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A41852	One out-cry more against tythes unto the chief ruler of the nation of Engand [sic] and all that are with him of God permitted to be in present authority, whether Parliament, Councel or Army; by whatsoever name or title known or called: but in a more especial manner, to such of them as are yet remaining faithfnl [sic] unto the former declared for, and never to be forgotten cause of King Jesus, who are such as have not departed, through sinning against the light of a good conscience, ... And yer notwithstanding, you that are in present power know these things, do even as he did, suffer the saints in your name, and by your power daylie to be imprisoned, and otherwayes afflicted; and that you may not be ignorant thereof, I have been moved to make the same known unto you by way of declaration, which is grounded upon the Holy Scriptures; wherein is contained the manner of our sufferings, and by whom: ... Written the beginning of the second month, 1657. by Isaac Grayes, prisoner for the cause of Christ in the Wood-street Compter, London, ...; One out-cry more against tythes unto the chief ruler of the nation of England.	Graye, Isaac.	1657 (1657)	Wing G1626; ESTC R220318	27,098	37

convented and by them brought before such a company of forsworn murthering Lawyers whose continual practice is to engage themselves against the consciencious people of this Land even against their Commissions in the matter of Tythes as I have already declared for that the Law saith None shall expound it no other wayes to give remedy for tythes then what it doth of it self plainly express whereby cause of Action may be given or Suit commenc●t in the Courts temporal against any person or persons which shall refuse or deny to set out his or their Tythes or shall detain with-hold or refuse to pay his Tythes or Offerings or any parcel thereof but that in such cases the persons or parties being Ecclesiastical or Lay-persons have cause to demand or have the said Tythes or Offrings in every such case in the Spiritual Courts according to the Ordinance of the first part of this Act and not otherwayes And thus unto you the Rulers have I made it plainly appear by the Lavvs and Statutes of this Realm That it is utterly unlawful for your Temporal Judges to give judgement in the matters of Tythes against the Saints as they dayly do in such Courts as are called Temporal Courts viz. The Exchequer Common-Pleas and in that other Court or Place called the Chancery which is called a Court of Equity If lyes may take place or rather a Court of Iniquity through which deceivable Name of Equity many people have made their Addresses from out of other Courts into that in hopes of gaining right there but have found as much wrong and have met with much inconscionable dealings as ever they did before the Lawyers being all agreed to destroy the poor wronged people that have been forced to seek help where none is to be had through their ignorance of not knowing that the Lawyers Tyade is upheld and maintained by fraud and wrong as doth appear in this great controversie of Tythes there shall need no other proof against them then this of Tythes as doth appear in their wresting and abusing the Law in that cause through which they promote all manner of injustice against the Saints by whom they both suffer imprisonment and also the spoiling of their Goods contrary to the Laws and Statutes of this Nation which in themselves require right should be done but contrary to that these Law-breakers do force Jury-Men through their being ignorant of the Law commonly to forswear themselves by giving up false Verdicts against their consciencious Neighbors in the matter of tythes by their fining for the ungodly Plaintiff against the poor Defendant for not dividing or setting forth and not paying their predual Tythes or for taking or carrying away the same before the tenth part be divided or set forth by which unlawful proceedings of wicked Plaintiffs before ungodly forsworn Judges in their Secular courts the Saints do greatly suffer by the Priests and others of their Antichristian Tribe who by them are well bribed for their pains so that betwixt the one and the other this poor Land and people is brought under the guilt of those horrible crying sins which Israel of old in their dayes suffered to be committed amongst them although they were the Lords beloved people unto whom he sent his holy Prophet to give them warning that the Lord had a controversie against the inhabitants of the Land for suffering those abominations through which there was no truth or mercy nor knowledge of God amongst them for by swearing lying killing and stealing and committing Adultery they brake out and blood touched blood therefore the Word of the Lord unto them was by the Prophet declared That the Land should meurn and every one that did dwell therein should languish with the Beasts of the field and with the Fowls of heaven yea the fishes also of the sea shall be taken away read Hos. 4. 