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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96642	A few quæries to Simon Ford priest at the town of Northampton. By Daniel Wills.	Wills, Daniel.	1662 (1662)	Wing W2864; ESTC R186623	3,592	7

A Few QUAERIES TO SIMON FORD Priest at the Town of Northampton By Daniel Wills LONDON Printed for Robert Wilson A Few Queries to Simon Ford Priest at the Town of Northampton SIMON FORD I Hearing of thy late change and of thy publick Confession before thy Congregation whom thou hast formerly and still dost pretend is at thy care and that thou hast a charge over them from the Lord moved me to write these Queries to thee of which from thee I expect a speedy answer either to the clearing of thy self or else thy silence shall condemn thee guilty before the Lord and thy Congregation to as many of whom as I can I shall communicate the same Whether it is the same God that hath given thee the charge over these People since thy change as did before yea or nay Whether is it the same spirit that hath moved in thee to take upon thee to read the Common Prayer to these People whom thou pretendest to have a charge over for the good of their souls as moved thee to preach openly against it not long since as many of thy hearers can testifie yea or nay Whether that God whom thou worshippedst before thy now change be the same God thou now worshippest yea or nay Whether thy belly be not thy God whom thou servest and whether is it not for filthy Lucre thou now labourest yea or nay Whether thou hadst received the Holy Ghost before thy change for the Office and Work of a Priest or whether thou hast received it since by the imposition of the Bishops hands yea or nay Now if thou hadst not received the Holy Ghost before thy late change Whether then do not some of those Curses belong unto thee and are due upon thee which thou art to read and pronounce to thy Congregation on the first day of Lent according to thy late assent and consent made in publick before them whom thou hast so blindly led infomuch they could not believe thou wouldst have deceived them as thou hast dore although it was told to some of them long since viz. Cursed is he that maketh the blind to go out of his way Whether hast thou done this yea or nay Cursed is he that putteth his trust in man and taketh man for his defence and in his heart goeth from the Lord. Whether art thou guilty of this yea or nay Cursed are the Vnmerciful Fornicators and Adulterers Covetous persons Idolaters Slanderers Drunkards and Extortioners Whether do not some of these fall weighty upon thine own head yea or nay Whether thou putst thy trust in man or was it not for fear of man or for loosing of that thou callest thy due as the False Prophets of old did who preached for filthy lucre that caused thee thus to change and deceive the people who so much put their trust in thee answer yea or nay Now if these Curses be due unto thee Whether then hath the bishop or any other power to absolve or pardon thee thereof seeing thou hast taken upon thee to absolve and pardon others as thou hast declared to thy Congregation in thy late acknowledgement answer yea or nay D'ANIEL WILLS A Copy of these Queries were given into his own hand by one of his hearers on the 29. day of the sixth month commonly called August 1662. of which there hath been no answer Some words of unfeigned Love to all the Tender-hearted People in the said Town of Northampton or elswhere who are yet held in bondage under the changeable Priests of this Age. DEar People since it hath been the good pleasure of the Almighty God to bring a day of Tryal upon your Teacher whom you could not discern would have so shamefully dealt concerning you his hearers until God by his good pleasure hath manifested him and discovered his deceit and laid him to your open view with many others in this day in these Nations O dear and tender People whose hearts have been and are as yet made sad by the abominations of your Teacher and his unexpected change But this know every one of you it is not enough for you to see your Teacher go aside from the right way of God but it may well bring you to consider whether ye ought not ●o come out from amongst such and ●e separate fro● them and not to touch the unclean thing that the unchangeable God may receive you Oh! let none rest there and say I can go after he hath read that which I do not like of and if I come there before he hath done it I will not regard it I will keep my mind on other things Oh! dear People how can this be well where wil● be your Testimony that you bear for the Lord God who gives you life and breath and let none think to stand excused before the Righteous God by so doing for thus you must expect and it shall surely come to passe that all who partake of the sins of the changeable Priests in this day shall assuredly partake with them of their plagues for so might the chree Children have said it s but bowing our bodies to the Earth we may keep our minds to God and do this and then shall we escape the wrath of the King and our bodies will be preserved out of the hot fiery Furnace but they consulted not with flesh and blood but in true obedience to the Lord their God and their faithful standing therein though but the number three how mightily did the Lord appear for the preservation of them in the fire and also to the getting himself a name throughout the Kingdom and some of you have said we had warning enough we might have kept our selves out of Prison we might have forsook the assembling of our selves together for one day and then it might be we might have escaped these sufferings as to be separated from our Families and outward imployments which thing we count of no value for the sake of whom we suffer but to the witnesse of God in your Consciences I desire such to turn and well consider whether they might not as well have said the same to Daniel when the Decree was given forth that not any should call upon the Name of any other God but the god who was set up for all people to worship in that day but mind what Daniel did when he heard the Decree was sealed unalterably and he well knew by the same Decree he who called upon any other God for thirty dayes should be cast into the Den of Lions yet notwithstanding he presently went and called upon the Name of his God with his window open as he had usually done so he was cast in but God preserved him out of the Lions mouths and got himself a name greatly in that day thereby So dear People mind the Saints and Prophets of old who sought not to save their Goods nor Lands nor their lives if the Lord called them to bear a Testimony therewith but alwayes freely sacrificed up to the Lord God that gave it them and this is our God onely and true who is the same yesterday to day and for ever and he also requires the same faithfulnesse of his Children in this age as he did in ages and generations past even to give up all for a Testimony for his glorious Name who we well know is worthy for ever and ever and we can truly say he never required any thing of any of his or to part with any thing for his Names sake but he hath been ready alwayes to attend with his strength even so much that he makes the tryals easie And I well know he is the same to all who wholly put their trust in him but mind this dear People then you must Worship no other god besides him neither Wife nor Children Father nor Mother House nor Land Liberty nor Life for which of these is delighted in more then the Lord God are made Idols on and so get the heart from the living God and adulterates it from his pure Presence without which his Children in Ages past could not live neither can his tender Ones in this Day So pure living eternal Praises do we give to the God of our Salvation alwayes who hath set the door of his Mercies open that whosoever will come may come and drink of the Waters of Life freely without Money or without Price So dear people sleight not this Day of Gods Visitation but return at the Reproof of the living God who hath discovered mighty things unto you and mind his Witnesse in your Consciences and be truly obedient unto that when it secretly reproves you when no outward eye seeth you Oh! that is alwayes near you in your Beds that will plead with you and into your secret Chambers this will follow you Oh! dear People it was the Saints desire in the dayes of old to keep their Consciences void of offence towards God mind that and towards men the same is the desire of the Saints in these dayes which makes them chearfully willing to part with all for the great and glorious Name of God and it is the desire of our Souls that you might drink of the same Fountain and eat of the same Bread and no longer feed upon the Husks without as the Prodigal did but return inward whilst you have time that you may find a sure hiding-place even your lives to be hid with Christ in God then even then and not till then shall you be hid from the wrath of the Lamb which is surely a coming and shall surely come upon all the workers of iniquity By one who was forceably taken out of my own hired House and by the Wills of the Magestrates of the said Town was contrary to any Law by them committed to Prison but they considering their unjust Action towards me did the same day send for me from the Prison who in execution of their design tendred me the Oath and sent me back again where I remain a present Sufferer for the Testimony of a pure Conscience DANIEL WILLS