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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26351	The Persecution of them people they call Quakers in several places in Lanchashire	Holme, Thomas, d. 1695.; Fell, Leonard, 1624-1700 or 1701.; Addamson, William, 17th cent.	1656 (1656)	Wing A502; Wing P1661; ESTC R15214	10,243	15

in God Therefore all people fear the living God and depart from the evil of your doings partake not of their doings least you partake of their plagues From us who witness the promise of the Lord fulfilled that he would teach his people himself John Branthwait Isaac Yeats ANd at Manchester one William Barret who is a teaching Elder so called at Sto●ford having formerly had some words with some of them called Quakers challenged a meeting to be at the house of John Maddocke in Manchester and in writing gave forth these words as followeth By the assistance of God I shall undertake to prove that whosoever doth entertain the Opinions of the Quakers and do live and dye in those Opinions without repentance cannot be saved Provided that I may have fourteen days warning before the meeting and that the Conference may be orderly managed according to what was proposed to Tho. Taylor in M●nchester in the presence of Mr. Wiggin and divers others O thus That whereas the said Persons do pretend to be guided by the Spirit I shall undertake to prove that it is not the Spirit of God but the Spirit of the Devil November 9. 1655. By me William Barret The day may be if God permit upon Teusday forthnight at the house of John Maddocke in Manchestor in case the said persons be pleased to give the meeting Thus far Barrets words And according to this time which he appointed one Leonard Fell and several others of them called Quakers c●me to the said place which he had appointed and demanded of him what he had to charge them with Then the said Barret spoke the words before mentioned in his paper which he had given forth And Leonard Fell bade him prove what he had spoken which was that the Spirit which we are guided by is not the spirit of God but the spirit of the D●vil but nothing he could prove against any that was there present but did accu●e o●e that was not then pres●nt whom he named Thomas Holme o● something that he had written a year agoe And Leonard Fell and the rest said he witness●d Christ manifested in them and that Scripture receiving the end of your faith even the salvation of your souls 1 Pet. 1. 9. to be true And Leonard Fell said further that if Thomas Holme did witness the end of his faith even the salvation of his soul the Scripture doth testifie of the same And then Barret replyed I utterly denyed that the Scriptures speaks any thing to this purpose Now le● all judge whether this be not the spirit of a Divel that spoke in Barret that denies plain Scripture as in 1 Pet. 1. 9. and this was taken from his own mouth by his own writer with much more vain empty words not worth mentioning which passed from him at that meeting Then another meeting was sent for by him in writing and the day he appointed to meet upon was the tenth day of the eleventh month to be at Manchester and he in that paper engaged to prove what he had formerly given under his hand and when we came to the place that Barret and John Wiggin●ad appointed to meet in and so soon as the said Barret and Wiggin with some others with them came and went into a certain place called the Colledge G●rden and when we came to them there came in certain rude p●r●●n● and thrust into the Company and before many wo●ds were spoken they laid violent hands upon several of them called Quakers with many blows and so in a rude manner tales some of them over the bridge out of the town and being demanded the reason why they were so rude and cruel they answered and said the Constable whose name is Arthur Buckley a woolen D●●per had sent them so to do and many of the people so haled forth told them they had horses in the town and some other business to do in it But they replied and said they should not come into the town again and so for a certain space they kept them forth of the town and some others of them b●ing at a friends house in the town peaceably met waiting upon the Lord the said Constable hearing of it he with a rude company went to the said house and the said Constable himselfe laid hands on first and drew one forth a●d then the rude persons which he brought with him laid hands upon the rest and violently thrust them forth with many blows And one of the Inhabitants of the town of their own party seeing their cruelty asked why they did so use them and one of the rude persons a●sw●red and said he did nothing but what the Co●st●bl● had given him order to do And after so doing some friends were taken and haled before the Magistrate and ●or some time kept in ●old till the Magistrate could have time to exa●ine the thing And then being brought before the Magistrate again and many false accu●ations and sl●●der● laid ●gainst them by the