2 3 4. The fore-promised matter being well considered by such as yet do live to fear the Lord may justly give their judgement for God That both the Rulers and people of this Nation are under the guilt of all those sins and are in danger of coming to suffer sad judgements from the Lord for that the Priests and the Lawyers and such as with them do live upon the gain of oppression are yet suffered to be the actors of all manner of wickedness that in this Land is committed under pretence of Law by whom this forementioned scripture is fulfilled as hath been by them made manifest from the beginning of all our troubles who yet do confederate together to divide the people from holding amity one with another that thereby they may hinder the promoting the cause of truth and the establishing of Justice through which wickedness of theirs when time was in dividing the people from the King and setting him against the people Justice by him was wholly neglected although he was much sought to by the people of God for to see the same duely administred as he was permitted of God to be the chief Magistrate of the three united Nations of England Scotland and Ireland but he not standing in the counsel of God would not hearken unto the desires of his people but grew weary in hearing them whereupon no more addresses by them unto him was made wherefore his end suddenly upon him came and therefore justly did the God of Justice deliver him up into the hands of those which sought his life Let good heed therefore be taken by you that are in present Power least the cause be forgotten which brought him to suffer the pangs of death for know you the Lords hand is not shortned but is stretched out still for to reach you also forth from all your Guards of Guns Swords and Pikes which by multitudes of men is made use of for to defend you yet notwithstanding your strong Arm of flesh you may take notice the King had as great a power in his time as you and was more esteemed regarded and beloved by the people as to the generality then possibly can be imagined you are but yet he not doing that which was right in the sight of God you see was cut off Oh therefore that you may remember with all speed for to establish Justice that so you may rule for him for the good and well-being of his poor distressed and every wayes afflicted and persecuted people who are at this day frustrated of all hopes of mans doing Justice and therefore cry they unto the Lord for to be delivered from the hands of their oppressors seeing hitherto you have denyed their redemption notwithstanding you have sworn unto the Lord you would give them deliverance This know therefore your time to perform what you have engaged and promised is almost past therefore what you do do speedily for I behold your night a coming and then will all your Works cease and then vvil all your intentions with former pretences come to be frustrated and annihilated and your memorials vvill also be blotted out

this generation of Baalamish Priests who love the Wages of unrighteousness being willing for to follow the example of their Makers the late late Bishops denyed the Book of Common-Prayer and received that Pamphlet called the Directory rather then they would offend their great Masters the late old wicked Parliament who for their service done did grant them an Ordinance for to take Tythe-Eggs Pigs and Geese c. which the true Ministers of Christ never did And what they now own I hope is sufficiently made manifest unto all the children of light vvhich makes them unto me of no esteem they being such as care not who they own for their chief Head that matters not to them vvhether he be called of God or chosen by his people seeing they are Christs Enemies as doth appear by their petitioning of you the povvers of the World for to maintain and uphold them in what Christ hath changed by doing the Will of God who is heir of all things which shall abide in the house for ever unto whom the right of Inheritance doth belong whose gift is free and all that are made Ministers by him are free indeed and as they have freely received so do they freely give by which they are known from the Ministers of Antichrist who are of the corrupt Tree as by their fruits they are known Matth. 7. 15. who are denyers that Christ is to be come the second Priesthood who is the unchangeable one which shall endure for ever although they believed it not who are such as do teach another Gospel according to what they have been taught of their predecessors who as they are were the upholders of that which Christ hath abolished who do also justifie the maintaining of those places wherein the Nations have served their gods in which places they are now found doing the service of their Mistress viz. the Whore of Babylon although the Lord God of Israel hath commanded that those places should be by such as are his people destroyed Deut. 12. 