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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

concernment we shall ever pray Answ You are blinde without the truth and Prov. 28. 9. your prayers are an abomination unto the Lord and they who have the gracious guidance of the Tit. 2. 11 12. Lord will witness us for the free grace of God that brings salvation you have turned into wantonness it teacheth them to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts them we own where this grace doth guide we have unity with them but where this free grace hath appeared and is turned into wantonness them we deny and there is your conditions the grace of God hath appeared in many of the Justices which hath brought them from under your bondage which will not be your Executioners to execute your wrath and malice upon the harmless innocent people It hath been of late that they who lived under your Ministry the Lord alone was pleased to manifest himself in them so that they are brought to deny you and declare what was freely revealed in them presently you cryed out against them and had them before Magistrates to suppress the truth praised be the Lord who hath enlightened many by and with his own light and is setting up his own Kingdom to his own glory praises praisesbe unto the Lord God Rev. 11. 15. Almighty never did the Apostles go to any Magistrate to suppress people strangers who witnesse forth the power of truth in any where it appears that you have not the same Spirit that was in them It is the evil in you which would have the truth it self suppressed It is of great concernment for you to stand up to maintain your Kingdom for if truth rise ye shall lose your Kingdom eternally shall you witness us to be no Seducers be ye witnesses against your selves Mat. 23. 31. that ye are witnesses against the power of truth Another Petition put up by the Priests in Westmerland Priests Petition TO the Right Honorable the Justices of peace for this County of Westmerland Answ That which is Right Honorable is that which is pure which is of God which worships the Father of heaven and earth now all people fear John 5. 41 44. the Lord Jesus Christ and see if there be not corruption within that would be honored and worshipped as ye read in all the Scriptures they who honored the Lord Iesus Christ cryed against deceits and Iesus Christ testified against the works of the world and the Apostles testified against the same but that which was pure they John 7. 7. set up in their souls and so do we and honor in our souls Priests Petition The humble Petition of several Gentlemen Ministers of the Gospel and others friends and servants to Iesus Christ his Gospel truths and Ordinances and the general wealth of this Commonwealth and Nation Answ Never did the Gospel Ministers put up a Petition to a Magistrate to maintain the Gospel nor the servants of Iesus Christ wherein it appears Mat. 10. 10. 2 Cor. 10. 14. 2 Cor. 3. 6. 1 John 3. 12. John 4. 21 22 23 24. that you are Ministers of the Letter which is carnal and death and you must have a carnal weapon to hold you up for shame give over your Profession and you profess humbleness your humbleness is to persecute here you shew forth the nature of Cain and void of the knowledge of Iesus Christ and the Ordinances of Iesus Christ was never set up by man but man who lived in his own will was ever against them and you know not his Ordinances for they that knew his Ordinances were not persecutors but Paul before he was a Minister of Iesus Christ and knew his Ordinances he came with Letters from the Priests to persecute the Saints who believed in Iesus Christ and were of one soul and Acts 9. 2. Acts 22. 4. Acts 20. 7. Acts 4 32. met together yea in the night time all night where it shews you have but the form not the power which must be turned away from according to Scripture Priests Petition Sheweth that in the late wars we or the most of us did expose lives liberties estates and relations with all other personal advantages in the just defence of Religion and Liberty in concurrence with and maintenance of the just proceedings of our Parliament after the prosperous effects whereof we expected the settlement of the grand ends of our Engagement and so much the more as being the promise of the Parliament the vows of their affections the price of our prayers purses hazards losses banishments and the blood of many thousands our fellow servants in the work of God freely sacrificed in the quarrel of this Nation what hath been done in the settlement of our Civil Rights Peace and wholsom Law we bless God for and the Parliament as his Instruments nor can we but acknowledge what hath been done by them in the cause of God as their Acts against Adulteries Fornication Swearing Drunkenness Sabboth-breaking Ordinances against Promoters of Heretical Doctrines Acts against Ranters or Blasphemers may the Lord increase the number of these things Answ If ye will own the wholsom Law ye will own us but this is but a pretence for who owns the wholsom Law denies all corruption this is but a pretence whereby ye make a colour to make them that live in the truth to appear odious unto the world setting forth your selves unto the world Pharisee like and there to make the pure truth odious through your envious mindes but the day doth declare all things your end will 1 Cor. 3. 