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A86665 The immediate call to the ministry of the Gospel, witnessed by the spirit: vvith a true declaration of the persecution and suffering of Richard Hubberthorne, James Parnell, Ann Blayling, by Will. Pickering, who is Mayor of Cambridge. Also an answer to divers letters and mittimusses, against the said prisoners, answered; by them who are sufferers for the truth, and for the testimony of Jesus, Richard Hubberthorn, James Parnell. Hubberthorn, Richard, 1628-1662.; Parnell, James, 1637?-1656. 1654 (1654) Wing H3225; Thomason E812_13; ESTC R207636 16,317 15

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THE IMMEDIATE CALL To the Ministery of the GOSPEL witnessed by the SPIRIT VVith a true Declaration of the persecution and suffering of Richard Hubberthorne James Parnell Ann Blaying by Will Pickering who is Mayor of CAMBRIDGE Also an Answer to divers Letters and Mittimusses against the said Prisoners answered By them who are sufferers for the truth and for the testimony of JESUS RICHARD HUBBERTHORN JAMES PARNELL LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black-Spread-Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1654. The immediate Call to the Ministery of the Gospel witnessed by the Spirit WIth a true Declaration of the persecution and suffering for the Gospel under the tyranny of the Mayor of Cambridge which Gospel of Jesus Christ whereever it was made manifest the testimony of it was ever sealed with bloud persecution and sufferings and it is the same now working the same effect and bearing the same seal as is witnessed And also an answer to several false reproaches given forth in writing in three Letters under the hand of Will Pickering Mayor of Cambridge which herein is discovered and laid open that so the truth may be cleared and all Magistrates Priests and People may discern truth from scandals and that all simple hearts and minds may be informed to receive the truth freely without stumbling at reproaches through which the Prophets and Apostles and Servants of Jesus Christ did bear witnesse to the truth Isai. 51. 7. Heb. 11. 26. esteeming the reproaches of Christ greater riches than the pleasures of the world and the Apostles were to goe forth to him without the Camp bearing his reproach Heb. 13. 13. If ye be reproached for the Name of Christ happy are ye for the Spirit of God and of glory resteth upon you 1 Pet. 4. 14. From one whom the Lord by his eternal Spirit hath called to bear witnesse to his Truth and to his Word and Gospel made manifest in me by the revelation of Jesus Christ whose life and conversation hath been blamelesse in the world whom no outward Law did ever take hold upon for evill doing but was strict and zealous in an outward profession of God and Christ exceeding many in wisdome and knowledge in the letter of the Scripture and had a form of godlinesse but the power of it I was ignorant of and was a stranger to the life of God which the Saints lived in which spoke forth the Scripture according to their measure and the Word of God which the Saints spoke from I was ignorant of though I knew the letter and was a Minister of the letter before I knew the power of the Word of God but when the living powerful Word of God was made manifest in me by his mighty power then I was made silent from speaking any thing of God from that knowledge and wisdom which was natural and did arise out of the earth in which stood my zeal and profession and form of godlinesse which was all without in words and outward appearance and outward righteousnesse and outward holinesse the earthly nature standing which all outward profession and forms lodge in but when the Word of God by his mighty power was made manifest within me spoken from his own mouth which word was in my heart as a fire which did burn up corruption and uncleannesse and work out the defiled nature and by it was all the powers of the earth brought down and the earth it self shaken by it the deviss were made to tremble and were cast out and in that day did the keepers of the house tremble and the strong man cry bitterly and the just Judgements of God did fall upon that nature I lived in and the terrors and wrath of the Lord took hold upon me till the flesh was wasted off the bones that I could number my bones day and night the terrors of the Lord was upon me revealed from heaven against all unrighteousnesse against all my own rightcousnesse and all my familiars and acquaintaince stood afarre off me for I was a wonder to all them who lived in that nature that I had lived in for they knew not the judgements of God against sin which then was upon me because of disobedience to the light which did make manifest sin and evill but hearing the Word of the Lord in power spoken within me did confound all my wisdome and knowledge and made me to be a fool to the wisdome of the world and to deny the wisdome and to deny my self and my own will and by this Word was I called to come out of my own country kindred and fathers house to doe the Lords work in obedience to his command and to stand in his will out of my own will for I knew the voice of God which called me and for this cause did I leave father and mother lands and living earthly honour and earthly riches which I had and might have lived in if I had been disobedient to the command of God but the Lord called me forth by his mighty power to bear witnesse to him in the world and to declare and preach forth the Gospel of the Son of God according to my measure as it was made manifest within me and by his Word to declare against all sin and iniquity and unrighteousness of men and in obedience to him who called me did I goe as I was moved by his eternal Spirit into severall parts of this Nation Townes and Cities and Countries in the North and West part of England and Wales bearing testimony to the truth and in some parts sealing the testimony with my bloud and by imprisonments in persecution in perils often under tryals of cruel mockings scourgings and revilings enduring the contradiction of sinners and doe not account my life dear unto my self that I may render to the Lord a good accompt of my faithfulnesse in obedience to him who hath called me into his work and vineyard and this is all the wages that the Ministers of the Gospel receive from the world being accounted as deceivers yet true as having nothing yet possessing all things as poor yet making many rich The servant is not greater than his Lord John 15. 20. who hath suffered the same things and hath left a good example and if it be the will of God that we suffer with him in the obedience to him are we made willing not onely unto bonds but unto death who doe now bear his reproach and by the Spirit of the Lord was I moved in obedience to him to come to this Town where some did receive the testimony of the truth where I stayed certain dayes and we had certain meetings publickly from house to house and the hands of the persecutors was then bound by the mighty power of God and they limited from acting the persecution which was in their hearts which now they have acted so farre as their power doth reach but the Sea must keep its bounds and cannot break them Then I passed forth of the Town as I
