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A32862	The memory of the righteous revived being a brief collection of the books and written epistles of John Camm & John Audland, those two faithful and honourable servants of the Lord, who were called to the work of the ministry in the morning of Gods blessed day dawned in this generation, and, with other brethren, bore the heat and burden of the day faithfully, to the end and finishing of their course, being entered into the joy of their Lord : together with several testimonies relating to those two faithful labourers / published for the service of truth and friends, by Thomas Camm & Charles Marshal.	Camm, John, 1604?-1656.; Audland, John, 1630-1664.; Camm, Thomas, 1641-1707.; Marshall, Charles, 1637-1698.	1689 (1689)	Wing C390; ESTC R22076	130,282	441

largely discourse of things relating to Religion and the Duties thereof in so much that amongst a Society then gathered or separated from the common National way of Worship he became an eminent Teacher and highly esteemed of amongst them and not only so but many times he would have gone to Chappels or the Parish Steeple house where there was some Idle Sottish Priests and there would have Preached and abundance of People was taken and affected with him and in great Multitudes would have flocked after him Now being grown upward of twenty years of Age he took to Wife a Sober Vertuous and Religious Maid of the same Separated Society called Ann Newby of Kendal and the Lord made them a great Comfort and Blessing each to other while they both lived together which was about thirteen years Since the Death of her Husband the Lord by his Providence hath Blessed me with the enjoyment of her being given me to Wife But in the fulness of God's appointed time as aforesaid the Lord sent his Messenger and Servant George Fox and by the Message of Life by him Preached in the Demonstration of the Spirit and Power of the Lord Jesus Christ This John Audland was reached the first time that ever he heard him and he received George Fox into his House being fully satisfied that he was one that possessed what he himself had but a notion and profession of and then by the Revelation of Jesus Christ in the Light of God's eternal day he came to see the emptiness of his great Profession and high flown Notion and that all his own Righteousness was but as filthy Raggs Dross and Dung so that he sat down in silence and astonishment like Job for many daies and great and weighty was the Work of the Lord upon his Spirit being as a Man stript of all his earthly Wisdom and his Profession being confounded and brought to nought under the exercise of the Hand of the Lords Power he did Mourn and Weep bitterly biding adieu adieu to all the World and all the empty Professions therein a great Hunger and Thirst the Lord having raised in his Heart and Soul for a Saviour one of a Thousand that could give a Ransom for his Soul and redeem him from the Pit of Corruption for he saw all his great Profession all his Wisdom and Knowledge could not help him but it was the Lord alone that his Soul Thirsted for who heard his Cries and Mourning in a time acceptable and in a day of great compassion and revealed his saving Health and redeeming Arm of eternal Power in alarge measure by which he raised him up fitting and filling him with all Wisdom and Strength for the performance of that Work and Service that the Lord had predestinated himfor and to be concerned in to the Glory of his eternal Name in gathering home the out-casts of Israel and the dispersed of Jacob who had been held under a strange King in great and most grievous Bondage to which Work the Lord in a short time called him anointing him to Preach and Publish Redemption in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ to the Poor and deliverance to the Captive exile the Year of Jubile And the day of Vengeance upon the Wicked in which Work he was found faithful being filled with power and might from on high and girded with the strength of the Almighty And leaving all outward concerns and enjoyments he faithfully Travelled through many parts of the Nation and the Dread Wisdom and Majesty of the eternal God was with him and the mighty and high exalted ones bowed before the Lord and his Power in all places wherever the Lord called him and many Hundreds were Convinced and turned to God through him as a chosen Vessel and prepared Instrument in the Hand of the Lord of Hosts Glory Glory to God for ever saith my Soul The blessed remembrance of this mighty and notable day of the Lord and the splendant breaking forth of his Glory in the Morning thereof in this Nation often and at this time breaks my Heart and makes my Spirit rejoyce in the God of my Salvation and his eternal Power and Presence that was with this and other of his faithful Servants in the first Publishing of the Gospel in this our day can never be forgotten by many but the great and blessed