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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A56430	A collection of the several writings given forth from the Spirit of the Lord through that meek, patient, and suffering servant of God, James Parnel, who, though a young man, bore a faithful testimony for God and dyed a prisoner under the hands of a persecuting generation in Colchester Castle in the year 1656	Parnell, James, 1637?-1656.	1675 (1675)	Wing P528; ESTC R11881	266,794	528

said He that respects Persons commits Sin for there is no Respect of Persons with God and therefore saith James Houle ye Rich men and here your professed Ministers abide not in the Doctrine of Christ and so have not God but the Devil and his Ministers they are whom they exalt And now you shall see the Partiality of the Names in this your Breeding and Manners First from a Poor man to a Rich man it is called Honour and due Respect and Manners from a Rich man to a Poor man it is called Courtesie and Humility but amongst the Rich and Nobles of the Earth it is called Court-like Breeding but of those of the lower degree it is call'd Country-Breeding and amongst the lower sort of the World it is called Neighbour-hood and civil Respect one to another and so the Devil hath covers for all his Deceit and so he is honoured and exalted both in Court and Country but the highest in the Court and therefore they have the highest Title But We unto them that hide their Sins and cover with a Covering and not of the Spirit of the Lord. But this is the Riches of the World and the Devil that makes so many Degrees as between Dives and Lazarus and Haman and Mordecai for the Lord hath made all the Nations of the Earth of one Mold and one Blood But we who are redeemed out of his Kingdom he calls us Clowns and Fools and saith our Religion is built upon such small and frivolous things and stumble at Strawes and leap over Blocks this saith his Wisdom but it is even Death to him to bear these Strawes especially where he is the highest exalted for it puls down all his Honour and therefore do Rich men and great ones of the Earth and Rulers and Priests and Pharisees persecute and oppress us and draw us before Judgment-Seats and would root us out of the Nation as Haman would have done by Mordecai and the rest of the scattered Jews because they cannot bear those Straws but I say whatsoever it is that comes to be forbidden in the Conscience it becomes a Weight and a Burden though it be never so small a thing in the eye of a Pharisee So let none despise the Day of small things But some will call it Stubbornness Obstinacy Pride and Presumption but the same Nature would have called it so in Mordecai who could not bow to Haman as the rest did that sate by and so let every one take heed of speaking Evil of that you know not least you call Good Evil and Evil Good for the Wo is pronounced against such but they that were after the Flesh alwayes in all Ages persecuted them that were after the Spirit And so it is not many Mighty nor many Noble nor many Wise after the Flesh are called but God hath chosen the Foolish things of this World to confound the Wise and the Weak to confound those that are Mighty that no Flesh should glory in his Presence 1 Cor. 1. 26 27 29. VVe are accused that we say We are perfect without Sin I answer Man was perfect without Sin before the Fall or else he could not have been the Image of God for God is pure and perfect and he made Man after his own Image pure and perfect without Sin but when he sinned he defaced his Image and lost his pure Estate and was drove out of Paradise and became the Image of the Devil for Sin is the Image of the Devil and here all Sin is in the Fall and who are in the Fall are in the Devil's Kingdom which is impure and imperfect and unclean but God promised the Seed of the VVoman shall bruise the Serpent's Head and Christ the Seed said he was come to preach Deliverance to the Captive and to heal the broken-hearted and to seek that which was lost and to bring again that which was driven away and this was his VVork to redeem to Man that which Man had lost Now consider what Man hath lost and I shall leave this as Querie with all both Priests and People who deny Perfection from Sin here Whether Christ is but a part of Redeemer or a perfect and full Redeemer and which is the Place betwixt Heaven and Earth where man shall be made free or cleansed from Sin if not upon the Earth Seeing that no unholy nor unclean thing can enter the Kingdom of God But who can witness this have passed through Death and that have none who plead for Sin neither can they witness Christ come But for some Simple ones sake I shall speak more clearly of this for it is a great Delusion of the Devil to keep People in Sin to tell them they shall never be made free from Sin so long as they are upon the Earth and bring this Scripture to maintain it He that saith he hath no Sin deceiveth himself and is a Lyar but he tells