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A74896	The generall-good to all people: or, The Lords free love running forth freely to his own people in these latter days, according to his promises made to his people, which he is now fulfilling. With something in answer to the petition put up to the Parliament, by many of the city and county of York, even they of the priests party. / By Richard Farnworth.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.; Aldam, Thomas, d. 1660. Exhortation to the magistrates.; R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666. Gods covenanting with his people.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1653 (1653)	Thomason E703_6; Thomason E703_6*	37,767	34

a free passage for truth to be declared and so the corrupt fountain of Oxford and Cambridge which is under the curse will have a stop and then there will be an effectuall course taken for removing of scandalous Ministers that run from God to be taught of man and so all cast out that none may speak but as they do receive their words from the Lord which runs out of the pure Fountain and that is under the blessing of the Almighty where there is no burthening of poor people for carnal means seeking after the love and friendship and honor of the world and kingdom of the world as the Priests of the world do that are in the state and condition of infidelity Atheism and profaneness and dare not trust God but dishonour him And they are worthy all to be removed and cast out the time draweth nigh wherein righteousness shall run down all our streets and knowledge shall fill the earth as the waters cover the Sea and righteousness ruling in Magistrates and Justice and Equity set up which we honor in our souls and those that are the acters of it and we rejoyce to see the Lord declaring his free love through his poor despised creatures and binding up the broken hearted but we deny the Priests of Baal for they have a long time deceived us and now it is our duty to cry out against their deceits that all people may consider of them and see what they are profited by them and what Reformation is amongst them are they not all confused and live in conceivings and imaginations but the Lord is binding his Law upon the Spirits of his people which will be such battlements of purity that deceits and deceivers will not be able to enter into the inward Court but will be kept without and trodden underfoot and Popish and profane persons cast out Proud Covetous Envious Malicious Priests with their subtilties cannot enter any more with their deceiveableness and craftiness whereby they lie in wait to deceive poor people to the dishonor of God in despising his Ordinances which is his power even the power of God unto Salvation which power they being ignorant of they do pollute his Sabboths in doing their own work and not his speaking their own words and thinking their own thoughts which those do not that are entred into their rest Heb. 4. As these do that sell their wares at great rates and compell people to buy and if they have not money to give them then they sue and go to Law and break the Law of God and if any come to declare what God hath done for his soul as David did though it be after that he hath ended his stage-play contrary to the Grant for the easing of burdned consciences he cries Take him away and have him to prison and take boldness to break the Laws of the Land and run away himself but the tryall he will not stand and this is the practice of several of the Priests here in York-shire when the Lord sends to any of them and thus they prove themselves to be the Ministers of man and not of God but he will bruise them with his Iron rod. Let all that love the Lord bless the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever The Lord is our Judge the Lord is our Law-giver the Lord is our King and doth us teach preserve and keep and out of their cruelties save and deliver to him alone that sits upon his throne ruling by his power each day and eeke each hour be all praise honor and glory for ever and ever Amen Hallelujah to the highest The Lord raigneth let the earth rejoyce All ye Saints of the Lord bless ye the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever and let Justice and equity be set up and righteousness established so shall you have the blessing of the Lord upon all your counsells and endeavours and rejoyce in him for evermore An exhortation to the Magistrates AWake awake you Magistrates and Rulers and fear the Lord God Almighty and do that which is Just have mercy and walk humbly with your God and do Justice without partiality O stand in the Counsel of the Lord and beware of looking out to the Egyptian studies for Counsel and you which are set up to be Rulers cast out all your old Laws that are contrary to the Law of God and establish Laws according to the Law of God that God may be glorified in you bringing forth the fruits of Righteousness Beware of being countenancers of evil doers and punishing the innocent poor and harmeless and let all such who are sound scandalous Ministers which profess Christ in words not abiding in his doctrine let them be cast out for his Gospel is the power of God unto Salvation and not their vain Inventions Imaginations Repetitions and Divinations of their own Brain Cease from holding them up the Lord is against them for he alone is come to teach his children himself who is our King Lawgiver and Judge to whom be all praise and thanksgiving now and for ever Thomas Aldam By the dark World called a Quaker An Exhortation to all People that have a desire to know the Truth that the Truth may make them free EVery one that hath a desire to know the truth that the