your Adversary although he seem Potent but joyning with that which lets you see him there lyes your Strength God Almighty bless preserve and keep you all Faithful and Obedient to the Measure of Grace received from him is the Prayer of your dear Brother in the Truth of God in his Measure your Servant for the Truth 's sake and a Watchman for your Souls good by Name Roger Hebden From York-Castle the 22d of the 12th Month 1654. THE blind Watchman cries Watch but cannot but I as to the outward being Imprisoned for the Truth am at Liberty in the Spirit of the Lord with you all that are therewith guided and rejoyce in that the World cannot comprehend where lyes the Unity and the true Welfare even Fulness for all that are Obedient to the Lord in what is made known to them to be the Will of God and are found doing it Let this Enclosed with this be read at your Meetings amongst Friends in the Fear of God in which Meeting and Waiting whilst you are together and being kept when asunder all other Fear will be kept forth and you brought into the Blessedness For Blessed is the Man that feareth always A Letter to John Hebden my Brother after the Flesh I Am in Health and Well every way being and knowing my self to be in Obedience to the Will of God in this Condition and how long here I do not desire to known for that which would is for Condemnation with the Light that comes from Christ Jesus in obeying whereof the true Peace is But this is a Mystery to the Carnal Mind but to be Carnally Minded is Death and to be Spiritually Minded is Life and Peace is witnessed Praises to the Lord God Almighty for evermore Therefore in Love running forth to thy Soul I exhort thee Consider what it is thy Mind is upon whether upon things Carnal or upon things made known by the Movings of the Spirit of the Lord in thee to be thy Duty to do A Talent God hath given a Measure of his Spirit unto every Man to profit withal and the Movings thereof in every one is cross and contrary to the Will of Man For Prophecies is times of old came not by the Will of Man but holy Men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost Say not That was so then but can any expect it to be so now Who say it cannot make God changeable and not a Fulfiller of his Promise who saith Sons and Daughters shall Prophesie and upon Servants and Handmaids he will pour forth of his Spirit and they shall Prophesie Therefore that in thee which calls with a still low Voice as if it were behind thee when thou turnest either to the right Hand or to the left from That which the Righteous Pure and Holy Law of God makes known unto thee to be thy Duty to do or to leave undone To that give heed and thou shalt do well as the Apostle Peter saith as to a light shining in a dark place until the day dawn and the day-star arise in thy Heart And this Light shines in Darkness although the Darkness comprehend it not and so I know it is whith many as it was with me this Light did shine in me althogh the Darkness in me did not know what it was but when I came to know it and to be faithful in little things but it made known to be Sin avoiding them and by it little things which was made known to be my Duty doing them I came to find the Increase of God and whoso will not be Faithful in a little can never be made Ruler over much Who shall entrust him with it Nay that little is even taken from him and that unprofitable Servant is cast into utter Darkness where is Weeping and Wailing and Gnashing of Teeth so it was I did witness it But there is no Condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit Time was when Paul found a Law in his Members warring against the Law in his Mind so it was there was something in me that would as with the Apostle have served the Law of God but he found a contrary power giving way to it led him captive to commit Sin and then he cried out of his Wretchedness But he here did not rest himself satisfied as the Professors of the World now do who take this Condition of his when he cries out under the Burden of his Misery and in his Warfare to plead for a Hold for Sin and Satan in them so long as they live but he looks up to Christ and thanks God that he gave him the Victory through him and then he says There is no Condemnation and That the Law of the Spirit of Life in Christ Jesus had made him free from the Law of Sin and Death Which Condition is now witnessed the Conquest gotten by the same Conqueror and here is nothing of the Will of Man in it That hath neither Part nor Lot in this matter but the Work is the Lord 's only by that of himself in the Creature he joying to the Gift of God the Creature comes to Witness it Praises to our God for ever From a Well-wisher of thy Soul whose desire is that he may write himself thy Brother in that which the World cannot comprehend nor be bound by them wherein is the Unity of Saints and Rejoycing in the Lord in Spirit Roger Hebden York-Castle the 3d of the 1st Month 1665. From York-Castle the 12th of the 1st Month 1655 and sent into Swadale and Bishoprick to be read at their Meetings Frends ALL in the Manifestation of God's Spirit received wait for the increase of God being content with what is made known of him take heed of that desire that would be leading you before the Light for that will lead into Confusion and Trouble and that Zeal that would carry forth to Speak or Act beyond the true