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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75884	A fannaticks letter sent out of the dungeon of the gate-house prison of VVestminster: to all his brethren in the three nations at liberty; and also in the several goales and dungeons therein, that are under all the principles of the doctrines of Christ, Heb. 6. I, 2. 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.	Adis, Henry.	1660 (1660)	Wing A579; Thomason E1084_6; ESTC R208012	21,559	25

that we shall have cause to say with his Servant of old Psal. 11 9. 75. I know O Lord that thy Judgements are right and that thou of Faithfulness hast caused me to be troubled And again By our Afflictions we shall Evidence our selves to be Sons and not Bastards For whom the Lord loveth he Chasteneth and scourgeth Every Son whom he Receiveth If ye endure Chastening God dealeth with you as with Sons For what Son is it whom the Father Chasteneth not But if ye be without Chastizements whereof all are partakers then are ye Bastards and not sons Heb. 12. 6 7 8. God is now Preparing a People for himself and as Persons are to be fitted hewen and squared for the building of God before they can be fit matter for his Building here as they must be lively Stones before they can be duly put into his building the Church so he is now trying his Stones for his Heavenly Building he now sitting as a Refiner and Purifier of Silver And is now Trying the Sons of Levi and shall Purge them as Gold and Silver and he that is not now found Gold Silver or Precious Stones will be Consumed his out-side Formality will be proved to be Hypocrisie He that now hath not Oyl in his Vessel will walk in the Dark for Profession is almost out of fashion and he that now hath not Habakkuks Faith will not stand He that now finds out a by-way to Deny Christ vvill not be found Worthy of him novv the Day vvill try him he that vvould not leave his Lust his Pride his Vanity his Hunting after his Profit will now Evidence himself who he was For Two men walking together and a Third following them as a Servant it is hard to guess whose Servant he is but when they part the Servant will follow his own Master Christ and Reputation Credit or Fame have in this Nation walked hand in hand a long time together but now they are parting it will suddenly now be Evidenced whose Servants Professors are And the Master without all question will Pay them their Wages the Lord is now Dealing with his People as once Constantius dealt with his Subjects And would King Charles the Second have done so he would have had far better Attendants then now he hath In the Ecclesiastical History Eusebius Pamphilius in his First Book of the Life of Constantine in his Twelfth Chapter speaketh to this Purpose THat the Magistrates in every Province by the Command of the former Tyrannical Emperors did cruelly and grievously Oppress the Christians and brought them to Martyrdom in so much that Godly Men were very scarce At which Constantius the Father of Constantine was much troubled who when he came to Succeed in the Empire and having a desire to try his Courtiers saith the story he began to contrive a strong and Admirable Plot for he Granted Free leave to all his Officers and Men of Dignity to offer Sacrifices unto Devils and yet to give their Attendance in Court and keep their Places And those that would not perform those accursed Sacrifices should be banished the Court and dismissed his Service Whereupon his Courtiers being divided into a double Faction presently Discovered their Minds and Affections And many were the number of Idolaters whereupon this worthy Constantius Discovering his own Plot he Reproved those that were fearful and desirous to keep their Places Approving and Commending the other for their Constancy in Gods Cause Rejecting the Idolaters as Traytors to God and not worthy of his Service For how said he can they be Faithful to me their Emperour who have Revolted from their God So that he presently Banished them from his Court and made those that were Approved to be Constant in giving their Testimony to the Faith near Officers unto him for the Securing of his own Person saying That such men were to be accounted as his most familliar Friends and to be esteemed of more then great Treasures Thus we have briefly Characteriz'd the Father of Constantine by the Actions of his Life by which any one may clearly discern that God gave him prosperous Success in his Affairs and gave him a different Heart from his Predecessors For having a long time performed many vertuous and royal Actions at length having suppressed the Superstitious Adoration of their Heathen gods he acknowledged the only true God Governor of all things And strengthned his Family by keeping Religious men to Pray for him and his and spent the residue of his Life with great Commendations in Peace and Tranquility living without Troubles or being troublesome which the Vulgar account a great Happiness So he Governed his Wife Children and Family very quietly and peaceably all the time of his Reign and Devoted them and himself to the Service of God so that his Royal Palace seemed to be a Religious Temple in which there were Holy and Religious men that offered up their Incense of Prayers for the Emperours safety even then when among the Heathen it was a dangerous thing to be called a Religious man or one that served God And all the harm I wish King Charles the Second is that he were but a second Constantius that he had such a Court and such a Guard such a Ministry and such a Magistracy such a Nobility and such a Gentry such a Yeomandry and such a Peasantry that all from the highest to the lowest were such as truly feared God and hated Covetousness that every Relation might Act so faithfully towards their God and each to other in Love Peace and Unity that the God of Peace might take a delight to dwell amongst us when all abomination Babylon like might be cast into the Sea of Forgetfulness And seeing such a People would make so happy a Prince O Friends let us hold fast our Integrity that so we may be a blessing to our Prince here and obtain the blessing hereafter For they that shall be with the Lamb are such as shall be found Faithful and Worthy and Chosen for they are Virgins and have not defiled themselves with Women they have not intermingled themselves with the Abominations of the great Whore nor her Adulterous Brood And if we will have one like the Son of God Comforting and Supporting Walking with and Refreshing us in that hot Furnace of Affliction that is Heating for us let us with Shadrach Meshach and Abednego keep close to our God and let us not be careful to Answer the desires of men Dan. 3. 25. but in all Humility let us patiently Suffer under them in so doing our Comfort will be great though our Sufferings be many yea though our lives lye at stake and we also lose them yet if our Saviours words be true we shall find them for if we with our Apostle do fight the good fight of Faith we may expect to lay hold of Eternal Life This is a faithful saying For if we suffer with him we shall Reign with him but if we Deny him he will also

