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truth_n	bear_v	spirit_n	witness_v	1,996	5	9.3129	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77079	A taste of the spirit of God, and of this vvorld, as they have appeared in opposition heretofore, so now latest of all at New-Windsor. Occasioned through the violence, and reproach of evil men, against the temple and tabernacle of God, and them that dwel therein. Presented in a narrative to the honourable committee, for the propagating the Gospel. / By Robert Bacon, preacher by the allowance of God, and the nation, now these five years there.	Bacon, Robert, M.A.	1652 (1652)	Wing B371; Thomason E669_13; ESTC R207030	41,008	52

next day or the same day at even we having stayed by the way we overtook them again about Marlborough when of the man that was with us they enquired my name which when they knew they stayed and spoke to me going over a Bridge I willingly went softly to have some speech with them they telling me in effect they were yea that they were Jews and that the time of their gathering together out of all Lands especially this was come and that they should away for Hierusalem yea that they must be circumcised and so forth To all which I replyed that in a sence I approved of all this but not in their sence or as they applied it but said that he is a Jew and of the seed of Abraham that believs whose praise is not of men but of God yea the very same too said I are the Circumcision which worship God in spirit and so have the true Circumcision which is yet that made without hands Lastly the place of these I judged to be no other then Hierusalem but that I mean come down from Heaven into which no unclean thing shall be admitted as they liked not mine so I disowned their sense of these things as I am sure I had the greater cause after about half a miles riding I left them I going another way about a twelve-moneth after I came to London and as I was going to dinner in Fleet-street about eleven of the Clock or a little after there met me a Merchant that formerly I had knowledge of and some acquaintance with told me that there were some at his house had a great desire to speak with me I left my dinner and went with him to a fair and great house where I had never been before he had me into an upper Room where when I came I heard a very great noyse of one speaking I knew not what with exceeding great fervency I would have stayed and heard further there but he urged me to go where it was into the next Room where I saw at the Table the forenamed Garman writing having before him an Hebrew Bible there was some two or three men besides this Gentleman whose house then it was and my self in the Room was a Bed and one sitting up in it speaking as I said before and claping his hands with exceeding seeming height of confidence but the words he spake I did not understand only they seemed to me to be a mixture of Latine and some other tongues they said Hebrew and all other Languages I confess I remembred he mentioned oft Melchise deck the High Priest or Priest-hood the name Judah and Jesus with such zeal that the fire seemed to me even to sparkle out of his eyes he did besides I remember curse with great bitterness the Priest-hood as he said that was not after the order of Melchisedeck by his side there lodg'd a Woman which I confess I did suspect was the Woman I had seen before at Wells and after that upon the Road but not understanding and indeed not approving of yet wondring I confess at the business after less then a quarter of an hour I departed and have never seen them since Now the truth is as I have had opportunity I have related the matter as I here have done to such as I thought good and in particular did so now in my last journey to one at Bristol from whom peradventure Mr. Wood hath had this Relation or else I know not whence it should arise and peradventure this man would I should have gone and made some complaint of these people as the manner of some is to be very severe in complaining against sometimes but the seeming evils of others but in mean time very sparing of their own abominable lusts the Seed and Posterity of Saul who kill and make an end with great zeal forsooth the lesser Cattel of the Herds and Flock of Amaleck but in mean time save alive the fat and strong The Scriptures we all know declare how that our Saviour was himself not only in the Company but left alone in the presence of an Adulterous Woman whom the unseen Adulterers had brought there before him to accuse so that certainly there is no cause of blame for my being as I was and coming as I did to this place wherefore they have the greater sin who have made it first evil and wicked in their own hearts out of which as the root of all filth they have cast it again forth if it were possible for the staining the innocency and truth of God in me so that I confess I do not reject the story as I have given it and as it is as the spirit and end for which it is produc'd The third is Mrs Ceenee's Lodging sometimes at my house Mr. Wood by this minds me of the rule which they say was Matchiavels if a man be never so