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A86665	The immediate call to the ministry of the Gospel, witnessed by the spirit: vvith a true declaration of the persecution and suffering of Richard Hubberthorne, James Parnell, Ann Blayling, by Will. Pickering, who is Mayor of Cambridge. Also an answer to divers letters and mittimusses, against the said prisoners, answered; by them who are sufferers for the truth, and for the testimony of Jesus, Richard Hubberthorn, James Parnell.	Hubberthorn, Richard, 1628-1662.; Parnell, James, 1637?-1656.	1654 (1654)	Wing H3225; Thomason E812_13; ESTC R207636	16,317	15

hath no profit by him but is in the state of reprobation as the Scripture witnesseth 2 Cor 12. 5 Object 9. That she said they that have the Spirit cannot fall into sicknesse diseases distempers of the body Reply Here again thou art taken with a lie in thy mouth for what she said as concerning this was concerning her own condition since she witnessed the Spirit of the Lord Object 10. That she doth not seek to lead men to the Scripture but from them Reply This is false for they who witnesse the life of the Scripture cannot deny the Scripture for it is their own but thou and such swinish natures as thou must be shut out of the Scripture who takes to talk of or to make a trade of and are ignorant of the life and would destroy the life who have the form but deny the power 2 Tim. 3. 5. such must be shut out of the Scripture for what should swine doe with pearles Mat. 7. 6. whose life is in husks and there thou feeds and all who have the letter and wants the life Object 11. That she said no man ought to swear before a Magistrate and that no Magistrate ordained of God will cause men to swear and thou brings the old Covenant to maintain swearing Gen. 24. 3. Reply Hear every way thou Serpent pleads for thy life which is sin but Christ the new Covenant who is the end of the old Covenant said that it had been said in the old time thoushalt not forswear thy self but shalt perform unto the Lord thine oath Mat. 5 33 34. but I say swear not at all yet the devill in thee runs into the old Covenant to maintain swearing and so would have Scripture to maintain his Kingdome but the day hath made him manifest and those who puts any to swear are still in the old Covenant for in the new Covenant no swearer can come Object 12. That she said men ought not to pray and that I my self ought not to pray Reply Even now thou wast pleading for swearing and now thou art pleading for praying but the prayer of the wicked are abominable Prov. 15. 8. and thou who art a drunkard art wicked and hath nothing to pray but Cains generation murdering the righteous whose Sacrifices the Lord will not accept but he that can witness Christ risen can pray Object 13. That the Scripture doth not trie the Spirit Reply The Spirit was before the letter was and thou hast the letter but canst not trie the Spirit but those who have the Spirit of the Lord have tried thy spirit without the letter and hath found it to be the Spirit of the devill who hath ever reviled and persecuted the truth of God which calleth the doctrine of Christ damnable doctrine And thou sayest thou wilt justifie that all these her sayings are false and will be ready to maintain them by this power Reply I doe testifie and witnesse by the Spirit of the Lord that thou art a naturall carnall man and knowes not the things of God 1 Cor. 2 14. therefore thou Serpent be silent and talk nor meddle not with the things least he come with a bigger power then thine and cut the asunder and cast thee into the lake that burneth then shalt thou know what thou hast done and all who plot and lay their heads together devising how to shed the innocent bloud it were better for them they had never been born Mat. 23 35 for upon that generation shall come all the righteous Abel even untill now and this I witnesse by the Spirit of the Lord who am chosen out of the world to be a faithfull witnesse for the truth of God against all who doe oppose it JAMES PARNELL A Prisoner for the testimony of JESUS at Cambridge

THE IMMEDIATE CALL To the Ministery of the GOSPEL witnessed by the SPIRIT VVith a true Declaration of the persecution and suffering of Richard Hubberthorne James Parnell Ann Blaying by Will Pickering who is Mayor of CAMBRIDGE Also an Answer to divers Letters and Mittimusses against the said Prisoners answered By them who are sufferers for the truth and for the testimony of JESUS RICHARD HUBBERTHORN JAMES PARNELL LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black-Spread-Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1654. The immediate Call to the Ministery of the Gospel witnessed by the Spirit WIth a true Declaration of the persecution and suffering for the Gospel under the tyranny of the Mayor of Cambridge which Gospel of Jesus Christ whereever it was made manifest the testimony of it was ever sealed with bloud persecution and sufferings and it is the same now working the same effect and bearing the same seal as is witnessed And also an answer to several false reproaches given forth in writing in three Letters under the hand of Will Pickering Mayor of Cambridge which herein is discovered and laid open that so the truth may be cleared and all Magistrates Priests and People may discern truth from scandals and that all simple hearts and minds may be informed to receive the truth freely without stumbling at reproaches through which the Prophets and Apostles and Servants of Jesus Christ did bear witnesse to the truth Isai. 51. 7. Heb. 11. 26. esteeming the reproaches of Christ greater riches than the pleasures of the world and the Apostles were to goe forth to him without the Camp bearing his reproach Heb. 13. 13. If ye be reproached for the Name of Christ happy are ye for the Spirit of God and of glory resteth upon you 1 Pet. 4. 