Knowledge which ariseth from the Light of the Son will lead into Darkness Sorrow and Lamentation when the Condemnation which comes from the Son ariseth upon it which will consume it up Therefore Friends every motion that calls upon you to Act or Speak do not lend an Ear to it so as to give obedience to it at the first although it seem at the first view to tend to Self-denial and be a Cross to your Wills but when such a motion doth arise then return in again and examine if there were not first in you a desire to do or speak such a thing as then is presented to be done or spoken it your find it so then to wait and be not hasty in the acting thereof it self be seen at the bottom then the Adversary will be ready to threaten with Disobedience if it be not presently done but do not hearken thereto but wait that you may know the Mind of God in it that you may not be deceived such waiting is not disobedience but
A Plain ACCOUNT Of Certain Christian Experiences Labours Services and Sufferings OF THAT Ancient Servant and Mininister of Christ Roger Hebden DECEASED Containing both Warning Consolation and Instruction in Righteousness They who are faithful unto Death shall receive a Crown of Life London Printed and Sold by T. Sowle in 〈◊〉 Hart-Court in Gracious-street 1700. The Author's Introduction SOmething in this Book is writen relating to my coming to Understand the Way of God and how I walked therein with Passages concerning my Imprisonment and Letters unto Friends and others With some Passages relating my Exercise for several Years of my Life-time with several other Passages therein written according to the Times and as there was a Service then seen The Author's Introduction With Directions therein for all that know not God how they may come for to Know Fear Serve and Worship Him in Love the Way is declared agreeable to the Scriptures of Truth and according to the Measure of Knowledge then communicated to Roger Hebden A Plain Account OF THE Christian Experiences c. OF Roger Hebden IN or about the â—â—st Month of the Year 1651 and in the Thirty First Year of my Life I Roger Hebden Son of John Hebden late of Appleton in the Street then using the Calling of a Woollen Draper and Dwelling in New Malton The Lord God of Heaven and Earth whose Love hath been to Mankind manifest in all Ages and to all Generations of Men upon the Face of the Earth about that time did manifest himself more fully than to many Ages and Generations in sending forth his Servants who in his infinite Love he had given to know his Kindness to them in placing a Witness for himself in them to lead and command them as Isaiah 55.4 And altho' this kindness of the great God the Author of the Good of all Mankind I was made partaker of with others and at sundry times had felt his Witness at work in me even when I was but Young even about the Age of Eleven or Twelve Years and at several times in my Life-time after bearing Testimony against the Evil of my Doings and condemned me for the sames yet I knew not that this was of God neither did I understand that this was given to Lead and Command me and so when I did such things as I knew to be evil was condemned in my self not knowing who it was that Condemned me as John 1.5 3.19 But the Lord God in his infinite Love towards me appeared in sending a faithful Servant of his named George Fox whom he had given to know the way of God and to direct others to know the same by his Power speaking thorow him made him serviceable to inform me and bring me to the knowledge of that Light and Grace of God within me which when I heard of it there was raised a Witness that I had felt such a thing divers times and coming to understand who it was that I had resisted and pierced it wounded me deeply and after I came to see what had been the cause of my Trouble avoiding it I had Peace as is in this Book mentioned And the Lord going on with his Work in me about six Months after poured forth his Spirit of Prayer and Prophesie upon me Thus I came to be made a Minister of Christ whom I Preach and in obedience to the same Spirit being led into the World's Assemblies occasioned my being cast into Prison Here followeth the cause why I was and am Imprisoned not being ashamed of my Bonds Unto Friends and to the World I do declare as followeth I Being led by the Movings of the Spirit of the Lord in me to be near Tadcaster amongst Friends of Truth who Worship God in Spirit The 17th Day of the 10th Month 1654. I came to a House in Newton being accompanied with divers other Friends where the People of God were met together to wait upon God whilst I there waited I was stirred in Spirit to go to the World's People's Meeting-Place in that Town where they Worship an unknown God as Paul was whilst he waited at Athens Acts. 17.16 And for speaking such words there as are hereafter expressed was I by Robert Barwicke called Justice sent Prisoner to York-Castle and kept Prisoner from the time afore-mentioned until the 16th day of the 11th Month following at which time in Weatherby at the Sessions I being called an Indictment as they call it was read wherein the Jury for him called Lord Protector did upon their Oaths present that I Wilfully and Maliciously with such like words which they use in their Form at such a time came to such a place By which Form and through Ignorance the Jurors whom I pity are led as out of the