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A75884	A fannaticks letter sent out of the dungeon of the gate-house prison of VVestminster: to all his brethren in the three nations at liberty; and also in the several goales and dungeons therein, that are under all the principles of the doctrines of Christ, Heb. 6. I, 2. By Henry Adis, a baptized believer, undergoing the name of a free-willer; and also most ignomineously by the tongue of infamy, called a fannatick, or a mad man.	Adis, Henry.	1660 (1660)	Wing A579; Thomason E1084_6; ESTC R208012	21,559	25

deny us 2 Tim. 2. 12. And therefore let us take up a Resolution to follow him in this our Day in singlenesse of Soul and in our Innocency That we may be Blameless and Harmless the Sons of God without Rebuke in the midest of a Crooked and Perverse Generation among whom shine ye as Lights in the World Phil. 2. 15. giving no Offence in any thing that the Ministry be not blamed But in all things Approving our selves as the Ministers of God in much Patience in Affliction in Necessities in Distresses in Stripes in Imprisonments in Tumults in Labours in Watchings in Fasting by Pureness by Knowledge by Long-suffering by Kindness by the Holy Ghost by Love Unfeigned by the Word of Truth by the Power of God by the Armour of Righteousness on the Right hand and on the Left by Honour and Dishonour by evil Report and good Report as Deceivers and yet True as unknown and yet well known as Dying and behold we Live as Chastened and not Killed as Sorrowful yet alwayes Rejoycing as Poor yet making many Rich as having Nothing yet possessing all Things 2 Cor. 3. For ye see your Calling Brethren how that not many wise men after the Flesh not many Mighty not many Noble are called but God hath Chosen the Foolish things of the World to Confound the Wise And God hath Chosen the Weak Things of the World to Confound the Things that are Mighty and Base Things of the World and Things that are Despised hath God Chosen yea and Things which are not to bring to nought the things that are that no Flesh should glory in his presence And seeing it is so my Brethren I shall Earnestly Desire you in the words of our Apostle That you also who are Troubled rest patiently with us when the Lord Jesus shall be Revealed from Heaven with his Mighty Angels in flaming Fire taking Uengeance on them that know not God and that Obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ who shall be punished with everlasting Destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the Glory of his Power when he shall come to be Glorified in his Saints and to be Admired in all them that Beléeve because our Testimony among you was Beléeded So that as you have Cause to Joy in us so we have great Cause of rejoycing in you that we yet stand fast in one Faith And the Churches of God have Cause to Glory in you for your Patience and Faith in all your Persecutions and Tribulations that ye endure which is a manifest token of the Righteous Judgment of God that ye may be counted worthy of the Kingdom of God for which we also suffer 2 Thess. 2. And thus if any of us suffer as Christians let us not be ashamed but let us glorifie God on this behalf As for you my Brethren that are of Kent and other Places who have all your Livelihoods and some of you all that you could be Trusted for as you are Servers in of Stores and Officers in Ships and Seamen and Labourers in the several Yards appertaining to Shipping my trouble is great for you to hear of your deplorable and sad Condition in that Officers make such use of your Tenderness of Conscience in that you cannot Swear so barbarously to use you Refusing to let you have Supplies for the Relieving your poor Families yet be of good Comfort and Roul your selves upon the All-sufficient God For mine own part I cannot but be a fellow Feeler of your sad Conditions for the Case is mine own with one that is too Great for me to deal withal and for more then I am worth but wait we upon God and in his due time he will Relieve us And therefore let us Comfort our selves in the Lord and here what the Apostle speaks James 5. 1. who saith Go to now ye Rich men wéep and howl for your Miseries that shall come upon you your Riches are Corrupted and your Garments Moth-eaten your Gold and Silver is corrupted and the Rust of them shall be a Witness against you and shal eat your flesh as it were Fire Ye have heaped Treasure together for the last Dayes Behold the Hire of the Labourers which have reaped down your fields which is of you kept back by fraud Cryeth and the Cry of them which have reaped are entered into the Ears of the Lord of the Sabbath Ye have lived in Pleasures on the Earth and been Wanton ye have nourished your Hearts as in the Day of slaughter ye have Condemned and Killed the Just and he doth not resist you Be Patient therefore Brethren unto the Coming of the Lord And Consider that there is one in Power in Heaven above them and one in Earth that is his Vicegerent intrusted under him and set up by him to be a Terrour to evil-Workers and a Praise to them that do well who in due time may be made acquainted of it and give a Remedy in it In the mean time my Beloved Brethren be ye steadfast unmoveable alwayes abounding in the Work of the Lord for as much as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord To Conclude I shall impart unto you my Resolution freely and shall let you know as to my present Condition though I am in a Dungeon yet I had rather be there as through Mercy I can say I am with a clear Conscience then be in the Kings Palace with a clogged Conscience For mine own part I with others have had Tenders of Liberty upon Engaging as others did the which we dare not do least we ensnare our selves for now we are as to our Meetings in this Condition we have yet the Word of a King for the quiet Enjoyment of our Meetings the which we had from Breda and since Confirmed to some of our Friends by verbal Expressions as well as in the Act of Oblivion and in his Declaration for Ecclesiastical Affairs and that upon Condition which Condition is not yet nor God assisting never shall on our part be broken For as we have Publickly Declared our selves in former times under the other Powers to be a Peaceable People and utterly against both Swearing and Fighting as by my Declaration annexed at the End of my Fannaticks Mite is apparent the which through Mercy I shall Resolve rather to Die then in the least to violate And here some men are ready to say as once the Brethren of David did to him who Queried the Reason of Davids forwardness in the Work of God Whose Answer was Is there not a Cause 1 Sam. 17. 29. So must I say at this Day Is there not a Cause Is not the Israel of God now Defied by the Great Goliahs of our Times Therefore I must say as once Jeptha did in another Case Judg. 1 1. 35. I have opened my mouth to the Lord and I cannot go back And when I am Solicited and Perswaded to betray the Cause of Christ and break his lawes by Complying with Engagements