14. From one whom the Lord by his eternal Spirit hath called to bear witnesse to his Truth and to his Word and Gospel made manifest in me by the revelation of Jesus Christ whose life and conversation hath been blamelesse in the world whom no outward Law did ever take hold upon for evill doing but was strict and zealous in an outward profession of God and Christ exceeding many in wisdome and knowledge in the letter of the Scripture and had a form of godlinesse but the power of it I was ignorant of and was a stranger to the life of God which the Saints lived in which spoke forth the Scripture according to their measure and the Word of God which the Saints spoke from I was ignorant of though I knew the letter and was a Minister of the letter before I knew the power of the Word of God but when the living powerful Word of God was made manifest in me by his mighty power then I was made silent from speaking any thing of God from that knowledge and wisdom which was natural and did arise out of the earth in which stood my zeal and profession and form of godlinesse which was all without in words and outward appearance and outward righteousnesse and outward holinesse the earthly nature standing which all outward profession and forms lodge in but when the Word of God by his mighty power was made manifest within me spoken from his own mouth which word was in my heart as a fire which did burn up corruption and uncleannesse and work out the defiled nature and by it was all the powers of the earth brought down and the earth it self shaken by it the deviss were made to tremble and were cast out and in that day did the keepers of the house tremble and the strong man cry bitterly and the just Judgements of God did fall upon that nature I lived in and the terrors and wrath of the Lord took hold upon me till the flesh was wasted off the bones that I could number my bones day and night the terrors of the Lord was upon me revealed from heaven against all unrighteousnesse against all my own rightcousnesse and all my familiars and acquaintaince stood afarre off me for I was a wonder to all them who lived in that nature that I had lived in for they knew not the judgements of God against sin which then was upon me because of disobedience to the light which did make manifest sin and evill but hearing the Word of the Lord in power spoken within me did confound all my wisdome and knowledge and made me to be a fool to the wisdome of the world and to deny the wisdome and to deny my self and my own will and by this Word was I called to come out of my own country kindred and fathers house to doe the Lords work in obedience to his command and to stand in his will out of my own will for I knew the voice of God which called me and for this cause did I leave father and mother lands and living earthly honour and earthly riches which I had and might have lived in if I had been disobedient to the command of God but the Lord called me forth by his mighty power to bear witnesse to him in the world and to declare and preach forth the Gospel of the Son of God according to my measure as it was made manifest within me and by his Word to declare against all sin and iniquity and unrighteousness of men and in obedience to him who called me did I goe as I was moved by his eternal Spirit into severall parts of this Nation Townes and Cities and Countries in the North and West part of England and Wales bearing testimony to the truth and in some parts sealing the testimony with my bloud and by imprisonments in persecution in perils often under tryals of cruel mockings scourgings and revilings enduring the contradiction of sinners and doe not account my life dear unto my self that I may render to the Lord a good accompt of my faithfulnesse in obedience to him who hath called me into his work and vineyard and this is all the wages that the Ministers of the Gospel receive from the world being accounted as deceivers yet true as having nothing yet possessing all things as poor yet making many rich The servant is not greater than his Lord John 15. 20. who hath suffered the same things and hath left a good example and if it be the will of God that we suffer with him in the obedience to him are we made willing not onely unto bonds but unto death who doe now bear his reproach and by the Spirit of the Lord was I moved in obedience to him to come to this Town where some did receive the testimony of the truth where I stayed certain dayes and we had certain meetings publickly from house to house and the hands of the persecutors was then bound by the mighty power of God and they limited from acting the persecution which was in their hearts which now they have acted so farre as their power doth reach but the Sea must keep its bounds and cannot break them Then I passed forth of the Town as I

witnessed daily and the Laws of the Land being executed in justice and equity will take hold upon our accusers and clear us 4. Accusation That we have left our honest Callings one being a Husbandmanservant and another a Shooemaker and now living upon the labours of other men I answer we are in our Callings whereunto the Lord hath called us and doe abide in our Calling and he that doth abide in his Calling abides with God and this I witnesse who am called from father and mother lands and livings and from the cutward imployment which I lived honestly in but was never servant to any man in that Calling that accusation is false and my call is to the work of the Lord to labour in his vineyard who once had a vineyard without to labour in as you have who live in your earthly possessions and habitations and that calling was lawfull in its place and I did abide in it till the Word of the Lord came and called me from it into his work who now cares for me and provides for me without taking thought or care what to eat or what to drink or wherewith to be clothed for after all these things doe the heathens seek who knowes not God and my call is from God immediately not from man and in the Scripture I have a cloud of witnesses who were all called by God and left their callings Elisha was called from the plough as he was following the plough 1 Kings 9. 