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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

to her for judgment and did not dispise the counsell of the Lords spirit in a woman preacher or a Iudge in Israel and a Prophetess of the Lord Iudg. the 4 5 6 7 c. And in the dayes of Iosiah King in Israel there was one Huldah a Prophetess that lived in Ierusalem a woman Preacher or one who by the Spirit of the Lord declared and spoke to the people the word of the Lord and to her the Priest and people went to enquire and hear the word of the Lord according also to the Kings command 2 King 12 13 14 15 16 c. Besides several other Prophetesses as wel as Prophets there was in the time of old among the Lords people Issa 8.3 Nebe 6.14 Luke 2.29 30 31 32. as the prophetess in Isajahs time and in Nehemiahs time so there was in the Apostles time a man in Cesaria had four daughters that were virgins did prophesie Act. 21.8 9. And at the comming of Christ when Simeon that just man spoke of him the light of the Gentiles and the glory of the people Israel there was one woman a widow of above fourscore years of age that had no outward huusband at home to ask who was a preacher or one that spoke of the Lord Iesus to all that looked for Redemption in Ierusalem Luke 2.36 37 38. And Tryphena and Tryphosa and Persis three vertuous godly women did labour much in the Lord which Paul in his Epistle to the Romans did salute and as the wife is in subjection to her husband so is the Church subject unto Christ who is the head thereof as the husband is the head of the wife and Chsist being the Head of his Spouse or husband of his Church the Spouse of Christ united unto him and betrothed in Righteousness both asketh of him and staying at home taketh counsell with him though the Harlot from home and the stranger unto him knoweth it not and saith the Lord ●el 2.28 6. I wil pour out of my spirit that sons and daughters and handmaids also shall prophesie and who are they that are offended hereat now that the Lord doth see but proud covetous self-seeking priests who never knew God and their hearers that are deceived by them and such in their nature who know not the sure word and spirit of prophesie but are ignorant both of the mystery of godliness 2 Pet. 1.19 Col. 1.27 Rev. 19.13 Heb. 17.8 and so of him whose name is called the word of God and knoweth neither the teachings of God not the life of the Scriptures and the work of the Spirit of God who would not have him to be the same now that he was and Christ to be the same yesterday to day and for ever who are such opposers of the work of the Spirit of God and persecutors of the servants of Jesus in whom it is bringing and brought forth as their Generation and seed of evil doers ever was Mat 23.33 34 c. Holy men of God spoke forth the Scriptures The Scriptures or Writings that proceeded from the Spirit of truth were not spoken forth by the seed of evill doers that were haters of God and persecuters of his neither were they spoken forth by such as preached for Hire barerule by their means 2 Pel 1.21 Ier. 26.9 10. Ier 20.2 Ier. 37.16 2 Cor. 6.4 5 6 7 8. nor such as laid heavy burthens upon the people sought for their gain from their quarter like the Priests of England the false prophets and pharisees but Holy men of God who witnessed against such spoke forth the Scriptures as they were moved by the Holy Ghost who were persecuted mocked stoned haled out of the Synagogues set in the Stocks most shamefully abused evilly entreated and sore punished smitten put in the Dungeon and often imprisoned and such a portion from the world and seed of evill doers doth the servants and messengers of God meet withall now that witness against them who make a trade upon their words also denying them and owning the teachings of God and the life of the Scriptures again now as they that spoke them forth who suffered for witnessing the truth in the life and power of them aforetime did A short Relation betwixt the true Prophets and the false and how they may be known a ssunder First THe true Prophets of God had the word of God revealed to and inspired in them and the moving cause of their speaking was from the light life and power of the Holy Ghost within them who dwelt in the light which discovered deceit whereby they know the false Prophets and declared against them and against such as spoke the words of others 2 Pet. 1.19 20 21. 1 Pet. 1.10 11 12 Isa 48.16 17. Ier. 23. saying thus saith the Lord when the Lord spoke not unto them or by them and so they speak a Divination of their own brain as do the Hireling Priests and Deceivers and not from the mouth of the Lord as to those that dwel in the light as the true Prophets did they now are very wel known and against testified though it be not received by the besotted turned from the light and the deceived who persecutes those that are sent to witness against them contrary to the wil of man as the true Prophets were who were not sent by the wil of man but by the Lord God and his spirit Isa 48.16 17. which the world could not receive nor the wil of man no more than it doth now Iohn 4.17 and therefore do they persecute and put out of their Synagogues for to fil up the measure of their iniquity and to fulfil the prophesie of Christ ye a these things they do because they are in enmity against the living truth and know neither the father nor the Son Iohn 16.2.3 and so manifest what an evil and a wicked Generation they are on 2. The true Prophets of God who were indued with his spirit and dwelt in the light and spoke as they were moved by the Holy Ghost and were not sent of man contrary to the wil of God but of God contrary to the wil of man and such as are sent by the Lord God and his spirit now have their commander neer them and by his holy Spirit are moved to speak as he pleaseth and as they was who were not sent by the wil of man neither did mans wil receive them that went contrary to it and stood in the counsel of God no more than it doth now but rather persecured and imprisoned as they do now and the true Prophets that were sent of the Lord and stoood in his counsell neither preached for hire nor sought for their gain from their quarter nor sought for the fleece but preached or declared freely the word of the Lord and said come freely without money or price Isa 55. And also declared against the deceit of the false Prophets and hireling Priests and such as sought for their gain from their