is full as well in Newgate White-Lyon Maydstone Alisbury and in all other Prison-Holes as it is super-abounding in the dark Gate-house Dungeon with us I should then have desired that the Hands hanging down and the feeble knees should have been held up and strengthened but seeing I hear that Faith is every where upon the Wing and that the Omni-present God is pleased to visit us in all our Prison-holes with the incomings of his comforting Spirit even to joy unspeakable and full of Glory I shall conclude with our Apostle and say and that upon a good account to that by the good hand of our God upon us I see it is given unto us in the behalf of Christ not onely to believe but also to suffer for his name sake And herein we have cause to joy and rejoyce in the Lord who by the incomings of his Spirit hath supported both you and us in this Tryal so as that we can with his people of old joy in tribulations knowing that tribulations worketh patience and patience Experience and Experience Hope and Hope maketh not ashamed because the Love of God is spread abroad in our Hearts So that we can with our Apostle upon a good account say that Though we are troubled on every side yet not destressed we are perplexed yet not in despair persecuted but not forsaken cast down but not destroyed alwayes bearing about in our Body the dying of the Lord Jesus Christ for we which live are alwayes delivered unto death for Jesus sake And therefore let every soul of us in singlenesse of heart eye Gods Glory in our present sufferings and take up that good resolution of our aged and faithful brother Paul Acts 21. 13. And say if thereto called that we are willing in the behalf of Christ not onely to be bound and lie in bonds but also to die for his Name sake And this is that which is the rejoycing of my soul that in the midst of these Sufferings both by you and us I cannot hear of one man of our Society that is found an evil doer in what is charged upon us as to plotting contriving or undermining or in any Act of hostility in disturbing the Peace of the Nation for herein we can safely and upon a good account appeal to our God the searcher of all hearts and can with confidence and boldnesse in the faithfulnesse of our souls to the faces of the greatest of men affirm and say We are not guilty of what we are charged withal and that we are oppressed in Judgements and are injuriously torn from our callings and Families and most barbarously penned up in Prison-holes and my self some others of our Society thrust into a damp dark dirty Dungeon without either Light or Air Bed or Bedding first nine and after twelve of us together scarce able to lie down one by another being thus used not for what we have done but for what we are nor for what is found in our Houses as to Arms or Ammunition And that you may be satisfied in a measure with the truth of what my Sufferings are and have been in this juncture of time in this our cruel leading into captivity I shall lay down something upon the account of report also upon the account of Action And as for false rumors raised upon me I was reported to say That I hoped to wash my hands in the Kings Blood this was raised by one Hopping Jane commonly so called a notorious drunken swearing person whose common conversation is to go ranting raving and singing like a Bedlam along the streets to the admiration of those that know her not pulling and haling Gentlemen as they go along the streets to get money of them to buy Ale to drink the Kings health and this was reported that I should say at my shop door on Wednesday morning the ninth day of the eleventh Moneth vulgarly called January 1660. when I was not down my stairs in the shop all that morning as I proved by three Witnesses to the French Papish Fencer that carried me away for saying these words after he and they that were with him had searched my house for Arms the which words or any other tending to that or any such horrid and wicked tendancy God the searcher of all hearts knows I never entertained so much as a thought of in the least and for my tongue to utter that which never came into my thoughts seemeth to me a very strange thing the which she her self hath since said to my Wife before some that heard her words as to that particular was not so It is also further reported by others far and near That I my self that said Wednesday night had killed one of the Constables Watch-men when I was in custody as is aforesaid by nine of the clock in the morning and was that night with some forty more upon the main Guard at White-hall and was sent on Thursday morning to the Gate-house Prison Dungeon where I now am And further it is commonly reported that in my house when it was searched There were several Arms and Ammunition found with Barrels of Gun-powder and that there was a Barrel of white Gun-powder left at one Mr. Horses house in Stannop-street a Coach-maker to be conveyed to me When in truth I had no Arms at all nor any manner of Powder but was so far from any such thing as that I can boldly affirm it in the presence of God that I have not had nor carried so much as a defensive Weapon this fifteen or sixteen years And in 1659. I declared against the acting with the Carnal Weapon and pleaded the unlawfulnesse thereof as by the said Declaration in the end of my Fannatick's Mite cast into the Kings Treasury is evident More I might say as to Matter of Report but I shall forbear and let you know that my house was searched nine several times twice before I was taken into Custody and seven times after I was in Custody and six times of that seven in one night and by several parties So that I may say as to the malice of men I am set up as their Mark to shoot at although my Actings towards them are innocent and harmless For I know nothing on my part as a Cause of it unless in my Fannaticks Mite my bearing my Testimony against the Abominations of the Times in saying what I say therein as to the madness of the rude Multitude And in the revived and daily continued Acts of Folly in Stage-Playes and the many bitter Oaths and Execrations uttered by unlawful Game-Players in the abominations of Dammy and Debauch'd Bawdy-houses the foul detestable shame of a Christian Kingdom or in what I say in Page 49 50 51. of that Mite in that Use of Examination to the Nation Considered as a Nation Or at my down-right and single-hearted Conclusion of my Epistle therein to the KING Dedicated Or in my After-Writing to the KING in that I give Him some REASONS