Doctrine of Christ in Swearing so into the Work of the Devil to tell Lyes as I told them then There was nothing of my Will in going thither which was and is my present Comfort The thing they charged me withal was the same in the Mittimus namely That I uttered unto Master Clapham as they called him many Railing and Reviling Speeches as Thou art a Hirelings a dumb Dog c. and the like only that whereas Robert Barwicke called Justice said in that Paper called the Mittimus that I spoke these words to him Before he came forth of the Pulpit therein being taxed to be a Lyar These words before-mentioned to wit Before he came out of the Pulpit were left out of the Indictment Therein Deceit was manifest although he had given it under his Hand and Seal in the Mittimus That all that was there written was done in his presence and hearing Now Friends to You and to the World a few words As concerning what is here Charged upon me before any of these words were spoken to him he proved himself and was seen to be what was said of him and to him for before I spoke one word to him he spoke to me after he was come forth of the Pulpit Then I asked him this Question By what Authority dost thou speak He could not answer thereunto And so proved himself like the Watch-Men Isaiah spoke of Chap. 56.10 And also fled like the Hireling Christ spoke of John 10.13 before he was so called Then I being moved to speak to the People to direct them to the Anointing their Teacher within them the Way to Life that Light wherewith Christ Jesus hath enlightned them And minding that they would have no need to follow such Hirelings whereby their Souls might be deceived And it being with me even as it was with the Prophet Micah Chap. 3.8 I was full of Power by the Spirit of the Lord and of Judgment For the Word of the Lord unto me before I went was Tell them of their Sins And so to every one as they came before me as I was moved of the Lord I declared unto them their Condition and their Portion without Repentance which they must find which they called Judging But as
following Isa 1.16 17. Wash ye make ye clean put away the Evil of your doings from before mine Eyes cease to do Evil learn to do Well seek Judgment relieve the Oppressed judge the Fatherless plead for the Widow Whereupon he would be reconciled unto them and they thus doing should come to acquaintance with him and receive good from him as in the 18th and 19th Verses Come now and let us reason together saith the Lord though your Sins be as Scarlet they shall be as white as Snow though they be red like Crimson they shall be as wooll If ye be willing and obedient ye shall eat the good of the Land but otherwise they might expect from him as in the 20th Verse But if ye refuse and rebel ye shall be devoured wit the Sword For the Mouth of the Lord hath spoken it And now according to these Scriptures is the Lord's requirings of his People and Answers to them I witness Praises to the Lord God Almighty for ever-more to whom alone be the Praise for ever By whom I am moved to write this forth for the simple One's sake whilst I was looking without and knew nothing but from Hearing Conceivings and from the outward Declaration of Scripture without notwithstanding all my Profession of God in Word and in Action yet I knew him not but lived in Disobedience and under the Curse and Wrath of God which I did rhen see and sometimes feel although I knew not then from whence it came nor was not obedient to that which let me see it But when it pleased the Lord who separated me from my Mother's Womb and called me by his Grace to Reveal his Son in me then not consulting with Flesh and Blood but giving up in obedience to his Commands made known in me ceasing to do Evil and hearkening to the same that called upon me to forsake the Evil to do well for that is one in all whereupon coming to see it my Duty then the Adversary within me of my Soul 's good and the Enemy of God which would have hindered me in giving obedience to the Commands of God and so to have distrusted his Love did thus within me alledge against my giving up in Obedience to his Will made known If it were possible that thou could'st keep his Commands for the time to come to be made known to be thy Duty yet what wilt thou do for what is past Then the Lord was pleased to make known unto me by the Infallible Testimony and Witness of his Spirit which endureth with plain Words within me according to the Scripture fore-mentioned Isaiah 1.18 That although my Sins had been as Scarlet they should be as white as Snow though they had been red like Crimson they should be as Wooll Whereupon I found Peace this Condition being concluded upon to be obedient unto him for the time to come This was in the Day of the Lord 's great Power wherein he did render Vengeance to His Enemies and Fury to his Adversaries in me whereby the Keepers of the House were made to tremble as Eccl. 12.3 And in this Day of the Lord 's great Power looking upon him whom I had pierced according to the Prophecy which that day I witnessed fulfilled Zac 12.10 And I will pour upon the House of David and upon the Inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of Grace and of Supplications and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced and they shall mourn for him as one who mourneth for his only Son and shall be in bitterness for him as one that is in