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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35836	The discovery of the great enmity of the serpent against the seed of the woman, which witnesseth against him where he rules, both in rulers, priests, and people whose hearts are now made manifest in this great day of the Lords power, wherein he is sending his sons and daughters in the power of his spirit to run to and fro to declare his word ... / a true testimony of him the world knows by name, William Deusbery, and in scorn calls a Quaker ... ; also his call to the ministry of the everlasting Gospel by the still voyce of the spirit of God ... ; the word of the Lord to all in England whom the Lord hath betrusted with power ... ; vvith a lamentation over all in England who oppose Christ in his spiritual appearance ... ; from the common goal in Northampton the 25 day of the 4 month, 1655.	Dewsbury, William, 1621-1688.	1655 (1655)	Wing D1265; ESTC R207336	26,718	32

into prison I was put and when the day was spent Thomas You l called the Mayor of Derby sent for me and when I came before him he asked me what I came to the Town to doe The answer to him I came to declare the word of the Lord to the consciences of the inhabitants of Derby the Mayor replyed wilt thou go out of the Town Answer to him when the Lord orders me to go forth then I shall goe till then I shall stay then Thomas Youll the Mayor commanded the man to put me into prison again which was done the next day about the 9 hour there came William B●sld one of the Mayors officers and said to me if thou wilt goe forth of the Town and in it no more come I will open the doores for thee to come forth the answer to him out of the Town I shall not goe untill I am ordered of the Lord and if thou openest the doore forth of the prison I shall not come till the man that said he had authority to put me in come by the same authority and take me out then away the man did goe and afterwards did come and the man whose name Iohn Slalous who put me in prison opened the door and took me by the arm and put me forth in much wrath and delivered me to the other man whose name is before written who said he had order to put me forth of the Town which he did and strictly charged mee to depart out of their co●sts with many threatnings what should be done to me if in the Town again I returned but the words of vain man was not regarded into the Town I returned and there did stay till I was free in my spirit to depart from thence Then I journeyed to Leicester and was there the first day of the week which was the 3 day of the 7 month called September And with me was many people to whom the word of the Lord was declared and after the testimony of Jesus was finished to them I went into the high place of the Town which the people of the dark world calls their Church and after the man they call their Minister had done the word of eternal life was declared to the consciences of the people who did hear with much attention untill two men came to me and said they had order from Edmund Iohnson called Mayor to take me away and with violence drew me forth and had me before the said Edmund Iohnson who commanded his officers to put me in prison before he did me examine which was done and the next day the man that put me in prison forth me brought before the Mayor and VVilliam Bill●rs another of the Rulers of the Town who did me examine and not finding any thing against me commanded Robert Brewin Keeper of the common Goal to put me out of the Town and strictly charged me to depart forth of their coasts with many threatnings what they would do if I again into the Town did come but the threatnings of man was not regarded into the Town I did return in obedience to the command of the Lord to finish the testimony of Jesus I was to witnesse to the consciences of the inhabitants of the Town of Leicester Then in obedience to the Spirit of truth I journed into Northamptonshire and in a Town called VVellingborrow and thereawayes many did receive the word of life with much gladnesse of heart And at a time as I was going along the street in that Town neer the house of Thomas Andrews whom the people of the world calls their Teacher he to me did speak these words Give over deceiving the people least the plagues of God fall upon thee the answer to him was If thou say I deceive the people make it appear wherein I deceive them he replyed thou tells them there is no originall sin I required of him didst thou hear me say so to that he made no answer then these words was to him declared thou must either prove what thou accusest me of or own thy condemnation upon they false accusation he fled away and did make no answer About the time which was near 3 weeks after I was ordered of the Lord to return again to VVellingborrow and hearing there was a meeting in the Steeple-house where Thomas Andrew was who had he falsly accused as is formerly written for the truths sake into the Steeple house I did goe and in silence did stand till the man called their Teacher had done then I declared the word of the Lord to the people who did hear peaceably and afterwards I spake in particular to Thomas Andrews to prove what he had falsly accused me of in saying I deceived the people and there make it manifest before the people or to own his condemnation upon his false accusation but to what was required no answer he did make but away fled and the men that was there whom the world calls their Teachers then Henry Smith who in that Town dwels out of the Steeple-house haled me into the yard where the truth to the people was declared who did there stand peaceably to hear till William Baw called high Constable did take hold on me and had me away into the market place amongst the people and said he would bring evidence against mee for Blasphemy so had he me as prisoner too and fro in the market place with so doing he made disturbance among the people but when he could not prove what hee had falsly accused mee with hee let mee goe who at the present time went from amongst the people to a friends house and came no more forth amongst the people in the market that day The next day being the 28 of the 10 month called December Richard Dennis being Constable of VVellingborow came to the friends house where I was and took me forth by vertu●● of a Warrant that had no name but for one who is commonly called Quaker and had me with it before Thomas Pentlow called Justice at VVilby in Northamtonshire who did me examine but would not read mee any Law I had transgressed but a Mittimus made and sent me to the common Goal in Northamton on the 29 day of the 10 month called December 1654. A copy of the Mittimus I was denyed by Iohn Snart keeper of the Goal and also the men that were in commission to doe Justice when it was of them desired in the open Court at the generall Sessions holden at Northampton the 10 day of the 11 moneth by those whose names are Iohn Clark Iohn Parker called Sergant at Law George ●enson John Mansil John Brown who there did sit in Commission to have judged the cause in righteousnesse between mee and mine accusers but when the Mittimus was read where the charge against me was written not any appeared to prove what the Blasphemy was for which they committed mee to prison in suspition of neither they to me read any Law that any thing charged against me

