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A89853	Several petitions answered, that were put up by the priests of Westmorland, against James Nayler and Geo. Fox, servants of the most high God, persecuted by the priests of the world, as Jesus Christ and the apostles were persecuted by the Jewish high priests for the witnessing of the truth, and testifying against the deceits of the world. With the answer to an order given forth by the justices at Appleby sessions, contrary to the law of God, and the laws of the land. Also, an exhortation to the people, to mind the light of God in them, the teachings and leadings of the spirit of truth; the which if it be obeyed, will lead and guide them into all truth.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.; R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.; Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1653 (1653)	Wing N316A; Thomason E703_4; ESTC R3636	42,778	72

SEVERAL PETITIONS ANSWERED That were put up by the Priests of WESTMORLAND Against James Nayler and Geo. Fox Servants of the most High God persecuted by the Priests of the world as Jesus Christ and the Apostles were persecuted by the Jewish high Priests for the witnessing of the truth and testifying against the deceits of the world With the answer to an Order given forth by the justices at Appleby Sessions contrary to the Law of God and the Laws of the Land Also an exhortation to the people to mind the light of God in them the teachings and leadings of the Spirit of Truth the which if it be obeyed will lead and guide them into all truth This is the condemnation That light is come into the world and men love darkness rather then light because their deeds are evill He that loves the light brings his deeds to the light that the light may prove them but he that doth evill hateth the light neither cometh he to the light lest his deeds should be reproved But he that loveth the truth and doth that which is righteous cometh to the light that his deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in God John 3. 19 20 21 verses Little Children let no man deceive you he that doth righteousness is righteous even as he is righteous he that committeth sin is of the Divell In this the children of God are manifest and the children of the Divel whosoever doth not righteousness is not of God neither he that loveth not his brother 1 Iohn 7 8 9 10. Marvell not if the world hate you it hated me before it hated you Iohn 1● 18. Blessed are you when men shall hate you and when they shall separate you from their company and shall reproach you and cast out your name as evill for the Son of Mans sake rejoyce ye in that day and leap for joy for behold great is your reward in heaven for in the like manner did their fathers unto the Prophets Luke 6. 22 23. London printed for Giles Calvert at the Black spread Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1653. An Epistle to the Reader Christian Friends REmember the words of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ who said the servant was not greater then his Lord and saith he if they have persecuted me they will persecute you also and saith he marvell not if the world hate you it hated me before it hated you if ye were of the world the world would love you but because I have chosen you out of the world therefore the world hateth you but these are the fruits of darkness that ariseth from Cains generation they that are after the flesh t ey persecute them that are after the Spirit it is the world that persecutes and as they are in their naturall state and condition they know not God but are enemies both to him and His where he is made manifest in Spirit they that are in the corrupt nature are ignorant of him according as it is written in the Epistle to the Corinthians the naturall man knowes not the things of God because they are spiritually discerned and no man knowes the Father but the Son neither knoweth any man the Son but the Father and he to whom the Son reveals him there is no knowing of God but by the Revelation of his Spirit but naturall men such as the Priests of the world who are ignorant of God and are onemies to him being guided by the spirit of error standing up in actuall Rebellion against God now that he is Revealing his Son in the hearts of his people and leading them by the Divine light of his holy Spirit out of Egypt out of bondage and darkness wherein they have been held in the time of the fall while the mystery of iniquitie hath been working and Antichrist sitting in the Temple of God as God shewing himself to be God and the Priests of the world have been casting a mist before the eyes of the understandings of the people by their Greek Latin and Hebrew which is but dung and drosse earthie and ayrie hath driven the people into earthly conceivings imagination having no other knowledge of God but by conceiving and imagining of him are of those whom the Lord complains of by his servant the Prophet saying This people draweth near me with their mouth and with their lips do they honor me but their hearts is far