane brutishness But by that time he comes to understand by feeling the wages of his unrighteousness what he hath done herein and in the disturbing of peaceable people in their travelling searching them and breaking open their Letters taking away and detaining their Books and Papers and misusing them as hath been said he will have little cause to boast or glory but the contrary And thus from this Gaoler Recorder and Mayor have the Innocent suffered without mercy These are they who have joyned hand in hand together to make up the threefold Cord of their cruell persecution He that reads what hath been rehearsed of these three may see their faces hearts and hands one and the same as is the Spirit that rules them The first causeth them to suffer the second helps on and then laughs at their sufferings on the seat of judgement instead of doing them right The third reacheth forth his hand to make them further to suffer where the two former cannot But the Recorder is the Counsellor from him proceeds the encouragement and strength of the other two This is he as is said that was one of the secluded Members of the long Parliament who after the Kings death being asked in whose name the Orders of Court should pass answered in the name of T. Gewen Esquire Recorder of Lanceston when as the Act of Parliament said In the name of the Keepers of the Liberties of England who in disdaine and scorn asked who they were Who in the last Parliament was very zealous for a King and a House of Lords The Mayor is he who was once put by that office for his disaffection to the Common-wealth and the prisoners in their day having borne their testimony against those interests as they do now against all unrighteousness and ungodliness of men who hold the truth in unrighteousness no wonder if at their hands they receive all manner of cruelties now that they are put under their feet and delivered up as a prey and a scorn to all who as to the interest of the Common-wealth to which they firmly stood could not be overcome by the Sword or War but overcame the Interests that these men pursued and therein these men and all their Accomplices And no wonder to see such men as these creeping into places of power thereby to have their opportunities of revenge on such and of making the Government under which they are to stink and become intollerable because of oppression and crueltie and of separating between those who are chief in Rule and their former constant friends And is it not a fair game thus to play whilst it passeth undescerned acting under the power of authoritie which when it is become sufficiently naked weak and abort'd if a blow then come it may be sure to hit and repentance may be too late Men walk not in such mystery in these dayes but they are easily discerned as opportunitie serveth their old interest appears to lie in the bottome sure and unmoveable though their faces look another way thither they rowe hath it not very lately appeared so throughout England is it not a fair warning Ethiopians cannot change their Skin nor Leopards their spots Let not men be mistaken so they shall find it In the sufferings of these Innocent servants of the Lord who have been thorougly faithfull to the Common-wealth mentioned in this relation in this County of Cornwall appear no less than two of the eleven Members whom the Army impeached viz. John Glynne then Recorder of London dismist of that place as an enemy to the Common-wealth and Army now Chief Justice of the upper Bench and Anthony Nicholls who knows how much he had a hand in bri●gi●g in the Scotch Army in 1648. into England and how well known it was then as was his other actions and its like may remember who it was that was proclaimed a Traytor by the Army and sought after as such a one who its like should be called to a strict account for what he hath now done to the innocent con●rary to Law would flie from it himself and lay it on the back of the Priests as he did the former when the Army had him Prisoner To whom he said that the Priests laying it upon them in the Parliament as no less than damnation that such a Company of Hereticks and Schismaticks as were the Army should pass into Ireland which lay then viz. the honest interest in a sad bleeding and dying posture was the reason of what they did and of their attempt to break the Army which they endeavoured under the pretence of the relief thereof and placing such Officers for conduct as might serve that end under whom they knew the Souldiery would not engage Yet this man now oh how warme is he how secure doth he think himself under the Government of the Army and the Chief Officers thereof Two inn●cent men he sent to prison who have suffered as hath been in part related with the cause of their suffering under which they yet lye and whosoever comes

