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A93230	The Saints testimony finishing through sufferings: or, The proceedings of the court against the servants of Jesus, who were called before them to be tryed at the late assizes (or sessions) held in Banbury in the county of Oxon, the 26 day of the seventh moneth, 1655. Also a relation of Margret Vivers, going to the steeple-house in Banbury, after the assize (or sessions) as aforesaid: and a testimony against false prophets, and false doctrine; ... And the manner of Richard Farnsworth imprisonment at Banbury, with a short examination and answer. And the cause of his detainment. Also, a warning from the spirit of the Lord (in his hand-maid Anne Audland) to the persecuting priest and people, &c. And a letter of Robert Rich to the magistrates of Banbury, ... Likewise a letter of Tho. Curtis to the professed minister called Samuel VVells in Banbury. And a certificate wherein is manifested the diligence that was used to know the causes of the prisoners commitments ... (Anne Audland, Iane VVaugh, Sarah Tims, and Nathaniel VVeston) as wel as Robert Rich, ... With a paper relating the sufferings of the innocent.	Vivers, Margaret.; Audland, Anne, 1626 or 7-1705.; Rich, Robert, d. 1679.; Curtis, Thomas, 17th cent.	1655 (1655)	Wing S365; Thomason E857_7; ESTC R203441	49,745	48

cause of the innocent and although the said Nathaniel VVeston when the Oath of Abjuration was tendred to him did utterly renounce and deny there openly all things contained in the said Oath and witnessed against all popery popish and Iesuiticall opinions or tenents whatsoever and told them that in obedience to the command of Christ Jesus who saith swear not at all he could not swear lest he should go out of the Doctrine of Christ in which he did abide yet notwithstanding was he sent to the Prison where he had lain 14. weeks at their Assize or Session holden in Banbury who was there called and appearing before them it was demanded of him to put in sureties for his good-behaviour whereupon he desired to know what Law he had transgressed which they would not neither was there any appeared that laid any misdemeanour or breach of law to his charge nevertheless was he sent to the prison where he doth yet remain So all people that hear and read these things you may see with what justice the Magistrates of Banbury proceeded against the innocent and servants of the living God So there was one Robert Rich as many others standing by who with them was an eye witness to many of these things thus acted as before is related in their proceedings that day and saw that there was great Rage in them against the Innocent and how they plotted and took Counsell together against the servants of God laying traps and snares to catch them and after they had consulted together one of the Magistrates there sitting on the Bench called Thomas Hathead said to the Judg and to some of the rest of the Magistrates I suspect them to be Jesuits whenas that in his conscience would tel him the contrary and that out of his Envy he accused them and desired to have them tryed by the Oath of Abjuration who in obedience to Christ Iesus durst not swear to transgress his Doctrine and break his command so at length they agreed together and gave order to have them brought into the Court and then the Lord God moved the aforesaid Robert Rich to declare unto them their unjust proceedings so according to the command of the Lord he spake and said that he was a Witness for the righteous Lord God against their unjust proceedings in the Court that day who desired to speak and to clear his Conscience unto them whereupon the Iudg and others on the Bench bad him come up and speak and when he was come up and began to speak they cryed away with him away with him pull him down pull him down so their Officers as was commanded them pulled him down and haled the said Robert Rich to prison not permitting him to speak as they had promised These things are written and published to the world that people may not be ignorant how unjustly the innocent Lambs and servants of Christ Iesus suffer and are persecuted in this Nation which exceeds the persecutions that were in former ages either by the jews or from those in Queen Mary's dayes for they had a Law gave them power according to which they acted so the more to be excused but this Nation hath no such persecuting Law in force and Liberty of conscience hath been proclaimed and pretended yet men and women are beaten buffetted haled stoned and stocked and after that thrown into prison holes and dungeons the breach of no known Law proved against them and not so much freedome afforded them in prison as to thieves and murtherers whose friends are not kept from visiting them as hath been known in Banbury c. People lay these things to heart and repent that the righteous judgement of God fall not upon you A Warning from the Spirit of the Lord in his Handmaid Anne Audland to the Priest and persecuting people in Banbury and all such as may be found in their nature and falsly accusing and imprisoning the Servants of the Lord Iesus ALthongh I was unjustly imprisoned at the first in the town of Banbury for no other thing but speaking the truth as in a true Declaration of the suffering of the innocent who are hated without a cause may be seen as it is declared in a printed paper which was a Letter sent to William Allen called Iustice of peace With an