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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35837	The faithful testimony of that antient servant of the Lord, and minister of the everlasting Gospel William Dewsbery his books, epistles and writings, collected and printed for future service.	Dewsbury, William, 1621-1688.	1689 (1689)	Wing D1267; ESTC R2959	250,545	433

The Faithful TESTIMONY OF THAT Antient Servant of the Lord AND Minister of the everlasting Gospel William Dewsbery IN His Books Epistles and Writings Collected and Printed for future SERVICE The Righteous shall be had in everlasting Remembrance Psal 112.6 London Printed and Sold by Andrew Sowle at the Crooked Billet in Holloway-Lane Shoreditch And at the Three-Kyes in Nags-Head-Court in Grace-Church-Street A Testimony Concerning that faithful Servant of the Lord William Dewsbery from us who have long known him and his faithful Travels and Labours and suffering in and for the Gospel of Christ. PRetious to the Lord is the death of his Faithful Saints and Servants who in their Life time have given up to do his will and their faithfulness worthy to be commemorated to Posterity with those Antients and worthies of old who by their faithfulness obtained a good Report And since it hath pleased God in this our Age to cause his Gospel-day to appear and the Son of righteousness to arise to expel the darkness of a long night of Apostacy and the Clouds of Ignorance that have been over many and to raise up many living and faithful Witnesses thereof some of which have faithfully finished their Testimony and fulfilled their Course with Joy and laid down their Heads in Peace with God and entered into that Eternal Rest prepared thorow Christ Jesus for the faithful among whom this our dear deceased Brother was one whom God raised up early in the morning of his Glorious day and made an eminent Instrument in his Hand for the publication of his mighty Day of Power preaching Repentance in order to the Remission of Sin and bearing a faithful and universal Testimony to the free Grace of God to mankind and the Lord was with him and prospered him in his manifold Sufferings Travels Labours and Exercises in the Gospel of Christ and word of the Ministry as may be seen in this small Collection of his several Books Testimonies and Epistles herein contained and many were made sensible of the benefit of his Labours Counsels Admonitions and Incouragements to the good and welfare of their Immortal Souls for the Lord our God in whose Dread and Zeal he Laboured did indue him with Faith and Courage and great boldness for his Name and Truth and he publisht the same in great plainness and in the simplicity thereof To the tender hearted he was exceeding tender but to the Stubborn Lofty he was sharp and plain admonishing them and declaring the righteous Judgment of God against that state ●aiting and endeavouring with much patience and long-suffering the recovery of such who thorow the subtilty of the Enemy have fallen from Truth and from the Unity with the People of God but when any have made it thei● work to cause Division and Discord and to sow Dissention among Brethren he would plainly Testifie against them and reject them and in the Dread of the Lords Power Thunder out Gods Judgment against their Deceit Wickedness as he did upon such occasion in his last visit to London a few days before his departure out of the Body which he then told some of us was neer at hand He was a Man religiously concerned for the Honour of God and had a great care upon his Spirit that those that had believed and made profession of the Truth might answer it in a holy and blamless Conversation which he would often say could never be done by the largeness of Knowledg nor strength of Comprehension but by a real dying to their Wills and Affections by the vertue of the daily Cross he was also sincerely devoted to maintain Love and Unity among the People of God He was fervent and fr●●uent in Prayer to God for the good of his Church and for the gathering of People to their true Rest wherein we have had true Unity with him and our Souls with many more have been often refreshed and comforted with him his many deep Sufferings for the Truth and his faithful Travels and Labours in the Gospel are never to be forgotten And although the Envy of Wicked and Unreasonable Men was very great and fierce against him especially in those early days of his Travel and Labours for the sake whereof he was often Beaten Stoned and Imprisoned he neither feared their Malice Threats nor Blows but boldly went forth publishing the Truth Testiifyng to that of God in all Consciences and the Hand of divine Providence did often deliver him in a wonderful manner out of the hands of the wicked for his Names sake And finally having faithfully served out his Generation and finished his Sufferings Testimony and Course with Joy he hath now obtained the Crown Immortal and is gone into the everlasting Rest from all his Labours and his Works follow him with the blessed Reward in the Kingdom of Glory and Peace that never shall have End. George Whitehead Francis Camfeild Richard Pinder Steeven Crisp Richard Richardson Iames Parkes London 19 th 12 th Month 1689. ONe remarkable Passage I often remember About the Year 1653. upon a Market-day at Sedbury in Yorkshire as W. D. was publishing the Truth at the Market-Cross and warning the People to turn from the evil of their ways to the Grace of God and to the Light in their Consciences c. Some rude Persons endeavouring with violence to push him down and setting their Backs against a high stone Cross with their hands against him they pusht down the Cross which with the fall broke in peices many being about it yet it missed the People and little or no hurt was done thereby whereas if it had fallen upon them divers might have been killed This preservation I and divers more observed then as a special Providence of God attending him in his Labour though I was then but a Youth of sixteen years-old or thereabouts being convinced of Truth above a year before G. W. Concerning our dear Friend and Brother William Dewsbery the time of his Owning and Receiving the Truth WHen I came out of Darby Dungeon in the year 1651. I passing through several Counties Visiting Friends I came into Yorkshire to a place called Balby where Thomas Kilham Iohn Kilham Richard Farnsworth and Thomas Aldam came to me and were Convinced of God's Truth so then I passed towards Sinderhill-Green where some were Convinced and so I passed to one Lievtenant Ropers House where Iames Nailer came to see me where he was Convinced after I had some Discourse with him and then Thomas Goodyear came to me and after I had declared the Truth to him he was Convinced and received the Truth and I had Meetings at Lievtenant Ropers whither several People came who after they had heard the Truth declared received it and at one evening Meeting there William Dewsbery and his Wife came and heard me declare the Truth and after the Meeting it being a Moon-shine Night I walked out into the Field and William Dewsbery and his Wife came to me from the Meeting into the

