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A91934	Jegar-Sahadvtha: an oyled pillar. Set up for posterity, against present wickednesses, hypocrisies, blasphemies, persecutions and cruelties of this serpent power (now up) in England (the out-street of the beast.) Or, A heart appeale to heaven and earth, broken out of bonds and banishment at last, in a relation of some part of the past and present sufferings of John Rogers in close prison and continued banishment, for the most blessed cause and testimony of Jesus; the sound of the seventh trumpet and the gospel of the seven thunders, or holy oracles (called rayling by them in power) sealed up to the time of the end. From Carisbrook Castle in the third year of my captivity, the fifth-prison, and the third in exile, having been hurried about from post to pillar, quia perdere nolo substantiam propter accidentia.	Rogers, John, 1627-1665?	1657 (1657)	Wing R1809; Thomason E919_9; ESTC R207526	168,327	179

with such uncharitable censures untruths and evil reports of their poor imprisoned brethren insulting over them in their calamities with calumnies now they know they cannot speak for themselves vapouting abroad they will undertake to prove They meaning us in Prison for this Cause suffer not for the Gospel nor for any Truth of the Gospel and doing what they can to make false report of our Principles and Practices which obliges me the more to the publication of this Treatise And by false brethren Besides them and the fore-mentioned at Court there be others too set awork by Satan viz. false Brethren of the Churches we walk with especially two withdrawn from for scandal and sin whose uneven walking and imperious spirit formerly did beat in the body like an uneven Pulse which was growing up to a very high distemper and danger but that the Physician of the Church gave it a Purge and prevented yet these two whose names I am loth to make too publike for who knows but they may repent and be other men which would be great rejoycing to me have most unchristianly reported if not invented such things as my very soul abhors which is publikely spread as far as Lewes in Sussex yea the Pastor of the Church told me for all that he knew as far as Edinburgh in Scotland And this makes me mention it ●he more particularly because no Author can be found for ●t and the Cause of Christ is so much concerned in it which makes the Devil so busie at this day by divers instruments after the foresaid two to report me to have plaid at Cards in Lambeth-prison a very vile Slander the last Christimass as they call it the Cavalier-Prisoners and the rest of the Ranting crew in that Prison did play drink and game day and night all the time but for my part I neither saw nor touch'd a pair of Cards all the time nor to my knowledge any one of my family and to take off all scruple I have had a kinde of antipathy to Cards ever since my suffering with the Puritans so called by the Prelates when I was yet but a childe being then led to it by their example when I knew no other reason and cannot endure to see a Pair of Cards and if I see but any anywhere that I can lay hands of I burn them yet as Metullus was answered in the Senate when he railed against Tacitus It is easie to abuse him who is not suffer'd to answer But I will not fill my pages with such unprofitable lines onely this to take off all stumbling-blocks from good people who else might be prejudic'd against me before they read the following book and as I meet with any other materiall passages or reports as I come at them in order I shall endeavour for thy sake Reader to clear the way for thee knowing there be many who Shemaiah-like would put us in fear as Neh. 6.13 14. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 yea into a fright lest we should go forward that is the very reason 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 But though we be but poor vile worms and meet with as many discouragements on the right hand and on the left as I think such poor men can meet with considering the corruptions of our own hearts and thereupon the Tryals which attend us many times as well as the Troubles which are added to us and our bonds by the unhandsome mouth-purgings and reports of friends and foes good and bad enemies and false brethren yea such as pretend high with us too in this most excellent Cause for and in which we suffer with abundance of divine support blessed be the Lord therefore we hope through his grace we may say We will sooner have our tongues cleave to the roof of our mouthes our eyes shrink and sink into our heads with waiting yea and our bodies rot in the Dungeons then relinquish this glorious Controversie now up for the Lamb against the Beast for which we are in prison or yeeld an inch of ground to our Enemies in these matters Others there be who report highly of our Persecutors on purpose as some did of Tobiah's good deserts Nehem. 