10. and David was called from keeping the sheep who was a Shepherd 1 Sam. 16. 11 12. and by the Word of the Lord was Jeremiah called to be a Prophet who said he was a child and could not speak but the Lord said that he would put his Word in his mouth and that he should goe whithersoever the Lord commanded him and that he should not fear the faces of men for he would deliver him and that he should speak whatsoever he commanded him Jer. 1. 5 6 7 8 9 10. And by the same Word was Amos called as he was following the flock who was a herdsmand and a gatherer of Sicamore fruit Amos 7. 14 15 16 And the Apostles were fisher-men and trades-men and Paul a Tentmaker ●hose all left their honest callings to do whatsoever the Lord commanded them some to prophesie and some to preach the Gospel and the same Word of God and the same Call and the same Spiri● I doe witnesse by which I am called from my outward calling and by the same Law by which I am accused for leaving my honest calling and commanded to it again by the same would Elisha be accused and commanded to goe to the plough again and Amos for leaving the flock and vineyard to goe to prophesie in the Kings Chappel at Bethell but Amasiah the Priest was offended at Amos for leaving his calling and for prophesying at Bethell and commanded him to goe away that he should neither prophesie nor eat bread there though he was commanded of the Lord And the same Spirit doth appear in you both Priests and Magistrates in Cambridge with them who are sent of the Lord and commanded as Amos was And you say this is the Unversity and you have Teachers enough of your own but none of them can witnesse that the Lord ever called them or commanded them but they who are called and commanded by the Lord and in obedience to him do come them you command to goe cut of the Town to follow their callings again and so by the same Law command the Prophets to their callings again and the Apostles to their netts again and Paul to make Tents again and Mathew to the receipt of Customes again which they were all called from but Amos did not goe to Bethell to be a herdsman but to declare the Word of the Lord nor the Apostles did not goe to fish and to their netts again to get their living but they were made fishers of men And were persecuted from City to City and threatned and straitly charged to speak no more in that Name and to depart their Coasts as I am commanded to depart from Cambridge to teach in my own Country but they obeyed God rather than man and were not idle wandering rogues though they had left their lawfull callings and had no certain dwelling place but did goe whithersoever the Lord commanded them to preach the Gospel to every creature and to all nations and took no thought what to eat or what to drink nor wherewith to be cloathed and did eat no mans bread for nought and the same I witnesse and the Prophets nor the Apostles when they were put into prisons and dungeons you doe not read that they were forced to work to fulfill the will of their persecutors nor that ever Paul nor the rest of the Apostles nor Servants of Jesus Christ when they were cast into prison or dungeons that for the testimony of Jesus that ever they were charged or commanded to beat hemp or else not eat as the Task-master of Cambridge doth command but their labour and work was to beget into the truth and some were begotten in their bonds as Paul witnessed in the Epistle to Philemon 10. vers. and the Apostle Paul suffered trouble as an evill doer even unto bonds but the Word of God was not bound 2 Tim. 2. 9. This is a faithful saying If we suffer with him we shall also raign with him if we deny him he also will deny us And for his sake who hath called me doe I suffer all things and endure all things and am not ashamed of his sufferings but in obedience to the will of God doe I deny the will of man and suffer by the will of man God is my witnesse and my conscience also bearing me witnesse in the presence of God And this of the Lord I was moved to publish forth that the truth may be cleared from scandals and the persecution and tyranny of unreasonable men made manifest to all sorts of people who come to see and to read with understanding and here have cleared my conscience being free from the guilt of the bloud of all men and have laid thesin to the charge and to the door of those who are guilty From a Servant and a Prisoner of Jesus Christ in Cambridge RICHARD HUBBERTHORNE A Coppy of a Mittimus made in the will of the Mayor of Cambridge To the Keepers of the Touleboth in Cambridge VVHereas James Parnell hath been brought before me and hath been examined and hath confessed that he was sent to this Town to set dissention in this Town in many particulars as by his examination may fully appear and further hath confessed that he set up a paper in the Market the last market day in this Town which is a Libell against the Ministers and Magistrates of the said Town and further misdemeanours is proved against him these are therefore in the name of the Lord Protector of England that you receive him into your