bitterness for his first Born From the reading of this fulfilled did arise Comfort and much Rejoycing and no more remembrance of the Sorrow for the Joy that a Man Child was Born into the World as John 16.21 Which then I came to see ought to have ruled which had been crucified in Sodom and Egypt within me In which Day of the Lord 's great Power and Love to my Soul in raising up the Seed in me which sins not the Witness was manifest and upon the obeying of that in me which is Pure which doth his Will I found the Witness and a Testimony of his Love but upon my disobeying of that and acting contrary thereunto I found the Witness and a Testimony of his Displeasure And so I came to witness according to the Scripture fore-mentioned Isaiah 1.19 20. If ye will be willing and obedient ye shall eat the good of the land but if ye refuse and rebel ye shall be devoured with the Sword Thus the Scriptures were plain and true to me and needed no meanings but as open'd by the Spirit And thus I came to know and do bear witness according to Scripture That which is to be known of God is to be known within which brings into the true Fear and Obedience of him as in Rom. 1.19 Because That which may be known of God is manifest in them for God hath shewed it unto them And as the Knowledge concerning God which the World hath doth arise from without so like-wise doth their Fear from what they hear of God from Man that he is Just and a Rewarder of Evil Doers and they conceive that it is thus from the outward Declaration of Scripture because it so declares of him And all this may be where there is not any true Fear of God for where the true Fear of God is this Effect it works as these Scriptures declare The Fear of the Lord is to hate Evil Pride Arrogancy and the Evil Way and the froward Mouth do I hate Prov. 8.13 And by the Fear of the Lord Men depart from Evil Chap. 16.6 Thus it is whoso truly Fear the Lord not only hate Evil but depart from it but many there be which talk of Fearing God and live in the Evil such who have their Fear towards God only taught by the Precepts of Men will plead for it that it must be so and it can be no otherwise whilst they live here And these do as they did whom the Lord complained of by His Prophet Isaiah 29.13 For as much as this People draws near me with their Mouth and with their Lips do honour me but have removed their Hearts far from me and their Fear towards me is taught by the Precepts of Men. And as the Lord then threatned what he would do unto them Therefore behold I will proceed to do a marvellous Work and a Wonder for the Wisdom of their Wise Men shall perish and the Understanding of their Prudent Men shall be hid So it is now at this Day those who have been every one in their own Way and according to the counsels of their own Hearts seeking into the Mysteries of God the Sealed Book to teach others the Way to Fear God the Counsel of God is hid from such and they are at Strife amongst themselves about the Serving of God one saying Thus and another So one saying Lo here and another Lo there one in this
who witness them true and to have been fulfilled in us and in obedience to the same Power are kept can read with Comfort from the Testimony within our own selves wherein we may and do rejoyce in Persecution and Suffering for Righteousness sake which none knows but as they are guided by the Righteous One wherein is our Happiness that although we be numbred amongst the Transgressors of Men's Laws yet we suffer not as evil Doers for who goes under the name of Quakers and suffers for evil Doing are neither owned by us nor know our Joy who suffers as Christians herein can Rejoyce in as much as we are made Partakers of Christ's Sufferings and can and may read 1 Pet. 4.13 14 15 16. Our Sufferings being for the same that the Prophets Christ and the Apostles practised to wit for speaking against Formal and False Worships and Worshippers and against Sin in Plainness even in their publick Meeting-places as they did as in 1 Kings 13.1 2. By the Word of the Lord the Prophet cryed against the Altar in Bethel Jeroboam standing by And by the Word of the Lord Amos prophesied in the King's Chappel in Bethel and in plainness speaks of the Judgments of God to befall Jeroboam Amos 7. But this was not from the Letter the outward Declaration of Scripture that they spoke but from the Movings of the Spirit of the Lord in them as Prophesies came 2 Pet. 1.21 And the Father and Mother of Jesus found him in the Temple amongst the Doctors both hearing them and asking them Questions Luke 2.46 And the Apostle Paul an his manner was went into the Synagogues and Reasoned with them three Sabbath Days together out of the Scriptures And into the Synagogues he went at three several places to wit at Thessalonica at Berea and at Athens read Acts 17. for which he was then Persecuted And it is the same Generation in Nature now which Persecutes for the same Practices as then He that was Born after the Flesh persecuted him that was Born after the Spirit even so it is now Gal. 4.29 And so all that live in Persecution Hating and Envying and in Pride Covetousness Drunkenness Swearing Lying or any such like Wickedness take the Scriptures and look who they were that did such things and what was to be their Portion And this use you may make of the Scriptures Search them and see every one where you can find your own