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A63061	Anna Trapnel's report and plea, or, A narrative of her journey into Cornwal the occasion of it, the Lord's encouragements to it, and signal presence with her in it, proclaiming the rage and strivings of the people against the comings forth of the Lord Jesus to reign ... whereto is annexed a defiance against all the reproachful, vile, horrid ... reports raised out of the bottomless pit against her ... / commended for the justification of the truth, and satisfaction of all men, from her own hand.	Trapnel, Anna.	1654 (1654)	Wing T2033; ESTC R32888	61,316	74

at the fifth Monarchy where then shall be the table-scoffers and the Pulpit-deriders and such that make a sport and jeer at those that are for Christs reign and cry Raze them raze even to the ground their Persons Estates and what ever is theirs but the Lord laughs such enemies to scorn and hath them in derision and will require and recover all from them that have defrauded a fierce people shal not overcome the Lords Anointed fierce looks nor deep speech gathered up and fetcht from both Cambridge and Oxford Universities shal not affright the Lords flock though they stammer they shal be understood no dark saying shall be concealed from the faithfull they shall understand fierce looks and deep subtile speeches though they be brought forth with a Latine tongue and in Greek expressions yet the wise-observing-spirited ones shall understand the cunning works of the politick Sophister glorious things spoken of the City of God And the Lord incourageth the afflicted to hope and take confidence in him who will bring judgement unto victory faithfull is he that hath promised who will do it then Saints may look upon Sion as the City of their solemnities their eyes shall see Jerusalem a quiet habitation a Tabernacle that shall not be taken down not one of the stakes thereof shall ever be removed neither shall any of the cords thereof be broken but there the glorious Lord will be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams wherein shall go no gally with oars neither shall gallant ship passe thereby For the Lord is our Judge the Lord is our Law-giver the Lord is our King he will save us thy tackling are loosed they could not well strengthen their Mast they could not spread the Sail then is the prey of a great spoil divided the lame take the Prey and the Inhabitants shall not say I am sick the people that dwell therein shall be forgiven their iniquity this time is coming wherin the spoiler shal be spoiled in the restauration of the Kingdom to Israel then shall quietnesse and peace that passeth all understanding be in their habitation and round about them no dealing of men shall make them afraid their Tabernacle no Politician shall take down if any Assyrian or others shall stretch out their tongue or hand against the Lords Prophets and Servants they shall wither and shrink up with leprosie For they that are true to the Lord he wil be a Tabernacle unto them for a shadow in the day time from the heat for a place of refuge for a covert from storm and from rain Isa 4 6. The Tabernacle spoken of in Leviticus and in other places typed out Christ to come excellently as the great Refuge and holy Center for his People who bring their sacrifices to him they shall have admittance to enter in being his Priests they shall not stand at the door of the Tabernacle but have liberty to come into this Tabernacle and finde acceptance and welcome what need they then matter whether men bid them welcome to their thrones and houses or no their welcome oftentimes is but a complement for the most part not reall but the Lords welcome and invitation is alwayes reall Oh what strong steaks and cords hath this Tabernacle which is a stability of those glorious times of Zion none of her strength or fortifications shall be broken or taken down by Bolial or any of his Crew for their cords are not like those green wit hs which the Philistines brought to Dalilah to bind Sampson Judg. 16. Chap. For the Lord hath made them abhor their Dalilah sins and cut off such right hands and pluck out such right eyes those sins that were so near and delightfull to them they say get you hence they hate folly and vain thoughts and say with David in the 119. Psalm O how I love thy Law unto such will the glorious Lord be a place of broad rivers not a narrow channel nor a marshy ditch where the flags and rushes cover the water springs nor a narrow winding Creek where boats cannot passe along neither is it shallow but deep and broad a place of broad rivers and streams it s indeed an Ocean it comprehends all rivers and streams and this may be said of it Oh the higth and depth length and breadth these are Rivers that the Waters rise up to the Ancles yea to the knees and so to the loins and at length they become a flowing high spring that runs over banks Ezex 47.3 4 5. and fils the meadowes and Ezekiel gives a report of these high spring Waters in his Prophesie its good to be diptor plunged in this Jordan river which takes away all deformity and cleanseth from all leprosie and its a comforting refreshing River this is Water of Life it recovers the dying vitalls and fainting Spirits the which none of mens strong liquors of