you are found out of the Doctrine of Christ in the steps of the false prophets and amongst the Scribes and pharisees called of men Masters and hath the chiefe place in the Assembly stands praying in the Synagogues and bind heavy burdens upon the people and grievous to be born and as Christ cryed wo to your Fathers the same Woes are to you their off-spring who are found with their Marks and following their steps you are clearly seen with the light and comprehended and with the Light judged and condemned though to some you appear like Graves which men pass over and are not aware wo unto you whited walls and painted Sepulchers ye serpents ye generation of Vipers how shall you escape the damnation of hel as Christ hath said Mat. 23.33 Luk. ●● 44 ver c. Mark 12.38 39 40. A few Observations of the Lords sending his Servants informer dayes c. First THE Lord God of Power in former Ages sent forth his Prophets and Apostles Messengers and Servants his Spirit in the power and life Isa 58.1 Amos 5.10 Isa 3. Isa 8.18 Isa 30.3.3 to deliver his massages and do his service to witness also against the world and the wickedness thereof some to tell the people of their sins and cry aloud spare not and to reprove in the Gate and cry out against pride and oppression and were signes and wonders in Israel and none could believe their report and witness with them where the Arm of the Lord was unrevealed yet they might do it in obedience to the word of the Lord though they became signes and wonders also to the world as Isajah was that went naked and bare-foot three years in obedience to the Word of the Lord as a signe and wonder unto Aegypt and Ethiopia as it is said Isa the 20. Chap. 2. Some went in obedience to the command of the Lord to cry out against preaching for hire and against injustice and judging for rewards and not suffering the cause of the poor and needy to come before them Zeph. 3.1 ● 3 4 Isa 27.1.23 24 c. and so told their Princes were rebellious and companions of or with thieves as wel as their Judges were ravening wolves and some amongst them roaring Lyons as Micah and Zepheniah and the Lords prophets did Isa 5.21 22 23. Mic. 3.8 9 10 11. 3. And some were sent from one place to another in obedience to the word and spirit of the Lord and sometimes knew to whom to go and what to say and other sometimes they knew to whom and whither or where to go and not at that present time what to say yet they did wel for to obey though they sate where those they were sent to sate and remained where they remained if in silence as Ezekiel the Lords Prophet did Ezek. 3.15 16 17 18 19. seven dayes before the word of the Lord came unto him what to say when he was sent to them of the Captivity of Tel-abib that dwelt by the River Chebar and as Ezekiel the true Prophet of the Lord went amongst them in obedience to the word and spirit of the Lord and sate silent amongst them seven dayes before the word of the Lord came unto him what to say it were no delusion nor deceit And if any of the Lords Servants in obedience to the word and spirit of the Lord should be thereby guided so to do they would neither be deluded nor deceived in and by so doing no more then he was though the world know it not who were ever strangers to the Lord therefore let flesh be silent at the work of the Spirit of God and all such as knows not the eternall word and message of God Who are no Vagabonds nor Iesuits and who are the Vagabonds as herein wil appear First THe Ministers of Christ that went up and down preaching the word of eternall life and were sent to turn people from the darkness to the Light and from the power of Satan unto God and though some of them might have no certain dwelling place Act. 8.4 Act. 20.25 26 27. Act. 26.17 to the 22. Mat. 8.20 yet were they neither Jesuits Fugitives nor Vagabond fellows no more are such as in obedience to the power of the Spirit of God that do so now The Son of man though he had not whereon to lay his head yet he were no Fugitive Jesuit nor Vagabond nor such as in obedience to the Lord that wandred sometimes to and fro and were in Sheep-skins and Goat-skins as wel as in dens and caves of the earth of whom the world was not worthy Heb. 11.36.37 38. they were neither Jesuits Fugitives nor Vagabonds no more are such now to do the work of the Lord and work in his Vineyard whose being is in God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ though they may go to and fro to preach the word of life in obedience to the commands of the Lord and doing his wil as he of them requireth though contrary to the will of man who lives in Disobedience to the power and spirit of the Lord as Cain the Fugitive and Vagabond did and as such in the envy who are in that nature contrary to God and walking in Cains way now do Gen. 4.11 12 13. 