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A29607 The guiltless cries and warnings of the innocent against injustice, oppression, cruelty, false-swearers, envious men, and such like witnesses, arisen up against a plain man, or, A living and true witnesse condemned, through want of sound (yet through unjust) judgment : together with the unequall and unreasonable proceedings of Humphry Wildey, Mayor, and Edward Solley, and Robert Sollers, Aldermen, and Justices of the city Worcester, as may plainly appear by what followeth, besides the unjust sufferings of the guiltlesse ... / from the hand, mouth, and very heart of a true Friend, and not an enemy to the person, or well-being of any man, woman, or childe within thee, O city, or upon the face of the earth, throughout the whole creation of God, or of that which lieth under the cruel bondage of death and corruption, for which I suffer, and labour, and travail, with, and among many brethren, for its perfect freedome, and restauration, into the glorious liberty of the sons of God (as in the beginning), whose servant, witnesse, and prisoner for the elects sake, I am called by men Daniel Baker, by scorners, a Quaker. D. B. (Daniel Baker), fl. 1650-1660. 1660 (1660) Wing B482B; ESTC R22840 14,464 20

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freely cryed within thy Gates O City And this is the message of the Lord in the Name of the Lord and not in my own to the Inhabitants of this City as I declared to be fulfilled in its season And furthermore this Day of the Lord which is the Light of our Lord Jesus Christ the true Light by whom the World was made who lighteth every man that cometh into the world and is the way prepared before the face of all People and this everlasting Light of the Lord Jesus Christ as I declared is breaking forth and shining over all the Nations and is to awaken the Witnesse of God in every mans Conscience So that according to its Testimony in every man even so shall every mans words thoughts and wayes and Actions be tryed and judged justified or condemned Wherefore as I said and yet say The Witnesse of God which is the Light of Jesus and not of the Natural man carnal or darkness in every Conscience of the Inhabitants of this City and of the Nations of the Earth is to and may be awakened and arise to judgment and to guide people in the way of Peace Love and Unity with God and one with another and with the whole Creation and to do unto all men in this good old way the Light as they would be done by and to speak the Truth every man from his heart to his Neighbour And verily if people come not to be exercised in this good old way of Light and Life whatsoever they do and may profess or be called in words all their Religion is and may be vain for this is the Law of the Prophets according to the saying of Jesus Mathew 7. and the Love that fulfills it is the Light in the Heart and the Light is of God and that which may be known of God is manifest in them for God hath shewed it unto them and so the people shall all be taught of God who is a Spirit to worship him in it who is Light to walk in it who is Love to love God again and one another and not to kill or devour but to love neighbour as self as saith the Holy Scripture And Moreover the time is a at hand and behold it cometh to passe That it will be more tolerable for them called Turks Infidels and Heathens then for many of the Inhabitants of this City and of Englands professing and profane Inhabitants whose life doth not shew it self like the Apostles and let as many as desire to have a right and good Understanding to discern the ground and cause of my Sufferings Together with many more of my Dear Friends in this City and throughout the Nation let Them with a meek Spirit and in the fear of the Lord deliberately and not hastily read this throughout and suffer the True Witnesse to arise to answer to the same Testimony from whence the words come and know that according to and after this manner the words of my Testimony was declared in the 8th Month the 20th day without and within thy Gates O City And after that Men that feared not God did beat and also wickedly threatned often to take away my Life as one called Captain Thornbury did many times with his sword drawn directed and put towards my breast and to thrust it into my Guts as he threatned many and divers times with wicked and desperate swearing and cursing not becoming a Souldier or the Spirit of a man an Englishman to a naked man that neither spake nor thought evil against any one man woman or childes person upon the face of the whole earth He that searcheth my heart knoweth its even so And while he the said Captain Thornbury so call'd had caused my body to be halled dragged and abused and to be thrown from place to place in the Street of the City breathing out his cruel vile threatnings together with bloody Oaths and cursed Speakings which thereby strengthened the hands of many wilde brutish and ungodlike men women and Children whilest I was among them in the meeknesse and strength of God even as a Lamb among a company of Ravenous Wilde-beasts Bears Lions and devouring Wolves bereaved of their whelps and as they were after this manner drawing me before the Judgment-seat some crying out Knock out his brains before he goes any further and many such like cruel threatnings and revilings doing violence O ye Rulers forget not but remember the wickedness acted by them called Mountebanks many dayes acting wickednesse within the City notwithstanding they were warned by sundry of the servants of the Lord in the 8th Month 1660. who were halled bearen and abused for the same Furthermore one of these called Mountebanks acting wickedness after their accustomed manner folly and madness upon a stage in the open street of the City with his face almost all black with a Crown upon his head And what is this a honour or dishonour to the King O Ye Magistrates But what has your sword been laid upon this Transgressor yet And Is not this and Bull-baiting together with the abuse of the poor Creatures of God and such like madnesse and Revellings and Abominations Are not these things a great dishonour to the God of Heaven to the King to you and your City O ye Rulers in meckness Consider and hold forth your sword and let your eyes be open to see where to lay it lest the Lord require it at your hands These are the words of God to Ye through his Prisoner D. B. A lamentation sounded in my heart for the Sober Inhabitants of this City And Lo the Spirit of the Lord within me shewed me how it was with Jonah and the Nenivites how that they suffered him to deliver his Message and to cry when he entred into the great City Ninevy a dayes journey and behold The Prophane Inhabitants of this City would not suffer me with my precious life in my hand which I had received power to lay it down and to take it again to obey the Lord of Heaven hardly half an hour to cry against Sin and to declare Glad-Tidings and to warn them freely to Repentance as before exprest And Whilest my minde was thus meditating in the Counsell of God whilest they were threatning and drawing this body in which I am before the Judgment Seat the good Spirit of the Lord the Holy God in me rather justified the men of Ninevy than the hard-hearted blood-thirsty men of this City And Lo this Cry immediatly run through me viz. That the men of Ninevy shall arise up in Iudgment against this Generation And Friend and Friends Know Ye again That after this manner the words of my Testimony were sounded forth through me even as the good Spirit of the Lord in my heart gave me utterance to which my Soul is become subject Glory to the God of Truth and Lo I rather chose to fear and obey God than man that shall dye and to be condemned of the world that lyeth in