Arts and Sciences can do neither can any compounded water of humane invention be so effectuall though they still it in the Limbeck of brain-study draining it through the long pipe of curious witty phrases yet such Equors will soon lose their spirits but as for the Water that the soul drawes out of the Well of Salvation through Faiths Bucket which retains the Sent and fragrant Smell and operative Nature and the soul swimes in the broad rivers that are promised Zion which Rivers will admit no gaily with oares to row therein no troublers shall come there none of mens gallantry nor ships of Merchandise shall sad there no turkish nor English gally of power and strength and device mannaged with Souldiour oares shall appear to take the free-born captive that river will presently sink such gallies and oares too and if so be gallant Councel ships and great numerous Parliament ships which are made of wood and pitch and rosin and tarre and okum such stuff as wil burn to ashes when the fire comes which Scriptures speaks of it s not the Clergy nails that can fasten such ships together and make them sail which are heavy lumpish bottomes that have no nimble swift motion at all whereby to do service for King Jesus and his subjects But the broad river is preparing its making its path thorough all opposition its ships are all making ready and preparing to swim The great Ship-Wright I speak this with reverence and holy aw of God and say that the great artificial Ship-Wright and Carpenters Son so called by the Jews which was the glorious Messiah this mighty God is fitting his ships for this time these are the Zion spoken of Micah 4.13 whose horns are Iron and hoofs brasse who are exhorted to arise and thresh and beat in pieces many people and these will not waste the gain neither will they feast it away but they will consecrate it unto the Lord of the whole earth they will serve his interest with it not their own ends and felfish interests This is a time longed for by the New Non-conformists who are Christs little flock whom he bids not to fear for it pleased his Father to give them a Kingdome Therefore get you to your strong holds Oh Israel and Prisoners for you are Prisoners of hope you seek not great things for your selves but for the Lords Anointed ones you cry to the Lord and not for earthly Palaces nor White-Hall-Garden-Walkes nor Kitchin-belly-chear nor Lairdery-dainties nor Banquet-sweet-meats nor Councell-Robes nor Parliament Tithes nor Emperour Advancement nor great Attendance nor for Colonels and Captains silken Busse and garnished spangled Coats and gilded Cloakes and brave London and Country Houses I say fellow-Prisoners and sufferers for Christ seeing we have none of this in our eye nor desires let us bid defiance to all reproaches and vilifyings and derisions against us this defiance have I presented to Cornwall Clergie and Justices with their Auditories or Agents joining with them whether they be devout men or women great gifted and learned or ignorant I blesse the Lord I can send defiance to all your reports and reproachfull language there and so I can to all such here and to their harshnesse which say it is pity but I should be hanged and that would commend a whip to my back and to all base termes and names and to Bridwell usage too I will write defiance and say Who can lay any thing to my charge worthy of such reproach indictments or binding over to the good behaviour or of three or four prisons or of sending to Bridwell And now in this defiance let all take their share Enemies take yours and don't be offended at true speaking but be humbled and repent that your evill words and unjust actions and thoughts of your heart may be forgiven you and for you I shall pray And to friends I have this word do not you find fault with oppressions but labour to amend them with candid and charitable Constructions and Spirituall Application of those Scripture-Observations which are your due and that we may all practise that which is good and escape the evill is the desire and earnest request of Your praying Friend ANNA TRAPNELL An Errata IN page 17. line 26. for horrible fit read horrible pit in page 19. line 15. for Haulbow read Holse In page 24. line 9. read draw neer to the Table page 27. line 13. for pin read bring and for through read notwithstanding their

bed wiping away the tears from my eyes which she said came exceeding fast all night as I sung and prayed And truly the Sonne from on high had very much thawed my heart and I prayed and sung after that night four dayes and sometimes wrapt up in silence with the Lord beholding his glory in visions and on the last day of that week I spoke to some sea-men and others that came to visit me telling them the Lords kindnesse to me in my troubles in Cornwall and other experiences I related to them and the Lord knows I did speak of these things to them that they might be more in love with Christ who let out himself to a poore creature so extraordinarily And the next day after it was the first day of another week some would fain have had me gone to have heard the word preached that day but it could not be granted that I should go out of the Fort and indeed I was very weak having lain four dayes and five nights and came not out of my bed