1 Iohn 3.13 19 ver Rom. 1.27 28. Act. 17.5 and to them is the curse and the wo Iude 11. 2 The Ministers of Christ aforesaids did witness against deceit in streets markets and Synagogues yet were they neither Fugitives nor Vagabonds though for it they were haled out and stoned persecuted by the chiefe Priests consent and abused by their party and Vagabond fellows who in persecuting the truth deny the Lord as such Vagabond fellows that parakes with the chiefe Priests to persecute the Saints and servants of Jesus do now Act. 18.4 5 6. Iude 11. as well as the persecuting Priests and Vagabond fellowes that lived in Cains nature as their forefathers formerly did who persecuted the Servants of Jesus for witnessing the truth and testifying against deceit in Streets Markets and Synagogues or Idolls-Temples as their off spring do now persecute those that do as the servants of Jesus therein did and against them they act and vent forth their envy and cruelty by the chief Priests consent and their pratakers act and thereby they manifest themselves to be of Cains stock and their sacrifices to be rejected as his was who make it appear what a seed of evil doers and a cursed Generation they are An Account of Richard Farnsworth's Commitment to Prison in Banbury the 30th of the 7th Month and his Examination and Answer in brief at the Court before the Mayor and Iustices the day following being the first of the eigth Month 1655. AS he with another friend was walking peacably up the street to a friends house in Banbury meeting in the street Aholiab VVest called mayor VVilliam Allen called a Justice with many other people of the town

left that place of Scripture upon you that was spoken to such in your natures I shall come on to what was said by you in some things at the bench with answers and enlargments thereunto by proof from the Scripture or as followeth Aholiab VVest the aforesaid Mayor of Banbury who sate in the Court with the two Justices he asked the Town-Clerk for the Oath of Abjuration and the Town-Clerk said he had it not there but he would go for it the which he did and tendred it unto R. F. the servant of the Lord and as he read it the said Richard Farnsworth did in the Court there in the presence of God by whose power he were kept and upheld utterly deny and detest all Popish wayes and Jesuiticall Opinions whatsoever and those things contained in that Act or oath of Abjuration and stands a witness against all Popish wayes and false worships but to Sweare as they would have had he said he could not for Conscience sake do it for it was and is contrary to the command and Doctrine of Christ then they alledged that an Oath was for the end of all strife and controversie amongst men which is answered as followeth yea in the time of old it was so when Oaths were ordained for that end but Christ the Oath of God ended all Oathes to his Mat. 5.33 34 35 36. Iam. 2.12 and where strife and controversie is there Christ is not yet learned who brings good will and peace to such as in his Doctrine abide who hath said That in the time of old it was said thou shalt perform thine Oathes unto the Lord But saith he now I say unto you swear not at all Mal. 5. Then it was said to R.F. by one that if he read on he might see that Christ Jesus said in all communications let your yea be yea and nay nay to the which he answered the party before the bench that he might observe that Yea and Nay in their places was as binding in the Doctrine of Christ and the New-Covenant as Oathes was in the Old-Covenant and therefore Christ forbad all Oathes and now they that own Christ and his Doctrine who abide therein are to let their yea be yea and nay nay and deny all Oathes for so hath Christ commanded And the Apostle saith Above all things my Brethren swear not at all least ye fall into condemnation Iam. 5.12 But let your yea be yea and your nay nay So they that swear and they that cause men to do it are in the evill under the condemnation and out of the Doctrine of Christ and his Apostles and the Scripture saith That he that transgresseth and abideth not in the Doctrine of Christ hath not God considder of this 2 Iohn 9. But be that abideth in the Doctrine of Christ hath both the Father and the Son They alledged that the Prophet said they should swear the Lord lived and swear in righteousness Answer Yea it was so and there was in the Prophets dayes that swore the Lord lived and swore in unrighteousness for they swore falsely as the true Prophet hath said Ier. 5.2 and though the Prophet did say they should swear the Lord lived and swear in righteousness Christ Iesus the end of Oathes to his and substance of what the Prophets prophesied of he is come and forbids all Oathes and saith Swear not at all and if it be alledged that Joseph in Aegypt swore it is answered for thus saith the Lord Out of Egypt have I called my Son hear him and he saith swear not at all and if it be alledged that Jacob swore Christ he reignes over the house of Jacob who saith swear not at all and if it be alledged that Solomon swore I answer Christ is greater than Solomon who forbids swearing and all Oathes saying swear not at all And if it be alledged that the angell swore true he did so but thus saith the Lord I bring forth my first born only begotten Son let all the Angels worship him hear what he saith and he forbids oathes who saith swear not at all and they are Christs friends as he hath said that keeps his commands and saith he if ye love me keep my commandments and they that loved him as his do now said By this we know we love him because we keep his commandments then blessed are they who abide in Christs doctrine and swear not in obedience to Christ and keeps his commands that they may have right to the Tree of Life and may enter in through the gates into the city Rev. 22.13 14. For the unrighteous and such as disobey the truth who keepeth not Christs commands but lives in the transgression serving the evil and so fall under the condemnation of the Devill they and such like are shut out of Gods Kingdome and enters not into the holy city as they may read and the scriptures stands a witness against them and all such as are of the evill seed persecuting the godly in Christ Jesus 2 Thess 2.10 11. 