6.19 on purpose I say to discourage the brethren and that they might have Matter for an evil report says the text of us which I hop● they shall never have as they would as long as blood is in our veins and as long as Jehovah supports Christ intercedes and Saints pray for us Therefore let all these Fame-bearers good and bad remember how Nehemiah prayed against such brethren as well as such enemies Nehem. 6.14 and see Num. 14.37 Even those brethren that did bring up an evil report upon the land died every one by the plague before the Lord and so will these without timely repentance nor can they enter into the thousand yeers Canaan But thus far for the third step to this Treatise by Call 4. The Challenge of some of the Court-champions 4. Another degree of the Call is the proud flaunting and Goliath-like Challenge made us by some of the Court-cathers and boasters one of the late Clerical Commissioners hath twice press'd it upon me in the prison to print somewhat saying he would warrant I should have free liberty to do it without offence and without danger print what I would withal that I should have an Answer which with a kinde of boasting and insulting being urg'd so hard upon me for the Truths sake was of notable inducement to point my Pen for I hope to finde a little Stone fit for the purpose which monstrous high Challenge is methinks much like that of Gaal in his Champion-fits of Fury and Folly Judg. 9. who dared Abimelech when he was absent saying Sultan-like Who is he Increase thine army and come out But by and by seeing his Army in earnest coming without increase his Plumes fell and he was terrified and amated at the very shadows of them and then Zebul mocked him saying as 't were How now man where is thy courage vers 38. Wherewith thou saidst Who is Abimelech where is thy mouth Is not this the people thou so despisest Go out I pray and meet them and fight with them which when he did as he could do no otherwise for shame he was destroyed and smote before them And so some say to us Come if you dare print publish what ye can c. but Altitudo non est valida Soft words and hard Arguments go farthest 5. The many Cases of Conscience sent me alluding to this Subject 5. I found besides all said before Cases of Conscience come thick upon me and sent apace unto me for Resolves in the work of the Day about the Witnesses the time the street the rise the order and effects of their rising also about the Vials and about the Beasts dominion the first and second Beast with their characters and about the number of the Beast's name and who is the man that makes up the last

much nor did I judge it reasonable being in prison upon will and nothing brought to my charge and therefore those that imprisoned me must pay him yet this I would do willingly if Serg. Dendy will chuse one honest man I will chuse another and what they think meet for me to pay as God shall enable me I will saying withal I would know the lowest which I must pay He said 4 l. 4 s. a week was the lowest at which I told him I was not able to do it nor did my brother Feak at Windsor pay so much but as I heard but so much in a quarter as is demanded of me in a week and that it was worse then tyranny to take away all I had to live on turn my wife and children poor sucking babes out of doors when the Lord allows a Snail a shell yet my poor wife and babes had not a shell to live in but my prison yea and to hinder those that would to minister to our wants and to demand 4 l. 4 s. a week too was wonderfull unjust But the old man being teachy hereat flew from me with these menaces You must and shall pay it before you go out from hence But because the carriage of this business was so cruel merciless and unchristian Serg. Dendy was ashamed to own it to good men stoutly and often affirming that neither he nor any for him did ever demand it of me or threaten me about it But with how little modesty or grace and that you may see what wide mouthes ravenous fishes have it follows under the hands of some present in the Prison-chamber when the old man came for the money two of them being Church-members We whose names are hereunder written do certifie to whomsoever it may concern that old Michael Meazie came as he said from Serg. Dendy whose servant he is into the chamber where Mr. Rogers is prisoner now at Lambeth and in our hearings demanded of Mr. Rogers the sum of 10s a day for fees for himself a prisoner to Serg. Dendy and of 14s a week for his Chambers in all of 14l 4 s a week And for that Mr. Rogers made scrupble to pay so much at present the said Mesey told him he MUST and SHOULD pay it before he went out from thence This we witness by our hands who heard him demand that Sum of him and can Depose it Dorothy Hill Alice Lewis Anne Evington Notwithstanding with so strange a face they denied this and said I was no Minister of Jesus Christ if I affirmed it and they would publish in News-books against me and the like I can shew it under Sergeant Dendy's own hand by several Orders and Letters that the not paying those fees and sums of money was one thing that made him so harsh to me above others For soon after the old man went to White-hall and told his tale against me in his own mood and figure and then followed the ensuing