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A74896	The generall-good to all people: or, The Lords free love running forth freely to his own people in these latter days, according to his promises made to his people, which he is now fulfilling. With something in answer to the petition put up to the Parliament, by many of the city and county of York, even they of the priests party. / By Richard Farnworth.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.; Aldam, Thomas, d. 1660. Exhortation to the magistrates.; R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666. Gods covenanting with his people.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1653 (1653)	Thomason E703_6; Thomason E703_6*	37,767	34

see the deceits of all our proud Priests and blind Guides that their sins testifie against them to their faces Hosea 5.5 6 7. that they are a seed of evil doers and live in the lust and filth of the flesh Persecuting Killing and Slaying the righteous and innocent ones and drive them away from them by their Envious Malicious wicked practises in life and conversation and are evil Examples they are kings of Pride and that is one of the seven Abominations which the Lords Soul loatheth Prov. 6.16 17 18. Prov. 6.16 17 18. And we are bound in Conscience to testifie against it and proud Priests are exceeding raging mad and would not that we should see beyond their Dirty Miry Doctrine of earthly conceivings and Imaginations wherein they did deceive us and have got our mony a long time for that which is no bread and caused us to spend our labor for that which gave us no satisfaction to our souls they were as theeves that wounded us and left us they led us into Pride by their evil example seeing them live in Pride we saying that if it was not right they would not do it and if they did it we might do it and so they being blind Guides led us into blindness and wounded our consciences and then they made us this cover for Pride and said it was but decency here they added their own inventions and we knew it not so long as we lived in Egypt and Sodom with them following the customs and fashions of the world which we find now we are taught to deny for the fashion of the world passeth away but the plagues of God is their portion Wo to all deceivers But we find our teacher the Lord writing his Law in our hearts and teaching us by his Spirit Jer. 31.33 34. Heb. 8.10 11. according to his promises made in the time of old Jer. 31.33 34. Heb. 8.10 11. And he having established his law in our hearts sheweth us sin and evil for we had not known that lust had been a sin but that the pure Law of God said thou shalt not lust neither after Pride nor Covetousness nor Envy nor anger nor pleasures nor the love of the world nor the honor of the world nor pleasures nor delights because the Priests that said they were sent of God lived in all these things and if they had been contrary to the mind and will of God they saying that they knew it and spoke his words from his mouth and we concluding within our selves said If they may do it we may do it and so they destroyed us for lack of knowledge and drove us from the Lord but now he is gathering us to himself by his Spirit according to his promise Ezek. 34.11 12 13 14 15. Ezek. 34.11 12 13 14 15. And lets us see whither we were driven even into the broad way of fleshly delights but that the Lord of his infinite love hath discovered it to us and we are brought to see where they left us in the cloudy and dark day and would never come to shew us any light nor to set our feet into the way of peace but led us further into the wilderness out of Pride into Covetousness and so caused us to taste of the forbidden fruit saying that Covetousness was but a provident care but we now find that it was the Devils Doctrine that they taught us For the Lord saith to us by his Spirit that Covetousness is Idolatry and draweth the heart from him but these Covetous Idolatrous Priests run with greediness altogether after it as those greedy dumb dogs did that Isaiah was sent to cry out against Isa 56.10 11. He said that the watchmen were al blind as these proud Priests are now blinded with covetousness For Tythes Gifts and rewards hath blinded their eyes that they see not Pride and Covetousness to be a sin but greedie after it Coveting altogether after great means and if they have not to satisfie their lusts to live in pomp and pleasures they complain of the people and if any for conscience sake towards God seeing his Ministry to be free and no sale set upon it which Ministry teacheth them to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts as Pride Covetousness the love of the world knowing that if any man love the world the love of the father is not in him and that all that is in the world as the lust of the flesh the lust of the eyes and the Pride of life is not of God but is of the world for conscience sake towards God who is the father of our Lord Jesus Christ whose wisdom is not to be bought nor sold Job 28. Job 28. and the Lords free love running forth to his People saying Why do you spend your mony for that which is no bread and your labour for that which doth not satisfie Hearken ye diligently to me Isa 55.1 2 3 4. Deut. 4.1 2. Prov. 30.5 6. and