2. by this their service they make themselves clearly manifest not to be of God nor Christ but men of corrupt minds and being destitute of the knowledge of the truth do suppose their gain which is brought in unto them by tythes through the help of the power of the cruel Beast is godliness whose Ministers they are as doth appear by their false Worship also which by them is promoted for which they have neither precept nor example in all the holy Scriptures therefore are they inforced for to get their Wages of Tythes by a popish Law contrary to such as were the priests of the first Covevenant who imprisoned none for Tythes as they do but as the Lord ordained so did they do and continue who were made by a Law as doth appear Exod. 4. 13 14. Exod 28. who had also a command from the Lord for to justifie them in their Ministry whose power they abused not as the National priests do their power which is of the World whose practise is continually to live upon the abuse of that their power by which they stand who never were called of God as Aaron was Heb. 5. 4. neither did they go to the Magistrate for to get Warrants for to put into the hands of a Constable for to take away peoples Houshold-Goods for Tythes upon trebble damages which is 3 s. for one as these of England daylie do by whom the Saints do continually suffer the spoiling of their goods because they are not the Ministers of Jesus Christ therefore do they not own his Doctrine they being of the World neither can they know him according as it is written Joh. 14. 17 who are such as live in pride covetousness and oppression as their makers the Bishops did who in their day with them their under-Clergy were called the body spiritual or English Church as doth appear by the Statute of 24. of Henry the eight chap. 12. and the same Statute doth further declare That the Kings Queens and Nobles of this Realm so called since the time the Pope had his Domination indowed them the false Church both with Honors and Possessions And again saith the Statute The Pope and the See of Rome did in the time of their rule reserve unto himself amongst other things the tryal of the right of Tythes as doth appear by the Statute of the 26. of Henry the eight some time King of England and in chap. 1 it is declared That he and his Successors were the onely supreme Head of this called Church of England Thus have I made appear the root of these Priests and their fhundation have I also made manifest and discovered not to be of Christ but have proceeded from man who have accordingly erected two places for their breeding up of Priests viz. Cambridge and Oxford which are by them called two Eyes for the furnishing every parish in England with able lying seducers where is also by them Churches built at the charge of the ignorant people wherein is also provided for the service of the whorish Priests Funts and Basons for the management and carrying on of what they so gravely solemnise with much pretended seeming zeal viz. the sprinkling of Infants which they say is baptism but they lye for which piece of cheating service they have never a vvord of Scripture besides their Easter-Reckonings and time of Christmas and Churching or else cheating of Women and their Mortuaries and for the smoke going up peoples Chimneys all which Trade bringeth them in much gain Thus through the assistance of Christ Jesus have I according to the Gospel proved the Priests of the Nation to be no Ministers of Christ nor Messengers of God which is my second ground why I deny to pay them or any else Tythes who are such as the Lord God of Israel for their oppression will feed with their own flesh yea saith he They shall be drunk with their own blood and then shall they know that I am the Lord the Saviour of them whom they oppress Read Isa. 49. 26. And thus the Lawyers wth them may also take notice for the same judgement vengeance that is due to the Priests belongeth unto them also because they are the Executors of the power of the cruel Beast who are the guard of his Throne therefore do they spoile the dear Saints people of the Lord Jesus Christ Prince of Peace King of Righteousness whose people for their obedience to him and are with their persons estates by them continually devoured destroyed in their murtherous Gaols and all for want of such Justice and true Judgment for to be executed upon them for breach of Law as was performed by that honest King called Alpheret who defended the cause of the poor and needy and rescued the right of the oppressed from out of the hands of such destroying Lawyers as did live upon the abuse of his Laws he hanged up Judge Hasf because he saved one Trustram vvhich vvas Sheriff

