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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29607	The guiltless cries and warnings of the innocent against injustice, oppression, cruelty, false-swearers, envious men, and such like witnesses, arisen up against a plain man, or, A living and true witnesse condemned, through want of sound (yet through unjust) judgment : together with the unequall and unreasonable proceedings of Humphry Wildey, Mayor, and Edward Solley, and Robert Sollers, Aldermen, and Justices of the city Worcester, as may plainly appear by what followeth, besides the unjust sufferings of the guiltlesse ... / from the hand, mouth, and very heart of a true Friend, and not an enemy to the person, or well-being of any man, woman, or childe within thee, O city, or upon the face of the earth, throughout the whole creation of God, or of that which lieth under the cruel bondage of death and corruption, for which I suffer, and labour, and travail, with, and among many brethren, for its perfect freedome, and restauration, into the glorious liberty of the sons of God (as in the beginning), whose servant, witnesse, and prisoner for the elects sake, I am called by men Daniel Baker, by scorners, a Quaker.	D. B. (Daniel Baker), fl. 1650-1660.	1660 (1660)	Wing B482B; ESTC R22840	14,464	20

freely cryed within thy Gates O City And this is the message of the Lord in the Name of the Lord and not in my own to the Inhabitants of this City as I declared to be fulfilled in its season And furthermore this Day of the Lord which is the Light of our Lord Jesus Christ the true Light by whom the World was made who lighteth every man that cometh into the world and is the way prepared before the face of all People and this everlasting Light of the Lord Jesus Christ as I declared is breaking forth and shining over all the Nations and is to awaken the Witnesse of God in every mans Conscience So that according to its Testimony in every man even so shall every mans words thoughts and wayes and Actions be tryed and judged justified or condemned Wherefore as I said and yet say The Witnesse of God which is the Light of Jesus and not of the Natural man carnal or darkness in every Conscience of the Inhabitants of this City and of the Nations of the Earth is to and may be awakened and arise to judgment and to guide people in the way of Peace Love and Unity with God and one with another and with the whole Creation and to do unto all men in this good old way the Light as they would be done by and to speak the Truth every man from his heart to his Neighbour And verily if people come not to be exercised in this good old way of Light and Life whatsoever they do and may profess or be called in words all their Religion is and may be vain for this is the Law of the Prophets according to the saying of Jesus Mathew 7. and the Love that fulfills it is the Light in the Heart and the Light is of God and that which may be known of God is manifest in them for God hath shewed it unto them and so the people shall all be taught of God who is a Spirit to worship him in it who is Light to walk in it who is Love to love God again and one another and not to kill or devour but to love neighbour as self as saith the Holy Scripture And Moreover the time is a at hand and behold it cometh to passe That it will be more tolerable for them called Turks Infidels and Heathens then for many of the Inhabitants of this City and of Englands professing and profane Inhabitants whose life doth not shew it self like the Apostles and let as many as desire to have a right and good Understanding to discern the ground and cause of my Sufferings Together with many more of my Dear Friends in this City and throughout the Nation let Them with a meek Spirit and in the fear of the Lord deliberately and not hastily read this throughout and suffer the True Witnesse to arise to answer to the same Testimony from whence the words come and know that according to and after this manner the words of my Testimony was declared in the 8th Month the 20th day without and within thy Gates O City And after that Men that feared not God did beat and also wickedly threatned often to take away my Life as one called Captain Thornbury did many times with his sword drawn directed and put towards my breast and to thrust it into my Guts as he threatned many and divers times with wicked and desperate swearing and cursing not becoming a Souldier or the Spirit of a man an Englishman to a naked man that neither spake nor thought evil against any one man woman or childes person upon the face of the whole earth He that searcheth my heart knoweth its even so And while he the said Captain Thornbury so call'd had caused my body to be halled dragged and abused and to be thrown from place to place in the Street of the City breathing out his cruel vile threatnings together with bloody Oaths and cursed Speakings which thereby strengthened the hands of many wilde brutish and ungodlike men women and Children whilest I was among them in the meeknesse and strength of God even as a Lamb among a company of Ravenous Wilde-beasts Bears Lions and devouring Wolves bereaved of their whelps and