Work that the Lord hath wrought by the Arm of his holy Power revealed in and through his Servants is greatly to be admired for ever for many thousands of his Israel hath the Lord gathered and brought home that were afar of and hath given them a City with Foundations whose Walls and Bulwarks is Salvation in which Praises waits for him and is sounded sorth unto the Lord and the Lamb that sits upon the Throne Reigns for ever more As he was diligent and laborious in the Work and Service of the Lord in many parts of the Nation so was he furnished for that Service as the effects and Fruits thereof hath abundantly demonstrated in many places where the Lord made him as a Father through the Word of his Power and Spirit to beget and turn many to God but most especially in and about Bristol and several Counties in the West of England where many can speak and bear Testimony to the effectual working of that Word of Reconciliation that God had given him to publish by which they were turned from Darkness to the blessed Light thereof In those Countries and many others his Labours and Travels were great being often accompanied by my Father John Camm as long as he had strength outwardly to Travel their Hearts being firmly knit together as David and Jonathan by the Bond of unspeakable Love their very Lives being endearedly bound up in each other in which Bond of Love their Unity was kept inviolated unto the end whereby their Labours and Travels together were-very comfortable and joyous being perfectly of one heart and spirit and minding the same things the glory of God and the gathering of his Israel in which Service they spent their daies strength After my Father John Camm grew weak of Body and at last was taken away Oh how John Audland would often bemoan the loss of so dear a Companion and faithful Brother he being left behind to bear the Burthen of many weighty Travels and Concerns yet through and over all the Lord assisted him to the end I was from my Child-hood very intimately acquainted with him and loved him with a Brotherly Love before we were brought into the blessed Way and Life of Truth as now revealed after which we became more inwardly acquainted and endearedly bound up together in a more Heavenly and Spiritual relation the Fellowship therein being our Life and Joy and therefore can give a certain account of the Gift and Graces of God by which he was adorned and beautified inwardly and outwardly He was a Man beloved of God and all good Men and esteemed of by most that knew him of a

and sits like them but do not forsake your Sins nor own the Cross of Christ so as to live in it and so you give occasion to the World to speak evil of the Gospel of Christ now to such I say from the Lord Depart ye Workers of Iniquity terrible and dreadful is the day that shall come upon you wo unto them that cover with a Covering but not of the Spirit of the Lord Fear the Lord and tremble before him and prize your time while it is called to day for the Lord is near and if he find you eating and drinking with the Drunken he will cut you assunder and give you your Portion with Hypocrites But all my dear Friends dwell in the Power of the Lord and let not your minds be stained but keep single and stand uncovered that so you may discern all those that are covered and reign above them in the eternal living Truth of God to his praise for evermore Praises and Honour to our God for ever who is worthy for all is falling before him My dear Friends the Harvest here is great even all the Fields are white and all the dumb Dogs and idle Shepherds Drones and Loiterers runs quakes trembles and flyes before us but the Sword of the Lord is in the hands of the Saints and this Sword divides hews and cuts down Deceit and so way is made for the pure Seed to arise and raign above all which conquers all Praises be to the Lord for evermore Dear Friends the Work of the Lord is great and many are Convinced of the living Truth and I really see the Lord will raise up to himself a pure and a large People to Serve and Worship him in Spirit and in Truth Farewell My dear Brother and fellow Labourer Edward Burrough Salutes you all in the Lord and the everlasting God of Power keep you all pure to his everlasting Praise All ye Saints of the Lord Praise ye the Lord and Magnifie him for ever Your dear Brother in the Truth John Audland John Audland his Epistle to Friends from Chester City the 5th of the 5th Month. DEar Friends and Brethren in the Eternal Truth of God Members of the same Body partakers of the unsearchable Riches of the love of God which love endures for evermore Oh! my dear hearts press on in the strait way forgetting those things that are behind Every one of you in perticular mind to dwell in the pure fear of the Lord which will keep you pure and single to stand in his counsel that so you may reign above the Earth and rejoyce over the heads of all your Enemies walking in the Light of the Lord And