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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

Ambassadours of peace Wherefore in the fear and tender love of the God of Heaven is this to be laid before thee to warn thee as thou art in thy place of Authority which we own esteem and honour in the Lord one of us being two having a message from the Lord of Heaven to the Prince or Emperour of the Turks and well will it be with the men of our own Nation if they be not found setting themselves against the service of God his Truth and People whom he alone will make a blessing to Nations that shall surely prosper without Bow or Sword or visible Weapons of war the Lord hath spoken it and the Prophesie shall as surely be fulfilled in its time or season So the Lord give thee wisdome and a Noble understanding according to his determinate Counsel therewith to honour him in thy place of Judicature and so my Spirit saith Amen Smyrna the sixth month of the Year 1661. I am thy Friend and so to the whole Creation of God Daniel Baker Richard Scostrope NOw it was so that after this was sent we notwithstanding sought daily for passage convenient to Constantinople and at last it presented by way of a Dutch Ship and we spake to the Commander for the same end on board the said Vessel but before She sailed away a Warrant was forthwith given out and sent from the Kings Embassadour to Smyrna which men of high degree gladly received and prosecuted the same against us to expell us from their Coasts and separate us from their company all be it we were not in any wise chargable unto them neither did eat any mans bread for nought A Coppy of the Warrant which came from the hand of the Kings Ambassadour and prosecuted by the English Nation in Smyrna in Asia against two servants and witnesses for God and his Truth and People called Quakers WHereas we are informed that there is lately arrived with the Zant Frigot one Daniel Baker with his companion commonly called by the name of Quakers with intention to come up to this Port And because we have had experience that the carriage of that sort of people is ridiculous and is capable to bring dishonour to our Nation besides other inconveniences that may redound to them in particular and to the English Nation in general We therefore will and require you to give a stop to the said Quakers from proceeding any further in their journey either to Constantinople or the present Court of the Grand Signior or to any other place where our Authority extends Shipping them away either directly for England or any other parts where they shall chuse to Imbarque And we do herely require all Officers and Members of the Factory and Masters and Officers of Ships to be ayding and Assisting to you herein and for so doing this shall be your Warrent Winchelse Given under our Hand and Seal at our Court at Pera at Constantinople the 19. day of July 1661. For our Loving Friend Anthony Isacson Esquire Consul for the English Nation in Smyrna by his Excellencies Command Paul Kecaut Secretary And they sent a Turks Jannesary together with a Drugger-man the Consuls Officer and Hamalls Porters to our lodging and sent us away as Prisoners To the Lord Ambassadour so called and to the English Nation in Constantinople and Smyrna Friend I am honestly perswaded viz. If that the Nobility of thy understanding were not vailed or darkned with prejudice so that thou hadst a perfect understanding of what thou hast done and if it were to do again it would be a hard thing for thee then to do the same wherefore blame me not if I tell thee in truth and plainness saying Behold how thou hast turned thy hand against the just Lord and set thy self also against his Work his Truth and People and the mighty everlasting terrible God that lives for ever in whose hand thy breath is he will certainly plead with thee for the same yea and with them also who with one consent have joynd together with thee herein who are but a man that shall die and come to judgement as it s appointed for all men and lo God hath given thee a day of visitation of Salvation but behold how thou hast put the same far away from thee and he that liveth for ever so far hath tryed thee together with the English Nation in Asia in thy place of of Authority and Judicature in giving thee also a plain and certain warning by my hand through me concerning somewhat of the work and counsel of the Everlasting Light who is the Living and true God and Father of all Truth over all blessed for ever Amen before thou didst intermeddle or proceed either to the right hand or to the left to the end that thou might take heed and beware of being instrumental in stopping the work and service of the Everlasting And lo thou hast rejected and made light of the same as doth appear and turned thy hand against the Just the Harmless and Innocent and guiltless and also reproached the Living God inasmuch as the same is done to his Friends and Messengers that have drawn so near thee in peace good will and uprightness of heart and in love unfained without self-ends but with its denyal according to the commandment of our Lord and Master even Christ The light of the World which lighteth every man that cometh into the World in the work and service of him who is the