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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93230	The Saints testimony finishing through sufferings: or, The proceedings of the court against the servants of Jesus, who were called before them to be tryed at the late assizes (or sessions) held in Banbury in the county of Oxon, the 26 day of the seventh moneth, 1655. Also a relation of Margret Vivers, going to the steeple-house in Banbury, after the assize (or sessions) as aforesaid: and a testimony against false prophets, and false doctrine; ... And the manner of Richard Farnsworth imprisonment at Banbury, with a short examination and answer. And the cause of his detainment. Also, a warning from the spirit of the Lord (in his hand-maid Anne Audland) to the persecuting priest and people, &c. And a letter of Robert Rich to the magistrates of Banbury, ... Likewise a letter of Tho. Curtis to the professed minister called Samuel VVells in Banbury. And a certificate wherein is manifested the diligence that was used to know the causes of the prisoners commitments ... (Anne Audland, Iane VVaugh, Sarah Tims, and Nathaniel VVeston) as wel as Robert Rich, ... With a paper relating the sufferings of the innocent.	Vivers, Margaret.; Audland, Anne, 1626 or 7-1705.; Rich, Robert, d. 1679.; Curtis, Thomas, 17th cent.	1655 (1655)	Wing S365; Thomason E857_7; ESTC R203441	49,745	48

they spoke was untruth And though they say The Lord liveth surely they swear falsely Ier. 5.2 Then another asked me If the Lord did not live I answered Yea I know he liveth Now there are two Boyes that hath sworn against me that which I did not speak their blood will be required of them that caused them to erre And know this O man that the Lord God wil be avenged of all unjust Justices and he will make his power known in the destruction of his Enemies Therefore fear him and beware of persecuting his servants for justly shalt thou be judged according to thy deeds done in the body shalt thou receive thy reward To the light in thy conscience do I direct thee it will let thee see all thy actions and from whence they arise whether from the Spirit of Meekness or from thy perverse will which the Lord will judge righteously To that in thy conscience I speak which will witness for God against all deceit This was I moved to write to clear my conscience of thee and leave thee without excuse that when the Book of Conscience is opened thou mayest remember that thou wast warned in thy life-time A friend of the Truth and a lover of thy Soul who is a prisoner of the Lord for the truths sake at Banbury whose name in the flesh is Anne Audland WHeereas I am accused in a Mittimus for certain blasphemous words saying That the Lord liveth not I answer these words are false and never spoken by me The Lord is my Redeemer and I know that my Redeemer liveth and my Soul magnifieth him and my spirit rejoyceth in him and here I deny your false accusations and blasphemy it is your owne words and not what I said and you that accuse falsely know not the living God the Heathens knows not God and the Heathens rage but the Lord will be avenged of all his Enemies and plead the cause of the innocent And they are blasphemers which say they are Jews and are not but are the Synagogue of Satan And whereas I am accused for causing a tumult in the Church when the Minister was going to execute part of his Function and likewise to assault the Minister I answer This is likewise false Lyars must bee cast into the lake The Church is built of living stones elect and precious and there is order kept in the Church And I did not cause a tumult neither did I assault the Minister as you call him and that which is called part of his function is an invention and there is neither command nor example in all the Scripture that ever any of the Ministers of Christ did sprinckle Infants and call it a Function and here you have no Scripture to prove your Function as you call it And he that practises such things for the which there is no Scripture leads people into the inventions and so they are not profited at all as it appears by your own words that they were in a tumult O blush and be ashamed of that which you call your Church who are so suddenly in a tumult Was there ever such a thing heard of amongst the Saints that they would be in a tumult when one came in peaceably among them not offering wrong to any Here you drew your selves to be children of your fathers who lived in envy haling out of Synagogues carrying them before Rulers and casting into prisons them who was called of the Lord to bear witness against their deceit and here him called the Minister is made manifest to be one that runs before he was sent and so never profited the people and so like Priest like People Therefore give over and never call it a Church who are fighters and strikers scoffers and scorners tumulters and false accusers as your fruits makes it daily appear And some of you confess that they are in danger of their lives that comes among you the people are so rude Now you that are Magistrates ought to punish evil Dors Fighters and Lyars and false Accusers but such have liberty and