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A89853	Several petitions answered, that were put up by the priests of Westmorland, against James Nayler and Geo. Fox, servants of the most high God, persecuted by the priests of the world, as Jesus Christ and the apostles were persecuted by the Jewish high priests for the witnessing of the truth, and testifying against the deceits of the world. With the answer to an order given forth by the justices at Appleby sessions, contrary to the law of God, and the laws of the land. Also, an exhortation to the people, to mind the light of God in them, the teachings and leadings of the spirit of truth; the which if it be obeyed, will lead and guide them into all truth.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.; R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.; Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1653 (1653)	Wing N316A; Thomason E703_4; ESTC R3636	42,778	72

that which we preach is not after man neither according to mans will but by the will of God For we are not made Ministers by Oxford and Cambridge for that we deny Gal. 1. 21 12. Gal. 1. 1. We stand condemned by you who are Ministers of the Letter and not of the Spirit who are Ministers by the will of man and your Call and Authority is by the will of man Obj. Hvae filled it in some parts with very sad divisions Answ Truth did make division when Deceit was at peace For Christ said I come not to send peace on the Mat. 10. 34 35 earth but a sword for I am come to set a man at variance against his Father and the daughter against her mother the daughter in law against the mother in law and here is the Scripture fulfilled Pr. Obj. Stirred up much wrath and strife even between the neerest relation Answ It seems hatred wrath and strife were within now truth hath stirred it up When the strong man armed keeps the house all the goods are at peace till a Mat 3. 27. Luke 17. 20 21. stronger come and dispossesses him and spoyls his goods and here is the Scripture fulfilled where the 1 Cor. 6. 19. 1 John 3. 8. power of truth dwels and the Kingdom of God is come who are indeed the Temples of God the works of the Divell destroyed hatred malice wrath strife heresie and blasphemy pride hypocrisie and dissembling where the truth rules these are destroyed and where these rule truth rules not and consider all you pretended Ministers what you have been doing all this while that there is so much wrath and strife to be stirred up when the truth comes for that is it that sets at variance O all people consider what blind guides you have been led withall why spend you your money for that which is not bread and your labour for that which satisfieth not Ho every one that thirsteth Isai 55. 1 2 3. come freely without mony and without price hearken diligently unto me saith the Lord that your souls may live Pr. Obj. And powerfully seduced multitudes of people from the truth Answ Whereas we are accused as seducing people from the truth it is false for how can they be in the truth who live in malice cnvy strife and wrath for they that live in that nature are turned from the truth which according to your own words much of that is Mat. 15. 9. Col. 2. 22. 1 John 2. 26 27. stirred up The Lord hath sent us and made us to come into this County to draw up people unto himselfe from the Doctrines and Worships of the world John 11 7. All people are seduced by you whom God hath never sent for I will prove by the Scriptures that you are seducers and draw people from the teaching within them to follow your imaginations what you can study out of the letter which the holy men of God spoke forth freely the which now you make a Trade of And Iohn 1 Joh. 2. 26 27. said These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you you need not that any man teach you but as the anointing teaches you all things Now if an hundred or a thousand people should come and deny all you Priests and witness they had this anointing within them then this Scripture being fulfilled John 15. 25. and you denied such you go about to persecute which witness this anointing within them and need no man teach them Herein you shew that you have not the same spirit that was in them that wrot that Epistle but the spirit of the world the world did not know them then which were taught by that anointing but hated them as you do now them that witness the same annointing ye hate ye are the Antichrists of this world and hate them who are not of this world and seek to bring them from their teacher within to follow you who go in the way of Cain to envy and after the error Jude 11. of Balaam Here you shew your selves to be seducers and such we do deny but to every mans conscience do we look to be made manifest and we do not seek to draw any one from the anointing within them but do exhort all there to wait and abide for the promise which is eternall life to them that abide in the anointing 2 Cor. 4. 2. 1 John 2. 25. 2 Tim. 3. 3. but you false accusers are without which the Scripture speaks of Pr. Ob. And from the worship of God Answ That is false to say we draw any from the truth for we can do nothing against the truth but for the truth as the Apostle saith but all corrupt wayes we deny and abhorre and the worship of the wicked we deny who have not their names written in the Lambs Book of life and God is not worshipped with mens hands neither dwels he in Temples made with hands and for witnessing this Steven was stoned to death when the high Priests examined him which generation you shew your selves to be in the same nature holding up outward Temples and Synagogues which we deny and seek to draw people from these things God is a Spirit and he that worships him must worship him in spirit and in truth and this worship we own Rev. 13. 8. Ioh. 4. 22 25. Acts 19. 27 24 and draw people to it up to God from all beastly worships outward Customes imitated of man which is an abomination unto the Lord. Pr. Ob. To imbrace their corrupt and dangerous doctrines and pernitions ways which things are so notoriously known to all men that live in these parts that we need not here say any thing to acquaint your selves with it Ans Corrupt Doctrines pernicious ways we deny which are all your ways you proud Baals Priests for 2 Pet. 2. 2. 15. 2 John 1. 9. Luke 7. 9. he that doth abide in the Doctrine of Christ hath God and he that doth not abide in the Doctrine of Christ is of the Divell Iesus Christ is made manifest who witnesses forth the eternall truth to poor souls who have lived in darkness and blindness these many hundred years have the dark ministery reigned but now the God of power is uttering his thunders and Rev. 10. 34. making his power known and the eternal word of God is made manifest in us this we witness which we preach forth to the glory of our Father Praises praises be unto thee alone Lord God Almighty who art now setting up thy own Kingdom And the same judgement do ye give upon us as the Jews did upon Christ and the Apostles for the Apostle while he was in the Jewish Religion in their outward worship as you are now they looking for a Christ coming without them as you do now at which time Paul was at peace with them but when he did preach Iesus Christ that was revealed Acts 21. 27 28 30. in