13. make it manifest though you pretend your selves to be Ministers of the Gospel yet your ends will 1 Cor. 3. 13. shew you to be bloody Cains and it doth now begin to appear the second birth is brought forth which doth not own your sacrifices this birth you 1 Cor. 15. 47 48 49. seek to slay Pr. Obj. Yet so it is that in this County severall persons proselytes of one Geo. Fox and James Nayler do in the time of our Assemblies ordinarily in a way of contempt and scorn come in anong us with their hats on at time of our prayer or singing used in our Gongregations some of them shew violent actions in time of Sermon or prayer or singing and cry out aloud with horrible clamors slanders abuses reproaches against our Ministers Answ That is false for our friends shew no violent actions but are against them but come peaceably in and if they be moved by the Lord to cry aloud who art thou that wilt withstand the Lord Do not you read in the Scripture that the Lord sent his Prophets and bad them cry aloud and spare not And as for clamors Isa 58. 1. we utterly deny it is your own and as for slanders abuses reproaches we utterly deny it is your own we are against all filthy minds that give forth reproaches but we speak the same language the Scripture doth from the same Word that gave it forth and your

that which we preach is not after man neither according to mans will but by the will of God For we are not made Ministers by Oxford and Cambridge for that we deny Gal. 1. 21 12. Gal. 1. 1. We stand condemned by you who are Ministers of the Letter and not of the Spirit who are Ministers by the will of man and your Call and Authority is by the will of man Obj. Hvae filled it in some parts with very sad divisions Answ Truth did make division when Deceit was at peace For Christ said I come not to send peace on the Mat. 10. 34 35 earth but a sword for I am come to set a man at variance against his Father and the daughter against her mother the daughter in law against the mother in law and here is the Scripture fulfilled Pr. Obj. Stirred up much wrath and strife even between the neerest relation Answ It seems hatred wrath and strife were within now truth hath stirred it up When the strong man armed keeps the house all the goods are at peace till a Mat 3. 27. Luke 17. 20 21. stronger come and dispossesses him and spoyls his goods and here is the Scripture fulfilled where the 1 Cor. 6. 19. 1 John 3. 8. power of truth dwels and the Kingdom of God is come who are indeed the Temples of God the works of the Divell destroyed hatred malice wrath strife heresie and blasphemy pride hypocrisie and dissembling where the truth rules these are destroyed and where these rule truth rules not and consider all you pretended Ministers what you have been doing all this while that there is so much wrath and strife to be stirred up when the truth comes for that is it that sets at variance O all people consider what blind guides you have been led withall why spend you your money for that which is not bread and your labour for that which satisfieth not Ho every one that thirsteth Isai 55. 1 2 3. come freely without mony and without price hearken diligently unto me saith the Lord that your souls may live Pr. Obj. And powerfully seduced multitudes of people from the truth Answ Whereas we are accused as seducing people from the truth it is false for how can they be in the truth who live in malice cnvy strife and wrath for they that live in that nature are turned from the truth which according to your own words much of that is Mat. 15. 9. Col. 2. 22. 1 John 2. 26 27. stirred up The Lord hath sent us and made us to come into this County to draw up people unto himselfe from the Doctrines and Worships of the world John 11 7. All people are seduced by you whom God hath never sent for I will prove by the Scriptures that you are seducers and draw people from the teaching within them to follow your imaginations what you can study out of the letter which the holy men of God spoke forth freely the which now you make a Trade of And Iohn 1 Joh. 2. 26 27. said These things have I written unto you concerning them that seduce you you need not that any man teach you but as the anointing teaches you all things Now if an hundred or a thousand people should come and deny all you Priests and witness they had this anointing within them then this Scripture being fulfilled John 15. 