dare do it in your Church as you call it and you present as hee that caused the Mittimus to be made doth confess That there was a tumult when hee was present and they that tumulted are not punished but the fault is laid upon the innocent who was beat and abused but offered violence to none And so they said Paul was a pestilent fellow and they tumulted Paul but Paul did not cause the tumult So you are made manifest of what generation you are and you shall be reworded according to your deeds And from the Lord I declare That he will visit for these things and plead with you for all your hard speeches and all your ungodly deeds and give you your portion with hypocrites except you speedily repent and when you come into the pit remember you are warned in your life-time And so your false accusation and blasphemy I do deny and the living God will judg between me and you The Burrough of Banbury in the county of Oxon. Anne Audland THe righteous Judge of all the world is now arising to judg the world in righteousness and the people with equity And every tongue shall confesse that the Lord is righteous when be comes to judgement and he wil reward every one according to that deeds And every tongue shall confess the Lord is just For according to that in the conscience which is just and equall will the Lord judg whose Iudgements are just and equall and every Tongue shall confess him just when he takes Vengeance upon the unjust And behold the Lord commeth with ten thousands of his Saints to execute Judgment upon all and to convince all that are ungodly of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken And such are they that walk after their own Lusts and their mouth speaks great swelling words having mens persons in admiration because of advantage such will the Lord execute Judgment upon in righteousness All you that are ungodly the Lord will reward you according to your deeds And all you that utter hard speeches against the Holy One and blaspheme God in his Temple The Lord is coming with his Saints to execute Judgment upon you and you shall confess his judgements is just that which convinceth you of your ungodly deeds and hard speeches by it you shall confess the Lord is just when you are judged for your ungodly deeds and hard speeches And all you that have mens persons in admiration because of advantage you shall be judged righteously and you shall confess that God is just and his wayes equall and God respects no mans person nor the Saints who comes with him to Judgment respects no mans person for he that respects persons commits sin and is convinced to be a Transgressor of the righteous law of God but they who are guided by that which convinceth the transgressor they are kept

man but for the Lord who is with you in the judgement wherefore now let the fear of the Lord be upon you and take heed and do it for there is no iniquity with the Lord our God nor respect of persons nor taking of gifts And he charged them saying thus shall ye do in the fear of the Lord faithfully and with a perfect heart Now all you that denies a perfect heart and are respecters of persons you cannot judge with a perfect heart and such are not Judges for God who judges not with a perfect heart but are respecters of persons but they who fear God and do faithfully with a perfect heart such Judges and Magistrates I own who are just men such rules for God and is a terror to the wicked and for the praise of them that do well and such I am subject to for conscience-sake but they who were the servants of Christ ministers of Christ when they were commanded by the rulers that which was contrary to the command of Christ they said whether is it better to obey God or Man judg ye and I say the same and they which command any thing contrary to the command of Christ which rules and reigns in his people is one in the male and in the female such are not just men fearing God and judging faithfully with a perfect heart and such who do not fear God and have not a perfect heart such knowes not the voyce of God but Christs sheep who follow Christ and are sent of God knows his voyce Now Magistrates and People will say how may we know that you are sent of God as Pharaoh said to Moses VVho sent thee and he answered The Lord sent me to bid thee let Israel go free and Pharaoh said I know not the Lord neither will I obey him and let Israel go free Such are they who fear not God nor know not his voice and such cannot discern the things of God Magistrates nor People who fear not God and have not a perfect heart Now consider if you judg me according to the Law of God when you heard all that was against me and did accuse me but would not hear the accused and the accusers face to face nor those that was by who would have witnessed against those untruths charged upon me but put them forth and said What have you to do here notwithstanding they said they came to bear witness to the truth See how Moses charged the Judges Deut. 1.16.17 saying Hear the cause between your brethren and judge righteously between every man and his brother and the stranger that is with him ye shall not respect persons in judgment but you shall hear the small