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A96961	The wounds of an enemie in the house of a friend. Being a relation of the hard measure sustained by Miles Halhead, and Thomas Salthouse, for the testimony of Jesus: particularly in a long, and sore, and close imprisonment, first at Plymouth, and then at Exeter in the county of Devon, though they have neither offended the law of God, or of the nation. Published for the clearing of their innocency from the cloud of transgression, of which they are supposed highly guilty, and by reason of their silent abiding such sharp, and long, and cruell sufferings.	Halhead, Miles, 1613 or 14-1689 or 90.; Salthouse, Thomas, 1630-1691.	1656 (1656)	Wing W3665; Thomason E870_7; ESTC R2977	52,373	80

and hurried with rage and madnesse by the Prince of the Aire who rules mightily in the children of Disobedience beyond bowells and naturall affection And this is the case and this is the condition of these two innocent servants of the Lord who having all their dayes been seeking after the Lord and walking in that which is called good conscience and Godlinesse and having at length through the riches of that free love of God in Jesus Christ come to find what they had so diligently sought for even Eternall life which is in the Son and to witnesse it in their measures and in the light of Jesus Christ by whom the world was made to comprehend and see where all professions and people are who know not nor believe in the light to wit Jesus Christ the light of the world who lighteth every one that cometh into the world nor doe witnesse the life of Jesus made manifest in them as by the light they have been brought to see it in their owne particulars and knowing the terrours of the Lord out of bowels of love to the precious soules of people which are eternall and at the command of the Lord have left their Country and Relations as to the outward in the North and travelled for their sakes to shew unto them what they had found and tasted and seen and handled of the word of life that so their soules might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus and being come thither did no other thing then to meet in the fear of the Lord with friends to wait upon him and to declare the truth of the experience of what they had found of the free grace of God which brings salvation manifested in them provoking them unto love and to good works according to the Scriptures of the Prophets and Apostles and exhorting to holinesse and the things that are eternall as the day approacheth from the measure of the life of God which they had received as the Spirit gave them utterance out of which meetings they were taken contrary to the practice of the Church of Christ and the example of the Saints in the Scriptures and the instrument of Government and dealt withall as hath been mentioned And which indeed is hardly to be believed but hath been said is true for no other thing but as aforesaid have they done or that is not according to the righteous Law of the holy God which shall be answered with that in every mans conscience And to make appear truly to the contrary are all men here openly charged who can even their greatest adversaries because of whose cruelty and oppression and to manifest what it is this Relation is undertaken Neverthelesse through the power of the Lord in whom is everlasting strength whom they witnesse and for whom they suffer they glory in tribulation and stands over the heads of their greatest enemies who puffe at them knowing that he who shall come will come and will not tarry when their Testimony in sufferings is finished for the Seeds sake and the glorious Gospel of our Lord Jesus for whom they suffer in bonds and are ready even unto the death from the hands of those who professe him as dying at Jerusalem and yet crucifie him in his truth members and have the generation of their forefathers from the beginning And then neither Guards nor Gates shall be able to keep them For our God is King over the whole Earth and his Kingdome is begun to be set up and to him whom man despiseth to him whom the Nation abhorreth to a servant of Rulers Kings shall see and arise Princes also shall worship because of the Lord who is faithfull and the holy one of Israel which hath chosen him saith the Lord the Redeemer of Israel and his holy one who commandeth deliverance for Jacob and Kings shall be thy nursing Fathers and their Queens thy nursing mothers they shall bow down to thee with their faces towards the earth and lick up the dust of feet and thou shalt know that I am the Lord for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me The sons also of those that afflict thee shall come bending unto thee and all those that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet and they shall call thee the City of the Lord the Syon