from being put to death who had taken away goods from many people although for the Kings use but yet notvvithstanding that was not by the King owned because it was by his Lavv judged Robbery read Mirror of Justice fol. 241. Novv consider ye Rulers vvhat a vast difference there is betvvixt your doing justice upon the Lavvyers that live upon the abuse of the Law King Alpherets forasmuch as that you canot deny in your consciences you do permit of unsufferable Robberies daylie for to be done both by Priests Lavvyers yet seek not to have that Wickedness remedied besides the Murthers vvhich you suffer the Lavvyers to do against express Lavv upon their Opinions and false Judgements according to their Opinions by them given vvhereby many thousands have been murthered for theft vvhich is against the righteous Law of the Lord And therefore seeing that you knovv these evils and yet vvill not seek to prevent them of committing any more hovv can you expect any safety for to be given unto you from the Lord God of Israel vvhose Lavvs in effect you despise for vvhich things sake the vvrath of God vvill suddenly seize upon you as vvell as it hath done upon others before you unless there be a speedy returning unto the Lord whose Work vvhen time vvas you promised to do vvhich yet lieth undone which causeth the Enemies of the Lord to renew their strength again who did in the time of your seeming zeal for Christ and his now persecuted cause judge themselves as good as half hanged for what they had done in answer to their Opinions which they caused to take place in the room of Law through whose Villanous false Opinions and Judgements given the late King by them and the Priests were seduced and perswaded to permit of doing such things vvhich the Law did not justifie him in although Judge Jenkins and Judge Cook and some few others did as to the best of my remembrance perswade him what possible they could not to hearken to the false Opinions of those vvicked Judges vvhich he was deceived by These things being true as thousands of the well-affected then so called with my self at this day can also witness was in the matter of Ship-Money done contrary to Law and therefore hovv doth it behove you that are got into the present Rule and Authority of the three Nations for to take heed of your standing seeing you are Instruments that have come through much blood unto what 〈◊〉 are now possessed vvith Hovv much I say again doth it concern you for to see and consider vvhat you are doing and then I hope you vvill seek to stand for the putting into execution the Lavvs Commandments Statutes Precepts and Judgements of the Lord God of Israel instead of the Laws of Tyrants vvherein his Honor vvill be promoted and your souls eternally saved and your bodies prosperously from him protected and then will all plots and conspiracies cease from being contrived any more against you vvhen you shall learn for to do his Will according to his righteous Law vvhich requireth blood for blood life for life an eye for an eye a tooth for a tooth a hand for a hand and a foot for a foot Thine eyes saith the Lord to his beloved people shall not pitty or spair such transgressors who have by their wickedness given themselves over to death which according to the Law are not to be excused by which example those that do remain alive may hear and fear henceforth that there may be no more such evils committed amongst you read Deut. 19. 20 21. Now I appeal unto your consciences there for to judge whether you are not such as do transgress vvhat the Lord hath commanded should be obeyed which is by reason of your suffering a company of Lavvyers to abuse and destroy the good people of this Nation by such a Povver as is not of of God and therefore if you do not see that remedied you cannot have thoughts to escape unpunished vvith the King because the Lord of Hosts hath expresly commanded his chosen people That they should not suffer the judgement of the stranger to be perverted lest their Right should be hindered much more ought you to be careful of the cause of the Widow and Fatherless Deut. 24. 17 c. vvho are yet by you permitted to suffer vvrong and therefore are they and their Estates spoiled and ruinated by both Priests and Lavvyers who act contrary to their expresse Popish Law as doth appear in that Statute made the 2. of the Reign of King Edward the sixt chap. 13. vvhich Statute saith Be it provided and enacted That if any person do with-hold or withdraw any manner of his Tythes Oblations Obventions Profits Commodities or other duties or any part of them cont●ary to the true meaning of the said Act or of any other Act heretofore made that then the partyes so substracting or withdrawing the same may be convented sued in the Kings Ecclesiastical Court by the party from whom the same shall be substracted or withdrawn to the intent the Kings Judges Ecclesiastical may and shall then and there hear and determine the same according to the Kings Ecclesiastical Law And that it shall not be lawful for any Parson Vicar Propriator Owner or other Farmers or Deputies contrary to this act to convent or sue such witholders of Tythes Obventations or other duties aforesaid before any other Judge then what is Ecclesiastical Now knovv Oh you my dear friends for unto you do I make this knovvn who are the persecuted Saints of the Most High That these forementioned lines are the very vvords of that Statute novv