2 Thess 1.6 7 8 9. 1 Cor 6.9 10. Gal. 5.19 20 21. Rom. 1.27 28 29. c. Rev. 20.10 c. Rev. 21.8 27. Rev. 22.15 c. And when the servant of Jesus could not break the command of Christ nor transgress his Doctrine to swear they said they would return up his name to the Exchequer who told them they might do as they were ordered then the Mayor said if he would pay his Fees and go out of the Town that night he might go free and Richard Farnsworth answered who could not be a friend to deceit that he could not pay fees for a nights false imprisonment and withall asked what Law he had broken or transgressed and withall said if they knew any evill by him acted or done they might there declare it but they said he justified himself and they feared he was deceived who bad them lay open the ground of self with the fruits and effects of it if they could and convince him of it but they said they would not meddle with that and words to that effect and one Iohn Austine called a Iustice asked him whether the Spirit were created or in-created to the which Rich. Farnsworth he answered That the spirit of God which is the Saints guide is eternall and they that are guided by the spirit of God Iohn 1.12.23 1. Pet. 1.23 are the sons of God as it is written Rom. 8.14 And God hath sent the spirit of his Son into our hearts whereby we cry abba Father Gal. 4.6 Then the Mayor said he had need to take heed he spoke not blasphemy would he say that he was a son of God whose answer is That such as were and are born of the spirit of God and guided thereby are and were the sons of God that were and are so born 1 Pet. 1.22 13. and guided by the spirit of God into the truth and the Holy Vnction its self Iohn 16.13 1 Iohn 2.20.27 And

they said as such with them and the same spirit being guided thereby so may say Behold what manner of love is this that the father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God And now we are the Sons of God therefore the world knoweth us not because it knew him not as saith the Scripture 1 Iohn 3.1 and to witness with the Scriptures by the Spirit of Truth according to the work of the power and spirit of God according to measure and manifestation is no blasphemy though the Jews said it was and that may be witnessed unto though persecutors and the world know it nor nor receive it yet he that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are of him and are of one for which cause he is not ashamed to call them Brethren as it is written and witnessed Heb. 2.10 11. and when he would have disputed the case with them if they would have stood to Dispute according to the Scripture and the work of the spirit of God then Iustice Austine so called said Had he the same spirit that the apostles or Christ had Who answered and said that if any man that had not the spirit of Christ he was none of his as they might read in Romans the 8th and the spirit that the apostles had or received of God was the spirit of the Son Gal. 4.8 and of the Father 1 Iohn 3.23.24 and Christ said it was not them that spoke but the spirit of their Father that spoke in them then the said Iustice Austine so called said to R.F. hold thou thy tongue and see if the spirit will speak to the which answer was given the spirit made use of the tongue to speak forth the praise of the Lord and let Iohn Austine here observe his ignorance of the teachings and work of the spirit of God for the Lord opening the mouth the tongue and lips shews forth his praise and God having sent the spiri of his Son into our hearts we cry abba father and to him return all praiset But to conclude and be short observe this all you that read it and take notice of the actings of the Magistrates here at Banbury who caused Richard Farnsworth to be taken out of the streets as he were passing quietly in them and put him that night in prison and called him the next day before them where they held their Court and after some dispute but the breach of no Law laid to his charge nor any accuser were against him but such as sate to Judge and no Law mentioned though desired that were transgressed and after they had tendred the Oath of Abjuration unto him who denyed what was in it contained and all Popish wayes and Jesuiticall Opinions whatsoever then the mayor others said if that Richard Farnsworth would pay the Sergeant his Fees and go out of the town that night he might go free but if not he should be re-committed or sent to Prison again but Richard Farnsworth could not be a friend to deceit nor pay sees for a nights false imprisonment taken as he were quietly with another friend walking up the street and so they made a Mittimus and gave to the Goaler and both before and after he had it given to him they made a speech and said if he would pay his sees in the Court he might go free and when he could not for conscience sake towards God then do it after that one of their party said Who was self will'd now to which he to wit R. F. answered and said Not he that denyeth to pay sees for a nights false imprisonment but such as did so in their wills wilfully persecute and imprison