truth may set you free mind the light of God in you that shews you sin and evil that which checks you when you do amiss either when you lye or swear or are Proud or Covetous or Oppress or Envy or Hate or Backbite one another or use any deceit there is something in you that will check you and tell you that you should not do so if you hearken to it that which shews you your vain thoughts and wondering desires and wicked Imaginations if you hearken to it and let it guide your mindes it will turn them within and so shew you how you have spent your time and bring you to consider of your wayes and your doings that you may forsake that which is evil and turn to the Lord that he may have mercy upon you this light within if you hearken to it it will not suffer you to do any wrong to any man but to do to all as you would be done by and obeying it it will teach you to deny your selves of Pride and Covetousness and Oppression and Drunkenness and Lying and Swearing and Vain talk and Foolish jesting and all vain delights and pleasures whatsoever and minding this light within to be obedient to it it will cross your earthly wills and turn you out of the lust and filth of the flesh and lead you out of all the worlds wayes and words and customs and fashions and worships and delights and vanities whatsoever and bring you to delight in the Lord to do his will in yeilding obedience to his commands in what the light doth require of you to be done that you may cast off the works of darkness as this light within makes them manifest to you This light within you will not suffer you to eat and drink to make your selves wanton if you hearken to it and let it guide your minds this light within will not let you wear apparel to make your selves proud and burden and oppress poor creatures if you hearken to it and here is your teacher this light obeying it and here is your condemnation this light disobeying it this light is not without you a Chapter or a Verse but the light is within as it was in them that spoke forth the Chapters ye have a light to the whith ye do well to take heed as unto a light that shineth in a dark place until the day dawn and the day-star arise in your hearts Take heed to that light lest you be condemned by it obeying it it will shew you the way to Salvation disobeying this light it will condemn you Now you have time prize it and take heed of rejecting the Counsel and admonition of the Lord to your souls as you will answer it before the Lord Consider of it and lay it to heart This is the day of your visitation VVritten by a Husbandman FINIS

pray for a blessing upon your Counsells and persons To the Parliament of the Common-wealth of England THe humble Petition of many Inhabitants of the County of York Petition the City of York and County of the same City humbly sheweth that your Petitioners who are less then the least of the mercies they enjoy as they desire to be sensible of that good decree of peace and truth which through the good hand of God upon your counsels and endeavours they partake of and are therefore Petitioners to the Lord for you that he would remember you for good and spare you according to the multitude of his mercies and so withall they think it their duty humbly to present unto you the deep sense they have of some evils and dangers which they apprehend very nearly to concern the truth of God and Gospel of Salvation for the prosperous course thereof whereon the glory of peace and safety of this Nation besides the eternal wellfare of precious souls more worth then worlds do much depend These Petitioners are full of flatteries and subtilty Answer and shew themselves to be carnal that run from the Lord to take counsell of men for that which they call spiritual that sit to judge of temporal affairs and it shews that the Priests of the world are the Ministers of man and not of God and dare not trust him nor take his counsail neither have they the sword of the Spirit as the true Ministers had their weapons were not carnal but spiritual and mighty through God to throw down strong holds and they were made through him that loved them more then Conquerors Rom. 8.37 Rom. 8.37 But these shew themselves to be carnal and ignorant of the same power that ruled in them that run to outward power to uphold them as the Jews and Scribes and Pharisees did that sought for the honor of the world and the praise of men as these do and were enemies to Jesus Christ Joh. 5.42 43 44. as these are For were these Petitioners acquainted with what they do profess it would draw their minds up to the Lord who is the mighty Counsellor the everlasting Father the Prince of Peace Isai 9. to direct their Petitions to him and not to run without to take Counsell of men Isaiah 9. Isaiah 30. who sit to judge of temporal things to ask Counsel about spiritual and so run from the Lord the mighty Counsellor and the judge of the whole Earth who doth direct all those that trust in him to take his Counsell both for temporals and spirituals and threatneth woe to them that take Counsel but not of him and the woe is to the disobedient Children that go down into Egypt for help to make flesh their Arm who do not trust in the living God but are haters of him though in their words to him they do profess love but by their actions they deny him and are to every good work abominable and Reprobate Titus 1. ver 16. Professing they know God Titus 1.16 and hate those that are known of him as by their fruits it doth appear for they do both Persecute Envy Backbite and are exceeding Proud and Covetous and Oppress grinding the faces of the poor Rom. 8.8 and it is not unknown what fruits those are it cannot be denied but that they are fruits of the flesh