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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63511	A true discoverie of the ground of the imprisonment of Francis Ellington, Thomas Cocket, and Edward Ferman whose outward dwellings is in Northamptonshire, who are cast into the common goale in Northampton by the men that are now in commission to do justice, who never read us any law, or any evidence came against us, shewing our transgression as the following lines make manifest : he that hath an eye to see, let him see, and he that hath an ear to hear let him hear.	F. E. (Francis Ellington)	1655 (1655)	Wing T2683; ESTC R37161	8,402	13

A TRUE DISCOVERIE OF THE GROVND OF THE IMPRISONMENT OF Francis Ellington Thomas Cocket and Edward Ferman whose outward dwellings is in Northamptonshire who are cast into the Common Goale in Northampton by the men that are now in Commission to do Justice who never read us any Law or any evidence came against us shewing our transgression as the following lines make manifest He that hath an eye to see let him see and he that hath an ear to hear let him hear And Judgment is turned away backward and Justice standeth a far off for Truth is fallen in the streets and equity cannot enter yea Truth faileth and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey Isaiah 59. 14 15. verses LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black-Spread-Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1655. A true Discovery of the ground of the Imprisonment of Francis Ellington Thomas Cocket and Edward Ferman c. I Francis Ellington living in Wellingborough in the County of Northampton about the 9. day of October 1654. being in my Calling and employment at a Faire at Harborough in Lecestershire and hearing that there was one Willing Dewsbury a Yorkeshire man at a friends house there and he was that day to declare the word of the Lord to the Consciences of the people and being free in my spirit to go to hear him I went to the friends house and heard him declare the word of life to my Conscience which raised the witness of God in me that did own what he spake to be the Word of the Lord which my understanding did enlighten to see the way to eternal life which I had long sought in my imagination of the Saints condition Then was I moved of the Lord to desire his servant who to me declared His word when he was free in his spirit to come to my house which he did upon the 27. day of the 10. Month called December and a friend with him whose name is Joseph Storre who stayed at my house that day and night and on the morrow Richard Denit Constable of the Town came to my house with a warrant from Thomas Pentlow called Justice and said that he came to apprehend one of those two that were at my house I asked him if he had a warrant he said he had I desired him that he would let me read his warrant which he did and I reading it and finding no name in the warrant of him he should apprehend but for one he called Quaker I replyed that I could not see how he could apprehend any of those two in my house by vertue of that Warrant seeing there was not any name in the Warrant but the Constable laid hands on William Dewsbury and said that he was the man and that he should go with him before the Justice which he did the same day and Joseph Stor was moved to go with him to Thomas Pentlow's house in Wilby then I being free in my spirit did with other friends go along with them to Thomas Pentlows house and there hearing the examination of William Dewsbury and Joseph Stor and after that Thomas Pentlow had made their Mittimus and gave the Constable charge of them the said Thomas Pentlow came forth of the room into another room whete I and other friends were and asked me and one Richard Smith what we did in his house and who gave us leave to come into his house and threatned us to make us answer our affronting him in his house at the next Sessions Then I and Richard Smith told him that we came not to affront him in his house neither could he prove it by our carriage since we came into his house but the occasion of our coming thither at that time was to require of him to do us Justice He asked for whom would you have justice against We replyed for one Bridget Makernes of Findon which was at that instant in his house He asked us what she did to us We answered that about two weeks before the said Richard Smith and my self and another friend with us went to Findon and the said Briget Makernes as we were peaceably passing through the street in Findon did abuse us in throwing water at us and stones and dirt and calling us rogues witches and Divels yet we gave her no cause not spoke not to her but left her and for this abuse and affront done to us we come to thy house to desire justice of thee against the said Bridget Thomas Pentlow answered that she had served us right for ought he knew and further said that hewould not do any thing for us against her but charged us to be forth-coming and he would send a Warrant to the Constable before the Sessions to bring us to answer for the coming into his house We replyed and said that he might do his pleasure and so departed About three days after I was moved of the Lord to write these following lines and sent them privatly sealed up to the hands of Thomas Pentlow The Letter THus saith the Lord God Be wise ye Kings be learned ye that are Judges or Justices in the earth serve the Lord in fear stand not in your own will when you judg between man and man but stand in the will of God and execute true judgment for you must all give an account to him of your deeds done in the flesh whether good or evill and now the Lord begins to roar out of Sion and to utter his voice from Jerusalem and wo to all the inhabitants of the earth saith the Lord God and now the time is come that we shall no more say the Lord liveth that brought the children of Israel out of the Land of Egypt but the Lord liveth that hath brought up and led the seed of Israel out of the North Country and from all Countrys where I have scattered them and they shall dwell in their own Land Jer. 23. 7 8. and now the Lord hath made the tidings out of the North to trouble the inhabitants of Babel and it will more trouble them yet it will make them gnaw their tongues for sorrow and blaspheme the God of Heaven for their plagues shall be exceeding great Now to the light in thy conscience which Christ Jesus hath enlightned thee withal am I commanded to speak these words that with it thou mayest examine and see how thou executest Justice and how thou didst execute Justice upon those two faithful servants of the living God that thou hast committed to prison the Law of God in thy Conscience saith that he that preacheth the Gospel hath a lawful Calling and is no vagabond though he have no outward habitation and the Spirit of truth made it manifest in the person of Christ and he that saith he abideth in Christ ought so to walk as he himself walked and he that is commanded of the Lord to preach the Gospel though he be a Judg Justice or whoever must when God Calls him leave Father and Mother