Lord God of Judgement with our pretious life also in our hand have we thus come not loving our lives to the death for his Names sake for his Peoples sake for his Gospels sake who freely laid down his pretious life for us leaving us an example who came not in our own name will or time but have herein forsaken Country Kindred and Fathers House Wife and Children and what else our God that liveth for ever knoweth right-well as our Fathers of old did God knoweth the uprightness of our hearts also concerning this and much more which for the Truths sake might be declared but at this time it is not convenient and our message which from man we received not of life and salvation was and is to give a certain sound of the great and mighty day of the Lord at hand and also of the same life of the holy Prophets and Apostles of Christ the Lord of life that 's arisen from the dead with his saving health in the midst of us to the Nations that are involved in thick darkness and wallowing in obscurity to awaken them and also that they may assuredly know that the mighty terrible and glorious and dreadful day of the eternal God is come and at hand and that the same hath also begun to dawn and to spread forth its shining beams of eternal brightness in the North parts of the World even in England first the which is manifesting it self and shining forth over all Nations to the condemnation and destruction of wickedness and also

and whether you hear or forbear the Scripture do I witness fulfilled in me in the answer of a Good Conscience according to the Compleat and Perfect Example of my Lord and Master whom I Fear and follow and serve in the Fellowship of his Reproaches Sufferings in the Gospel Life and Peace viz. The Lord God hath opened mine ear Blessed be his Glory Amen and I was not Rebellious against him neither turned away back I gave my back to the smiter and my check to them that plucked off the Hair I hid not my face from shame and spitting my God knoweth right well in obedience to his will the same is done being called to the Fellowship of the same Sufferings and Glory of Gods Lamb and to indure the contradictions of ungodly sinners as he did yea the Lord God will help me therefore shall I not be confounded thou hast made my face like a ●line and I know that I shall not be ashamed he is near that justifieth who shall contend with me Behold all ye that kindle a fire and compass your selves about with sparks of your own kindling walk in the light of your fire and in the sparks that ye have kindled this shall ye have of my hand ye shall lie down in sorrow This following was sent in a Letter from the English Consul at Grand Caire to an English Merchant in Legorne in Italy concerning Henry Fell and John Stubs SIR I Forgot to advise you how that the Quakers at their departure going down to the Marine did throw Pamphlets about the Streets in ●atine Hebrew and Arabique which might have set them a burning had they stayed a little longer Therefore I beseech you if you hear hereafter of any such people that intend to come this way to prevent them what you can for they may do me a great prejudice Rich. Bendish Grand Caire 20th Septem 1661. A Loving Visitation tendred to the English Merchants in Genoa who received it not Friends Read and Honestly consider with the Spirit of Moderation for whether you will hear or forbear this is that you may well understand that in the first place THE most Holy Faith of Gods Elect without which its impossible to please God it s not of that Nature to Respect Persons neither to give flattering Titles to any man which are of the vain inventions of vain man but to honour or well esteem all men in the Truth Fear and Reverence of God the which is to have the Peculiar and Supream Preheminence in every mans Conscience and so to rule over the whole Creation of God that the Eternal Blessing of the Invisible and Immortal God by Jesus Christ the True Light of the world may come upon all in the true Seed which is ordained to bruise the Serpents Head and to destroy the Devil and his unfruitful works of Darkness in man the which captivateth and defileth and also is destructive to the Creation over which the true Seed is to Rule who is the True Light which lighteth every man and is the Way the Life the Truth a manifestation of the same is in every man in Male and in Female it shines in darkness in man and the same would guide them out of and from every unjust way word thought and action yea and from all unequitableness into truth and uprightnesse wherein the Riches of Eternal Peace and Felicity may come and in the same be possessed within the heart of every particular even in the midst of the sons of men to the Glory of the Everlasting Fountain of Life from whence the true Property and pure nature of every good thing receiveth vertue to subsist according to the excellent and unsearchable wisdom and decree of the Divine Substance or Eternal Being of the Majesty of the Heavenly Power of the Everlasting Light who is the True and Living God over all blessed for ever Amen Now to the end that prejudice and evil surmisings which are not of God the Father of all Truth may be removed out of the minds of the men of my own Nation viz. English or any others that burthen themselves