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A29602	A clear voice of truth sounded forth, and as an ensign lifted up and displayed in answer to the proceedings of the Christians by name in Asia, by way of controversie and expostulation : together with savoury and wholesome admonishments, which may become of good use and profitable to all that read with a single eye, and understand with an upright heart : also the same somewhat tends by way of gentle reproof to their hasty and inequitable proceedings against the innocent servants, messengers and living witnesses of the living and true God : yet with tendernesse of an upright heart and spirit (not onely of a free born English-man, but also of a true Christian) from the same hand its principally directed to the Lord Embassasdor (so called) in Constantinople, and to the English Company of Merchants and Factors in Smyrna, with somewhat to the merchants in Genoa, tendred again by way of visitation, and that from God, for them and others in Italy to consider and not reject to their own hurt.	D. B. (Daniel Baker), fl. 1650-1660.	1662 (1662)	Wing B482; ESTC R22863	27,445	38

Titles unto men for I know not to give flattering Titles in so doing my Maker would soon take me away Job 32. he will surely reprove you if ye secretly respect persons shall not his excellency make You afraid Job 13. but they that are taking pleasure in divers lusts and vanities which maketh war against the Immortal soul and wounds the spirit of the just these are they that are of one and the same Nature and Generation that the holy and perfect man saw in his dayes who feared God and departed from evil which rebel against the light they know not the wayes thereof neither abide in the paths thereof who also say as they did to the Most High depart from us for we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes Job 24.13 14. Job 21. But God shall wound the Head of his Enemies and spend his Arrows of Famine and Destruction upon such as being often reproved yet hardneth their necks and go on still in the way that is not holinesse rushing mightily into sin and transgression without fear or amazement even as the Horse rusheth into the Battel and so greedily drink down iniquities even as the Ox drinketh water yea and hate to be reformed which is the greatest evil which hardneth their impenitent hearts the more unto perdition Wo and alass for them that sit in darkness under the shadow of Death and Destruction before their day of Visitation finally pass away over their heads when they inexcusably may be left to cry out in the Anguish and Vexation of Spirit saying How have we wilfully and rebelliously despised and stifneckedly defyed the day of healing and saving health and then say I Dives his nature that fared sumptuously every day in excess and fulness shall sensibly discern the nature of poor Lazarus and its reward and also that which is of the flesh the first birth and the lust thereof which is contrary to and warreth against the spirit and its birth and then the two seeds may be discerned the one from the other the seed of God from the seed of the Serpent Cain and Abels nature and worship Esau and Jacobs nature the prophane person and the plain man the hunting nature and that which is obedient quiet and dwells within at home in his Tent Isaak and Ismael the seed of Bondage from beneath and the free born from Above the scoffer which is to be cast out the beloved Heir of the Promise which is to abide within in the Fathers House for ever for the seed of Bondage is not to be heir with the Free-born neither to that seed do I write the words of my living and true Testimony but to that which is just in every mans Conscience in the sight of God do I desire to be manifest and so I shall be a sweet savour not only in them that believe but also in them that perish and if any have an ear to hear let him for his good And what if I say in truth on this wise because the Fear and Reverence of the Living Eternal Invisible God is set up within my heart therefore and not otherwise I cannot respect the persons of any neither give or receive the Honour and Glory of the world Christ Jesus my Lord being my Perfect and Compleat Example also who saith I receive not honour from man and his very enemies who came to provoke and tempt and insnare him they discerned that he was a Just man and that he respected not the person of any as it is written of him that said to unbelievers on this wise How can you believe which receive honour one of another and seek not the honour which cometh from God onely John 5. Mark that And I am right well and favourably perswaded that as any of the Sons of men come to be honestly guided by a just steadfast and equal Principle of God as is the Light of Christ within them to walk thereby in a just path and equitable way and in the same at all times to speak true fast sound savoury and uncondemnable words and such like actions to all with whom they have to do and not to be hurtful or destructive to the Creation of God but also doing in the same light just and equitable things to all even as they would be done by according to the perfect doctrine of Christ the Law and the Prophets I say the same will testifie for them and make them truly honourable and draw down Blessings and not the contrary and so in every Nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is accepted of him and these things will be acceptable and justificable and not condemnable in the sight and presence of the everlasting God and so the true honour comes to be manifest which comes from God whose eternal eye the Light perfectly discerneth and seeth into and wisely searcheth every mans heart within and God is not devided from his eye for as God is said to be a spirit so he is light 1 Epist John 1. from which no secret work of darkness can in any wise be hid all be it the same be acted never so secretly And behold I testifie in his Name that is true that the sound of his mighty day is come to the Nations and the same terrible and glorious day hath begun to dawn in England in the North and behold his everlasting Light is arising over all Nations even the Light of the Lord Jesus who lightneth the poor and deceitful mans eyes yea he lightneth every man that cometh into the world with the Light that is perfect and true either to condemn or justifie every mans words thoughts and actions and this perfect Light of eternity is manifestly arisen up and hath its preheminence that is just in thousands to the glory of the Lord who worketh both to will and to do in them that fear him and have received of the fulness of his life in the same in which they live and walk and rest and so are become a blessing to the Nations in the Light of his eternal Countenance in whom also they have believed unto Salvation the transparent brightness of which through such clouds of living witnesses is shining forth over the Nations Kindreds Tongues and Peoples that have corrupted the Earth and a●e degenerated and alienated in obscurity under a thick vail of darkness in the night of Apostacy since the Holy Apostles days from the Light and Life of the Invisible and Immortal God and his Lamb the light who is coming in 10 thousands of his Saints to convince all of their ungodlike words Hard-speeches Thoughts and Actions and to lead as many as receive and believe in the same Light with which they be enlightened from all sin and unrighteousnesse and so from the condemnation of the same and wrath to come even up to God the Father of all truth from whence the Light Life and every good thing cometh according to the Prophesie of good old Enoch and the rest of the

