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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A75884	A fannaticks letter sent out of the dungeon of the gate-house prison of VVestminster: to all his brethren in the three nations at liberty; and also in the several goales and dungeons therein, that are under all the principles of the doctrines of Christ, Heb. 6. I, 2. By Henry Adis, a baptized believer, undergoing the name of a free-willer; and also most ignomineously by the tongue of infamy, called a fannatick, or a mad man.	Adis, Henry.	1660 (1660)	Wing A579; Thomason E1084_6; ESTC R208012	21,559	25

why I could neither Swear nor Fight for Him If these or any thing of this kind Causeth them thus to become mine Enemy because I tell them and Him the Truth if it be this that renders me vile in their Eyes I must let them know in the words and Resolution of David and say If this be to be vile I according to the Ability received shall be yet more vile But I shall proceed to Discover to you what was Acted as to Searching my House and by what manner of Persons that so you may be sensible whither we are Posting if they were legally Commissionated The Second time that my House was Searched was by one John Gosling a known Papist and Servant to Mr. Hillyard an Apothecary in Long-Aker who beyond his Commission if he had one carried away he and his Party and Confederacy Captain Wharton and others near 30 of my Fannaticks Mite and got Two shillings in Money of me pretending it for the Souldiers And about a Week after Captain Wharton and another of them came and took forcibly out of my House Two more of my Books demanding more which he would have had had there been any ready And the next time that my House was Searched was when I was taken into Custody and that was by Mounseir Lawrence an Italian a Papist who keepeth a Fencing School in Stānnop-street The next was by Mounseir De la Mane a French-man and a known Papist living in Long-Aker a Gilt-Leather man The next time or Another time by one Mr. Kirbey a Cloth-Drawer in our own street a known Papist also And another time by Anthony Welch a limping Porter living in Mr. Roberd's Celler in Drury-Lane near Russel-street whose horrid Oaths Execrations and Debauch'd Actions both to us to Mris. Whitaker Richard Day and others do bespeak him to be no better than an Athiest And as if all these Actions and Reports were not enough to render me and you sufficiently odious to the view of the World the weekly News-monger Falsly Injuriously and most Ignomineously in his weekly Pamphlet hath Branded us with that most Stigmatical Title of Traytors To whom I would give this Christian Caution that for the time to come he take a special care of venting and inventing Lies lest the Lord Christ say One day to Him as once He said to some of Abrahams fleshly Seed John 8. 44. Ye are of your father the Devil and the works of your father ye will do he was a Murtherer from the beginning and abode not in the Truth because there is no Truth in him when he speaketh a lie he speaketh of his own for he is a lyar and the Father of it And therefore I would have him further to consider the shame of it for as the Lip of Truth shall be established for ever so the lying Lip is but for a moment Prov. 12. 19. And as a Righteous man hateth lying so a wicked man is loathsome and cometh to shame Prov. 13. 5. And if we may believe the wisest of men he telleth us that he that hideth hatred with lying Lips and he that uttereth a slander is a Fool Prov. 10. 18. And farther I would have him consider the great danger of it for first lying Lips are an Abomination to the Lord but they that deal truly are his delight Prov. 12. 22. Secondly These six things the Lord hateth yea seven are an Abomination unto him a proud look a lying Tongue and Hands that shed Innocent Blood an Heart that deviseth wicked Imaginations Feet that be swift in running to Mischief a false Witnesse that speaketh Lies and him that soweth Discord amongst Brethren Proverbs 6. 16. Thirdly It will exclude him Heavens Glory For without are Dogs and Sorcerers and Whoremongers and Murderers and Idolaters and whosoever loveth and maketh a Lie Rev. 22. 15. For there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth neither whatsoever worketh Abomination or maketh a Lie but they which are written in the Lambs Book of Life Rev. 21. 27. But the Fearful and Unbelieving and the Abominable and Murtherers and Whoremongers and Sorcerers and Idolaters and all Lyars shall have their part in the Lake which burneth with Fire and Brimstone which is the second death Rev. 21. 8. But leaving the man to consider of his wicked action in suffering his Pen to run to that excesse that causeth men to raise false reports upon the Innocent I shall in love to his soul earnestly desire him to set himself upon the effectual work of Repentance that so he may make his peace before he go hence and be no more that when time shall be no more he may then have a well-being with him who gives a being to all beings in that Kingdom that shall never fade away the which that you my Brethren and I may make sure let us work out our own Salvation with Fear and Trembling and let us not be slothful but be followers of them who thorow Faith and Patience inherited the Promises Heb. 6. 12. And let us be found in Gods Way doing Gods Work being Fortified with Christian Courage and Boldnesse following the foot-steps of the flock of God gone before us not at all fearing what man can do unto us for this is the requirement of our Lord and Master Mat. 10. 28. Who saith Fear not him that can kill the Body onely and afterwards can do no more but rather fear him that after he hath killed the Body can cast both Body and Soul into Hell I say Fear him And in his Fear let us be found in well-doing endeavouring as much as in us lyeth to see that the Peace and Welfare of the Nation be secured For if every mans particular interest be involved in the General Good then it stands every particular man in hand to study the Good Peace Safety and Welfare of the whole To this end let us take the advice of our Apostle 2 Tim. 2. 