dwell in the Light and with it you will see and know all the wiles of Satan who would lay snares Innocent and in the power of the Lord stand that you in his power may have Victory My dear Friends what I declared to you when I was present with you the same do I now write to you and in the Spirit I am present with you and therefore in the Name of the Lord and in his fear put on boldness put on courage put on strength every one in your measure stand and be faithful in the Work of the Lord as his Witnesses against all the World for unto this are you called to cast off every weight and burthen and to run with patience the race before you the way is strait and narrow no unclean thing must enter nothing that defiles must enter unto this are you all called to put off the old Man with his Deeds to die daily to forsake the World to deny all to lay down your lives and to take up the Cross of Christ daily and have no fellowship with unfruitful works of darkness God is pure he calls to purity Oh! my dear Hearts as you abide faithful you are my joy in the Lord my Prayers are for you God is my Witness I make mention of you daily to the Lord my dear and tender Plants of God as you grow and increase in the Increase of God my joy will increase Oh! stand stedfast as faithful Servants every one upon your watch that you may pertake daily of the Joy of the Lord and walk worthy of the Love which the Lord hath manifested unto you watch over one another in Love in Bowels in tenderness in compassion to that which is pure and rule over all deceit tread upon it and reign over it dwell in discerning every one and suffer not that to speak which is not of God but all wait in Love and walk in Love and the Body edifies it self in Love and the God of Peace and Love keep you pure to his eternal Praise to all the honest in heart I speak walking in the pure Light of the Lord that you may have Dominion over all the Earth and earthly minds And so such I say who are convinced by the Light of God but doth not walk in the Light How will you escape The Lord is dreadful his Terrour will surprize all Hypocrites the witness of the Lord is against all such and his Judgments will take hold upon you his hand you cannot escape I say to such as I have often told you yea I have told you Weeping such are Enemies to the Cross of Christ and by him are you to be Slain who refuse him and will not have him to Reign over you and therefore by the Dreadfulness of the Lord I charge you to walk in Obedience to that which is committed to you that every one of you may deny those things which the Light in the Conscience bears witness against And I charge you give no evil Example in your Walkings nor in your Meetings in your Meetings be watchful bear Reproof patiently examine your selves let the Light search you and you will see Reproof is to you who doth not walk in the Light and in your walkings be watchful have no fellowship with the world for that which is of the world and you that have fellowship with the world cannot bear witness against the world And therefore come out be seperate touch no unclean thing and fear the living God who searcheth all Hearts and his reward is with him to give to every one according to his deeds But to all you that are faithful the Joy of the Lord is your strength the Arm of the Lord is with you the Sickle is in your Hand thrust in the Sickle for the Earth is ripe the Press is full the Fat 's overflow the Glory of the Lord is appearing to shake terribly the Earth Glory to him for evermore Farewel All my dear Hearts my Bowels run out freely to you I am with you daily in that which will never Wither The Lord God of Power keep you pure every one in your Measure to his eternal Praise my Love is to you all and remember me dearly to all Friends every where Your dear Brother a servant of the Lord and in him can we never be

from the vile all the wicked cast out and the elected alone obtains the Kingdom So the mighty God of Power direct thee and open thy understanding that in his Light thou mayst come to see Light and by the powerful Word may be stripped of all and suffer the loss of all that God alone may be exalted By one who hath suffered the loss of all and through Death is passed unto Life J. A. A Letter sent unto John Audland by his Wife 1654. DEar Brother dearer to me then ever My love flows out to thee even the same love that I am loved withal of my Father in that love Salute me to all my Friends for dear you are all unto me my life is much refreshed in hearing from you I received thy Letters and all my Soul desireth is to hear from thee in the life dear Heart in Life dwell there I am with thee out of all time out of all Words in the pure Power of the Lord there is my joy and strength O! How am I refreshed to hear from thee to hear of thy faithfulness and boldness in the Work of the Lord O! Dear Heart I cannot utter the joy I have concerning thee thy presence I have continually in