because I cannot give neither receive the honour of the world with its Ceremonies and flattering Titles either to my self or to any man and I am willing to testifie that it s not in any contempt to the persons which are the workmanship of the Eternal God of the sons of men but for Conscience sake that I use not the same as in times past and because I am well perswaded in the Grace of God and perfectly satisfied in the same measure in my own particular therefore in that love which thinks no evil I am moved to give forth some reasonable and true words to a good end as aforesaid which are not contrary to God neither to the example of just and honourable men nor to the Holy Scriptures of Truth which saith to the True Christians If you respect persons ye commit sin and are convinced by the Law as Transgressors saith the Apostle James James 2.9 And there is no respect of persons with the Lord who will judge righteously according to every mans work saith Peter 1 Pet. 1.17 And ye shall do no unrighteousnesse in judgement Thou shalt not respect the person of the poor nor honor the person of the Mighty mark that but in Righteousnesse shalt thou judge thy Neighbour saith the Lord Deut. 19.15 And I say unto you that for every idle word that men shall speak they shall give account thereof in the day of judgement for by thy words thou shalt be justifi●d and by thy words thou shalt be condemned saith Jesus Mat. 12.36 37. I testifie that the light of Christ Jesus in every mans Conscience will clearly shew or manifest to mans understanding what words thoughts and intentions are justifiable and what are also condemnable wherefore my spirit of life is ready to say Blessed is and shall the man be who suffereth his mind to be guided by the pure and true manifestation of the Eternal light which is of the Nature of God manifest within as it is written Rom. 1.19 20. 1 Cor. 12.7 For the manifestation of the Spirit which is true is given to every man to profit withall and they that profit not by the same shall certainly receive the unprofitable servants portion not to Salvation but contrariwise unto perdition which is the just reward of them which not onely reject the Truth and receive it not in the love of the same but also take pleasure in unrighteousness and so provoke the Lord to his Face and defie and condemn the just in themselves and the Generation of the Righteous also in the General but yee shall not walk in the manners of the Nations which I cast out before you saith God to the true Seed for they committed all these things and therefore I abhorred them saith the Lord Levit. 20. let not me I pray you respect the person of any neither let me give flattering

Gods Truth for their eternal good freely albeit they hated us without cause as it befell our Lord and Master I also was moved in the fear of the Lord to write and give the Ambassadour an honest and true information of the intent of our hearts to the end he might be honestly warned of receiving any evil and false intelligence that he may not consent with the same nor with the ground of it to joyn or stretch forth his hand therewith against the Lord his Truth and innocent People THE Copy of the Letter is seen meet to be inserted here following seeing the same was made leight of and rejected as a thing of nought as many have done to their own hurt and condemnation namely O. C. and the many Parliaments in their dayes past in which the Eternal God tryed them what if I say to the uttermost before he smote and broke and shattered them to pieces as Potters Vessells and wherled them up and down as Clouds of Tempests and Darkness as it were from one end of the Land to the other in his sore displeasure in the sight of the Nations to the final destruction of many of them that turned the back Albeit they seemed to have their face towards the good Day of their Visitation from on High which they wofully sinned away and the just recompence of reward as a fruit of their own doings even in the sight of the Nations fell upon them as a weight too heavy for them to bear and as great judgements from the same Hand of God is reserved in store and is ready to be revealed and executed upon the Heads of them that walk in the same wayes and paths of unrighteousnesse which provokes the Lord to his Face I speak not on this wise to upbraid without the Fear of the Lord the generation that 's passed away and seems to be laid in the dust of the Earth but rather that the present generation of men of what Name or Denomination they were are or may be under that have but somewhat of the Fear and Zeal of the God of Truth in their Hearts thereby to be warned in their day and not to make the evil example of any to be so to them as evil to follow it nay but contrariwise which is so far acceptable to God for Sodom and Gomorah and the old World were and are evident examples of the sore displeasure of the Eternal God of vengeance to whom it peculiarly and properly belongeth and he will certainly repay Fury to his Adversaries and Recompence to his Enemies when he awakes and stirs up his strength as a MIGHTY ONE the KING the Lord of Hosts is his Name to bend his Bow and whet his glittering Sword he will cast up cut down and overturn and not spare to spend his Arrows of famine