as they were after this manner drawing me before the Judgment-seat some crying out Knock out his brains before he goes any further and many such like cruel threatnings and revilings doing violence O ye Rulers forget not but remember the wickedness acted by them called Mountebanks many dayes acting wickednesse within the City notwithstanding they were warned by sundry of the servants of the Lord in the 8th Month 1660. who were halled bearen and abused for the same Furthermore one of these called Mountebanks acting wickedness after their accustomed manner folly and madness upon a stage in the open street of the City with his face almost all black with a Crown upon his head And what is this a honour or dishonour to the King O Ye Magistrates But what has your sword been laid upon this Transgressor yet And Is not this and Bull-baiting together with the abuse of the poor Creatures of God and such like madnesse and Revellings and Abominations Are not these things a great dishonour to the God of Heaven to the King to you and your City O ye Rulers in meckness Consider and hold forth your sword and let your eyes be open to see where to lay it lest the Lord require it at your hands These are the words of God to Ye through his Prisoner D. B. A lamentation sounded in my heart for the Sober Inhabitants of this City And Lo the Spirit of the Lord within me shewed me how it was with Jonah and the Nenivites how that they suffered him to deliver his Message and to cry when he entred into the great City Ninevy a dayes journey and behold The Prophane Inhabitants of this City would not suffer me with my precious life in my hand which I had received power to lay it down and to take it again to obey the Lord of Heaven hardly half an hour to cry against Sin and to declare Glad-Tidings and to warn them freely to Repentance as before exprest And Whilest my minde was thus meditating in the Counsell of God whilest they were threatning and drawing this body in which I am before the Judgment Seat the good Spirit of the Lord the Holy God in me rather justified the men of Ninevy than the hard-hearted blood-thirsty men of this City And Lo this Cry immediatly run through me viz. That the men of Ninevy shall arise up in Iudgment against this Generation And Friend and Friends Know Ye again That after this manner the words of my Testimony were sounded forth through me even as the good Spirit of the Lord in my heart gave me utterance to which my Soul is become subject Glory to the God of Truth and Lo I rather chose to fear and obey God than man that shall dye and to be condemned of the world that lyeth in

THE GUILTLESS CRIES AND WARNINGS of the INNOCENT AGAINST INJUSTICE OPPRESSION CRUELTY False-Swearers Envious Men and such like Witnesses arisen up against A PLAIN MAN OR A Living and True WITNESSE condemned through want of sound yet through Unjust Judgment together with the unequall and unreasonable Proceedings of HUMPHRY WILDEY Mayor and EDWARD SOLLEY and ROBERT SOLLERS Aldermen and Justices of the CITY WORCESTER as may plainly appear by what followeth besides the unjust Sufferings of the GUILTLESSE From whom a clear true Sound and many certain Warnings and wholesome Exhortations have been as a Trumpet sounded forth and directed to the ears and hearts of thy chief Magistrate and Rulers O CITY together with the multititude of the Inhabitants within thy bowells fenced Walls strong Holds Borders and Territories O wicked CITY From the Hand Mouth and very Heart of a true FRIEND and not an Enemy to the Person or well-being of any Man Woman or Childe within thee O CITY or upon the Face of the Earth throughout the whole Creation of God or of that which lieth under the cruel Bondage of Death and Corruption for which I suffer and labour and travail with and among many Brethren for its perfect Freedome and Restauration into the glorious Liberty of the Sons of God as in the beginning whose Servant Witnesse and Prisoner for the Elects sake I am Called by men DANIEL BAKER by Scorners A Quaker To this end was I born and for this cause came I into the world that I should bear witness unto the Truth Every one that is of the Truth heareth my voice saith Jesus John 18.37 As a Sheep before her Shearers is dumb so he openeth not his mouth Lo he was taken from prison and from Judgment And who shall delare his Generation Isaiah 53. Ver. 7 8. Printed for R. Wilson at the black-spread-Eagle in Martins 1660. A COPIE of what was delivered to the Major of the CITY of Worchester for Him and the Aldermen to read Friends IS it not the Honour of a Good Magistrate wisely with a Good Vnderstanding to make diligent Inquiry and search into the Nature and Ground of a Matter or Controversie between a Man and his Neighbour that so True and Sound Judgment may be ministred without Respect of Persons and that the Cause of the Poor may be heard as well as the Rich and so Judgment or Sentence to be passed according to Equity and Mercy that the Sword may be laid in its due Place even upon the Head of the Transgressor lest the Guitless whom God will Justifie be smitten and Equity Sound Judgment and Good Lawes be perverted to a wrong end which will draw down Vengeance