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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 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

that destroy and devour the Creatures and the Creation upon their ungodly lusts and forget to do Justice and Judgement for which sayings I was not onely buffeted and abused at the Mayors gate by the brutish people but violently dragged carried away by Porters and thrown into the Poultry Counter by Thomas Atkins his unreasonable will without a Mittimus † But Noble Festus whom the Professors Priests and praphane call Heathen could not do so Act. 25.27 throw him in said the Officer and let him lie like a Rogue and afterward a Mittimus was sent though dated the same day The Coppy is as followeth LONDON ss THese are in the Name of the Keepers of the Liberty of Englamd by authorie of Parliament to require to detain and safely keep in your custody the Body of Daniel Baker until he find good security to appear at the next Sessions of peace in LONDON and in the mean time to be of the good behaviour occasioned a great tumult of people to be gathered together in the Streets to the the great disquiet of the City and disturbance of the publick peace and this shall be your Warrant Dated the twenty ninth day of Octo. 1659. to the keeper of the Poultry Counter Thomas Atkin. Now forasmuch as I should have been called to appear at the next Sessions of peace in London according to equity and the words in the Mittimus also but equity justice judgement was past by and forgotten and I was not called but kept a close Prisoner in a stinking hole of the Prison some weeks after and I had not onely laid before the Jaylor the unjustnesse of my Sufferings but that it was more then he or the unreasonable Justice according to the Law of the Nation could answer what they had done and the same day as I understand the Jaylor informed the Justice concerning the Matter who sent a private Messenger to have me come at his will which cast me into prison openly and to have set me free secretly but at that season I had not freedom from the Lord that gave me to see the wicked unreasonablenesse of their dealings with me and therefore had more Christian boldnesse to write to him the Coppy of the Letter is thus written This body in which I am with every Member of it is the Lords and so was and is the testimony of Gods truth whose words I spoke forth in obedience to his most Pure Spirit in my heart that reproves the World for sin the twenty ninth day of the eighth moneth and seventh or last day of the week when the great wise and honourable Men and inhabitants of the Earth and the wisdom 〈◊〉 honour that is from beneath is earthly sensual and devillish assembled together at Thomas Allens the present Mayors house and from thence thou with them accompanied and tollerated in a high degree the wicked inventions and idolatrous heathenish customs of the men of sin kept up and tollerated and highly exalted in course and time with vain fleshly glory by such that should be more wise who are called Christians Christian Magistrates Members of Churches Governours Mayors and Aldermen them to be found Acting and giving up their strength means and precious time to lying vanities rather then to be good sound sober examples to all both young and old and for them to be found acting and exerciseing themselves in such Heathenish abhominations and wicked vain customs of the World that lyeth in wickednesse to be laught at by fools and scorners though poor wise men lament over and pitty you by reproving with their life those evils you are found in to the end that you might not die in your sins which grives and wounds the just principle of God in your selves and others which Testimony is one with that which is true that condems the unjust But Friend was not this Body with the true Testimony from the Mayors gate by thy will cast into a filthy noysome Prison from which place by violence with Porters and others carried through the open streets in the sight of many hundreds of people as if I had been such a vile person or transgressor not worthy to live and the multitude might so judge of me seeing me thus openly carried and dragged as or far worse then many Malefactors or murtherers have been And what hast thou forgot to do Justice and Judgement and dost thou send for me secretly for as much as the Law is open and if I have committed any thing worthy of death or bonds Lo here is a body prepared to suffer and according to the Mittimus thou sent after I was thus thrown into a noysome hole of a Prison by thy will and under thy hand in writing I should have appeared at the last Sessions of Peace so called in London but I was not called according to the Tennour of the Mittimus and so thou hast greatly erred and art found a transgressor thy self and the Lords faithful witnesse in thy Conscience will judge thee for it and my words I spake as the Lord moved me at the Mayors gate is already fulfilled upon thy head where it will staud aright Lo thou hast forgot to do justice and judgement if thou had not thou would have without delay caused me to have appeared at the Judgement Seat there to be Tryed openly as I was cast into Prison openly and if I had spoke or done any thing worthy of Death or of Bonds the Law was open and thou ought equally and openly to have executed true Justice and Judgement and to have laid the sword upon the head of the transgressor and so to have been a terror to the evil doer Lo the Sword is to be laid upon thy Head O Man who hast forgot equity and lost pure Reason Justice and Judgement and thrown the Testimony of Truth into Prison so openly and what dost thou fend privately to have this Body which is the Lords to do his will and not mine own neither mans will that cast me in From the hole in the inner Prison in the Poultry Counter the 15 of the 9 mo 1659. Who am the Lords Prisoner for the Testimony of a pure Conscience for the Elects suffering Seeds sake A Friend to thy Soul called Daniel Baker The above written Letter was delivered to Thomas Atkin his hand and the Messenger brought me tidings that he read it and when he had done tore it to pieces and laught ill becoming his age gray hairs and place who after some dayes sent me a letter in the Night when it was dark a figure of his unfruitful works who hates to be reformed and to the end that others may beware and learn wisdome which many reject whose deeds are with Gods fear and Wisdom to be brought to the Light which equally tryeth all things and accordingly reproves and condemneth or approveth and justifieth I say according to the faithful and true witnesse in the Conscience of Male and Female so shall every ones deeds

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