as well as the great ye shall not be afraid if the face of man for the judgment is Gods and Deut. 19.16,18 20. The Iudges and Officers was to judge the people with just judgment thou shalt not wrest judgment thou stall not respect persons neither take a gift for a gift doth blinde the eye of the wise and perverts the words of the righteous that which is altogether just shall thou follow that thou mayest live and inherit the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee Now this is true judgment and takes hold upon the unjust but here you do not act according to the Law of God who doth respect persons and doth not hear the small as wel as the great which you have not done who have committed me to prison and I had not liberty to speak face to face with my accusers and so I am falsly accused and imprisoned upon a false accusation he that knows all secrets is my witness and he will plead my cause and he will judge righteous judgment upon all the Heathen and the Lord comes with his Saints and this honour have all the Saints to execute upon the Heathen all the judgements written but the Heathen ought not to judg the Saints but the Heathen rages the heathen persecutes and imprisons falsly accuseth the Saints the viols of wrath is now to be poured out upon the wicked and the Saints shall take the kingdom rejoyce in God for ever ever which giveth them victory over the world and gives them strength to rejoyce in tribulation Prayses to the living God for evermore And so I warn you all People Magistrates and Teachers to fear the Lord God lest his wrath and indignation break forth against you and the decree be sealed and he take you away with his grievous stroke and there be no remedy for God is my witness that my desire is for you that you may know the things that belongs to your peace so to you all I have cleared my conscience and I am free from your blood glory to the Lord for evermore who hath given me to believe and suffer for the testimony of Jesus so I remain a witness for the truth a prisoner in bonds at Banbury for the truths sake who am innocent but falsly accused slandered reproached but the reproaches for Christ is my riches whose name in the flesh is Anne Audland The 5 day of the 12 month 1654 To you Magistrates of the Town of Banbury and to thee John Griffith who was called Deputy-Recorder sate Iudg in the Sessions or pretended Goal-Delivery holden the 26 day of the 7 moneth 1655. IT is likely the heat of pour passions being over you may since in the cool of the day better have considered your actions don that day in your court which if with the light of Christ Jesus you have Gen. 3.8 it wil shew you that those who respect the person of any man commits sin are found transgressors of the pure righteous law of God Iam. 2.1 9. which saith thou shalt not respect the person of the poor nor honor the person of the mighty but in righteousnes shalt thou judg thy neighbor Lev. 19.15 which if you hearken to and regard the Law written in the heart Ier. 31.33 it will reprove you for your partial actings that day and tell you that you did not do wel to fine Thomas Cole five pounds and for to imprison him till he should pay the same and to bee angry with him for keeping on his hat in your Court and afterwards invite two other men for to put on their hats in your Court namely Priest Jones and Priest Smart consider if this were not partiality and to respect persons and for to act contrary to equity and truth as that in your conscience wil let you see and with mee bear a true testimonie And whether your sending of Jane VVaugh Sarah Tyms and Nathaniel VVeston to prison again they neither convinced of nor being charged with the breach of any known Law nor so much as one witness proving them guilty of the least misdemeanor were not injustice yea or no And whether if you had set them free seeing there was nothing laid to their charge you had not done justly and

out of the transgression and they do not admire mens persons nor respect mens persons But you that do are convinced to be transgressors and according to that which convinceth will you be judged by the righteous Judge who cometh with ten thousands of his Saints and he will judge all you that respects persons for the Lord regards the rich no more than the poor but this is hee that the Lord regardeth who is of an humble and contrite spirit and trembleth at his word Such you do not regard who are poor and trembleth at the word of the Lord but you that respects persons scoffs at such as they go along the streets But the Lord will plead the cause of the poore who is now despised amongst you that respects persons You admire some mens Persons because of advantage and ye despise others and Persecutes the Poore and goes about to make one an offender for a word which is none indeed and you set a snare for them that reprove in the Gate that so you might catch the innocent and they that are offenders indeed who can lye and sweare and accuse falsely such have liberty and such are set to ensnare the innocent and to be as Iudges against the innocent and yet you profess your selves Christians Oh that you were wise Oh that you would