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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26640	A short testimony concerning that faithful servant of the Lord, Thomas Aldam of Warnsworth in the county of York who in patience and tribulation was a follower of the Lamb, finished his course in the truth, and departed this life in the fourth month in the year 1660 : something also concerning Mary his wife, and also concerning Margaret Kellam, and Joan Kellam, his two sisters : with a few words in exhortation to such as are the children of believing parents, or are more lately com'd to be convinced of the truth / given forth in the sense of the great love of God, which hath visited his people in this our age and day, by Thomas Aldam, son to the abovesaid Thomas Aldam.	Aldam, Thomas, 1649-1723.	1690 (1690)	Wing A894D; ESTC R36721	9,885	12

Work which the Lord had for them to do She departed this Life in the Year 1681. And now in the remembrance of these and many other Faithful Servants of the Lord who have obtained a good report through that precious Faith which was once delivered to the Saints for which they in their day earnestly contended and suffered many and great hardships in the openings of Life I find at this time a few Words springing up in my Heart by way of Exhortation to such as are the Children of Believing Parents or are more lately com'd to be convinced of the Truth that they may all prize the Day of their Visitation and make a good use of the Mercies which the Lord hath bestowed upon them that they may keep the Foot-steps of the Flock of God and take such for Examples as walk in that pure and strait way into which the Lord at the first brought these and many other of his People and that none may slight undervalue or let fall the Testimonies of Truth which have been born by such as God at first visited amongst us considering what great hardships and sufferings they passed thorow who bore the heat of the Day through these things many of them hazarding their Lives Liberties and Estates in bearing Testimony to the day of the Lord and the coming of his Christ against such as would have kept the People of God in Bondage and not have suffered them to have gone free to serve him but as the Lord in those days did appear wonderfully with his People in giving them Dominion and Victory over their Adversaries through patient Suffering Now let it be the care of us who are a Succeeding Generation to them and comes to enter to the fruits of their Labours Exercises and Travels that we may ever in Humility dwell before the Lord and keep that which is commited to our trust standing fast to that Liberty wherewithal Christ hath made his followers free and beware of being intangled any more with the Yoke of Bondage keeping out of the Spirit of this World and the Customs and Fashions therein with the Friendship thereof which is enmity with God which whilst some have lookt at and gone after they have lost the right way of the Lord. and have let fall the Testimonies which their Fathers and near Friends have passed through such great things for and as much as in them lies would make their Sufferings and Travels of no effect When I take a view of the sad estate of such my Soul cannot but mourn over them desiring that all such to whom there is yet a day of Visitation continued may speedily return to the Lord that if happily they may find Mercy with him and again put their hands to Gods Plow taking Christs Yoak upon them which is easie and his burden which is light and learn of him who is meek and low in Spirit that they may find rest to their Souls but if they will not turn at his reproof but still revolt more and more going on in their backsliding ways this let them know that the Day of the Lord will overtake them in which he will require his own from them and it will be more tollerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of Judgment than for them But all you whose Faces are still Sion ward and it is in your Hearts to keep the word of Gods Patience and the Testimonies of Jesus be ye comforted in the Lord and let your Souls with mine Bless and Magnifie his Name that he was pleased in his unspeakable Love to visit our Families and Fathers Houses in that great and notable Day of the breaking forth of his Glory and thereby hath stained and removed from amongst the remnant of his People the Beauty and Glory of this World so that now to them there is nothing to be compared with his Love which is not enjoy'd but as we keep his Commandments Oh now let us priue our time and make our calling and election sure and wait to know an increase in the increase of God for this is a day wherein the Lord is looking for Fruits and every Tree which doth not bring forth good Fruit shall be hewn down and cast into the Fire and therefore all keep to the pure Spirit of God in your own Hearts which is that Teacher that cannot be removed into a corner and as you are here found waiting you will be made wise to Salvation and the Lord will seal up his Laws and bind up his Testimonies yet more and more unto your