Apostle saw then creping into houses leading silly women captive always learning never able to come to the knowledge of the truth and this doctrine hath spread abroad and ye are in it having the form are not the people yet learning silly vvomen indeed some thirty years learning some fourty some fifty some sixty years learning yet must be taught still therfore you and your doctrine we utterly deny For as the Apostle saith ye need not that 2 John 2. 20 27. 1 John 3. 13. any man teach you you know all things but these vvere not of the vvorld nor are they of this vvorld vvho vvitness this teaching nor the Teachers Pr. Object Francis Howgill to be of better deport especially towards the Magistracie and Ministerie of England Answ Would you have Francis Howgill to be like unto the World your selves Is he going from the power and prince of the air which rules in you the children of disobedience therefore you hate him Ephes 2. 2. Iohn 15. 19. Justice he owns which cuts down corruption which brings all into an upright carriage and righteous way towards God and man this he owns and honors in his soul the Ministers of God he owns and such as bear rule by their means as Ieremy cried out against so do I and such as are gredy dumb doggs which seek for their gain from Ier. 5. 30. 31. Isai 56. 10 11 their Quarters which Isa spoke against I speak against and such as are hirelings which Micah cried out against I cry out against and such as seek for the fleece and cloath with the wooll and feed themselves with the fat and kill Exck. 34. 2 3. them that are fed Ezekiel cried out against such and fo do I the pure seed being made manifest in me le ts me see you to be such now see if you can excuse your selves And all such as who lay heavie burdens upon the people and say they are Ministers of Christ and act those things which Christ forbids I deny For saith Jesus Christ they are called of men Masters and have the chiefest places in the Assemblies stand praying in the Synagogues Matth. 23. 4 5 6 7 14. Matth. 6. 5. whose prayers are heathenish and love the uppermost rooms at feasts and love greetings in the market and under a pretence make long prayers devouring Widows houses A Widow hath no husband and Christ cryed woe against all such woe was their portion they painted themselves with other mens words painted sepulchers full of poyson within woe was their portion and there you are woe is your portien he that upholds that which Christ cried out against is an Antichrist and would you have him uphold Antichrist and deny Christ the world never received Christ but Antichrist The Apostle saith They go in Iude 11. the way of Cain and run greedily after the error of Balaam wo unto them Are not all the Priests here And would you have this set up which all 1 Iohn 4. 1 2 3 the Prophets Christ and his Apostles cried out against Where the same Spirit is made manifest it sees you all in error blaspheming God and his Temple Pr. Obj. And by enjoyning Tho. Ayrey and Alexander Dixon and the rest of the speakers and followers that live in this County to abide at their own houses study to be quiet and do their own business labouring in their own calling which is the Apostles Rule and not to wander up and down the countrey as seducers to draw Disciples after them save onely as privat men in way of travell about their own occasions Ans Tho. Ayrey and other friends whom you would have to abide in their own callings according to the Apostles Rule and study 1 Cor. 7. 20. 2 Thess 2. 3. to be quiet that they own but the witnessing forth of the truth doth disturb the man of sinne which makes it now appear he that is called of the Lord being a servant is the Lords freeman like wise he that is called being free is Christs servant ye are bought with a price but be not ye the servants of man Brethren let every one wherein he is called of the Lord there abide with the Lord. This call is a holy call which calls into 1 Cor. 7. 22 23 24. holiness and righteousness without which none shall see the Lord and this call is not of man And the Apostles Rule we do own and witness but as for seducing people we deny it is your own practice we were all seduced by you till God did enlighten 1 Pet. 2. 9. Iob 33. 30. us bring us out of darkness into his marvellous light by which we testifie against all the works of darkness and all who are brought into this light are one in unity as the Apostle saith 1 Iohn 1 7. Iude 20. Isa 54. 13. exhort one another daily as the light doth appear building up one another in the most holy faith and all the children of God shall be taught of the Lord and great shall be the peace of them And the Saints went from house to house who were as one soul and met together in singleness of Acts 4. 32 Acts 2. 46. heart here you shew your selves to be deniers of the practices of the Apostles and of the Saints and would tread it under foot and shew forth a beastly nature under the pretence of humility which is meer hypocrisie and no good at all to poor souls nor for Justice nor for the Common-wealth nor for pure Religion nor for the Church of God nor for godliness but onely for your carnall states and for fear of losing your carnall means doe you rage for they that own pure Religion own us the Church of God owns us and they that own justice own us and who owns the Prophets Christ and his Apostles own us but you who have their forms and not their power persecute us so shewing your selves to be haters of the truth The Apostles Rule and use was to go up Matth. 28. 19. and down the countrey who were Ministers of God and rejoyce in them whom he had made Ministers to witness forth the truth and did plainly declare they had no certain dwelling place How dare you take the Apostles for your cloke and their words and act contrary to their life they were guided by the Spirit of the Lord and they did draw Disciples after them out of the world and earthly mindedness in whom the substance of all Types and Figures was made manifest they Acts 4. 32. 2 Tim. 4. 10. had one heart one minde some indeed did forsake them and imbraced the present world as Demas so would you have us to forsake the power of truth and imbrace the present world then we should not abide in the calling wherein we are called of the Lord. See what a confusion is in your words Object And for the Lords gracious guidance of your selves in the affairs of so great