they that are in the flesh cannot please God Was it not the great men of the World that did make their suite so much to the Councel of State or those that sate to judge the People amongst the Jews who were enemies to Jesus Christ as Paul was accused for a Blasphemer an Heretick and was complained against or petitioned for by the Scribes and Pharisees and Elders of the people to the high Priest that sat in the seat of judgement to have had his life taken away and said he was a seditious fellow and Steven they said he was a blasphemer and they not being able to resist the wisdom Acts 6.10 11 12 13 14 15. and the spirit by which he spoke Acts 6.10 11 12. then they suborned men stirred up the People to swear falsly against him before the Councel and said that they heard him speak blasphemous things against Moses the Temple and the Law when he went to declare the message that the Lord sent him withall As he doth now send many to cry out against the deceits of the Priests and they not being able to defend themselves by Scripture nor warrant from God they stir up the suborned men and rude multitude who are utter enemies to God and the Gospel of Jesus Christ to Petition against those to whom the Lord hath manifested his love and made his power known in some measure to praise and glorifie his great and glorious name and those Petitioners are as those were that cried to the high Priest let us have Barrabas who was a murderer set at liberty and Christ Crucified in whom was found no guile but because he came to testifie against their deceits yet they said he was a deceiver and a blasphemer they that were Petitioners against the ttuth of God in that Generation went under the same colour and pretence then that these do now Petitioning against Seditious fellows that came to overturn their Statutes Laws and Customs and the Scribes Pharisees and Elders of the people cryed out against them for Blasphemy and Heresie Nay they spared not to call the good man of the house Belzebub and said he was the Prince of Devils and Paul they sayd he was a Ring leader of that Sect and the Silver-shrine-makers because hey saw that he came to overturn their Diana which brought them so much gain they said that if they did let him alone all men would be drawn after him and they should be in danger to suffer the loss of all not onely their handicraft would be set at naught but their Goddess Dianah would be overthrown and then the sense and consideration of that seised deep upon them whereupon they went and stirred up all the people against the Servants of the Lord to have slaughtered them for testifying the truth that struck at their deceits and stirred up all the whole City setting them on an uproar many not knowing what they did but as they were led on by the on-setters to mischief and cried with a loud voice great is Diana of the Ephesians and if it be but rightly considered now it will be found out that these Petitioners here in York-shire are of the same Generation and the Priests being with the Scribes and Pharisees and Leaders of the Petitioners struck into a deep sense that they have of the loss of their great Goddess Diana their imaginary way of worship and beastly wares that they have had such sale for shall now come down and they lose all their gain and none will buy their wares any longer that comes to tast of better that the sense of this doth strike deeply

my flesh trembles when they lye and lying is dishonour to the Lord and they say O Lord my righteousness when they themselves are the servants of Sin and plead for it and teach the people to lye calling that the service of God but lying is of the Devil and he is the Father of lyes and they teach the People to sing and say O Lord I am not puft in minde I have no scornful eye when they are puft in scorn and derision and so sing lyes to the dishonour of God all lyes howling and lying when they read Davids conditions they read them with hats on and when they turn them into rime and meeter they put their hats off and lye singing and setting that nature on singing and to rejoyce which is for the curse and so worship the works of their own hands following the Imaginations of their own hearrs and take a glass and speak an hour by their old Author studyed spirit and their glass standing by as if the word of the Lord was to be bound to an hour 1 Cor. 14.15 Rev. 14.1 2 3. day or place see if this be not errour or Popery and hold it not up be not deceived God will not be mocked Let him that sings sing with the Spirit and the Vnderstanding to know what he sings They that are redeemed from the Earth shall sing new Songs which none can sing but those that are redeemed out of the Fall up to the Lord God and to the Lamb to Praise him for ever Let not your Priests deceive you and destroy your souls any longer and keep you under Popery Atheism and Ignorance of the Spiritual Ministry Christ is a Mysterie and none know him but they to whom he is revealed put out all your Priests they all deceive you every one And that you may know the truth wait upon the Lord for teaching who is the Teacher of all his by his Spirit and the ministration is powerful to redeem the soul out of the Fal up to God and to reform and change your natures and dispositions which will guide you and lead you into the way of peace to know the Lord to gather out of all the ways and works of darkness Atheism and Popery Covetousness and Prophaness which all are given to Preists and People that live in their first nature and know not God who is a spirit and of purer eyes then to behold Iniquity who is a consuming fire and is both the heart-searcher and tryer Petition and will burn up the wicked in the indignation of his Ire