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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86665	The immediate call to the ministry of the Gospel, witnessed by the spirit: vvith a true declaration of the persecution and suffering of Richard Hubberthorne, James Parnell, Ann Blayling, by Will. Pickering, who is Mayor of Cambridge. Also an answer to divers letters and mittimusses, against the said prisoners, answered; by them who are sufferers for the truth, and for the testimony of Jesus, Richard Hubberthorn, James Parnell.	Hubberthorn, Richard, 1628-1662.; Parnell, James, 1637?-1656.	1654 (1654)	Wing H3225; Thomason E812_13; ESTC R207636	16,317	15

THE IMMEDIATE CALL To the Ministery of the GOSPEL witnessed by the SPIRIT VVith a true Declaration of the persecution and suffering of Richard Hubberthorne James Parnell Ann Blaying by Will Pickering who is Mayor of CAMBRIDGE Also an Answer to divers Letters and Mittimusses against the said Prisoners answered By them who are sufferers for the truth and for the testimony of JESUS RICHARD HUBBERTHORN JAMES PARNELL LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black-Spread-Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1654. The immediate Call to the Ministery of the Gospel witnessed by the Spirit WIth a true Declaration of the persecution and suffering for the Gospel under the tyranny of the Mayor of Cambridge which Gospel of Jesus Christ whereever it was made manifest the testimony of it was ever sealed with bloud persecution and sufferings and it is the same now working the same effect and bearing the same seal as is witnessed And also an answer to several false reproaches given forth in writing in three Letters under the hand of Will Pickering Mayor of Cambridge which herein is discovered and laid open that so the truth may be cleared and all Magistrates Priests and People may discern truth from scandals and that all simple hearts and minds may be informed to receive the truth freely without stumbling at reproaches through which the Prophets and Apostles and Servants of Jesus Christ did bear witnesse to the truth Isai. 51. 7. Heb. 11. 26. esteeming the reproaches of Christ greater riches than the pleasures of the world and the Apostles were to goe forth to him without the Camp bearing his reproach Heb. 13. 13. If ye be reproached for the Name of Christ happy are ye for the Spirit of God and of glory resteth upon you 1 Pet. 4. 14. From one whom the Lord by his eternal Spirit hath called to bear witnesse to his Truth and to his Word and Gospel made manifest in me by the revelation of Jesus Christ whose life and conversation hath been blamelesse in the world whom no outward Law did ever take hold upon for evill doing but was strict and zealous in an outward profession of God and Christ exceeding many in wisdome and knowledge in the letter of the Scripture and had a form of godlinesse but the power of it I was ignorant of and was a stranger to the life of God which the Saints lived in which spoke forth the Scripture according to their measure and the Word of God which the Saints spoke from I was ignorant of though I knew the letter and was a Minister of the letter before I knew the power of the Word of God but when the living powerful Word of God was made manifest in me by his mighty power then I was made silent from speaking any thing of God from that knowledge and wisdom which was natural and did arise out of the earth in which stood my zeal and profession and form of godlinesse which was all without in words and outward appearance and outward righteousnesse and outward holinesse the earthly nature standing which all outward profession and forms lodge in but when the Word of God by his mighty power was made manifest within me spoken from his own mouth which word was in my heart as a fire which did burn up corruption and uncleannesse and work out the defiled nature and by it was all the powers of the earth brought down and the earth it self shaken by it the deviss were made to tremble and were cast out and in that day did the keepers of the house tremble and the strong man cry bitterly and the just Judgements of God did fall upon that nature I lived in and the terrors and wrath of the Lord took hold upon me till the flesh was wasted off the bones that I could number my bones day and night the terrors of the Lord was upon me revealed from heaven against all unrighteousnesse against all my own rightcousnesse and all my familiars and acquaintaince stood afarre off me for I was a wonder to all them who lived in that nature that I had lived in for they knew not the judgements of God against sin which then was upon me because of disobedience to the light which did make manifest sin and evill but hearing the Word of the Lord in power spoken within me did confound all my wisdome and knowledge and made me to be a fool to the wisdome of the world and to deny the wisdome and to deny my self and my own will and by this Word was I called to come out of my own country kindred