the servants of Jesus contrary to Law and Gospel both and here it is to be observed that Richard Farnsworth's detaining in Prison is because he could not be a friend to deceit and acknowledg a false imprisonment and pay fees for the same being taken out of the high way or street as he were passing quietly on and sent to Prison and to colour over their deceit withall they have added severall lyes in a Mittimus and here is kept in prison for standing faithful to the Lord and cannot have any fellowship with the unfruitfull works of darkness but rather reprove them Eph. 5.11 And their partiallity is to be observed here in this case as wel as the rest for two were committed to Prison in Banbury and kept three dayes and three nights and no fees as it is said were demanded of them but put out of prison and one out at one end of the town and another at the other end and yet though they did so being then they may be ashamed of what they had done but hardning their selves against the truth to act wilfully in their wills they detain one for not paying sees for one nights imprisonment for the breach of no Law then either proved against him or laid to his charge VVritten in Banbury the beginning of the 8th Month in the Year according to the worlds account October the 7th 1655. A TRUE DECLARATION OF The Suffering of the Innocent who is hated and persecuted without a cause Wherein is discovered the zeal of the Magistrates and people of Banbury persecuting and imprisoning them that are sent of the Lord in love to their souls to warm them of the evil of their wayes Declared in a Letter sent to William Allen called Justice of Peace with an Answer to the false accusations charged upon the INNOCENT Also their Proceeeings laid open and proved to bee contrary to the Scriptures By Anne Audland whom the world scornfully calls QUAKER 1 Sam. 2.20 The Adversaries of the Lord shall be broken to pieces out of heaven shall he thunder upon them The Lord shall judge the ends of the earth and he shall give strength unto his King and exalt the horn of his Annointed Acts 2.18 And on my servants and on my handmaidens I will poure out in those dayes of my Spirit and they shall prophesie WIlliam Allen Justice of Peace so called but little peace I finde in thee We came to the Town of Banbury on the thirteenth day of the eleventh moneth and being strangers we took in at the Lyon The next day being the first day of the week we went to a meeting which we heard of in the Town and when the meeting ended we were moved to go to the Steeplehouse to speak the word of the Lord to Priest and People and in obedience to the Lord we went and stayed till the Priest had done and then my friend spoke to the Priest and the rude multitude came and hurried her forth as the customes of the Heathens is Then I spoke to the Priest Man here see the fruits of thy Ministery and presently the rude people hurried me forth Then came one and took mee by the hand and questioned me what untruths their Minister had spoken and J answered That they that are out of the Doctrine of Christ all

so sent him safely to Faelex the Governour with an Epistle shewing the cause wherefore he was committed or taken into his custody with the Iews accusations laid to his charge or spoak of the Jews that accused him who sought to take away his life which he understood to be worthy neither of death nor of bonds and therefore he gave commandment to his accusers to appear befor Foelex to say what they had against him And when the Souldiers came to Cesaria they delivered the Epistle to Foelex the Govenor and presented Paul also before him who when he had read the Epistle and asked of what Province he was understanding he was of Celiscia dealt nobly with him saying He would hear him when his accusers was come And after they came with a certain Oritor who informed the Governour against Paul the Prisoner and begun to accuse him laying many false accusations against him as at this time they do against the servants of Iesus who abide in his Doctrine as Paul did whom they in their accusation said he was sound a pestilent fellow and a mover of sedition amongst all the Iews throughout the world and a Ring-leader of the Sect of the Nazarens and when Tertulus the Oritor which the High priests and Elders brought to carry on their deceit in a plawsable manner had laid down their false accusations the high Priests Elders and Iews assented to the same saying they were so Then Paul after Poelex the Iudge had beckned to him to speak he answered the more cheerfully for himself and to clear his innocency and make their accusations appear to be false he let the Iudge understand that there were but twelv days since he went down to Ierusalem to worship letting him understand the whole matter that there was no such thing done by him as they had laid down in their accusations against him neither could they prove the things whereof they accused him And Foelex who sate Iudge hearing these things Act. 23.23 to the end that he might act according to Law deferred til Lissius the chief Captain should come that he might know the uttermost of their matter and commanded that Paul should be kept til he came Act. 34.1 to the 24. verse he also commanded the Centurion that kept him to let him have liberty and that he should not forbid or hinder any of his acquaintance to minister or come unto him By all this you may learn how to act and do in such cases whose unrighteous acting against Anne Audland Iane VVaugh Sarah Times Nathaniel VVeston c. the Servants of the Lord that gives not the liberty to them that the Heathens did to Christians in former ages One Sarah Tims who