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A43227	A plain account of certain Christian experiences, labours, services and sufferings, of that ancient servant and minister of Christ, Roger Hebden, deceased containing both warning, consolation, and instruction in righteousness.	Hebden, Roger, 1620 or 21-1695.	1700 (1700)	Wing H1346A; ESTC R15158	54,976	136

the more Money And for their often exchanging fained words they do not want saying sometimes that they are sorry to leave them others that they do not see that Fruit of their Ministry which they desire and thereupon they do and may exchange as one did to wit Priest Sinclare of Slingsby near Malton in Yorkshire who having within a few Years time been at three Places or Livings as they are called being come unto the fourth I asked him the cause Why and How they could so often exchange He answered That they might when they did not see that fruit of their Ministry that they desired As if it were to see a change of Reformation in the People as he pretended then But unto me it doth plainly appear since that it was fained and that in his Conscience will witness with me that it was his own Earthly Profit more than the People's Good For this I know that in respect of the People's Wickedness he had as much cause to exchange as before Little Fruit or Reformation of Life doth appear the same fained excuse he might have if he knew of a greater Living For where he is now is near if not more than double the value of that he left and there he had continued longer than at two places before And thus it is with most if not all of them when they exchange Place and People it is for the greater Profit Self is in it commonly plain to be seen And herein they go from Christ and do not take that way to come after him that he hath set down Luke 9.23 If any Man will come after me he must deny himself and take up his Cross daily and follow me But their way that they pretend to folow him in is in pleasing themselves and to have their Wills at Liberty and rule over others And although Christ Command Those that will find Rest to their Souls to take his Yoak upon them and learn of him to be meek and lowly in Heart Mat. 11.29 Yet these Pretenders are not so for Who more Proud or Impatient than they Or greater Patterns of Pride in the Parish than their Wives and Children in most places I leave to all who have any Eyes to see and behold and judge as there is just cause If any shall say Pride lies in the Heart I know it but as the Tree is known by its Fruits even so the Heart may be known by its Fruits for the Image of its delight is set up within before it be set up without this or that thing which they desire or see others have the Heart thinks is Good or Decent and it would have the like And are not they to wit the Priests their Wives and Children such as follow the Fashions of the World in using needless things which are to satisfie the vain Mind and the lustful desires of the Heart and the Apostle's Exhortation they are out of 1 Pet. 1.14 and so shew themselves to be in Ignorance and lust alive many contending for the continuing of Sin and the Devils Kingdom These Scriptures fore-mentioned being by the Priests practised are recommended unto them for to read unto the People which they ought in Plainness and Simplicity as it doth concern them to take them to themselves and acknowledge that they are their Conditions and that they are the Men that have done these things and are guilty and thereupon forsaking and no more practising that horrible and filthy thing that hath been committed in this Land by them to bear rule by their means to seek for their Gain from their Quarter to Teach for Hire and other-like Practices heretofore mentioned committed by them they not only as they come to see it simply confessing it but honestly forsaking it then they shall find Mercy but if they cover and hide their Sins they shall not prosper And this I was moved by the Spirit of the Lord to write unto them that they may not plead Ignorance Now you are warned of the Evil that shall follow whilst you have time prize it and return unto the Lord lest you remember this when it is too late which is from him who is a lover of your Souls And this word is to you O Priests And in the mean time until your Priests come unto this Honesty as to confess and forsake these filthy Practices all you that profess your selves to be Christians and own the Scriptures search the Scriptures and see if these things be not so and if you find that it be so and that your Teachers are such in their Practices as the true Prophets Christ and his Apostles spoke against then take heed I warn you from the Lord how you joyn with them to hold them up in their Sins lest you partake of their Plagues Now you are forewarned of the Evil know that the Light is arisen that discovers their Ways and Deeds of Darkness in their Practices therefore come forth from amongst these wicked