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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89853	Several petitions answered, that were put up by the priests of Westmorland, against James Nayler and Geo. Fox, servants of the most high God, persecuted by the priests of the world, as Jesus Christ and the apostles were persecuted by the Jewish high priests for the witnessing of the truth, and testifying against the deceits of the world. With the answer to an order given forth by the justices at Appleby sessions, contrary to the law of God, and the laws of the land. Also, an exhortation to the people, to mind the light of God in them, the teachings and leadings of the spirit of truth; the which if it be obeyed, will lead and guide them into all truth.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.; R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.; Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1653 (1653)	Wing N316A; Thomason E703_4; ESTC R3636	42,778	72

therefore do you persecute me because I testifie against you that your deeds are evill And dealing with the Divel I utterly deny and the works of darkness for he that is born of God sins not neither can he because 1 John 3. 8. 9. the seed of God remains in him and the evill one cannot touch him but if they call the master of the house Beelzebub what will they do unto the children So it was Jesus Christ Lord and Master had that portion of the world it is the same now where he is made manifest in any the same generation persecutes it is no strange thing Mat. 10. 25. Pr. Petition That we know the Principles of some of their followers are against subjection to Magistrates against distinction amongst men and the practices of the most is such that there is a denying of relations children professedly refusing subjection to their Parents and servants to their masters Answ Whereas you say we are not subject to justice that is false for conscience sake let every soul be subject to the higher power for all power is of God and he that resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God So for conscience sake we honor justice and all men in the Lord but as for respecting persons we deny for the Scripture Rom. 13. 1 2. denies the same he that respects persons commits sin and is a transgressor of the Law He that was a minister of Iesus Christ said this Here you James 2. 9. Rev. 22. 15. shew your selves to be without and no ministers of God but would have others to transgress the law of God O false accusers where do any walk stubbornly against their parents but for conscience sake they cannot yeeld to those things which carnally they would have them act as follow the worship of the world without them and not worworship God in Spirit and set up your teachers of the world God hath raised up a light in many John 4. 23. Luke 1. 79. Mat. 21. 16. Mat. 11. 25. young children draws them to himselfe and you spue forth your venom against them servants and children because they will not hold you up and now when you are like to fall If Christs words should be fulfilled where he saith Call no man father upon earth and he that loves Father or Mat. 23. 9. Mat. 10. 37. mother more then me is not worthy of me what would you say to that Fathers and mothers pass away and that love that is in the flesh but the Father the Lord God of Heaven and Earth is for ever and who owns him will not walk in disobedience to any thing but the evill and if God put into the mouth of any servants to speak that doth Acts 2. 18. not take them from faithfulness in the outward to their masters where they are But you accusers which have the form of godliness but deny the power ever shew forth your selves Where do any of the servants masters go to complain to the Magistrates But you Priests shew your selves 1 Tim. 5 13. busie about other mens matters only to hold up your own profits and accuse the just with many false and scandalous slanders Pr. Petition That we are sensible what confusions divisions tumults and parties are made by these mens disturbances and cannot but with sadness of spirit remember that such small beginnings have in other nations grown to eat out their peace and stagger the foundation of their States as also to lay it before you what advantage it gives for the common enemy weakens the Parliaments interest in the peoples hearts Answ Truth ever stirred up confusion where it was though it lay close till truth came Luke 12. 49. as you read in the Scriptures Christ came to put fire in the earth and the Apostles where they came in the markets or Synagogues who witnessed forth the substance to draw people to it to serve the Lord in newness of life to come up into the everlasting truth and peace then every one stood up in his own imagination and thoughts as you do now to oppose the truth and said they would turn the world up side down Pr. Petition To see such persons unrestrained creats discontents and laies a clear foundation for civill wars or at least advantage to the Hollanders or French now in arms against us to carry on their wicked intentions with greater facility Answ The intention of your mind is to have truth restrained which takes away the occasions of all wars and brings into love and true heartedness and there is nothing discontent with us but that which doth not abide in the truth And wheras thou speakest of weakning the Parliaments interest and laying a foundation of new war This is hatched in your own minds so to incense ignorant people it is your own interest that you fear for if the Parliament should take away your Tythes and your means little love would appear to them for it hath been already said by you that the Parliament hath opened a gap for all blasphemings but the hands of evil doers we do not strengthen and you are the men that raise up civill warres against them that live peaceably and love peace and go about to take away the ocasions of all warres For the world raises up a persecution and a civill warre against a peaceable people whose intents are to bring up all to God to live in unity one with another to be of one heart and one mind and one soul to seive God in newness of life whom Christ Iesus hath set free from the Traditions and Rudiments of the world Now who are set free from the world you bring under your bondage and perfecute them if they will not obey you shewing forth the nature of Pharaoh not letting Israel go to serve God Priests Petition Therefore as you are Christians and English Magistrates vve are freemen born of England and desiring somthing more as instruments under God with others of your present peace do beg an chalenge from you Answ Now you shew your complements we are no breakers of peace who owns the peace owns us and he that bears this sword that cuts Rom. 13. 4. down all corruption and filthiness owns us For there is no peace to the vvicked saith God and this you shall all find vvho vvould have peace to that vvhich must die it is your eternall peace and eternal souls good that we are moved of the Lord to speak unto you for which eternally you shall witness Priests Petition 1. Your timely looking unto the Peace of England that it seems too evidently to be endeavored to be rent asunder Answ Justices that keeps peace we honor and set up and wait all for the peace but your intention in this is to have truth suppressed and wickedness flourish and the works of darkness not discovered here is Justice weakned and the hand of evil doers strengthened against the innocent which ever the chief Priests