had it transgrest but again ●o prison did mee commit to answer at the Assizes holden at Northampton the 10 and 12 day of the first month called March 1654. And three times I was there brought before Matthew Hail who did sit judge of life and death to answer what might be objected against me and the last time I before him was brought Hugh VVindham was with him who then was in commission with to have judged the cause in righteousnesse between me and my accusers and though not any accuser appeared against me to prove mee the transgressor of any Law neither would these that sate to judge my cause any Law to me read that any evidence given in against me was the transgression of but they me committed to prison where I had been amongst those arraigned for fellony and murther so under all these lies and aspertions false accusations I suffer and instead of being cleared of them when I was brought before those that are in Commission to judge with righteous judgement more accusations is laid upon me by them which was done by John Parker at the general Sessions before written and Hugh VVindham at the general Assizes before mentioned which both did accuse me in the open Court before the people that I was a seducer and when I required them to make manifest wherein I did seduce any they would not answer to what then was required and a copie of the ground of the evidence they pretend they have against me they denied to be given me in all places where they have proceeded against me as is formerly written least their wo●ks of darknesse should come to light and their folly made manifest and truth cleared of the lies and false accusations with which they blind the eyes of many and cause them to stumble at the wayes of truth in speaking evil of the things they know not as is manifest in what is written So for the truth sake I bare testimony of and it to clear from all lies and aspe●sions cast upon it which hath caused the simple to stumble at the way of truth and that they no longer be turned aside by the lying spirit who every way seeks to murther and destroy the truth from the earth in persecuting the bodies of the Saints and shutting them up in prison under the names of blasphemers deceivers seducers and disturbers of the peace so make lies their refuge as that persecuting spirit ●ver did in all ages to stop the lying mouth and for the simple sake that desires in the truth of their hearts to know the leadings of the spirit of truth in the way to know the onely true God I here publickly declare to the inhabitants of England and to all that dwell upon the earth what I was in the fallen estate and how the Lord raised me up by the arm of his mighty power and carried me on through the great work of regeneration that all may know the truth I am sent to bear testimony to the consciences of those that dwell upon the earth is not any seducing nor contrary to the truth of the Gospel but is according to the truth as it is in Jesus He that hath an eye to see let him see and ●n ear to hear let him hear The first Birth I Was conceived in sin and brought forth in iniquity and in that state lived and delighted in pride and pleasures lightnesse and vanity as all doth in that nature untill I were about eight years of age though before that time when I did live in vanity the light in my conscience did witnesse against mee and caused some trouble in me but I departed from the light and so followed the counsell of my own heart that lead mee into vanity to live without the fear of God And about the time when I was eight years of age of my natural birth the word of the Lord came unto me I created thee for my glory an account thou must give to me for all thy words and actions done in the body which word enlightned my heart and opened the book of conscience in me where all was written I had done in the body ever since I was a child or had any remembrance and when I had read my condition how I had lived without God who created me for his glory The word of the Lord then came unto me Shall the axe boast it self against him that heweth therewith or shall the saw magnifie it self against him that shaketh it As if the staffe should shake it self against him that lif●eth it up or as if the staffe should lift up it self as if it were no wood and by the power of the word of the Lord that spoke in me my understanding was enlightned and my conscience bore witness that it was my condition I had lifted up my self against the livi●g God in living without his fear who created me to live in obedience to him but I had lived in disobedience to him untill that day so deep sorrow seized upon me and I knew not what to do that I might get acquaintance with the God of my life who created me for his own praise and glory then I ceased from my vain conversation which I had lived in and began to read the Scriptures and books and mourn and pray to a God I knew not where he was but expected him without looking up towards the firmament where my carnal imagination told me he was and as I had heard those the world calls Ministers whom I went to hear whose words did witnesse with my carnal imagination of God they said he was above the skies calling it heaven but I felt the hand of the Lord within me executing justice upon the wicked in me and what way ever I turned to seek him in observations thither the flaming sword turned which was placed against me to keep the way of the tree of life and executed the righteous justice of God upon me so I stood before the Throne of the Lamb reading in my mournfull estate the sentence of condemnation that passed upon me from the glory of his presence and in this condemned estate I continued and through the ignorance where God was what his worship was I strove to satisfie his justice in outward observations imitating what the Saints did sometimes in fasting and prayer which was the practise of Cornelius and others of the Saints of the most high God as I found recorded in the Scripture of Truth But notwithstanding all my strict walking in observations in which I was seeking the Kingdom of God I found him not but the flaming sword cut me down so my sorrow increased for I found none in my condition that I could declare it to Then it pleased the Lord to order my friends in the flesh to put me to keep the sheep where I was retired from company so my mind was kept in my mournfull estate where my great