44. selves to be in envying the righteous seed where it is brought forth but God of his infinite power and love doth preserve his little ones from your hands from devouring them to him be all honor and glory and praise who maintains his own truth and sets up his own Kingdom whose sword is his Word and to it shall all Nations bow though you and many others who are now fighters against Heb. 4. 12. God and would have the Magistrates to help you t is hard for you to kick against the pricks but Acts 9. 5. God hath raised up a light in many of the Magistrates to see your deceits and your envy is made appear Priests Petition That their main drift is to engage the people against the Ministry by reason of Tythes crying out with open clamor against Tythes as Unlawful Antichristian to the necessary overthrowing of the Laws to that purpose bringing an odium upon the Government and tending to stir up sedition in the people to withdraw their due obedience from the Laws and Government of England Answ The receiving of Tythes is Antichristian Are ye all blinde did ever any of the Apostles or Christ receive Tythes or commanded any such thing was not he the end of the Law and where the Spirit of Jesus Christ is it testifies against you who neither walk according to the Law nor Gospel for whom he made Ministers Mat. 10. 10. 8. he sent them forth freely without a bag or stick or scrip without two coats freely ye have received freely give the workman is worthy of his meat but here 's no Tythes no Augmentations now you are not here in the steps of them whom Christ sent forth but shews that you run before you be sent and where the Spirit of the Lord is stired up in any it cries against all such unrighteous wayes Whereas you speak of a necessary overturning the Law there in you shew forth your weakness and a mingle-mangle of your mind As for bringing an Odium upon the government it is false for the righteous Law of God we honor and set up in our souls and that is to govern that which is unruly and unjust As for stirring up sedition as for drawing people from the righteous Law of God that is your own condition under a pretence of making people believe we deny government and the law that is false If you vvere as carefull and vvatchfull in your own Kingdom over drunkards blasphemers swearers fighters liars if you were as watchfull over them then you might say you vvere friends of the government and of the righteous law but if any come into the markets and reprove such things or read a paper in the market against uncleanness such you hale out stone and persecute herein you shew there is no friendship with the Law but if a man bring a sieve of Ballads or Jest books Rimes or Theames and sing these in the markets those are suffered these Libels are not minded which shews now your venome against the truth and against them that speak from the mouth of the Lord. Pr. Petition That besides what others perhaps may know of the blasphemies of them we do plainly see and know that their practises do exceedingly savour of Sorcery the quakings swellings roarings foamings and such as we never Gal. 3. 1. Jam. 2. 4. heard of but such as were possessed of the Divel of persons at their meetings and especially of young children Answ You can judge no otherwise being of the generation of them that persecuted Christ calling truth blaspnemy but blasphemy we do deny sorcery practices we deny and we see you in that geeration in witchcraft and sorcery drawing people to follow your invention who have painted your selves with others words mystery witchcraft all who are drawn from the Spirit of the Lord within to follow your imaginations are bewitched by you with evill thoughts An as for quakings roarings tremblings you say you never heard of and before you professed your selves to be Ministers of the Gospel and yet are ignorant of the Scriptures you are blind and do you make your selves so openly blind and ignorant as not to hear of quaking Moses when he heard the Lord speak unto him he trembled and durst not behold and Moses quaked and exceedingly feared and the whole mount quaked And Acts 7. 32. Daniel when he heard trembled and his breath and strength was gone And Habakkuk he trembled Dan. 10. 11. Habak 5. 16. Acts 9. 6. 1 Cor. 2. 3. Poil 2. 12. Job 4. 14. quivered his belly shook that he might rest in the day of trouble And Paul he trembled when he came among the Corinthians he was with them in much weakness and trembling and he bade the Saints work out their own salvation with fear and trembling And Job he trembled and David he quaked and trembled his bones did Psal 119. 120. Isai 66. 2. 5. quake And Isaiah said Hear the word of the Lord all ye that tremble at his word And Christ said Your brethren that hated you and cast you out for my names sake said Let the Lord be glorified but he shall appear to your joy but they shall be ashamed And do not you cast us out in your mouthes as the filth and off-scouring of the world Is not here the Scripture fulfilled Jer. 5. 22. And Jeremy which was sent to speake unto the people the word of the Lord said Hear this a foolish people without understanding will ye not fear me will ye not tremble at my presence who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea and such a people then upheld Priests that bare rule by their means so doe you now And David he roared and watered his bed with his tears and his flesh wasted till he could number his Psal 6. bones will you say that all these were possessed with the Divell The same power of God we witness now as was then and we witness the Scripture fulfilled and have a cloud of witnesses which are recorded in the Scriptures it shews that they have not heard his voyce which shakes the Heb. 12. 1. Psal 2. 19 20. earth who denies the Letter are not Ministers of the Letter Pr. Pet. And Giving too sad a suspition of it and the more by reason of the known suspitions upon Geo. Fox to deal with the Divell before ever he came to us in these parts Answ Whereas you speak of a known suspition you have a suspition and know nothing he that knows doth not suspect but hath an infallible judgment to judge truth from error with evil thoughts ye judge as they did of Jesus Christ Jam. 2. 4. Mat. 10. 15. who called the Master of the House Beelzebub which generation it appears you are of And as for dealing with the Divel it is your own for I do witness the works of the Divell destroyed for where Iesus Christ is made manifest the works of the Divell are destroyed