Constable Arthur Buckley ●s that they were Vagabons and Wanderers T●●n one of them answered before the Magistrate that he was no Vagabond for he had ninty pounds by the year ●n L●nd in one plac● so they were as p●●soners that night that they might appear the next day before the Magistrate And other friends being at their lo●ging at an Inn in the town the said Constable went and took their names and gave command to the w●man of the house where they were that they should not d●par● till the next day And they being the next day brought before the Magistrate and both the Priests Richard Hollinworth and Richard Herrick● Priests of Manchester being pre●●nt after many confused words passing from the said Priests which are not worth mentioning Priest Herricke did ●ffirm before the Magistrate and man others that the b●dy of Christ is not spiritual and when he was by William Addamson chillen●ed with his b●a●phemy he said he would prove it by Scripture and he produced these words to prove it that Christ said I am not a spirit And then he was by him ch●tged with a lye for ●h●re was no such words in that Scripture Many things being laid against them before the Magistrate but nothing proved they were set free by the Magistrate onely Tho Holme and John Hall were stayed and the said Pr●●sts there laboured ●o ensnare the said Tho. Holm by pu ting the Magistrate on to give him the Oath of Abjura●ion And ●●●●st Her ick● 〈◊〉 i● for●h that he sought to bring the said Tho. Holme into Prison And the Constable pretended that they 〈◊〉 some other witness●s to examine So the said Tho. Holme did stand till the witness came and the Magistrate ●xamining the witness and finding that th●y could not prove any thing against him set him free So here al● the p●ople in and about Manchester who hath made such great profession of God and Christ and of the Scriptures ●o be your rule see the fruits of your profession and

THE PERSECUTION Of them PEOPLE They call QUAKERS In several places in LANCHASHIRE FIrst upon Thomas Butler in the beginning of the fifth month 1655. We being met together peaceably to wait upon the Lord and to worship him in his own Spirit The meeting was at Richard Johnsons house of Lunt in Sefton Parish there came a man who goes by the name of Cornet Hikson rudely into the house amongst the Lords people and gave forth many threatning words which within short space was brought forth into actions by hayling and pushing with much violence against the said people by beating them and cutting some with the edge of the sword one very dangerously with other cruelty as cutting bridles stirrup-leathers and pillions into pi●ces yet did not this harmless people so much as say why haft thou done so to us but prayed to the Lord freely to forgive them And this I was an eye witness of William Addamson UPon the five and twentieth day of the ninth Month being the first day of the Week two of those people called Quakers came into the Town of Blackburn in Lanchashire and going to the Steeple-house and standing there peaceably before him whom they call their Minister and spoke not a word till he had done And then one of them said unto him Friend do●st not thou know that he that addes or diminisheth is accursed and then the fruits of the Priests Ministry a peared some pulled him by the haire of the head others beating him with the p●ims of their hands and ●ne took him by the hair of his head and haled him forth and did no let him go till he came into the street and hurled him against a wall and so he returned back again towards the Steeple-house and did meet the Priest and did declare against the fruits of his Ministery but the deal Adder stopped his car so he came toward the Steeple-house again and the rude multitude did beat him again some with the palmes of their hand some with their Bibles pushing him violently and did not let him stay till they had driven him into a Friends house where the meeting was appointed that day And the other of them called Quakers standing peaceably and not speaking any word three of them took hold of the hair of his head and h led and pulled him down under their feer and some cryed kill him and others said they w●ll kill him and some punched him with their f●e● and scra●ched his face with their hands till the blood come down his cheeks And when shame began to strike some of them they pulled them off him and did let him rise up and when he stood up he declared against their persecution as being the fruits of their Priests Ministery and they cryed away with him and he said unto them to whom have we offered any violence or whom have we wronged and they cryed away with him and did not leave pu●hing him till they c●me at the door of the house where the meeting was And the next day following being the second day of the week came to him he whom they call their Clerk and asked him how he did and he answered w●ll and he said he thought they had killed me and said he was sorry they should so abuse me William Simpson