of the holy one of Israel Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated so that no man went through thee I will make thee an eternall excelency a joy of many generations Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles and shalt suck the breasts of Kings and thou shalt know that I the Lord am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer the mighty one of Jacob For thus saith the Lord even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered for I will contend with them that contendeth with thee and I will save thy children and I will feed them that oppresse thee with their own flesh and they shall be drunken with their own blood as with sweet wine and all flesh shall know that I the Lord am thy Saviour and Redeemer the mighty one of Jacob And the Nation and the Kingdome that will not serve thee shall perish yea those Nations shall be utterly wasted Therefore hear now this thou afflicted and drunken but not with wine Thus saith thy Lord the Lord and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people behold I have taken out of thy hand the cup of trembling even the dregs of the cup of my fury thou shalt no more drink it againe But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee which have said to thy soule bow down that we may goe over and thou hast layed thy body as the ground and as the street to them that went over A Testimoniall of severall honest men of Plymouth concerning the meeting aforesaid and the passages thereat upon which is laid the pretended ground and cause of the sufferings of Miles Halhead and Thomas Salthouse at which they were present FOrasmuch as we are concerned in the sufferings of our dear Friends Thomas Salthouse and Miles Halhead who have been kept close Prisoners in and near the City of Exeter almost six Months contrary to equity and justice they having not broken the least clause of any Law we think it necessary to give a briefe Relation of the state of their Sufferings After some trouble and difficulty which the said Thomas Salthouse and Miles Halhead indured in coming to Plymouth May 16. 1655. they came safe to Plymouth where then had severall Meetings with most of us and the first day of the week following we had a Meeting which was appointed by us at John Harris his house a little out of the Town where both our Friends spake in the forenoon and afternoon and were approved of by those that heard them there being no lesse then thirty persons of the company in the afternoon that came

and fighting for them and having had to doe in obtaining the Victory or in fearing the Lord and being peaceable in the land and living in the principle that leads out of transgression and not resisting evill with evill but bearing all things and suffering all things both from those who have been friends and enemies though contrary to Law and liberty and common humanity and the righteous ends of the Wars are their sufferings leaving vengeance to the Lord whose it is and who will repay it and laying their bodies as the ground and as the street to them that say bow down thy body that we may goe over And wherein consists the vertue merit or prerogative of the other by which they may in equity or right claim such a priviledge Is Law and Justice and Liberty and Right changed in the ending of the Wars for them into peace that those must be denyed either and the contrary inflicted on them in such a manner of cruelty that the presidents of former times have not parallel'd whose lives in the field and whose All hath been so often engaged for the effecting thereof Is this Generation delivered to commit greater abominations and Cruelties then those who for these things sake and by their hand have been so lately Destroyed Is the Weight of the Blood of these Nations a small Matter and all the Garments rolled in blood the mangled and dead Carkasses of so many Thousands the Plundering burnings Devastations Ruines of Multitudes the Barbarous and the unheard of Cruelties and Murthers executed especially in Ireland the Cryes of the Great Companies of Fatherlesse and Widowes for Liberties and Justice a pleasant sight that Men so Lightly Gird it to their loynes and goe over their Graves in acting higher Wickednesses then what were the Causes of those Miserable Destructions God is not unrighteous so severely to punish Offences in some and to let others goe free who transgresse in the same and act more wickedly Shall not the Judge of the whole earth doe right God is true and every man a lyar and at his hands every man shall receive according to their deeds If he spared not the Angels that sinned but cast them down to hell and delivered them into chaines of darknesse to be reserved unto Judgement Nor the old world bringing in the flood upon the World of the ungodly nor Sodome and Gomorah but turned their Cities