Condition for this I know and so you shall find That if you do apply the Promises to your selves which do not belong to that Condition which you live in that will do you no good at all in the time of trouble Therefore all consider betimes now whilst you have time and now that you are warned And all People of all Professions cease from looking at your Profession and see whose Work you do and what Fruit it is that you bring forth whether it be the Works of the Flesh or the Fruits of the Spirit of God which are different as the Scripture declares Gal. 5.19 20 21 22 23. Now the works of the Flesh are manifest which are these Adultery Fornication Uncleanness Lasciviousness Idolatry Witcheraft Hatred Variance Emulations Wrath Strife Sedition Heresies Envyings Murders Drunkenness Revellings and such like of the which I tell you before as I have told you in time past that they which do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God But the Fruit of the Spirit is Love Joy Peace Long-suffering Gentleness Goodness Faith Meekness Temperance against such there is no Law And be not deceived God will not be mocked for such as you sow such shall you reap If ye sow to the Flesh then ye shall reap Corruption but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap Life Everlasting which is witnessed as in Scripture declared Gal. 6.7 8. Therefore with Bowels of Love running forth towards your Souls I exhort you all to consider whose Will it is that you are doing and what it leads into For the Will of God is your Sanctification 1 Thess 4.3 Therefore take heed I charge you all in the Presence of the Lord and by his Spirit how you go on in any Wickedness and lay the blame upon God and say When the Lord will it shall be otherwise It is not his Will that any should go on in their Wickedness but that all should turn from their Wickedness and Live but your Destruction I do declare unto you all to be from and of your selves running on your own Wills working the Works and delighting to live after the Flesh which brings Death as the Scripture declares Rom. 8.13 For if ye live after the Flesh ye shall dye but if ye through the Spirit do mortifie the Deeds of the Flesh ye shall live And the Lord is not wanting on his part for to bring to Life but by the Spirit of his dear Son he calls upon every one for to return from the Evil of their Ways and as Obedience thereunto is given the Deeds of the Flesh come to be mortified and so they come to witness Life But if any say Hath every one the Spirit of Christ I answer with the Apostle Rom. 8.9 If any Man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his that is such as do not live up to the Spirit of Christ so as to enjoy its Indwelling For a Manifestation of the Spirit is given to every Man to profit with And so every one as they stoop down in Obedience to that of God in them which is pure which rises up within them and shews them Evil Deeds and calls upon them to depart there-from they owning this to be of God from thence this Fear comes to be placed in the Heart that they dare not act contrary thereto but the same they obey and so him serve and worship who is a Spirit and is worshipped in Spirit and Truth Which that you may all do is my Desire and Prayer to the Lord for you all by whom I have been moved to write this forth unto whom I have cleared my Conscience and unburdened my Spirit in the informing your Understandings in the way of his Worship who is God over all and Blessed and Praised for evermore Hallelujah to the Highest Written by one who desires the Welfare of Souls R. H. Who was committed Prisoner to York-Castle for speaking the Truth To Enoch Sinclare Parish-Teacher of Slingsby this is A Copy hereof being sent to go unto him the first that went forth with what in this foregoing is thereunto added as in the Conclusion of this expressed is Friend I Being moved for to write something forth for to inform the Understandings of such as have been scattering and wandering in the cloudy and dark Day as I was whilst following the Inventions of such as thou art who knows nothing of God but by Hear-say conceivings of the Scriptures and looking upon things without Such pitying and in love unto their Souls I have
in Commission to have done Justice he threatned for to send me away to Prison which he did early the next Morning and whilst I was there in the House of Correction I received Intelligence how that at the Sessions in Yorkshire there was a Bill of Indictment preferred against me to this purpose in it How that at a Meeting where I was at North-Allerten I intended or endeavoured to put one Thomas Mann Priest of that Town into a Well So opening the Bible it opened and I read these Scriptures Psalm 119.85 The Proud have digged Pits for me which are not after thy Law And in the 69th Verse of the same Psalm The Proud have forged a Lie against me The Pits were the Goal and House of Correction in Alisbury which I was put into for doing nothing else but what was agreeable to Scripture and the Lie which the Proud had forged against me was what they had laid to my charge in Yorkshire for true it was I went to the Priest in Buckinghamshire but in Yorkshire the Priest came to me with a salse Accusation in his Mouth at his coming using words to this purpose How now Roger Thou says I Preach false Doctrine It being denyed and he being put to Prove what