and to prove Faithful and Loyal to our Head and Soveraign our Supream our King our Lord and Master Jesus Christ whose Laws teach the best Loyalty to our Earthly Kings and purest love to our Princes nay to our very enemies I say to my Brethren Imprisoned and the rest yet at Liberty I shall give the advice of the Spirit recorded in James 5. 9. 10. Be patient therefore Brethren unto the coming of the Lord behold the Husband-man waiteth for the precious Fruits of the earth c. Be ye also patient stablish your Hearts for the coming of the Lord draweth nie and let us not be weary in well doing for in due time we shall reap if we faint not Gal. 6. 9. the which reaping time is that which fills up my Inventory and will make a mends for all and raise my total Sum to a considerable value For as I am a Trades man my Estate as to Temporals amounts but to a small value as Imprimis My Houshold Goods and wearing Apparil being very little and very mean and therefore of l. s. d. very little worth Item In my Shop and Ware-house what is left by the hand of oppression is l. s. d. scarce worth valuing So also as I am a Christian my condition in gross is this not l. s. d. worth setting down Imprimis My footsteeps watched and my Actions weighed by an unjust weight and ballance and mete by a false measure by which means is produced false Reports Opprobious Speeches cruel Mockings Scoffings Jeerings and Deridings false Accusations and Evil Surmisings and my whole Trade Heaven-wards Arraigned Judged and Condemned as utterly Lawlesse and unlawful and my Commodities sent me from thence Counterfeit and Carnal Adulterated and Abominable Sinful and Schismatical Wavouring and Unstable Whimsical and Giddy Fantastical and Fannatical Formal and Faithlesse Papal and Prophane by all which it may evidently appear that as to my present Estate and Condition among men I have l. s. d. very little comfort And to speak in the Words of our Apostle If in this Life onely we had Hope in Christ we were of all men most miserable but now is Christ risen from the dead 1 Corinthians 15. 19 20. And therefore Item In the Resurrection Day They that have done good shall arise of the Resurrection of Life John 5. 39. For if we have been planted into the likenesse of his Death we shall also be in the likenesse of his Resurrection And Christ being raised from the Dead dieth no more Death hath no more dominion over him Rom. 6. 5. 9. So also is the Resurrection of the Dead it is sown in Corruption it is raised again in Incorruption it is sown in Dishonour it is raised in Glory it is sown in Weakness it is raised in Power it is sown a Natural Body it is raised a Spiritual Body And as we have born the Image of the earthly so also shall we bear the Image of the Heavenly 1 Cor. 15. 43 44 49. And thus shall we be recompenced at the Resurrection of the Just Luk. 14. 14. This shall we have after we have lived in Reproach Infamy and Ignomy This shall we have if we Worship not the Beast nor his Image neither Receive his Mark in our Foreheads nor in our Hands though we have been Villified and Undervalued Railed at and Reproached Buffetted and Whipped Banished or Imprinsoned nay though we shall lose our Lives provided it be only for the Witness of Jesus and the Word of God we shall have our part in the first Resurrection And blessed and holy is he that hath Part in the First Resurrection on such the Second Death shall have no Power but we shall be Priests to God and to Christ and shall Reign with Christ a Thousand years Rev. 20. 4 5 6. For he must Reign till he hath put all Enemies under his feet And when all things shall be subdued unto him then shall also the Son himself be subject unto him that put all things under him that God may be All in All 1 Cor. 15. 25 28. For it is a faithful saying That if we be Dead with him we shall also Live with him if we Suffer we shall also Reign with him 2 Tim. 2. 10 11. Therefore Item in the Harvest Crop abundance of Plenty for in due time we shall Reap if we faint not And whatsoever a man soweth that shall he also reap for he that soweth to the Flesh shall of the Flesh reap Corruption but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting Gal. 6. 7 8 9. And he that goeth on weeping bearing precious seed shall doubtless come again and bring his Sheaves with him For they that sow in Tears shall reap in Joy Psal. 126. 56. Thus Weeping may endure for a Night but Joy cometh in the Morning In the Morning of the Resurrection Sorrow and Mourning shall vanish away as the dew before the Morning Sun for God shall wipe away all Tears from their eyes and there shall be no more death nor sorrow nor crying neither shall there be any more pain for the former things are passed away Rev. 21. 4. And the Lamb that is in the midst of the Throne shall lead them unto living Fountains of Water and God shall wipe away all Tears from their Eyes Rev. 7. 17. Yea He will swallow up Death in Victory and the Lord God will wipe away Teares from all faces and the Reproach of his People shall be taken away from off all the earth for the Lord hath spoken it And it shall be said in that Day This is our God we have waited for him and he will save us this is the Lord we have waited for him we will be glad and rejoyce in his Salvation Isa. 25. 8 9. For in his Presence is fulness of Joy and at his Right Hand are Pleasures for evermore Psal. 16. 11. Thus our Present Sufferings are not worthy to be compared with that Glory that shall be revealed in us Rom. 8. 18. For our Light A●●●i●…ions which are but for a Moment worketh for us a far more Exceeding and Eternal weight of Glory whilest we look at the Things that are not seen and not on the Things that are seen for the Things that are seen are Temporal but the Things that are not seen they are eternal 2 Cor. 4. 17. And now my Brethren seeing it is so that there comes so much and such great benefit to us by our Sufferings let us Chearfully go on in Gods Way continuing Faithful to the Death that so we may attain the Crown of Life And let us follow the Lamb wheresoever he goeth though to the Cross that so we may attain the Crown we shall be great Gainers by it And if we make that Use of our Sufferings that God intendeth our Faith our Patience our Joy our Love our Peace and all will be tryed strengthened and much bettered And in Conclusion we shall reap the benefit of it so as