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A29619	A single and general voice lifted up like a trumpet, sounding forth the Lords controversie concerning London, with her governors, priests, and citizens that walk in the manners, customs, and way of the heathen, that know not the dreadful God who is Light among them, neither like to retain God ... with somewhat directed to the ear of Thomas Atkin, called alderman of the said city : a reproof to his perverse and ungodly proceedings, message, and two letters ... also a letter from a servant of God in the said prison to Thomas Allen, Mayor of the city ... / by Daniel Baker.	D. B. (Daniel Baker), fl. 1650-1660.	1659 (1659)	Wing B485; ESTC R32851	25,174	40

body and every member of his Creature Man from Commanding or his Creature male or female from subjecting to their Lords Command in or by their body without respect of the outward adorning Life mens persons time place or dayes that the Will of the Almighty Lord of Heaven and Earth might be done in it as it is in the new Heaven and in the new Earth that the Inhabitants of the world might cease to do evil and learn to do Righteousness even as he is Holy and Righteous that calleth his people out of Babel the Land of Darkness and Confusion lest while they partake of her sins they partake of her plagues and judgements Lo the same voice cryes now in these latter dayes He that hath an Ear to hear let him hear and come forth and turn to the Light that 's low in the heart freely from the Lord given to thee drawing Tumults about you to the disturbance of our Peace You and your Companions prophane the Lords Day some opening their Shops on that day which we can no wayes allow of you make a great Complaint of the Jaylor and his Vnder Officers I doubt not but there is great Fault in all of them there is no Good to be learned in such places and I believe it is a Grief to all good People to see and hear such Sins daily committed in such places and if it lieth upon your Spirit as you Write it doth ●his is false I Writ not so but I was burthened with the crying Abominations of the City and Prison Lo in that fear and wisdom of my Lord and Master Christ the Light I have cleared my Conscience whether thou and them who are the Cause of it hear or forbear I marvel you will stay so long in that place If your Vnder Keeper bring you to my House that I may talk with you I may perhaps see Cause that you shall Return thither no more when you are weary of your Company you may take my Advice and so I leave you Resting Your well-wishing Friend THOMAS ATKIN London the 24 of Novemb. After I had Written an Answer to the late Letter the 25 of the 9th Month in the Morning from the Lord had I freedom to pass forth to Thomas Atkin with the Letter and with the words of my Mouth to lay his wicked lyes and false and unjust Accusations and Proceedings upon his own Head and to warn him on the Lords behalf who with his Servants are and will be clear of his Blood if he die in his Sins with many more that reject the Truth and persecute the life of it as its appearance is brought forth in and by the Friends of Christ Jesus the light of the World that lighteth every man that cometh into the World FRIEND DId thou never read Christs words in the Scriptures of Truth which saith For every idle word that men shall speak they shall give Account in the day o● Judgement and all Lyars shall have their part in the Lake that burns with Fire and Brimstone And how is it thou do not fear and tremble before the living God that hath given thee breath but in the hardnesse of thy heart and impenitency instead of laying thy sad wretched and miserable estate to heart when it s so plainly laid before thee had not the god of the World altogether blinded thine eye thou might see so much O man who yet fear not to heap up false Accusations against the Innocent which thou and many more are truly guilty of as I have sufficiently proved to thee who most wickedly and prophanely said to my Friend the Messenger this morning That I had gathered all the Pick-pockets and Whores and Rogues in London about me a wicked Lye so I turn it back upon thy head O man what will be thy end Art thou fit to bear the Name of a Ruler a Christian a Magistrate a Justice of Peace which should be a terror to the Liar the false Accuser the Evil-doer and not fear the God of Truth thy self but speak such most wicked Lyes and false Accusations to the shame of thy greedy dark Teachers the Lord's witness in thy Conscience when the Lord visits for all the Deeds done in thy body will bring them into remembrance and judge and condemne thee for the evil and behold I yet call for thee to Repent and hearken to the witness in thee opprest and cease from thy wickednesse left thou die in thy sins who writ to me in thy late Letter after thou have undeservedly spoke contemptiously and vilely of me and of what I writ in love to thy Soul Thou say I vilifie your Ministers and Ministry Thou err in saying so for I do not vilifie them in speaking the Truth of or concerning them as thou may read and understand by what I have written to thee but can I speak more vilely of them then thou in thy Letter to me saying There is no good to be learned in such places and thou dost believe its a grief to all good people to see and hear such sins