he said otherwise he would be found to be a false Accuser put it off with asking What was the false Doctrine he did Preach So by his coming a great Tumult was raised insomuch that my Life was much in danger to have been taken away but by the Power of God and the endeavour of some Friends who bestirred themselves and got me forth of the Throng I was preserved There was a Well in the place so the wicked not being satisfied with what was done against me forged a Lie viz. That I intended or endeavoured such a thing as to put the Priest therein So after my return into Yorkshire I was arrested by an Attachment forth of the Sessions for to Answer at the next Sessions but I not having had any Summons given nor any word left at my House for my former appearance I could not own to the Bayliff that his proceedings were agreeable to their own Law and so could not give him his Fee which he said was Two Shillings so he cast me into Prison as by the Mittimus fore-mentioned is expressed so coming to the Sessions neither Priest nor Bayliff which I heard preferred the Bill of Indictment against me appeared against me but were to be questioned for their own Miscarriage laid to their Charge as I heard so I being called and none appearing against me for to lay any thing to my Charge by Proclamation I was cleared and the Bayliff who was the cause of my being sent to Prison at that time much reproved I was three Weeks and more a Prisoner upon the account afore-mentioned Roger Hebden A Copy of the Mittimus by which I was sent Peisomer to York for refusing to pay Tythes Thomas Harrison Esq Sheriff of the said County to the Keeper of the Goal of the Castle of York Greeting Yorkshire I Command that the Body of Roger Hebden by me lately taken you receive into your Custody so that I may have his Body before the Lord Protectour in the upper Bench at Westminster on Monday next after three Weeks of St. Michael to answer Henry Sowtheby in a Plea of Trespass Given under the Seal of my Office the 9th day of August 1658. A true Copy examined by John Thomlinson By the Sheriff About 9 Weeks Prisoner THis Plea of Trespass that is fore-mentioned which I was commited to Prison for that I was to answer Henry Sowtheby in was for the Tenth of my Hay and Corn that Year Growing which he claimed right to being an Impropriator And he cast me or by his means I was cast into Prison before a good part of the Hay was got or Corn near ready to cut Notwithstanding these his Dealings he openly confessed how Honest I had been and that he believed that it was for Conscience sake that I could not pay it and that it was true I had often paid him his Rent before the time it was due For in the time of my Ignorance of the Root from whence Tythes were I had a Lease of him for seven Years and did perform giving 1 l. 6 s. 8 d. Yearly for the Tythe of my own Land but after I writ to him to this purpose following and gave it him before he caused my Imprisonment fore-mentioned Henry Sowtheby unto thee formerly I paid a Composition Yearly Rent for Tythes of Lands in my Possession in the time of my Ignorance from whence Tythes were but finding in Scripture that they were the Lord 's by his express Command read Levit. 27.30 and he gave the Tenth unto the Children of Levi for an Inheritance for their Service which they served even the Service of the Tabernacle of the Congregation as Numb 18.21 And with the Levite the Stranger the Fatherless and the Widow were to eat and be satisfied as in Deut. 14.29 But seeing that none of these things are performed by them that receive Tythes in England now as then in Israel And lastly finding in Scripture that the Priesthood being Changed there is made of necessity likewise a Change of the Law as Heb. 7.12 denial is made of them that not any Right or Due thou hast unto Tythes by the Law of God as is seen by Roger Hebden IN the Year following I was ordered in the Movings of the Lord's Spirit for to visit Friends the former part thereof I passed through the Eastern Counties up to London and returned thorow the middle Counties Then before the middle of that Summer I passed into Scotland about that time when King Charles the Second came into England again and after my passing through several parts of Scotland amongst most of them few Friends that were then convinced of the Truth them to strengthen for to stand in the day of Tryal then approaching for then many did expect we should soon have been brought under either to have denyed our God or under great Sufferings and then was a time of much Wickedness and Lewdness much of God's good Creatures consumed in Drinking and Fires making Ringing and Rejoycing because of the Coming of the King Notwithstanding all that Lewdness which was then alost by the Lord's Power I and a Friend with me named Samuel Watson passed and had little Interruption and so returned forth of Scotland into Cumberland and visited several Friends in that County and so returned into Yorkshire before the middle of Summer About the time and after King Charles the Second returned into England again But there were some who could not be content therewith amongst others some of them called Fifth Monarchy Men who as I understand expect Christ to come for to Reign Outwardly in Person upon Earth and some few of them being stirred up in a forward Zeal without a true Knowledge of what Spirit they were of did