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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86014	The Quakers shaken, or, a warning against quaking. Being I. A relation of the conversion and recovery of John Gilpin, of Kendall in Westmorland, who was not only deluded, but possessed with the devill. II. A vindication of the said John Gilpin, from the aspersions of the Quakers. III. Twelve lying blasphemous prophecies of James Milner of Beakly in Lancashire; delivered by him Novemb. 14, 15, 16. IV. A relation of a horrid buggery committed by Hugh Bisbrown, a Quaker, with a mare. V. A relation of one Cotton Crosland of Ackworth in York-shire, a professed Quaker, who hanged himself.; Quakers shaken	Gilpin, John, 17th cent.	1655 (1655)	Wing G771; Thomason E831_25; ESTC R207504	16,588	23

it who dare not give testimony to any thing of the truth whereof they have not some grounded certainty but also of a tacit confession of the adversaries themselves or in a Pamphlet set forth by Christopher Atkinson of Kendall wherein he pretendeth to answer what is contained in it there is no denial of the matter of fact but only a multitude of most unchristian expressions cast out against the person of this standing Monument of Gods mercy but those who are acquainted with this Generation will not much wonder at this seeing it is their usual dialect towards all not of their own faction In the conclusion of that Pamphlet before mentioned John Gilpin is charged with drunkenness and returning again to his former filthinesse which is such a notorious falshood that such as have had any knowledge of the said John Gilpin since that time cannot but admire how any should arrive to such an height of impudence as to fasten such a calumny upon him 'T is true there was information given in against him for drunkenness by a Quaker to a Justice of Peace but not upon oath but he being one of their own faction and desiring to have it so immediatly sent forth a Warrant against him but the said John Gilpin being altogether ignorant of it was absent upon a necessary occasion being called to serve the Common-wealth in the Garison of the City of Carlisle but did not fly for fear of the Warrant as that lying Pamphlet doth scandalously report Some of his friends in his absence knowing the Warrant to have issued out upon misinformation took occasion to examine the matter further and told those that were his accusers that it was a grosse forgery to which some of them answered that it was not for he was drunk with sin this was all the charge that any of his adversaries would undertake to justifie against him See whether these persons be not acted with a Jesuitical Spirit who can so grosly equivocate but for the wiping off of this and all other aspersions cast upon John Gilpin by these Instruments of the Prince of darkness the Reader is desired to take notice of these two following Testimonies signed by men of unquestioned integrity who by their acquaintance with him since the time of his deliverance from that grand delusion have fully known his manner of life Whereas several persons called Quakers men of corrupt mindes and reprobate concerning the faith have aspersed John Gilpin as guilty of drunkenness and other licencious practises since the time of Gods great goodness extended to him in delivering of him from the grand impostures of the Quakers These are to certifie all persons whomsoever that we whose names are under-written have since that time taken special and peculiar cognisance of his conversation during the time of his abode amongst us and have found it to be not only civil but also religious and suitable to the Gospel of Jesus Christ and that it hath not been otherwise since his departure from us to Carlisle is very evident to us from the following Testimony of eminent Christians there whose names are thereunto subscribed Kendall Jan. 27. 1654. The truth of this Testimony is attested by us Thomas Walker Minister at Kendall John Myriel Master of the Free School there James Troughton We believe that Mr. Thomas Walker Mr. John Myriel and James Troughton would not certifie any thing but what they know to be true Thomas Sandes William Jeninges junior John Fisher John VVashington Robert Jackson VVilliam Sill WHereas our well beloved Friend and Brother John Gilpin is traduced by some who are enemies of all righteousness to be a man loose and scandalous in life and conversation and tainted with drunkenness and other like lusts These are to certifie all those who desire to and do so sanctifie the Lord God in their hearts and lives the contrary of our said well beloved Friend and Brother And that he is to our knowledge one that walks soberly humbly piously and without reproof being not in the least guilty of these wickednesses which we hear maliciously and slanderously by some reported of him since his abode amongst us which hath been now above this twelvemoneth Nor did we ever hear otherwise by him from any with whom he hath conversed heretofore but that he hath ever walked so as becomes the Gospel that he hath been indeed a man as they will witnesse that knew him formerly not only vertuously inclined but also of a very tender Conscience in so much that than to affirm the contrary We assure you as those who dare not plead for iniquity there can nothing be more false whereunto we have set our hands at the City of Carlisle this third of February 1654. Thomas Craister Cuth Scudholme Thomas Turner Master of the Free School The Reader may haply and not without cause admire how the mouthes of any should be open to speak evil of one whose life appeareth by the aforesaid written Testimonies to have been so blameless and unreproveable but let them consider how exceedingly the Devil is inraged as against all mankind in general so especially against those that are rescued from his snares and then he will not much wonder that these his Children do as in other things so in this imitate their Father The Prophecies and other passages of James Milner a Taylor Novemb. the 14. 15 16. 1652. 1. HE told the people I mean the gadding Tribe who flocked to his house those three dayes that he had fasted fourteen dayes and nights and that he was to fast two dayes more for the saving of two souls which he said were Dorothy Barwick and the Wife of Brian Fell of Vlverston 2. That he must suffer as Christ did and setting a drie and empty Bason in the midst of his house he went many times about it Thomas Hutton holding a knife over his head all the time at last he asked the standers by whether they saw not drops of water and blood Hutton answered yes and then as Milner himself said he gave up the Ghost as Christ did 3. That the fifteenrh day must be the day of judgement and the last day of the old Creation and that Thursday the sixteenth must be the first day of the new Creation That there must come down from heaven a four-cornerd she●● with a sheep in the sixteenth day for confirmation as was conceived of his prophecies but the event not being answerable to his prediction and the Quakers expectation he told them they were faln amongst the wicked and so a Company of them about twelve were sent with a Constable to search the house of John Goads in the night time for a stolne sheep but found none 4. He said there must be a Silver Myne in his Garden a Mynt-house in his fold and James Barwick must be the Coyner and trampling a long time upon a part of his Garden he asked the people if they saw not Silver arise out of the earth but they