and fathers house to doe the Lords work in obedience to his command and to stand in his will out of my own will for I knew the voice of God which called me and for this cause did I leave father and mother lands and living earthly honour and earthly riches which I had and might have lived in if I had been disobedient to the command of God but the Lord called me forth by his mighty power to bear witnesse to him in the world and to declare and preach forth the Gospel of the Son of God according to my measure as it was made manifest within me and by his Word to declare against all sin and iniquity and unrighteousness of men and in obedience to him who called me did I goe as I was moved by his eternal Spirit into severall parts of this Nation Townes and Cities and Countries in the North and West part of England and Wales bearing testimony to the truth and in some parts sealing the testimony with my bloud and by imprisonments in persecution in perils often under tryals of cruel mockings scourgings and revilings enduring the contradiction of sinners and doe not account my life dear unto my self that I may render to the Lord a good accompt of my faithfulnesse in obedience to him who hath called me into his work and vineyard and this is all the wages that the Ministers of the Gospel receive from the world being accounted as deceivers yet true as having nothing yet possessing all things as poor yet making many rich The servant is not greater than his Lord John 15. 20. who hath suffered the same things and hath left a good example and if it be the will of God that we suffer with him in the obedience to him are we made willing not onely unto bonds but unto death who doe now bear his reproach and by the Spirit of the Lord was I moved in obedience to him to come to this Town where some did receive the testimony of the truth where I stayed certain dayes and we had certain meetings publickly from house to house and the hands of the persecutors was then bound by the mighty power of God and they limited from acting the persecution which was in their hearts which now they have acted so farre as their power doth reach but the Sea must keep its bounds and cannot break them Then I passed forth of the Town as I

custody and him safely keep that he may be forth coming to answer the premises the next Sessions fail not at your perill Given under my hand 3d July 1654. Will. Pickering Mayor A Reply to the foresaid Mittimus AS for my coming before thee it was by thy Authority for I was in a friends house called Justice Blackley and there was a man called a Constable in a shop over against the house waiting for my coming forth and as I was going over the way with some writings in my hand which concerned the truth of God the Constable so called came and met me and told me I must goe with him and I said if he had authority I should goe with him and he said he had and so in obedience to the Authority I went along and he brought me before thee and thou came violently and took off my hat and cast it upon the earth calling me rogue and other such like termes which was in thy will and not in thy law and therefore thou art not fit to be a Magistrate for he that is guided by his own will is not fit to be a Magistrate for he makes his will a law and the law is not to be made by the will of man and then thou came and caused my pockets to be searched and thou took my writings from me and said there might be some treason in them and I said if there was any thing under the Law let me suffer by the Law and thou came violently once or twice as if thou wouldest have smote me calling me rogue and witch and the like and I said if thou couldest prove me either a rogue or a witch let me suffer as a rogue or a witch but whether this be in thy law or no I know not so I shall leave it to those who knowes the Law to judge of it but I am sure it is contrary to the Law of God and so to that thou art a transgressour and by him thou must be judged And then thou asked me why I came to the Town to make division And I said Christ came for the same to set at variance father against son and son against father as the Scripture makes it appear Mat. 10. 35. and I witnessethe same fulfilled and this thou sets as an article against me Now let any one consider if thou wouldest not imprisoned Christ if he was personally here but in as much as thou doest it to one of his thou doest it to him Mat. 25 45. and here thou hast manifested thy self to be a Tyrant who imprisons the Servants of Jesus Christ for confessing him who begins the warre wheresoever he comes his first appearance is with the sword to that which is for the sword and bring peace and deliverance to the captives and to lead captivity captive Luke 4. 8. and this we witnesse fulfilled and for this end are we come to the Town of Cambridge which is one of the devils strongest holds from whence he sends forth his messengers into the world to deceive the Nations but the Lord is come to beat up his quarters and now the warre is begun and the devil hath cast some of us into prison but still the warre goeth on and the Lamb will get the victory and the Beast and the false Prophet and all that have the mark of the Beast must be cast into the lake that burneth c. Rev. 20. 