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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

and Oathes I must say as once that Servant of the Lord said Nehem. 6. 11. Should such a man as I take Sanctuary Should such a man as I Betray and break the Lawes and Cause of Christ I that have been Evil spoken of by the Separation for SEPARATING from the Separation though I have never been Condemned justly by the Separation for any such Separation I say If such a man as I should now seek to secure my self after all my Separation I should be the most abominablest Person in the World and might Justly be Condemned with the World I know that by what I have said I must set up my self more publickly for a Mark to be shot at yet I must Discharge my Conscience as to what I have been and what I am that so I may not be thought either better or worse than what I am and if therein I become nothing as to my Earthly Being yet I matter it not so I keep a good Conscience void of Offence both towards God and towards Man And if in the Innocency of my Soul I perish I perish And I shall rather chuse to Perish a Thousand times then in the least knowingly either to violate the least Law of God or Betray the Cause of Christ or do any thing that may Dishonour the Gospel of Christ or cause his Name to be Evil spoken of And although there be such a Charge as I hear there is given to have such a special Eye to me I know not for what unless for my good Advice to the King yet it shall neither force me to Violate my Conscience nor Forfeit my Liberty as to our Meetings but I shall Patiently bear my Imprisonment till the Lord shall in his Mercy Release me Hanging yet upon the Kings Word to be made good to me and the rest of our peaceable Judgement who are falsly Accused and some of us unjustly Imprisoned and to the wounding of our good Names as Traytors Yet I say again I shall Resolve God Assisting me to continue faithfully waiting upon God in his own Way in the Integrity of my Soul Because better is the Poor that walketh in his Integrity then he that is Perverse in his Lips and is a Fool Prov. 19. 1. For the Integrity of the Upright shall guide them but the Perversness of Transgressors shall Destroy them and the Righteousness of the Upright shall direct his way whilest the Wicked shall Fall by his own wickedness Prov. 11. 3 5. And thus whilest the Just man walketh in his Integrity his Children are Blessed after him Prov. 20. 7. The Premises Considered It shall be the desire of my Soul to go on waiting upon God Earnestly begging in the behalf of the King and his People That there may be such a Right Understanding of things that Justice be so duely Administred as that the Righteous be not as the Wicked nor the Innocent as the Guilty lest the Cry of the many Oppressed Families come up into the Ears of the Great and Just JEHOVAH that Sin-Revenging God who is of a more purer Eye then to behold Iniquity so as to approve of it or those that act in it Thus having given you an Accompt both of my Innocency and Integrety both what I am and what by Divine Assistance I shall Resolve to be notwithstanding the noysomness of the Place I am in and the Hardships that I and those that are with me do undergo therein our Livelyhoods chiefly depending upon our daily handy Labours being torn from our Callings and Families tyed up from getting our own Bread and brought into worse then an EGYPTIAN Bondage and Contrary to the Law both of NATURE and NATIONS who though we are the Kings Prisoners yet we have not as I said before neither Beds nor Bedding Meat nor Money nay not so much as a Drop of Water but what we are forced to purchase with our Money the which if we have not nor Friends to bring them to us we must in reason inevitably perish the which notwithstanding though we undergo yet I shall Resolve still to endure rather then set my Hand to Folly either to Violate my Conscience by breaking the least Law of God or in the least to Give my Consent to the making my self Guilty by Paying Traytors Fees which is double Fees or any Fees at all seeing I am not Guilty of what I am laid in for but shall Resolve to go on in my Christian Progress as a Christian ought to do and shall desire to wait upon God in Prayer and Supplication for such a Right Understanding of things as that the Evil Doer only may be Punished that the Meetings of the peaceable People of God according to the Kings Promise may be still Continued Praying for the King and his People although at present my Professed Enemies And to Remain till Death Your Faithful Brother and Fellow Prisoner for Christ HENRY ADIS. From my Close Constraint The Kings Courtesie For my Christian Counsel The Gate-House Dungeon Damp and Dark Void of Light Darker then Night Once a Den for Thieves But now a House of Prayer My Contented Castle Till Christ Clear me THE END