Men who fear not God but live in these wicked Practices fore-mentioned And this word is to you O People Object Now if any shall say as they must if they will but speak Truth We know it is so with the most of them but if we leave them How shall we do for Teaching They have Learning and they are most likely to know the meaning of the Scriptures Answ The Scriptures were not given forth by the Learning Wisdom not Will of Man as in 2 Pet. 1.21 The Prophesie came not in old time by the Will of Man but holy Men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost And in the fore-going verse he saith Know this first that no Prophesie of the Scripture is of any private Interpretation and that nothing but that which gave them forth can open them And so in vain it is for you to go to such as say They are not guided by the Spirit that gave forth the Scripture nor do therewith speak when unto you they do speak of the Scriptures nay their Fruits their Lives and Conversations will Witness it against them if they should affirm it with words This know likewise many of those who gave forth the Scriptures were Unlearned Men in the World's Learning nay from the World's Learning they did not speak them forth but from the Mouth of the Lord by the movings of his Spirit which the World's Wisdom cannot reach for Man by this Wisdom knows not God nor the things of God We read that Jacob and David were keepers of Sheep and Elisha was a Plowman that Amos was an Herdsman and they said of Christ How knows this Man Letters having never learned John 7.14 15. Peter and John being brought before the Rulers Acts 4.13 The Rulers perceiving that they were Unlearned and Ignorant Men marvelled and divers of the Apostles were Fishermen and Paul tho' a learned Man yet was a Tent-maker Acts 18.3 And what things formerly he accounted gain to him he accounted loss for the excellency of the

Judgment from the Righteous God of Life to pass upon the Enemies of your Soul 's good and from the same you will find Commands go forth to let you know what you are to do which will be contrary to what you have formerly delighted in so your desires will be crossed when they are running forth into the Earth to delight in fading Objects or any manner of Wickedness and so you will come to find a Law come forth from another which formerly you have not known so as to obey and as Obedience is given thereunto you will find that arise up in you for to Rule over whatsoever would not it should Reign and then Salvation is near Thus by degrees by a living Faith and Obedience to the Commands of God made known by that his Light within you shall come to find him Judge Lawgiver King and Sarviour Therefore none expect to know God otherwise than he is The Children of Disobedience must know him to be a just Judge rendering unto every one according unto their Works as the Scriptures declare of him such as do not cease to do Evil and learn to do Well but Rebel against him must be devoured with the Sword read Isaiah 1. Rom. 2.6 7 8 9 10 11. where the Apostle saith that God will render unto every Man according to his Deeds To them who by patient continuance in well doing seek for Glory and Honour and Immortality Eternal Life But unto them that are Contentious and do not obey the Truth but obey Unrighteousness Indignation and Wrath Tribulation and Anguish upon every Soul of Man that doth Evil of the Jew first and also of the Gentile But Glory Honour and Peace to every Man that worketh Good to the Jew first and also to the Gentile For there is no respect of Persons with God Therefore what is said unto the Priests is said to the People of all Professions Search the Scriptures and see where you do find your Condition in the Scriptures whoso lives in Wickedness being guided by the wicked One Woes and the Plagues of God they may expect as the Scriptures declare Isa 3.11 Wo to the Wicked it shall be ill with him for the Reward of his hands shall be given him First therefore thou that lives in a Profession of God and Christ in Words and acts not the same in Deed and Truth read Mat. 23.5 but these things dost to be seen of Men this was their Practice to whom the Wo was due Mat. 23.27 to 37. Read You that have got the Prophets Christ's and the Apostles Words to talk of and Paint your selves outwardly with a Form of Godliness but deny the Power thereof and Hate and Persecute those who live in the Life of what you Profess the Woes the Damnation of Hell you may read there to be your Portion unless you Repent You Hypocrites consider betime and Repent that you may escape it And in the next place you that would have the good word of all this may be accounted Wisdom so to Conform but it is that Wisdom which is from beneath from the Serpents Seed to which the Curse is therefore thou that wouldest have all to speak well of thee read Luke 6.26 Wo unto you when all Men shall speak well of you This may seem strange to others as it did unto me