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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

being destitute afflicted and tormented of whom the world was not worthy as these doe by thine suffer imprisonment and as is afore mentioned What are their wicked and sad opinions destructive to the true Religion and power of godlinesse that as thou sayest indeed Sir they hold and have vented in all parts What are their irregular practises in the breach of peace and disturbance of good people that they have discovered they are yet to name that are indeed so But thou hast in this Letter and thy Warrant and thy whole carriage towards these innocent servants of the Lord vented and manifested thy sad opinions conceivings and actings and discovered thy irregular practises though thou art in Commission to doe Justice and wouldst be esteemed as a Magistrate in the breach of the peace and disturbance of good people to give an account hereof to Generall Disbrow thou doest not blush to say to him it is thy duty on whose patience and Justice as bearing the sword of God against evill doing thou mayest well fear thou hast trespassed and beg excuse for thy trouble and for thy self and Brethren desire by thankfully acknowledging his former favours to retain such an opinion of you as those that desire to doe nothing unbecoming Christians and persons that desire the welfare and peace of this Common-wealth and Government when under thy hand and as aforesaid against the innocent thou hast so plainly manifested the contrary and yet for thy self and Brethren art not ashamed of him to desire it who is in Justice you have obliged to visit the more your transgressions upon your heads by reason of the ill use you have made of his former favours in acting contrary to the welfares and peace of this Common-wealth and Government and so unbecoming Christians in disturbing good people and oppressing the innocent and in belying and slandering them when you have so done and in considerations of his favours and neverthelesse to his face when you have so offended to wipe your mouth as if you had none iniquity in confidence to entreat him to understand you as aforesaid Now to that of God in thy conscience and in the consciences of thy Brethren and of all who shall read this Relation whose carriage was not becoming men much lesse Christians theirs or thine and thy Brethren and who contemn Authority and despise Dominion and discover their irregular practises in the breach of the peace c. Thou and thy Brethren who being intrusted as Ministers of the Law thus break the Law or those who being innocent have the Law thus broken upon them by thy self and brethren The Magistrate of God is a praise to him that doth well a terror to the evil doer Rom. 12. And he that breaketh the righteous Law on him the Law is added as a contemner of Authority and a Transgressor and Transgression especially such as this is tendeth to the destruction of the Nation and is a reproach to any people And who hold many sad and wicked opinions destructive to the true Religion and power of godlinesse they are thee who doest thus act and write and art not come so much as to the bridling of thy tongue and so all thy Religion is vain And if thou wilt not yet take shame behold these lyes and false Accusations in this one Letter of thine to murder the innocent set in Order before thee On their refusall to give Bayle for their appearance the next Generall Sessions to be held for the County of Devon One And they still refusing to give Bayle for their appearance as aforesaid Two Indeed Sir their carriage here was not becoming men much lesse Christians Three And besides their contempt of Authority Foure All the while they were in Prison they never sought God by prayer at any time Five Nor desired a blessing on any Creature they received Six Nor gave thanks for them Seaven And they shew no occasion to come to these parts Eight But wander up and down in all parts Nine To vent their wicked Opinions Ten And discover their irregular practices in the breach of the Peace and disturbance of good people Eleven Indeed Sir they hold and vent many sad Opinions destructive to the true Religion and power of Godlinesse Twelve And let these convince thee and give judgement against thee that thy tongue is bent like a Bow for lyes and art not valiant for the truth upon earth but proceedest from evill to evill and knowest not the Lord And all lyars shall have their part in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone which is the second death Rev. 21. And the Devil is the Accuser of the Brethren Rev. 12.10 And false Accusers are they who make the dayes perillous 2 Tim. 3.3 And the Lord shall cut off all flattering lips Psal. 12.3 And he that respecteth persons committeth sin and is convinced of the Law as a Transgressour James 2.9 And the wages of sin is death Rom. 6.53 And woe unto them that call good evill and evill good and put darknesse for light and light for darknes Isa. 5 20. And blaspheme that worthy name by which the children of light are called James 2.7 And of these things are thy Letter made up and these things are found on thee and the judgement cannot be avoyded for the Lord is righteous and not one jot or tittle of his word shall passe away and thy soule is precious Therefore turn within and consider thy condition and repent whilst thou hast time before thou goest into the Pit and it be sealed on Thee out of which there can be no redemption The Answer of Miles Halhead Thomas Salthouse to the Accusations in the aforesaid letter John Page Mayor of Plymouth WE have seen a copy of a Letter which we hear you sent to Major General Disbrow in reference to us Thomas Salthouse Miles Halhead wherein thou hast manifested thy self to the children of light to be of the same generation by thy flattering of him in feigned humility and thy rayling accusations against us we say to be of the spirit of Tertullus Acts 24. who accused and informed the Governour against the Apopostle Paul to be a pestilent fellow c. And so thou hast laid open thy Ignorance in imprisoning us because thou conceivest we are offendors which indeed is nothing but thy conceiving and thou sayest The cause of our confinement is because we refused to give Bayle to answer at the Sessions Here be witnesse against thy self and for us that we refused not to give Bayle but had sufficient men Robert Cary and Arthur Cotton which thou wast content to take and we were willing to appear upon thine own conditions that if we were any way disabled to come either by sicknesse or any other restraint we being to goe out of the County thou promised us that a Certificate from the next Justice of the Peace where we were so disabled should set our Recognizance void and clear us and our friends