Wife and Children and all and must go preach for whoever he be that sets himself down in a Parish and there to stay during his life to preach as he calls it to a people I affirm that Person was never sent of God to preach but is a false Prophet for there is not one such example in all the Scripture and Christs Commission is contrary to it but blessed be the God of Heaven the Lord hath now raised both Justices Colonels Captains and many hundreds of others in the North that go hundreds of miles preaching the Gospel as those thou hast sent to prison did Now I do tell thee the light of Christ in thy conscience would not have had thee to have been offended at me and others that did not put off our hats and bow to thee but it was thy will and the will of man is the Beast spoken of in Revelation that ascended out of the bottomless pit Thou shouldest have put a yoak upon thy beast for it belongs to him and not have desired honor for that belongs to God thy will is the Beast the Beast is the Serpent and dust shall be the Serpents meat therefore look for no other meat for him of the servants of the living God and the light of Christ in thy Conscience tells thee thou shouldst not have been offended at me and others for speaking to thee in the language of Thee and Thou but here thy will thy Beast thy Serpent having not his yoke on began to be unruly and would have had flattering speeches as yes forsooth and I pray you Sir and I thank your worship Sir but the language of the Spirit of truth and of God himself was that I others spake to thee which was Thee and Thou and if thou beest offended thou maiest I will ask thee did'st thou ever put up any petition or request to the God of Heaven in all thy life time and di'dst thou not desire it in the language of Thee and Thou speak and blush for shame and cover thy lips that thou shouldest be so proud to desire more of thy fellow-creature than thou wilt give to the God of Heaven thy self Besides thou art in a begging condition when thou speaks Thee and Thou to God but I and others came not a begging to thee when we spoke Thee and Thou to thee therefore look to the light Christ hath given thee it will learn thee to put a yoak upon this unruly beast thy will and to give thy Serpent dust to eat for childrens bread must not be given to dogs I know I speak a mystery to thy dark mind and the whore that sits upon the scarlet coloured Beast thy will which is thy imagination and carnal wisdom shall never understand me but to the light of Christ in thy conscience I speak and that bears me witness I speak truth and it understands me the light of Christ in thy conscience tells thee that there was never any persecution of the truth but a Priest had a hand in it and he gets the wicked powers of the earth to carry him to do his mischief for as the carnal wisdom and imagination cannot do any thing without the will which is the Beast that carries them no more could never the wicked Priest which is the whore do any thing in persecuting the righteous seed but by the help of such Magistrates as are evil and corrupt in all ages which is the beast to carry them and these in all ages joyned together But the Beast was taken and with him that false Prophet and cast into a Lake Now I am commanded of the Lord to speak a word to thee concerning thy family for I see unfruitful works of darkness acted by them and therefore I give them a word or two of reproof I see divers of them when I was at thy house laughing at the servants of the Lord and Solomon saith of laughing that it is madness and folly and they gave out in my hearing jeering words and scornful words and those that sit in the seat of the scornful read what will become of them and I see them given to pleasures and he that lives in pleasure is dead while he lives and bodily pleasure profiteth little but godliness is profitable unto all their tongues are all unbridled and when the tongue is unbridled it is an unruly member and it is set on fire of hell I charge thee and them to repent and Fear the living God for the Lord is now arisen in England and you must be purged for the haughtiness of man He will bring down and lay low and though you prison the servants of the living God yet God will bring up others amongst us that will be faithful in doing his message in crying out against the sins of high and low Priest and people in City and Village Markets and Steeple-houses and they cry repent and fear the living God and return to the light of Christ in your own Consciences which convinceth you of sin and of evil deeds and for this the wicked world persecutes them to fulfil the Scriptures but a body God hath prepared them and they can suffer more then the wicked world can inflict upon them and when the wicked have punished what they can they will forgive them and pitty them and when they are beaten they resist not when they are cursed they bless and thus the seed that the Lord hath brought out of the North Country is grown to a thousand and ten thousand in all parts of England and the high Cedars begins to fall apace in England to this mighty power of God for the Lord is very terriblè before the Northern Army that the scornful world call Quakers yet not one of these Souldiers hath so much as a stick in their hands but they have a sword in their mouths and with it they slay the Nations therèfore you that are called Justices you may put them in prison but you cannot take away their Swords for they can slay as well in prison as without and one of them through the power of God dare encounter with a thousandi and overcome them him whom thou hast cast into prison with his sword slew two mighty men and their familiès in Bedfordshire this last week and he hath slain me and hundreds more in these parts and now thou hast sent him to slay some in North-hampton with this sword in his mouth and I am sure the slain of the Lord will be many thereabouts and happy had thou been if he had slain thee when he wàs at thy house for thou must be slain with the sword or else thou shalt nèver see thy Saviour therefore look to the light of Christ in thy Conscience and with that light bring all thy evil deeds to light and to the sword of the Lord and wait in this light for the power of Christ to cross thy will and imagination and that power will lead thee up to Christ and then thou wilt take