answer to the false accusations charged upon the innocent wherein their proceedings are laid open and proved to be contrary to the Scriptures as also their proceedings at the last Assize or Sessions holden at Banbury the 26. day of the 7. month 1655. Where I was called to a tryall after long imprisonment or bonds and there in the Court an Indictment was read against me charging me with blasphemy and on they did proceed called a Iury and brought in their witnesses which differed one from the other and was in confusion though they pretended to bear witness to one and the same thing and falsly was I accused as it did appear when the Iury gave in their verdict they found no blasphemy though for it I was accused as the unchristian proceedings may further be seen both in the printed paper called The sufferings of the innocent in what before is said in this Book about my Examination and Tryall which is plainly made manifest dayly yet more in these things before mentioned and in many other things which are committed for which the righteous Iudg of all the world wil deal righteously and call you all to an account and weigh you in an equall ballance and measure you in a just measure Act. 17.31 Rom 2.5 6. and from the hand of the Lord shall you receive a reward according to your deeds good weight pressed down and running over such measure as you meeted and in the day of your calamity an outside profession in words when you live not in obedience to the Lord will not hide you and cover you and although I may be accounted as your Enemy for speaking the truth yet once again I do warn you as from the Lord to repent Rom. 1.18 19 27 28 c. Eph. 5.6 2 Thess 1.5 6 7 8 9. and turn from the evill of your wayes if there be any Remembrance of your latter end when you must come to be judged according to the Light in your Consciences which secretly in you bears witness against deceit and unrighteousness envy wrath and persecution for which things the wrath of God comes upon the children of Disobedience and because iudgement is not speedily executed upon you do not think you shall escape for your deeds are written in a Book of Remembrance and the Book of Conscience willl be opened and the wicked must not go unpunished Oh ye foolish people and without understanding How long wil ye walk after your own inventions Ier. 5.21 and to the end Act. 7.51 52. How long wil ye harden your hearts against the Lord How long wil ye resist his Holy Spirit Ye stiff-necked and Uncircumcised in heart and ears

man but for the Lord who is with you in the judgement wherefore now let the fear of the Lord be upon you and take heed and do it for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God nor respect of persons nor taking of gifts And he charged them saying thus shall ye do in the fear of the Lord faithfully and with a perfect heart Now all you that denies a perfect heart and are respecters of persons you cannot judge with a perfect heart and such are not Judges for God who judges not with a perfect heart but are respecters of persons but they who fear God and do faithfully with a perfect heart such Judges and Magistrates I own who are just men such rules for God and is a terror to the wicked and for the praise of them that do well and such I am subject to for conscience-sake but they who were the servants of Christ ministers of Christ when they were commanded by the rulers that which was contrary to the command of Christ they said whether is it better to obey God or Man judg ye and I say the same and they which command any thing contrary to the command of Christ which rules and reigns in his people is one in the male and in the female such are not just men fearing God and judging faithfully with a perfect heart and such who do not fear God and have not a perfect heart such knowes not the voyce of God but Christs sheep who follow Christ and are sent of God knows his voyce Now Magistrates and People will say how may we know that you are sent of God as Pharaoh said to Moses VVho sent thee and he answered The Lord sent me to bid thee let Israel go free and Pharaoh said I know not the Lord neither will I obey him and let Israel go free Such are they who fear not God nor know not his voice and such cannot discern the things of God Magistrates nor People who fear not God and have not a perfect heart Now consider if you judg me according to the Law of God when you heard all that was against me and did accuse me but would not hear the accused and the accusers face to face nor those that was by who would have witnessed against those untruths charged upon me but put them forth and said What have you to do here notwithstanding they said they came to bear witness to the truth See how Moses charged the Judges Deut. 1.16.17 saying Hear the cause between your brethren and judge righteously between every man and his brother and the stranger that is with him ye shall not respect persons in judgment but you shall hear the small as well as the great ye shall not be afraid if the face of man for the judgment is Gods and Deut. 19.16,18 20. The Iudges and Officers was to judge the people with just judgment thou shalt not wrest judgment thou stall not respect persons neither take a gift for a gift doth blinde the eye of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous that which is altogether just shall thou follow that thou mayest live and inherit the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee Now this is true judgment and takes hold upon the unjust but here you do not act according to the Law of God who doth respect persons and doth not hear the small as wel as the great which you have not done who have committed me to prison and I had not liberty to speak face to face with my accusers and so I am falsly accused and imprisoned upon a false accusation he that knows all secrets is my witness and he will plead my cause and he will judge righteous judgment upon all the Heathen and the Lord comes with his Saints and this honour have all the Saints to execute upon the Heathen all the judgements written but the Heathen ought not to judg the Saints but the Heathen rages the heathen persecutes and imprisons falsly accuseth the Saints the viols of wrath is now to be poured out upon the wicked and the Saints shall take the kingdom rejoyce in God for ever ever which giveth them victory over the world and gives them strength to rejoyce in tribulation Prayses to the living God for evermore And so I warn you all People Magistrates and Teachers to fear the Lord God lest his wrath and indignation break forth against you and the decree be sealed and he take you away with his grievous stroke and there be no remedy for God is my witness that my desire is for you that you may know the things that belongs to your peace so to you all I have cleared my conscience and I am free from your blood glory to the Lord for evermore who hath given me to believe and suffer for the testimony of Jesus so I remain a witness for the truth a prisoner in bonds at Banbury for the truths sake who am innocent but falsly accused slandered reproached but the reproaches for Christ is my riches whose name in the flesh is Anne Audland The 5 day of the 12 month 1654 To you Magistrates of the Town of Banbury and to thee John Griffith who was called Deputy-Recorder sate Iudg in the Sessions or pretended Goal-Delivery holden the 26 day of the 7 moneth 1655. IT is likely the heat of pour passions being over you may since in the cool of the day better have considered your actions don that day in your court which if with the light of Christ Jesus you have Gen. 3.8 it wil shew you that those who respect the person of any man commits sin are found transgressors of the pure righteous law of God Iam. 2.1 9. which saith thou shalt not respect the person of the poor nor honor the person of the mighty but in righteousnes shalt thou judg thy neighbor Lev. 19.15 which if you hearken to and regard the Law written in the heart Ier. 31.33 it will reprove you for your partial actings that day and tell you that you did not do wel to fine Thomas Cole five pounds and for to imprison him till he should pay the same and to bee angry with him for keeping on his hat in your Court and afterwards invite two other men for to put on their hats in your Court namely Priest Jones and Priest Smart consider if this were not partiality and to respect persons and for to act contrary to equity and truth as that in your conscience wil let you see and with mee bear a true testimonie And whether your sending of Jane VVaugh Sarah Tyms and Nathaniel VVeston to prison again they neither convinced of nor being charged with the breach of any known Law nor so much as one witness proving them guilty of the least misdemeanor were not injustice yea or no And whether if you had set them free seeing there was nothing laid to their charge you had not done justly and

sin unto death or of obedience unto righteousness Rom. 6.16 Therefore friends and people be not deceived with a vain talk Mat. 12.35 Rom. 11.16 and an outside procession your lives being contrary and ye cannot serve two Masters God wil be no longer mocked by you for such as you so sowe such shall you reap and what measure you meet shall be measured to you again wel heapped pressed down Mat. 6.34 Gal. 6.7 8 and running over wherefore while you have time prise it and reject not the day of Gods visitation neither harden your hearts against him as he calleth you to repentance and so you continue in your evil practises Heb. 3.7 8. and you be destroyed by his just hand And now seeing the Lord God is risen in his Servants to testifie against your evill wayes beware you are not found fighters against him he wil be too hard for you to kick against So I have cleared my conscience unto you Iude 14.17 and remember that in your life time you have bin warned By a Servant of the Lord known by the name of Robert Rich. A Copie of a Letter sent from Thomas Curtis who had been a Captain in the Parliaments Army to Samuell VVells professed Minister of the Town of Banbury and sent to him into the Court or Sessions then holden in Banbury the 27. day of the 7 th Month 1655. Friend I Am not a stranger to thy former conversation and now am witness of thy unjust actions thy deeds make manifest of what Generation thou art and on what foundation thou standest Call to mind thy former Prayers when we were in the Army driven from our Homes persecuted by Cavaliers put to fight for our Freedoms and our Religion as then thou told'st us of is it all come to this Hast thou forgotten thy Vowes Protestations and Promises then made in thy Prayers How that if God would deliver us how we would walk in newness of life and now the Lord hath delivered How art thou turned persecutor if the righteous seed of God Call to mind how thou wouldst cry out against Parents that did not breed up their Children