daily committed in such places viz. Prisons to thy own shame thou have written this better a milstone were hanged about the neck of such as offend Christs little ones by casting them into such places and much more to the vilifying as thou call it of the hired Priests that take so much Quarterly gain or yearly gain from their Quarter to deceive the poor Prisoners who can learn no good here though they preach for Hire so often so that thou have confirmed what I have truly written and is it not time for them to be silent that are in deceit in an evil way how can they teach the good old way who are out of it themselves consider of this and Repent Another Charge thou layst to me is for calling the Churches made with hands Mass-houses Did not the Popes adherents build them to say Masse in and give them their Monks and Saints Names as St. Gregory St. Dunston St. Sepulcher St. Katherin St. Antlin St. Rood St. Giles St. Clement c. And how is it thou art so blind and dark and called a Magistrate and yet know not the Church of the living God which is the pillar and ground of Truth from an old Popish Masse-house made up of Lime and Stone with mens hands where God dwels not and dost not thou blaspheme to call that a Church which is not but I may say a figure of thy hard heart who art yet a member of such a Church which is not the body of Christ See Col. 1.24 The true Church is the Body of Christ but I deny with my life a stony Idols Temple Steeple house or Masse-house that it is the Church or Body of Christ or the pillar and ground of Truth which is the Church of the living God behold thy blasphemy and the damnable error of thy dark Teachers And why dost thou continue heaping false Accusations upon me and my dear friends the Lords Servants

done in the body be condemned or justified as is the ground and nature by which they are conceived and brought forth these are the true sayings of the sure word of prophesie that gave forth the Scriptures of Truth he that can believe and receive it without offence let him The Coppy of Thomas Atkin his Letter is as followeth DAniel Baker I saw you at my Lord Mayors gate upon the twenty ninth day of October last being the first day when he came from Westminster you were in a wild posture more like a mad man then a sober person you were then advised to return to your house but you still continued there in drawing a great concourse of people about you to the great disturbance of the peace of this City drawing Cut-purses and Pick-pokets about you a fit time for such persons to commit Robbery you were then deservedly carried to the Counter by force by Porters as I am informed who were paid for their pains taken about you if you had gone willingly you should not have been drag'd thither A Friend of yours desired me to discharge you to that end I sent for you to come unto me intending to have admonished you to make no such disturbance for the future and then to have discharged you but you writ me a Letter and sent me word by your Keeper that you would be dragged out as you were carried in this is false and if that be your mind when you desire your Liberty get a keeper to bring you to me and I shall give a discharge in the mean time if you want any fitting accommodation in the Counter it is your own fault I pitty your condition the Lord open your eyes and so I Rest Leaden-hall street London the 18 of Nov. 1659. Your well-wishing Friend THOMAS ATKIN Friend I have received thy Letter and I did not tear it to pieces after I read it as thou didst mine But how is it thou art so dark and blind though thou saw me at thy Lord Mayors gate Why could not thou see to do justice and relieve the oppressed within and without and cease from pevishnesse and perversnesse madnesse and folly for it is high time for thee to learn moderation and sobriety and cease from false accusing the Lords Servant whom thou say appeared more like a mad man then a sober person in a wilde posture know thou that the Servant is not above his Lord of whom such as crucified him said he is mad and hath a Devil and if they called the Master of the house Belzebub how much more them of his houshold and however I appeared to thee know it was the Lords Truth and Testimony I declared that season against your abominations I spake the words of Truth and sobernes as any moderate men may read in a Book Tituled A certain Warning which is fulfilling and is to be fulfilled upon the heads of such as are with thee in thy Life and Nature Thou say I was advised that day to return to my house I say it becomes not a Ruler to hearken to or to speak a lie which I turn back upon thy head for I heard none speak such words to me and forasmuch as thou say I continued there drawing a great concourse of people about me drawing Cut-purses and Pick-pockets about me and thou say a fit time for such persons to commit a robbery then I say such vile transgressors are beholding to the early Rulers that occasion so fit opportunities so frequently more especially in the wicked City London of all Cities and Towns throughout the Nations and I say how is it that thou art so dark and sottish that thou can lay such a charge upon me as the cause of such transgressors or concourse of people gathering together Behold I tell thee this filth is not to lie upon the head of the Innocent