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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

some of the Jury hath confessed which was contrary to the known Law of the Nation in such cases provided contrary to truth and equity which is a greater crime and breach of the Law then those things which many of the servants of Jesus are imprisoned for And after awhile the Jury came into the court was asked if they were agreed to which they said they were gave in their verdict for the Protector but they said they found not blasphemy it was then demanded what was found to which they said misdemeanor then she desired to know what she was accused of for they read then bil called their witnesses for blasphemy but blasphemy was not found then they said they found misdemeanor against her the asked in what they said in calling the Minister a false Prophet but she denyed that she did as they said although it s no transgression to call them false prophets who are false prophets which doth not abide in the doctrine of Christ and their minister being then on the bench in the Court was asked what he had to accuse her of he answered he deserferred his cause to God and said he desired she might have what favour the Law would afford yet for all this though the Bil was not found and though their as they call him there present did not accuse her of any thing they committed her to Prison again who had been there prisoner nine months before and fasly accused at her first commitment for no other thing did she speak but the truth according to plain Scripture a true Relation of which is published and declared in a printed paper being intituled A true Declation of the suffering of the Innocent who is hated and persecuted without a cause which is made manifest dayly for which the righteous Iudge of all the world will deal righteously and call you to an account and weigh you in an equal ballance and measure you in a just measure and from the hand of the Lord must you receive a reward according to your deeds After that then there was one Iane VVaugh called to the Barre who had been imprisoned about sixteen Weeks before in the Town of Banbury who at first coming thither was in obedience to the Lord to declare his truth and witness against deceit for which she were beaten and abused persecuted and imprisoned and evilly entreated in the said Banbury as the servants of the Lord in former ages as wel as this were by such an evill generation and seed of evil doers as they are whose fruits makes them manifest to be guided by the same spirit though under a refined subtilty that other persecutors of the innocent spoken of in Scripture were The said Iane VVaugh as foresaid who had been a witness to the truth of God and against the deceit of the world and after she had been sore abused in the said Banbury persecuted imprisoned and put forth of the Town for witnessing the truth against deceit and after a certain time being moved by the Spirit of the Lord to come into Banbury again and being with a friend getting him to write a Letter for her the Magistrates hearing of her being there sent for her to come before them Iohn Austine who was then Mayor caused the Oath of Abjuration to be tendred unto her and because in obedience to the commands of Christ Jesus who saith Swear not at all she refused to swear being faithfull to him abiding in his Doctrine and although she so did in obedience to his Command out of love to him and his truth and there in their court when the said Oath was tendred she utterly denyed all things contained in that Oath and Witnessed against all Popery and Popish Jesuiticall Opinions whatsoever yet the was then notwithstanding all that committed to Prison where the remained though the breach of any Law were not laid to her charge til the Generall Sessions Assize or pretended Goal-Delivery when and where she was called to the Bar as abovesaid and appearing there that day where no Accusation and witness came in against her nor any breach of the Law or mis-demeanor laid to her charge but notwithstanding she was asked to put in sureties for her good behaviour then she asked them on the bench what Law she had broken and would have had them to have convinced her of a transgression by making known to her the breach of some Law the which they refused but she could get no other answer but that if she would not give in sureties she must to prison again which was done accordingly now let all the wise in heart that truly fear God consider whether these proceedings against the innocent be either legall or just and if they do not exceed the proceedings of heathen Magistrates who sate Judges in tryals against the Christians and servants of Jesus in former ages as in the Scriptures are left upon Record Consider and see the actings of the persecuting Jews who had the form but wanted the power and so out of a blind zeal persecuted the Servants of Iesus who were in the power and life of truth and they were sore moved and offended at the Servants of Iesus and exceeding mad against Paul who was pressed in Spirit being in Macedonia to testifie to the Iews that Iesus was Christ and when they aposted themselves and blasphemed he shoke his Rayment and said unto them your blood be upon your own heads and having cleared his conscience to them he departed and went to the Gentiles and so entred into a certain mans house that worshipped God and being moved of the Lord he spoke and was not afraid the Lord being with him and having much people in that place where he continued a year and six months teaching the word of God among them and the Iews which made insurrection against Paul when they brought him before the Deputy of Achaia for teaching the word of the Lord which their dark minds who lived in Envie and Malice against the truth could not receive And now observe the actings of the Deputy of Achaia who though he might be accounted a heathen or an Antichristian whose proceedings in that case might preach or teach wisdome to some who profess themselves to be Christian Magistrates for when Gallio was the Deputy of Achaia as Iohn Griffith Deputy-Recorder was Iudge in the Court at the assize or sessions in Banbury before whose judgement seat the servants of Iesus was brought by such as had made insurrection against them in their Market Steeplehouse and Steeplehouse-yard in nature like the envious persecutors of the Servants of Jesus For the Iews made insurrection against Paul and brought him before Gallio to the Iudgement Seat and laid down their accusations against him according to Law there and then accusing him to the Deputy who sate as Judge saying in their accusation this fellow to wit Paul perswadeth men to worship God contrary to the Law and when Paul the accused was about to open

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

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