had been imprisoned in Banbury eleven weeks who met the Priest in the Grave-yard and said M●n fear the Lord in obedience to his command not uttering abuse to any and when she had so spoken the rude multitude hurried her and struck her with their hands others kicked her and stoned her with stones and Iohn Austine being Mayor and other Magistrates there present rebuked not the rude company as is certified in a Letter and sent in writing to the Priest Magistrates in Banbury after she was beaten abused she was sent to the Prison though no Law was by her broken as did appear at her examination at the Assizes or Sessions at Banbury the day as aforesaid and being called to the Bar appearing it was asked to give in Sureties for her good behaviour so she desired to know first what Law she had transgressed and what they had against her to which they answered if she would not give in sureties she should to prison again then she desired to know by what law they committed her and one Iohn Austine called Mayor answered that sweeping the house and washing the dishes was the first point of law to her or words to that effect so sent her back again to the Prison she not being charged with the breach of any Law nor witness brought in against her but it wil be hard for any to believe these things who were not eye witnesses of the in that such in justice should be acted in this Nation where there hath bin so much freedom and liberty of conscience talked of Then one Nathaniel VVeston an inhabitant in the said Town was called to the Bar who had bin commanded by the Lord to go to the Steeplehouse in Banbury where the people were assembled together whil'st the Priest of the Town called Samuel VVells was speaking to them who suddenly gave over preaching as they call it and spoke twice so the people saying there was one he feared come into the congregation which would breed a disturbance and he called to some to take him forth for he said he could not proceed to prayer whilest he was there then one VVilliam VVheatly a Magistrate with others haled him forth of the synagogue or steeplehouse and afterward Nathaniel VVeston being sent for before the Mayor was tendred the Oath of Abjuration when in their consciences they might know he was never addicted to popery but alwaies an enemy to their Opinions and from his childhood observed and to them wel known being born and bred in the said Town and was accounted to be a strict professor of that which was accounted the reformed religion and continued a diligent hearer of those Ministers who were counted godliest and strictest in their conversation till of late in the light of Christ Jesus he saw them to be out of the Doctrine of Christ and the power thereof and although they preached to others yet themselves were as cast-awaies not living the life of them who are declared of in the Scriptures to be the Servants of God and Ministers of Christ but live in the pride and covetousness in the strife and envying and in the love and lust customes and vanities of the world and preaching by their conversation the same things things being thereunto guided by a Spirit of deceit which is the reason their hearers live so wickedly and so they are loved and upheld by the wicked world and the love of the Father they know not who live in such practises therefore all people behold and see if you can the subtil enmity of this Generation to be the same that ever was against the true worshippers of God in Spirit who use all unjust wayes and means as the serpents seed ever did falsly to accuse and persecute the innocent And although it cannot be unknown to the Magistrates of the town of Banbury that papists live in it yet when was it ever known that they tendred the Oath of Abjuration unto them as if it were for no other end but a snare to entrap the innocent but the Lord God in his power is risen and into the pit must they go which for others they have digged and a just reward shall they receive from the hands of the Lord whom we know liveth and wil plead the

follow me here the necessity is laid down by Christ himself therefore he that denyeth not self in obedience to Christ to follow his light but continues in sin and unbelief abiding in darkness is no Saint but a Servant of sin and so out of the Doctrine of Christ and he that abides in darkness speaking against self-denyall saying it makes no Saint though in obedience to the Spirit and word of God he is a contradictor of the truth and a denyer of the Doctrine of Christ and neither knoweth a Saint nor him that sanctifieth but is ignorant of the turn and the Apostles Doctrine who saith seeing you have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit love one another with a pure heart fervently being born again contrary to self and the corruptible seed for witnessing him that sanctifieth Iohn 8.12 and that which discovereth sin and self in the ground of it with its fruits and effects which is the true light of Christ who calls to repentance and a denyall both of sin and self and in obedience to his call such as follow his light are thereby led out both of darkness and self out of self-love self-seeking self-conceitedness and all unbelief and sinfulness as wel as out of self-righteousness error delusion and deceit and into the love and joy of the Lord righteousness peace and joy in the Holy Ghost and so into the marvellous light even the light of life according to the word of the Lord in obedience thereunto through the working of the Spirit and power of God but such as are servants of sin and do not envy self but disobeyeth the light of him that sanctifieth they are in the unrighteousness