That the Faithful Ministers of Christ by whom we have believed whose labours have been so profitable and are yet so necessary to the Church of God and whose reputations and encouragements ought to be so dear unto us are daily laden with contempt and reproach disturbed in the diligent and peaceable execution of their office by evil and unreasonable men and also undermined in their calling and maintenance whereby the course of the Gospel is much hindered and the spirit of Gods people nay we doubt not to say the Spirit of God himself is grieved and vexed to see the precious Ordinances of Christ trodden under foot c. That the Faithful Ministers of Christ by whom we have believed c. That the Ministers of Yorkshire or the Ministers of the World are the Ministers of Antichrist Answ 1. The Priests Practise as their fruits do make them manifest and their Ministry is of man and not of God and the Faith that is spoken of is corrupt for it doth not purifie but worketh into Pride Covetousness oppression and persecution lust and revenge hatred backbiting scornfulness cruelty malice debate deceit malignity and envy drunkenness lying and swearing because of oaths the Land mourns and pride swels and Covetousness and oppression and grinding the faces of the poor and these are the fruits of the reprobate and are Ordinances of Antichrist and not of Christ and they are all gone out of the way both Priests and people and the people are destroyed for lack of knowledge because thou hast rejected knowledge saith the Lord I will also reject thee that thou shalt be no Priest to me seeing thou hast forgotten the Law of thy God I will also forget thy children as they were increased so they sinned against me saith the Lord and as it was then so it is now therefore thus saith the Lord I will change their glory into shame for they eat up the sin of my people and they set their heart to do wickedly it is not now made manifest by their fruits for there is like Priest like people Hosea 4 6 7 8 9. I will punish them for their wayes and reward them their doings saith the Lord. Hos 4.6 7 8 9. 2. It is with the Priests now as it was with the false Priests and false Prophets and the people now as it was with the children of Israel after they had backslid and broken the Covenant of the Lord their sins testifie against them to their faces now as theirs did then Hos 5.5 They call the proud happy and they that work wickedness are set up and they that tempt God are even delivered Mal. 3.15 Mal. 3.15 as it was then so it is now in this generation and the Priests of the World are contrary to Jesus Christ and his Apostles who were his true Ministers in all things 1. They are exceeding proud and are called of men Masters which Jesus Christ hath taught his to deny Mat. 23.8 and herein they walk contrary to the Scripture and the command of Jesus Christ and shew the spirit of errour and are no Ministers of Christ that do not abide in his Doctrine but are of Antichrist and are Lords over Gods heritage Mat. 23.1 2 3 4 5 6 7. Proud Pharisees they are and sit in the same seat and act the same things as they did they have the chiefest places in the Assemblies as the Scribes and Pharisees had which were enemies to Iesus Christ they love the greetings in markets as they did and to be called of men Masters as they were and suffer men to worship them with cap and knee and are enemies to Iesus Christ as the Scribes and Pharisees were and hold up that which he came to throw down and so walk contrary to Iesus Christ herein they shew themselves to be Antichrists and of the sa●…e generation that persecuted Christ when he came in the flesh as they do now that he is appearing in Spirit and the chief Priests were the greatest persecuters of him then as the Priests of Yorkshire are now who follow their steps 3. They are exceeding covetous and burden and oppress poor people Acts 20.33 34 35. 1 Cor. 4.11 12 13. 1 Cor. 9.15 16 17 18. Gal. 1.10 Jam. 2.1 2. and are light and wanton living in pleasures and wantoness upon earth which the true Ministers of Christ did forbid as in all things they were good

it will guide your minds towards God who is pure and cause you to stand in his pure fear which will lead you into the true wisdom of God to govern the people in righteousness and to take away that unrighteous Law or Statute made by Queen Mary which the Priests your Petitioners make their refuge to persecute and Imprison the Righteous by and deny the Law of God or practise of the Saints the people of God in former ages as in 1 Cor. 14. When any thing was revealed to him that sate by the first was to hold his peace and the other was to speak and all might speak one by one that all might be edified let that of Mary be put forth and put in one in order to this which was the practise of the Church of God that the deceivers may be laid open and made manifest what they are Act in righteousness that you may receive the blessing Take heed of holding up that which God is throwing down now he is making his power known casting down the mighty out of their Thrones and bringing down the haughtiness of men throwing down every high thought and every high Imagination Let such Laws be established as tend to the punishment of evil doers and countenancing those that do well and then you will see the Foxes and false Priests will be found out Let truth be declared freely by any one where it is made manifest Who art thou that wouldst limit the holy one of Israel by thy carnal mind What ever thou art God will limit thee and throw thee down out of thy Throne be what thou wilt But thou that lovest the truth and standest up for it as it is in Jesus thou shalt be Crowned with Glory Quest 1. Is it