concernment we shall ever pray Answ You are blinde without the truth and Prov. 28. 9. your prayers are an abomination unto the Lord and they who have the gracious guidance of the Tit. 2. 11 12. Lord will witness us for the free grace of God that brings salvation you have turned into wantonness it teacheth them to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts them we own where this grace doth guide we have unity with them but where this free grace hath appeared and is turned into wantonness them we deny and there is your conditions the grace of God hath appeared in many of the Justices which hath brought them from under your bondage which will not be your Executioners to execute your wrath and malice upon the harmless innocent people It hath been of late that they who lived under your Ministry the Lord alone was pleased to manifest himself in them so that they are brought to deny you and declare what was freely revealed in them presently you cryed out against them and had them before Magistrates to suppress the truth praised be the Lord who hath enlightened many by and with his own light and is setting up his own Kingdom to his own glory praises praisesbe unto the Lord God Rev. 11. 15. Almighty never did the Apostles go to any Magistrate to suppress people strangers who witnesse forth the power of truth in any where it appears that you have not the same Spirit that was in them It is the evil in you which would have the truth it self suppressed It is of great concernment for you to stand up to maintain your Kingdom for if truth rise ye shall lose your Kingdom eternally shall you witness us to be no Seducers be ye witnesses against your selves Mat. 23. 31. that ye are witnesses against the power of truth Another Petition put up by the Priests in Westmerland Priests Petition TO the Right Honorable the Justices of peace for this County of Westmerland Answ That which is Right Honorable is that which is pure which is of God which worships the Father of heaven and earth now all people fear John 5. 41 44. the Lord Jesus Christ and see if there be not corruption within that would be honored and worshipped as ye read in all the Scriptures they who honored the Lord Iesus Christ cryed against deceits and Iesus Christ testified against the works of the world and the Apostles testified against the same but that which was pure they John 7. 7. set up in their souls and so do we and honor in our souls Priests Petition The humble Petition of several Gentlemen Ministers of the Gospel and others friends and servants to Iesus Christ his Gospel truths and Ordinances and the general wealth of this Commonwealth and Nation Answ Never did the Gospel Ministers put up a Petition to a Magistrate to maintain the Gospel nor the servants of Iesus Christ wherein it appears Mat. 10. 10. 2 Cor. 10. 14. 2 Cor. 3. 6. 1 John 3. 12. John 4. 21 22 23 24. that you are Ministers of the Letter which is carnal and death and you must have a carnal weapon to hold you up for shame give over your Profession and you profess humbleness your humbleness is to persecute here you shew forth the nature of Cain and void of the knowledge of Iesus Christ and the Ordinances of Iesus Christ was never set up by man but man who lived in his own will was ever against them and you know not his Ordinances for they that knew his Ordinances were not persecutors but Paul before he was a Minister of Iesus Christ and knew his Ordinances he came with Letters from the Priests to persecute the Saints who believed in Iesus Christ and were of one soul and Acts 9. 2. Acts 22. 4. Acts 20. 7. Acts 4 32. met together yea in the night time all night where it shews you have but the form not the power which must be turned away from according to Scripture Priests Petition Sheweth that in the late wars we or the most of us did expose lives liberties estates and relations with all other personal advantages in the just defence of Religion and Liberty in concurrence with and maintenance of the just proceedings of our Parliament after the prosperous effects whereof we expected the settlement of the grand ends of our Engagement and so much the more as being the promise of the Parliament the vows of their affections the price of our prayers purses hazards losses banishments and the blood of many thousands our fellow servants in the work of God freely sacrificed in the quarrel of this Nation what hath been done in the settlement of our Civil Rights Peace and wholsom Law we bless God for and the Parliament as his Instruments nor can we but acknowledge what hath been done by them in the cause of God as their Acts against Adulteries Fornication Swearing Drunkenness Sabboth-breaking Ordinances against Promoters of Heretical Doctrines Acts against Ranters or Blasphemers may the Lord increase the number of these things Answ If ye will own the wholsom Law ye will own us but this is but a pretence for who owns the wholsom Law denies all corruption this is but a pretence whereby ye make a colour to make them that live in the truth to appear odious unto the world setting forth your selves unto the world Pharisee like and there to make the pure truth odious through your envious mindes but the day doth declare all things your end will 1 Cor. 3. 13. make it manifest though you pretend your selves to be Ministers of the Gospel yet your ends will 1 Cor. 3. 13. shew you to be bloody Cains and it doth now begin to appear the second birth is brought forth which doth not own your sacrifices this birth you 1 Cor. 15. 47 48 49. seek to slay Pr. Obj. Yet so it is that in this County severall persons proselytes of one Geo. Fox and James Nayler do in the time of our Assemblies ordinarily in a way of contempt and scorn come in anong us with their hats on at time of our prayer or singing used in our Gongregations some of them shew violent actions in time of Sermon or prayer or singing and cry out aloud with horrible clamors slanders abuses reproaches against our Ministers Answ That is false for our friends shew no violent actions but are against them but come peaceably in and if they be moved by the Lord to cry aloud who art thou that wilt withstand the Lord Do not you read in the Scripture that the Lord sent his Prophets and bad them cry aloud and spare not And as for clamors Isa 58. 1. we utterly deny it is your own and as for slanders abuses reproaches we utterly deny it is your own we are against all filthy minds that give forth reproaches but we speak the same language the Scripture doth from the same Word that gave it forth and your