Spirit therewith am I filled with joy all glory and honour be to our God forever O! blessed be the Day in which thou waft born that thou art found worthy to labour in the work of the Lord surely the Lord hath found thee faithful in a little therefore he hath committed much unto thee go on in the Name and Power of the Lord Jesus Christ from whence all strength cometh to whom be all glory and honour forever O! dear Heart go on conquering and to conquer knowing this that thy Crown is sure So dear Heart now is the time of the Lords Work and few are willing to go forth into it all the whole World lieth in wickedness doing their own work but blessed be the Lord forever who hath called us from doing our own work into his great work O! Marvellous are his Works and his Wayes past finding out O! Dear Heart thou knowest my Heart thou mayst read dayly how that I rejoyce in nothing more than in thy prosperity in the Work of the Lord Oh! It is past my utterance to express the joy I have for thee I am full I am full of love towards thee never such love as this the Mighty Power of the Lord go along with thee and keep thee faithful and valient and bold in his pure Counsel to stand single out of all the World. Oh! Dear Heart all my love to thee is purer then Gold seven times purified in the Fire Oh! pure is he that hath loved us therefore let Purity and Holiness cover us for ever a joyful word it was to me to hear that thou wast moved to go for Bristol Oh! my own Heart my own life in that which now stands act and obey that thou mayst stand upon thy alone Guard so dear Heart let thy Prayers be for me that I may be kept pure out of all Temptations singly to dwell in the Life So fare well Ann Andland John Audlands Letter from Citsester to Friends at Bristol the 26th of the 10th Month 1654. Dear Friends LAmbs and Babes of the most high God who are turned from the ways and vanities of the World and who are brought to wait upon the Lord in patience and singleness being begotten to a lively Hope by the Resurrection of the Dead Grace Mercy and Peace from God be multiplied in you and among you that you may grow up in the eternal Unity and fellowship of the Spirit to walk in the Spirit and to worship God in Spirit and by it you will see and discern all the wayes and vanities of the World and all the worships of the World to be without God in the heathenish nature strangers from the life of God without the Covenant of peace and in the Covenant with Death and Hell unto which there is no peace But the Lord God of life and peace is arising and risen to hew down all deceit and false ways and to set up Righteousness and Purity and to establish his Covenant unto his People and to bring in everlasting peace by Jesus Christ who is come to Preach Peace to the Captives to open the Prison Doors to set free the oppressed and to visit the desolate and to inlarge the Borders of the Barren and his day is dawning among you and the day-Star is appearing in you which will lead to the man-Child and to the Son of righteousness which is eternal Life to know him and be in him and who are not in him death reigns and rules and the Bond of Iniquity and the Chains of Darkness stands and Binds and Prisons the Just which is for condemnation when he appears who will judge the Secrets of all mens Hearts And this is the day of the Lord God wherein he is bringing back the Captivity of his People And you whose minds are turned to him wait upon him in patience having your minds guided up unto him growing together in Love and Unity that the Head and Husband may be exalted in all and then the Bed is not defiled but the Marriage is honourable but the Adulterer God will judge and condemn and such who wander abroad changeth their way and sets up Idols and strange Gods and other Lovers and joyns to strange Flesh and feeds that which is for Judgment and to be fed with Judgment But dear and precious Ones and well-beloved in the Lord Jesus Christ dwell in Judgment the Just delights in it and the unjust comes to be cut down by it and through judgment Sion come to be redeemed and the filthy is destroyed and Purity and Holiness comes to be witnessed the Light is that which condemns the unjust and all waiting in the Light ye have fellowship one with another and your Unity stands in that which is the Worlds condemnation and so against all the World ye stand and bear witness by that which is not of the World but is from above and leads up into that which is above and condemns all that which is below and from below which is contrary to the Light of Jesus Christ which Light shews the Door and guides into the entrance of the eternal Inheritance and shews you the Inheritance which is incorruptible which nothing must inherit that is corruptible so in the Light abide which leads up to the perfect Day that you may all walk as Children of the Day growing up in the true Vine and abiding in the Vine that your Fruit may appear not as the untimely Figs which fall away but as that which is founded upon the true Foundation and will stand and abide in the Day of Tryal so dear and tender Ones grow in Love and let Love be multiplyed among you and wait upon the Lord in the daily Cross that you may be crucified to the World and the