and destruction and let them fly with his outstretched Arm of strength to smite and strike into the Hearts of the double-minded so that his anger shall smoak in the fiery Zeal of his Eternal Majesty against such a one that being often reproved goeth on still in his iniquities he shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy as saith one in a certain place Prov. 29. yet the Nations of men may certainly understand that the most High holds forth his Eternal Name as he is the Lord God long suffering and of great goodness neither delighteth he in the destruction of any but rather in their return unto the Wisdom of the Just unto Eternal Life in it to live for ever and not to die in their sins for as he is the Light of Israel and his Holy One for a flame and a consuming fire to burn up Bryars and Thorns against the workers of Iniquity so is he a God of Judgement and blessed are all they that wait for his Salvation and put their trust in him he will shew them his Covenant and establish them in the same in which they shall not be confounded neither be ashamed nor yet shall any make them afraid but quietness and assurance for ever shall be their reward in Eternal Peace and Blessedness together with him and the Spirits of Just men made perfect on this wise my Soul in life breatheth and travels for the Restauration of all things into the Glorious Liberty and Freedom of the harmless Sons of God Verily the Eternal love of my God that 's shed abroad within my heart it s much enlarged to stream forth Universally even to the whole Creation that travels in pain under the Bondage of Corruption over which mine eyes have poured forth many tears and in the brokennesse of my very heart have I dolefully Lamented and Mourned for the same but at present I am necessitated to proceed on to what is before mine eye as I have began concerning this little Treatise The Copy of the Letter FRIEND THy Everlasting Honour and Wel-being with the Lord and with the Spirits of just men our soul wisheth right well so peace be unto thee This is that thou may according to the Just Noble Principle of God in thee have a right understanding of somewhat of the Truth Innocency and Vprightness of our hearts who are the Servants of the One True and Living God and Father of all Truth and called by his grace of life which in our hearts we have received gladly to Declare to the Nations even the same grace that hath brought Salvation to us the same also that appeareth unto all men without respect of persons that they may be saved from the wrath to come by which grace of life I say we are called to peace and good will to all men as our Fathers were in the same to forsake the Pollutions of the World and our Native Country Kindred and Fathers House to do and suffer the will of God and keep his Commandments which are not grievous to us in the life of our Obedience to his Blessed Will who called and sent us into these parts whether the Sons of men believe us or not or hear or forbear And seeing the God of our Life hath blessed and prospered us hitherto in our journey we have the Living Testimony of the Spirit of Life witnessing to the same in our Consciences and to the Truth of what is here written unto thee And forasmuch as we understand from the Consul here that we shall not by him be admitted to pass further without thy advice or consent therefore have we freedom and in the fear of the Lord seen meet to let thee know somewhat from our hands as to the present service of our God whose Power Favour and life in his Covenant of Eternal Light and Peace we possesse Glory to his Name for which our lives are not dear unto us which are also in our hands to serve the Lord his Truth and People and to the end thou may not in any wise be as an Instrument to stop or let the work of God from going on by the hand of his Messengers and

and manners or things ye call evil surely in so doing the same tends not to your justification and are these the Ridiculous Crimes that will bring dishonour to a Nation what will equity truth and uprightness and plainness of a heart temperance innocency and sobriety with savoury and wholesome Communications without guile fraud or deceit in life and good conversation doing the will of God from the heart in his fear and reverence and 〈◊〉 these the things that are deemed so Ridiculous and capable to bring Dishonour to the Nation to the King or his just Government or is it not the contrary even the hurtful lusts which men fulfil and walk after from whence wars and fightings ariseth together with evil Surmisings Strife and Debate and Violence and Spoile with flatterings and guile ariseth double-mindedness revealings pride of life and hypocrisie al arising from one and the same ground of iniquity in the Sons of men from whence also cometh so much Wasting Devouring and consuming the good Blessings and Creatures of God upon the ungodliness and hurtful lusts that wars against the Pretious and Immortal Soul and are not only hurtful and destructive to a man to his Body Soul Mind and Spirit but also to the greeving and provoking and wounding of the Just Eternal Lord God of Heaven and Earth and so becomes destructive also to a Family to a City to a Kingdom and Nation And what are not these and such like