consider your latter end How will you stand before the Judgment seat of God in the day when the secrets of every heart shall be judged by Jesus Christ who hath all judgement committed to him And behold he cometh and all the Saints with him and he rules and reigns in his Saints and sits upon his Throne But how will you stand at that day who now sits as judges upon the Saints and calls them deceivers and persecutes them who are made free by the Son of God and in obedience to him suffers the loss of all things and are killed all the day long and are accounted as sheep for the slaughter and are become a reproach and a by-word and a scorn even among you that profess your selves Christians and so the Scripture is fulfilled They that work wickedness are set up and they that departs from iniquity becomes a prey to the wicked and the Sufferings of the Saints is become a sport amongst you and you can stretch your selves upon your beds of ease and you do not remember the affliction of Ioseph nor you have not known that all who live godly in Christ Jesus must suffer persecution and saith Christ As they have done unto me so will they do unto you And the Servant is not greater then his Lord. Now if you were Christians as you profess your selves to be then would persecution cease and not be found amongst you for Christians doth not persecute but you that live in such things are made manifest to all the children of Light whose servants you are and you that are Magistrates who should punish evil Doers such have liberty in the Streets to scoffe and scorn to swear and lie and be drunk and you pass by these things but if any come amongst you to declare the word of the Lord against such things then the innocent are accused by them who live in such things and the innocent are persecuted and sent to prison and may not know from you who prisons them what they are accused of nor see their accusers face to face Is this according to the Law of God or is this as you would be done unto Consider of it and lay it to heart for the Lord wil visit for these things I speak what I know and find amongst you for I was accused and committed to Prison but I did not know what the accusers swore against me neither could I see my accusers but you took an oath in secret and so I was accused and committed for that which I never spoke and had not liberty to answer for my self nor others had no liberty nor could be heard on my behalf who was by when they say I spoke these words for which I am accused which would bear testimony that they heard no such things spoken by me as I am accused of and so the innocent suffers innocently and in the mean time wickedness is at liberty and not onely in a corner but in your streets men lie and swear and are drunk and the innocent is a prey unto them and yet you do not lay it to heart woe is me for you that you should so slight the day of your visiitation and so wickedly requite the Lord for all his goodness as to persecute his servants who are sent to warn you and despise his Witnesses and shamefully intreat his Messengers and them that comes to you in their owne names such you receive but them that come to you in the name of the Lord such are a reproach amongst you and the Lord is highly displeased with you for these things and he wil make enquiry for blood you know that the blood of the innocent hath been shed in your Streets one that came amongst you and offered violence to none was beat and abused and lost much blood amongst you and yet you are not ashamed to profess your selves Christians when as these actions proceeds from you and your care is how to wound the innocent secretly that so your deeds might not be brought to the light but it is in vain for you to dig deep to hide your counsel from the Lord VVoe unto you that deviseth to work mischief in the dark and say who seeth us and consults together to shoot your arrowes secretly against the poor The Lord sees you knows your hearts your very thoughts which you think against the King in your bed-chamber there is a bird of the ayre that carries the voyce And the Lord will bring every work to judgement with every secret thing whether it be good or evill and the oath in secret shall be tryed and the Lord wil sit as Judge amongst the Judges and you shall all be weighed and those of you that are found wanting the Lord will cast you by though you be as high and mighty as Belshazzar was and if you be angry with mee for telling you so and forewarning you in your life-time the Lord will judge you for it for he is tender over his little ones and in as much as you persecute one of them ye do it unto him and you that imprison the innocent and they may not see their accusers is this according to the Law of God or is this to judge for God and not for man nor self-ends without respect of persons They that were set over the people to judge them according to the Law of God were just men fearing God and hating covetousness just men were to judge the unjust for the unjust cannot judge true judgment See what charge Ichoshaphat gave unto them he set over the people 2 Chron. 19.6 7 9 Saying to the Iudges take heed what you do for you judge not for