Years We say Men are not true Christians by Generation neither by an outward Profession but by an inward Change in the Heart wrought by the Power of God in the Regeneration And so if it be but a few Years in comparison since we or any of us were changed and turned to the Lord yet it was in the time when the Lord was pleased and saw good to visit us and we can truly say it was an acceptable day and time when we were turned from Darkness to the true Light and from the power of Satan to God And we are glad of it and can say Blessed be the Lord for it if it had been but yesterday that any of us were renewed in the Spirit of our minds to God for it is matter of Joy to us that the Lord hath gathered us in our day and time from off the barren Mountains into his Fold to wait upon him and to receive teaching and satisfaction from him This is far more to us to know the Lord changing us in our day and bringing us to know the things that pertain to our everlasting Peace than to have a large Profession of the Saints Words and yet to be out of the Saints Life and out of the way where true Peace and Rest is found to the Soul and so the Lord having manifested his Truth to us and brought us into the Religion in which he manifests his Presence to us we are content to wait in the Will of the Lord and may not forsake our Religion nor the Assembling of our selves together because Man saith to the contrary but walk according to the Gift of God by which only it is that true and faithful Service is performed unto him 4. Again we meet together to wait upon the Lord that our Consciences may be kept clear towards him that we may have the answer of a good Conscience towards God which if we should walk contrary to that which the Lord hath made manifest here would be shipwrack of Faith and a good Conscience for so it was formerly if any forsook the Lord and his Truth after they had tasted of his good Word if they fell away from that which they had once known and professed of the Truth and Gospel of Jesus they made shipwrack of Faith and a good Conscience and then they could not have the answer of a good Conscience neither had they Peace with God and what remained if they continued so but a certain fearful looking for of Judgement and fiery Indignation which will devour And therefore we knowing the preciousness of the answer of a good Conscience towards God do prize it and esteem it as a Jewel of great worth and we may not forsake the Way of the Lord wherein we have the answer of a good Conscience because of outward Force and go into that in which we should suffer Anguish and have a certain fearful looking for of Judgment and a sting in our own Consciences therefore we can put it to all who fear the Lord to judge of if it be not safe for us to abide in the Way of the Lord and to be faithful to him though we may meet with Sufferings in this World. 5. Again we meet together in the Fear of the Lord and own the doctrine of Christ to live in it because we are perswaded in the Fear and Power of the Lord God of Life who is our strength that nothing shall be able to separate us from the Love of God which we have in Christ Jesus our Lord the Love of God is so Comfortable and his Favours is so refreshing to us and the Testimony of his Spirit is so satisfactory in our Hearts that we are perswaded nothing will be able to separate us our Strength is in the Lord and he is all-sufficient to keep us through all by his mighty Power unto the end waiting upon him and abiding in his Power he is able to save to the uttermost and this were the Saints formerly perswaded off that nothing should be able to separate them from the Love of God and they met with many hardships and were oftentimse cruelly intreated and shamefully handled as the Scriptures declare yet through all the Lord was with his people and comforted their hearts in their following of him and the Love of God abounded to them and in them and they were Conquerors through him that loved them Now if any at that time denyed the Truth for fear of man or any other thing they came to suffer in their hearts and to feel sorrow in their inward man for when iniquity enters into the heart it darkens the understanding and also the creature loseth the sence of the Love of God and if there be not Repentance and a returning unto the Lord Iniquity grows more strong and love grows cold in such and the heart grows worse and worse and is hardned by degrees against the Lord and his people and then there is a separation from the Love of God and the feeling and earnest of sorrow and tribulation upon every one that doth evil therefore we are perswaded that it is safe for us to wait