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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29607	The guiltless cries and warnings of the innocent against injustice, oppression, cruelty, false-swearers, envious men, and such like witnesses, arisen up against a plain man, or, A living and true witnesse condemned, through want of sound (yet through unjust) judgment : together with the unequall and unreasonable proceedings of Humphry Wildey, Mayor, and Edward Solley, and Robert Sollers, Aldermen, and Justices of the city Worcester, as may plainly appear by what followeth, besides the unjust sufferings of the guiltlesse ... / from the hand, mouth, and very heart of a true Friend, and not an enemy to the person, or well-being of any man, woman, or childe within thee, O city, or upon the face of the earth, throughout the whole creation of God, or of that which lieth under the cruel bondage of death and corruption, for which I suffer, and labour, and travail, with, and among many brethren, for its perfect freedome, and restauration, into the glorious liberty of the sons of God (as in the beginning), whose servant, witnesse, and prisoner for the elects sake, I am called by men Daniel Baker, by scorners, a Quaker.	D. B. (Daniel Baker), fl. 1650-1660.	1660 (1660)	Wing B482B; ESTC R22840	14,464	20

wickedness rather than to be condemned of the Lord by his Witnesse the Light of Everlasting Life of Righteousnesse revealed in me Yet I am subject to every Ordinance of Man for the Lords sake Active or Passive to be plain thus Active in obedience to the Ordinances of Man that are Just Equal or Equitable Wholesome and Reasonable founded on and according to the Righteous Equall Royal Law of God which is so just and also Passive by suffering under the contrary as a Testimony against it and them that ministers it forth in its many and Various Appearances And This many Hundreds that fear and obey the God of Truth with me in the strength of Jesus the Light that saves us from Sinnes Do even for the Lords sake And through thy Gate and Street O CITY the sound words of the Living Testimony of God in this his mighty Day hath entred and even into the Ears and Hearts also of many of thy Inhabitants whether they love to retain or keep the wholsome Sayings or not or hear or forbear yet bear with me and listen O Ye Inhabitants of this CITY and hearken O all ye Inhabitants of ENGLAND and of the NATIONS afarr off to whom this shall come and give ear to the words of a True Friend even to the whole Creation of God and to the soul of every Man of Male or Female that lieth under the Bondage of Corruption and groans for Deliverance to be brought into the Glorious Liberty which is the true Liberty the same that was in the Beginning the Dominion and Perfect Freedome of the Sons of God Let the Meek Wise in heart answer me Worcester Prison this 9th Month the 12th Day at even and of the Year accounted 1660. D. B. Here followeth a true Relation of several Persons who heard what was declared by Daniel Baker the 20th of the Moneth called October 1660 through part of this City some of which heard him from the begining untill he was forced off the Beast that he did ride on and their Testimonies are as followeth Imprimis FRances the Wife of John Rose heard him declare from the beginning unto the end And her Testimony is That he did warn the people to Repent for Destruction and Misery was near at hand and such like sound Exhortations but not any thing against the King or any other Person Anne the VVife of John VVinfield heard him speak thar The Dreadfull Day or a Terrible Day was near at hand or to this purpose but not any thing that was hurtfull to any mans person Henry Dyson his Testimony is that he spake to this purpose that A Gloomy and Dark Day was at hand but a Day of Gladness to them that fear the Lord and exhorted people to repent William Till heard him speak to this purpose that Wo is to the Wicked or to such who love Sin but unto them that did deny Ungodlinesse a Day of Peace with many other Godly Admonitions Robert Smith heard him say that A Day of wo and Astonishment was at hand but a day of Gladness and joy to the Upright in heart witness Elizabeth Smith Richard Till said that he heard him counsel the people to Repent for the Kingdome of God was at hand but not any thing touching the Rulers of this Kingdome Philip Bearcroft and Edborough his Wife heard him exhort the Inhabitants to be awakened for the day of God was nigh I Robert Edwards restifie That the Man that declared in the Street from the Cross to the Place where he was pulled off the Horse I was an Eye-witness an ear witness of his riding and of his behaviour in his declaring as I went from the Cross near to him within the hearing of him all the way And he spake nothing touching the King nor of his Majesty nor of Tyrant nor Usurper nor of the Nation nor Nations nor Government nor Governours Rob. Edwards Dorothy Martine and Margaret Drue they heard him say That the Light was a shining forth and that it would shine forth more and more and that the Day of the Lord was at hand But nothing against the King His Government or any ones person Thomas Garret's Testimony is this that he heard him say that Christ was a shining forth in the Nation and that he warned people to Repent and that the Day of Judgment was at hand but nothing against the King his Government or any mans person And divers others who were VVitnesses of what D. B. said their Testimony may be produced who heard him speak words to the same purpose who heard nothing spoken by him against the King or Government or the person of any one D. B. THE END