eat ye that which is good and let your souls delight themselves in fatness Isa 55.1 2 3 4. And we find it made good to our souls and every word of God being pure and a shield to them that trust in it and he that adds to it or takes from it is to be reproved being found a lyar Prov. 30.5 6. And he that adds his own Inventions the Lord is against him Jer. 23. And we that are of God are against him and are bound to testifie against his deceits and deceiveableness according to the command of the Lord who saith have no fellowship with the unfruitfull works of darkness Eph. 5.11 Joh. 10.1 8 10. Quest but rather reprove them and how can we see a thief and consent unto him but we shal be guilty of the same crime I pray you consider of it you that are spirituall judge what I say Are not all the Priests in England thieves Answer for them who wil Do they not study for what they say and walk by other lines Did ever the Ministers of Christ so As he bade them take no thought what they should eat Luk. 12.22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30. Luke 12.11 12. Gal. 1.10 11 12 15 16. 2 Cor. 3.6 nor what they should drink Luk. 12.22 23. So he bade them take no thought what they should say for it should be given them in that hour Luke 12.11 12. But these dare neither trust God for their meat nor drink nor cloathing as they did nor for words to speak as they did who were unlearned men but as they were taught of God and were made Ministers not by the will of man but by the will of God Gal. 1.11 12. And were able Ministers of the Spirit and not of the Letter 2 Cor. 3.6 But these both studie what they shall eat and what they shall drink and what they shall put on to make them proud and what they shall do to oppress poor people and they study every way how they may

it will guide your minds towards God who is pure and cause you to stand in his pure fear which will lead you into the true wisdom of God to govern the people in righteousness and to take away that unrighteous Law or Statute made by Queen Mary which the Priests your Petitioners make their refuge to persecute and Imprison the Righteous by and deny the Law of God or practise of the Saints the people of God in former ages as in 1 Cor. 14. When any thing was revealed to him that sate by the first was to hold his peace and the other was to speak and all might speak one by one that all might be edified let that of Mary be put forth and put in one in order to this which was the practise of the Church of God that the deceivers may be laid open and made manifest what they are Act in righteousness that you may receive the blessing Take heed of holding up that which God is throwing down now he is making his power known casting down the mighty out of their Thrones and bringing down the haughtiness of men throwing down every high thought and every high Imagination Let such Laws be established as tend to the punishment of evil doers and countenancing those that do well and then you will see the Foxes and false Priests will be found out Let truth be declared freely by any one where it is made manifest Who art thou that wouldst limit the holy one of Israel by thy carnal mind What ever thou art God will limit thee and throw thee down out of thy Throne be what thou wilt But thou that lovest the truth and standest up for it as it is in Jesus thou shalt be Crowned with Glory Quest 1. Is it according either to Conscience or the Law of Equity and reason that theeves should make their prey of the Righteous Consider of it and lay it to heart 2. Is it according to Equity or the truth of God that any mans Conscience should be kept under a beastly corrupt mans will that swells in anger and if any go to ease his burdned Conscience to be beaten and set in the stocks and stoned in the streets is this according to the practise of the Ministers of Jesus Christ Let the Scriptures be your Rule and the Lord your judge and be not upholders of those deceivers for God will honor himself in throwing of them down 3. Is it according to the righteous Law of God or mans corrupt will that the righteous should suffer and the wicked go free and escape by lies and flatteries let every thing be brought to light and let the transgressors be punished and the Innocent cleared For God will be honored and he will not always strive he will reprove even Kings for his righteous childrens sake and he will take away the reproach of his people himself and no deceitfull person shall dwell in his house God is a Spirit and none knows him but such as are spiritual and born again and the righteous they suffer and no man layeth it to heart but God is judge himself and he will be avenged of all his Enemies 4. Is there are reason that we should pay or be compelled to pay for that which we have not is not this unrighteous They say they are Ministers and we do ask them what Scripture they have for their Rule to take tythe Hay or Corn tythe Lamb and Wooll tythe Eggs and money for Reak passing up our Chimnies and money for Mares and Foals and Kine and Calves and tythe Apples and Cherries and to have an end of all our labors we would have them to give account of their Ministry and how they came to be made Ministers of the Spirit and what Scripture they have for their Rule to take