according either to Conscience or the Law of Equity and reason that theeves should make their prey of the Righteous Consider of it and lay it to heart 2. Is it according to Equity or the truth of God that any mans Conscience should be kept under a beastly corrupt mans will that swells in anger and if any go to ease his burdned Conscience to be beaten and set in the stocks and stoned in the streets is this according to the practise of the Ministers of Jesus Christ Let the Scriptures be your Rule and the Lord your judge and be not upholders of those deceivers for God will honor himself in throwing of them down 3. Is it according to the righteous Law of God or mans corrupt will that the righteous should suffer and the wicked go free and escape by lies and flatteries let every thing be brought to light and let the transgressors be punished and the Innocent cleared For God will be honored and he will not always strive he will reprove even Kings for his righteous childrens sake and he will take away the reproach of his people himself and no deceitfull person shall dwell in his house God is a Spirit and none knows him but such as are spiritual and born again and the righteous they suffer and no man layeth it to heart but God is judge himself and he will be avenged of all his Enemies 4. Is there are reason that we should pay or be compelled to pay for that which we have not is not this unrighteous They say they are Ministers and we do ask them what Scripture they have for their Rule to take tythe Hay or Corn tythe Lamb and Wooll tythe Eggs and money for Reak passing up our Chimnies and money for Mares and Foals and Kine and Calves and tythe Apples and Cherries and to have an end of all our labors we would have them to give account of their Ministry and how they came to be made Ministers of the Spirit and what Scripture they have for their Rule to take tythes and whether it were ever the practise of the Ministers of Christ yea or no who laboured with their hands and desired rather to dye then to make the Gospel burdensom that they might be examples to all that come after and they walking contrary to Christ and his Apostles have lost their examples and make the Parliament their spiritual sword and carnal bulwark for the account of their Ministry or ground of their Doctrine and say the Parliament do allow them and can no ways clear themselves by Scripture and we finding the Ministry of Christ to be a free Ministry and the Gospel not to be burdensom though they clear themselves to be the Ministers of man and not of God the Apostle was a Minister not made by the will of man but by the will of God and these walking contrary to the Ministers of Christ and contrary to the Scriptures and we never profited by them they starved our souls by their cold dark and barren Ministry of their own Inventions and they say that we would justle God out of his Throne but it is but the God of the World Mammon which they so much thirst after for it is the desire of our souls to see the onely true God to sit upon his Throne ruling by his power and every Spirit and as the Lord is large in his love to us though they call us Papists Quakers or what Nick-name they can invent and every way seek to cast dirt upon the pure Truth standing in opposition against the power of truth in any where it is made manifest as Jannes and Jambres did but their folly shall appear to all men as theirs did but we cannot in Conscience pay for that old rotten stuffe which runs out of their old bottels old corrupt natures which poureth forth nothing but corruption and bitterness as Railings and Revilings and cursed speakings speaking evil of that which they know not and because we cannot buy of their old stinking wares as we did formerly not questioning them took them for good upon their words but now the Fountain of their stinking puddle is made known and the Lord teacheth us better things we are ever bound to praise his name and we receive of his Love and spiritual teachings freely receiving and Grace for Grace growing up from Grace to Grace in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and as we have received freely we are made to hold it forth freely to others again not seeking our selves as they do but seeking the good and welfare of one anothers Souls by the power of the Lord as it ruleth in us running forth to seek the good of all and we cannot hold them up in their deceits and we cannot pay for that which we have not neither did we ever receive any spiritual food or refreshings from them we testifie against them as it is our bounden duty to let our light shine forth to others and though the proud Priests as in all that which they do it is for money which is their Diana and all that which they look after They do not seek us but ours And as we receive of the Lord freely we cannot but declare though they

hearts and that is the good that they believe in them for all feeding daily on the forbidden fruit for both Pride and Covetousness is forbidden and those that live in it both Priests and People are in the broad way in the fall and under the curse 3. The Priests live in rayling and lying and speaking evil of that which they know not and they live in pleasures and wantonness and heady-high-mindedness Lust and revenge to persecution oppression and grinding the faces of the poor and see if these be not fruits of darkness and whether they do not live in them and the tree is known by its fruits and if this be not Atheism Ignorance Blindness Delusion and Herresie and errs from the truth for they are no fruits of the Spirit but of the flesh and of the seed of the Serpent whose head is yet unbruised in them that act those things And the People they