freely cryed within thy Gates O City And this is the message of the Lord in the Name of the Lord and not in my own to the Inhabitants of this City as I declared to be fulfilled in its season And furthermore this Day of the Lord which is the Light of our Lord Jesus Christ the true Light by whom the World was made who lighteth every man that cometh into the world and is the way prepared before the face of all People and this everlasting Light of the Lord Jesus Christ as I declared is breaking forth and shining over all the Nations and is to awaken the Witnesse of God in every mans Conscience So that according to its Testimony in every man even so shall every mans words thoughts and wayes and Actions be tryed and judged justified or condemned Wherefore as I said and yet say The Witnesse of God which is the Light of Jesus and not of the Natural man carnal or darkness in every Conscience of the Inhabitants of this City and of the Nations of the Earth is to and may be awakened and arise to judgment and to guide people in the way of Peace Love and Unity with God and one with another and with the whole Creation and to do unto all men in this good old way the Light as they would be done by and to speak the Truth every man from his heart to his Neighbour And verily if people come not to be exercised in this good old way of Light and Life whatsoever they do and may profess or be called in words all their Religion is and may be vain for this is the Law of the Prophets according to the saying of Jesus Mathew 7. and the Love that fulfills it is the Light in the Heart and the Light is of God and that which may be known of God is manifest in them for God hath shewed it unto them and so the people shall all be taught of God who is a Spirit to worship him in it who is Light to walk in it who is Love to love God again and one another and not to kill or devour but to love neighbour as self as saith the Holy Scripture And Moreover the time is a at hand and behold it cometh to passe That it will be more tolerable for them called Turks Infidels and Heathens then for many of the Inhabitants of this City and of Englands professing and profane Inhabitants whose life doth not shew it self like the Apostles and let as many as desire to have a right and good Understanding to discern the ground and cause of my Sufferings Together with many more of my Dear Friends in this City and throughout the Nation let Them with a meek Spirit and in the fear of the Lord deliberately and not hastily read this throughout and suffer the True Witnesse to arise to answer to the same Testimony from whence the words come and know that according to and after this manner the words of my Testimony was declared in the 8th Month the 20th day without and within thy Gates O City And after that Men that feared not God did beat and also wickedly threatned often to take away my Life as one called Captain Thornbury did many times with his sword drawn directed and put towards my breast and to thrust it into my Guts as he threatned many and divers times with wicked and desperate swearing and cursing not becoming a Souldier or the Spirit of a man an Englishman to a naked man that neither spake nor thought evil against any one man woman or childes person upon the face of the whole earth He that searcheth my heart knoweth its even so And while he the said Captain Thornbury so call'd had caused my body to be halled dragged and abused and to be thrown from place to place in the Street of the City breathing out his cruel vile threatnings together with bloody Oaths and cursed Speakings which thereby strengthened the hands of many wilde brutish and ungodlike men women and Children whilest I was among them in the meeknesse and strength of God even as a Lamb among a company of Ravenous Wilde-beasts Bears Lions and devouring Wolves bereaved of their whelps and as they were after this manner drawing me before the Judgment-seat some crying out Knock out his brains before he goes any further and many such like cruel threatnings and revilings doing violence O ye Rulers forget not but remember the wickedness acted by them called Mountebanks many dayes acting wickednesse within the City notwithstanding they were warned by sundry of the servants of the Lord in the 8th Month 1660. who were halled bearen and abused for the same Furthermore one of these called Mountebanks acting wickedness after their accustomed manner folly and madness upon a stage in the open street of the City with his face almost all black with a Crown upon his head And what is this a honour or dishonour to the King O Ye Magistrates But what has your sword been laid upon this Transgressor yet And Is not this and Bull-baiting together with the abuse of the poor Creatures of God and such like madnesse and Revellings and Abominations Are not these things a great dishonour to the God of Heaven to the King to you and your City O ye Rulers in meckness Consider and hold forth your sword and let your eyes be open to see where to lay it lest the Lord require it at your hands These are the words of God to Ye through his Prisoner D. B. A lamentation sounded in my heart for the Sober Inhabitants of this City And Lo the Spirit of the Lord within me shewed me how it was with Jonah and the Nenivites how that they suffered him to deliver his Message and to cry when he entred into the great City Ninevy a dayes journey and behold The Prophane Inhabitants of this City would not suffer me with my precious life in my hand which I had received power to lay it down and to take it again to obey the Lord of Heaven hardly half an hour to cry against Sin and to declare Glad-Tidings and to warn them freely to Repentance as before exprest And Whilest my minde was thus meditating in the Counsell of God whilest they were threatning and drawing this body in which I am before the Judgment Seat the good Spirit of the Lord the Holy God in me rather justified the men of Ninevy than the hard-hearted blood-thirsty men of this City And Lo this Cry immediatly run through me viz. That the men of Ninevy shall arise up in Iudgment against this Generation And Friend and Friends Know Ye again That after this manner the words of my Testimony were sounded forth through me even as the good Spirit of the Lord in my heart gave me utterance to which my Soul is become subject Glory to the God of Truth and Lo I rather chose to fear and obey God than man that shall dye and to be condemned of the world that lyeth in

