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A book of some of the sufferings and passages of Myles Halhead of Mount-Joy in Underbarrow in the county of Westmorland as also, concerning his labour and travel in the work of the Lord ...
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Halhead, Miles, 1613 or 14-1689 or 90.
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Reward according to his Work Glory and Honour and living eternal Praises be given to the God of my Life for evermore who is the good Shepherd of my Soul who hath enabled me to do his Work and Service and hath brought me by his eternal Arm and Power safely to my own House again and hath given me Joy and Peace that all the Persecutors in all the World cannot take from me as I dwell and abide faithful unto him who is the good Shepherd and Bishop of my Soul who is my Light my Life my Joy and Peace and eternal Portion for evermore Amen Again in the Year 1669 in the Reign of King Charles about the 5th Month the Word of the Lord came to me saying Go thy way into Cumberland Northumberland and Bishoprick and Yorkshire where I have sent thee formerly to declare my Word and to shew them the Way as thou hadst received it of me that leads to Life and Peace that all the World are but Talkers of and many in that day did receive thy Testimony with gladness of Heart Go thy way and take thy Horse and pass into these Countries and speak my Word freely to my own People my Sons and my Daughters whom I have called and chosen out of the World and the barren Mountains thereof to serve me in Truth and in Righteousness all their dayes Lift up thy Voice like a Trumpet and speak to my own People and charge them in my Name to prepare themselves for I will come and take account of them even from the greatest to the least and he that hath ten Tallents given him shall count for ten and he that hath five Tallents given him shall count for five and he that hath two given shall count for two and every one of my Servants Sons and Daughters shall count for what they have received of me So I was very free in my Spirit to tell my dear Brother Robert Withers a faithful man a fellow Labourer in the Lord's work what lay upon me from the Lord and he was made free to go with me So in obedience to the Lord we were made very willing to go into these Countries to speak to the Lord's People who had received the Lord's Truth in the love it and many of our dear Friends and Brethren were exceedingly broken and their Hearts tendred with the Lord's Testimony and with the true sence of God's everlasting Love and tender fatherly Care to them who hath sent his Servants to give them warning that the Lord God of Heaven and Earth will come and take account of every one of his Servants both Sons and Daughters from the greatest to the least that they may be prepared to meet the Lord with Joy and Rejoycing that they may give their Account with gladness of Heart and so receive the blessed Sentence that the Lord hath prepared for all the Faithful and Upright in Heart that they may finish and end their dayes in Peace and lie down in the Bosom of the Father with all the holy Men of God So when we had been in all these Counties and had many good and pretious Meetings amongst our dear Friends and Brethren to the strenthening and refershing one another in the holy Faith Being free of the Lord's burthen we returned to our outward beings again and had great Peace with the Lord. A true Account of Myles Halhead of Mount-Joy concerning the Payment or Non-payment of his Tythes from the first I was Convinced of the Truth which was in the Year of our Lord 1652 to this present Year 1673. WIthin one year after I had received the Lord's Truth I was moved of the Lord to speak to Tho. Wilson of Heversham-hall he coming to my house to demand Tythe-Wooll and Lamb I said unto him Friend I have paid thee thy Tythes for Wool and Lamb as truly as any man hath done ever since I had Goods of my own to this day but now the Lord God of my Life hath out of his eternal Love to me opened my Understanding and let me clearly see the Unjustness and Unlawfulness of Tythes therefore I dare pay them no more lest I grieve and provoke the God of my Life therefore Friend do what thou pleasest with me for I cannot pay thee Tythes any more The man was very quiet and moderate and said He did believe that I had paid him very truly and he thought that I denyed them not out of any self end therefore if it were not for the Example of others I would not have any Tythe of thee for my time And when I had freed my self of this Testimony I was moved and made willing by the Power of the Lord to leave my House and Family and go as I was commanded to declare the Word of the Lord in Ireland and Scotland and in my own Country and stayed two years together in the Lord's Service and was very little at my own House for many years but what my Wife did then being not convinced of the Truth it is very likely she payed or agreed with him And now of late years when I grew old and infirm and my Eye-sight faileth me I have been sometime at my own house when Jo. Archer sent his men to demand Tythe-Wooll and Lamb I desired his men to let their Man know that he might do what he pleased with me for I could pay him none no more then I could do to Tho. Wilson of Heversham-hall which was in the same place before him Given forth by MYLES HALHEAD of Mount-joy IN the year 1673 in the Reign of King Charles I being in my Bed at a Friend's house in Plymouth in the County of Devonshire the Word of the Lord came to me saying Arise and go thy way and speak to John Lambert the words that I shall give thee so I went to a Friend to desire him to procure a Vessel that I might pass over to a little Island near to the King 's great Fort in Plymouth that I might speak to John Lambert who was Prisoner in that Island and a Vessel we procured and passed to the Island the same day and there we found a strong Guard of Soldiers a Lievtenant asked me What was my Business to the Island I said I desire to speak to John Lambert and then he asked me If I was ever a Captain under his Command and I said No the Soldiers were very quiet and moderate I desired the Lievtenant to bring me to John Lambert and so he did and when I came before him I said Friend is thy Name John Lambert and he said Yea then I said unto him Friend I pray thee hear what the Servant of the Lord hath to say to thee Friend the Lord God made use of thee and others for the Deliverance of his People and when you cryed to him he delivered you in your Distresses as at Dunbar and other places and gave you an opportunity into your hands to do good and you promised what great things you would do for the Lord's People but truly John Lambert you soon forgot your Promises you made to the Lord in that day and time of your great Distress and turned the Edge of your Sword against the Lord's Servants and Hand-maids whom he sent forth to declare his eternal Truth and made Laws and consented to Laws and suffered and permitted Laws to be made against the Lord's People Then John Lambert answered and said Friend I would have you know that some of us never made Laws nor consented to Laws to persecute you nor none of your Friends for Persecution we ever were against I answered and said John Lambert it may be so but the Scripture of Truth is fulfilled by the best of you for although that thee and some others have not given your Consent to make Laws against the Lord's People yet ye suffered and permitted
