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A fannaticks addresse humbly presented to the King and his peers, and also to his people in their representative, the Commons House of Parliament ... discovering to them, the innocency of his actings in the midst of the late revolutions of governments in this nation ... / by Henry Adis ...
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A Fannaticks Addresse Humbly Presented to the King and his Peers And also to his PEOPLE in their REPRESENTATIVE The COMMONS HOUSE of PARLIAMENT ASSEMBLED and SITTING at Westminster Discovering to Them the Innocency of his Actings in the midst of the late Revolutions of Governments in this Nation With the Resolves of them that walk with him and the Qualifications of those they intend to have COMMUNION withal 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 Phil. 4. 5. Let your Moderation be known to all men the Lord is at hand LONDON Printed for the Author an Upholdster living in Princes-Street near Covent-Garden 1661. A Fannaticks Addresse HUMBLY PRESENTED To the KING and his PEERS And also to his People in their Representative The COMMONS House of PARLIAMENT Assembled and Sitting at WESTMINSTER c. FOr as much as several that lately took upon them the places of Trust Government and Authority in these Nations under a pretence of making such a Reformation in Church and State as was agreeable both to the Law of God and the best Reformed Churches And yet their Ends in all this the Event did clearly evidence was nothing either more or less but to advance and set up Self and Self-Interests the which that they might the better and with the more Self-security effect they Proclaimed Liberty of Conscience that so they might gain a Party to stand for and by them if necessity required In which time of Freedome a small Party the Searcher of all hearâ—s right well knoweth enjoyed our Liberties under them with an utter Detestation both to their Acts of Violence Oppression and Self-servings with our continual bearing our Testimony against them in those Actions as it fell in our way both in Discourses and Teachings but more publickly in my Books printed and published in the year 1648. called The Symptomes of Ruin or The Sword and Famine the Attendants of Opprâ—ssion as also in that Book intituled A Cup for the City and her Adherents and in that Poem called A Spie for Justice sent out of the Tower Chamber of the Fleet In all which it will evidently appear that for mine own part I could not own nor in the least allow of their Violence nor Oppression And the better to clear to the whole Nation our Innocency and the cleanness of our hands as to all manner of acts of Violence and Oppression I caused 1500. Declarations to be Printed and Published the 12th day of the 11th Month Vulgarly called January in the year 1659. which is also joyned to the Latter end of my Fannaticks Mite cast into the Kings Treasurie in which I declared my Judgement and the Judgement of that small Company that were in Society with me both concerning Fighting Swearing and Government and our obedience to Magistracy and Magistrates and our present disrelish to them then in being as in the 23 and 24. lines of the said Declaration if recourse thereunto had is evident And yet notwithstanding my self with two more of the said Declarers in this late Imprisonment about the late Insurrection and also upon refusing to Ingage to the King by an Oath we have been Cruelly Imprisoned in the Gate-house Dungeon and two of us also most abusively with others were Printed as Traytors although the thought of those and such like Acts of Violence and Bloodshed are even an Abhorring to our Souls And seeing we have the Word of the King passed to us for our Protection under him in our Liberties in our Meetings to discharge our Duty to our God and each to other in that way that God hath Manifested himself unto us in his revealed Will the Holy Scriptures of Truth so long as we on our Parts without Acts of Violence Hostility Plottings Contrivings or Underminings shall behave our selves peaceably and quietly under him And seeing we on our parts have never in the least forfeited our Priviledges by any thing that we have either Acted or in the least Intended and yet our peaceable and quiet Meetings have been beset with rude and debauched Souldiers Rending and Swearing attended with the Rude Rabble and that since our late Inlargement by the Kings Coronation Favour And all this for speaking in the Name of Jesus of Nazareth a man approved of God Acts 2. 22. He that is pretendedly owned of you all and contended for by you all and yet such is the Inveteracy of the spirits of some that they are Eagerly fighting against those that in the singleness of their Souls serve this Jesus in the footsteps of the Flock of God gone before of whom because the King the Nobility and the generality of the Commonnalty of this Land of our Nativity are misinformed of some of us and that we with some are of the Judgement that killing is no Murther Intend to lay a punishment upon us for the guilt and opinions of some whom we as little own as they that are ready to Inflict the punishment I have therefore thought good once more to set Pen to Paper and in plainness of Speech to give the King and his People and you their Representative a fresh discovery of the Intents of our hearts and the bent of our spirits in the singleness of our Souls in the sight and presence of him who is the searcher of all hearts that sin revenging God who is of a more purer Eye then to approve off or to behold Iniquity with approbation thereunto I shall therefore declare our Judgements as to the present Governour and Government and our Opinion touching Government simply so considered And then I hope Daniel like neither the King his People nor you their Representative shall find any just cause against us save in the matters of our God in which the Lord assisting us we shall resolve in Gods way to go on in and if therein we perish we perish And therefore first of all I shall let you know that we do own Government and that we both do and shall Resolve to be obedient to Governours because they be Ordained of God according to Rom. 13. 1 2. And therefore on our parts we dare not resist them but shall according to vers 7. Render unto them Tribute Custom Fear and Honour and for as much as we have seen the hand of him who changeth the Times and Seasons who removeth Kings and setteth up Kings Dan. 2. 21 37. Dan. 5 18 19. 1 Sam. 15. 1 23. 1 Sam. 16. 12. to be great in this change in setting up Charles the Second we do therefore own him to be the Lawful King of these three Nations of England Scotland and Ireland And to whom we shall willingly submit in all Civil things that we do find to be agreeable to the Mind of God revealed in that Directory his Holy Scriptures of Truth and if at anytime he shall require from us any thing that we cannot in Conscience Actually obey him in