tythes and whether it were ever the practise of the Ministers of Christ yea or no who laboured with their hands and desired rather to dye then to make the Gospel burdensom that they might be examples to all that come after and they walking contrary to Christ and his Apostles have lost their examples and make the Parliament their spiritual sword and carnal bulwark for the account of their Ministry or ground of their Doctrine and say the Parliament do allow them and can no ways clear themselves by Scripture and we finding the Ministry of Christ to be a free Ministry and the Gospel not to be burdensom though they clear themselves to be the Ministers of man and not of God the Apostle was a Minister not made by the will of man but by the will of God and these walking contrary to the Ministers of Christ and contrary to the Scriptures and we never profited by them they starved our souls by their cold dark and barren Ministry of their own Inventions and they say that we would justle God out of his Throne but it is but the God of the World Mammon which they so much thirst after for it is the desire of our souls to see the onely true God to sit upon his Throne ruling by his power and every Spirit and as the Lord is large in his love to us though they call us Papists Quakers or what Nick-name they can invent and every way seek to cast dirt upon the pure Truth standing in opposition against the power of truth in any where it is made manifest as Jannes and Jambres did but their folly shall appear to all men as theirs did but we cannot in Conscience pay for that old rotten stuffe which runs out of their old bottels old corrupt natures which poureth forth nothing but corruption and bitterness as Railings and Revilings and cursed speakings speaking evil of that which they know not and because we cannot buy of their old stinking wares as we did formerly not questioning them took them for good upon their words but now the Fountain of their stinking puddle is made known and the Lord teacheth us better things we are ever bound to praise his name and we receive of his Love and spiritual teachings freely receiving and Grace for Grace growing up from Grace to Grace in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and as we have received freely we are made to hold it forth freely to others again not seeking our selves as they do but seeking the good and welfare of one anothers Souls by the power of the Lord as it ruleth in us running forth to seek the good of all and we cannot hold them up in their deceits and we cannot pay for that which we have not neither did we ever receive any spiritual food or refreshings from them we testifie against them as it is our bounden duty to let our light shine forth to others and though the proud Priests as in all that which they do it is for money which is their Diana and all that which they look after They do not seek us but ours And as we receive of the Lord freely we cannot but declare though they

a free passage for truth to be declared and so the corrupt fountain of Oxford and Cambridge which is under the curse will have a stop and then there will be an effectuall course taken for removing of scandalous Ministers that run from God to be taught of man and so all cast out that none may speak but as they do receive their words from the Lord which runs out of the pure Fountain and that is under the blessing of the Almighty where there is no burthening of poor people for carnal means seeking after the love and friendship and honor of the world and kingdom of the world as the Priests of the world do that are in the state and condition of infidelity Atheism and profaneness and dare not trust God but dishonour him And they are worthy all to be removed and cast out the time draweth nigh wherein righteousness shall run down all our streets and knowledge shall fill the earth as the waters cover the Sea and righteousness ruling in Magistrates and Justice and Equity set up which we honor in our souls and those that are the acters of it and we rejoyce to see the Lord declaring his free love through his poor despised creatures and binding up the broken hearted but we deny the Priests of Baal for they have a long time deceived us and now it is our duty to cry out against their deceits that all people may consider of them and see what they are profited by them and what Reformation is amongst them are they not all confused and live in conceivings and imaginations but the Lord is binding his Law upon the Spirits of his people which will be such battlements of purity that deceits and deceivers will not be able to enter into the inward Court but will be kept without and trodden underfoot and Popish and profane persons cast out Proud Covetous Envious Malicious Priests with their subtilties cannot enter any more with their deceiveableness and craftiness whereby they lie in wait to deceive poor people to the dishonor of God in despising his Ordinances which is his power even the power of God unto Salvation which power they being ignorant of they do pollute his Sabboths in doing their own work and not his speaking their own words and thinking their own thoughts which those do not that are entred into their rest Heb. 4. As these do that sell their wares at great rates