which all things were created and without him was nothing made this Word is Life and the Life is the Light of Men and the Light shines in darkness and the darkness comprehends it not this Light is the word of Faith the Apostle exhorted to take heed unto Say not in thy Heart who shall ascend up to Heaven to fetch Christ down or down into the deep to fetch him up the Word is n●gh thee in thy Heart and in thy Mouth and this is the word of Faith which we Preach the unction of the holy one given of the Father so that we need not to teach one another but as the anointed teacheth us which is truth and no lye which is the sure word of Prophesie whereunto ye do well to take heed as unto a light shining in a dark place until the day dawn and the day-Star arise in your Hearts All people return within give up your selves freely to be guided by that Light that discovers to you the evil of your Hearts and none be discouraged because you see an evil Heart but prize the Love of God that discovers it to you and whatever the Light makes manifest to you to be evil Wait on the Lord for power and he will give you power to obey and in being faithful in a little more will be communicated from the Lord so will the righteous Law be set up in your Hearts that will cry through your earthly and carnal Hearts for Righteousness and Judgement and so will bring you to an account for every idle word and all deeds done in the body Look up unto the Lord against whom you have Sinned and he will arm you with power to what he layes upon you with patience to undergo his Will until all the powers of the Earth in you be famished and slain under his righteous Judgments then will Judgment be brought forth unto Victory that you can no longer live without the loving kindness of your Father in Christ Jesus Now is the Parable fulfilled the little grain of Mustard-Seed grown up above all Herbs and the little leaven hath leavened the whole lump and the Prodigal starved forever if his Father receive him not freely into his House Thou that canst witness this condition stand still in the Will of God he will raise up his seed in thee to trust in his Name and to delight in the eternal Covenant of Love and Life he hath made with thy Soul in the Lord Jesus Christ and will guide thee by the Word of his Power in a way thou knowest not forth of Babylon where thou wast an inslaved Captive under the power of the filthy Beast which is thy will and the Whore the Mother of Witchcrafts which is thy wisdom which enthralled thee under the Powers of darkness to satisfie the lusts of thine own Heart which led thee to destruction up to Sion to live by Faith in the Lord Jesus which will purifie thy Heart and set thy Soul free from under the powers of darkness into the Glorious Liberty of the Sons of God where thou shalt sing the Songs of Sion Hallelujahs and Praises forevermore unto the Lord God that sits upon the Throne and to the Lamb for ever and ever W. D. To all inslaved hard-hearted and unbelieving Jews in this Nation and elsewhere who are made drunk with the Wisdom of the Whore and bewitched through the abundance of Sorceries to put the Day of the Lord afar off looking for Christs coming in the Spirit as the hard-hearted unbelieving Iews in the Letter did for his coming in the Flesh according to the promise but they limited the Holy One according to their carnal wisdom expected his coming in great Pomp and Glory and when he came in that poor despised way contrary to their expectations they stumbled at him and would not own him to be their Saviour but rose up against him and put him to Death Matth. 27.1 to vers 50. BEhold you hard-hearted and unbelieving Iews do you not look for Christ coming in the Spirit according to his promise as they did for his coming in the Flesh but you limit the Holy One as they did expecting Christ to come in Power and Glory according to your own fancies and so put the Day of the Lord afar off you in rejecting and despising the Counsel of Jesus Christ the pure Light in your Consciences which lets you see every evil thought word and action and cryes behind you This is the way walk in it but you disobey the Light and hearkens to the counsel of your Hearts as the Iews in the Letter did that put Christ to Death and so you slay the Witnesses in Spiritual Sodom and Egypt in your Hearts where our Lord is Crucified in not regarding the Counsel of Christ which is that Light that shines in your dark Hearts which knocks at the Door according to his Word I stand at the Door and knock if any Man hear my Voice and open the Door I will come into him and will Sup with him and he with me Oh thou enslaved Soul under the power of Babylon in thee come forth mind the Light in thee which is the sure word of Prophesie whereunto you do well to take heed as unto a light shining in a dark place until the day dawn and the day-Star arise in your Hearts stand not out against this secret Counsel of Christ in you lest you perish in your gain-sayings for if his anger be kindled a little blessed are all they that trust in him All give up give up freely to be guided by the Counsel of the Lord the Light in you believing in his Power that is present with the Light he will lead you daily through the Cross in the straight way of his Sufferings and Death where the old Man will be put off with his deeds and so you shall have right to the Tree of Life and shall enter with him through the Gates into the City New Ierusalem where you shall have communion with the Father and the Son and an inheritance with those that are sanctified in Christ Jesus and shall reign as Kings upon Earth to the Praise and Glory of the Riches of the Grace of our Heavenly Father to whom alone be all Power Dominion Honour and Glory for ever and ever W. D. A Word from the Lord to all that are waiting on the Lord in Sion and those that are weeping and are seeking the Lord their God asking the way to Sion with their Faces thitherwards FEar not ye Mourners in Sion the Lord waits on you to be gracious unto you and though he give you the Bread of Adversity now and the Water of Affliction yet shall not your Teacher be removed into Corners any more but your Eyes shall see your Teacher and your Ears shall hear a Voyce behind you saying this is the way walk in it when you turn to the right Hand or to the left therefore every one