from me and their fear towards me is taught by the precepts of men therefore thus saith the Lord I will gather those that have been scattered in the Cloudie and dark day and I will teach them my self and write my Law in their hearts and put my Spirit in their inward parts then shall ye know that I the Lord have spoken it and I will take you from among the hearthen and gather you out of all Countries and sprinkle clear water upon you and cleanse you from all your uncleanness a new heart also will I give you and a new Spirit will I put within you and I will cause you to walk in my statutes to do them Ezek. 36. Chapter Now the Lord is fulfilling his Promises made of old to the seed of Abraham after the spirit the Immortall seed that is begotten not by the will of man but by the will of God and born again of water and the spirit being separated from all uncleanness and they that live in the filth of the flesh fulfilling the lusts thereof know them not that are born again washed and cleansed sanctified and justified and are taught of God and made pertakers of the Divine nature but are enemies to them it is the same generation now that persecuts that persecuted from the beginning but it is but that the Scriptures may be fulfilled the Beast shall make War with the Saints God and Magog joyns together in Battle against the Lamb the Priests of the world are the greatest persecutors of the truth of God Now as the High Priest was when Jesus Christ came in the flesh the chief Priests were the greatest persecutors of him then stirring up the Rulers and Elders and the rude multitude against him calling him A deceiver and A blasphemer and they spued forth their envie against him in raising false witnesses against him and every way incensing the People against him to cry out to have him put to death Saying Crucifie him Crucifie him and let us have Barabbas let loose which was a murderer and if thou do but Read this little ensuing treatise thou shalt finde something worthy of thy labour being single eyed thou wilt be brought to see Antichrist or the man of sin in A high measure the mystery of iniquitie acting in the Priests of the world that do professe themselves to be the Ministers of Christ but are of the Synagogue of Satan and are enemies to Jesus Christ where he is made manifest and raised up in the spirits of any to testifie against their deceits wherein they do deceive

in the flesh and your Ministry is carnall Cain is alive in you and the soul ye know not for it is in the death therefore dissemble not thou deceiver telling people of a soul for thou art him that keepes in the death and shuts the Kingdom of Heaven Mat. 23. 13. Jam. 5 6. Acts 7. 52. from against men and knowes not the soul for that is shut up from thy understanding that minde shall never know it thou art a murderer of the just and watchest for thy means and if meu will not give it thee thou fues them at the law therefore dost thou use carnall weapons to maintain thee in thy carnall Ministry it shewes thy weapons to be carnall and not spirituall shewing thy Kingdom to be of this world And here doth not thou shew forth damnable doctrines for shame blush Impious principles and practises we deny they are your own which keepes poor souls in death your preaching the carnall Letter to the carnall minde and your carnall weapons will not maintain you but you seek to a Magistrate here you shame your profession for where the truth is springing the pure seed arising you cannot suppress it with your carnall weapon the Letter then you run to a Magistrate without to suppress it while we all lived under your Ministry and what you spoke we took it for truth as being naturally blind hearing you blind then you owned us but God now Mat. 15. 14. of his infinite love and mercy according to his promise hath gathered us who have been scattered in the cloudy and dark day following such shepherds as you which fed your selves and cloathed your selves with the wooll made a prey upon us and sought for the Fleece Ezek. 24 12. 13. 14. 8. 10. but God as he hath said he hath fulfilled I will gather my sheep from their mouthes and my sheep shall be a prey no longer unto them and will feed them in a good pasture and we witness the Scripture fulfilled therefore do you hate us and seek to persecute them in whom Jesus Christ is made manifest but it is that the Gal. 4. 29. 2 Tim. 3. 12. Scripture might be fulfilled he that is born after the flesh persecutes him that is born after the spirit and if any man live godly in Christ Jesus he must suffer persecution here the Scripture is fulfilled you shew your selves to be carnall indeed you must have an outward Authoritie to rule your Religion for shame give over your profession for pure Religion he that lives in it and walkes in it hath power over his own tongue and is kept unspotted from the world and doth visit the fatherless Jam. 1. 26. 27. widowes and strangers and this hath not an outward power to order it but is guided and ordered by the spirit of the Lord to the Lord himself to whom be praises for ever and such we own in our souls and such ye seek to persecute and instead of relieving and Rev. 8. 