Letter from Serg. Dendy to me SIR I took not my house at Lambeth to accommodate Families but onely such Prisoners as by Order of the Council stand committed to me and therefore whereas I hear you say that Mr. Feak at Windsor hath his wife and children with him and yet pays nothing which is not altogether improbable because Windsor-Castle is the States proper house but so is not Mine nor the goods Wherefore inasmuch as I am informed that it is commonly reported you are at 6l a week charge though I know not of a peny that hath as yet been received from you and this declared on purpose to abuse the well-minded by provoking their charity towards you of which I wish you were as capable as some others Further your wife at your first coming to my house vapouring that she would give 5l aforehand so you might be accommodated at my house which was more publike then others of my Deputies and so to serve your Designe was rather made choice of Upon these Considerations having no Allowance at all from the State to defray so great a charge as my house at Lambeth amounts to I desire you will remove your children and servants to some other place more proper for them to which end I have ordered that you have a weeks time from this day to dispose of them and for your own particular your Wife if she be with you to be treated with all civility and have as good accommodation as my house can afford So wishing that you may be a partaker of Christ's sufferings rather than those of Evil doers I rest Septemb. 14. 1654. Your loving Friend E. Dendy I confess I was much grieved at this Letter for that I knew not whither to send my poor Children from me two of them being about a year old and very weak and my poor Family being thrust out of All only that Scripture refresh'd me The Foxes have holes and the Birds of the Air have nests but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head Besides the lines were fraught with false reports I perceived of my Wife and me and pitiful uncharitable censures and suppositions as that I sought to come thither and to abuse the well-minded whereas I knew not of my returning to Lambeth till Harding came with a new Order nor did I any otherwise desire it but for air in the time of my burning-feaver I confess I did desire more air and so my Wife said she had better give 5 li. than be so choaked up in a little hole for want of air as Lead-beaters was but for any other purpose the Judge of hearts best knows and will one day declare for me But then came in consolation from Matt. 5. Blessed are ye when they speak all manner of evil of you Besides the several u●truths in the Letter as that I said Bro. Feak paid nothing and that of 6 l. a week charge and of having no allowance from the State all which I knew to the contrary so that I thought it best to spread it before the Lord and wait with patience and with the whole armour of God the brest-place of righteousness and the shield of Faith Eph. 6. to stand and withstand in this evil day v. 13 14 15 16. And so I did without any noise as the Sheep that is bit by the fierce teeth of the Dog weeps inwardly most and whines not like a Hog But ere long he sends a most severe Order to the Under-Goaler to take away the Beds from under us yea to execute his Orders that night that one of my Children lay giving up the Ghost but because the Child was gasping he could not finde the heart to execute it and the Child dying that night he then said he would not have done it for 100 l. though his Master command him so strctkly to observe his Orders But for all this and the death of one Child and the weakness or drawing-on of another their immanity without pity was prosecuted upon me so that had

open and known sins as of Drunkennesse c. which the godly people in this Island have informed me He now as fowly fals upon the pittifull poore miserably inslaved people of this Island as well as upon us but for hearing of me and yet could not finde a colour for it but onely his own pure or rather impure invention and fancy of a danger which might accrew thereupon in time and surmising or pretending so at least a signe which the Devil told him off that we had in preaching Christ to the poore soules and when he desired to see his Orders he denyed to shew us any but his absolute Will and sword soveraignty over these poore slaves and us exiles and prisoners falling into most fool irritating unsavoury provoking language with his wonted impudence and open faculty of lying slandering bearding and abusing for which he is so notoriously famous in this Isle that we went for shame from him surdis auribus sed oculis intentis in Christum and so left him to that spirit that possessed him but after that the soldiers were examined such as were well-given whether they would hear me if so then to lay down arms forthwith and be gone there must be no disputing it onely one or two I think had liberty given to consider upon it one day Soon after this Bull made or procured a muster and provided a Barrell of Beer for such of his souldiers which they say he never did before as would