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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

is full as well in Newgate White-Lyon Maydstone Alisbury and in all other Prison-Holes as it is super-abounding in the dark Gate-house Dungeon with us I should then have desired that the Hands hanging down and the feeble knees should have been held up and strengthened but seeing I hear that Faith is every where upon the Wing and that the Omni-present God is pleased to visit us in all our Prison-holes with the incomings of his comforting Spirit even to joy unspeakable and full of Glory I shall conclude with our Apostle and say and that upon a good account to that by the good hand of our God upon us I see it is given unto us in the behalf of Christ not onely to believe but also to suffer for his name sake And herein we have cause to joy and rejoyce in the Lord who by the incomings of his Spirit hath supported both you and us in this Tryal so as that we can with his people of old joy in tribulations knowing that tribulations worketh patience and patience Experience and Experience Hope and Hope maketh not ashamed because the Love of God is spread abroad in our Hearts So that we can with our Apostle upon a good account say that Though we are troubled on every side yet not destressed we are perplexed yet not in despair persecuted but not forsaken cast down but not destroyed alwayes bearing about in our Body the dying of the Lord Jesus Christ for we which live are alwayes delivered unto death for Jesus sake And therefore let every soul of us in singlenesse of heart eye Gods Glory in our present sufferings and take up that good resolution of our aged and faithful brother Paul Acts 21. 13. And say if thereto called that we are willing in the behalf of Christ not onely to be bound and lie in bonds but also to die for his Name sake And this is that which is the rejoycing of my soul that in the midst of these Sufferings both by you and us I cannot hear of one man of our Society that is found an evil doer in what is charged upon us as to plotting contriving or undermining or in any Act of hostility in disturbing the Peace of the Nation for herein we can safely and upon a good account appeal to our God the searcher of all hearts and can with confidence and boldnesse in the faithfulnesse of our souls to the faces of the greatest of men affirm and say We are not guilty of what we are charged withal and that we are oppressed in Judgements and are injuriously torn from our callings and Families and most barbarously penned up in Prison-holes and my self some others of our Society thrust into a damp dark dirty Dungeon without either Light or Air Bed or Bedding first nine and after twelve of us together scarce able to lie down one by another being thus used not for what we have done but for what we are nor for what is found in our Houses as to Arms or Ammunition And that you may be satisfied in a measure with the truth of what my Sufferings are and have been in this juncture of time in this our cruel leading into captivity I shall lay down something upon the account of report also upon the account of Action And as for false rumors raised upon me I was reported to say That I hoped to wash my hands in the Kings Blood this was raised by one Hopping Jane commonly so called a notorious drunken swearing person whose common conversation is to go ranting raving and singing like a Bedlam along the streets to the admiration of those that know her not pulling and haling Gentlemen as they go along the streets to get money of them to buy Ale to drink the Kings health and this was reported that I should say at my shop door on Wednesday morning the ninth day of the eleventh Moneth vulgarly called January 1660. when I was not down my stairs in the shop all that morning as I proved by three Witnesses to the French Papish Fencer that carried me away for saying these words after he and they that were with him had searched my house for Arms the which words or any other tending to that or any such horrid and wicked tendancy God the searcher of all hearts knows I never entertained so much as a thought of in the least and for my tongue to utter that which never came into my thoughts seemeth to me a very strange thing the which she her self hath since said to my Wife before some that heard her words as to that particular was not so It is also further reported by others far and near That I my self that said Wednesday night had killed one of the Constables Watch-men when I was in custody as is aforesaid by nine of the clock in the morning and was that night with some forty more upon the main Guard at White-hall and was sent on Thursday morning to the Gate-house Prison Dungeon where I now am And further it is commonly reported that in my house when it was searched There were several Arms and Ammunition found with Barrels of Gun-powder and that there was a Barrel of white Gun-powder left at one Mr. Horses house in Stannop-street a Coach-maker to be conveyed to me When in truth I had no Arms at all nor any manner of Powder but was so far from any such thing as that I can boldly affirm it in the presence of God that I have not had nor carried so much as a defensive Weapon this fifteen or sixteen years And in 1659. I declared against the acting with the Carnal Weapon and pleaded the unlawfulnesse thereof as by the said Declaration in the end of my Fannatick's Mite cast into the Kings Treasury is evident More I might say as to Matter of Report but I shall forbear and let you know that my house was searched nine several times twice before I was taken into Custody and seven times after I was in Custody and six times of that seven in one night and by several parties So that I may say as to the malice of men I am set up as their Mark to shoot at although my Actings towards them are innocent and harmless For I know nothing on my part as a Cause of it unless in my Fannaticks Mite my bearing my Testimony against the Abominations of the Times in saying what I say therein as to the madness of the rude Multitude And in the revived and daily continued Acts of Folly in Stage-Playes and the many bitter Oaths and Execrations uttered by unlawful Game-Players in the abominations of Dammy and Debauch'd Bawdy-houses the foul detestable shame of a Christian Kingdom or in what I say in Page 49 50 51. of that Mite in that Use of Examination to the Nation Considered as a Nation Or at my down-right and single-hearted Conclusion of my Epistle therein to the KING Dedicated Or in my After-Writing to the KING in that I give Him some REASONS