in the way of Cain and run greedily after the error of Balaam and many shall follow their pernicious ways of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of O all friends and people see if there be not something within you which shews you sin and evil and the deceits of your own hearts which if you do hearken to it and love it you will love Christ for he is the light and hating this light you hate Christ because your deeds are evil and will not bring your works to the light least the light should reprove them and here i● your condemnation the light within you and it is not a Chapter nor a Verse without you And loving this light it will bring you off all the worlds ways and worships to worship God for they walked in their own ways which spent their money for that which was not bread and there you are in your own ways and it will draw you out of all the worlds Churches into the Church in God and wait in this light and it will gather all your hearts together to live in unity one with another and it will lead you to the everlasting day of the Lord and walking in that light there will be no occasion of stumbling for being disobedient to the light there will be stumbling at noon day Therefore all people prize your time this is the day of your visitation and salvation and if ever you own a clean pure conscience you will own us and if ever you come to know Jesus Christ you will own us and if ever you own the Lord God of heaven and earth and come to know him and worship him you will then own us and know us and if ever you own the life of the Prophets and the Apostles you will then own us to be sent of God and of God and we seek not yours but your saving health and souls good and your eternal peace and happiness and eternally shall you witness us to that which doth convince you I speak that which will witness with me in the end when the thoughts of every mans heart shall be revealed and the book of Conscience shall be opened therefore below in heart and consider where you are and learn the lesson of Christ and put him on and forsake all your blinde guides without you and minde the guide within you they are the sons of God that are guided by the Spirit of the Lord they are not the Sons of God who can profess and talk of the Letter and persecute them which are contrary to their opinions but shew forth to be the children of the Devil and not of God MY name is covered from the world and the world knows not me nor my name the earthly name the earthly man knows and he is afraid of reproach and cannot bear it upon the earthly name he that overcometh hath the new name and knoweth it he that is not come into the War knows it not he that overcometh sitteth in his throne he that overcometh is crowned he that is judged and judgement is brought into victory and then it is set in the earth he that overcometh eateth of the hidden Manna he that overcometh shal inherite all things he that is without hath the old name and wants all things and cannot judge any thing for the natural man knows not the things of God but the spiritual man judgeth all things he that hath an ear to hear let him hear and blessed is he that reads and doth understand what he reads G. F. TO THE Parliament of this Common-wealth and the General and Major General of the ARMY A Declaration of the present condition of several Inhabitants in Westmeriand and some part in Lancashire whose names are subscribed who have been faithful to the Parliament and serviceable in their places to this Commonwealth to the hazard of their Lives Liberties and Estates Declareth THat the Lord hath made known himself and manifested his love to us in letting us see the deadness and emptiness of all the outward Ministry of the world and hath according to his own promise led us forth of the barren Wilderness of outward carnal Worships and is his himself become out Teacher and hath made us willing to wait alone upon him for Teaching By the power and vertue of which we deny all the Teaching which stands in the will of man whatsoever and so meeting together to wait upon the Lords unlimitted power exhoring and building up one another in our most holy faith according to the practice of all the Saints before us Not onely spending the First day of the week in such Exercises but several other days and nights as the Lord gives us opportunity to the great refreshment of our souls and uniting of our hearts to the Lord and one to another to his everlasting praise and glory and having occasion to praise the Lord for that Freedom which the Parliament doth allow us for which the Priests much maligns us and stirs up the ignorant people in their Publique Assemblies to execute their rigour upon us fomentinglyes and accusing us to the Magistrates falsely causing some to be Endicted some Imprisoned and some bound over for no just cause at all And hath done all that in them lies to deprive us of that Liberty which the Parliament hath afforded As may appear by several Orders made at a late Sessions at Appleby in Westmerland wherein they have Ordered That we shall not meet together in the night time which hath been the practice of the Saints in former ages and hath been our practice because there are many Servants and young labouring people which cannot come on the day which comes at the night because we would not give an occasion of offence Wherein we do witness that while we did meet together on the night to sport and spend the time in vanity we were not medled withal but now we do testifie against all such practices and who lives now in the same nature hates us But Justice which cuts down filthiness and gives way for truth to rise we own But there are several got into Commission of the peace formerly Malignants and some that have been actually in Arms against the Parliament contrary to the Act of Parliament and are utter Enemies to the Truth as doth appear not onely here but likewise in Yorkshire where there hath been ten of our Brethren and Sisters kept in Prison in York Castle some of them the most part of a whole year and since the last Assizes were kept in close Prison until one of them dyed and so continued in close Prison until it pleased the Lord to move the hearts of some to procure them more Liberty And whereas we are a people accused to deny Magistracy it is not so For Justice we own in our souls which cuts down corruption which keeps the soul in the death For let every soul be subject to the higher power For all power is of God and that we set up own and honor for Conscience sake and all men in the Lord. Likewise our dear Brother James Nayler lies in Prison in Appleby who served the Parliament under the Command of Major General Lambert betwixt eight and nine years as we believe some of the Army can witness All that we desire is that Books may be printed whereby the Truth may be manifested And if we transgress or offend we are willing to suffer This Petition was signed by Three hundred and twenty nine of the Inhabitants of Lancashire and part of Westmerland FINIS