Souls and you will be kept and preserved in a due regard to his Honour following the Footsteps of Christs Flock and so you will come to know the Shepherds Tents where you may all sit under your own Vine and under your own Fig-tree where none can make you afraid your Bread will be sure and your Water will not fail the munition of Rocks will be your Defence and the Lord God Omnipotent coming to take the Dominion in your Hearts to himself you will feel that joy which is unspeakable and full of Glory and this is the Lord making his Babes and little ones in a measure witnesses of so that they can say their lot is fallen in a good Land and their beloved is the chiefest of ten thousands their redeemer is the holy one of Israel their God is the God of the whole Earth Blessed and Magnified be his Name for ever and evermore He it is that hath set bounds to the Sea that the swelling Waves thereof should not surmount their Banks and a Hair of the Heads of his Servants shall not fall to the Ground without his Divine Providence and therefore let us all be encouraged to be stedfast in the Faith and never to be moved from the hope of the Gospel keeping up our Testimonies in our several places to the Truth as it is in Jesus then will the Lord our God still take pleasure in us and honour us with his loving Presence making us instruments in his hand for the shewing forth of his Praises And that thus it may please the Lord to pour yet more abundantly of the Spirit of Wisdom and Holy Understanding upon his Sons and Daughters his Handmaids and Servants that hereby they may be preserved as lights in their several stations where God hath placed them with well doing putting to silence the ignorance of foolish men is the desire of him who is as one of the least amongst Gods People yet in some measure hath obtained Favour and Mercy from the Lord to bear Testimony of his goodness and to his unchangeable Truth for which my Soul is truly Thankful and ascribed unto him the Glory who over all is worthy of the same for ever and for evermore Written the 20th of the 9th Month 1689. Thomas Aldam FINIS

A SHORT TESTIMONY Concerning that Faithful Servant of the Lord Thomas Aldam OF WARNSWORTH in the County of YORK WHO In Patience and Tribulation was a Follower of the Lamb finished his Course in the Truth and departed this Life in the Fourth Month in the Year 1660. Something also concerning Mary his Wife and also concerning Margaret Kellam and Ioan Kellam his two Sisters With a few Words in Exhortation to such as are the Children of believing Parents or are more lately com'd to be convinced of the Truth Given forth in the Sense of the great Love of God which hath visited his People in this our Age and Day By Thomas Aldam Son to the abovesaid Thomas Aldam Say ye to the Righteous that it shall be well with him for they shall eat the fruit of their doings Wo unto the Wicked it shall be ill with them for the reward of his hands shall be given him Isa 3.10 11. The memory of the just is blessed but the name of the wicked shall rot Prov. 10.7 LONDON 〈…〉 G. F's Testimony concerning Tho. Aldam NOW concerning this Friend and Brother in Christ Jesus Thomas Aldam which his Son a hopeful Young Man hath given a short Breviat of his Sufferings Imprisonments and Spoiling of Goods and Beatings Indeed his Sufferings were very many for he often jeopardiz'd his Life with me for the Name of Christ and his precious Truths sake and underwent a great deal of Sufferings and Imprisonments by the Covetous Hireling Priests who are out of the Doctrin and Command of Christ who saith freely you have received freely give which he was moved to declare against But while he put in the Priests mouth of his own Parish he preacht Peace to him but when he could not he prepared War against him as you may see in his Sons Relation as also did the Impropriator And when the Lord moved him to reprove Sin in the Gates and in the Markets Fairs and Steeple-houses then he was made a prey upon then he found the best of the outward Professors as a Bryer and the most upright of them sharper than a Thorny Hedge but their Visitation came upon them and their Perplexity was fulfilled upon them from the Lord which they were warned of beforehand and greatly was he Exercised with the Justices at the Sessions and Judges at the Assizes and Oliver Cromwell warning them all that they might do Justice and of the grea● day of the Lord that was coming upon them and not to Imprison Persecute and spoil the Goods of Gods People but to set them at Liberty but many were hardened and would not till K. Charles the II. came in and then many o● them were turned out of their places Priests and Justices 'T is almost hard to be uttered what Sufferings of all sorts by Professors Priest and Profane this Servant of the Lord went through for the Name of Christ but the Lord with his Eternal Arm and Power upheld him over all and carryed him through all so that he died in the Lord and Blessed are all they that die in the Lord for they cease from their Labors and their Works follow them and he that Believeth