denying the Doctrine of Christ and turns persecutors of them that deny self in obedience to him as their fruits maketh manifest who continue in felse undenyed as wel as the Priests antichristian or false Doctrine for after the Priest of Banbury had been spoken unto for the same instead of vindicating by Scripture what he had delivered contrary to truth when he was spoken to for it he suffered the servants of the Lord Jesus as antichristians aforetime did to be haled out of the Synagogue and haled down to the Goalers house attended with a great company of people which shewed much rudeness and wildness what little effect their Ministry had wrought and so it were a clear manifestation that they were unbelievers and those that regarded iniquity in their hearts and lived in sin and self undenyed and were not guided by the spirit of Christ but of Antichrist as persecutors and such in their nature aforetime were Act. 17.5 6 c. Afterwards one was moved to go down to the Goalers house to the friend that was in custody at that time and some they pushed and abused him and some others began to reason with him and would have had the Steeplehouse to be the Church but could not prove it so to be and there they shewed again that their Priests Ministry had neither taught them civility nor good-behaviour that were so wild and disboist neither had his Ministry taught them as was said to know what the Church of Christ was for the Church is the body of which Christ is head and he is the head of the body his Church Eph. 1.22 23. Coll. 1.18 19. as the Scripture witnesseth but Steeplehouses are not the body of which Christ is head neither is Christ the head of the body of Steeplehouses as he is of his Church therefore the Steeplehouses are not Christs church and yet poor deluded creatures have been taught by the Priests to believe that steeplehouses are churches and so they call them and rests in the perishing and visibles that are so ignorant of the true church the pillar and ground of truth 1 Tim. 3.15 Heb. 3.6 1 Pet. 2.5 Eph. 2.20.21 22. Eph. 5.25 26 32. ver And after that when they had confessed that they had Margret Vivers who had spoken to the Priest in the Steeplehouse after that he had ended that day there neither for whoredome felony nor theft and words to that purpose yet it was the Mayors mind that she should be there but whether she had committed any offence or no they could not tel as they said and words to that effect and the man that kept her there upon such uncertainty when they was about to put her in Prison and had her at the dore but did not put her in for no Law by her was transgressed at that time as it was said that could be proved for witnessing the truth in obedience to the command of the Lord yet though they did not commit herto Prison other two they did one that stood by and another that was quietly passing up the street at that same time and the man that had kept her in custody did object against a woman speaking in the Church it was asked whether the Spirit of God might not be permitted to speak in the Temple of God yea or nay the which by some was answered and granted that it might Answer To the Question about the woman forbidden to speak in the Church and proved that the spirit of God may speak in his Temple either in the Body of male or female let the woman keep silence in the Church as it is said and let God speak by his spirit in his Temple 2 Cor. 6.16 Either of male or female whose bodies are the Temples of God through the spirit 1 Cor. 3.16 17. For in Christ Iesus the spirit of God in male and female is both one Eph. 2.19.19 20. Gal. 3.27 28. And Paul he commended Pheba in his Epistle to the Romans which Phebe was a servant of the Church which was at Cenchrea Rom. 16.1 and in the same Epistle he saluted Priscilla and also gave thanks with the Churches for her labour who had been a helper of him in Christ Jesus and she was a woman labourer in the Gospel by the Spirit of truth so was there woman labourers with Paul in the Gospell which he writes of in his Epistle to the Philippians as wel as them he speaks of whose names are written in the book of life Rom. 16.3 4. Phi. 4.3 So was there women guided by the Spirit of the Lord that were the Lords Prophetesses as wel as there were men that were his Prophets and the Lord spoke his word by his own Spirit in and through the one as wel as the other Miriam Arons Sister was a Prophetess and spake forth the praise of God in that dispensation and administration by the spirit of God that teacheth to prophensie as wel as the manifestation of it is given to profit withall Exod. 15.20 21. Isa 8.16 17 1 Cor. 12.7 And Deborah a Prophetess by the Spirit of the Lord which taught her to prophesie she therewith judged Israel and were a Minister of Justice amongst the Lords people in her dayes and in that dispensation insomuch that the Children of Israel came up

