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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89853	Several petitions answered, that were put up by the priests of Westmorland, against James Nayler and Geo. Fox, servants of the most high God, persecuted by the priests of the world, as Jesus Christ and the apostles were persecuted by the Jewish high priests for the witnessing of the truth, and testifying against the deceits of the world. With the answer to an order given forth by the justices at Appleby sessions, contrary to the law of God, and the laws of the land. Also, an exhortation to the people, to mind the light of God in them, the teachings and leadings of the spirit of truth; the which if it be obeyed, will lead and guide them into all truth.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.; R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.; Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1653 (1653)	Wing N316A; Thomason E703_4; ESTC R3636	42,778	72

therefore do you persecute me because I testifie against you that your deeds are evill And dealing with the Divel I utterly deny and the works of darkness for he that is born of God sins not neither can he because 1 John 3. 8. 9. the seed of God remains in him and the evill one cannot touch him but if they call the master of the house Beelzebub what will they do unto the children So it was Jesus Christ Lord and Master had that portion of the world it is the same now where he is made manifest in any the same generation persecutes it is no strange thing Mat. 10. 25. Pr. Petition That we know the Principles of some of their followers are against subjection to Magistrates against distinction amongst men and the practices of the most is such that there is a denying of relations children professedly refusing subjection to their Parents and servants to their masters Answ Whereas you say we are not subject to justice that is false for conscience sake let every soul be subject to the higher power for all power is of God and he that resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God So for conscience sake we honor justice and all men in the Lord but as for respecting persons we deny for the Scripture Rom. 13. 1 2. denies the same he that respects persons commits sin and is a transgressor of the Law He that was a minister of Iesus Christ said this Here you James 2. 9. Rev. 22. 15. shew your selves to be without and no ministers of God but would have others to transgress the law of God O false accusers where do any walk stubbornly against their parents but for conscience sake they cannot yeeld to those things which carnally they would have them act as follow the worship of the world without them and not worworship God in Spirit and set up your teachers of the world God hath raised up a light in many John 4. 23. Luke 1. 79. Mat. 21. 16. Mat. 11. 25. young children draws them to himselfe and you spue forth your venom against them servants and children because they will not hold you up and now when you are like to fall If Christs words should be fulfilled where he saith Call no man father upon earth and he that loves Father or Mat. 23. 9. Mat. 10. 37. mother more then me is not worthy of me what would you say to that Fathers and mothers pass away and that love that is in the flesh but the Father the Lord God of Heaven and Earth is for ever and who owns him will not walk in disobedience to any thing but the evill and if God put into the mouth of any servants to speak that doth Acts 2. 18. not take them from faithfulness in the outward to their masters where they are But you accusers which have the form of godliness but deny the power ever shew forth your selves Where do any of the servants masters go to complain to the Magistrates But you Priests shew your selves 1 Tim. 5 13. busie about other mens matters only to hold up your own profits and accuse the just with many false and scandalous slanders Pr. Petition That we are sensible what confusions divisions tumults and parties are made by these mens disturbances and cannot but with sadness of spirit remember that such small beginnings have in other nations grown to eat out their peace and stagger the foundation of their States as also to lay it before you what advantage it gives for the common enemy weakens the Parliaments interest in the peoples hearts Answ Truth ever stirred up confusion where it was though it lay close till truth came Luke 12. 49. as you read in the Scriptures Christ came to put fire in the earth and the Apostles where they came in the markets or Synagogues who witnessed forth the substance to draw people to it to serve the Lord in newness of life to come up into the everlasting truth and peace then every one stood up in his own imagination and thoughts as you do now to oppose the truth and said they would turn the world up side down Pr. Petition To see such persons unrestrained creats discontents and laies a clear foundation for civill wars or at least advantage to the Hollanders or French now in arms against us to carry on their wicked intentions with greater facility Answ The intention of your mind is to have truth restrained which takes away the occasions of all wars and brings into love and true heartedness and there is nothing discontent with us but that which doth not abide in the truth And wheras thou speakest of weakning the Parliaments interest and laying a foundation of new war This is hatched in your own minds so to incense ignorant people it is your own interest that you fear for if the Parliament should take away your Tythes and your means little love would appear to them for it hath been already said by you that the Parliament hath opened a gap for all blasphemings but the hands of evil doers we do not strengthen and you are the men that raise up civill warres against them that live peaceably and love peace and go about to take away the ocasions of all warres For the world raises up a persecution and a civill warre against a peaceable people whose intents are to bring up all to God to live in unity one with another to be of one heart and one mind and one soul to seive God in newness of life whom Christ Iesus hath set free from the Traditions and Rudiments of the world Now who are set free from the world you bring under your bondage and perfecute them if they will not obey you shewing forth the nature of Pharaoh not letting Israel go to serve God Priests Petition Therefore as you are Christians and English Magistrates vve are freemen born of England and desiring somthing more as instruments under God with others of your present peace do beg an chalenge from you Answ Now you shew your complements we are no breakers of peace who owns the peace owns us and he that bears this sword that cuts Rom. 13. 4. down all corruption and filthiness owns us For there is no peace to the vvicked saith God and this you shall all find vvho vvould have peace to that vvhich must die it is your eternall peace and eternal souls good that we are moved of the Lord to speak unto you for which eternally you shall witness Priests Petition 1. Your timely looking unto the Peace of England that it seems too evidently to be endeavored to be rent asunder Answ Justices that keeps peace we honor and set up and wait all for the peace but your intention in this is to have truth suppressed and wickedness flourish and the works of darkness not discovered here is Justice weakned and the hand of evil doers strengthened against the innocent which ever the chief Priests

