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A35836	The discovery of the great enmity of the serpent against the seed of the woman, which witnesseth against him where he rules, both in rulers, priests, and people whose hearts are now made manifest in this great day of the Lords power, wherein he is sending his sons and daughters in the power of his spirit to run to and fro to declare his word ... / a true testimony of him the world knows by name, William Deusbery, and in scorn calls a Quaker ... ; also his call to the ministry of the everlasting Gospel by the still voyce of the spirit of God ... ; the word of the Lord to all in England whom the Lord hath betrusted with power ... ; vvith a lamentation over all in England who oppose Christ in his spiritual appearance ... ; from the common goal in Northampton the 25 day of the 4 month, 1655.	Dewsbury, William, 1621-1688.	1655 (1655)	Wing D1265; ESTC R207336	26,718	32

THE DISCOVERY Of the great enmity of the Serpent against the seed of the Woman which witnesseth against him where he rules both in Rulers Priests and People Whose hearts are now made manifest in this great day of the Lords power wherein he is sending his Sons and D●ughters in the power of his spirit to run to and fro to declare his word WHICH Discovereth the state of England who according to her own lusts hath heaped up Teachers to her self that hath spoken smooth things to her calling her the beautifull Church and Spouse of Christ but in the day of tryall she is found in enmity to Christ in his appearance in his children and to be in the estate deluded from the spirit of truth recorded in 2 Tim. 4.2.3 Which cannot indure sound Doctrine having itching eares and turns them away from the truth to fables and now are Englands Teachers tryed she hath leaped up to her self and their doctrine proved and their Ministery made manifest in the great enmity they manifest against Christ in persecuting the bodies of his Saints them to destroy whom he hath sent to preach freely his eternal Word for which they are stoned beaten and imprisoned and many of Englands Teachers whom she upholds stirs up the people so to doe Being deceived not regarding what is spoken that neither fornicator nor idolator nor a adulterer nor effeminate nor abuser of themselves with mankind nor covetous nor drunkards nor revellers nor extortioners shall inherit the Kingdom of God 1 Cor. 6.9 10. A true testimony of him the world knows by name William Deusbery and in scorn calls Quaker who hath been by them imprisoned in York Darby Leicester and Northampton where he is now kept in the common Goal for the word of God and testimony of I●sus Ch●ist Also his Call to the Ministry of the everlasting Gospel by the still voyce of the Spirit of God and his mighty power destroying with the flaming sword the disobedient that would not stand in his counsell and causing the soul to submit to his counsel the light that comes from Christ in it to wait on him to open the seales of the Book and make known the mystery of eternall life to the soul the Scripture test●fie●h is in Christ the truth of it to know as it is in Iesus The word of the Lord to all in England whom the Lord hath betrusted with power from the highest to the lowest to see the peace be kept and to judg the cause of the People with righteous judgement VVith a lamentation over all in England who oppose Christ in his spiritual app●arance and to slight the day of your visitation to your own destruction From the common Goal in Northampton the 25. day of the 4. month 1655. LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert at the VVest end of Pau●s 1655. The Discovery of the great enmity of the Serpent against the seed of the woman which witnesse against him where he rules both in Ruler Priest and People Oh people in England AM I become your enemy because I tell you the truth and deales plainly with you in declaring the minde of the Lord unto you which in the eternal riches of his love he hath made known unto me by the word of God and testimony of Jesus Christ for which word and testimony I suffer outward bonds and persecutions as my Lord and Master did who was called a blasphemer Belzebub the Prince of Devils by the High Priests who cryed to the unjust Magistrates to deliver him up into their hands that their persecuting murthering spirits that thirsted after his blood might be satisfied which the unjust men in Authority to doe them a pleasure in satisfying their wills abused their power and delivered him up and though they proved not any thing against him they put him to death calling him a blasphemer and he sealed his testimony with his blood And all my holy Brethren Prophets and Apostles were called Blasphemers Hereticks Seducers and Deluders by the false Prophets High-Priests and Pharisees then who professed the name of God in words but denyed him in their practises and persecuted his children who were guided by his word under the names formerly written as I and my brethren is now persecuted by the same generation which professe God and Christ in words but denying him in their practises living in pride and pleasures envy and mu●der every way persecuting and seeking to destroy the bodies of the Saints of the most high God where the righteous seed is raised up which witnesseth against their unrighteous