but to be turned back upon the head of the transgresser from whence it came and art not thou together with many more of the earthly Rulers Mayor Aldermen and Citizens of this wicked City inexcuseable herein let the Lords witnesse in all sober peoples consciences judge of this matter And if such a small number of persons gathered together at the Mayors gate were a fit time for Cut-purses and Pick-pockets to commit robbery I query how fit and large opportunities have they so frequently given them by the Rulers of the earth which forget Justice and Judgement as thou have done and to relief the oppressed and rather exalt folly and vanity and heathenish customes which captivates the minds of people out of Gods fear at such seasons when the Mayor Aldermen and great Earthly wise men that have lost the key of knowledge the oppressing Lawyers and Rabbies with their folly and vanity and heathenish customs and idolatrous abominations with them is carried through the open streets of the wicked City when so many thousands of people are gathered together to see the Beast that carries the Whore arise out of the troubled Sea and to behold your vanitie and wicked folly and dark inventions and vain glory and excesse which you wast and consume upon your lusts which war against your souls when so many poor widdows and fatherlesse halt blind and lame creeples so plentifully lye crying and lamenting up and down your streets and Mass-house doors and corners of Allies for want of bread food and rayment and honest employments to be set at work at them that can work The Lord God will assuredly account with you for these things and for his Creatures which you so greedily waste and consume upon your ungodly lusts and thou say I was deservedly carried to the Counter by force by Porters and what is my crime thou charge me with both in the Mittimus and thy Letter to me viz. I occasioned a great Tumult of people to be gathered together drawing a great concourse of people of Cut-purses and Pick-pockets about you say thou to me But heark Friend hast thou a Law for such Crimes or is this of thy own making Now if there be such a Law in force to be equally ministred or executed upon all without respect of persons which is but reasonable and all Laws should be grounded upon pure Reason that occasion great Tumults of people to be gathered together amongst whom doubtlesse may be transgressors of all sorts such as the Priests keep ever learning what to say but do not like themselves Then what will become of all the earthly wise men of London what must they not all deservedly be carried to prison I may appeal to the chief Authority in the Nation and if the Lords faithful and true witnesse in their Consciences will condemne me Lo I submit but who occasioned any or the greatest tumult or coucourse of people to gather together whether the Rulers and wise men of London in exalting their folly vanity and vain glory which the everlasting God will stain and bring to contempt or I that in the fear and power

to evil doers and can you I say be clear of the same crimes that you will judge and condemn such vile Transgressors for be wise therefore and consider and remove the cause of such fit opportunities or times as Thomas Atkins calls them Now forasmuch as people that suffer in any degree at such seasons may say if the Rulers and Magistrates did cease to proceed in their heathenish Idolatrous Abominations and vain glory by which the Lord God is so highly dishonoured tempted and provoked from time to time by which also many thousands of people gather together to gaze at folly and wickednesse and run greedily into the excesse pride vanity pleasures and hurtful lusts of the flesh that war against the Lambs Spirit and neglect their honest imployments we should not thus suffer in any degree when the fit time as thou calls it or I say rather wicked and vain opportunities be removed and taken away And this I may say to clear my Conscience on the Lords behalf and I know it of a truth had not the Spirit of the most high been opprest vexed and grieved with the long continuance of your wicked heathenish actions doubtlesse the Lord had not at any time sent any of his Messengers to testifie against and reprove you and to lay before you your mighty sins and to cry aloud and lift up their voices like Trumpets though they be looked upon or esteemed by the unwise as mad men contrary to all men for reproving you for your folly vanity and wickednesse did it not thus abound in all Streets through the Nation as the upright in heart feel something of the weight of your wickednesse and great abominations and the everlasting God will plead with his Righteous Judgement with you for a sword is to passe through your Land Oh ye stiff-necked Generation for these things and except you repent and depart from evil by the fear of the Lord which is the beginning of Wisdome the Light of the World whose light is in every one of your Consciences and with it you bring forth fruit meet for repentance unto life as sure as the Lord God hath given you breath you shall die in your sins and this is love to thy soul among the rest that lyeth under the bondage of corruption What I have suffered since I came into Prison is unexpressible because of sin sinful men ungodlinesse blasphemy and prophanenesse that