though he was Dead yet shall he Live and he that Liveth and Believeth shall not Die And several Years did this Tho. Aldam labor in the Gospel of Christ and Preacht it freely and called others both small and great to come and tast how good Gods word was and take of the Waters of Life freely without Mony and without Price and strove and laboured to keep the Everlasting Gospel of Christ without charge and that was it that made the Covetous Hireling Priests and them that held them up in such a rage against this Servant of Christ who said freely ye have received freely give and Christs Servants did not Imprison nor Spoil the Goods of any but such kept and keep the Testimony of Jesus that he sends to declare his free Grace and Gospel and Love him and keep his Commandments G. F And as I said before my Father was much Exercised in going to bear Testimony to the Truth and against such as Preached for Hire so I shall here give some accompt of several Steeple-houses which he was at to bear Testimony to the Truth after he was set at liberty from his Imprisonment Upon the first day in the Assize time he went into York-minster and standing near unto the Priest with his Face towards him there was he they called Lord Mayor Judge Parker Judge Newdigate and many Country Justices all placed in Seats before whom he stood as a wonder to many during the time of the Priests Preaching and Praying there was one rude man that pressed to have pulled his Hat off his Head another who was Noting down the Sermon nipt him by the Arms and puncht him with his Feet whilst he wept to see the great Superstition and Abomination brought forth in that place which he stood a Witness against whose Spirit was grieved and after the Priest had done he spoke to some of the Heady and High-minded ones as also to others of the under sort who had in times past smitten him in that place and then he passed away thorow the Streets with the Judges to the place were they ought to do Justice and was preserved from the rude multitude Another time for Speaking in the Steeple-house of Warnsworth he was haled out by the Constable and him called Church warden Another time he went into the Steeple-house at Hatfield and there spoke of the things of God but the rude multitude haled him forth and smote him He also went to the Steeple-houses at Wickersley and Edlington and for declaring the Truth there was by the rude People scoffed mocked and reproached but there were some sober minded People in whom much moderation did appear Another time he went into Tickhill Steeple-house and spoke of the things of God but the Priests Flock put him forth and smote him and spit in his Face Mark well what Spirit they were of that thus intreated the Servant of the Lord. Another time he went into the Steeple-house at Bawtry and Speaking in that place after the Priest had done his Sermon of the things of God revealed unto him he was by some of the rude multitude smitten with their Fists and punched with their Feet Another time he going into Doncaster Steeple-house and declaring the Truth he was haled forth by the rude People and not suffered to stay within that place although those called Church-wardens of that place had Three several times distrained his Goods for upholding that House Oh what Iniustice Another time he going into Thorne Steeple-house stood before the Priest Jo. Haworth who commanded the Constable to take out that rude uncivil fellow which came so uncivilly in and made a disturbance the Constable being of a noble Spirit answered he disturbeth no man nor doth any man harm so when the Priest had done his Sermon he Spoke and bore Testimony of

the things God revealed unto him wherefore some of the rude sort smote him with their Tongues as their Priest had done as also with their Fists and punched him with their Feet and spit upon him and put him forth of the place called their Church these things did they upon that day they call their Sabbath-day He went also into the Steeple-house at Hansworth and there stood and kept silence until the Priest Carr had ended his Service as it s called afterwards he spoke in that place his Wife my Mother being then there also who had before in that place declared the Truth and he seeing the rude multitude arising in a tumultuous manner cryed aloud do Justice and see the peace be kept which after he had spoken a rude young Man put his Hat off his Head and pulled him by the Hair of his Head another smote him with his Fist others spit in his Face and haled him out of that place unto the Town-Clerks house where the Constable kept him and his Wife Prisoners for a certain time Another time he went into the said Steeple-house at Hansworth and spoke of the things of God revealed unto him bearing witness that he owned what was of God and that he was not one which what was not of God for which words speaking he was laid hands on by the Neck and Throat Shaken and held by the Hair of the Head by a rude man who said he would lose his Life rather than that fellow should Speak in the Church also other some of the rude sort smote him with their