whose desire is to have all to speak well of them Now this is not to encourage any for to walk so as to give any just occasion for any to speak evil of them but on the contrary as Christ doth Exhort in the next Verses to Love your Enemies do good to them which Hate you Bless them that Curse you and Pray for them which Despitefully use you Yet this I know and so all others find it as they come to walk up in Obedience to that which is pure of God in them it is so cross and contrary unto that which guides the World even all Men of what Profession soever being guided by another Seed they cannot have their good words as formerly the Enmity between the two Seeds that is the cause therefore thou that hast the good word of the wicked question thy Condition thou hast great cause lest thou art not under the blessing of God but under the Wo of Christ And thou whose desires is to get Wealth by Fraud and Deceit Lying and Dissembling and may call this a provident Care for thy Self and Family thou Infidel that darest not trust God but acts contrary unto that of him in thee that tells thee in secret that thou oughtest not so to do read Hab. 2.9 Wo unto him that coveteth an evil Covetousness to his House that he may set his Nest on High And all you who live in the Lust of the Flesh the Lust of the Eye and Pride of Life which things are not of God read 1 John 2.16 Lusting after strong Drink not only to be Drunk themselves but to make others Drunk read Hab. 2.15 Isa 28.1 Wo to the Crown of Pride to the Drunkards of Ephraim So others from the Lust within let the Eye loose after Beauty fine Apparel and the like all these proceed from one Root the Unrighteous Seed within to which the Plagues and Woes of God are due and the Kingdom of God it must not Inherit therefore let none deceive themselves with vain hopes but read 1 Cor. 6.9 10. Know ye not that the Unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God c. but such if they Repent not must be for the Lake and the Wine-press of the Lord's Wrath without the City with whatsoever worketh Abomination or telleth a Lye Rev. 21.8 27. 14.19 20. Therefore all People of all Professions consider your own Condition your Life and Practices take the Scriptures search and see where you can find out your own Condition and amongst whom whether amongst the Godly or amongst the Wicked and that you may take and read the Portion laid down in Scripture belonging unto your Practice And do not meddle with others Conditions laid down in Scriptures nor the Promises that were made to them so as to apply them to your selves whilst in your Sins that did Fear and Serve the Lord who when they witnessed the same fulfilled in them they were made to rejoyce with Trembling Psalm 2.11 which is now witnessed by many Praises to the Lord our God for evermore who hath arisen to our joy although we be such as are cast forth and reproached as they were who did Fear before the Lord and Tremble at his Word by such as did pretend to Glorifie God as in Isa 66.5 This Scripture we whom the World in Scorn call Quakers of which Name I am not ashamed being one whose Flesh hath been made for to Tremble and Bones to Shake at the Judgments of the Lord and at his Word as the Holy Men of God did read Ezra 10.3 9. Job 4.14 21.6 Psalm 119.120 Jer. 23.9 Dan. 10. Hab. 3.16 These and such like Scriptures we

in Commission to have done Justice he threatned for to send me away to Prison which he did early the next Morning and whilst I was there in the House of Correction I received Intelligence how that at the Sessions in Yorkshire there was a Bill of Indictment preferred against me to this purpose in it How that at a Meeting where I was at North-Allerten I intended or endeavoured to put one Thomas Mann Priest of that Town into a Well So opening the Bible it opened and I read these Scriptures Psalm 119.85 The Proud have digged Pits for me which are not after thy Law And in the 69th Verse of the same Psalm The Proud have forged a Lie against me The Pits were the Goal and House of Correction in Alisbury which I was put into for doing nothing else but what was agreeable to Scripture and the Lie which the Proud had forged against me was what they had laid to my charge in Yorkshire for true it was I went to the Priest in Buckinghamshire but in Yorkshire the Priest came to me with a salse Accusation in his Mouth at his coming using words to this purpose How now Roger Thou says I Preach false Doctrine It being denyed and he being put to Prove what he said otherwise he would be found to be a false Accuser put it off with asking What was the false Doctrine he did Preach So by his coming a great Tumult was raised insomuch that my Life was much in danger to have been taken away but by the Power of God and the endeavour of some Friends who bestirred themselves and got me forth of the Throng I was preserved There was a Well in the place so the wicked not being satisfied with what was