Leonard Addison Who by the wo●ld are called Quakers TO all ye the Inhabitants of Berry and the Priests thereof this I am moved of the Lord to write that all the people may see the fruits that proceeds from the two Prie●ts of Burryes Ministery We whom the world in scorn c●lls Quakers being come to a meeting at Henry Woods of To●tington upon the 26. day of the tenth month and being ●et pea●e●b●y down in the house and some people being met together which no Law that is now in force in the Nation doth forbid And one whose name is Isaac Y●at being speaking as he was moved of the Lord to the people There came in violently a deal of rude people from the town of B●rry who did not ●tand to hear what was spoken and according to the Scriptures to prove all things and to hold fast that which is good But violently pulled the said Isaac by the hair of the head from off the place where he was sitting very likely to have murthered him and ha●ing h●m ●or●h of the door they said we spoke against their M●n●sters O shamel●ss Ministers who have such Members in your Church as these who are fighters swearers and dr●nkard a●e these the fruits of your Ministery and Members o● your Church who came violently with staves to pers●cute the innocent When we desired to have Moderation that the Ministers of Christ might have been tryed who they had been according to the Scripture O ye Priests of Berry are you not ashamed to have your names recorded who sends forth such brawlers fighters contentious ones Is this the order and custome in your Church This is contrary to the Apostle who said Ifany man seem to be contentious we have none such custome in the Church of God So from the Apostles example and the Church of God ye have cleared your selves who are contending for hire and for the fleece at this present time But feed not the flock who runs but the Lord never sent you and therefore you do not profit the people at all who seek for your gain from your Quarter Now all people honestly consider whether these two Priests be in the Doctrine of Christ yea or nay who are contending about their wages the Parsonage of Berry as they call it They are here found in the way of Baalam who erred from the spirit who loved the wages of unrighteousness who feed themselves with the fat and cloath with the wool but feed not the flock of my pasture saith the Lord Give over professing your selves to be Ministers of Christ and of the Gospel who are found out of the Doctrine of Christ and own your selves to be hireling● which the Lord sent his true Prophets to cry against And all people take warning and uphold not these Deceivers any longer but return to the light in your conscience which conv●nce●h you o● sin which lets you see you should not lye nor swear nor be drunk nor envy for such go in Cains way from the command of God and example of the Churches of the Saints Read whose example ye follow ●n the Scriptures the Priests go in the way of Balaam for gifts and rewards shame may cover your fac●s to see your names recorded for hirelings who profess to be Ministers of Christ as William Alt and John Lightfoot of Berry do And you who own them to be Ministers who are going in the way of Cain to envy and murther as you whose names are here written Tho. Banister Henry Banister Richard Overy Richard Taylor Edward Hunt Thomas Battersby and divers others who may be ashamed to profess to be Christians and practise such things as never was practised by Christ nor the Church

of your Ministry which you run after Some for the P●esby●erians and some for the Independents some looking for Christs comming in the clouds f the sky without you and in their minds imagine a person●l reign And thus you are confused and divided in your vain thoughts and imaginations which makes you manifest ●hat you know him not come at all nor cannot confess him come in the flesh And so you are proved by the Scripture to be the Antichrist which John speaks of which should be in the last times Where the Apostle saith little Children it is the last time and as ye have heard that Antichrist shall come even now are there many An●ichrists whereby we know that it is the last time 1 John 2. 18. And the Apostle saith farther hereby know ye the spirit of God every Spirit that confesseth that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is of God and every Spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God And this is that spirit of Antichrist whereof ye have heard that it should come and even now already is it in the world 1 John 4. 