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cause_n	call_v	lord_n	time_n	2,016	5	3.3947	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29619	A single and general voice lifted up like a trumpet, sounding forth the Lords controversie concerning London, with her governors, priests, and citizens that walk in the manners, customs, and way of the heathen, that know not the dreadful God who is Light among them, neither like to retain God ... with somewhat directed to the ear of Thomas Atkin, called alderman of the said city : a reproof to his perverse and ungodly proceedings, message, and two letters ... also a letter from a servant of God in the said prison to Thomas Allen, Mayor of the city ... / by Daniel Baker.	D. B. (Daniel Baker), fl. 1650-1660.	1659 (1659)	Wing B485; ESTC R32851	25,174	40

to evil doers and can you I say be clear of the same crimes that you will judge and condemn such vile Transgressors for be wise therefore and consider and remove the cause of such fit opportunities or times as Thomas Atkins calls them Now forasmuch as people that suffer in any degree at such seasons may say if the Rulers and Magistrates did cease to proceed in their heathenish Idolatrous Abominations and vain glory by which the Lord God is so highly dishonoured tempted and provoked from time to time by which also many thousands of people gather together to gaze at folly and wickednesse and run greedily into the excesse pride vanity pleasures and hurtful lusts of the flesh that war against the Lambs Spirit and neglect their honest imployments we should not thus suffer in any degree when the fit time as thou calls it or I say rather wicked and vain opportunities be removed and taken away And this I may say to clear my Conscience on the Lords behalf and I know it of a truth had not the Spirit of the most high been opprest vexed and grieved with the long continuance of your wicked heathenish actions doubtlesse the Lord had not at any time sent any of his Messengers to testifie against and reprove you and to lay before you your mighty sins and to cry aloud and lift up their voices like Trumpets though they be looked upon or esteemed by the unwise as mad men contrary to all men for reproving you for your folly vanity and wickednesse did it not thus abound in all Streets through the Nation as the upright in heart feel something of the weight of your wickednesse and great abominations and the everlasting God will plead with his Righteous Judgement with you for a sword is to passe through your Land Oh ye stiff-necked Generation for these things and except you repent and depart from evil by the fear of the Lord which is the beginning of Wisdome the Light of the World whose light is in every one of your Consciences and with it you bring forth fruit meet for repentance unto life as sure as the Lord God hath given you breath you shall die in your sins and this is love to thy soul among the rest that lyeth under the bondage of corruption What I have suffered since I came into Prison is unexpressible because of sin sinful men ungodlinesse blasphemy and prophanenesse that abounds which with my pretious life from time to time I have Testified against because of which I have endured the Contradictions of ungodly sinners day by day and as truly as the Soul of righteous Lot was vexed from day to day with the filthy Conversation of the wicked Sodomites so certainly have I witnessed the like Condition in this noysom Prison where wickednesse and ungodlinesse daily abounds and where is there a Prison in this Nation that is not as it were a Nursery for all manner of abominations and the Rulers ought to see to it that they be not so else will it not lie upon their heads and is countenanced and upheld by the Keepers also that should be as every Magistrate ought to be a just man of Truth hating Covetousness and to despise and shake their hand at the gain of Oppression and so to Rule over and be a good example a terror to evil-doers that such may go out with a reformed life rather better then worse then when they came in but contrariwise the chief Goaler or Keeper hath gone about and endeavoured to limit the Spirit of the Lord Behold to his everlasting praise I testifie that I have gladly received that into my heart to Rule me and hath the preheminence even the Spirit of Truth the Light that reproves the world for sin and with my life in my hand have I reproved and testified against wickedness and ungodliness blasphemy and the like evils that abound in this Prison for which the Keeper Humphry Gifford a Professor of the Prophets Christ and the Apostles good words hath caused men to draw me away and cast me into a place where the filth of the prisoners run almost round about me and this is of truth that I write and at that season my Testimony I declared and laid it upon his head who Commanded me to be taken away because I Reproved blasphemy and ungodliness he said I spake too loud although unclean and ungodly Songs and wicked Revellings as it were made the house ring again imediately after as at other seasons and Humphry Gifford will remember this when the hand of the Lord visits for all the deeds done in the body and forasmuch as he who should have been a terror to evil doers strengthened their hands by commanding violence to be done to me that Reproved sin and ungodliness with my life the Lord is witness and sundry men that are more sober then the rest can also bear Record And moreover every first day of the Week since I have been in Bonds have the Prisoners done violence to me and my Friend Humphry Bach● and forced and carried us into the Hole of the Prison and Locked us up by the Keepers Order because we could not for Conscience sake but did refuse to enter into Covenant with them viz. to be silent and so limit the Spirit of the Lord whose peculiar right only is to command the Tongue and every Member of our body at his good will in us to work although such a thing be not demanded of any other of the Prisoners and although we have been there while they have been at part of their Worship and spake never a word yet have they abused and then done violence and taken me up and carried me into the Hole and locked me up and one Friend thrust out of Door by one Parrat a Turn-key with such violence as if he would have broke her neck and sometime after I asked him saying How if thou hadst broke her neck Then I should be hanged for it said he And let the Magistrates consider Whether such persons be fit to have any Authority or at least to serve sober persons and the Priests that professe themselves Ministers of Christ beholding such Cruelties and not a mouth open to reprove them that do violence and one Priest a prisoner for Debt said in the hearing of many Witnesses There was no way to Dispute with us but with blows Let the sober mind weigh and judge of these things But sometime standing behind the Door like a Thief and would not come in as if he were ashamed to tell his Dream or studied stuffe or Divination of his own brain or to deliver his message till we have been thus taken and carried violently out of his sight as Sheep to the slaughter and cast into the Hole of the prison and notwithstanding that Humphry Gifford chief Goaler had Covenanted with the Hired Priest and Judas Iscariot the Traytor went from the light the unchangeable Priest to the changeable Priests and Covenanted with them