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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

there unto then they had liberty to expresse when they were examined but there still continued them Prisoners And now after seven weeks further durance it was tendred them againe and they refusing are returned againe to Prison Christ Jesus the onely a beggoten Son of God by whom the b world was made the c light of the world who d lighteth every one that cometh into the world who is greater then e Solomon who is f Davids g Root and Lord whose day h Abraham saw and rejoyced whom i the Angels of God are commanded to worship who is the k end of the Law for righteousnesse to every one that believeth l the surety of a better Testament the m Mediator of a better of the n everlasting new Covenant the o Prophet whom Moses said the Lord their God should raise up like unto him whom they should hear in all things whatsoever he should say unto them and it shall come to passe that every soule that will not hear that Prophet shall be destroyed from amongst the people he who p said Heaven and earth shall passe away but my word shall not passe away who q came not to destroy the law of the Prophets but to fulfill who is r the Oath of God the Å¿ end of contention and strife where he is witnessed the Amen the faithfull and true witnesse t the Judge of all whose u sheep hear his voyce saith You x have heard it hath been said by them of old time thou shalt not forswear thy selfe but shalt performe unto the Lord thine Oathes but I say unto you swear not at all but let your communications be yea yea and nay nay for whatsoever is more then these cometh of evill Then which there is no command in Scripture more plaine and positive either for obedience to Magistrates or forbidding to doe that which is evill And the Apostle James saith But z above all things my brethren swear not neither by Heaven neither by the earth neither by any other Oath but let your yea be yea and your nay nay least ye fall into condemnation And yet how are his sheep the children whom the Father hath given him and who in obedience to this his command dare not to swear at all but are come to the yea and nay in their communications imprisoned and cruelly dealt withall throughout this Nation for refusing in conscience to swear at the will of man who calls himselfe a Magistrate of God and requires obedience as to the Minister of God to this his command which is contrary to the command of the higher powers Jesus Christ by whom a Kings reigne and Princes execute justice to whom b all power belongeth unto whom the Father hath committed all judgement and at whose c name every knee shall bow of things in Heaven and things in earth and things under the earth and every tongue shall confesse and who will render d tribulation and anguish upon every soule that doth evill to the Jew first and also to the Gentile for there is no respect of persons with God And yet those who swears where they forbid them they punish and thus doe they exalt themselves above all that is called God The bloody Persecutors in the times of Popery thought not their other persecutions of the poor Protestants to secure the Papacy against them but the Sacrament of the Altar they had by a Law whereupon to examine them by which they sought to destroy their consciences or their bodies in the fire and many of their lives they had in witnesse of the truth against it upon whose examinations the next question usually was what say you to the Sacrament of the Altar and where they suspected a man to be a heretick as they called then the witnesse of the Lord and had malice against him presently was tendred the Sacrament of the Altar The Bishops of late who in words denyed the Sacrament of the Altar and cryed out against the Papists for shedding of the blood of the Martyrs who testified against it were not satisfied with what dispersions they had made of the tender conscientous Puritans the witnesses then against them in and out of these Dominions but that their Kingdome might be established and remaine unmoveable an Oath et caetera they had for every one to take who should be admitted Priest to uphold the Government by Arch-Bishops Bishops c. Whereby to catch and work out of the Priesthood and their beings and lively hoods the residue of those non conformable factious men as they called them whom by no other device they could reach or attach and at length the sword they drew and joyned with the Papists in a war against them These carrying the war against the Bishops and Papists a part of them climbing up into the Chaire of Presbytery to affect and establish the Authority they intended over the State and the consciences of their brethren in the three Nations had a Covenant and neither in Church as they called it nor State and how universall as to others time had manifested as it was by some timely foreseen and understood and prevented was any to be intrusted but such as should subscribe to that and as many of those as they could though never so deserving in the wars for the Nations interest of liberty and justice and faithfull turned they out of imployment who in conscience scrupled it as Hereticks and Schismaticks though above any of them they affectually answered the just and righteous ends thereof but what use these men of the Presbitery made of it against the libertyes of England and what a snare it proved as to that is not yet forgotten and when they saw they could not submit the Army thereto who were made the Sword of the Lord for the ending of the Wars against the Papists and the Bishops they drew the sword against them and their poor wasted Countrey and not prevailing in a first War many of them joyned with the Papists and the Bishops and the then neighbour Nation of Scotland and the Rebells in Ireland and the common enemy yet to accomplish And now an Oath of Abjuration of Popery is found out and tendred to them to swear as suspected Papists upon the penalty of the sequestration of their estates if they refuse who have been known throughout their time to be constant Witnesses for the Truth and most faithfull to the Common wealth and its Army and have born the brunt and heat of the day in the late Wars with the perill of their lives in the field and the losse of their Estates against the Popish Prelaticall and Presbyterian party and have been known all their time to be most contrary to Popery and now in life above any witnesse against all Popish and formall Religion who dare not in conscience to the Command of Christ swear at all And these are