contrary to the true Spirit of God whose Fruit is Love Joy Peace long Suffering Gentleness Goodness Meekhess and Temperance against which there is no Law no Law of God although there be now some Lawes of man intended to be made against them O that this were taking upon your spirits that now sit at the Stern Was not your Loyalty to King Charles the first and King Charles the second a great cause of your Hardships most of you How fared it with you you that were continually in England Was not those that boâ—e sway in England your continual Tormentors your fear and dayly dread And those that were away Did not they feel the smart of it Did you not all both abroad and at home cry out of Oppression Cruelty and Tyranny Did you cry out of them and think you that others will not cry out of you if you be found such Actors to others Was it evil in them to use you so for your Loyalty to King Charles And can you be so cruel to those that are Loyal to King Jesus and never acted any thing against King Charles the first nor King Charles the second or against the meanest of you nor ever took part with them that did Did the hand of God follow them for their cruel and unjust Actings to you and the King as most of you do say it did And can you be the same to others for their Loyalty to Him who hath righted you of them and brought you your own again and that against some of them too that never got the worth of one â—arâ—â—ing by all their Pillagings Plunderings or Sales neither of Goods nor Lands Can you be contented to enjoy your own And are you not willing that those that never harmed you should enjoy theirs Are you glad that you are brought into the Land of your Nativity again And would you now most cruelly justle others out Are you now setting up that Worship that you judge to be agreeable to the mind of God And will you now force others to forsake what they are perswaded to Oh! tâ—at you would but consider what your own Oppressions were and who you are now about to Oppress Let not your fury nor revenge fall heavy upon the Innocent Why should Iniquity and Injustice be found in your hands Oh! Consider with your selves apart and discourse it each with other seriously what such a Judgment as I in the singleness of my soul have laid before you can or ever did do you harm who never did any Acts of Violence for nor against you or the King nor ever shall resolve to do who have not gone with a defensive Weapon so much as to defend my self with above this fifteen years and am of the same Judgment with our Brethren of Holland whose innocent and harmless behaviour confident I am many of you in that time of your absence from this Land of your Nativity are well acquainted with the which I am confident the strictest of you have no just exception against either for endeavouring to undermine Government or to pull down Governours or by fraud or force to have to do with any mans Possession Goods or Estate who am willing to do by another as I would have another do by me and am as willing another should Live as my Self whose Indeavour in all my Teachings have been to perswade Persons to forsake and avoid all acts of Violence and Oppression and to cleave to God with purpose of heart and to perswade those that have Owned God in his Own way to continue stedfast in the same and to prove Faithful to him whose Lawes teach the best Loyalty to our Earthly Princes and purest Love to all yea to our very Enemies who with single-heartedness to all and without either Fawning or Flattery have and shall still resolve to tell every one with whom I have to do the worst of their Condition and shew them the danger they are in by reason of their misactings with an earnest desire that in order to their Eternal well-being they would refuse the Evil and choose the Good And so I have at this time done with you the great Council of the Nation and if for my plainness of speech either as to the matter or manner of it you shall become mine Enemy because I deal so plainly with you I shall let you know that notwithstanding I shall in the singleness of my Soul pray for you and for your Convertion not in the least Indeavouring or Plotting your Confusion And now I shall earnestly desire both the King his People and you their Representative to judge with Equity our Innocent Cause that so when you shall your selves be Summoned at that great Session before that great Tribunal and Righteous Judge who shall give to every man according as his work shall be that then you be found Innocent and without Blame as to your actings against the peaceable Ones of Christs Flock whose Sentence of either Come ye Blessed Inherit the Kingdom or Go ye Cursed into Everlasting Fire will be of an Eternal Extent and that upon the account of Mens actings to his People either for doing them good or for refusing to do them that good they might have done them who looketh upon what is either neglected or done to them to be done unto himself And hence it is that he uttered that from Heaven saying Saul Saul why Persecutest thou me I am Jesus whom thou Persecutest Acts 9. 3 4. And after the same manner will be his Sentence at that great Day of account even Go ye Cursed into Everlasting Fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels for when I was Hungry ye fed me not and naked ye clothed me not Sick and in Prison and ye visited me not For inasmuch as ye did it not to one of these little Ones ye did it not unto me O then I beseech thee whoever thou be that art of a Persecuting spirit I say again I would Beg thee seriously to consider O Persecuting spirit that if the Lord Christ will thus severely punish the neglecting the doing good to his People when Hungry Naked Sick and Imprisoned What then will be the Portion of those that cause them to come into such difficulties and straits as Imprisonments Hungrings Nakedness and Sickness And cause them to be thrown as it were on heapes one upon another as some of the Baptists lately have been in one Room some 9. Foot broad and 14. Foot long in New Gate And much after the same way in several other Gaols and Prisons in the Nation Enough to breed Infections and Diseases had not the God whom we serve appeared mightily in our Behalfes And seeing the Eternal Sentence will be so severe against such Violent Actors In love to their Souls I cannot choose but give them a timely Caution and in their behalfes with that servant of the Lord Deut. 32. 29. Cry out and say O that they were wise that they would understand this that they would