judge ye Rulers how contrary these wicked Lavvyers that are yet in their vilanous beings upon their Stages at Westminster do act vvho as it doth appear are suffered by you their Masters for to be above the Law which is the only cause the Lords people for conscience sake in obedience to Christ Jesus are daylie sued convented and brought before them in their filthy Dens called temporal Courts contrary to their ovvn invented filthy tyrannical Laws as hath been already proved and as I could make more at large appear by many more Laws but only I fear being too large and therefore do I make use of no more then what may justifie me in the truth of what I have too charge against them for their abominations daylie committed against the very express Laws of the Land as doth further appear in that 22. of Henry the eight chap. the 7. which saith Be it provided alwayes That the last Act shall not extend nor be expounedete give any cause of Action or Suits in the Courts Temparal which notwithstanding they daylie do Novv judge O ye Rulers hovv you do think you can in conscience stand justified with the Lord and his poor oppressed people whom you suffer daylie for their consciences to be troubled afflicted and abused by your Priests and others of their spirit by their being

avvay peoples Cattel out of their yards and Goods out of their Houses for pretended Tythes upon trebble Damages which is three for one against the express Lavv of God vvhereby it doth and may appear unto such as are vvith my self of the seed of Israel That it is not only the Priests fault alone who are not of God but you sin in suffering of them as you are the Rulers of the people who do permit them in your Name and by your Povver to do what they do These evils rightly considered doth give a discovery that you are departed from the Lord God of Israel whom you once declared for as doth appear by your taking part vvith the Priests who are his Enemies or else if it were not so your consciences would teach you to obey observe and keep the Laws Statutes Commandments Precepts and Judgements of the Lord as vvell as my self vvho for keeping the same do suffer which would not be if you did stand in the counsel of the Lord vvhich then you vvould seek to do his will by seeing his Laws duly and truly executed upon such as are the breakers thereof vvhich vvould cause your dayes to be prolonged in the Land vvherein ye yet live as so many Enemies to that most holy God whose just and righteous Laws yea even hate to obey observe and keep and in effect do amongst your selves conclude That the Government vvhich God Almighty did appoint his people to be governed by according to his righteous Order vvhich by you is not judged good enough nor wise enough to be governed by in your generations as is evident by your ruling of the people with such Laws as you and other transgressors before you did from Imagination make and set up to oppose the Laws Commandments and Statutes of the onely wise God for vvhich vvickedness of theirs so committed the just judgement and vengeance of the Lord hath from one generation to another destroyed both them and theirs from off the earth and yet you are not sensible for what they have been cut off although he hath made use of you as Instruments in his hand to cut off the late King for his disobedience to the Lord God of Israel who stood not in his counsel but vvas driven aside by the flattery of wicked Priests and Lawyers as you are although little notice by you is taken thereof I therefore desire from my heart in love to your souls that you did fully understand and know wherefore the Lord did permit you to put the King to death and then you would seek how to do his vvill and not your own and then who do you think would harm you but because you do not therefore it is that you delight not in the Law of the Lord as King David his servant did for which cause plots and conspiracies are daylie and justly ●y him suffered for to be contrived against you which hitherto hath been discovered to that end and purpose that you might be warned for to return unto the Lord from the evil of your doings before destruction in good earnest doth come upon you and then it will be too late to seek repentance or to wish you had unto God and his people paid your vows now know that through your disobedience unto him whom you have promised reformation unto and yet have not performed what you have so promised the number of of oppressors under you have taken boldness for to increase at which the lying National Priests do rejoyce who do in like manner make their boast and say That they will have Tythes paid unto them upon force by such people as do refuse for conscience sake or else they will take away their goods which daylie they do in your Name that are the chief Rulers of these three Nations viz. England Scotland and Ireland and by your Power they also imprison the Saints as they did in the Kings time for that they cannot in conscience pay Tythes the Priests excusing the