custody and him safely keep that he may be forth coming to answer the premises the next Sessions fail not at your perill Given under my hand 3d July 1654. Will. Pickering Mayor A Reply to the foresaid Mittimus AS for my coming before thee it was by thy Authority for I was in a friends house called Justice Blackley and there was a man called a Constable in a shop over against the house waiting for my coming forth and as I was going over the way with some writings in my hand which concerned the truth of God the Constable so called came and met me and told me I must goe with him and I said if he had authority I should goe with him and he said he had and so in obedience to the Authority I went along and he brought me before thee and thou came violently and took off my hat and cast it upon the earth calling me rogue and other such like termes which was in thy will and not in thy law and therefore thou art not fit to be a Magistrate for he that is guided by his own will is not fit to be a Magistrate for he makes his will a law and the law is not to be made by the will of man and then thou came and caused my pockets to be searched and thou took my writings from me and said there might be some treason in them and I said if there was any thing under the Law let me suffer by the Law and thou came violently once or twice as if thou wouldest have smote me calling me rogue and witch and the like and I said if thou couldest prove me either a rogue or a witch let me suffer as a rogue or a witch but whether this be in thy law or no I know not so I shall leave it to those who knowes the Law to judge of it but I am sure it is contrary to the Law of God and so to that thou art a transgressour and by him thou must be judged And then thou asked me why I came to the Town to make division And I said Christ came for the same to set at variance father against son and son against father as the Scripture makes it appear Mat. 10. 35. and I witnessethe same fulfilled and this thou sets as an article against me Now let any one consider if thou wouldest not imprisoned Christ if he was personally here but in as much as thou doest it to one of his thou doest it to him Mat. 25 45. and here thou hast manifested thy self to be a Tyrant who imprisons the Servants of Jesus Christ for confessing him who begins the warre wheresoever he comes his first appearance is with the sword to that which is for the sword and bring peace and deliverance to the captives and to lead captivity captive Luke 4. 8. and this we witnesse fulfilled and for this end are we come to the Town of Cambridge which is one of the devils strongest holds from whence he sends forth his messengers into the world to deceive the Nations but the Lord is come to beat up his quarters and now the warre is begun and the devil hath cast some of us into prison but still the warre goeth on and the Lamb will get the victory and the Beast and the false Prophet and all that have the mark of the Beast must be cast into the lake that burneth c. Rev. 20. 10 to the end Rev. 19. 20. And then thou examined me if I owned a paper which thou shewed me and I said I did and thou set that down as an article against me for putting up a paper which thou sayest is against the Ministers and Magistrates of Cambridge and here thou accuseth the Ministers and Magistrates of Cambridge to be corrupt and heathenish for the paper onely declared against corrupt Magistrates and heathenish Priests wheresoever they are and so if there be any Law transgressed here it is thou that hast transgressed it and so for these things thou sent me to prison and thou sayest for other misdemeanours and not one of the Town of Cambridge can tax me for any misdemeanour for I am redeemed out of the generation of misdemeanours and was bound to good behaviour by a stronger bond than man can make before I came at the Town of Cambridge but let any who hath understanding judge whether thy behaviour or mine was the more like misdemeanour but for this cause thou sent me to prison but I know not by what Law but thou sayest in the name of the Lord Protector of England but I believe him whom thou callest Lord Protector would deny to own it for if he should own it he would own tyranny and oppression and would shew himself to be an oppressour of the truth of God and a Protector of tyranny and oppression and the Lord Protector of heaven and earth would cut him off and if he wink at such Tyrants as thou art the Lord will smite him with his sword and will cut him off from off the face of the earth and set another in his room as he hath had examples before him And thou bragged to me of a tyranny done by thee and said thou caused two of my sisters to be whipped the third day 1653. but I tell thee the Lord God of all power will whip thee with a rod of vengeance and him too whom thou callest Lord Protector of England who hath the power of England in his hand if he uphold or suffer such tyranny or any punishment to be acted against or upon any tender consciences contrary to the Law of God and so I leave him without excuse in the presence of the Lord and judgement at thy door who callest thy self WILL PICKERING A Reply to some Speeches objected against Ann Blacklane called Quaker in Touleboth by one Phillip Johnson calling himself a Minister of the World and calls these sayings dangers and damnable doctrines errors and heresies Object 1. THat she said the Scriptures written by the Prophets and Apostles are not the Word of God but Christ and that the Scriptures are not sufficient light and meanes to find Christ and for us to rely upon contrary to these places of Scripture Mat. 1 24. 2 Pet 1. 17. Thou enemy of all righteousnesse how darest thou call thy self a Minister of the Word and art ignorant of the letter which witnesseth with the Word and saith the Word became flesh which is Christ and in the beginning was the Word and the Word was God John 1. 1 14. and this the Prophets and Apostles witnessed and thou who sets thy self to witnesse the contrary art no Minister of the Word nor of the letter which witnesseth with the Word but art shut out from both and art for condemnation by the Word And thou that callest this damnable doctrine callest the doctrine of the Apostles damnable who preached Christ the Word and here I openly declare against thee to be a blasphemer of the Truth of God and the