10 to the end Rev. 19. 20. And then thou examined me if I owned a paper which thou shewed me and I said I did and thou set that down as an article against me for putting up a paper which thou sayest is against the Ministers and Magistrates of Cambridge and here thou accuseth the Ministers and Magistrates of Cambridge to be corrupt and heathenish for the paper onely declared against corrupt Magistrates and heathenish Priests wheresoever they are and so if there be any Law transgressed here it is thou that hast transgressed it and so for these things thou sent me to prison and thou sayest for other misdemeanours and not one of the Town of Cambridge can tax me for any misdemeanour for I am redeemed out of the generation of misdemeanours and was bound to good behaviour by a stronger bond than man can make before I came at the Town of Cambridge but let any who hath understanding judge whether thy behaviour or mine was the more like misdemeanour but for this cause thou sent me to prison but I know not by what Law but thou sayest in the name of the Lord Protector of England but I believe him whom thou callest Lord Protector would deny to own it for if he should own it he would own tyranny and oppression and would shew himself to be an oppressour of the truth of God and a Protector of tyranny and oppression and the Lord Protector of heaven and earth would cut him off and if he wink at such Tyrants as thou art the Lord will smite him with his sword and will cut him off from off the face of the earth and set another in his room as he hath had examples before him And thou bragged to me of a tyranny done by thee and said thou caused two of my sisters to be whipped the third day 1653. but I tell thee the Lord God of all power will whip thee with a rod of vengeance and him too whom thou callest Lord Protector of England who hath the power of England in his hand if he uphold or suffer such tyranny or any punishment to be acted against or upon any tender consciences contrary to the Law of God and so I leave him without excuse in the presence of the Lord and judgement at thy door who callest thy self WILL PICKERING A Reply to some Speeches objected against Ann Blacklane called Quaker in Touleboth by one Phillip Johnson calling himself a Minister of the World and calls these sayings dangers and damnable doctrines errors and heresies Object 1. THat she said the Scriptures written by the Prophets and Apostles are not the Word of God but Christ and that the Scriptures are not sufficient light and meanes to find Christ and for us to rely upon contrary to these places of Scripture Mat. 1 24. 2 Pet 1. 17. Thou enemy of all righteousnesse how darest thou call thy self a Minister of the Word and art ignorant of the letter which witnesseth with the Word and saith the Word became flesh which is Christ and in the beginning was the Word and the Word was God John 1. 1 14. and this the Prophets and Apostles witnessed and thou who sets thy self to witnesse the contrary art no Minister of the Word nor of the letter which witnesseth with the Word but art shut out from both and art for condemnation by the Word And thou that callest this damnable doctrine callest the doctrine of the Apostles damnable who preached Christ the Word and here I openly declare against thee to be a blasphemer of the Truth of God and the

Scripture which thou talkes of relying upon will witnesse against thee to thy condemnation and all that takes thy part and he who hath all the Scripture in notion and wants the life is without feeding upon the husk with thee who puts the shaddow for the substance who hath the form but denies the power but the Scripture is serviceable in its place and is a true witnesse for the truth of God against such liers and blasphemers as thou art who takes the letter to talke of and would destroy the Life and so these Scriptures which thou hast set down may stand and witnesse against thee who art a sayer but not a doer Object 2. That she said she hath attained to the Light of Christ without the help of Scripture by an immediate call from God and thou sayest contrary to these Scriptures Rom. 10. 14. Iohn 5. 39. Reply Those Scriptures which thou bringest to witnesse against the Light which was spoken from the Light shall stand and witnesse with the Light against thee who art an enemy to the Light and who witnesse the Light of Christ doth witnesse it by Christ without the help of Scripture and the Scripture doth witnesse the same that Christ is the Light of the world and doth enlighten every one that cometh into the world John 1. 