follow the example of the Priests and believe that if they do such things that are teachers and leaders of them they may do the same and follow them as Examples and because those things are delightsome to the flesh they love them and believe in them for good and would not leave the evil of their doings but cry out against those that speaks against them for their ungodly deeds And because they cannot but declare against their deceits in speaking the truth they cry out saying that they lade them with contempt and reproach and disturb them c. But the time is come that they cannot endure sound Doctrine The Priests cannot endure sound Doctrine are not the Priests here in York-shire in the same state and condition that the false Priests and false Prophets were in whom the Lord sent his true Prophets to cry out against then as he sendeth to cry out against these now Isaiah was sent to cry out against them and called them dumb dogs yea greedy dogs shepherds that could not understand that never had enough for they did every one look for their gain from their quarter Isaiah 56.10 11. and because he spoke the truth he was hated of them as those do hate the Servants of the Lord now that testifie against their deceits and disturb them breaking their carnall peace and false rest and now they cry out against it Jeremiah he was sent to cry out against them and said that they held up a filthy and a horrible thing for they preached for hire and did bear rule over the people by their means Jer. 5.30 and do they not so now was not Jeremy lade with contempt for declaring the truth and put in the Prison and in the Dungeon and am I become your Enemy because I tell you the truth doth that lade you and disturb you or do not you lade the servants of the Lord that are sent to tell you of your deceits and deceiveableness and render them odious to the People but the Lord will clear up the Innocency of his People and take away the names of reproach from them and give you the cup of his fury that you may drink the dreggs of it and be ashamed of the evil of your doings Malachi He was sent to the Priests to tell them that their blessings were curst Mal. 2. and you are now found in the same state and condition doth truth lade you and disturb you and break your peace It must be so for God is against you and you are those that cause the truth to suffer and lade it by reproaches and revilings and persecutions as your fruits make it manifest and so you must drink the cup of trembling and astonishment for Jerusalem shall be a burdensome stone to all Nations for the Spirit of God is grieved by you that burden and oppress poor creatures and are never satisfied crying out for means for your bellies making your bellies your Gods seeking after earth and earthly things Whose God is their belly whose glory is their shame who mind earthly things persecuting and imprisoning and shamefully entreating those that are sent to preach the glad tidings of the Gospel and you fill up the measure of your fathers Iniquities as your fruits do witness against you that you are they that stay the righteous and persecute the Innocent and are drawing upon your heads wrath without remedy even wrath to the utmost for he will plague the Beast and the false Prophet and burn the whore with fire and confound the wisdom of the wise and bring to nought the counsel of the prudent that he may reveale himself to babes and teach them the knowledge of his truth for he will rule all Nations with his Iron-rod who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords the Lord God omnipotent ever praised be his name Petition Lastly They take boldness to represent that the liberty granted by the Parliament in matters of Religion and the worship of God is much abused to the increase of Popery and prophaneness contrary to your intentions in the same c. Answ It grieveth these persecuting Priests that any liberty should be granted for the Truth to be declared lest that their deceits should be laid open and are troubled that the Parliament should see beyond them to give some liberty that truth may not alwayes be bound under the powers of darkness ruling in the proud Priests but light is rising in Parliament and people to see the deceits of the Priests though they would be giving meanings by their old-author studied spirit got out of old Authors at the University where the fountain is corrupted full of dead mens bones and now it stinks now that their deceit is discovered how they have deceived the people in the night time the time of darkness whilst the Mysterie of iniquity bore rule in man now light is risen and is arising to see how they have a long time blinded the people in giving meanings to the Scriptures which are true as they speak who do come to see them fulfilled can witness it as there are many in those parts can bear testimony to the same and now that the subtile Foxes are beaten out of that hole they would make the Parliament believe that there stands need of a meaning to be given to their late act or grant for liberty in matters of Religion as if they knew not what they did intend in the thing without they give them a meaning to their intentions but because it is contrary to their intention that is the reason that they would not have any to know any thing but what they suggest or put into their brain but brain knowledge is dying and now the Priests are crying to Magistrates to help to uphold them but as light doth arise in the hearts of the Parliament they will be ready to put out their dim lights and give such grants for liberty of Conscience that truth may be declared in every place that which is revealed in secret shall be declared on the house top and that will make