upon the Lord in the way which he hath made manifest unto us that so we may receive the Power to renew our strength that we may walk on in the Path of Life and nothing separate us from the Love of God which we have in Christ Jesus Shall tribulation or affliction or Principalities or Powers separate us from the Love of God Shall force by carnal weapons or Prisons cause us to deny that which God hath made manifest unto us Is there Powers against us Thrones against us well this is safe for us to abide in the counsel of God that we may always feel his Love in our hearts and if we suffer let us suffer here because of our faithfulness to the Lord If we must go to Prison let us stand in the Power of God that his Love and Life blessing and heavenly Presence may be with us Better to suffer outwardly in Prisons and Holes and have the Love and presence of the Lord with us then to disobey the Lord and walk contrary to his gift and so suffer inward anguish and sorrow of heart and some thing separate us from the Love of God and then who can speak peace to us if the Lord speak trouble but if the Lord speak peace it 's no matter though man may speak trouble though the wrath of man may rise high yet he that doth whatsoever he will in Heaven and in Earth he can make it to turn to his Praise and the rest of it he will restrain and blessed are they that have the Lord with them on their side he speaks peace to them in the midst of all his love refresheth our Hearts and so to put all out of doubt we are perswaded in the Power of the Lord that nothing will be able to separate us from the Love which we have in our Saviour and here it

Servants of the Lord Jesus having received the everlasting Gospel from the Angel of Gods presence to Preach in the demonstration of his Mighty Power with which indeed they were filled John Camm was an Ancient man full of Zeal and Fervency in the Gospel endued with the precious Gift of discerning and sound Judgment terrible to the man of Sin and full of bowels and tenderness to the travelling Souls Sharp and terrible to the evil but sweet and Friendly to the tender and well inclined unto the way of Righteousness not sparing his weak body which he offered up even unto Death to serve the Lord God in his blessed work of gathering which he saw in a plentiful manner to his great satisfaction a farther Testimony of him as to his Country Life Travels and Death is given by his dear Wife and Thomas Camm his Son and his Wife to which I refer His memory is blessed and his place is among the living Ancients in Jerusalem John Audland was a younger man of a sweet ruddy and amiable Countenance and of a chearful Spirit one of the Wise in heart filled with the excellent bright sparking glorious Power of the Lord God everlasting in which he appeared many times so filled that immortallity shined in his Face and his Voice was as Thunder therein dreadful in the Strengh of the Lord of Hosts against the man of Sin and those in Covenant therewith terrible in the dread of God against the Workers of iniquity but livingly tender to the sensible Travellers and poor in spirit Ah! my Soul hath a sensible remembrance how the Doctrine given him of Christ Jesus dropt as dew and sweetly descended as the refreshing Rain He was a Labourer indeed Night and Day in the Labour of the Gospel in which he extreamly spent himself and his fervent and unexpressible Travells in and about the City of Bristol I am well satisfied laid a Foundation for the wasting his natural Life which was spent and offered up for the Truth and in the work of it and indeed he with dear honourable John Camm was instrumental in the Hand of the Almighty God of our Gatherings and the spending their lives and strength was most in their Labours and Travels amongst us in the City and adjacent parts of which I was an eye and ear witness being with them frequently These two faithful Ministers of Christ Jesus came to the City of Bristol in the 5th Month 1654. and first they came amongst a seeking people who kept one day in the week in fasting and praying waiting for and breathing in Spirit after the Morning and Visitation of of God and Day of Redemption and amongst us they spoke the powerful Word of Life in the dread of his Name that lives forever and we were seized on and smitten even to the Heart and that Day and the Visitation of it over took us which we had longed and waited for and from Darkness to the marvellous Light of the Lord we were turned Some Meetings we had before the more general gathering in and about that City which began on this wise On a first day in the morning I went with these two Servants of God about a mile and half from the City to a little spring of Water where I often had spent many Solitary hours in my tender years seeking the Lord where we sat some time and drank of the spring After some hours of the morning were spent I saw in them a great travel in Spirit Trembling J. A. said let us be