them Christ dyed for all and if they can but lay hold on him by Faith he will not impute their Sins unto them though they sin daily for the Righteous man sins seven times a Day and all the Holy men of God sinned and so he takes Scripture to maintain his Kingdom and this he delivers by the Mouth of his Ministers which he sends abroad to deceive the Nations leading People in Blindness full of Sin and Corruption ever learning and never come to the Knowledge of the Truth nor never shall do for them and here he carries them on an easie delightsom way to the Flesh but the End is Death and so heals them up in their Sins with a feigned formed Faith which perisheth and here they settle upon the Lees and set up a Rest in the Devil's Kingdom which is Sin and here many are meerly blinded and hardned and all Tenderness of Conscience is done away But you shall find that he that sooths you up in this Faith is the gratest Enemy of your Souls and whosoever witnesseth Christ their Redeemer shall witness that he is come to destroy the works of the Devil which is Sin and to redeem out of the Fall out of Sin and out of the Devil's Kingdom which is Sin and all Sin in the Devil's Kingdom which is in the Fall but for this End Christ is manifest to destroy the Works of the Devil and to redeem out of the Fall out of the Devil's Kingdom into his own Kingdom and no unclean thing can enter therein but none can witness this Redemption but through the Death and through the Cross which Paul rejoyced in by which he was crucified to the World and the World to him and had put off the Body of Sin and was made free from the Law of Sin which once warred against his Mind which once he complained of Which Scripture the Unlearned which are Strangers from his Conditions who read them with the carnal Eye now pervert and Wrest to their

A Collection Of the Several WRITINGS Given forth from the Spirit of the Lord through that Meek Patient and Suffering SERVANT of GOD James Parnel Who though a Young Man bore a Faithful Testimony for God and Dyed a Prisoner under the Hands of a Persecuting Generation in Colchester Castle in the Year 1656. In the sight of the Vnwise they seemed to Dye and their Departure is taken for Misery and their going from us to be utter Destruction but they are in Peace For though they be Punished in the Sight of Men yet is their Hope full of Immortality and having been a little Chastized they shall be greatly Rewarded for God proved them and found them worthy for himself Wisd. 3. 2 3 4 5. 5. 4. Being Dead yet speaketh Hebr. 11. 4. Published in the Year 1675. Stephen Crisp HIS TESTIMONY Concerning James Parnel IT was the Care of the Holy Men of Old To keep in Remembrance the Words Works which sprang from the blessed Power of God and therefore did record the Words of many Prophecies and the Histories of many Battels and Wars in which the Arm of God was manifest and whenever God Crown'd any with Worthiness and Honour as his Witnesses of his Word and Power this was commonly added unto the Renown of their Noble Acts and Faithful Testimonies That their Name and Manner of Life was committed unto the Generations that followed after insomuch as one said The Righteous should be had in Everlasting Remembrance and another said The Name of the Righteous was Precious and many other su●h like Sayings are there in the Holy Scripture Christ said to her that anointed him with the Box of Oyntment Where-ever the Gospel should be preached this Charity and Love of hers bestowed on him should be spoaken of And if ever any Age had Cause to prize and keep in Remembrance the Words and Sayings Great Deliverances and Spiritual Battels and Mighty and Noble Acts of God wrought by the Finger of his Power sure this Age hath C●use to be diligent in gathering up and keeping in Remembrance the Mig●ty Works of Wonder which our God hath wrought in our Day in which he hath brought forth Life Peace Rest and Joy to a ●emnant by a Way which the Wise and Prudent of this World were not nor are not yet aware of but Babes have been his Messengers and Children have been his Ministers who in Innocency have received the Revelation of his holy Spirit by which the Deep Things both of his Law and of his Glorious Gospel of Life and Salvation were revealed And among these Babes who thus came to receive the Knowledge of the Mysteries of the Kingdom of God by the Working of his divine Power was this Noble Child JAMES PARNEL who was a Vessel of Honour indeed and Mighty in the Power and Spirit of Immanuel breaking down and laying desolate many mighty and strong Holds and Towers of Defence in the which the old Deceiver had fortified himself and his Children Much might be spoaken of this Man and a large Testimony doth live in my Heart to his blessed Life and to the Power and Wisdom that abounded in him but I do not intend at this time to write much about him but to give the Reader a brief Account of my Certain Knowledge which I had of Him and his Life and