manner of their tyranny so committed doth lay the fault and blame upon you they saying they are enforced to do what they do because you require of them Offerings or first Fruits which they cannot pay unto you unless the people first pay the same by way of Tythes unto them now if it be so betwixt you and the Priests then where is that Liberty of Conscience performed with your former Engagemens Declarations Remonstrances and those many Oaths Vows and Covenants discharged which were made in the sight of heaven in the dayes of your distress when you were entrusted by the people of God as their servant to fight their Battels viz. at Dunbar Worcester-Fight and several other places as you cannot but remember was put forth under pretence of Publike Liberty but are all yet unperformed with your last Promise also which you made to my loving friend Mr. Iessie and several other friends concerning your taking away of that yet continued Antichristian Oppression of Tythes which should be done said you by the third day of Siptember which was in the year 1654. or if they were not taken away then you bid them call you Juglers Novv knovv that had this last Promise vvith your former Remonstrances Engagements and Protestations c. been by you really intended for to have been performed according to vvhat you pretended then my self vvho formerly have made redress unto you and many more of the dear Saints and faithful Servants of the Lord God of Israel could not have been by you suffered for to be thus ruinated in our outvvard Estates many of us as are and yet notvvithstanding our persons kept prison for that vve cannot sin against our consciences in paying Tythes in vvhich Prison I have been many times in danger of being throvvn into the Hole through poverty vvhich hath made me unable of my self for to provide moneys for to pay my Chamber-Rents so that if my sufferings must for conscience sake be by you stil continued then that you vvould be pleased to shevv some compassion unto me by taking care for to have my Chamber-Rent satisfied I shall remain very thankful to you for the same through vvhich kindness of yours if I may so finde it I shall be the better enabled for to be kept from perishing till the Lord is pleased to give deliverance some other wayes it may be through the death of my cruel Enemies if it may not come from you for I am wel assured from the Lord a deliverance I shall have from my oppressors ere long And thus having discharged my conscience in what I have already declared I shall return again to my former Matter from whence I am a little digressed Giving of you to know and all in Authority with you That forasmuch as you by your Power do uphold the Priests of this Nation for to take the wages of the Law of the Lord God of Israel by way of tythes which peculiarly was given unto the first Priesthood for their service done

fear of the wrath of foolish proud vain man who is ready to be offended at what he ought rather to be ashamed of then to justifie himself Thus for conscience sake as I have learned of Christ am I freely willing to submit my self unto every Ordinance of man for the Lords sake although my deadly Enemies have reported otherwaies against me which the Lord our God knows I purely suffer for that I cannot give unto his Enemies that for Maintainance which belongs unto him viz. Tythes which unjust demands I must for conscience sake deny although I come to suffer death for the same seeing it is clearly manifest from the declaration of Christ and his Apostles that whosoever payeth Tythes denyeth Christ to be come in the flesh as all they do which at this day do either pay or receive the same as I have made fully appear from the sum of the holy Scriptures And thus to both you Rulers Saints and People of all forms sects and sorts have I truly discharged my conscience according to the gift of God in me by way of Grounds and Reasons laid down wherein I have shewn the justice of my cause and have therein matter of great comfort thus to declare why Tythes have been and are by me still denyed in which Grounds I have made an eminent discovery That Tythes in England have been and are forced to be paid contrary both to the Laws of God and also to the Laws of the Land which Laws I have not broke but do suffer for my obeying the Law of the Lord God of Israel in which obedience I hope he will help me to be continued in the further remaining part of the dayes of this my Pilgrimage whose servant I am and do finde in my self a freedom in like manner to be subject to every Ordinance of man for the Lords sake onely whether it be unto the King as unto the supreme or unto Governors as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evil-doers and for the praise of them that do well according to that Declaration of the first Epist. of Peter ch. 2. v. 13 c. Isaac Craye AND lastly these few following lines I have been moved to write by way of humble desires the which lines are dedicated only unto all consciencious sincere faithful