all men will believe on him and the Romans will come and take away our Place and Nation And so had they not respect to their persons and places and outward vain Honour and Glory of their Nation which was and is to be defaced and brought into contempt more then to Christ the Light and saving Truth of all Nations and true Honour thereof and therefore justly condemned and there houses left desolate as the Holy Scriptures witnesseth but will you blame me yet if I ask you saying What will you condemn a hard-hearted Generation and justifie your selves whilest you are walking in the steps and doing the same things like the Gaderenes and unbelieving Jews in the dayes of Christ put it not far from you it s even so whether you hear or forbear wherefore out of your Coasts and Borders and else where the extent of your Authority or Dominion doth reach or extend must he the Lamb be expelled or banished Woe and alas for you woe and alas for you that know not what you do who shall bewail you when no hiding place will be found from his Eternal Light and Everlasting Wrath to hide Behold whether you hear or forbear how the Scriptures of Truth is fulfilled not to your justification as saith Christ our Lord and Master viz. in as much as ye did it not Concerning Receiving Visiting and Communicating to one of the least of these ye did it not unto me Mat. 23. and these shall go into Everlasting punishment but the Righteous into Life Eternal whom you have wilfully rejected and unjustly condemned and think not that this is to justifie our selves but the Grace of God which is our life and strength which of a truth we have gladly received and it s set up in our Hearts otherwise at this day we had not been but Glory Blessing and Salvation to the Lord our God over all Amen And will you bear with me yet a little if I proceed to query what is the Crimes that are or tend to be so Rediculous that 's so capable to bring dishonour to the Nation Was not Nicodemus a master in Israel somewhat Noble when he would not have the Law to judge a man before it hear him Doth our Law Judge a man before it hear him saith he and saith King AGRIPPA I would hear the man my self and it s well known what he was a Heathen termed who was so Noble in such a Matter as to hear the Accused as well as the Accusers And if thou O Ambassador for King Charles of Great Britane in the Turks Dominion hadest manifested the Nobility of a good understanding so Nobly in the first place before such a hasty sentence was given forth under thy Hand and Seal by thee to have suffered us to come and appeared before thee to the end that thou mightest have enquired honestly into the Nature and Ground of the Matter as a man of God in the place of Judicature and so according as thou hadst found us either Clear or Guilty of unjust Crimes which indeed are Ridiculous and tends to the Dishonour Destructiveness of a Kingdom or Nation then to have clered thy Conscience in laying the Sword in its due place as a terror to evil doers and not upon the head of the Innocent and Guiltless to whom he that bears the Sword of the Righteousness as a Minister of God should be a praise and our Bodies would also have been ready either to do or suffer accordingly but behold herein thou also hast been wanting and the Guiltless Cause thou hast not pleaded but contrariwise condemned the same and hereby they have suffered the more but the reproaches of Christ they esteem as great Riches though accounted they be even as the vilest off scouring of all things yet what is their Ridiculous Crimes what is it because they are scornfully called Quakers or because they are the Elect of God Redeemed from a vain Conversation and conform not to the Vanities Traditions Lusts and Customs of the World which are not of the Father of all Truth or is it because all men speak not well but evil of them and separate them from their Company as Christ Prophesied should befal them Luke 6.22 Mat. 10.22 or is it because they cannot Swear at all neither Lye nor Dissemble but speak the truth from the heart to every man in plainnesse without respect of Persons Nations or Places or is it because for Conscience sake and not in any evil surmising or contempt to any mans person they honestly wear their Hats as the rest of their plain and useful Garments and cannot receive neither give the honour that 's beneath the Son with flattering Titles either to themselves or to any man which is not contrary but according to the Perfect and Compleat Example of Christ their Lord and Master and Captain of Salvation who receives not honour from man and saith How can you believe which receive honour one of another Mat. 5 But I demand as a Christian in truth and indeed as a free born English man yet further what is the evil these that are so contrary to the World its Friendship Honour and Glory that they have at all done Or what are they guilty of that they are deemed so Ridiculous and so capable to bring Dishonour to a Nation who shall become a blessing to all Nations with a notwithstanding this and that which letteth that 's to be taken out of the way What must people believe Accusations to be true without instancing or making the Cause manifest to their understandings because its the pleasure of men of high degree to say they are so and so is this sufficient to stand before the God of Judgement and good men of understanding who have they been chargeable unto or who have they defrauded or have they eaten any mans bread for nought or wherein is their carriage Ridiculous or what is any manner of their Crimes or Behaviour or Deportment otherwise then Peace and Love that worketh no ill to its neighbour but good will to all men in Truth and Uprightness Temperence and Sobriety in Life and Conversation but what 's the matter with the Sons of men that they so burthen themselves with the Sons of Truth and blameless Servants of the Living God who do all things well in the Light through Christ the light that strengtheneth them let the Lords Witness the light in your Consciences arise to answer either to your Justification or Condemnation O ye men of England in Asia can you justly charge any evil against them let the same come forth and be manifest to the whole VVorld if Equity and Truth be on your side but if the savory Fruits of the Life of Eternal Righteousnesse in sound Doctrine with wholesom Communications that corrupteth not good manners with long-suffering meekness and gentleness of Christ brought forth by them who shine as lights in the world being redeemed from the vanities and evils thereof if these be the fruits