Scripture which thou talkes of relying upon will witnesse against thee to thy condemnation and all that takes thy part and he who hath all the Scripture in notion and wants the life is without feeding upon the husk with thee who puts the shaddow for the substance who hath the form but denies the power but the Scripture is serviceable in its place and is a true witnesse for the truth of God against such liers and blasphemers as thou art who takes the letter to talke of and would destroy the Life and so these Scriptures which thou hast set down may stand and witnesse against thee who art a sayer but not a doer Object 2. That she said she hath attained to the Light of Christ without the help of Scripture by an immediate call from God and thou sayest contrary to these Scriptures Rom. 10. 14. Iohn 5. 39. Reply Those Scriptures which thou bringest to witnesse against the Light which was spoken from the Light shall stand and witnesse with the Light against thee who art an enemy to the Light and who witnesse the Light of Christ doth witnesse it by Christ without the help of Scripture and the Scripture doth witnesse the same that Christ is the Light of the world and doth enlighten every one that cometh into the world John 1. 9. without the help of Scripture but thou that hates the Light art for condemnation by the Light which is the life of the Scripture but the Scripture is serviceable in its place but thou who lives in darknesse takes it out of its place and so wrests to thy own destruction Object 3. That she said she is without sin and that she cannot sin nor break the Commandments but keep them all and all other are in condemnation that are not like her Reply Here thou art a false accuser and a lier for this she did not say but thou that pleadest for sin livest in sin and art in the fall under the curse upholding the devils kingdome which is sin and so art no Minister of Christ who comes to destroy sin but a Minister of the devil who comes to uphold sin and he who was a Minister of Christ witnessed that he that is born of God sinnes not neither can be sin because his seed remaineth in him 1 John 3. 9 and all the Ministers of Christ witnesse the same and thou who art a Minister of the devill pleads against the Ministers of Christ because thou art a drunkard and live in sin and so must have the wages of sin which is destruction and all who lives in this generation pleading for sin for he that cannot witnesse cleansing here shall never be cleansed for as the tree falls so it lies and thou that calls this damnable doctrine art in the damnable estate of the devill blaspheming the truth of God and denies Christ come in the flesh and so art Antichrist and who have the image of God are like one another and who are not like they have the image of the devill and so are in the state of condemnation Object 4. That men ought not to acknowledge Superiors nor to give reverence Reply Before the fall there was no Superiors onely man Lord over all Creatures Gen. 7 28. but not man to be Lord over man and amongst those who were redeemed there was no Superiors onely Christ the head and the rest fellow Servants and here who would be the greatest should be the least and he that respects persons commits sin Jam. 2. 9. and here thou and thy Superiors are in the fall lording over one another by your corrupt wills and as for reverence I say reverence to whom reverence belongs he that can receive it let him Object 5. That she said she is perfect in this life Reply That is false but thou that pleadest against perfection in this life wast never in this life which is perfect nor art no Minister of Christ but of the devill who pleads for imperfection whereas Christ said Be ye perfect even as your heavenly Father is perfect Luke 5. 48. and the Minister of Christ witnessed and said as he is so are we in this present evill world and he that hath this hope purifieth himself even as he is pure 1 John 2. 3. and here thou art found in the kingdom of the devill which stands in imperfection and all who witnesse with thee for the Kingdome of God is pure and nothing that is impure can come therein Object 6. That she knoweth and can judge of mens hearts and that Christ in her judgeth others and all others that are not such as she are carnall heathens vagabonds children of the devil enemies of God and murderers and in the gall of bitternesse Reply Here with thy serpentine wisdom thou hast mingled truth and falshood together that all might goe current for truth but the day hath made thee manifest and thy heart is known to be Judas heart who professeth Christ in words and in thy heart murders him and thou art discerned and judged by the Spirit of the Lord in Ann Blacklane I being of one Spirit with her witnesse it and this thou shalt witnesse to thy woe and misery and here thou hast razed thy self out from being a Minister of Christ who art a naturall carnall man and knowes not the Spirit of God which searcheth the heart and trieth the reines Heb. 4. 12 which the Ministers of Jesus Christ witnessed and said the spirituall man discerneth and judgeth all things 1 Cor. 2. 15. and witnessed and said it is no more I but Christ in me and without are dogs whoremongers adulterers carnall h●athens vagabonds children of the devill enemies of God and in the gall of bitternesse and drunkards and here art thou and all that joynes with thee to persecute the truth of God and must be cast into the lake that burneth for the new Covenant is but one and the way is but one and the truth is but one and they that are not with us are against us and here art thou in the damnable estate of the devil who calls this damnable doctrine Object 7. That she and such as she are onely enlightened and sent of God to reprove the world of sin Reply If thou wast a Minister of Christ thou wouldest witnesse the same for all who are sent from him are sent from one and are guided by one as they abide in one and are all of one heart and one mind Act. 4. 32. Epistles written in one anothers hearts and thou that callest this damnable doctrine art of one mind with the devill Object 8. That she said there is no outward Christ according to his manhood but that Christ is onely within us Reply This is false and here thou art a lier of thy father the devill but we witnesse Christ come in the flesh but this thou canst not witnesse but art in the state of reprobation who knows not Christ within and those who knowes Christ no nearer than the heavens above the skies