2 3. Now all people try your Teachers by the Scriptures and their pr●ctise and let their own words try them who looks for a Christ yet to come as some of them said what will you Quake●s do who saith Christ is within you when Christ comes in the Clouds Here now all people do but honestly examine and see wheth●r th●se spirits confess Christ come who looks for him yet to come And let the light of Christ Jesus in your con●ciences examine search you and try you whether you dare b●l●eve that which the Apostle spoke to to b● truth who saith every Spirit who doth not confess Christ Jesus come in the flesh is not of God or these D●ceivers who looks for him yet to come And thus you are divided some for a personal reign and some for the Independent way and some for the Presbyterian way and some of you utterly denies the Scripture as Wiliam Barret did who denied that any should witness the receivi●g the end of their Faith the Salvation of their souls as it is in 1 Pet. 1. 9. And others denied that Christs body is spiritual as Richard Herricke lately did at Manchester and so thus you are in your contention and striving about the body of Jesus as the Divel did about the body of Moses which makes you clearly manifested to all that have their eyes opened in the least measure to be those filthy dreamers which defiles the flesh which Jude speaks of And ye are plainly manifested that ye are they which eateth and drinketh unworthily and so eateth and drinketh your own damnation not discerning the Lords body And here let all poor people about Manchester who are betrayed and deceived with you seriously consider what you are leading them into who knows not the body yet whereof Christ Jesus is the head but are at variance about the body of Christ Therefore consider of what bodi s ye are members of seein● your leadersknows not the body of Christ And beware of deceiving your own soules and being betrayed by these deceivers who leads them in the dark and so is the blind leaders of the blinde and so both falls into the pit For they ●an lead none but who a●e blind Fo● any who hath their mi●ds turned in the le●st me●sure to the light s●es them and discerns them to be the Ministers of Antichrist and the Deceivers and false Prophets which John speak of which are gone out into the world from the light which is this worlds condemnation and denies the light by which the Lord God teacheth his people As some of them said that the Scripture is a more seemly Oracle then the light within when as Christ Jesus faith the light of the body is the eye and if the eye be single the whole body is full of light And so these deceivers that denies the light of the body were not like to know the body but makes images in their dark vain minds one imagining one way and another another way and so betrays poor people and keeps their soules in death But the Lord God is risen who is the Father of light and he who is the light of the whole body is redeeming his people from under the devourers mouths Therefore all people who desi●e ●o know the living God and the Lords body turn your minds within to the light which shines in your consciences which shews you sin and evil and checks you when you do ami●s and lets you see your vain thoughts and your deceitful hearts this will rip you up and lay you open and makes all things manifest This convinceth of sin and brings all things to remembrance which all the Doctrine which your hirelings preached never did Therefore give over going after them and search into the Scriptures and you will see them the deceivers of your souls The Scriptures witnesseth against them and their practises even in th i● manner of their worship For nothing that they act in that which they call their worship is according to the Scripture● And all the Saints in light which gave forth the Scriptures witnessed against these practises they live in Do but honestly consider and you will see that all them that were at variance amongst themselves as Wiggin and Eaton and Herricke and Barret and Holingworth all these agree together in opposing and persecuting the truth And although that some of them were the men that appointed the meeting yet had they not so much power over the people as to have the meeting kept peaceable but all was in an uproar So let all people see what order and government is in these Churches and several opinions which makes them min●fest they who are so d●v●ded amongst themselves are all divided from the living God and from the living Truth from Christ Jesus who is the way the truth and the life and this is but one Therefore all people a warning a warning from the Lord God to you as you will answer it before him who is a consuming fire to the wicked turn to the light of Jesus Christ which will examine and search and try you and bring you to know Christs will in you and so bring you our of the reproba ● saith This will let you see the Mystery which is Christ within and this will bring you to know him come in the flesh and it will let you see these Antichrists who are in the world striving amongst their many opinions and therefore are they condemned with the light which is the worlds condemnation for the light is the condemnation of the world and all the Antichrists that are in the world And so now see whether you will turn to the light of Jesus Christ who is the way the truth and the life which is but one or you will continue amongst them who are of the many opinions who denies the light