and Brethern I beseech you in the Bowels of dear and tender Love that you walk as dear Children faithful to him who hath called you with an honourable calling and loved you from the beginning with an Everlasting Love that all your Friends and Neighbours and Men of this World that see your Life coupled with fear may be made to confess and acknowledge to the Honour and Glory of the living Lord that the God whom ye serve and fear is the only true God of Israel and herein you become a pretious savour unto the living eternal God and sweet smelling savour unto all the Children of Light and no good thing will the Lord God withhold from you the Mouth of the Lord God of Hosts hath spoken it whose Promises are Yea and Amen to his own Seed for evermore Given forth the 14th day of the 6th Month 1655 when I was Prisoner at the Prison-House at the City of Exceter in the County of Devnoshire for the Testimony of Jesus and the Word of God Myles Halhead IN the year 1663 in the Reign of King Charles the second I was Summoned to appear at one of the Bishops Esclesiastical Courts before his Chancellor Doctor Cradict holden at Kendal and I was free in the Lord to go with many of my dear Friends and Brethren who were likewise Summoned to be their I waited in the Court obove three hours and at length I was called to give my answer why I came not to the Steeple-house to hear the Priests Then I desired the Court they would hear me and I would give them a plain answer in the fear of God and uprightness of my Heart and they promised me they would be quiet and still I told them I was about fifty years of Age and I had spent thirty of it in hearing the Priests and in all that time I had not profited by them but finding them preaching one thing one year and another year preaching quite the contrary therefore I cannot now hear them Then I said to the Doctor now I appeal to that of God in thee and to all moderate Men that hear me this day if I have not given thee a plain answer in the fear of the Lord to thy own Question He answered I had come as near him as any had done that day So this is recorded in the Bishop's Court against me That I went thirty years to the Church and in all that time I had not profited at all So I stand Excommunicated in the Bishop's Court. Again the Word of the Lord came unto me in the year 1667 in the fourth Month in the Reign of King Charles the second Saying Go thy ways into the City of Bristol and Glostershire and Wiltshire and Summersetshire Devonshire and Cornewall where thou hast been formerly and declared my Eternal Word amongst them and suffered hard and sore Imprisonments for my Name sake and speak to my own People my Sons and my Daughters whom I have called and chosen in this the Day of my Love out of the World and the barren Mountain thereof to serve me in Truth and in Righteousness all their dayes and bid them prepare themselves for I am coming to take account upon them all my Sons and my Daughters even from the greatest to the least of my Children and he whom I have given Ten Tallents shall count for Ten and he to whom I have given five Tallents shall count for five and be to whom I have given two shall count for two so every one both Man and Woman shall count for what he hath received So I command thee to go and speak to my own People whom I have chosen to serve me the Words that I shall give thee and though thou be weak and feeble of Body yet fear thou not for I will uphold thee in all thy weakness by my eternal Arm and Power and I will put my Word into thy Mouth what thou shalt say unto my chosen People my Sons and my Daughters whom I have called in this the Day of my Love and they shall receive thee as my Servant and confess and acknowledge that I have again sent thee in dear and tender Love and Fatherly Care unto them So I took my Horse and went to the City of Bristol and into those other Counties as the Lord had required and spoke to the Churches as I was moved and though I was but very weak of Body yet the Lord made his Promise good unto me in all my weakness Glory and Honour and Living eternal Praises be gvien to the Lord my God for ever of all the Children of Light And when I was about ten Miles off Plimouth I was brought before the chief Rulers in Devonshire and Cornewall and they asked me my Name and from whence I came I said out of the North. They asked me Out of what Country in the North And I said Westmorland Then they asked me What business I had in Devonshire I answered to see my old Friends whom formerly about ten Years since I had acquaintance with One of the Rulers answered I am a Devonshire man I pray you what are the Names of your Friends you had acquaintance with ten Years since in Devonshire I answered one Sr John Coplestone who was then High Sheriff of Devonshire and one John Page who was then the Mayor of Plimouth and one Justice Vowell who was then the Judge of the Sessions of the City of Exceter and one Colonel Buffit who was a Justice at that time Then one of the Rulers said Truly Gentlemen though this man call these men his Friends surely they have been his Persecutors Then another of the Rulers said Would you know how it is with these your old Friends No man in all Devonshire nor Cornwall can give you a more perfect nor truer Account than I can Your old Friend Sr. John Coplestone hath sold his Land and I know not where he may be found And as for your Friend John Page who was the Mayor of Plimouth he is become a broken Merchant and is fled out of his own Country and as I hear is gone for the Barbadoes And as for your Friend Justice Vowell he is gone to his long home And as for your old Friend Colonel Buffit he was committed to Prison at Bridge water in Summersetshire for high Treason and is stolen away from the Goaler and is quite gone and dare not be seen in his own Country And so Friend I have given you a true Account of your old Friends And truly Friend if these men were your Persecutors you may be sure that they will trouble you no more for if they that trouble you and persecute you have no better fortune than these men I wish that I nor none of my Friends may have any Hand in Persecuting of you So I took my leave of these moderate men and travelled to Cornewall Thus hath the Lord pleaded my Cause according to his Word and Promise who will give to every man a just