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

that we shall have cause to say with his Servant of old Psal. 11 9. 75. I know O Lord that thy Judgements are right and that thou of Faithfulness hast caused me to be troubled And again By our Afflictions we shall Evidence our selves to be Sons and not Bastards For whom the Lord loveth he Chasteneth and scourgeth Every Son whom he Receiveth If ye endure Chastening God dealeth with you as with Sons For what Son is it whom the Father Chasteneth not But if ye be without Chastizements whereof all are partakers then are ye Bastards and not sons Heb. 12. 6 7 8. God is now Preparing a People for himself and as Persons are to be fitted hewen and squared for the building of God before they can be fit matter for his Building here as they must be lively Stones before they can be duly put into his building the Church so he is now trying his Stones for his Heavenly Building he now sitting as a Refiner and Purifier of Silver And is now Trying the Sons of Levi and shall Purge them as Gold and Silver and he that is not now found Gold Silver or Precious Stones will be Consumed his out-side Formality will be proved to be Hypocrisie He that now hath not Oyl in his Vessel will walk in the Dark for Profession is almost out of fashion and he that now hath not Habakkuks Faith will not stand He that now finds out a by-way to Deny Christ vvill not be found Worthy of him novv the Day vvill try him he that vvould not leave his Lust his Pride his Vanity his Hunting after his Profit will now Evidence himself who he was For Two men walking together and a Third following them as a Servant it is hard to guess whose Servant he is but when they part the Servant will follow his own Master Christ and Reputation Credit or Fame have in this Nation walked hand in hand a long time together but now they are parting it will suddenly now be Evidenced whose Servants Professors are And the Master without all question will Pay them their Wages the Lord is now Dealing with his People as once Constantius dealt with his Subjects And would King Charles the Second have done so he would have had far better Attendants then now he hath In the Ecclesiastical History Eusebius Pamphilius in his First Book of the Life of Constantine in his Twelfth Chapter speaketh to this Purpose THat the Magistrates in every Province by the Command of the former Tyrannical Emperors did cruelly and grievously Oppress the Christians and brought them to Martyrdom in so much that Godly Men were very scarce At which Constantius the Father of Constantine was much troubled who when he came to Succeed in the Empire and having a desire to try his Courtiers saith the story he began to contrive a strong and Admirable Plot for he Granted Free leave to all his Officers and Men of Dignity to offer Sacrifices unto Devils and yet to give their Attendance in Court and keep their Places And those that would not perform those accursed Sacrifices should be banished the Court and dismissed his Service Whereupon his Courtiers being divided into a double Faction presently Discovered their Minds and Affections And many were the number of Idolaters whereupon this worthy Constantius Discovering his own Plot he Reproved those that were fearful and desirous to keep their Places Approving and Commending the other for their Constancy in Gods Cause Rejecting the Idolaters as Traytors to God and not worthy of his Service For how said he can they be Faithful to me their Emperour who have Revolted from their God So that he presently Banished them from his Court and made those that were Approved to be Constant in giving their Testimony to the Faith near Officers unto him for the Securing of his own Person saying That such men were to be accounted as his most familliar Friends and to be esteemed of more then great Treasures Thus we have briefly Characteriz'd the Father of Constantine by the Actions of his Life by which any one may clearly discern that God gave him prosperous Success in his Affairs and gave him a different Heart from his Predecessors For having a long time performed many vertuous and royal Actions at length having suppressed the Superstitious Adoration of their Heathen gods he acknowledged the only true God Governor of all things And strengthned his Family by keeping Religious men to Pray for him and his and spent the residue of his Life with great Commendations in Peace and Tranquility living without Troubles or being troublesome which the Vulgar account a great Happiness So he Governed his Wife Children and Family very quietly and peaceably all the time of his Reign and Devoted them and himself to the Service of God so that his Royal Palace seemed to be a Religious Temple in which there were Holy and Religious men that offered up their Incense of Prayers for the Emperours safety even then when among the Heathen it was a dangerous thing to be called a Religious man or one that served God And all the harm I wish King Charles the Second is that he were but a second Constantius that he had such a Court and such a Guard such a Ministry and such a Magistracy such a Nobility and such a Gentry such a Yeomandry and such a Peasantry that all from the highest to the lowest were such as truly feared God and hated Covetousness that every Relation might Act so faithfully towards their God and each to other in Love Peace and Unity that the God of Peace might take a delight to dwell amongst us when all abomination Babylon like might be cast into the Sea of Forgetfulness And seeing such a People would make so happy a Prince O Friends let us hold fast our Integrity that so we may be a blessing to our Prince here and obtain the blessing hereafter For they that shall be with the Lamb are such as shall be found Faithful and Worthy and Chosen for they are Virgins and have not defiled themselves with Women they have not intermingled themselves with the Abominations of the great Whore nor her Adulterous Brood And if we will have one like the Son of God Comforting and Supporting Walking with and Refreshing us in that hot Furnace of Affliction that is Heating for us let us with Shadrach Meshach and Abednego keep close to our God and let us not be careful to Answer the desires of men Dan. 3. 25. but in all Humility let us patiently Suffer under them in so doing our Comfort will be great though our Sufferings be many yea though our lives lye at stake and we also lose them yet if our Saviours words be true we shall find them for if we with our Apostle do fight the good fight of Faith we may expect to lay hold of Eternal Life This is a faithful saying For if we suffer with him we shall Reign with him but if we Deny him he will also