practises and discovers them in their secret hypocrisie which is hid under their voluntary humility which causeth them to appear what they are and manifests what was hid in their hearts under their faire coverings of outward formes and profession of Religion which they now manifest forth by their fruit whose children they are in obedience to their father the Devil who was a persecuter and a murtherer from the beginning whose works they now doe that professe Christ in words but denies to be guided by his spirit for his spirit is no persecuter and so are they made manifest in what they doe to all that have eyes to see that they are strangers to Christ while they continue in Cains nature persecuting the righteous seed without a cause as he did and doth in this Nation both in the North of it and in other Prisons in severall places of it there hath been cast into them the Saints and Children of the most high God for obeying his will in witnessing forth his eternall Word that he hath made manifest in them And no breach of any Nationall Law proved against them but a Popish Law made in Queen Maries Reigne which some hath suffered under and many others of the Saints and Children of the most high God they have persecuted and cast into prisons and not the breach of any Nationall proved against them but in the pride and envy of their hearts doe they persecute the innocent to satisfie their own wills as I am a witnesse against them who have persecuted me and cast me into prison under the name of a Seducer as they say for the Seducing of the people of this nation and for suspition of Blasphemy and breaking of the publick peace in dispersing principles contrary to the truth of the Gospel and peace of the Nation and not any accuser appeared to my face to prove what they charge against me as is formerly written either by the Law of God or the Law of the Nation but the Serpent in whom he rules hath manifest his enmity against me whom the Lord hath redeemed from the Earth and sent to preach the everlasting Gospell to those that dwell upon the Earth and to witnesse against the wickednesse of the dark world that the deeds thereof are evill for which testimony the world that hates the light that comes from Christ whom they ever persecuted to fulfill the measure of their fathers iniquities hath me

hath led me through the gates of the City into the new Ierusalem where there is nothing enters that works abomination or makes a lye but what is written in the Lambs book of life where my soul now feeds upon the tree of life which I had so long hungred and thirsted after that stands in the Paradise of God where the●e is no more curse nor night but the Lord God and the Lamb is my light and life for ever and ever I witness I am regenerated and born again of the immortal seed and hath pertaked on the first resurrection on whom the second death hath no power And this I declare to all the inhabitants in England and all that dwell upon the earth that God alone is the teacher of his people and hath given to every one a measure of Grace which is the light that comes from Christ that checks and reproves for sin in the secret of the heart and conscience and all that wait in that light which comes from Christ which is the free gr●ce of God for the power of Jesus Christ to destroy sin and to guide them in obedience to the light so shall they come to know the onely true God and Father of light in Christ Jesus who is the way to him And 〈◊〉 I witnesse to all the sons of men that the knowledge of eternall life I came not to by the letter of the Scripture nor hearing men speak of the name of God I came to the true knowledge of the Scripture and the eternall rest they testify it in Christ by the inspiration of the Spirit of Jesus Christ the Lyon of the Tribe of Iudah who alone is found worthy to open the seales of the book and I witnesse none else can for he alone opened the seales of the book in me and sealed it up to my soul by the te●timony of his own spirit according to his own promise I will bind up the testimony and seale the Law amongst my D●sciples and I will write my Law in their hearts and put my spir●● 〈◊〉 ●heir inward parts and they shall not depart from me ne●ther shall they need to reach every man his neighbour and every man h●s brother for all shall know me from the least of them to the greatest for I will be merciful to their unrighteousnesse and their sins and in●qu●ties will I remember no more and all my child●en shall be taught of me saith the Lord God and great shall be the peace of my ch●ldren and this here declared the Scriptures witnesse and I witnesse the Scriptures fulfilled in me Praises pra●ses Hallelu●ah and eternal praises be unto thee Lord God Almighty who ha●h taken unto thee thy great power to sit upon thy throne and to the Lamb for evermore It being charged on me my imprisonment to be j●st untill I give a reason of the hope of my calling and that I am u●willing so to do to stop the ly●●g mouth of the false accuser and to clear the truth of the lies layd on it as before written and in love to the souls of the people that they the truth may know as it is in Jesus Here I have declared the work of the mighty God in revealing his Son in me who led me on my journey through the dark world where I passed through great tribulations as forme●ly written until I