14. receiving strangers you give them a report or scandall as wanderers that the Scripture might be fulfilled who preached the everlasting Gospel the world knew not and who forsook their own country and sought for another whom the world was not worthy of and you Heb. 11. 38. Heb. 13. 1. 1 Tim. 5. 10. shew your selves to be of that generation he that was a minister of God did exhort to receive strangers by that means some received Angels and the same eternal word hath God made manifest and sent his servants to witness it forth and to warn you all of wo and misery that will come upon all uncleanness and ungodliness and some of them you prison some of them you beat Mat. 10. 17. Mat. 27. 1. 20. Mat. 26. 3. 4. and mock and scourge in your Synagogues and some of them you hale before Magistrates And the chief Priests were ever the ringleaders to slay the righteous seed where it was born wherein the Scriptures come to be fulfilled and you shew the fulfilling of them upon the children of the Lord and the words of Jesus Christ true but he is coming who bears the government upon Isa 9. 6. Psal 23. 1. Col. 1. ●8 1 Thes 1. 1. his shoulders he alone will rule them who rules all nations with a rod of iron he alone will be their teacher and their Shepherd he alone rules his Church who is the head but this Church is not of this world nor maintained by any weapon of this world the true Church is in God yours vvithout vvho maintain it with a carnall vveapon you vvould have a speedy suppressing of the truth vvhere it is risen here you shevv your selves to be of that number vvho call evil good Isa 5. 20. Acts 13. 50. Acts 22. 22. and good evil and even the generation of them that vvould ever have had truth suppressed when it was risen Amos 7. 12. as they said to Christ depart out of our coasts as they said to Paul 't is not fit such a fellow should live upon the earth as to Amos go thy way into Judah prophecie there thatvvas the Kings chappell and he told them the songs of the Temple should be turned into Amos 8. 3. pla 119. 120. howling so shall that nature which hath turned Davids quakings and trembling into meeter when ye read them hats ye keep on and vvhen ye sing them hats ye put off and worship the vvorks of your own hands shewing the spirit of error Pr. Obj. By the checking the vvicked endeavours and proceediugs of these men Answ That is the blasphemer indeed vvhich vvould have the truth chect and be limitted It is vvritten the beast shall blaspheme God and his Temple And Rev. 13. 6. God hath raised up a light in many that are Justices to reprove that nature in you vvhich is fawning and flattering and you will fawn upon them vvhile they vvill Mica 3. 5. give you means but if they give you no means then you prepare vvar against them Pr. Obj. Which vve humbly conceive may be at least by ordering James Nayler and Geo. Fox being strangers to depart out of this County and to return unto their own homes Ans You pretended Ministers of Christ which do but conceive with an earthly power to hinder the proceedings of that which you conceive to be error which is the eternall truth and which conceivings arise out of pride Here it shews that you have not an infallible judgement and as it is written God will scatter the Luke 1. 15. proud in their imaginations and there is your portion All people though you now despise us and cast reproches slanders upon us ye shal eternally witness us but it is that the Scripture may be fulfilled There shall be false accusers incontinent fierce despisers of them that are good having a form of godliness and 2 Tim. 3. 3 4 5 and so on denying the power thereof vvhich the

fulfilled Priests Petition And scarce passing by any not of their judgement without abusing words that it cannot but shew us as no small Symptomes of bad designs so no small reason to provide for our security Answ As for abusive words it is false it is the abusive minde that speaks which now appears to scandal the truth Several of us who be of one heart meet together sometimes in the Market and sometimes in other places and if we see pride and drunkenness and be moved to reprove and exhort see and hear cursed speakers swearers moved to reprove and exhort them or men fighting and brawling cozening cheating deceitful marehandizing lying and disembling which we say wo is upon do you call this abusive and we bid them repent and turn unto the Lord while they have time and now to prize it for the great day of the Lord is coming wherein every one Rom. 14. 12. shall give an account And the Apostle warned all small and great to turn unto the Lord and repent which we cannot but do the same who have found mercy of the Lord who brought us to repentance and changed our lives and this is it which you call abusive And poor creatures ye need not seek for security for there is none of them who are friends of the truth and in the truth that will hurt you Now do you shew your selves to walk in the Apostles practise or quite against it here you openly shew your selves to be men who would uphold iniquity and vice and would not have it reproved but persecute such who reprove the wicked whose righteous souls are vexed as 2 Pet. 2. 