abounds which with my pretious life from time to time I have Testified against because of which I have endured the Contradictions of ungodly sinners day by day and as truly as the Soul of righteous Lot was vexed from day to day with the filthy Conversation of the wicked Sodomites so certainly have I witnessed the like Condition in this noysom Prison where wickednesse and ungodlinesse daily abounds and where is there a Prison in this Nation that is not as it were a Nursery for all manner of abominations and the Rulers ought to see to it that they be not so else will it not lie upon their heads and is countenanced and upheld by the Keepers also that should be as every Magistrate ought to be a just man of Truth hating Covetousness and to despise and shake their hand at the gain of Oppression and so to Rule over and be a good example a terror to evil-doers that such may go out with a reformed life rather better then worse then when they came in but contrariwise the chief Goaler or Keeper hath gone about and endeavoured to limit the Spirit of the Lord Behold to his everlasting praise I testifie that I have gladly received that into my heart to Rule me and hath the preheminence even the Spirit of Truth the Light that reproves the world for sin and with my life in my hand have I reproved and testified against wickedness and ungodliness blasphemy and the like evils that abound in this Prison for which the Keeper Humphry Gifford a Professor of the Prophets Christ and the Apostles good words hath caused men to draw me away and cast me into a place where the filth of the prisoners run almost round about me and this is of truth that I write and at that season my Testimony I declared and laid it upon his head who Commanded me to be taken away because I Reproved blasphemy and ungodliness he said I spake too loud although unclean and ungodly Songs and wicked Revellings as it were made the house ring again imediately after as at other seasons and Humphry Gifford will remember this when the hand of the Lord visits for all the deeds done in the body and forasmuch as he who should have been a terror to evil doers strengthened their hands by commanding violence to be done to me that Reproved sin and ungodliness with my life the Lord is witness and sundry men that are more sober then the rest can also bear Record And moreover every first day of the Week since I have been in Bonds have the Prisoners done violence to me and my Friend Humphry Bach● and forced and carried us into the Hole of the Prison and Locked us up by the Keepers Order because we could not for Conscience sake but did refuse to enter into Covenant with them viz. to be silent and so limit the Spirit of the Lord whose peculiar right only is to command the Tongue and every Member of our body at his good will in us to work although such a thing be not demanded of any other of the Prisoners and although we have been there while they have been at part of their Worship and spake never a word yet have they abused and then done violence and taken me up and carried me into the Hole and locked me up and one Friend thrust out of Door by one Parrat a Turn-key with such violence as if he would have broke her neck and sometime after I asked him saying How if thou hadst broke her neck Then I should be hanged for it said he And let the Magistrates consider Whether such persons be fit to have any Authority or at least to serve sober persons and the Priests that professe themselves Ministers of Christ beholding such Cruelties and not a mouth open to reprove them that do violence and one Priest a prisoner for Debt said in the hearing of many Witnesses There was no way to Dispute with us but with blows Let the sober mind weigh and judge of these things But sometime standing behind the Door like a Thief and would not come in as if he were ashamed to tell his Dream or studied stuffe or Divination of his own brain or to deliver his message till we have been thus taken and carried violently out of his sight as Sheep to the slaughter and cast into the Hole of the prison and notwithstanding that Humphry Gifford chief Goaler had Covenanted with the Hired Priest and Judas Iscariot the Traytor went from the light the unchangeable Priest to the changeable Priests and Covenanted with them

that Worship him in Spirit and in Truth and deny the Pope and his Adherents Doctrines heathenish Traditions Customs and vain Fashions of the World that lieth in wickedness the Lord will judge thee for these things while thou have time Repent and prize it Thou tell me of my Friends Opening Shops on the Lords Day but which day of the Week is not the Lords that made them The Apostles Doctrine i● One man esteemeth one day above another another esteemeth every day alike but what shall be done to such he doth not say Away to Prison with them beat them spoil their goods persecute them or we can no wayes allow of it as thou say Nay but thus it s written Let every man be fully perswaded in his own mind See Rom. 14.5 Remember thou art sufficiently warned from this day forward seeing the Lord hath given thee and many more a day of visitation of salvation whether it be received or rejected that thou have not a hand in persecuting any for conscience sake or for reproving sin in the gate in the Mass-house or open street least