and compell people to buy and if they have not money to give them then they sue and go to Law and break the Law of God and if any come to declare what God hath done for his soul as David did though it be after that he hath ended his stage-play contrary to the Grant for the easing of burdned consciences he cries Take him away and have him to prison and take boldness to break the Laws of the Land and run away himself but the tryall he will not stand and this is the practice of several of the Priests here in York-shire when the Lord sends to any of them and thus they prove themselves to be the Ministers of man and not of God but he will bruise them with his Iron rod. Let all that love the Lord bless the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever The Lord is our Judge the Lord is our Law-giver the Lord is our King and doth us teach preserve and keep and out of their cruelties save and deliver to him alone that sits upon his throne ruling by his power each day and eeke each hour be all praise honor and glory for ever and ever Amen Hallelujah to the highest The Lord raigneth let the earth rejoyce All ye Saints of the Lord bless ye the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever and let Justice and equity be set up and righteousness established so shall you have the blessing of the Lord upon all your counsells and endeavours and rejoyce in him for evermore An exhortation to the Magistrates AWake awake you Magistrates and Rulers and fear the Lord God Almighty and do that which is Just have mercy and walk humbly with your God and do Justice without partiality O stand in the Counsel of the Lord and beware of looking out to the Egyptian studies for Counsel and you which are set up to be Rulers cast out all your old Laws that are contrary to the Law of God and establish Laws according to the Law of God that God may be glorified in you bringing forth the fruits of Righteousness Beware of being countenancers of evil doers and punishing the innocent poor and harmeless and let all such who are sound scandalous Ministers which profess Christ in words not abiding in his doctrine let them be cast out for his Gospel is the power of God unto Salvation and not their vain Inventions Imaginations Repetitions and Divinations of their own Brain Cease from holding them up the Lord is against them for he alone is come to teach his children himself who is our King Lawgiver and Judge to whom be all praise and thanksgiving now and for ever Thomas Aldam By the dark World called a Quaker An Exhortation to all People that have a desire to know the Truth that the Truth may make them free EVery one that hath a desire to know the truth that the truth may set you free mind the light of God in you that shews you sin and evil that which checks you when you do amiss either when you lye or swear or are Proud or Covetous or Oppress or Envy or Hate or Backbite one another or use any deceit there is something in you that will check you and tell you that you should not do so if you hearken to it that which shews you your vain thoughts and wondering desires and wicked Imaginations if you hearken to it and let it guide your mindes it will turn them within and so shew you how you have spent your time and bring you to consider of your wayes and your doings that you may forsake that which is evil and turn to the Lord that he may have mercy upon you this light within if you hearken to it it will not suffer you to do any wrong to any man but to do to all as you would be done by and obeying it it will teach you to deny your selves of Pride and Covetousness and Oppression and Drunkenness and Lying and Swearing and Vain talk and Foolish jesting and all vain delights and pleasures whatsoever and minding this light within to be obedient to it it will cross your earthly wills and turn you out of the lust and filth of the flesh and lead you out of all the worlds wayes and words and customs and fashions and worships and delights and vanities whatsoever and bring you to delight in the Lord to do his will in yeilding obedience to his commands in what the light doth require of you to be done that you may cast off the works of darkness as this light within makes them manifest to you This light within you will not suffer you to eat and drink to make your selves wanton if you hearken to it and let it guide your minds this light within will not let you wear apparel to make your selves proud and burden and oppress poor creatures if you hearken to it and here is your teacher this light obeying it and here is your condemnation this light disobeying it this light is not without you a Chapter or a Verse but the light is within as it was in them that spoke forth the Chapters ye have a light to the whith ye do well to take heed as unto a light that shineth in a dark place until the day dawn and the day-star arise in your hearts Take heed to that light lest you be condemned by it obeying it it will shew you the way to Salvation disobeying this light it will condemn you Now you have time prize it and take heed of rejecting the Counsel and admonition of the Lord to your souls as you will answer it before the Lord Consider of it and lay it to heart This is the day of your visitation VVritten by a Husbandman FINIS