going into the City so we came to the Street called Broadmead to a house where were several People met together enquiring after these two men of God. John Audland was under a great exercise of Spirit and said Is here any one that has any interest in any Field An ancient man said I have in a Field prety near notice being given to the People in the house they came forth and as we went along people in the Streets went also to the Field called Earls-mead so that we came a pretty number where some Seats or Stools were brought Dear John Camm began to speak renderly and in great Zeal directing to the heavenly Grace of God and ●estifying against Sin and Iniquity fervently to which some were attentive in this season I perceived a great exercise of Spirit on my dear Friend and Father in Christ Jesus J. Audland who very much trembled After dear John Camm stood down he stood up full of dread and shining brightness on his countenance lifted up his Voice as a Trumpet and said I proclaim spiritual War with the Inhabitants of the Earth who are in the Fall and Seperation from God and Prophesie to the sour winds of Heaven and these words dropt amongst the Seed and so went on in the mighty Power of God Almighty opening the way of Life But ah the seizings of Souls and prickings at heart which attended that season some fell on the Ground others crying out under the sence of opening their States which indeed gave experimental Knowledge of what is recorded acts 2. 37. Indeed it was a notable day worthy to be left on Record that our Children may read and tell to their Children and theirs to another Generation that the worthy noble Acts of the Arm of Gods Salvation may be remembred which have been the way of the Lord leading his Servants through Generations c. At this Meeting many were effectually convinced and from Darkness to Light turned after which our Meetings grew larger and larger They visited the Meetings of them called Independants and Baptists testifying amongst them in great power the things given them of God directing the poor and needy in spirit that saw their want of the Lord Jesus Christ no longer to seek the Living amongst the Dead but look from the Mountains and Hills dead Ways and Worships unto Christ Jesus the Foundation of Life and Salvation and there was added unto the gathering daily and great dread was round about and in our Meetings under the seasonings of the holy Ghost Oh! the Tears Sighs and Groans Tremblings and Mournings in the sight of the middle will of partition that we saw then in our awakened States that stood between us and the Lord and in the sight and sense of our spiritual wants and necessities Oh! the hungrings and thirstings of Soul that attended daily and great travels of Spirit to obtain through the working of the mighty Power of Gods dominion and Spiritual Victory over the Enemy of our Souls who had lead us in the Paths of Death and Darkness and indeed as the Visits of Gods holy and ever blessed Day was signal and unexpressible as aforesaid so I Testifie in the fear and dread and awe of God Almighty we received the Gospel with a ready mind and with broken Hearts and affected Spirits and gave up to follow the Lord fully casting off the weights and burdens and the Sin that easily besets and from the evil ways and vanities of this

their badness for the Scriptures speaks that out of the North an evil shall break forth Reply To prove that we came out of the North and had never been out of the Nation of our birth and Habitations doth sufficiently confute thee who made that thy ground to have proved by the Information that we were Coppingers acquaintance in Rome for sayst thou those two persons which came to Bristol was most likely his two fellow Franciscan Fryers and here thy likeness is another Lye and the Scripture doth not prove thy shrew'd sign neither doth it cover thee nor hide thee but upon thee will evil break forth who the evil hast committed a grievous Storm and Whirl-Wind will fall upon the wicked and sweep away the refuge of Lyes and Lyers into the Lake read thy Portion and put it not from thee Secondly Thou sayst for affirming that the Quakers use inchanted Potions Bracelets Ribbands Sorcery and Witchcraft to intoxicate their Disciples and thou savst this is evidenced in the Premises and apparent in most places where they ramble and thou shalt prove it no farther but close up all with two Scripture exhortations Reply I demanded of thee before to prove any such thing by us or let thy Mouth be stopt and as touching proving any such thing thy Mouth is stopt and thy Premises proves it not by us but is made up of Lyes and Slanders and false Reports which thou hast gathered where thou hast rambled up and down in thy Imaginations sending out a pack of filthy Lyes spawned out from the old Serpent the Devil and Satan out of whose Mouth proceeds the Frogs and there mayst thou read thy self apparently his Disciple intoxicated and thee