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truth_n	church_n	know_v	pillar_n	2,997	5	10.3098	5	true

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

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