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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

and Oathes I must say as once that Servant of the Lord said Nehem. 6. 11. Should such a man as I take Sanctuary Should such a man as I Betray and break the Lawes and Cause of Christ I that have been Evil spoken of by the Separation for SEPARATING from the Separation though I have never been Condemned justly by the Separation for any such Separation I say If such a man as I should now seek to secure my self after all my Separation I should be the most abominablest Person in the World and might Justly be Condemned with the World I know that by what I have said I must set up my self more publickly for a Mark to be shot at yet I must Discharge my Conscience as to what I have been and what I am that so I may not be thought either better or worse than what I am and if therein I become nothing as to my Earthly Being yet I matter it not so I keep a good Conscience void of Offence both towards God and towards Man And if in the Innocency of my Soul I perish I perish And I shall rather chuse to Perish a Thousand times then in the least knowingly either to violate the least Law of God or Betray the Cause of Christ or do any thing that may Dishonour the Gospel of Christ or cause his Name to be Evil spoken of And although there be such a Charge as I hear there is given to have such a special Eye to me I know not for what unless for my good Advice to the King yet it shall neither force me to Violate my Conscience nor Forfeit my Liberty as to our Meetings but I shall Patiently bear my Imprisonment till the Lord shall in his Mercy Release me Hanging yet upon the Kings Word to be made good to me and the rest of our peaceable Judgement who are falsly Accused and some of us unjustly Imprisoned and to the wounding of our good Names as Traytors Yet I say again I shall Resolve God Assisting me to continue faithfully waiting upon God in his own Way in the Integrity of my Soul Because better is the Poor that walketh in his Integrity then he that is Perverse in his Lips and is a Fool Prov. 19. 1. For the Integrity of the Upright shall guide them but the Perversness of Transgressors shall Destroy them and the Righteousness of the Upright shall direct his way whilest the Wicked shall Fall by his own wickedness Prov. 11. 3 5. And thus whilest the Just man walketh in his Integrity his Children are Blessed after him Prov. 20. 7. The Premises Considered It shall be the desire of my Soul to go on waiting upon God Earnestly begging in the behalf of the King and his People That there may be such a Right Understanding of things that Justice be so duely Administred as that the Righteous be not as the Wicked nor the Innocent as the Guilty lest the Cry of the many Oppressed Families come up into the Ears of the Great and Just JEHOVAH that Sin-Revenging God who is of a more purer Eye then to behold Iniquity so as to approve of it or those that act in it Thus having given you an Accompt both of my Innocency and Integrety both what I am and what by Divine Assistance I shall Resolve to be notwithstanding the noysomness of the Place I am in and the Hardships that I and those that are with me do undergo therein our Livelyhoods chiefly depending upon our daily handy Labours being torn from our Callings and Families tyed up from getting our own Bread and brought into worse then an EGYPTIAN Bondage and Contrary to the Law both of NATURE and NATIONS who though we are the Kings Prisoners yet we have not as I said before neither Beds nor Bedding Meat nor Money nay not so much as a Drop of Water but what we are forced to purchase with our Money the which if we have not nor Friends to bring them to us we must in reason inevitably perish the which notwithstanding though we undergo yet I shall Resolve still to endure rather then set my Hand to Folly either to Violate my Conscience by breaking the least Law of God or in the least to Give my Consent to the making my self Guilty by Paying Traytors Fees which is double Fees or any Fees at all seeing I am not Guilty of what I am laid in for but shall Resolve to go on in my Christian Progress as a Christian ought to do and shall desire to wait upon God in Prayer and Supplication for such a Right Understanding of things as that the Evil Doer only may be Punished that the Meetings of the peaceable People of God according to the Kings Promise may be still Continued Praying for the King and his People although at present my Professed Enemies And to Remain till Death Your Faithful Brother and Fellow Prisoner for Christ HENRY ADIS. From my Close Constraint The Kings Courtesie For my Christian Counsel The Gate-House Dungeon Damp and Dark Void of Light Darker then Night Once a Den for Thieves But now a House of Prayer My Contented Castle Till Christ Clear me THE END