into ashes and condemned them with an overthrow making them Ensamples to them that afterwards should live ungodly nor the Kingdomes of Israel and Judah in whom the iniquities and mighty sins afore-mentioned were found but suffered for those things sake Sion to be plowed as a field and Jerusalem to become heaps and the mountain of the house as the higher places of the forrest and removed them both out of his sight and upon whom the wrath is come to the uttermost And if he spared not those in these three Nations upon whom some of these things were found but hath spread them before this Generation as the remarkable and sad Examples of his Vengeance Justice who renders to every one according to his works then what can they expect who having all these examples before their eyes and having bin the Instruments of his indignation upon those of their Age doe not only the same things but over-passe their deeds in afflicting the just and persecuting the witnesses of the living God the God of their mercies who hath wrought all their wonderfull deliverances whom of their brethren he hath raised up and sent amongst them to turn their feet out of the wayes of destruction into the path of peace and to direct them to that which if hearkned unto will guide them out of all deceipts and subtilties and power of darknes up to the Kingdom of his Son whose Throne is for ever and ever and the Scepter of whose Kingdome is a righteous Scepter which is the substance of what the late wars were a figure the principle from whence alone Justice shall spring up from the earth righteousnes shall slow down from heaven who shall rule the Nations with a rod of iron and break them in pieces as a potters vessel whose kingdome is begun to be set up which shall never have an end I say what remaineth for such but a fearfull expectation of the revelation of the righteous judgements of God which shall destroy the adversary and bring upon themselves swift destruction beyond the measure of those that have gone before them except they repent For God is not mocked as men sow so shall they reap and those that follow their pernicious wayes their judgment lingreth not nor doth their damnation slumber the testimony of his Elect in sufferings is finishing the measure of the iniquity of their persecutors is filling up apace and the Judge standeth at the door Judgement hastneth and vengeance is preparing her self and destruction is making ready and woe unto you ye potsheards of the earth who strive with your Maker What will ye doe in the day of visitation and in the desolation that cometh from far To whom will ye flee for help and where will you leave your glory Can your hearts endure your hands be strong in the days when the Lord shall deal with you Be wise therefore O yee Kings be instructed O yee Judges of the Earth serve the Lord with fear and rejoyce with trembling Touch not his Anointed and doe his Prophets no harm Kiss the Son lest he be angry and yee parish from the mid way when his wrath is kindled but a little and it is kindling blessed are all they that trust in him But sing O Heavens and be joyfull O Earth and break forth into singing O Mountaines for God hath comforted his people and will have mercy on his afflicted FINIS G Hughes Government Art 37. Acts 16.17 Ephes. 4.8 John 10.1 Jer. 23.10 a John 3.16 b Joh. 1.3 10. c John 8 12. d John 1.9 e Luke 11.31 f Psal. 110.1 Mat. 22.43 45 g Rev. 27.16 h John 8.56 i Heb. 1.6 k Rom. 10.4 l Heb. 7.23 m Heb. 8.6 n Heb. 13.20.12.24 o Deut. 18.15 Acts 3.22 23.7.37 p Mat. 24.35 q Mat. 5.17 r Luke 1.73 Å¿ Rom. 2.8 9 10. t Rev. 3.14 u Acts 10.42.17.32 2 Tim 4.1 Rom. 2.16 x John 10.17 Mat. 5 33 34 35 36 37. z James 5.12 a Prov. 8.15 b Psal. 62.11 c Phil 2.10 11. d Rom. 2.9 A close Imprisonment is directly contrary to the 23 H 8. Cap 2. which provideth that Prisons shall be in the most eminent and populous Townes where is most resort of people that the Prisoner may be the oftner visited and relieved And though the Statute of Westminster 2. provides for a safe Imprisonment yet for a close Imprisonment there is neither that nor any other Law and above all things doth the Law value the liberty of a man Loe hear what a filthy worker of iniquity this Priest is for denying of whose spirit before the people these long and cruell sufferings are inflicted on the innocent What a defiler of the flesh is this in whose behalfe these men make war against the Lamb Is not this Priest who not onely prophecies of but fills himselfe with wine and strong drink a fit Prophet for these people What think you had they a Spirit of discerning who comprehended this Priest and his root and principle and denying his spirit before the people though he spake so high in the praise of what they had said Would not these men plead Barabas his part against Jesus were he on the earth Devon