the noysom and unsavoury Fruits which is a shame to Christianity and utterly contrary to the most Wise Gentle Temperate Life of the Lord Jesus and his Saints upon Earth so frequently by the Apostate Christians and Christians by name only brought forth day by day among the Turks who excel many of them in uprightness steadfastness and temperance in things civil and in matters of communications and dealing between man and man to your condemnation who are guilty and so below them herein so that an ill savour hath ascended up to the Lord from the unwholesome conversation of the Christians by name and words out of the true Christians savoury meek gentle long-suffering life bringing forth contrary and unsavoury fruits and what are not these the things that is Ridiculous and also capable to bring dishonour to a Nation to God the King and to their own bodies and souls oppression men of clear understanding will not reject but consent and adhere to my Testimony by reason of such dishonourable fruits abounding in a strange Land among the Nations of men and thereby give occasion to them called Turks Heathens Jews and Infidels and what others among you not to win them to the most holy Faith of Gods elect but contrariwise to abide in their brutishness hardness of heart and infidelity and unbelief and not only so but also to blaspheme and dishonour the Lord God of Eternal Life and his Worthy Name by which ye are called and also to reject and defie both you and your Religion and Christianity in the generall Oh how often my very heart hath been grieved and my soul oppressed and wounded in me many a time from time to time yea over the men of my own Nation have I wept and mourned whilst they have magnified themselves in the pleasures of unrighteousness against their own souls and the people of the Lord of hosts my God knoweth because of these things And oh our Souls hath been wounded grieved and vexed from time to time and pressed down in us day by day even as truly as the soul of righteous Lot was in Sodom because of the unsavoury and unfruitful words and works of darkness brought forth by the Apostate Christians of all sorts among the Turks Oh the pride of life Oh the vanities Oh the excess and superfluites of noughtiness abounding together with flattery deceit and double-mindedness that abounds and superabounds among and over the false Christians which keeps back the Heavenly distillings of the early and latter rain from on high that the same desends not to reach to the lower parts of the Earth where the poor prisoners of hope and exiled captives are shut up but have any of you an ear to hear or eyes to see what 's the matter that hinders Stops the blessings of eternity by resisting that which is holy which checks and reproves for sin evil and vanity in your selves and others the same good thing is freely given of God to guide you and all men into all truth and from the contrary in which the false Christians excels the Turks even in unrighteousness and I am as it were constrained to write on this wise to their shame yet in love if happily the same may tend to their Salvation from the contrary effect and ground of oppression with its fruits so that they hereby have provoked the Eternal God of mercy and judgement not a little and have caused his anger to wax hot and to burn like a consuming fire against the root and ground of iniquity raigning in and over the Sons and Daughters of men and his wrath and sore displeasure from Heaven in the eternal Light is revealed against the same together with the vessels of wrath fitted for destruction and many of you may feel the same not to your justification or salvation who have been such an ill savour to the Lord and his Friends and crucifie his meek sweet and temperate life even of the Lamb the Light our Lord Jesus Christ day by day as if every day were a day of slaughter so that the noysome corrupt fruits which are not meet for repentance are a noy some smell even among the Turks as I have truly said and many of you will find it so in one day notwithstanding God eternal time after time hath not been wanting with visitations in visiting you both with judgemens and mercies yet may it not be said for all this will they not learn righteousness but rather wax worse and worse and are ready to say who shall reprove or be Lord over us and to the most high as them that rebel against the Light did saying depart from us for we desire not the knowledge of thy wayes but to take pleasure not in the Truth but in unrighteousnes whose reward must be according to the unfruitful works of darkness and God Almighty may yet plead with you concerning these things and happily to try you yet more Messengers of Righteousness may he send to visit you together with the Jews Turks and Heathens that if happily your end may be peace and not otherwise which we chiefly seek and travel in love and good will for the same whether you will hear or forbear either to your eternal salvation or condemnation But will you not count me your Enemy and despise me If I in the truth tell you the truth saying misery and destruction oppression with hard-heartednesse is yet in your wayes take heed and beware least the same arise up so high and at last overcome you to eternal perdition and