readily obey his Orders but others he required to lay down their Arms forthwith and so read an Engagement to them for their present government Thus like the Priests as Jo. 12 9 10. they endeavoured to put Lazarus also to death because that Jesus had raised him up to life least the report hereof should offuscate and obscure them Upon the Lords day after some men of the ●sland came into the Castle to hear on that day but the centinels at the doore drove them off again and turned them into their own Chappel the poore people of this Island being such absolute pure slaves under the long sword that they durst not hear the Word but where they will Yet I preaching near the window and my voice heard thorow some poor people would steal under the wall and in holes to hear but were soon discovered and driven away yea Bull himself when he came out of the Chappel did bestir him and lay about him and because some of his souldiers would stand behind the guard doore or make as if they walked about businesse in the yard to hear as they did at Winsor often make as if they lay on the grasse and slept he drives his souldiers into the guard and there keeps them in himself till I had done as the Bishop of L. used tell K. James a tale in the Sermon time when any good man preach'd against the Hierarchy or Ceremonies of their Church least the King should over-hear them and so receive the truth preached talking to them of Cocks and Buls as we say least any should over hear a word of the Sermon In the middle of the week he came to me and threatened to deal with me and remove me out of these rooms c. if I let my voice be so loud as to be heard out at the window more to their disturbance as he said but I told him as Chrysostome the Empresse Eudoxia when she threatened him Nil nisi peccatum timeo I should obey God and not man in that matter nor was he but Christ to mee the Lord of the Sabbath Luke 6.5 Christ only is my master in preaching bidding him do his worst then he bid the bed I had to lyon be taken away which was done at which I demanded of him straw to lyon but the good people especially Mr. B. a well affected honest man at whose house the godly people meet at New port kept mee from lying on the boards or any such hardship as they would have brought me or mine unto in this Goal but it seems to their sufferings for this Bull does bellow out with most bitter mallice rage against them also especially against Mr. B. whom he highly persecutes to this day I hear sometimes sending up armed souldiers with swords and mu●kets to bring him away pri●oner out of his own house to him in the Town Corporation threatning and troubling him breaking open his letters that came from London to his great hinderance Bull himself being a trader and going up and down in person to hear what one or another can say against Mr. B. and what not that is arbitrary and tyrannical So that by this we may see 1. Their horrible dissembling lying and undoubted Hypoc●isie whiles they manifest such monstrous hatred to us they pretend to imprison us out of love to us and yet I think it is more out then in 2. How we suffer at this day for the word of God Gospell of Christ and power of Godlinesse purely whiles they most falsly possesse the poore ignorant people in the Nation that now there is no persecution for conscience for preaching the Word or for Religion but only for other matters and that a man may be as holy as he will which are lies in Hypocrisi● 3. That they are such a greedy sort of persecutors as our persons lives bodies liberties blood will not serve their turns but they persecute our very souls also for hearing praying and worshipping of the Lord yea on the Lords dayes nor suffering us to have so much a● upon the Lords daies any communion with the Saints or people or worship of God as much as in them lies 4. And they are the most impudent ●ould faced Persecutors I think that ever the earth bore for they justifie and dourish the foulest evils with the fairest Colours that can be yea pretend so highly for the Lord in all they do saying let God be glorified Isa 66.5 yea as Zach. 11.4 5. ' Whose Possessors Keepers of Go●lers sl●y ●●e● and hold themselves not guilty and they that sell them for nice pay places or preferment ' say blessed be the Lord for we are rich by it Such a pack of Apostates sure were never heard of for craft and cruelty policy and lying pretences and indeed it is no ●ore in my judgment then the face of the Serpent from w●●● we must and do fly for ●●ree dayes and an half Rev. 12.14 B●● the Bal's bitter ●age is out begun here he must now make a ●●●●●tive of his faithfull service and most noble or rather ignoble feats ●ad aten●●vements to his Masters at Court by frigating them with a ●raught report and ●n invented story of us as dangerous persons 〈◊〉 of de●g●es and according to ●is armed fancies and obsequiousnes● to them his Masters to ●all on us w●en their commands shall come requicing with all an Or●e● or at least a ●icence to prosecute his ●ell-begotten graceless victory further to the full by powring more contempt on our dear