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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43227	A plain account of certain Christian experiences, labours, services and sufferings, of that ancient servant and minister of Christ, Roger Hebden, deceased containing both warning, consolation, and instruction in righteousness.	Hebden, Roger, 1620 or 21-1695.	1700 (1700)	Wing H1346A; ESTC R15158	54,976	136

rise in London whereby a great Disturbance was occasioned then presently Proclamation was sent forth and we who were called Quakers were reckoned with Ranters and them who made the Disturbance and so were numbred amongst the Transgressors though Innocent Then by the Proclamation we were not to enjoy our Meetings for to wait upn God under any Pretence of Worshipping or to that purpose were words in it as formerly but if we did which many durst not neglect then we were to be Apprehended and had before Justices of the Peace and there we were to have the Oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance prosered which if we refused then by the Proclamation we were either to find Sureties for good Behaviour or go to Goal until the next Assizes To this purpose was the Subfrance of the Proclamation as I remember By this means we were hunted for and sought out at our Meetings by wicked Men who were glad of such an opportunity and this gladded the Hearts of the Wicked and made the Hearts of the Righteous sad for a time but the Lord comforted and made His meet together with boldness although some few did faint and with boldness we were carried before the Magistrates and could not Obey their Commands nor own that we were of Evil Behaviour by entering into Bonds for the Good Behaviour and to take the Oaths and so break the Commands of Christ Jesus who saith Swear not at all Mat. 5. And so we were sent to Prison to York-Castle There were committed upon that account between four and five Hundred and some of us I and others were continued a Quarter of a Year's time or more but the Lord cleared or more but the Lord cleared our Innocency and they set us at Liberty in the Lord's time therefore it is good to trust in Him Presently after this the King consented to that Act of Parliament which they made against us That was to this purpose That if we to wit the People called Quakers did meet together upon pretence of Worshipping of God to or above the number of Five we were to be apprehended and be proceeded against for the same by Fines and Banishment But this dismayed not many although many for meeting together to wait upon the Lord as formerly in obedience him were Apprehended and Fined and some as I have heard in London where their Cruetly was grear were haled forth of their Meetings and cut by rude and wicked Persons and one died of Wounds that he received others by Magistrates were Sentenced to Banishment but the Lord disappointed them But as for me I was not cast into Prison upon that Account but was called before the Magistrates But herein was and is may Comfort that I did not see that I neglected my Duty in meeting amongst the Lord's People for fear of Man And after a time the Rulers they forbore pursuing that Act and we had our Meetings much quieter than could have been expected and Truth did spead and Desires in People after the knowledge of the Way of God encreased and the Lord God gladded the Hearts of his People by letting them see now by this Power the Wicked were chained And then the Bishops they set themselves by their Power to terrifie the Lord's Host the Followers of the Lamb but prevailed not Praised be the Lord but the Lord's Mercies were multiplied upon his People both Inward and Outward After this it pleased the Lord for the Trial of this People and that his Power might be manifest to suffer the Powers of the Earth in the following Year to make another Act against our Meetings more strict and cruel than the former the Substance whereof was to this purpose to wit That if we namely those People called Quakers should after the first Day of July 1664. meet together above the number of Five under a pretence of Worshipping God we should for the first Offence according to the pleasure of them in Commission for Justices of the Peace pay a Sum of Money under Five Pounds or suffer a time of Imprisonment not exceeding Three Months for the Second Offence the Prenalty was doubled and for the Third Offence they were either to pay One Hundred Pounds or to be Banished into some of the King 's Foreign Plantations and if they within Seven Years time should return without Liberty then to be proceeded against as Felons And the like Penatly they were to undergo in whose Houses or Grounds such Meetings were kept But Praised be the Lord all this prevailed not nor terrified the Lord's People neither durst they neglect their Duty For even the First Day of the Week after this Act took place at my outward Being where there might be above a Hundred Friends of Truth and others there was no Molestation from without But upon the 8th Day of the Month following I being with several other Friends met together in Sherif-Hutton for to wait upon the Lord the sence of God's Goodness to me and his People being upon my Spirit and I being kneeled down and expressing the same as the Spirit gave utterance There rushed in one rude Man with some Soldiers who haled me forth and that Man with the Constable had me before one Sir Thomas Gowre who was a Parliament Man and in Commission to do Justice who asked me If I spoke any words amongst the People Or to that purpose My answer was as is afore expressed And after I expressed the same he said That was a Transgression of the Act. My Wife standing by and hearing him say so thought in her Mind as she said since If that were a Transgression of the Act for me to express the Sence of God's Goodness upon my Spirit she was well content that I should suffer for it or to this effect things passed So the next Day he and George Mountain being in Commission for to do Justice by their Warrant commited me and a Friend named John Hicks at whose House the Meeting was to Prison to York-Castle for the space of Eleven Weeks and Five Days The Cruelties of Men were much seen in pursuing this Act in several parts of the Nation especially in and about London Sentencing many for Banishment and Banishing some but they were much restrained of what might be intended for that Summer that many might have been sent away there was Wars by Sea and the Pestilence very hot about London which I believe did as the Lord saw it good put a great stop to them in sending many away who were Sentenced for Banishment although many of our dear Friends in that common Calamity the Lord took away by Death that all might be humbled as as shown me at that time when I was Prisoner the Second time upon that Act in York-Castle which was thus occastioned I being at a Meeting of Friends of Truth namely those People called Quakers at Bishop-Wilton in the East-Riding of Yorkshire upon the 14th Day of the 3d Month 1665. the Constables came with a Warrant and there with took us our Meeting being as they said an Unlawful Meeting and the next Day had us before Tobias Jenkins and Liebard Robinson in Commission to have done Justice who committed me and nineteen other Friends to Prison for three Months In all these things the Lord's Support was much seen by those that Feared Him and the Prosecutors of the Act who thought to have wearied us grew weary in many places and Meetings became very quiet for some time and Truth prevailed exceedingly Blessed be Lord for ever whose work it was to Strengthen His and to give them Courage and Comfort every way FINIS