in wisdom and soberness Now thou hast gotten a great living and no place that ever I came in as I can remember so vile as this Town of Banbury under thy teaching Oh see the fruits of thy ministry children scoffing haling stoning and evill speaking and their Parents looking on and countenancing them laughing at them so doing it is a sad sight to see such a reformation and will not the Lord visit for these things Hos 4.9 what may we look at but that it is like people like priest Call to mind thy persecuting of the innocent and causing the Peace to be broken by thy own self and casting it on the innocent making them to suffer for it Canst thou behold these things and not blush How durst thou call thy selfe a minister of Christ and persecute VVas ever any of the true Prophets Apostles or Iesus Christ a persecutor Did ever they when one came into their meeting and stand silent there call to the magistrate to take him away and out him in prison and say they could not go on in their prayer and then after a long imprisonment see him arraigned at the Bar for breaking the peace whenas thou was the cause Was it not thy selfe that caused the people to be breakers of the peace and then make the innocent suffer for it Is this according to Scripture Did the Lord send his Prophets to cry against them that made men offenders for a word set snares for them that reproved in the Gate And canst thou escape who makest a man an offender before he spake a word The just God wil surely finde thee out al Deceivers for wo to them saith the Lord God that hath caused my people to err daub with untempred Morter and cry peace to them to whom God hath not spoken peace Isa 9.16 Ezek 13.10 and so strengthen the hands of the wicked just as it was with the false Prophets so is it now The Prophets prophesie false things the Priests bear rule by their means and the people love to have it so But read thy portion what wilt thou do in the end thereof See again thy subtill dealing with Anne Audland Ier. 5.27 28 29 30 31. that when all the persecution that wit could invent to take away her life for blasphemy would not reach but she was acquitted by the Jury There must be brought her calling the false Prophet and this must be called scandall when by the Scripture it is soon proved and to thy shame remember I know thee Scandalous How often hast thou sate night after night at Cards and sometimes whole nights playing and sometimes compelling me to play with thee for mony then wast thou called of the world a Minister and now art thou turned persecutor in the close see thy unjust dealing when thou hast gotten what the uttermost will of man can do then thou in thy deceit puttest off thy hat and desirest that she may have as much favour as the Law wil afford her thou art content to commit thy cause to God Oh cruel deceit to cover withall But thy covering is too narrow it wil not hide thee Friend to the pure Light of God in thy conscience do I speak and that witness in thee knows these things to be true and that an account thou must give to the great God of all these things in love to thee do I write that thou maist be warned and repentance witness lest the indignation of the Lord be poured out upon thee I have not much more to say at present but desire the Lord that he will open thine eyes that thou maist see the evill of thy heart and live which is the desire of him how ever thou esteemest is a lover of thy eternall peace and one that suffers with the righteous seed called of the World The 27th day of the 7th Month 1655. Tho. Curtis A Certificate of the endeavours or certain Friends which went to the Magistrates of Banbury to have had Copies of the Causes of the Prisoners Commitment at their late Sessions and pretended Goale-Delivery c. VVE whose names are hereunto subscribed do hereby declare to all unto whom this Presents shal come that there being a Sessions pretended Goal-Delivery appointed to be holden for the Burrough of Banbury in the County of Oxon upon the 26 day of the 7th month 1655. Within which Burrough severall servants of the most High God whom the world in scorn call Quakers were imprisoned and at the same Sessions to be brought to tryall We repaired to the said Town of Banbury and went unto Tymothy Harris the Town Clerk thereof and in a civill manner desired Copyes of the causes of their Commitments who absolutely denyed to give any whereupon we went to Iohn Griffith Deputy-Recorder the Mayor and others celled Justices of

how long wil it be ere you return to him who hath often smitten you shal the innocent alwaies be your mark to shoot at and will you make a prey upon the harmless Lambs of Jesus Christ truly you will be found as stubble before the fire and as dust before the wind the whirlwind from the Lord God is gone forth which will scatter the wicked and the fire is kindled which will consume you Jer. 23.19 20. Mal 4.1 Matth. 