Jesus shall live together with them with Jesus 1 Thes. 4. 14. When that same Jesus which was taken up into Heaven shall so come in like manner as he went into Heaven Acts 1. 11. For behold he cometh with Clouds and every eye shall see him and they also which piersed him Rev. 1. 7. In which patient waiting of ours we must expect according to the saying of our Apostle That we must through many tribulations enter into the Kingdom of Heaven Acts 14. 22. Our Lord and Master was pleased to strip himself of Glory and became obedient to that ignomineous death of the Cross for our sakes to bring us to Glory and shall we then grudg for his sake to go by the Cross to inherit that Glory O my Brethren in Gods Fear consider what ye do turn not your backs upon Jesus Christ but as ye have set your hand to the Plow so look not back for if any man draw back my Soul shall have no pleasure in him Heb. 10. 38. And whosoever will deny me before men him will I also deny before my Father which is in Heaven they were his own Words Mat. 10. 33. in whose Mouth there was sound no guile who also telleth us That the time will come that if they kill us they will think they shall do God good service John 16. 2. And seeing we do at this day both see and feel so much in order to the fulfilling of this Scripture in this juncture of time wherein iniquity doth so much abound and that the love of many do wax cold Let us consider in Gods Fear what our work is in this our Day that so we may be sound doing Gods Work in Gods Way although it be to the losse of our Liberty Goods yea and Life and all rather than lose all to eternity And therefore for my part I shall resolve God assisting me according to the ability received to make use of that Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God to the hewing down of all Iniquity Transgression and Sin both Root and Branch as near as I can in all and to speak Scripture Language from him that sitteth on the Throne to him that grindeth at the Mill and draweth Water And to endeavour such a Reformation in all as that God may build up the Nation and make our Land as it is now abounding in all excesse of ryot to be as one day it shall be said of Jerusalem even a Praise of the whole Earth And if in this I am looked upon to be vile I shall by Divine assistance resolve to be yet more vile and shall first begin this work at Home and now I speak of Home I shall begin to look Home and as the Husband-man and the Merchant take the time of their best leasure to make up their Inventory So shall I for being haled from my lawful employments having little else to do in my Dark Dolesome Drowsie Damp Dungeon I shall see what I am worth that so I may set my House in order whilest I have time for Age tells me I cannot live long and almost every day an Alarm for death is sounding in mine ears Tear me and Ram me Sink me and Dam me telling me some to my Face and others behind my back That I am not long liv'd and that I must suddenly prepare for Death because of my Judgement notwithstanding the Kings Word passed to us from Breda and since For a peaceable enjoying our Meeting upon our good behaviour the which I shall bid defiance to any man that can say it was ever tainted I have therefore set Pen to Paper and have added this my Inventory the which haply may seem impertinent in this place yet I judge the conclusion may be very comfortable and as the Husband-man and Merchant so shall I the Husband-man making his Inventory which we will suppose thus Imprimis Hay Barns empty and Hay-stack-Roomes railed round with Corn Barns and Graineries empty swept and garnished in which there is nothing of l. s. d. any considerable value But that which will make a mends for all is Item in the Harvest Crop abundance of Hay to the raising of Stacks and filling the Hay Barn and Lofts and of Wheat Rie Barlie Oats Beans and Pease to the filling the Barns and Graineries having increased some thirty some sixty and some an hundred fould with the multiplicity both of Summer and Winter Fruits both of the Orchards and Cherry Grounds with the abundance of Wall Fruits and Fragrant-Flowers sweet Herbs of all kinds appearing like the Hour of Plenty together with the sweet encrease of that little yet profitable Creature the Bee the which being added to the fore part of the Inventory being as aforesaid not of l. s. d. any considerable value Doth in the whole amount to l. s. d. a good considerable sum And the Merchant when he maketh his Inventory he doth it at his best leasure when the Venture is out-bound the which we will suppose this Imprimis Two or three large vast Warehouses empty and neatly cleansed onely in one Corner two or three empty Casks with some odd Pack-cloaths and Cording And all l. s. d. not worth setting down But Item the return of the Venture a gallant lusty stout tall Ship of a vast burthen deeply laden and well man'd in-bound at the Havens Mouth ready the next Tide being a spring and a fresh smart gale of Wind filling the Fore Sale the Top Sale the Sprit Sale and the Mizen running before the Wind like the Post that sides for his Life the Antient flying and the Pilat for the safe convey of the Vessel carefully instructing the Steers-man at the Helm as occasion serves with a Star-bord Lar-bord Port Steady Loof Non-neer and the Master Gunner and his Mate fiering to the rejoycing the Heart of the Owner 13. 17. 19. or 21. great Guns the Sea-men and Marriners with all speed striking and furling their Sails coming to Anchor and making to Shore to liver the Ship being Richly Laden with the best and choisest Indian Trade and being home bound coasting from one Countrey to another Port being enriched with the choisest and best Commodities of those Countries and Havens by which means though the Inventory as to the former part of it amounts to l. s. d. no great matter Yet the return of the Venture so supposed as aforesaid doth raise the total sum to l. s. d. hundreds thousands ten thousands Thus we see the Husband-mans Harvest and the Merchants Return after their patient waiting makes a mends for all Therefore by the way a Word to my Brethren that are already in Prison with my self and those that do every hour expect the same measure to be met to them and that not upon the account of any real mis-actings found or known either by them or us as by Plotting Contriving or Undermining the present Government but onely and alone because we desire and endeavour to keep the Testimony of a good Conscience