Labours and End As to his Country Manner of Life and how he was about the Age of Fifteen or Sixteen Years brought to the Knowledge of God and to the Working of his Power in him and how he obeyed the same in many Travails and Tryals until he came to be about Eighteen Years of Age all this I say it being spoaken to in another place and before my particular Acquaintance with him I shall pass over and only speak of things within the Compass of my own Knowledge When he was about Eighteen Years of Age the Lord who had heard the Cry of his own Seed put it into the Heart of this Young Man to come in●o Essex and to preach the Word of Life and to proclaim the Acceptable Year of the Lord there where it might indeed well have been said Behold the Fields are White unto Harvest For very many were there in that County who were both weary and heavy laden with their Sins and were as weary with running to and f●o to seek a Way out of them and having travailed all Mountains and all Hills and High Things that could be travailed and tryed and found no Deliverance and some sate down concluding If there was a Way God would manifest it others concluded There was no Way but we must dye in this Wilderness and never see the Bread of Life some othes set their Wits on work to find out and invent New VVayes and Manners of VVorshipping but all was in vain and great was the Darkness and Sorrow of those dayes which some can yet well remember and when all Hearts were ready to faint and all Hope was almost at an end with some when others had built their Tower of Profession so high that they conce●ted it did touch the Heavens it self then I say then did the Lord send this his F●ithful Messenger endued with Power from on High to preach the Acceptable Year of God and the Day of Vengeance to comfort them that mourned His Coming was in the fore-end of the Year 1655. VVhere He preached the Gospel in many parts of that County as Felsted Stebben Witham Coxal Halsted and many other places where many hungry Souls had gladly received the VVord of God and it being mixed with Faith in the Hearts of them who heard it it became Effectual to the saving the Souls of many And after he had passed up down many Parts of that County and planted di●ers good Meetings and confirmed them that had believed he at length about the middle of the Summer the same Year came to Colchester upon the seventh day of the week on the day following preached the Gospel unto many Thousands of people first in his Lodging then in a Steeple-house there after the Sermon then in a Great Meeting appointed on purpose and after that disputed with the Town-Lecturer and another Priest in the French-School all in One Day in all which the Wisdom Power and Patience of Christ appeared very Gloriously to the Convincing of my self and many more who were Witnesses of that day's Work So he spent that week in Preaching Pray●ng Exhorting and Admonishing turning the Minds of all sorts of Professors to the Light of Jesus which did search their Hearts and shew their Thoughts that they might believe therein and s● m●ght become Children of the Light and many did Believe and found it so and others were Hardned and Rebell'd against the Appearance of Truth and became Enemies with whom he Disputed daily in great Soundness and in the Evidence and Demonstration of the Spirit by which also many were reached and convinced of the Truth and the Mouthes of

this One and by One and fulfilled in One But it may easily be concluded that thou canst witness none of this for so long as thou art in the Fall thou art under the Curse of the Law and the Guilt of Sin as before out of thy own Mouth is proved and they that can witness this Redemption are Christians indeed and cleansed from Earthly-mindedness all which thou nor thy Church are not as before out of thy own Mouth is proved but are still in your Iniquity upholding the Works of the Devil and are not saved from your Enemies that are of your own Houses neither is the Righteousness of the Law fulfilled in you neither are your Souls delivered out of the House of Bondage neither is Jesus your high Priest who set up yourselves to be Priests in his stead holding up the Changeable Priesthood which took Tythes and so deny Christ come in the Flesh and therefore shall be judged by him whom thou confessest is the Judge of the World all which thou saist is the End of Christ's Coming Qu. 30. Whether thou wilt own that Christ hath enlightened every one that cometh into the World and whether they that know that Light need any man to teach them and whether thou leadest up any under thy Ministry that they need not thee to teach them Pr. Answ. And in thy Answer thou confessest That Christ doth enlighten every one that cometh into the World because the Apostle affirms it John 1. 9. And secondly thou confessest That they which have attained to the true Knowledge of this Light need not that any Man should teach them for they are sufficiently taught of God thou saist Jer. 31. 