8. Prov. 10. 24. Jer. 17 5. just Lots was with your filthy Conversation who uphold iniquity and live in it T is written The wicked shall fear where there is not fear and did not the true Prophet say Cursed is he that makes flesh his arm and outs his strength in man Priests Petition That it is their great design to stir up the spirits of people against the Ministers of England in general without distinction setting forth and sending abroad daily almost Libels and slanders against the Office as needless Answ The Spirit of God if it be raised up Rom. 8. 10. we do witness it will testifie against you and all your practises and whereas we are moved to write abroad shewing forth the errors and deceits of you which as a scandal you call to be Libels but if ever you own the Prophets Christ and the Apostles ye will own them which are given forth by the same power and Spirit and all your Offices which are made by man and are of man we deny and slanders we deny they are your own and now you vent them forth Priests Petition Terming them as or under the names of Antichrists Antichrists Merchants Tythe Mongers Robbers Deceivers Ministers of the world Priests Murtherers Conjurers Devils and attempting to make Proclamations in the open markets to the said effect Ans Are you not Antichrists do not you act those things Christ forbids and upholds that which Christ doth forbid shewing your selves to be Antichrists do not you mount up into the highest places in Assemblies are called of men-Masters Mat. 23. 2 Pet. 2. 3. which Christ forbids and said to his be ye not called so And do not you buy and sell the Letter make merchandize of it when as the Minister of God said that the gift of God could not be Acts 8. 18. 23. 19 20. bought and sold for money and said he was in the gall of bitterness who thought to buy it and here you shew your selves to be in the gall of bitterness repent repent that the thoughts of your hearts may be changed and Job said that Job 28. 15 16. the wisdom of God cannot be bought and sold for money nor gold nor pearls nothing is to be compared unto it and do not you shew your selves to be merchants of the Letter for the gift of God cannot be bought and sold And do not you openly shew your selves to take Tythe of people and do not walk according to the Law Levi who received Tythes the strangers fatherless Deu. 26. 12 13 Deut. 14. 29. and widows were to come within his gate and be filled which ye do not so shewing the spirit of error and yet would be maintained in your deceit but God in his infinite love hath raised up Luke 1. 79. a light gathering his people from you discovering your deceit Are ye not Robbers do not you steal the words of the Prophets Christ and his Apostles and sell them for money and so are Theives and Robbers which Iesus Christ spoke of which goes not in at Jer. 23. 30. Iohn 10. 1. the door but climb another way and that Generation persecuted Christ and here you shew your selves to be persecuting them in whom he is risen Are ye not deceivers when as you draw people to those things God never commanded and tell people they are Ordinances of God As sprinkling of infants and saying the Steeple-house Col. 2. 22. 20. 21. is the Chruch and the house of God and tells people ye are the Ministers of God when he never sent you but studies a Devination of your own brain and not from the mouth of the Lord here you shew your selves to be Conjurers and hold up outward Temples Traditions and Customs Tythes Formal Singing Praying do you not here shew your selves to be Ministers of the world for what is acted outwardly is worldly your original is worldly your Hebrew Latine and Greek is worldly your Church is worldly but the Saints Church is in God as Paul Silvanus 1 Thess 1. 1. 1 John 3. 15. and Timotheus to the Church of the Thessalonians which was in God Do not you shew your selves to be murtherers in the generation of the Priests Cain like do you not shew it openly do not ye seek to persecute and put in prison some you have imprisoned some you have haled out of your Assemblies some ye have stoned and buffeted do not you shew your selves to be of the generation with the Priests whose Ministry was worldly and so ever the Ministry of the Letter persecuted the Ministers of the Spirit so it is now here the Scripture is fulfilled And are not you of the Devil they that abide not in the truth are of the Devil and do not 2 John 1. 9. you shew your selves to be Devils of the Devil Murtherers he was a murtherer from the beginning and which of you can say you come to the beginning but are seeking now to destroy the innocent a peaceable harmless people to bring them into prison and into bondage do not you shew your selves to be murtherers seeking to devour as the Iews who said God was their Father when they went about to kill Christ and were of their father the Devil doing the lusts of their father which generation you shew your John 8.