Gomorrah that suffered the vengeance of Eternall Fire greater Let the Wise in heart consider and judge and let all be warned as once and again yea and many times within thy Cities and Towns and chief Places of concourse O England In singleness and uprightness of my heart in obedience to the Lord of Heaven with my precious life in my hand which often through the loving kindness of the Lord I have received power to lay it down and to take it again according to the perfect Example of the Captain of my Salvation and Elder Brother to cry Repentance I say it to the end that all may be warned to bring forth fruits meet for Repentance unto life as it becometh all that make mention of the Name of the Lord which I also freely cryed within thy Gates O City And what is this Crime worthy of Bonds or Imprisonments within thy bowels O Nation How often has the Scripture been fulfilled within thy Borders Truth is fallen in the Streets and Equity cannot enter and Iudgment is turned away backward and he that departeth from evil and reproveth Sin in the Gate maketh himself a prey and becomes a signe and a wonder to an evil gainsaying and adulterous Generation And the Lord saw it yea and hath seen it and it displeased and yet displeaseth him because there is no judgment as in the Ancient dayes A Lamentation Wo and Alas for thee O England O Shrewsbury Lo thy crying Sins together with the multitude and variety of thy Abominations have reached Heaven even up to the very Throne of God and verily his Eternall Eye from above hath beheld and looked down and to his wounding hath long and many a time refrained himself and sent his Word of Life in his Lambs freely to warn and visit thee to Eternal Judgment and Salvation Wherefore Let the Wilde Brutish Unstable Double-minded Hard-hearted Inhabitants within their Dark Habitations of Cruelty and of thy strong Holds O SALLOP O Sodome Remember and forget it not if happily yet it may be for their good Before your Day passe away over your heads even as the Wind which bloweth where it listeth and Lo the sound you have heard yet it obeyeth the Lord But Do Ye yet know O Ye Men without a good and perfect understanding whom my soul pittieth from whence it cometh or whether it goeth Yet Blessed are and shall they be that Read and lay it to heart for good But to return to what I was speaking of before Know Ye O Magistrates and Inhabitants of this City again That the Testimonies of the Swearers that rise up against me are wickedly false and therefore judged and condemned with the True Eternal and Spiritual Light Christ in me and not any other but the same that lighteth every man that cometh into the World and the True Living God who is Light knoweth and behold I testifie again that I had not no not so much as an evil thought in my heart against any man from the time I began to sound forth my Message which the God of heaven put into my heart to sound freely forth whether people can believe me or not which in obedience to the Lord I freely did declare till I was violently pulled off the Beast I rode on nay nor then neither But as to what these Wicked men have falsly sworn against me again I say Lo I am even as a Babe born as it were but yesterday and it s my desire in the truth and nakednesse of my heart if haply they may find a place of Repentance unto Life and that they and all may be warned from henceforth not to do act or speak contrary to the Light of Jesus in their Consciences and that what these men have done against me may not then be laid to their charge who simply have not known what they have done for they have hated me without cause Father forgive them that know not what they do and let them know My Innocency stands justified and not condemned before the pure presence and Throne of God the Light the Judg of all Whether you O men can believe me or not it s even so though I am with and among many Brethren Sons and Daughters of the same Family or Houshold of Faith condemned of wicked ungodlike unreasonable men who are out of the Faith of Gods Elect that 's a Mystery held in a pure conscience and respects no mans persons without which Faith its impossible to please the Living God and thus it hath happened from Generation to Generation they who were out of the Faith of Gods Elect in the respect of persons giving and receiving honour with flattering Titles one to another which is from beneath earthly and sensual and not that which is from above True Heavenly Eternal and Spiritual alwayes since the beginning hated and persecuted them that were born of the Spiritual Birth from above and so it is at this day That which is born of the Flesh is Flesh and from beneath persecutes that Birth that is born of the Spirit which is Spiritual Heavenly and from above and not from beneath or of the world that lyeth in wickednesse and therefore do they hate us without a cause even as they did Gods Lamb who is our perfect and compleat Example and Captain even of our Salvation So that we marvel not at the matter to see or feel the Birth born of the Flesh Death and Hell that 's from beneath persecute that of the Spirit of Life from above And behold it cometh to passe That the true Witnesse in your Consciences and also in many more in Englands Nation the Land of my Nativity or Place where my first birth was begotten and brought forth and as a cloud consumed away and dyed yet behold I live shall be awakened and arise to justifie and not condemn and answer to the words of my Testimony given forth and declared now and within thy Gates O City Worcester wherein I delivered forth the Message which the Lord of heaven had put into my heart to give forth A certain sound and warning to thy Inhabitants O bloody City of the mighty terrible and Glorious Day of God come and coming even a Resurrection Day and behold it s begun to dawn and break forth in England first and it 's shining forth over all Nations Blessed is the eye that beholds it And this Day is and will be a day of joy a day of peace a day of Gladnesse of heart and of eternal Life to all the upright in heart that turneth from Ungodlinesse the Darknesse But on the contrary it is a Day and yet will be a Day of Vengeance a Day of Calamity and Distresse and Perplexity a Day of Wo and Misery a Day of Blacknesse and Darknesse and of Astonishment ●●art yea a Day of burning even in the bowells of such that reject the day of their visitation who turn not from Ungodlinesse and so bring not forth Fruits meet for Repentance which I also