with all the rest of the spawn of Romish Frogs Jesuites and Franciscan Fryers is denyed and cast out from amongst the People of God scornfully call'd Quakers and if thou canst prove no better then to close up as thou dost the Lyes will rest upon thy own head but wilt thou turn back a little and take one Exhortation where thou art giving two if there be any spark of honesty in thee or any remembrance of thy latter end or any consideration that Lyars must be cast into the Lake repent of the evil of thy doings and cease lying and slandering the Innocent which thou canst not prove to be Offenders and lay thy Mouth in the dust if so be there may be hope so here in plainness thy Lyes is turned upon thy own Head and the former answer is just and stands a witness against thee and thou art more unmasked and clearly detected and till thou canst begin upon better evidence silence best becomes thee Remember again thou art warned cease thy gain-saying lest thou perish in thy rebellion and go down alive into the Pit. By one who is a Witness against the prophaneness of Priests and People called John Audland Luke 11 52. Wo unto you Lawyers for ye have taken away the Key of Knowledge ye entred not in your selves and them that were entring in ye hindred John Audland's Epistle to all who love the Truth Given forth from Oxfordshire the 12th Month 1656. DEarly beloved Friends unto whom the large Love of God hath been made manifest in visiting you from on high with his marvelous Light which hath clearly shined in the midst of you by which you have seen your way to the eternal Rest and Peace and have tasted of the Power of the Lord and been often refreshed with his Love and Life being shed plentiously amongst you so that you have found in some measure Redemption from the bondage of Corruption and the way is plain before you which leads to perfect Freedom in the pure and precious Truth of the living God which as you stand in it and walk in the undefiled way in the pure Fear and Counsel of God you will be kept in the pure Unity in the Love unfeigned to grow together in the Life of Truth in the Power of God in which is your beauty your comliness your strength your order and your peace every one in particular and one with another all glorifying the Lord in your uprightness and obedience in your holy calling in the measure of the Grace of Life in which every one abiding you receive power from the Life which gives Dominion over the World and the powers of Darkness and the wickedness in the high places you dwelling in the Life and Power of God are kept in subjection to the higher Power which is the Ordinance of God which throws down the man of Sin the deceitful works and raiseth up the dead to Life quickning the slain and opening the Prison Doors which brings Joy and Peace and the Oyl of Gladness and the Garments of Praise and the acceptable Year where the meek come to be beautified with Salvation there the Treasures of Life is seen of Wisdom and of Love which reached to the Poor to raise him up and there the weary finds rest and the hungry Soul comes to be satisfied with the unsearchable Riches of the Lords Love of which there is no End unto them who wait upon him in faithfulness Dear Hearts other Foundation can no man lay then that which is laid already which is Christ Jesus the Light of the World the Way to Life and everlasting Rest and those that believe enter into the pure and peaceable Kingdom which is prepared for the little Flock who follow the Voice of the true Shepherd who leads into the fresh and pleasant Pasture where the Lambs feed in peace and lie down in safety in the sure Habitation grounded on the Foundation of God which stands firm and unmoveable forever against which the Winds nor the Storms nor the Floods can never prevail blessed for ever are all you who are on it builded and established for the day will manifest every ones work and he that is not rooted in the Life and stands not in the Power of God will suffer loss but you abiding in the Power of God which is the Cross of Christ you receive a Kingdom which cannot be shaken and a Crown which doth not corrupt and an Inheritance which fades not away and in the Light of God every one walking you read your part in the Resurrection unto Life which is a blessed Condition and to seed upon the Life which makes you grow in the heavenly Image the new man which is after God in Righteousness and true Holiness which is perfected in the Fear of the Lord All being kept watchful and diligent your Garments are kept clean and you are found covered with the Spirit in the day of the Lord which comes suddenly upon the Sloathful and Careless in which day the Hypocrite can never stand nor the foolish Virgin cannot enter but is shut out of Gods Kingdom wanting the Garment which gives an entrance in the Marriage-Chamber where the faithful rejoyce and praises the God of their Salvation And verily Friends it is the Gold tryed in the Fire