innocent yet the way effectual to ruine him is audacter calumniare aliquid haerebit lade him with reproach and some if not all will be beleev'd of most verily I have been so dealt with to some purpose by this and some other my friends at Windsor the Scriptures speaking of these latter times says among others there are these two Characters of the evil men found in them that as they are such that have eyes full of adultery or the adulteress so they have an heart exercised with covetous practises Mr. Wood shall find where the latter is in the heart sure it will be found in his which is Adultery as to God for it is covetousness forsooth no sin in these times which yet saith the Apostle is Idolatry and the very radix and root of all sin there I say without all peradventure is the other if not in the body yet in the eye this sure at least was in the eye of Mr. Wood he would else not have reproacht me with the entertainment of this Woman for assuredly she was in my account yea doubtless in the account of those made her the Matron of the Savoy a Woman sober and of good report yea I suppose with the Governour and others here who had speech and acquaintance with her as well as I she having two Children in these parts and one of them at Eaton-School as touching her entertainment at my house I am confident it was design'd if by any means they might by her ensnare me a practice used by the Heathen of old against the holy men and Martyrs of God to find occasion against them to take away their lives she came I confess in an affright to my dwelling in the Castle she being denyed of the Souldiers to return as she said to her Lodging I advised her that being innocent she had no cause to fear to go before the Governour before whom they told her she must appear she did accordingly when being as she said threatned to be put into the custody of the Marshal she desired she might have leave to go to her wonted Lodging which was at one Harrises in the Castle by no means this might be but saith the Governor you may see whether you may not stay at Mr. Bacons wherefore at his moving she came to desire me to go to him when I came the Governors first demand of me was whether I would passe my word for Mrs. Ceenee I told him no nor ye for any one else the next was whether to prevent her going to the Marshal she should abide at my house I said I thought rather then that she should be in distress my Wife would provide some Lodgings for her which she did and I consented to in the simplicity and uprightness of our hearts it was a frequent charge the Pharisees brought against Jesus that he was a friend of Publicans and Harlots God hath had mercy on me in this to drink of the same Cup from men of like spirit with them but rejoyce and be exceeding glad for this hath been the lot of the just from the beginning of the World The last of Mr. Woods good speeches of me is that he and others cannot tell when if at any time they come to hear me whether I will speak either from or of God or the Devil say we not well said the Jews to our Saviour thou art a Samaritan and hast a Devil yet we know that beleeve of what spirit our Saviour was how by the finger of God he cast out Devils yet they said it was by Beelzebub wherefore said he and I say the like to Mr. Wood all sins and blasphemies shall be forgiven unto men save that against the holy Spirit but I will conclude with only these two sayings They that are of God hear and can hear alone his word and he that knoweth God and is born of him heareth us and he that is not of God heareth not us in this or by this we discern betwixt the spirit of God and the spirit of this World the spirit of truth and the spirit of error Mr. Wood and others of the same mind with him professeth in this charge that he hath no discerning of the one of these from the other and so must needs be a peece of that man of sin of which the Scripture saith should come and even now is in the world FINIS

his reason in general his countenancing not only here but appearing openly in London on the behalf of one that though he seemed said he to walk according to rule yet he is indeed a very great seducer and a marvellous let to all good in this place which when he understood to be spoken of me and that with great heat he told him that he should take time to consider of it but could not for the present give credit to it unless he should understand more then ever he could believe concerning me hitherto The first was this That I should borrow Col. Okeys Horse sometimes and when I had it in my Custody should go with it into Smithfield to sell it there The second was this That I should be present where I saw a man in bed with another mans Wife The third That Mrs. Ceenee sometimes lodged at my house The fourth and the last that no man can tell that hears me whether I will speak from or of God or the Devil All these were named of him with this profession that he would make proof of them telling it him as glad to have somewhat of this nature to report of me 1. Now as touching Col. Okey I scarce ever had any speech with him save only once he spoke to me at Slow going to meet the