SEVERAL PETITIONS ANSWERED That were put up by the Priests of WESTMORLAND Against James Nayler and Geo. Fox Servants of the most High God persecuted by the Priests of the world as Jesus Christ and the Apostles were persecuted by the Jewish high Priests for the witnessing of the truth and testifying against the deceits of the world With the answer to an Order given forth by the justices at Appleby Sessions contrary to the Law of God and the Laws of the Land Also an exhortation to the people to mind the light of God in them the teachings and leadings of the Spirit of Truth the which if it be obeyed will lead and guide them into all truth This is the condemnation That light is come into the world and men love darkness rather then light because their deeds are evill He that loves the light brings his deeds to the light that the light may prove them but he that doth evill hateth the light neither cometh he to the light lest his deeds should be reproved But he that loveth the truth and doth that which is righteous cometh to the light that his deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in God John 3. 19 20 21 verses Little Children let no man deceive you he that doth righteousness is righteous even as he is righteous he that committeth sin is of the Divell In this the children of God are manifest and the children of the Divel whosoever doth not righteousness is not of God neither he that loveth not his brother 1 Iohn 7 8 9 10. Marvell not if the world hate you it hated me before it hated you Iohn 1● 18. Blessed are you when men shall hate you and when they shall separate you from their company and shall reproach you and cast out your name as evill for the Son of Mans sake rejoyce ye in that day and leap for joy for behold great is your reward in heaven for in the like manner did their fathers unto the Prophets Luke 6. 22 23. London printed for Giles Calvert at the Black spread Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1653. An Epistle to the Reader Christian Friends REmember the words of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ who said the servant was not greater then his Lord and saith he if they have persecuted me they will persecute you also and saith he marvell not if the world hate you it hated me before it hated you if ye were of the world the world would love you but because I have chosen you out of the world therefore the world hateth you but these are the fruits of darkness that ariseth from Cains generation they that are after the flesh t ey persecute them that are after the Spirit it is the world that persecutes and as they are in their naturall state and condition they know not God but are enemies both to him and His where he is made manifest in Spirit they that are in the corrupt nature are ignorant of him according as it is written in the Epistle to the Corinthians the naturall man knowes not the things of God because they are spiritually discerned and no man knowes the Father but the Son neither knoweth any man the Son but the Father and he to whom the Son reveals him there is no knowing of God but by the Revelation of his Spirit but naturall men such as the Priests of the world who are ignorant of God and are onemies to him being guided by the spirit of error standing up in actuall Rebellion against God now that he is Revealing his Son in the hearts of his people and leading them by the Divine light of his holy Spirit out of Egypt out of bondage and darkness wherein they have been held in the time of the fall while the mystery of iniquitie hath been working and Antichrist sitting in the Temple of God as God shewing himself to be God and the Priests of the world have been casting a mist before the eyes of the understandings of the people by their Greek Latin and Hebrew which is but dung and drosse earthie and ayrie hath driven the people into earthly conceivings imagination having no other knowledge of God but by conceiving and imagining of him are of those whom the Lord complains of by his servant the Prophet saying This people draweth near me with their mouth and with their lips do they honor me but their hearts is far from me and their fear towards me is taught by the precepts of men therefore thus saith the Lord I will gather those that have been scattered in the Cloudie and dark day and I will teach them my self and write my Law in their hearts and put my Spirit in their inward parts then shall ye know that I the Lord have spoken it and I will take you from among the hearthen and gather you out of all Countries and sprinkle clear water upon you and cleanse you from all your uncleanness a new heart also will I give you and a new Spirit will I put within you and I will cause you to walk in my statutes to do them Ezek. 36. Chapter Now the Lord is fulfilling his Promises made of old to the seed of Abraham after the spirit the Immortall seed that is begotten not by the will of man but by the will of God and born again of water and the spirit being separated from all uncleanness and they that live in the filth of the flesh fulfilling the lusts thereof know them not that are born again washed and cleansed sanctified and justified and are taught of God and made pertakers of the Divine nature but are enemies to them it is the same generation now that persecuts that persecuted from the beginning but it is but that the Scriptures may be fulfilled the Beast shall make War with the Saints God and Magog joyns together in Battle against the Lamb the Priests of the world are the greatest persecutors of the truth of God Now as the High Priest was when Jesus Christ came in the flesh the chief Priests were the greatest persecutors of him then stirring up the Rulers and Elders and the rude multitude against him calling him A deceiver and A blasphemer and they spued forth their envie against him in raising false witnesses against him and every way incensing the People against him to cry out to have him put to death Saying Crucifie him Crucifie him and let us have Barabbas let loose which was a murderer and if thou do but Read this little ensuing treatise thou shalt finde something worthy of thy labour being single eyed thou wilt be brought to see Antichrist or the man of sin in A high measure the mystery of iniquitie acting in the Priests of the world that do professe themselves to be the Ministers of Christ but are of the Synagogue of Satan and are enemies to Jesus Christ where he is made manifest and raised up in the spirits of any to testifie against their deceits wherein they do deceive