came to the end of the world over it to rejoyce in the power of my God 1 Cor. 10.11 upon whom the ends of the world are come whom the whole world that lies in wickedness hates and persecutes but to the pure single eye that is not of the world I lay this before which is written that all which it mindes may see the truth I bear testimony of is not any Popish Tenet though I was questioned concerning them at the general Assizes holden at Northampton the 10 and 12 dayes of the first month called March 1654. neither is it seducing nor blasphemy nor prejudicial to the truth of the Gospel or peace of the Nation but according to 〈◊〉 truth of the everlasting Gospel and sound peace of the Nation for which testimony I am still kept in bonds in the common Goal in Northampton numbred amongst the transgressors in the low prison with those arrained for fellony and murther waiting in rest and peace till the sufferings of the righteous seed be fulfilled And all you that are enemies to the truth of God persecuting it under the names as formerly written calling the preaching of the truth seducing this I declare and confesse unto you in the presence of God after the way you call seducing d● I worship the Lord God of my fathers and witnesse fulfi●●● what is written in the Law and the Prophets he that can receive me let him W. D. Dear friends whose minds are turned to the effectual light that comes from Christ all mind your own measure and be content in what the Lord hath committed to you with the light judge that which would draw your minds to look forth at others conditions and in impatiency to covet what the Lord ha●h given to them before it be manifest to you be faithful every one in your own measure and in patience wait in the light for the unlim●ted spirit of Christ your life to open the seals of the book and make known unto you the mystery of eternal life which he will daily reveal in you that are faithfull in your own measure to follow the Lord in what he makes manifest to you whom he hath called into his Vinyard at the ninth and eleventh hour be faithfull to the Lord in walking in obedience to him in the light hee will make a short work in the earth for his seed sake and your reward shall be rest and peace in the presence of God in Christ with those that came into the Vinyard the third and sixth hours and laboured the heat of the day God almighty be with you his chosen servants and children and all in your measure keep in his eternall power bold valiant and faithfull unto the end and crown you with eternall glory in Christ one Judge Lord and King God over all blessed for ever Amen To all you that rule ●n England from the highest to the lowest whom the Lord hath betrusted with power to see the peace be kept and to judge the cause of the people He hath given you power theri causes to judge with righteous judgement the evil doers to punish and the righteous set free out of the hands of those that oppresse them This is the word of the Lord God to you THat you lend not your ears to the counsel of your own hearts or to the counsel of any without you that tempts you to draw your mindes from the pure counsel of God which is the light that comes from Christ Jesus and calls on you in your consciences to judge with righteous judgement as

after that time I being at a place called Tholthorp about 10 miles from York in the North riding thereof and many of the servants of the living God with me waiting on him his power to manifest to his glory And while we were together there came one George Mann in great rage two severall times with an Iron fork to satisfie his bloody thirsty mind the Lord with his power did him chain and prevented his bloody intents To satisfie his will on me he went to Thomas Dickeson who was at a place called Kirby Hall in Yorkshire and he accused me as Thomas Dickeson said before him that I said I was Christ upon which accusation he granted forth a Warrant on the 26 day of the second month called April And on the 27 day I being with the children of the Lord at Crake Iohn Lockwood called high Constable apprehended me with the Warrant before mentioned and the day being far spent he said to the friends with me if they would ingage for my appearance the next day he would shew me that favour that I should stay with them that night I replyed these words not any man shall ingage for me neither desire I favour at the hands of men if thou hast power over the body do with it what thou hast power Then Iohn Lockwood said the day is far spent I shall not go with thee to the Justice to night untill to morrow stay at thy friends house Reply If thou say I shall stay here if the Lord please I shal be ready to go with thee where he gives thee power to have me so he went a way and said he would send for me the next day and in the night season many of the Lords servants and children was with me waiting on him who is worthy to be waited on for he is good to the soules that wait on him and to the soules that seek him when much of the night was spent the inhabitants of Crake in great rage 〈◊〉 fury came to the doores and windows of the house like the inhabitants of wicked Sodom crying and rushing at the doors and said they would have me forth to dispose of me according to their wills for I should not be there and Iohn Lockwood high Constable so called who said I