Lord General coming out of Ireland 2. As concerning his Horse I never borrowed any of him he and the Lord knows 3. Yet I will not deny but being in Glocester I came to London upon a Horse which Colonel Okeys Wife said was hers 4. This Horse Col. Massie now prisoner in the Tower when he seized on me with some 16. of his Troop ordered for my use in this Journey which as I did not so I had no cause to take notice of whose it was being his prisoner and so wholly in this business passive 5. This Horse trotting altogether I road not on till I came to Warwick being till then in the custody of the Corporal and one Trooper two most honest and Christian men riding till then on the Corporalls Horse and he riding on that appointed for me both which did of their own minds offer and endeavour to exchange it for me that I might have one more easie nothing suspecting but that it had been the Governours own who had done me all this wrong which ten Horses could not give me reparation for 6. Col. Massie did himself before the Committee promise to accommodate me well and with a good Horse to London 7. This Horse as I have heard as well as these men were the States for whom and in whose cause I had suffered great loss before at Bristol 8. This matter is fully enough spoken to in a Book I writ of that relation of my sufferings wrong I sustained in that place Mr. Bachiler giving a ready and full approbation of it being the then Licenser of Books 9. When this Book and suffering was I was then justified of the Independents so call'd as an Independent but many of them have seen cause to do since more unwarrantably what they then condemned the Presbyter for whence it is my lot to suffer under some of them as I did of their Fathers that went before I mean those whether Prelatical or Presbyterian of like spirit with them 10. This Horse I refused in London to deliver at the first challenge to Mrs. Okey as I had cause to do neither did I deliver it she being a stranger to me till I had an Order from the Captain-Lievtenant under Col. Massey so to do which when I saw she had her Horse as she desired 11. This Charge was in particular once also brought against me by my loving Neighbor Mr. Bachiler who had himself justified me and the thing in the book he licensed but indeed I was then related to my Honoured Lord Say and he a man then of great power and Mr. Bachiler was not yet fellow of Eaton nor had as yet by a full Table left off trusting in God for from his own mouth it came as God is witness I was told by the Governor in the presence of his Wife and some others that he had trusted in God so long that he was once like to be starved 12. I bless God through his grace I am innocent and without blame in my heart and life as touching this business both as towards God and man I do confess I have thought of some further recompence for this my suffering and wrong at Glocester which hath been so judged heretofore especially of Mr. Bachiler and those of the Independant way that I say not of the whole Nation as it is now but as sure as God is this adulterous and wicked Generation having through Apostacy from God and his people enriched themselves by the spoils of others care not what become of the Israel of God so they may sit in quiet feeding themselves full with the Onyons and Garlick and other the flesh-pots of Egipt Lastly let it be judged of God and man what spirit this is that thus boldly and with a most impudent face reproacheth the truth of God manifested in the extream sufferings of his Saints and people Mr. Wood for I will not refuse now to name him his second charge is That I should be present where there was a man in bed with another mans Wife To this I will say first in general that where the good man soweth as becometh him good seed there cometh the Enemy and soweth tares That which I have innocently and for the furtherance of the truth as it is in God declared That this adversary of God and me hath somewhere picked up to fling as dirt into my face wherefore as the Lord is witness in me I will return it back from whence it came and give out the report truly with the foundation of it whence it hath and doth arise It 's not unknown to some that being to see a Brother sometimes in Wells when I came his Wife my Wives Sister told me he was then a prisoner at Taunton by the means of Mr. Pine which indeed I think cost him his life though he was put forth again and nothing layd to his charge which freedom I obtained by a Letter from the L. Fairfax that then was General wherefore my Sister rode behind me to Taunton but she had ordered it to take Horse at one Garmans a poor man yet much talkt of who came now and then to her house At this mans house I stayd about half a quarter of an hour I had the rather a mind to see him in that among others I had heard Mr. Peters as well as others particularly speaking of him This man about some two or three years after with his Wife as they said came to London of whom I only heard but saw them not but having again with my Wife a Journey into the West we overtook and left behind on foot some half a dozen of men and Women on the Road the