nor took no refreshing creature save a draught of small beer or syder and sometimes eat a little piece of toast out of it and this was but once at a night and not every night neither and this was for sixt dayes and this first day that I rose out of my bed I lay down again quickly and I took a Bible and read the 11. Chapter of Luke and the 12. Chapter and my heart was much taken with the words there that Christ spoke to them and the Lord applyed much to me of what Christ spoke concerning their calling of him Beelzebub and if they dealt so with Christ I thought it was but as Christ was dealt with to be called Devil and that saying I was possest with a lying spirit but this was made very easie when I conceived Christ bare a great deal more and after that these Chapters were fastened and knit to my heart the Lord making them mine I admiring at the sufferings of Christ and at his patience and I continued singing most part of that day concerning the Resurrection and my interest therein and I sang as to the conditions of many who lived in the Fort and concerning my passage on the sea that I should have speaking of the Lords appearances that I should have there and the Joy and Triumph I should be in in all my imprisonment time and the next day after this it being the second day of the week I had been a prisoner seven dayes and this was the eighth day from the Souldiers taking me so I that day at night after the hours spent with my friends at London which I knew kept that day in part in prayer so did I though absent in body from them and at night as I said before I went down and discoursed with Lieutenant Lark a while and after I had shewed him two Letters which I had written to London that he saw there was none of that which is called Treason in them then I wished him a good night and I went to bed and he the next day rode out of Town to fetch his wife who was with her friends in the Countrey and in his absence Ensign Owen was my keeper and he was very carefull to fulfill his office and was loath to let in my friends to see me but charged them at the gate with trespasse if they let in any of my friends saying they had best to be traytors too so he was as severe as if I had been a traytor yet he spake me very fair to my face but I saw he indeavoured to catch my words and to ensnare me putting his own sense upon them but the Lord kept me out of his insnarements but he watched for my halting and when my friends came a great way to see me they had much ado to get into the Fort and then my Gaoler sat by and heard what I said to my friends but this severity was not many days for Major Sanders came and then my Gaoler departed who told me the order did not make mention of my going to the Counsel but Major Sanders read that I should and so did the Lieutenant but my Gaoler it may be had a mind to affright me but he could not and he told me I dreamed that the order run so I am sure I said I was not asleep but he jeered me and he told Major Sanders that I would not have so many people come to me indeed he would have had no body come if he could have bore sway but the Lord ordered all for my good and when Major Sanders came he gave me leave with a keeper which was a friend to go to hear the first dayes and he was very courteous and so was Lieutenant Lark who came home with his wife before I was gone I stayed there for the wind and a States Ship to carry me I staid five weeks the Lord made it but as a few dayes to me I had so much of his presence and power from him he made kindnesse flow from strangers in the Family and in the Fort these were strangers and yet they were fellow Citizens and I blesse the Lord they are not now strangers but acquaintance and they are a company that are written in my heart they and their Teacher for they were not ashamed of my Chain they owned me in my Bonds and were a succour to me in a strange Countrey my Soul was administred to by them and the Pastor over them they every way administred to my necessity in what I stood in need of I wanted not their help and the people of the Parish shewed me love in visiting me and some of them when they had heard me pray and in singing they wept that they had taken up hard thoughts of me Their Teacher Mr. Hughes was very bitter against me and would not come and talk with me though some of his Auditory desired him but he writ to one of his friends at Cornwall that he had read my book and he from that drew that I was an impostor and he called the book non sense so that he confirmed his friend in her judging of me and so he continued judging me for the sake of that Dispensation he never saw nor came not to try it by the word but he indeavoured to incense others against me and his sometimes Scholler R.V. was afraid to displease his Father Hughes else he would have come according to his promise but it may be had forgot that he promised a young man whom I sent the first night I came to tell him I was come to the Fort a prisoner and I knew not how little a while I should stay therefore I should be glad to see him and he told the Messenger that he would come next day but he came not and yet was much in the Town most part of my stay there and many wondered he came not to see me having been acquainted with me above seven years the