should be there until the next day yet to do the people a pleasure he contrary to his word came in and took me forth and had me into the streets where the people shouted with a loud voyce as they had me to and fro from one house to another where they sould Ale till the people in one house let them in and there they set two men to watch over me untill the next day which was the 28 day of the month before written on which day they had me before Thomas Dickeson who granted forth the Warrant for me to be brought before him and did me examine and it was manifest before him that what I was accused of in the VVarrant and the day the VVarrant mentioned my being in that place was false for I had not been in that place that day neither could they prove any such w●●● spoken by me as I was accused of and when he had nothing against me in that VVarrant then he did commit me to prison by a VVarrant that he said Judge Windham granted forth at the general Assize before writeen which VVarrant I never saw A true Copie of the Mittimus as followeth North riding of Yorkshire To the Sheriff of the said County of York and to the keeper of the Goale of the Castle of York VVHereas there was a Warrant directed for the apprehending of William Deusbery of Stanly for the seducing the people of this Nation from Judge Windham the last Assizes and he being brought before me and refuseth to find sureties to be of good behaviour and to appear at the nex● Assize to be holden for the said County to answer the premises You are hereby required to receive into your costody the said William Deusbery and him safely to keep untill he shall be delivered by due course of Law Given under my hand and seal the 28 day of April 1654. Thomas Dickeson According to his command as aforesaid I was had to York Castle and there kept prisoner untill the generall Assize which was holden about the time of the 22 day of the 5 month called Iuly in the year above written and there Hugh VVindham did sit judge of life and death who at the Assizes before mentioned which was in the first month called March gave order to apprehend me and according to his order it was done and he coming to judge the cause between me and my accusers it was pressed on him by some friends of the truth for the truths sake that I might have the benefit as those had that were arraign'd for fellony and murther to be brought before him and the people of the country and there my accusers to appear face to face to prove their accusation that I might suffer according to the Law if I had it transgressed otherwise that I might by it be cleared before the country of the lies and aspersions and false accusations they had publickly charged me withall his promise was I should be brought before him and have a fair triall at Law as other prisoners had but he was not faithful to do as he had said before him I was not brought at that time nor any tryal had but at the end of the Assizes cleared me by Proclamation and sent me a Liberato as they call it to passe away Into prison I was cast as formerly written the 28 day of the second month called April and there was kept untill the 24 day of the 5 month called Iuly and then was turned forth as is formerly written without any tryal or Law me read why they had kept me in prison that time so for the truths sake to that of God in every ones conscience I this day lay before He that hath an eye to see let him see VVhich after the Lord by the arm of his mighty power had me set at liberty ou● of the hands of those unreasonable men I journed as I was led by his spirit his word in Cleueland and other parts in Yorkshire Notinghamshire and so to Derby and as I was declaring the word of the Lord to the consciences of the inhabitants of Derby there came two men and laid hold on me and had me before the men who were in commission to have done justice who there did sit at the general Sessions holden at the Town about the time of the 24. day of the 6 month called Aug. 1654. VVhen I before them was brought the first question to me by them propounded was In whose presence do●t thou stand the answer to them was in whose presence of the everliving God the men called Justices replyed with these words Iaylor take him away put him in prison for disturbing the Court which was done at their command

had it transgrest but again ●o prison did mee commit to answer at the Assizes holden at Northampton the 10 and 12 day of the first month called March 1654. And three times I was there brought before Matthew Hail who did sit judge of life and death to answer what might be objected against me and the last time I before him was brought Hugh VVindham was with him who then was in commission with to have judged the cause in righteousnesse between me and my accusers and though not any accuser appeared against me to prove mee the transgressor of any Law neither would these that sate to judge my cause any Law to me read that any evidence given in against me was the transgression of but they me committed to prison where I had been amongst those arraigned for fellony and murther so under all these lies and aspertions false accusations I suffer and instead of being cleared of them when I was brought before those that are in Commission to judge with righteous judgement more accusations is laid upon me by them which was done by John Parker