3. Even as good Souldiers of Jesus Christ to endure hardship and take to us the whole Armor of God that we may be able to withstand in the evil day and having done all to stand let us stand therefore having our Loyns girt about with Truth and having on the Brest-plate of Righteousness and our Feet shod with the Preparation of the Gospel of Peace above all taking the Shield of Faith wherewith we shall be able to quench all the fiery Darts of the Wicked and take the Helmet of Salvation and the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God praying with all Prayers and Supplication for all Saints Ephes. 6. 13. c. and for all men for Kings and all that are in Authority 1 Tim. 2. 1 2. yea for our very enemies and all that hate us Mat. 5. 44. and of them that persecute us let us cry out and say in the Words of that Holy Martyr and Brother Stephen Lord lay not this sin to their charge Acts 7. 60. and in the Words of our

and Oathes I must say as once that Servant of the Lord said Nehem. 6. 11. Should such a man as I take Sanctuary Should such a man as I Betray and break the Lawes and Cause of Christ I that have been Evil spoken of by the Separation for SEPARATING from the Separation though I have never been Condemned justly by the Separation for any such Separation I say If such a man as I should now seek to secure my self after all my Separation I should be the most abominablest Person in the World and might Justly be Condemned with the World I know that by what I have said I must set up my self more publickly for a Mark to be shot at yet I must Discharge my Conscience as to what I have been and what I am that so I may not be thought either better or worse than what I am and if therein I become nothing as to my Earthly Being yet I matter it not so I keep a good Conscience void of Offence both towards God and towards Man And if in the Innocency of my Soul I perish I perish And I shall rather chuse to Perish a Thousand times then in the least knowingly either to violate the least Law of God or Betray the Cause of Christ or do any thing that may Dishonour the Gospel of Christ or cause his Name to be Evil spoken of And although there be such a Charge as I hear there is given to have such a special Eye to me I know not for what unless for my good Advice to the King yet it shall neither force me to Violate my Conscience nor Forfeit my Liberty as to our Meetings but I shall Patiently bear my Imprisonment till the Lord shall in his Mercy Release me Hanging yet upon the Kings Word to be made good to me and the rest of our peaceable Judgement who are falsly Accused and some of us unjustly Imprisoned and to the wounding of our good Names as Traytors Yet I say again I shall Resolve God Assisting me to continue faithfully waiting upon God in his own Way in the Integrity of my Soul Because better is the Poor that walketh in his Integrity then he that is Perverse in his Lips and is a Fool Prov. 19. 1. For the Integrity of the Upright shall guide them but the Perversness of Transgressors shall Destroy them and the Righteousness of the Upright shall direct his way whilest the Wicked shall Fall by his own wickedness Prov. 11. 3 5. And thus whilest the Just man walketh in his Integrity his Children are Blessed after him Prov. 20. 7. The Premises Considered It shall be the desire of my Soul to go on waiting upon God Earnestly begging in the behalf of the King and his People That there may be such a Right Understanding of things that Justice be so duely Administred as that the Righteous be not as the Wicked nor the Innocent as the Guilty lest the Cry of the many Oppressed Families come up into the Ears of the Great and Just JEHOVAH that Sin-Revenging God who is of a more purer Eye then to behold Iniquity so as to approve of it or those that act in it Thus having given you an Accompt both of my Innocency and Integrety both what I am and what by Divine Assistance I shall Resolve to be notwithstanding the noysomness of the Place I am in and the Hardships that I and those that are with me do undergo therein our Livelyhoods chiefly depending upon our daily handy Labours being torn from our Callings and Families tyed up from getting our own Bread and brought into worse then an EGYPTIAN Bondage and Contrary to the Law both of NATURE and NATIONS who though we are the Kings Prisoners yet we have not as I said before neither Beds nor Bedding Meat nor Money nay not so much as a Drop of Water but what we are forced to purchase with our Money the which if we have not nor Friends to bring them to us we must in reason inevitably perish the which notwithstanding though we undergo yet I shall Resolve still to endure rather then set my Hand to Folly either to Violate my Conscience by breaking the least Law of God or in the least to Give my Consent to the making my self Guilty by Paying Traytors Fees which is double Fees or any Fees at all seeing I am not Guilty of what I am laid in for but shall Resolve to go on in my Christian Progress as a Christian ought to do and shall desire to wait upon God in Prayer and Supplication for such a Right Understanding of things as that the Evil Doer only may be Punished that the Meetings of the peaceable People of God according to the Kings Promise may be still Continued Praying for the King and his People although at present my Professed Enemies And to Remain till Death Your Faithful Brother and Fellow Prisoner for Christ HENRY ADIS. From my Close Constraint The Kings Courtesie For my Christian Counsel The Gate-House Dungeon Damp and Dark Void of Light Darker then Night Once a Den for Thieves But now a House of Prayer My Contented Castle Till Christ Clear me THE END