25. and you denied such you go about to persecute which witness this anointing within them and need no man teach them Herein you shew that you have not the same spirit that was in them that wrot that Epistle but the spirit of the world the world did not know them then which were taught by that anointing but hated them as you do now them that witness the same annointing ye hate ye are the Antichrists of this world and hate them who are not of this world and seek to bring them from their teacher within to follow you who go in the way of Cain to envy and after the error Jude 11. of Balaam Here you shew your selves to be seducers and such we do deny but to every mans conscience do we look to be made manifest and we do not seek to draw any one from the anointing within them but do exhort all there to wait and abide for the promise which is eternall life to them that abide in the anointing 2 Cor. 4. 2. 1 John 2. 25. 2 Tim. 3. 3. but you false accusers are without which the Scripture speaks of Pr. Ob. And from the worship of God Answ That is false to say we draw any from the truth for we can do nothing against the truth but for the truth as the Apostle saith but all corrupt wayes we deny and abhorre and the worship of the wicked we deny who have not their names written in the Lambs Book of life and God is not worshipped with mens hands neither dwels he in Temples made with hands and for witnessing this Steven was stoned to death when the high Priests examined him which generation you shew your selves to be in the same nature holding up outward Temples and Synagogues which we deny and seek to draw people from these things God is a Spirit and he that worships him must worship him in spirit and in truth and this worship we own Rev. 13. 8. Ioh. 4. 22 25. Acts 19. 27 24 and draw people to it up to God from all beastly worships outward Customes imitated of man which is an abomination unto the Lord. Pr. Ob. To imbrace their corrupt and dangerous doctrines and pernitions ways which things are so notoriously known to all men that live in these parts that we need not here say any thing to acquaint your selves with it Ans Corrupt Doctrines pernicious ways we deny which are all your ways you proud Baals Priests for 2 Pet. 2. 2. 15. 2 John 1. 9. Luke 7. 9. he that doth abide in the Doctrine of Christ hath God and he that doth not abide in the Doctrine of Christ is of the Divell Iesus Christ is made manifest who witnesses forth the eternall truth to poor souls who have lived in darkness and blindness these many hundred years have the dark ministery reigned but now the God of power is uttering his thunders and Rev. 10. 34. making his power known and the eternal word of God is made manifest in us this we witness which we preach forth to the glory of our Father Praises praises be unto thee alone Lord God Almighty who art now setting up thy own Kingdom And the same judgement do ye give upon us as the Jews did upon Christ and the Apostles for the Apostle while he was in the Jewish Religion in their outward worship as you are now they looking for a Christ coming without them as you do now at which time Paul was at peace with them but when he did preach Iesus Christ that was revealed Acts 21. 27 28 30. in

him then they haled him out of the Temple and persecuted him could not own nor beleeve what was revealed in him so if any should come amongst you now and tell you that God dwels not in Temples made Acts 17. 24 25. with hands neither was he worshipped with mens hands ye would hate them beat them or stone them as they did the Apostles This ye do that the Scripture might be fulfilled The time shall come when they shal John 16. 2. put you out of their Synagogues and shall hale you before Magistrates and who shall kill you will think he doth God good service And do not you shew your selves openly to be of this generation Will you have another meaning for the Scriptures There are but two ways the one is pure and leads up to the Father the other stands pretending God and Christ which way you are in persecuting us who posses the truth Here 's John 8. 41 33. Luke 13. 24. the stand Pr. Ob. And though these people tell people where they come that they are sent to them from God to declare what he hath revealed in them and labour to perswade them that they come to them with the Authority of Christ and of the Apostles yet our selves do confidently beleeve and know them to be wicked men deceivers and the very Ministers of Satan as may appear Answ Our call we witness is of the Lord not by man that makes you whose call is by man so persecute Mat. 23. 33. 34. Gal. 1. 1. 1 Cor. 1. 26. 27. 