Fists and Feet and as they haled him out of the Steeple-house some of them smote his Legs from under him so that he fell to the Ground and they trod upon his Back and Legs with their Feet he was much bruised and had his Cloaths rent The Priest went away leaving the Sufferer amongst the rude Multitude who was in danger of his Life to be destroyed amongst them Oh! mark the fruits surely they betoken not right Christianity No no its Antichristian yea of and from the wicked one who was a Murderer like Cane The same day in the Afternoon he went into the Steeple-house at Rosington and there Spoke to the People then one Hen. Barton called a Church-warden there with his Fist smote him upon the Cheek who turned to him the other but some of the sober minded People seeing his rudeness laid hands on the said Henry and held him that he might smite no more Another time going to the Steeple-house at Pontefract about when the Sessions was to be held in the Town in which were at that time many called Justices to whom the Priest made a Sermon and after he had done my Father began to Speak of the things of God but the rude multitude would not suffer him but haled him away and smote him Another time going into the Steeple-house of Warnsworth upon a First day after the Priest Thomas Rookby had done his Service as he called it he read a Bill of Declaration which that Priest had put into Court against him for not paying Tyths in which Bill was many lies the Priest coming by him said Sirrah Sirrah you have broken the Law then commanded the Constable to take him away and the rude sort kicked him with their Feet and smote him with their Fists and endeavoured to have rent the Bill in which was written that Thomas Aldam had led away Thirty one Loads of Oats which was of the Priest Tyths whereas there was not Three that was one of the said Priests lies in his Bill of Declaration besides many more Another time he went into the said Steeple-house at Warnsworth and bore Testimony to the Truth for which the said Thomas Rookby got a Warrant against him from some called Justices and he was had before them but the Witnesses which were against him they were so confounded in their Testimonies that he was deliver-out of the Snare which was laid for him the Priest using his endeavours to have had him sent to Prison but the Lord preserved him out of his hands These are some of the Sufferings and Exercises which my Father met withal in bearing Testimony to the Truth and against such as ran when the Lord did not send them and therefore did not profit the People at all And further he being called at an Assizes at York in the Year 1655. to the Barr before Judge Windham one Philip Prince a Lawyer took his Hat from off his Head and kept it contrary to Justice afterwards he did appeal to the Judge for Justice in the Case which thing he did consent to in private but at the end of the Assizes he requiring Justice that Philip Prince might be brought to the Barr who had taken his Hat and kept it then Judge Windham broke forth into much passion and said Sirrah Sirrah you may have your Hat again to whom he Answered otherwise I cannot receive it Judge Windham would have had the Hat restored but would not have had Philip Prince condemned or reproved for an evil doer in that matter so the Sufferer lost his Hat for want of Justice to be had upon the Transgresser and the said Thomas Aldam my Father went Seven Months without a Hat in obedience to the Command of God with his Head uncovered who was a wonder and a sign to all who were covered and not with Justice whose Service to God was accepted which the Proud Lofty High-minded professing Persecutors and Oppressers could not see Another time he being at Doncaster-Market and there declaring the Truth he was sore abused and had his Head broken by a rude man These and many other hardships and beatings he suffered of his own Country-men for seeking the honour of God and his Truth and the peace happiness and well being of their immortal Souls because of which the Devil that wicked one raged and poured forth floods of violence and cruelty to destroy the Birth brought forth by the Lord in him But the Lord being his refuge and hiding place he dwelt in safety where his Enemies could not prevail against him for though he was persecuted and smitten of Men yet was he owned and beloved of the Lord which made his Soul to rejoice that his lot was fallen in this good Land and that he was not only call'd to Believe but counted worthy to Suffer for Christs sake knowing that all such as will live Godly in Christ Jesus must suffer Persecution his reproaches being unto them great Riches And further as he was freely given up in Life Body and Estate to suffer for the most precious Truth of Christ so also was he much concerned in his day with such as were the then Rulers of the Nations he being often moved of the Lord to lay before them the Sufferings of Gods innocent People by reason of which and for the spreading of the Truth many were the trials which he underwent going often times to Oliver Cromwell and such as were in