34. But thou saist Thou denyest that we are so taught or in such a Measure but thou saist till that full Light shines in you you may have other Helps and Teachers which to prove thou quotest 2 Pet. 1. 19 20 c. Rep. But thou Dec●iver thou runnest and the Lord never sent thee who hast been a Teacher of the People and a Professor of the Light so many Years and hast not yet brought any of thy Hearers to the Knowledge of the Light yea thou numbrest thy self amongst them whom this full Light doth not yet shine but stand in need of other Helps and Teachers then thou Hypocrite and Dissembler How shouldest thou teach thy Hearers the full Knowledge of the Light as thou saist they will witness for thee whenas thou thy self standest in need to be taught it by thy own Confession Therefore it may well be resolved that thou knowest not that Christ hath enlightened evey one that cometh into the World neither wouldest confess it but that the Apostle affirms it in that Scripture which thou hast quoted in Joh. 1. 9. yea that Scripture which thou quotest in Jer. 31. 34. doth witness against thee and thy Hearers to be yet Strangers to the Promises Therefore thou Hypocrite How hast thou Belyed thy own Conscience in saying That thou wouldest bring th●m to the Knowledge of the Light that they should not need thee nor any man to teach them whenas that is it thou openly strivest against for then thy Diana would bring thee in no Gain which is thy greatest Care to uphold and this is witnessed in thy Conscience for a Truth against thee Yea and this Scripture which thou quotest in 2 Pet. 1. 19 20. will witness against thee to be a Belyar of the Apostle for that speaketh of the Word Within which shines as a Light in a Dark Place which thou art not yet come to know therefore thou denyest the Truth But I tell thee We are in that Measure of Light so that we are able to comprehend thee and shew thee thy Confusion and Deceit Therefore silence from bringing the Prophets or Apostles for thy Proof for they testifie against such as thee who pretendest to teach others and to be a Guide to the Blind a Light of them which are in Darkness and an Instructer of the Foolish and art not yet taught thy self but art dark and blind and ignorant of the Light and wantest Instruction thy self by thy own Confession Therefore what an impudent Lyar art thou who before saidst Thou usually spoakest by the Motion of the Holy Ghost and guided by an Infallible Spirit and now not come to that full Knowledge of the Light that thou needest no man to teach thee but the Prophets and Apostles were come to that before they were made Teachers and they by the Effect of their Ministry turned many from Darkness to Light and brought them to the Knowledge of the Anointing so that they needed no man to teach them Therefore silence thou Deceiver for thy Blessings are Curses and therefore profittest not the People at all Qu. 31. Whether they be not the Deceivers that cry Lo here and Lo there that draw People to look at a Christ in a Heaven far off without them or at a Jerusalem far off without them whenas they that cannot witness Christ in them are Reprobates Pr. Answ. And in thy Answer thou confessest That they that cannot witness Christ in them are in a Reprobate Condition But thou confessest That thou wilt not say that all who speak of a Christ within them shall be saved Yet thou grantest That those Teachers who point only at a Christ without them or to any other spiritual Kingdom of God then what must be within saying Lo here is Christ and Lo there is his Kingdom may be both Deceivers and deceived themselves for the present Rep. Herein thou condemnest thy Brethren to be Deceivers and deceived who are set up upheld and maintained by the same Earthly Power as thou art who are such as cry all Lo here and Lo there without and wholely draw the People's Minds without from the Light within them that should lead them to the Knowledge of Christ and his Kingdom incensing them that it is Natural and Insufficient and though thou dost here profess to the contrary yet art out of thy own Mouth judged to be out of the State of Salvation who only pro●essest Christ within yet art found as deep in Sin Deceit and as void of Christ or his Light as the rest of thy Brethren who art doting without as before out of thy Mouth is sufficiently proved and so thy self art the greatest Deceiver only the Serpent's Subtilty more refined but that thou accusest us that we cry Lo here among the People called Quakers Christ alone is to be found thou art a Lyar and speakest not from an Infallible Spirit but from a Lying Spirit which many can witness against yet they that are of God hear as he that can receive it let him Qu. 32. Whether they be not out of the Faith of Christ that receive Honour or respect Persons Pr. Answ. And in thy Answer thou say'st Men may receive Honour and yet be in the Faith of Christ which to prove thou quotest Phil. 2. 19 20. 2 Cor. 6. 16 17. 1 Cor.