the people and are in the same state and condition that the Jewish High Priests were in that put Christ to death as thou readest keep thy eye single and be not Partiall and thou shalt see that the battell is begun betwixt Michael and the Dragon the Dragon he casteth forth floods of revilings and reproaches and persecutions after the man childe Christ Jesus as he is arising in the spirits of his people to stifle him in the birth that he may not come forth to raign and where he is Born up into the understandings of any ruling by the Divine Power of his Spirit in any the Dragon with his seven golden heads or the Priests under sever all Colours being the painted Beast that is gilded with their glorious notions having painted themselves over with the words of the Prophets and Apostles that suffered by such as they are of the same generation whose heart is deceitfull and that above measure being full of subtiltie the Serpents head being unbruised in them they labour every way as the Jewish High Priests did to destroy those who are brought to walk in the same state and condition that the holy men of God did In former ages men that were blameless and harmless in their lives and conversations were guided by the holy spirit of God that ruleth in them I know it by experience being acquainted with them in their godly conversation which those Cainish and Jewish spirited Priests goes about to cast dirt upon making them odious to the world stirring up the people in envie and malicionsness against them if it were possible to take away their lives and the Jewish high Priests stirred up the rulers and Elders of the people against both Jesus Christ and the Apostles who were his true Ministers to persecute Imprison and put them to death so do these stir up not onely the rude people in envie and malice but they stir up the Parliament and Rulers of the people by their false petitions to incense them against a harmless and an innocent people to take away if not their lives yet their liberties but where the Lord doth appear in any of the Rulers of the people they will see into the wickedness of the Priests that they are those that persecute the Lord of life in his Saints and servants and they do openly manifest themselves that they are none of the Ministers of Jesus Christ for they did never persecute nor imprison but on the contrary were both persecuted and imprisoned and so are those to whom Jesus Christ is made manifest in spirit now the Lord is setting up the Kingdom of his Son in the spirits of his people and the Kingdom of Antichrist Babylon the mystery of iniquity must be thrown down take heed of holding up that which God will not have to stand he is setting up the ministery of his Son in the spirits of his People and throwing down the ministery of Antichrist which is the ministry of the world as it is made manifest hey do openly appear to those that have their eyes in their head Now friend if thou do but read this with thy understanding thou shalt see that these persecuting Priests knowes nothing of God but are enemies to him and are guided by the Spirit of error walking contrary to Christ and his Apostles who were his true ministers and were guided by his holy Spirit and suffered by the ministry of the word as those dear hearts do that are guided I am sure by the Spirit of the Lord and are as dear to him as the Apple of his eye and if thou do but give thy diligence in reading to Read by the same guide that those are led by that write the ensuing treatise it will bring thee to see the innocency and uprightnes of their blomeles lives and conversation that they are made to suffer willingly for Righteousnes sake according to the command of Jesus Christ and walkers in his obedience knowing that their reward is in Heaven having their conversation in Heaven according to that of the Apostle in the third to the Philip. 20. And their affections being set on things above and not on the earth seeking a Kingdom but not of this world for were they of this world the world would love its own but because they are chosen out of the worlds ways and worships customes and fashions being dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world are brought to worship God in spirit being born again of water and the Spirit as John 3. and having their souls purified in yielaing abedience to the commands of the Spirit as the Saints had which more obedient to the same spirit which purified their souls as in 1 Pet. 1. 22 23. Who were born again as these are Children of the most High God whom the world and the persecuting envious Friests know not for the spirit that is in them is not of God because it Iusteth to envy bontrary to the Spirit of Jesus Christ which is pure and holy and is loving as it is raised up in any to rule and guide them it beareth all the worlds Judgements Reproaches Revilings and Persecutions and suffereth with Joy having the promise of this life and that which is to come thus saith the Lord woe to the wicked it shall be ill with them and they shall be rewarded according to their doings as in Isaiah the 3. 10. But say unto the righteous it shall be well with them v. 11. and saith Jesus Christ blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and say all manner of evil against you falfly as the Priests do by those innocent and harmless ones who are dear and precious in the sight of God and may rejoyce for their reward is great in Heaven according to that of our Saviour in Mat. 5. 10. 11. 12. And that of Peter who saith if ye be reproached for the name of Christ happy are you for the spirit of grace and of glory Resteth on you Rejoyce and be exceeding glad all ye that love the Lord Blesse ye the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever for the Lord is glorifying himself and making his power known and all the Crowns of pride and vain glory and fleshly exaltation must be thrown down and the Son of his Love Raised up and exalted in the hearts of his people to sit upon his Throne Rejoyce for evermore A Friend to the Truth of God where it is made manifest Richard Farnworth To the Right Worshipfull the Justices of the Peace for the County of WESTMORLAND The Humble Petition of divers Ministers and other Inhabitants in the said County who earnestly desire the Glory of God and the Peace of his Church and this Common-Wealth Humbly Sheweth THat James Nayler and George Fox men whose Country habitation profession and condition is to us generally unknown meerly of their own accord without any Pasport Licence or Authority whatsoever that they can shew or we ever heard of have entered in to

