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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

to betray and insnare the Innocent that we should hear the Priest one time to try us yet he saw and also confest to a Friend That the Priest his heart failed him so that he could not or dare not come in until we were carried away and l●cked up in the Hole as at other times but had he been a Minister of Christ he would not have been afraid or ashamed neither would his heart have failed him or feared the face of any man but would with boldness without guilt upon the Conscience which causeth the heart to fail and bringeth shame to have answered a sober question which by one of them was denyed but would if a Minister of Christ or Spirit of Life with all readiness of mind count it all joy to Convince the gain sayers by sound Doctrine and if we were in Errors as we are falsly accused the Lord is witnesse he ought to do so and bring his deeds to the light that they may manifestly appear before all that they are unreproveable wrought in God and if such hired Priests be Ministers of Christ or of the Spirit of Life let such as fear and desire to fear the God of truth judge And let this be a Warning to Humphry Gifford or any that sees the deceit of the Hirelings and I told one of them in the prison before he did fly that he would make himself manifest to the people and immediately he did fly because he was a Hireling and so the Scripture is fulfiled upon his head lest such partake with them in their plagues for behold the Lords hand is lifted up against the hired Priests and bruitish Pastors of England that steal the Prophets good words that were spoke freely forth and boast in other mens lines made ready to their hand which they make a Trade on through Covetous practises beguiling unstable Souls and keep them ever learning what to say but like themselves do not And the Cry that hath often passed through me since I have been a Prisoner here against the abominations in this prison has been O the Ungodliness O the Oathes O the Blasphemy O the Cursed Speaking O the ungodly Unclean Songs of the Drunkards O the Deceit of the Priests O the ungodly hard Speeches O the Excess O the Revellings O the want of the poorer sort O the unreasonableness of men hardened from Gods fear O the cruel Mockings Revilings from sinful men O the Oppression O the Extortion O the wicked Customs O let this enter into thy heart O many lie even upon thine the Keepers head who as for thy part when I sent a Letter to thee in love to thy Soul thou tore it to pieces and laughed as I hear not becoming thy Age and gray Hairs and place but thou hast more need to weep and howl for the misery that is comming on thee because of thy mighty crying sins And thou Humphry Gifford hath often by words our of thine own mouth rejected the Lords Testimony to my face from time to time and this is truth whether thou canst believe me or nay it will stand upon thy head if happily thou find a place of Repentance unto life the Lord lay not these things to your Charge however so far have I cleared my Conscience and my Peace in which I rest no man can take from me From the Hole in the Inner-Prison in the Counter the 19 of the ●th Month and 7 or last day of the week and of the year according to the Worlds account 1659. Who am a Friend to the whole Creation that groans for Deliverance and lieth under the bondage of corruption and with that which judgeth the evil-doer but justifieth and giveth life to him whose deeds are wrought in God in Truth in Righteousness Daniel Baker The Original of this in Writing was delivered into the hand of Thomas Atkin by a Friend of Gods Truth Elizabeth harris who with much tenderness and bowels of Compassion tendered it to him and spake some good wholsome words being grieved to see the injustice of such men as he who instead of being ashamed of his perversness and disowning of his injustice and unequal proceeding against the Innocent persisted and reiected wholsome Counsel and spake forth a most wicked Lye saying That I had gathered all the Pick-pockets Rogues and Whores in London about me and that I was like to lie in Prison till I was dragged out and Reviled the sober Messenger saying to some that stood by You may know that she is a Quaker by her Language which I say is pure and true Now I leave this to the witness in all sober peoples Consciences to judge whether such a man befit to Rule over men It 's like I might be about an hour and half at the Mayors Gate and it would be much if all the pick-pockets and all the Whores and all the Rogues in London should be gathered together in so little time except they had been summoned before-hand but I deny such unclean vile Transgressors with my precious Life the Lord is witnesse and seeing if Thomas Atlin knew so well of so many Cut-purses pick-pockets Whores and Rogues were gathered together I say it had been a fitter time for him and many more of his Brethren to have laid the Sword upon such vile Transgressors and not to have let them gone free and condemne the guiltless by throwing Truths testimony into prison within and without But I have spoke enough and my Reward is with the Lord though Thomas Atkin have unwisely rejected his Testimony with many more who greedily are hastening farther under the vail of thick darkness therefore their glory which is their shame is to be made manifest to all that others may learn wisdom by the fear of the Lord which is to depart from evil A Coppy of another Letter from Thomas Atkin with something added in Answer DAniel Baker I this day had brought me by a Sister of yours a large Discourse but little to any good purpose you magnifie your selfe in your Gifts as if no man have such Knowledge as your self you may know much but your Practise is far short of what you seem to know Mark you vilifie our Ministers and Ministry and call our Churches Mass-houses your language and terms are provoking Cannot you and them of your gang be quiet and exercise your Gifts in your own Meeting-places but disturbe us in our Congregations and Act in the Streets in a most uncivil manner like distracted men then sober persons * * How if thou had been in the dayes of the holy Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel to have seen one go naked and bear a sign three years and another to bake his bread with mans dung or Cowes dung at the Commandement of the Lord its like thou would not have ceased to falsly accuse them to be distracted and uncivil persons mad-men and the like But why should the Spirit of the holy One be limited resisted or stopt that made the

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

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