Jesus shall live together with them with Jesus 1 Thes. 4. 14. When that same Jesus which was taken up into Heaven shall so come in like manner as he went into Heaven Acts 1. 11. For behold he cometh with Clouds and every eye shall see him and they also which piersed him Rev. 1. 7. In which patient waiting of ours we must expect according to the saying of our Apostle That we must through many tribulations enter into the Kingdom of Heaven Acts 14. 22. Our Lord and Master was pleased to strip himself of Glory and became obedient to that ignomineous death of the Cross for our sakes to bring us to Glory and shall we then grudg for his sake to go by the Cross to inherit that Glory O my Brethren in Gods Fear consider what ye do turn not your backs upon Jesus Christ but as ye have set your hand to the Plow so look not back for if any man draw back my Soul shall have no pleasure in him Heb. 10. 38. And whosoever will deny me before men him will I also deny before my Father which is in Heaven they were his own Words Mat. 10. 33. in whose Mouth there was sound no guile who also telleth us That the time will come that if they kill us they will think they shall do God good service John 16. 2. And seeing we do at this day both see and feel so much in order to the fulfilling of this Scripture in this juncture of time wherein iniquity doth so much abound and that the love of many do wax cold Let us consider in Gods Fear what our work is in this our Day that so we may be sound doing Gods Work in Gods Way although it be to the losse of our Liberty Goods yea and Life and all rather than lose all to eternity And therefore for my part I shall resolve God assisting me according to the ability received to make use of that Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God to the hewing down of all Iniquity Transgression and Sin both Root and Branch as near as I can in all and to speak Scripture Language from him that sitteth on the Throne to him that grindeth at the Mill and draweth Water And to endeavour such a Reformation in all as that God may build up the Nation and make our Land as it is now abounding in all excesse of ryot to be as one day it shall be said of Jerusalem even a Praise of the whole Earth And if in this I am looked upon to be vile I shall by Divine assistance resolve to be yet more vile and shall first begin this work at Home and now I speak of Home I shall begin to look Home and as the Husband-man and the Merchant take the time of their best leasure to make up their Inventory So shall I for being haled from my lawful employments having little else to do in my Dark Dolesome Drowsie Damp Dungeon I shall see what I am worth that so I may set my House in order whilest I have time for Age tells me I cannot live long and almost every day an Alarm for death is sounding in mine ears Tear me and Ram me Sink me and Dam me telling me some to my Face and others behind my back That I am not long liv'd and that I must suddenly prepare for Death because of my Judgement notwithstanding the Kings Word passed to us from Breda and since For a peaceable enjoying our Meeting upon our good behaviour the which I shall bid defiance to any man that can say it was ever tainted I have therefore set Pen to Paper and have added this my Inventory the which haply may seem impertinent in this place yet I judge the conclusion may be very comfortable and as the Husband-man and Merchant so shall I the Husband-man making his Inventory which we will suppose thus Imprimis Hay Barns empty and Hay-stack-Roomes railed round with Corn Barns and Graineries empty swept and garnished in which there is nothing of l. s. d. any considerable value But that which will make a mends for all is Item in the Harvest Crop abundance of Hay to the raising of Stacks and filling the Hay Barn and Lofts and of Wheat Rie Barlie Oats Beans and Pease to the filling the Barns and Graineries having increased some thirty some sixty and some an hundred fould with the multiplicity both of Summer and Winter Fruits both of the Orchards and Cherry Grounds with the abundance of Wall Fruits and Fragrant-Flowers sweet Herbs of all kinds appearing like the Hour of Plenty together with the sweet encrease of that little yet profitable Creature the Bee the which being added to the fore part of the Inventory being as aforesaid not of l. s. d. any considerable value Doth in the whole amount to l. s. d. a good considerable sum And the Merchant when he maketh his Inventory he doth it at his best leasure when the Venture is out-bound the which we will suppose this Imprimis Two or three large vast Warehouses empty and neatly cleansed onely in one Corner two or three empty Casks with some odd Pack-cloaths and Cording And all l. s. d. not worth setting down But Item the return of the Venture a gallant lusty stout tall Ship of a vast burthen deeply laden and well man'd in-bound at the Havens Mouth ready the next Tide being a spring and a fresh smart gale of Wind filling the Fore Sale the Top Sale the Sprit Sale and the Mizen running before the Wind like the Post that sides for his Life the Antient flying and the Pilat for the safe convey of the Vessel carefully instructing the Steers-man at the Helm as occasion serves with a Star-bord Lar-bord Port Steady Loof Non-neer and the Master Gunner and his Mate fiering to the rejoycing the Heart of the Owner 13. 17. 19. or 21. great Guns the Sea-men and Marriners with all speed striking and furling their Sails coming to Anchor and making to Shore to liver the Ship being Richly Laden with the best and choisest Indian Trade and being home bound coasting from one Countrey to another Port being enriched with the choisest and best Commodities of those Countries and Havens by which means though the Inventory as to the former part of it amounts to l. s. d. no great matter Yet the return of the Venture so supposed as aforesaid doth raise the total sum to l. s. d. hundreds thousands ten thousands Thus we see the Husband-mans Harvest and the Merchants Return after their patient waiting makes a mends for all Therefore by the way a Word to my Brethren that are already in Prison with my self and those that do every hour expect the same measure to be met to them and that not upon the account of any real mis-actings found or known either by them or us as by Plotting Contriving or Undermining the present Government but onely and alone because we desire and endeavour to keep the Testimony of a good Conscience