28. us your own will is standing you rage against any that come contrary to the will of man if ever you witness that call whereby all the Prophets and Apostles were and are sent you will not question our Authority the Lords work is spirituall 't is him alone that fits them and furnishes them with power from on high to bear witness to the Truth and whereas you say before that you know not our Country nor conditions yet here you say that we are wicked men and deceivers yea the Ministers of Satan it seems you care not what you say but say and unsay any thing to root out the innocent you are lyars and are without Rev. 22. 15. Isa 54. 17. Mat. 26. 65. among dogs murderers sorcerers whoremongers whose portion is in the lake your weapons that you form against the truth will not prosper but the Lord hath discovered you to some and is raising up a light whereby your deceits will be laid open with evill Jam. 2. 4. thoughts ye judge who are the Ministers of Satan and by the wicked imaginations of your own hearts counts truth blasphemie and puts light for darkness as ever the Priests did Pri. Obj. 1. By their horrid blasphemies which they have uttered secondly by their damnable Heresies and dangerous errours which they have avouched Ans Blasphemy and Heresie whereof we are accused we do deny that which is false and errors we deny for they are without God and that is your own conditions Gal. 2. 12. and there ye live without God in the world and who are Acts 4. 32. in the truth are of one mind and one heart now all the Priests see which pretend Gods and faith whether you be in one faith which if you do consider faith which is the gift of God ye know it not it cannot be bought and Eph. 2. 8. Act. 8. 19. 20. 21. sold for monie And shew me in the Scripture that ever the Prophets or Apostles had a set way of the world or seeked to the world for augmentations or tithes do Mat. 10. 8. not ye shew here the spirit of error erring from the way of the Apostles And do ye not shew your selves in the same generation of them that Peter spoke of who live in wickedness and go after the error of Baalam and 2 Pet. 2. 13. 14. 15. in the way of Cain to persecute the righteous seed where it is come here thou makest but a rod for thy own back who liveth in uncleanness sporting in the day Pro. 26. 3. Jude 10. 2 Pet. 2. 13. time feasting rioting and such are as naturall bruit beasts and what they know they know naturally whose Judgement lingers not whose damnation slumbers not wo unto you for you go in the way of Cain and the Lord is coming in power to pour his plagues upon the beast you beasts who doe not abide in the truth Pri. Obj. All which tends not onely to the disturbance of the publique peace and fafety of the Common-wealth but to the subversion of all government Answ That is false it is not our intention to destroy the Commonwealth of Israel for a Commonwealth Eph. 2. 12. is to bring up all into purity and Justice righteousness we set up own and honour in our souls for conscience sake And Justice is to keep peace and that we own Justice is not to make strife nor debate but to keep peace and he bears not the sword in vain but he that doth pretend Justice and is partiall and hath an evil eye and rules with his own will and tyrannic that we Jer 25. 10. Hosea 4. 2. 2 Tim. 3 4. Prov. 21. 22. Prov. 28. 9. Prov. 15. 8. 9. Rom. 8. 22. Psal 146. 9. Rom. 13. 12. deny for the Commonwealth is destroyed for want of Justice the Land mourns because of Oathes the Land mourns because of wickedness drunkennes fighting and wrangling carding and diceing shovelbord and bowling all these filthy pleasures ye lustfull ones which holds them up we deny for this cause the Creation grones but Justice we own let every soul be subject to the higher power for all power is of God that soul is subject to the power of God all these works are denied and this Justice which keepes peace and righteousness we own honour and set up in our souls Pri. Obj. We do in all humility adress our selves humbly and earnestly praying as you tender the glory of God Answ The prayers of the wicked are abomination to the Lord and your humility is fained it crouches Prov. 12. 22. Prov. 28. 9. Col. 2. 18. Psal 146. 9. to one and persecutes another here you shew your selves to be no Ministers of Jesus Christ for your weapons are carnall ours spirituall sayes the Apostle casting down spirituall wickednesses in high places which we witness and here you shew not the same spirit that was 1 John 4. 6. in the Apostles but of error Pr. Obj. And the good of so many souls as are and may be indangered by their impious principles and practises that you would be pleased to make use of that Authoritie wherewith the Lord hath invested you speedily to provide for the safety of true Religion and the publique peace Answ If you be Ministers of God ye are to watch Heb. 13. 17. for the souls tell me how many souls ye have led out of death but you are