done against me forged a Lie viz. That I intended or endeavoured such a thing as to put the Priest therein So after my return into Yorkshire I was arrested by an Attachment forth of the Sessions for to Answer at the next Sessions but I not having had any Summons given nor any word left at my House for my former appearance I could not own to the Bayliff that his proceedings were agreeable to their own Law and so could not give him his Fee which he said was Two Shillings so he cast me into Prison as by the Mittimus fore-mentioned is expressed so coming to the Sessions neither Priest nor Bayliff which I heard preferred the Bill of Indictment against me appeared against me but were to be questioned for their own Miscarriage laid to their Charge as I heard so I being called and none appearing against me for to lay any thing to my Charge by Proclamation I was cleared and the Bayliff who was the cause of my being sent to Prison at that time much reproved I was three Weeks and more a Prisoner upon the account afore-mentioned Roger Hebden A Copy of the Mittimus by which I was sent Peisomer to York for refusing to pay Tythes Thomas Harrison Esq Sheriff of the said County to the Keeper of the Goal of the Castle of York Greeting Yorkshire I Command that the Body of Roger Hebden by me lately taken you receive into your Custody so that I may have his Body before the Lord Protectour in the upper Bench at Westminster on Monday next after three Weeks of St. Michael to answer Henry Sowtheby in a Plea of Trespass Given under the Seal of my Office the 9th day of August 1658. A true Copy examined by John Thomlinson By the Sheriff About 9 Weeks Prisoner THis Plea of Trespass that is fore-mentioned which I was commited to Prison for that I was to answer Henry Sowtheby in was for the Tenth of my Hay and Corn that Year Growing which he claimed right to being an Impropriator And he cast me or by his means I was cast into Prison before a good part of the Hay was got or Corn near ready to cut Notwithstanding these his Dealings he openly confessed how Honest I had been and that he believed that it was for Conscience sake that I could not pay it and that it was true I had often paid him his Rent before the time it was due For in the time of my Ignorance of the Root from whence Tythes were I had a Lease of him for seven Years and did perform giving 1 l. 6 s. 8 d. Yearly for the Tythe of my own Land but after I writ to him to this purpose following and gave it him before he caused my Imprisonment fore-mentioned Henry Sowtheby unto thee formerly I paid a Composition Yearly Rent for Tythes of Lands in my Possession in the time of my Ignorance from whence Tythes were but finding in Scripture that they were the Lord 's by his express Command read Levit. 27.30 and he gave the Tenth unto the Children of Levi for an Inheritance for their Service which they served even the Service of the Tabernacle of the Congregation as Numb 18.21 And with the Levite the Stranger the Fatherless and the Widow were to eat and be satisfied as in Deut. 14.29 But seeing that none of these things are performed by them that receive Tythes in England now as then in Israel And lastly finding in Scripture that the Priesthood being Changed there is made of necessity likewise a Change of the Law as Heb. 7.12 denial is made of them that not any Right or Due thou hast unto Tythes by the Law of God as is seen by Roger Hebden IN the Year following I was ordered in the Movings of the Lord's Spirit for to visit Friends the former part thereof I passed through the Eastern Counties up to London and returned thorow the middle Counties Then before the middle of that Summer I passed into Scotland about that time when King Charles the Second came into England again and after my passing through several parts of Scotland amongst most of them few Friends that were then convinced of the Truth them to strengthen for to stand in the day of Tryal then approaching for then many did expect we should soon have been brought under either to have denyed our God or under great Sufferings and then was a time of much Wickedness and Lewdness much of God's good Creatures consumed in Drinking and Fires making Ringing and Rejoycing because of the Coming of the King Notwithstanding all that Lewdness which was then alost by the Lord's Power I and a Friend with me named Samuel Watson passed and had little Interruption and so returned forth of Scotland into Cumberland and visited several Friends in that County and so returned into Yorkshire before the middle of Summer About the time and after King Charles the Second returned into England again But there were some who could not be content therewith amongst others some of them called Fifth Monarchy Men who as I understand expect Christ to come for to Reign Outwardly in Person upon Earth and some few of them being stirred up in a forward Zeal without a true Knowledge of what Spirit they were of did