at the general Sessions before written and Hugh VVindham at the general Assizes before mentioned which both did accuse me in the open Court before the people that I was a seducer and when I required them to make manifest wherein I did seduce any they would not answer to what then was required and a copie of the ground of the evidence they pretend they have against me they denied to be given me in all places where they have proceeded against me as is formerly written least their wo●ks of darknesse should come to light and their folly made manifest and truth cleared of the lies and false accusations with which they blind the eyes of many and cause them to stumble at the wayes of truth in speaking evil of the things they know not as is manifest in what is written So for the truth sake I bare testimony of and it to clear from all lies and aspe●sions cast upon it which hath caused the simple to stumble at the way of truth and that they no longer be turned aside by the lying spirit who every way seeks to murther and destroy the truth from the earth in persecuting the bodies of the Saints and shutting them up in prison under the names of blasphemers deceivers seducers and disturbers of the peace so make lies their refuge as that persecuting spirit ●ver did in all ages to stop the lying mouth and for the simple sake that desires in the truth of their hearts to know the leadings of the spirit of truth in the way to know the onely true God I here publickly declare to the inhabitants of England and to all that dwell upon the earth what I was in the fallen estate and how the Lord raised me up by the arm of his mighty power and carried me on through the great work of regeneration that all may know the truth I am sent to bear testimony to the consciences of those that dwell upon the earth is not any seducing nor contrary to the truth of the Gospel but is according to the truth as it is in Jesus He that hath an eye to see let him see and ●n ear to hear let him hear The first Birth I Was conceived in sin and brought forth in iniquity and in that state lived and delighted in pride and pleasures lightnesse and vanity as all doth in that nature untill I were about eight years of age though before that time when I did live in vanity the light in my conscience did witnesse against mee and caused some trouble in me but I departed from the light and so followed the counsell of my own heart that lead mee into vanity to live without the fear of God And about the time when I was eight years of age of my natural birth the word of the Lord came unto me I created thee for my glory an account thou must give to me for all thy words and actions done in the body which word enlightned my heart and opened the book of conscience in me where all was written I had done in the body ever since I was a child or had any remembrance and when I had read my condition how I had lived without God who created me for his glory The word of the Lord then came unto me Shall the axe boast it self against him that heweth therewith or shall the saw magnifie it self against him that shaketh it As if the staffe should shake it self against him that lif●eth it up or as if the staffe should lift up it self as if it were no wood and by the power of the word of the Lord that spoke in me my understanding was enlightned and my conscience bore witness that it was my condition I had lifted up my self against the livi●g God in living without his fear who created me to live in obedience to him but I had lived in disobedience to him untill that day so deep sorrow seized upon me and I knew not what to do that I might get acquaintance with the God of my life who created me for his own praise and glory then I ceased from my vain conversation which I had lived in and began to read the Scriptures and books and mourn and pray to a God I knew not where he was but expected him without looking up towards the firmament where my carnal imagination told me he was and as I had heard those the world calls Ministers whom I went to hear whose words did witnesse with my carnal imagination of God they said he was above the skies calling it heaven but I felt the hand of the Lord within me executing justice upon the wicked in me and what way ever I turned to seek him in observations thither the flaming sword turned which was placed against me to keep the way of the tree of life and executed the righteous justice of God upon me so I stood before the Throne of the Lamb reading in my mournfull estate the sentence of condemnation that passed upon me from the glory of his presence and in this condemned estate I continued and through the ignorance where God was what his worship was I strove to satisfie his justice in outward observations imitating what the Saints did sometimes in fasting and prayer which was the practise of Cornelius and others of the Saints of the most high God as I found recorded in the Scripture of Truth But notwithstanding all my strict walking in observations in which I was seeking the Kingdom of God I found him not but the flaming sword cut me down so my sorrow increased for I found none in my condition that I could declare it to Then it pleased the Lord to order my friends in the flesh to put me to keep the sheep where I was retired from company so my mind was kept in my mournfull estate where my great