did for they asked to release Barabas and crucifie Jesus the innocent and gathered the Elders against him to seek to put him to death so do you now where he is made manifest who are of the same generation Priests Petition 2. The protection of our selves and our Ministers from violence or disturbance in our worship of God and suppression of offenders Answ Where did the Saints or Ministers of God seek to a Magistrate to protect their worship but Acts 24. 5. on the contrary they were persecuted of such which the Jews and Priests did incense them to which is the same you do now as the Jews who came against Paul and said he was a pestilent fellow a mover of sedition a stirrer up of heresie a Ring-leader of the Sect of the Nazarens turning the world up side down and teaches contrary to our Custom and this holy place he told them God dwelled not in Temples made with hands neither was he worshipped with mens hands Acts 17. 24 25 which outward custom you are upholding now in the same nature that they were in when the Jews brought Paul to Felix holding up their own customs by an outward Law as imprisoning him Paul had no Law to maintain him but the Law of God and the eternal Word to guide him and Mat. 23. 4. Gal. 1. 1. Isaiah 33. 22. the same we do witness against all the powers of men but the power of God let every soul be subject too Priests Petition 3. Execution of the Statute against Sabboth breakers and such as under pretence of Religion are in no Religious Assemblies that day Answ All that live in pretence of Religion and not in power is nothing all that owns pure Religion owns us and all that owns the Sabboth the eternal Rest the eternal day owns us but while people have met together to set up you who in the week day invented fashions and on that day put it on so the eye goes out looking at new fashions and in the week day follows oathes drunkenness prophaneness pleasures and such practises we deny but to live righteously soberly in this present world this we own and whom you finde wrangling walking in uncleanness cursed speaking fighting drunkenness upon such you should lay the Law for the Law was made for the Lawless but you pretended Ministers seek to bring upon us bounds who are redeemed from these ways through the love and power of God if you were the Ministers of God you would go about to bring people from under all Law up to God but you shew your selves to be of that generation which shut the Kingdom of heaven from Mat. 23. 13. men which Kingdom is a Kingdom of peace this we witness Priests Petition 4. Charge to all differing judgements to meet together each Lords day peaceably and not to spread themselves to several places for disturbance Answ If any be moved by the Lord to come into your Assemblies to speak the word of the Lord unto them for your souls eternal happiness would you have this limitted this is your intent to limit the Holy one of Israel As for disturbance we all deny and to draw people up to God that we do out of all carnal ways for God is a Spirit and will be worshipped in spirit and in truth and this worship we own and who are here denies all your Temples and Priests herein is one Priest Jesus Christ the Biship of our souls for they who received the Substance denyed the Priests and they met together the first day of the week and when any was moved to go forth they went and witnessed forth the Substance to them that lived in the Shadows this we do and now to deny you Priests being ye cannot witness your call the Temple which God never commanded they that are in the Temples of God do This dark Ministry hath long reigned over people and kept them in bondage underimitated forms but Luke 1. 79. now God is raising a light in his people to gather them up to himself to live in love and unity one with another Pr. Pet. 5. Suppression of persons living without any calling Answ Then this suppression must come upon your selves for you cannot witness that ever you were called of God or sent forth by Jesus Christ to preach the everlasting truth for if you were you would not raise up persecution against them that witness a call from the Lord who of you receive whipping stocking stoning prisoning buffeting and haling us out of your Assemblies who do pretend your selves to be Ministers of Christ wait to have that suppressed in your selves that persecutes then you will not seek to oppress the just for your own ends that ye might be maintained in your beastly worship and your Antichristian ways Priests Petition 6. And your witnessing against all blasphemers of the name of God especially such as are contained in the Acts of Parliament Answ If you would have them witness against all Blaspemers then they must witness against you who calls evil good and good evil and vents forth so many Blasphemies against them who live in the power of truth Priests Petition And if the application of any effectual remedy lie not within your power that you will dlease to joyn with us in this desire and transmit this cause to the knowledge of the Right Honorable the Councel of State as a cause so nearly concerning the peace of England and we shall ever pray c. Answ You would have a Law or an Act forth under a pretence to suppress the truth under the name of Blaspemy because it doth shake your Kingdom who live in your self ends for ranting ways and blaspemy we utterly deny and takers of Gods name in vain which you do in every word you speak because ye know him not he is merciful to the just and unjust but you shew your cruelty against the just and persecute them Here you shew forth your serpentine nature and would beget others in the same envy to joyn with you to be the stronger to tread down the truth as it is written The Beast shall make war against the Lamb but the Lamb get the victory praises praises for ever be to the Lord God Almighty you say the Lords Prayer Forgive us as we forgive them that trespass against us but you persecute them that seeks your souls health seeking you and not yours their prayers are an abomination to the Lord. And what is Right and Honorable will Prov. 28. 9. Iohn 5. 44. Prov. 20. 3. Rev. 14. 7. deny all you and your Petitions for they who owns God and Christ owns us who owns peace owns us and we them in our souls but all the pretenders of God and godliness who live in uncleanness and ungodliness denying the power that cuts down iniquity which we own and set up Therefore all people whose mindes are now bent to raise up persecution and Priests who stands railing in your Pulpits incensing ignorant people