c. The said Mayor and Justice as aforesaid so called came to him very much enraged as he was walking on the Street VVilliam Allen a Justice so called belonging to the Borrough he did strike or pluck off his hat grinn'd at him and heaved his fist in his wrath and could scarce hold his hands and then to fulfil his envie he cryed have him away to the Stocks the which they were doing in obedience to his will and after they were gone from the place and ha●likg him towards the Stocks the said VVilliam Allen to shew his confusion in his actings as wel as his self-contradictions he came to the men and said bring him back and have him to Prison and they did not delay his words to disobey but with all expedition haled him down to the prison out of the Street and then R. F. he asked what fact he had committed that deserved either Stocks or imprisonment and desired of the Justice so called to know the Fact and the Law by vertue whereof the Fact became a crime which were denyed to be made known unto him but with violence were he haled and thrust into close prison and there remaineth The next day they held a Court and called him before them being the first day of the 8. month 1655. And the Mayor and Justices so called being set and R.F. brought before them according to their command Aholiab VVest called Mayor he asked R. F. his name and where he lived to the which he answered very mlidly and said said That as he stood in Relation to God in whom his soul lived and as were a witness of the immortall seed in the Regeneration born of the Spirit and begotten by the eternall word which endureth for ever 1 Pet. 1.22 23 he said in that relation as he there stood he had a new name given him of God which no man knows but he that hath it Rev. 2.17 And as he was in Relation to man he had a name given him by man to be known by to man according to the account of the world called in the outward by the name Richard Farnsworth Then the Mayor asked him again where he lived to the which he answered and said in the first place in God and as the Apostle as wel as the Poet hath said in whom we live move and have our being c. Act. ●7 28 Then said the Mayor But have you not a being in the world I answer said he That residence is being my being is with the Lord but an outward residence or being I have said he at a place called Tickhill in Yorkshire Then said the Mayor But how long have you been here in this Town To the which R. F. he answered and said Four or five dayes if not a week The Mayor asked him what he did there to the which he answered he came to visit his friends c. Then the Mayor asked him where he had been since he came into the town he answered The most at Edward Vivers then Iohn Austine who is called a Iustice he asked him if he were the Messenger of God to the which he answered There was but the Messengers of Christ and of Antichrist in them two relations and the message of Antichrist he did deny After that the Mayor said how might they know that for they might not expect Revelations now to the which he answered and said Though he to wit the Mayor and they did not expect Revelations c. that did not hinder the work of the Spirit of God for being to them who did expect and wait for them that wait for the grace which is brought unto such at the revelation of Iesus Christ according to the Apostles Doctrine 1 Pet. 1.12 13. For the deep things of God are revealed by the Spirit of God unto his servants and children as it is written And saith Christ Mat. 11.21 i Cor. 2 i0 Mat. 11.27 Luke 10.22 No man knoweth the Son but the Father neither knoweth any man the Father save the Son and he to whomsoever the Son wil reveal him Then such as deny Revelations by the Son they deny the appointed way and means of attaining to the true knowledg of God the Father and the Son And Christ hath said the same concerning the knowledg of God by Revelation as a second confirmation in Luke the 10.22 ver witnessing and agreeing with that in Matthew the 2.27 And Paul an Apostle not of man neither by man but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead did certifie unto the brethren that the Ghospel which he preachnd was not of man for he neither received of man neither was he taught it of man but by the Revelation of Jesus Christ Gal. 1.1 and the 11 12. ver Then VVilliam Allen called a Justice said it was not the Revelation of Jesus Christ in him but by Christ unto him then R.F. he answered that the same Paul said when it pleased God to reveal his Son in him that he might preach him among the heathen he immediately preached him not conferring with flesh and blood after he were so revealed in him Gal. 1.15.16 So there was a Revelation of Christ within and after he was so revealed within in Paul he went to preach him forth among the heathen and gentiles and said to the Collossians great is the mystery of godliness Christ in you the hope of glory whom we preach and teach warning every man every where that we may present them perfect in Christ Iesus Col. 1.25 26 27 28. ver And after that there was a few words spoken concerning the Objection of the womans non-permission which before is answered and when it was asked them on the Bench if the Spirit of God might not speak in the Temple they were then put to a stand or partly silent about the same and R.F. then and there said if any of them would deny it he would by plain Scripture prove that the Spirit of God might speak in his Temple meaning either in the body of male or female as aforetime it did 1 Cor. 3.17 i7 Gal. 3.27 28. 2 Cor. 3.17 and little was said thereunto at that present then when R.F. was there speaking about the Saints bodies being the Temples for God to dwel in as God hath said I wil dwel in them and walk in them 2 Cor. 6.16 Then said Iohn Austine who is called a Justice if God did dwel in them he said where was his legs c. for the which VVilliam Allen called a Justice gave a secret check seeming to be troubled thereat And R.F. he told Iohn Austine Justice so called that God was a spirit and is as the Scripture witnesseth Iohn 4.23 24. And Christ is a mystery Col. i 26 27. therefore it may be said that great is the mystery of godliness God manifest inflesh for the would by their wisdome cannot find it out Read and consider Isa 29.10 11. And now that I have

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

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