23.29 30 31 32 33 c. Isa 29.13 14 15.16 Mat. 23.34 Mat. 7.1 2 3 4 thus saith the Lord God unto you ye hypocrites and dissemblers who make a profession of my name but not in truth and calls upon me but not in righteousnessl and dcaws neer me with your mouth and enquires after me like a people that did delight in uprightness whenas your hearts are far from me Your ears are heavy and your eyes are dim and them whom I sent to warn you in my name to repent and cease from persecution ye will not receive but ye imprison some and shamefully entreat others and same ye send empty away and so ye hasten to fill up the measure of your iniquity the least of you is a bryar and the most upright sharper then a thorn hedge and ye refuse to return therefore shall trouble come upon you as pain upon a woman in travell and misery shall come upon you as an armed man Do you think the Trumpet is sounded and the Allarum given for nothing or will you gather together your selves against me and set the bryers and thorns in battel the fire is kindled which will go through you and consume you together for your transgression is multiplyed before me saith the Lord judgement is turned away backward truth is faln in your streets Isa 59.14 15. Isa 66.15 16. Zeph. 1.4 5 6 7 Isa 9.13 14 15. Isa 1.25 26. Dan. 4. and equity cannot enter therefore saith the Lord God I will plead with you and I wil judge amongst the Judges and san the Nations and clense the land of evil doers and the wicked wil I overturne and cut off head and tayle the ancient and honourable he is the head and the Prophet that prophesies lyes he is the tayle and Root and Branch shal be consumed the Lord hath spoken it and will raise up Judges as at the first and Counsels as at the beginning and the ancient of dayes shall rule and the Saints of the most high God shall take the Kingdom and the Dominion shall be the Lords The Lord of Hosts will accomplish his word by his mighty power and outstretched aim Therefore now Magistrates people and Priest take warning while you have time and return consider of it what account can you give in the day of your calamity How wil you stand before the righteous Judge and to him answer it your persecuting the innocent and your shamefully entreating the harmless Ye devouring wolves Isa 1.21 22 23 24. Mat. 25.41 42 43 44 45 46. who would tear the poor Lambs of Jesus how wil you stand before the Lyon of the Tribe of Iudah it they shall depart into utter darkness that visits not Christs little ones in prison How shall those escape that casts them into prison And in as much as you do it to one of the least of his ye do it unto him and better had it been for you that a Milstone had been hanged about your necks and you drowned in the depth of the Sea than to have offended the little ones of Jesus Christ My Conscience I do clear unto you in the presence of the Lord God in vain do you dig deep to hide your counsel from him in vain do you gather together against the Lord the burthensome stone which you have taken upon you will grind you to pieces to the light in all your consciences do I speak which wil witness for God and against all unrighteousness in the day of the Lord when his righteous judgements shall be revealed from heaven against all unrighteousness of men and every tongue shall confess the Lord is just and his wayes equall and the witness in all consciences shall answer his judgments so in love to your souls faithfully is the word of the Lord spoken unto you and a lamentation there is over you because you reject the day of your visitation Remember you are once more warned in your life time by the innocent who waits in the wil of God patiently to come through the tryall following the Lamb in the tribulation 1 Pet. 4.1 2 13 14. ver Heb. 12.23 Mat. 26.65 66. having fellowship with Jesus Christ in his sufferings who endured the Cross and despised the shame and by the envious Generation was called a Blasphemer and in the dayes of his flesh when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong cryings and tears unto him that was able to save him from death and was heard in that he feared Heb. 5.7 8 9. A. A. A TESTIMONY Against False Prophets and false Teacher And also the Objection answered concerning the woman forbidden to speak in the Church With a Relation of Margret Vivers was moved of the Lord to go speak to the Priest in the Steeplehouse in Banbury And also concerning the imprisonment of Richard Farnsworth c. UPon the first day of the week being the 30. day of the 7. month one Margret Vivers a servant of the Lord inhabiting in the Town of Banbury was moved of the Lord to go in to the Synagogue or Steeplehouse in the said Banbury and waited upon the Lord whose power moved her to go to be ordered by him who worketh after the counsell of his own will and when the Priest of Banbury Samuel Wells by name their professed Minister had ended and done she was moved of the Lord to speak somthing unto him who had in his Doctrine or preachment been speaking against self-denyal and exhorting his people that they that had not the spirit might pray for it saying most of them remained in unbelief c. But the Prayers of the wicked is abomination unto the Lord and such as are without the Spirit of Christ and have it not are none of his and they are the wicked that are in unbelief and the enviors mockers scoffers Rom. 8. Rom. 1.28 29. Psal 66 18. Iud. 18. Mat. 16.24 Mat. 10.38 Luk. 14.26 27. Heb. 2.10 11. 1 Pet. 1.22.23 and such as walk after their own ungodly lusts who are persecutors of the servants or Jesus like those malicious wicked ones and unbelievers here at Banbury and whilest you regard iniquity in your hearts God wil not regard your prayers and to speak against self-denyal is to speak against the Doctrine of Christ so no self-denyall in obedience to the Doctrine of Christ no Disciple or follower of Christ and no Disciple no Saint for saith Christ he that wil be my Disciple let him deny himself and take up his Cross and