the Lord with a quick and mighty stroak as in a moment smite thee and take away the desire of thine eyes who art yet false accusing me and my Friends saying Cannot you and them of your gang with such reproachfull and unsavoury words be quiet but disturb us in our Congregations and act in the open streets in a most uncivil manner liker distracted men then sober persons drawing tumults about you to the disturbance of our peace Know thou that if the King of darknesse of Babylon of Confusion did or may send greetings of peace as in another case to all that did or doth dwell in the earth Dan. 6.25 yet the Prince of Life King of Righteousness Christ the Light of the World comes not to send peace on the Earth but a Sword see Luke 10.34 35. and the Angel cries wo wo wo to the Inhabitants of the Earth Therefore think it not strange that your peace is broken or disturbed for no peace to wicked but fear God Repent and bring forth fruits meet for repentance unto life least thou die in thy sins for this is of truth that I write whether thou hear or forbear From the Hole of the inner Prison in the Poultry Counter this 24 of the 9 mo 1659. From thy Souls Friend that writes his name Daniel Baker Here followeth a Coppy of a Letter sent from a Friend of Gods Truth to Thomas Allen Mayor of the City London THomas Allen Ah Friend what is this that thou hast done in this thy proceeding against me and to separate me from my family where there is so much need of me which thou little regardest but exerciseth cruelty on that day the first day which thou calls the Sabbath or Lords day even without mercy Yet thou knows or should know that he or they that rule over men should be just men men of truth ruling in the fear of God Friend I was the last first day of the week save one in my shop in Gods fear exercing my Conscience void of offence towards God and man doing no evil in word or deed to Man Woman or Child for my Religion which is Pure is to keep unspoted of the World and so cannot joyn one with the World in observing one day above another but esteem every day alike and am fully perswaded in mine own mind and know that the Kingdom of Heaven comes not with outward observation and that to the Lord all dayes are alike good and that it is the will of God our Sanctification to be Holy as God is Holy every day in all manner of conversation to do Justly to love Mercy and to walk humbly with or before the Lord God who searcheth the Heart And who have learned and are taught this by the Grace of God which brings Salvation which hath appeared unto all men even to deny ungodlinesse and worldly lusts and to live Righteously Soberly and Godly in this present World to such all daies are alike who are God-like for the Lord God made every day good and every Child of God that is born of God who is Light walks in the Light Christ the good day that Abraham saw and was glad which is the true Rest which the Sabbath that was given to the Jewes for a Sign was a shadow of even of the Substance Christ the Light the good day of God the rest which remaines in whom all the Shadows Signes and dayes end And who now are rooted in him and built up in him Christ the Light and walk in the Light which through believing in are become Children of and are joyned and united to the Body Christ the substance that ends the shadows they dwelling in God who is light are freed from the begarly Rudiments and cannot be in any wise brought into bondage to them again to observe days or esteem one day above another and they now whose life is in observing of dayes which were appointed given as shadows and signs of the substance their life is not yet in the substance Christ the Light but in the Signs shadows and so as yet know not Christ the Light manifest in their flesh to redeem out of the bondage of corruption but still remain children of the Bond-woman under the bondage of sin an Satan and so are not holy any day of the week and then cannot keep or walk holily on the first day of the week or on any day else But prethee consider if thou have a Law for what thou doth against me and wouldest have me and all men account thee a just man as thou ought to be and art called a Justice for I and all men may judge of thee to be a Justice and a just man if thou do justice impartially without respect of persons Now how hast thou so dealt with me to send me to prison for opening my windows and because I will not shut them at the Marshal thy servants pleasure I being a Free man of the City in equity ought to have as much freedom in opening my windows and to keep them open as thou to command thy Servant and horses to labour on the first day of the week therefore if thou wilt do justice without partiality command the Marshal thy servant to carry thee to Prison and if thou be not willing to go so at his word in the Name of the Keepers of the liberties of England if the Marshals servant thrust thee violently out of thy doors as he did me why let it be so and if another of his servants take hold on thee and kick thee very wickedly and violently as he did me why bear it and if he take thee by the Collar of thy doublet and band on both sides thy neck and shake thee as a Dog would worry a Sheep as one of the Marshals Servants did me and the other carrying a stick under my back lifted it up quick on purpose to