Priests and consulted that they might take Iesus by subtilty and kill him The chief Priests hired Judas to betray Christ The chief Priests and Elders of the people set a great multitud with swords and staves to take Iesus and when he was taken they led him to the high Priests where the Scribes and Elders were assembled the chief Priests and Elders and all the Councell sought false witness again Iesus to put him to death The high Priest when he saw that he could not find witness to condemn him then he arose and provoke dhm to speak that he might ensnare him in his words but when Iesus held his peace then the High Priest did adjure him by the living God to tell whether he were the Son of God or no. And when he witnessed forth the truth the high Priest rent his cloaths and said he hath spoken blasphemy what further need have we of witnesses And from that they concluded he was worthy of death and then they spat in his face and mocked him And when the morning was come all the chief Priests and Elders of the People took counsel against Mat. 27 2. Iesus to put him to death And when they had bound him they delivered him to Pilat When Judas brought again the thirty pieces of silver the chief Priests confessed it to be the price of blood and took consell how to dispose of it The Vers 6. chief Priests and Elders accused Christ before Pilat of many things Pilat knew that for envy they had delivered him The chief Priests perswaded Vers 12 13 18. 41. 43 the people to take Barabbas and destroy Iesus The The chief Priests mocked Iesus on the cross with the Scribes and Elders and said He trusted in God let him deliverhim now if he wou'd have him for he said I am the Son of God The chief Priests called Christ a deceiver The chiefe Priests and Elders devised a lie and gave large mony to the Mat. 28. 11 12 13 14. Soldiers to report it and promised them security in so doing The chief Priests and the Captain of the Temple come upon the Apostles and being grieved Acts 4. 1 2 3 6 c. that they preached through Iesus the resurrection of the dead they laid hands on them and put them in hold and the next day the high Priest and all his kindred gathered together and when he had set them in the middest they asked them by what vowes and by what means they had done this and though they could not deny the power yet they agreed to threaten the Apostles lest they truth should spread any further The high Priest and they that were with him were filled with indignation because of the works done by the Apostles and put them in the common Goal The Acts 17 18 27 28. 53. high Piest called the Councel and all the Senate of the children of Israel against the Apostles and sent to the prison to have them brought and when they were come the high Priest said Did not we strictly command you to teach no more in this name And when the Apostles did still witness forth the truth they took counsell to slay them Acts 7. 1. Acts 9. 1 2 21. The High Priest examined Stephen and for witnessing forth the truth he was stoned to death Saul had letters from the High Priest whereby to persecute the Saints and to bring them bound ot the chief Priests The High Priest commanded to smite Paul on the mouth for speaking truth Fourty Acts 23. 2 14. Acts 24. 2. men having sworn to murder Paul came to the chief Priest for help to act it The High Priest descended with the Elders and a certain Orator who was to inform against Paul The chief Priests Acts 25. 15. and Elders informed Festus and desired judgement against Paul The Priests and the Prophets and Ier. 26. 8. 11. all the people said Jeremy thou shalt surely die because he spoke the word of the Lord. The Priests Ier. 23. 11. and the Prophets accused Jeremy to the Princes saying This man is worthy of death yea both Priest and Prophet are prophane yea in my house I have found their wickedness saith the Lord yea his watchmen are all blind they are ignorant yea they are greedy Doggs that can never have Isa 56 10 11 12. enough they are Shepeards that cannot understand they all look for their gain from their quarters Come ye say they I will fetch wine and we will fill our selves with strong drink and to morrow shall be as this day and much more abundant Awake ye drunkards and weep and howl all ye drinkers of wine gird your selves and lament Joel 1. 5 13. you Priests howl you Ministers of the Altar they build up Sion with blood and Ierusalem with iniquity the Heads there of judge forrewards Micah 3. 10. and the Priests thereof teach for hire and the Prophets thereof divine for money yet will they lean upon the Lord and say is not the Lord amongst us no evil can come upon us and now Mic. 3. 10 11. ye Priests this Commandment is for you If ye will not hear and if ye will not lay it to heart to give glory unto my name saith the Lord of Hosts Mal. 2. 1 2 3 4 I will even send a curse upon you and will curse your blessings yea I have cursed them already because you do not lay it to heart but behold I will corrupt their seed and spread dung upon their faces even the dung of your solemn feasts and one shall take you away with it And ye shall Jer. 5. 30 31. know that I have sent this Commandment unto you that my Covenant might be with Levi saith the Lord of Hosts A wonderful a horrible thing is committed in the Land the Prophets prophesie falsly and the Priests bear rule by their means my people love to have it so but what will you do in the end thereof for from the least of them to the greatest of them they are given to Covetousness and from the Prophet even unto the Priest every one dealeth falsly They have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people Jer. 6. 13 14 15 deceitfully saying Peace peace when there is no peace Were they ashamed when they had committed abominations nay they were not at all ashamed neither could they blush therefore they shall fall amongst them that fall at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down saith the Lord. I was moved to write this after the tryal at Lancaster An Exhortation to the People FRiends do not call this railing because we use plainness of speech and not with fained words nor sow pillows under your elbows as the false Prophets did as you read in the Scripture but we use the same language of the Prophets Christ and the Apostles who spoke against fained humbleness as it is as the Scripture saith They go on