but pronounce Woes as they are moved by the Lord and Wo unto that in thee which would have all Men to speak well of thee that is thy Enemy and the Enemy of God and whilst that rules in thee thou art under the Wrath and the Woes belonging to the Wicked thou must expect whilst therewith guided And in bidding Let high Aspiring Thoughts and Conceits depart thou speakest of Conceits and Aspiring Thoughts and thou bids Let Tenderness and Pity possess his Soul Here thou art to be tryed whether thou live not in Conceits thy self yea or nay So What is the Soul Now this thou may'st answer as Scripture declares That God breathed into Man's Nostrils the Breath of Life and Man became a Living Soul But further I demand of thee What this is in the Creature Now if thou canst not give an account of this What this is in the Creature Then thou must acknowledge that thou hast been Exhorting another To let Tenderness and Pity possess thou know'st not what more than a Word but the Soul is more that a Word And when thou comest to know it then thou shalt see thy high Aspiring Thoughts and Conceits that thou hast lived in and to know and acknowledge that this is written in love and Pity unto thee from R. H. York-Castle the 11th Day of the 4th Month 1655. FRom the time of my being committed Prisoner by Robert Barwicke as is expressed in the fore-part of this Book I continued as Prisoner but several times at my own and Friends desire had liberty to visit Friends in the Country and at the Assizes held in the 7th Month of the Year 1655. when I had been between thirty and forty Weeks a Prisoner I was called and was tryed and cleared accordingly as is hereafter mentioned Being called before William Steel Judge it was said That I stood there Indicted since the last Assizes the Indictment being read it was demanded of me What I said to it Was I guilty or not guilty To which was answered to this purpose That what I said I should not deny there being put into the Indictment that I wilfully and maliciously uttered forth such words as they read the truth was that I spoke such words but that such words were spoken from my own Will or Malice that I denied and said That was their Condition which put the words in Then the Judge asked What I said as to the Substance of the thing My answer was What I spoke I should not deny Then he asked me If I would be tried by God and the Country My answer was The Lord he is my Tryer and what he will suffer the Country to do I am satisfied Thus I with other three Friends who had been called at the Assizes before and could not say neither Guilty nor Not Guilty true words and false being mixt together in our Indictments were to come to our Tryal before the Country and the next day being called and set in the midst amongst those there Arraigned for Fellony and Murder A Jury being chosen and they being about to swear them I spoke to the Judge to put him in mind of what passed between us the Day before how that he asked If I would be tried by God and the Country And my answer thereunto being That the Lord he is my Tryer and what he suffered the Country to do I am satisfied but that their Swearing is not allowed but forbidden by Christ and in testifying against it I clear my Conscience Notwithstanding this they called for Evidence against me but not any appearing the Jury gave in their Verdict as it is called that I was Not Guilty Then I appealed to that of God in all their Consciences to judge how I had been dealt withal who had been between thirty and forty weeks a Prisoner and none for to lay any thing to my charge But they would make no answer to that but hasted to take me away After some said I might recover Damage for my Imprisonment But I answered them I had not so learned of Christ for to render Evil for Evil. Roger Hebden Here follows a Copy of my Release To the Goaler of the Goal of York WHereas Roger Hebden was Indicted at these Assizes and Acquitted You may therefore set him at Liberty if for no other cause you detain him Witness my Hand this 12th day of September in Year of your Lord 1655. John Clarill Clerk of Assizes Here is an Account of my being a Prisoner at Alisbury To the Keeper of the Common Goal at Alisbury or to his Deputy there WHereas Roger Hebden Bucks ss herewith sent you yesterday being the Sabbath-day came into the Parish Church of Newport-Pagnell and there in the time of publick Service did openly and publickly before the whole Congregation disturb the Minister contrary to the Law in that case made and provided These are therefore to Will and Require you upon Sight hereof That you receive the Body of the said Roger herewith sent you into your said Goal and him safely keep until he shall be thence discharged by order of Law Hereof fail not Dated this 4th Day of January 1657. Thomas White ACcording unto this foregoing Warrant I was received and kept in the Goal between three and four Days and then brought forth and had my tryal at the last Sessions who ordered me to the House of Correction there to be kept fourteen Days and then to be discharged Which was done accordingly R. H. A Copy of my Commitment to York-Castle Thomas Harrison Esq Sheriff of the said County to the Goaler or Keeper of the Castle of York Greeting I Command you Yorkshire That the Body of Roger Hebden by me taken you receive into your Custody and him safe keep so that I may have him before the Justices of the Peace at the next General Quarter-Sessions of the Peace to be holden for the North-Riding of the said County to answer his Highness the Lord Protectour of certain Trespasses and other Misdemeanors whereof he stands indicted Given under the Seal of my Office the 1st day of April 1658. A true Copy examined by John Thomlinson By the Sheriff NOW Whereas mention is made before of my being cast into Prison at Alisbury it was for my going into a Steeple-House at Newport-pagnel where standing quietly until the Priest had done his Preaching who had been telling in a bemoaning manner that The Devil cast Fiery-Darts and Hand-Granadoes as it were into the Soul It being made known unto me as I stood by that he knew not what the Soul was which he said the Devil did such things to so words were spoken unto him to this purpose Man thou hast been speaking much as concerning the Soul it were needful for the People's Satisfaction thou mightest declare what the Soul is but instead of answering this needful Question he put it off with saying That he would Dispute with me there the next day But there being present one Thomas White a Man