hearted Friends to that end and purpose that they would be pleased for the time to come to have a special care who and what they be are by them put in trust for to dispose of their Christian contribution which they may be from God moved for to give towards the relief of such as do for conscience sake suffer under the Enemies of the everlasting Gospel forasmuch as that I am given credibly to understand by some faithful Friends That they do fear some wicked persons under the profession of Godliness have made use of my Name and sufferings to gather moneys amongst several friends which they imploy to their own private benefit it is true the evil may be by them justly feared for in the time I was made to suffer under the Council of State I was was so served by some who did get large sums of money one of their Names I have not yet forgotten which I will here accordingly insert viz Horn a Cheese-Monger sometimes keeping his Shop not far from London-Bridge thus hath such wicked Wretches under the notion of Religion cheathed the truly religious and honest hearted and knowing that these evils hath been committed against me it is to be feared they are daylie put in practise still under colour of relieving such as are of late come to suffer for God as I do how much therefore doth it concern the truly charitable who do witness what the life of true Profession is for to take heed they trust none but such as are known truly faithful although never so much shew of outside seeming zeal for God and Christ be professed seeing it hath thus happened since the dayes of our great troubles that through such outside profession and hypocritical seeming zeal for God and cause of Christ the trul consciencious people of this Nation have been cheated out of their lives estates and liberties under which vilanous sort of professing Zealots or rather Trappanners of the innocent I have in a most wonderful manner many wayes suffered wrong both before this my imprisonment and ever since through their filthy invented lyes and giving forth notorious reproaches which they from the perswasions of the Devil and the Priests have been set on work to promote against me they thinking thereby to leave me friendless that so they may pine me to death in prison seeing they can no other wayes destroy me but the Lord having sa tisied me with inward comfort from which I find my self wonderfully supported with patience to be contented in every condition so that I can with abundance of unspeakable comfort inward peace undergoe the strife of wicked lying tongues and being fully satisfied from the measure of Christ in me that the Saints and dear servants of God in former ages have in like manner suffered under such as these English false Professors are who are unrighteously called Christians one place of Scripture for to make the same appear I shall quote and but one although I might instance the like reproaches against David the man after Gods own heart Job the servant of the Lord and Jeremiah his holy Prophet who also bore his sharein reproaches and many more of the dear servants of God as well as I at this day do it is a truth they that deserve no good Name nor righteous report themselves do give none to others The Scripture which I shall mention is Heb. 10. beginning at the 32. v. and so on where it doth and may appear That the Apostle was countenancing and counselling of such friends as he found one with them in the faith of Christ to be chearful in their sufferings wherevpon he bids them call to remembrance the former dayes in which after they were enlightned they endured a great fight of afflictions Partly saith he whilest ye were made a gazing-stock both by reproaches and aff●ictions and par●ly whilest you were so used for ye had compassion on me in my bonds and then ye took oyfull the spoiling of your goods knowing in your selves that you have in Heaven a better and enduring substance cast not away therefore your confidence which hath great recompence of reward for you had need of patience that after ye have done the will of God ye might rece●ve the promise Thus from the enjoyment of that life which Christ the light of the light of the World hath given me to be possessed with do I come to see a full discovery who and what they are which are Enemies to the cross of Christ he having revived his witness in me I am thereby kept close to the Word of his Patience through whose help I am enabled to read with understanding the holy Scriptures with great joy and inward consolation according to that measure of life abiding in me by which they were given forth by way of Declaration as doth appear Luke 1. 1. and am assured the time is at hand wherein none of these fore-premised Enemies of Christ and Saint-reviling reproaching barking Dogs shall not move a Tongue as they now do Written from my unjust imprisonment in the VVood-Street-Compter London where I remain a su●ferer for Christ the everlasting Gospel which the Priests do daylie persecute The second Month 1657. FINIS