to him that are such as he and the scorners calls Quakers he saith he will imprison And Thomas Gewen makes up a third in the same affection for which by reason of the Army he sate not in Parliament But to proceed Lanceston having thus began the County of Cornvvall follows strict Watches and Wards are set up in the high ways and towns thereof who examine and bring bef●re Justices such as they reproach with the name of Quakers thereby to stop and hinder the going to and fro of such in that County to visit the Prisoners or to Minister the words of eternall life in those darke Corners of the earth But of this after a time they grew vveary vvho thereby thought to vveary out those people by tossing them from Constable to Just●ce and from one Justice to another keeping them all night on Guards with such like the rage which the evill one stirred up in them which put them upon such unlavvfull and violent actions became cool and finding nothing wherewithall to accuse them and their innocency and harmelesness began to have a witness in their consciences and so their Watches and Guards ceased which had continued for a certain space of time and those at Lanceston also though the Mayor for a time followed it with such blind zeale madness and violence And this is the better vvay to deale with the people called Quakers than the Protector and his Councell could find Anthony Nicholls its like can tell from whom came this wicked invention and who it was that said so and what Justices set to their hands to make this Warrant the more authentick and to cover it from being seen to be the Plot of one against the just viz Anthony Nicholls Anthony Rouse James Lance John Treville Ia. Daniell Iohn Fox Dated at Truro By that time this Westerne most Countie and the towns and Villages thereof gave over the County of Devon on the East of Lanceston began Cornwall was behind and little in comparison All England stood before Devon and through it must all pass that came to the prisoners Its bounds extending from Sea to Sea surely grieved are the Priests to see and hear of such abounding of love in visiting the Prisoners from all parts of England even from the borders of Scot●and tormented they are day and night because of the continuall goings of so many to and from the Prisoners who witnessed that which made their Kingdome to shake and would be its overthrow No rest are they in because of the opportunities such had to declare the name of the Lord from far and his everlasting Gospell to the ends of the earth to the opening of the blind eye to see their deceit and filthiness and to the turning of people from darkness to the light and from the power of Sathan unto God whom if they should be let alone the Countie would run after Therefore the Crie is made help help ye Magistrates ye Rulers ye Officers of the Army ye Souldiers ye towns and Parishes and Villages help ye men of Devon bring forth your Swords your Staves your Bills your Halberts set the Watch in the high ways in the towns on the Bridges and passages make strong your Guards with men of place and ability and sufficient carnall weapons Let no one of them pass you hale them to prison Lay them fast enough set your authoritie upon it ye generall Sessions make it a Law for our Kingdome is of this world and will fall if ye powers of the earth do not support it Why What 's the matter What is the reason of this outcry In plain english and in open face it is this There are a generation of people whom we call Quakers for we must reproach in the very first place that we may be known of what generation we are Ministers of division not of reconciliation wandring up and down this County as did the Prophets and Christ Jesus and the Apostles and Holy Men of God from the beginning who plague us greatly and the men of our generation in almost every corner of the Nation who deny us who thus act for by these our fruits they say we are known the godly Ministers of England to be the true Ministers of the Gospel for the true Ministers of the Gospel were Ministers of Jesus Christ not of Man or made by or in the will of Man or Nations or Countryes but by the will of God and the revelation of Jesus Christ who made them able Ministers of the new Testament not of the letter but of the spirit for the letter killeth but the spirit giveth life 2 Cor. 3.6 Gal. 1.16 And such were done too by the Ministers of the Countryes the National Ministers the high Priests Scribes and Pharisees as we have done and would have you now do to them as Christ foretold And they deny the Scriptures of which we make our trade to be the word of God and if that be not the word of God no other word of God do we know for we have neither seen his shape nor heard his voyce at any time and Revelation we deny and so we cannot be called M●nisters of the word of God for they say Christ Jesus is the Word of God which was in the beginning before Letter was which was with God which was God and so is not the Letter which was made flesh and came and dwelt amongst us as John testifies chap. 1. Which word of God is quick and powerfull sharper than any two edged sword piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit of the joynts and marrow and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart as saith the Author to the Hebrews chap. 4.12 By which word of God the Heavens were of old and the Earth standing in the water and out of the water and the Heavens and the Earth which are now are kept in store by the same word reserved unto fire against the day of Judgement and perdition of ungodly men as Peter 2 epist c. 3. v. 6 7. witnesseth Who sits on the white horse cloathed with a vesture dipt in blood whose name is called the Word of God riding on conquering and to conquer having the Armies of Heaven following of him as John describes him in his Revelations ch 19.11 12 13 14. And they say the Scriptures are a true declaration of this Christ Jesus the Word of God as Luke bears record who having a perfect understanding of all things from the very first saith he took in hand to set forth in order a declaration of those things which were most surely believed amongst them even as they were delivered unto them by those who from the beginning were eye-witnesses and Ministers of the Word it seeming good unto him also to write of them in order chap. 1.1 2 3. Which declaration of his of him who is the Word of God which he calls so who wrote it we notwithstanding call and will have it to be the Word