a Curse and wrath from the Lord God of Judgment and not Blessing Hearken ye Rulers and consider your Proceedings past against me and let the Light of Jesus in your Consciences give Sentence and answer me whether ye did not respect persons in judgment which you ought not when as ye compelled me to stand bare headed at the Bar and my Accuser John VVinnington sate upon the Bench beside one of your Rulers And Whether you did well after John VVinninton had spake forth the Words of his False Testimony the first time and varied in his Second Speech contrary to his first which I immediately shewed you but ye did not heed it but suffered or caused a Pen Ink and Paper to be given to the False Witness to write down what he pleased as he sate by one of you upon the Bench And if ye remember I questioned Whether it were according to the Law of the Nation what ye suffered him to do then the matter being so weighty as I laid it before you saying For ought I know my Life lay as it were at the stake And Is this a Shame or an Honour to you Rulers Consider of it And I cry even unto You Repent while Ye have a Day and quit Your Selves like Men of Truth fearing God to clear the Guiltlesse and Your Selves also while ye have time and it is in your power But this I tell you in plainnesse That if Deliverance come some other way the Weight of False Judgment and Guilt will lie heavy upon your Consciences before the Lord God in his Day and of your Account Consider I say whether ye have done well or whether ye have not had respect of Persons in Judgment and condemned the Guiltlesse when Ye had an Opportunity put into Your hands to do Justice and Judgment which I expected from You But Behold Oppression and the Needy is turned aside from Judgment And Is it not Joy to the Just to do Judgment but Destruction shall be to the Workers of Iniquity saith Wisedome and Wo unto them that seek deep to hide their Counsell from the Lord whose Works are in the dark and they say Who seeth us Surely Your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the Potters Clay See Isaiah 29.15 16. Worcester Prison this 8th Month the 24th Day 1660. From the hand of a Lover of the whole Creation of God whose Prisoner I am D. B. Hearken You that are called Christians and professe the Scripture your Rule and Pauls words that read this Foelix whom some call a Heathen was so noble to Paul when he was a Prisoner commanded to let him have Liberty and that none of his acquaintance should be forbidden to minister or come unto him Now If any be ready to say to me Thy Case is not Pauls My Answer is Paul was innocent of the things he was falsly accused of and so am I God is my Witnesse whether Men believe or not and Let such called Christian Governours take heed lest those called Heathen Rulers arise up in Judgment against them and condemn them The Sheriffe had a Coppie of this The SHERIFF sent sundry times since to order that I may have more Liberty as to let Friends come to me the City Hall being as it were under my Prison-Chamber I having sometime Liberty to go down and once when the Justices were present upon the Bench I spake these words to them and said Blessed shall they be that without Respect of Persons do Justice and Judgment but Eternall Wo from the Living God will be on them that do it not and they shut me up more close To the Major and for the Aldermen to read also Friend TAke heed as thou wilt answer before the Throne of the Majesty on High even the Lord God of Judgment who from Generation to Generation did and doth and yet will plead the Cause of the Guiltlesse whether men do it or not that thou yet pursue not Evil to thine own Destruction in consenting to or joyning with any in Testimony or Judgment against the Innocent lest the weight of innocent Blood lye heavy upon thy Conscience The Living God behold I testifie hath an Eternall Witnesse that is true in thy Conscience And in love whether thou hear or forbear I warn thee also that thou take heed

of justifying any thing or Witnesse or Testimony which the Everlasting Witnesse the Light of Jesus in thee condemns or on the contrary that thou persist not to condemn any thing which the Pure and True Witnesse of the God of Truth in thee justifyeth For he was a wise Man that said by the Spirit of the Lord He that condemneth the Just and justifieth the Wicked even They both are an Abomination to the Lord. And O Ye Rulers wisely consider whether you are so or a praise to the Lord who is our All God blessed for ever I commend my Testimony freely to the witnesse of God in Your consciences to be answered in the Day of God whether you now hear or forbear Know Ye that I am a Servant of the Living God and a Friend and not an Enemy to any one mans Person upon the Face of the whole Earth therefore not an enemy to the King God is my Witness that I am a Friend also to sound Justice and Judgment Good Magistrates Good Government Good Lawes and am subject to every Ordinance of Man for the Lords sake called of men who am clear of Your Guilt and False Accusations and Swearings DANIEL BAKER by Scorners called QUAKER Worcester Prison This 22d of the 8th Month 1660. From the Lords Prisoner for the Testimony