in the way of Cain and run greedily after the error of Balaam and many shall follow their pernicious ways of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of O all friends and people see if there be not something within you which shews you sin and evil and the deceits of your own hearts which if you do hearken to it and love it you will love Christ for he is the light and hating this light you hate Christ because your deeds are evil and will not bring your works to the light least the light should reprove them and here i● your condemnation the light within you and it is not a Chapter nor a Verse without you And loving this light it will bring you off all the worlds ways and worships to worship God for they walked in their own ways which spent their money for that which was not bread and there you are in your own ways and it will draw you out of all the worlds Churches into the Church in God and wait in this light and it will gather all your hearts together to live in unity one with another and it will lead you to the everlasting day of the Lord and walking in that light there will be no occasion of stumbling for being disobedient to the light there will be stumbling at noon day Therefore all people prize your time this is the day of your visitation and salvation and if ever you own a clean pure conscience you will own us and if ever you come to know Jesus Christ you will own us and if ever you own the Lord God of heaven and earth and come to know him and worship him you will then own us and know us and if ever you own the life of the Prophets and the Apostles you will then own us to be sent of God and of God and we seek not yours but your saving health and souls good and your eternal peace and happiness and eternally shall you witness us to that which doth convince you I speak that which will witness with me in the end when the thoughts of every mans heart shall be revealed and the book of Conscience shall be opened therefore below in heart and consider where you are and learn the lesson of Christ and put him on and forsake all your blinde guides without you and minde the guide within you they are the sons of God that are guided by the Spirit of the Lord they are not the Sons of God who can profess and talk of the Letter and persecute them which are contrary to their opinions but shew forth to be the children of the Devil and not of God MY name is covered from the world and the world knows not me nor my name the earthly name the earthly man knows and he is afraid of reproach and cannot bear it upon the earthly name he that overcometh hath the new name and knoweth it he that is not come into the War knows it not he that overcometh sitteth in his throne he that overcometh is crowned he that is judged and judgement is brought into victory and then it is set in the earth he that overcometh eateth of the hidden Manna he that overcometh shal inherite all things he that is without hath the old name and wants all things and cannot judge any thing for the natural man knows not the things of God but the spiritual man judgeth all things he that hath an ear to hear let him hear and blessed is he that reads and doth understand what he reads G. F. TO THE Parliament of this Common-wealth and the General and Major General of the ARMY A Declaration of the present condition of several Inhabitants in Westmeriand and some part in Lancashire whose names are subscribed who have been faithful to the Parliament and serviceable in their places to this Commonwealth to the hazard of their Lives Liberties and Estates Declareth THat the Lord hath made known himself and manifested his love to us in letting us see the deadness and emptiness of all the outward Ministry of the world and hath according to his own promise led us forth of the barren Wilderness of outward carnal Worships and is his himself become out Teacher and hath made us willing to wait alone upon him for Teaching By the power and vertue of which we deny all the Teaching which stands in the will of man whatsoever and so meeting together to wait upon the Lords unlimitted power exhoring and building up one another in our most holy faith according to the practice of all the Saints before us Not onely spending the First day of the week in such Exercises but several other days and nights as the Lord gives us opportunity to the great refreshment of our souls and uniting of our hearts to the Lord and one to another to his everlasting praise and glory and having occasion to praise the Lord for that Freedom which the Parliament doth allow us for which the Priests much maligns us and stirs up the ignorant people in their Publique Assemblies to execute their rigour upon us fomentinglyes and accusing us to the Magistrates falsely causing some to be Endicted some Imprisoned and some bound over for no just cause at all And hath done all that in them lies to deprive us of that Liberty which the Parliament hath afforded As may appear by several Orders made at a late Sessions at Appleby in Westmerland wherein they have Ordered That we shall not meet together in the night time which hath been the practice of the Saints in former ages and hath been our practice because there are many Servants and young labouring people which cannot come on the day which comes at the night because we would not give an occasion of offence Wherein we do witness that while we did meet together on the night to sport and spend the time in vanity we were not medled withal but now we do testifie against all such practices and who lives now in the same nature hates us But Justice which cuts down filthiness and gives way for truth to rise we own But there are several got into Commission of the peace formerly Malignants and some that have been actually in Arms against the Parliament contrary to the Act of Parliament and are utter Enemies to the Truth as doth appear not onely here but likewise in Yorkshire where there hath been ten of our Brethren and Sisters kept in Prison in York Castle some of them the most part of a whole year and since the last Assizes were kept in close Prison until one of them dyed and so continued in close Prison until it pleased the Lord to move the hearts of some to procure them more Liberty And whereas we are a people accused to deny Magistracy it is not so For Justice we own in our souls which cuts down corruption which keeps the soul in the death For let every soul be subject to the higher power For all power is of God and that we set up own and honor for Conscience sake and all men in the Lord. Likewise our dear Brother James Nayler lies in Prison in Appleby who served the Parliament under the Command of Major General Lambert betwixt eight and nine years as we believe some of the Army can witness All that we desire is that Books may be printed whereby the Truth may be manifested And if we transgress or offend we are willing to suffer This Petition was signed by Three hundred and twenty nine of the Inhabitants of Lancashire and part of Westmerland FINIS