9. without the help of Scripture but thou that hates the Light art for condemnation by the Light which is the life of the Scripture but the Scripture is serviceable in its place but thou who lives in darknesse takes it out of its place and so wrests to thy own destruction Object 3. That she said she is without sin and that she cannot sin nor break the Commandments but keep them all and all other are in condemnation that are not like her Reply Here thou art a false accuser and a lier for this she did not say but thou that pleadest for sin livest in sin and art in the fall under the curse upholding the devils kingdome which is sin and so art no Minister of Christ who comes to destroy sin but a Minister of the devil who comes to uphold sin and he who was a Minister of Christ witnessed that he that is born of God sinnes not neither can be sin because his seed remaineth in him 1 John 3. 9 and all the Ministers of Christ witnesse the same and thou who art a Minister of the devill pleads against the Ministers of Christ because thou art a drunkard and live in sin and so must have the wages of sin which is destruction and all who lives in this generation pleading for sin for he that cannot witnesse cleansing here shall never be cleansed for as the tree falls so it lies and thou that calls this damnable doctrine art in the damnable estate of the devill blaspheming the truth of God and denies Christ come in the flesh and so art Antichrist and who have the image of God are like one another and who are not like they have the image of the devill and so are in the state of condemnation Object 4. That men ought not to acknowledge Superiors nor to give reverence Reply Before the fall there was no Superiors onely man Lord over all Creatures Gen. 7 28. but not man to be Lord over man and amongst those who were redeemed there was no Superiors onely Christ the head and the rest fellow Servants and here who would be the greatest should be the least and he that respects persons commits sin Jam. 2. 9. and here thou and thy Superiors are in the fall lording over one another by your corrupt wills and as for reverence I say reverence to whom reverence belongs he that can receive it let him Object 5. That she said she is perfect in this life Reply That is false but thou that pleadest against perfection in this life wast never in this life which is perfect nor art no Minister of Christ but of the devill who pleads for imperfection whereas Christ said Be ye perfect even as your heavenly Father is perfect Luke 5. 48. and the Minister of Christ witnessed and said as he is so are we in this present evill world and he that hath this hope purifieth himself even as he is pure 1 John 2. 3. and here thou art found in the kingdom of the devill which stands in imperfection and all who witnesse with thee for the Kingdome of God is pure and nothing that is impure can come therein Object 6. That she knoweth and can judge of mens hearts and that Christ in her judgeth others and all others that are not such as she are carnall heathens vagabonds children of the devil enemies of God and murderers and in the gall of bitternesse Reply Here with thy serpentine wisdom thou hast mingled truth and falshood together that all might goe current for truth but the day hath made thee manifest and thy heart is known to be Judas heart who professeth Christ in words and in thy heart murders him and thou art discerned and judged by the Spirit of the Lord in Ann Blacklane I being of one Spirit with her witnesse it and this thou shalt witnesse to thy woe and misery and here thou hast razed thy self out from being a Minister of Christ who art a naturall carnall man and knowes not the Spirit of God which searcheth the heart and trieth the reines Heb. 4. 12 which the Ministers of Jesus Christ witnessed and said the spirituall man discerneth and judgeth all things 1 Cor. 2. 15. and witnessed and said it is no more I but Christ in me and without are dogs whoremongers adulterers carnall h●athens vagabonds children of the devill enemies of God and in the gall of bitternesse and drunkards and here art thou and all that joynes with thee to persecute the truth of God and must be cast into the lake that burneth for the new Covenant is but one and the way is but one and the truth is but one and they that are not with us are against us and here art thou in the damnable estate of the devil who calls this damnable doctrine Object 7. That she and such as she are onely enlightened and sent of God to reprove the world of sin Reply If thou wast a Minister of Christ thou wouldest witnesse the same for all who are sent from him are sent from one and are guided by one as they abide in one and are all of one heart and one mind Act. 4. 32. Epistles written in one anothers hearts and thou that callest this damnable doctrine art of one mind with the devill Object 8. That she said there is no outward Christ according to his manhood but that Christ is onely within us Reply This is false and here thou art a lier of thy father the devill but we witnesse Christ come in the flesh but this thou canst not witnesse but art in the state of reprobation who knows not Christ within and those who knowes Christ no nearer than the heavens above the skies