of Truth D. B. To the MAYOR of the CITY c. Friend FOr so much that thou art chosen and called MAYOR or Chief Magistratte of the CITY bear with me a little and suffer the eye and ear of a good and perfect understanding in the Spirit of Meekness as a Man of Truth to be opened in thee that from henceforth if haply the Almighty God in whose hand thy breath is lengthen the Dayes of this Life to the end thou mayst glorifie fear and honour him only that thou also mayst be honoured with the true honour which comes from him who is the Eternal Fountain of Life for which end Life and Breath is freely given to all men and not that any man or any in the Authority of God especially of them called Christian Magistrates should dishonour him or turn aside the needy from or have respect of Persons in Judgment or condemn the Just and justifie the Wicked or hearken to Lies neither to let a False Witnesse go unpunished or to do speak or act or consent to any of these or such like Abominations And Friend let me ask thee again Was not he a wise Man that spake by the Spirit of the Lord in his Wisdom saying He that Condemneth the Just and he that Justifieth the Wicked even they both are an Abomination to the Lord Mark that who is my Witness that I am as Innocent and as clear whether thou canst beleeve me or nay even as a suckling Child Now in the fear and dread of the living God who is higher than the highest Consider whether thou O man and them that sate on the Judgment Seat by thee have been a praise to God to good just reasonable men or not a good savour in your Proceedings And concerning the matters falsly Charged against me which as yet you have not Condemned and the very Truth and Reason is through neglect or for want of making diligent Inquiry and Search into the Nature and Ground of the matter as it becomes men of Truth so to do but on the contrary have you not Justified evil envious men that fear not the true God by casting my Body into Prison and as it were gladly receiving false Testimonies from false Swearers and ungodlike men as it were in the dark and behind my back also and this was not right when as the Accusers and the Accused men of Truth would have caused to appear face to face and some called Heathen Rulers stand Justified before the Lord and in the sight of good men in such matters But behold how you have erred in this matter and Lo it s not hid from the God of Heaven who will certainly bring you to Judgment and plead the Cause of the Guiltlesse and not Condemned although ye do and yet may through evil counsel prejudice or enmity which proceeds not from the Spirit of Life of Innocency make light of and condemne it Wherefore I yet Cry to you Repent and suffer Gods faithful and true Witnesse even the Light of the Lord Jesus in every of your Consciences to arise and answer me for to that only can I freely commend my Testimony because even in that true and sound Judgment is placed And O ye Rulers how well would it be with you were ye in all things subject to and freely guided by it even in you and in all men it s to have its Authority and Preheminence to Guide Order Direct and Teach them in all true sound right wholsome words wayes and actions For according to its Testimony in every man Male or Female which is was and for ever will be the same to wit Truth so shall every mans Words Thoughts Wayes and Actions be Tryed and Judged Justified or Condemned according to the Nature End and Ground of all the Deeds done in the Body of Male or Female for this is the everlasting Truth from which I speak And it s an undeniable saying to wit That evil is joyned to within before it come forth either into Word or Action Wherefore I Cry in the dread of the living God Let all be warned to cleave to the Good and eschew or abstain from the Evil in its first appearance for certainly so shall be the reward of every man Male or Female And this is not contrary but according to the true and faithful sayings of Jesus and the holy Scriptures of Truth And lo every Tongue shall confess to the Equity and Justice of the Pure God who is Light and to the Spiritual and Eternal Light of the Lord Jesus the faithful and true Witness Gods Righteousness that Justifieth not but Condemneth the sin where it is joyned to or conceived to wit in the flesh where the Prince of Darkness of the power of the Air hath his Seat or Throne but the Light of the Lord Jesus reveals or makes him manifest and comes to Dis-throne Overturn and Destroy both him to wit the Devil and his works in man And behold these are the true and faithful sayings of the living God Whether you O you Rulers or any to whom this shall come can receive or beleeve them or not or hear or forbear Lo its love to the Meek Innocent Spirit yet Oppressed and Imprisoned even in you of which this Body in which I am is a true figure if ye can read with a good and noble Understanding and beleeve in the Truth which yet lieth hid in you and if you have Ears to hear you may hear the Cry of the Poor and Needy the Prisoner of Hope the Oppressed within and without you whose Cause is but one which the God of Heaven will certainly Plead whether the lofty Oppressors hear or forbear And Friend