Spirit of Truth doe we exhort thee to take heed that the spirituall man judge all things in righteteousnesse and truth So we remain Prisoners of the Lord not as evill doers our conscience bearing us witnesse in the presence of the Lord in whom is everlasting strength who are friends of the Truth and of the Common-wealth of England Known to the World by the Names of Thomas Salthouse Miles Halhead For the hands of John Page Mayor of Plymouth The copy of another Letter to the Mayor of Plymouth concerning Swearing John Page Mayor of Plymouth FOrasmuch as it hath pleased thee to cast us into Prison and hast Examined us and hast found no breach of any Law by which thou can'st lawfully punish us but under a pretence hath tendred us an Oath to swear against the Supremacy and Purgatory We doe in the presence of the Lord God of Heaven and Earth deny the Pope and all things therein mentioned with as much detestation as thou thy self or any in the world can or doth our consciences also bearing us witnesse in the presence of our God who is able to deliver us although we are cast into a Prison nay if we be cast into a Den of Lyons and a fiery Furnace with the three Children as you may read in Daniel that would not fall down to worship the Image neither will we disobey the Command of Jesus Christ who saith Swear not at all and the Apostle James saith Above all things my brethren swear not neither by Heaven nor by Earth nor by any other Oath but let your yea be yea and your nay nay lest you fall into condemnation And all that doth the will of God shall know of the doctrine of Christ and whosoever transgresseth and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ hath not God He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ hath both the Father and the Son If any come unto you and bring not this doctrine receive him not into your house nor bid him God speed and this we doe affirm that swearing is out of the doctrine of Christ although you may alledge many Scriptures for Swearing as in the first Covenant and that an Oath among men for confirmation is to them an end of all strife but he that is made the Surety of a better Covenant who hath put an end to all strife where it is witnessed saith Swear not at all although that you may alledge that the Angels swore yet know this that when he bringeth his first begotten into the world he saith Let the Angels of God worship him So we lay it upon thee to witnesse for us or against us whether Yea or nay is not to be preferred before swearing by all those who professe Religion seeing that Jesus Christ hath commanded not to swear at all and he saith If yee love me keep my Commandements and if we suffer imprisonment for keeping the Commandements of Christ it is not grievous to us for we refuse not to swear for any guiltinesse that is in us or that can be charged upon us for we are against all false wayes false worships false Lawes but we deny swearing because Jesus Christ hath commanded us not to swear at all So if we be kept in Prison let it never be said by you That it is for any thing but because we dare not swear knowing that to disobey the Commandements of Christ is the way of Cain who was driven out from the presence of God and became a Fugitive and a Vagabond and this some of you would charge upon us to be Vagabonds who in tendernesse of conscience and in the obedience to the light of Jesus Christ and in love to him our lives are not dear to us to lay down if it be required for the confession of him before men and the keeping of his Commandements for to this end are we called and our rejoycing is in this that in simplicity and godly sincerity our conversations hath been and is honest as many can witnesse for us against those who in their wisedome goe about to entrap and ensnare the innocent And this we write not to justifie our selves but for the sake of the simple ones who have heard many lyes and false reports of us of this doe we put thee in mind not that thou art ignorant that all the glory and honour belongeth to the Lord God who hath said He will not give his glory unto another and Vengeance is mine and I will repay it saith the Lord who will ease himself of all his Adversaries and recompence tribulation to them that trouble afflict or offend one of the least that believe in his Name So in love to thee and all people for the eternall good of all doe we heartily wish that grace and peace may be multiplied so we rest in the will of our father to doe or to suffer that he may be glorified by us to whom all glory belongeth for evermore and pray that the sin of Persecution may not be committed by thee nor any that professe to be the friends of Englands Whose Names are known to be Thomas Salthouse Miles Halhead For the hands of John Page Mayor of Plymouth HEar ye this O Priests and hearken ye house of Israel and give ye eare O house of the King for judgement is towards you because you have been as a snare on Mizpah and a net spread upon Tabor And ye revolters are profound to make slaughter though I have been a rebuker of them all Hear I pray you O Heads of Jacob and yee Princes of the house of Israel Is it not for you to know Judgement Shalt thou reigne because thou closest thy selfe in Cedar Did not their Father eate and drinke and doe Judgement and Justice and then it was well with him he Judged the Cause of the poor and needy then it a as well with him was not this know me saith the Lord And hear yee Rulers who hate the good and love the evill who pluck the skin from off the people of the Lord and their flesh from off their bones yea who abhor Judgement and pervert all equity who turne Judgement into worme wood and leave off righteousnesse in the Earth who decree unrighteous decrees and write grievousnesse which ye have prescribed Woe unto you for Judgement is turned away backward and Justice standeth afar off for truth is fallen in the street and equity cannot enter yea truth faileth and he that departeth from evill maketh himselfe a prey a man is made an Offender for a word a snare is laid for him that reproveth in the gate the just is afflicted and turned aside for a thing of nought and the poor in the gate from their right The righteousnesse of the righteous is taken from him he that rebuketh in the gate is hated he that speaketh uprightly is abhorred iniquities are conceived are travelled withall are searched out A diligent search is accomplished the inward thought and the heart is deep they dig as low as