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A91466	The fruits of a fast, appointed by the churches gathered against Christ and his kingdom, who go about to mock God with their outside-worship, and appointed fasts, and dayes of voluntary humiliation. Or, A declaration of the persecution of a messenger of the Lord, by a people who go under the name of Independants, in Essex, who have set themselves in the enmity of their spirits to oppose the truth of God, calling it a lye, and persecuting his messengers as deceivers, and wanderers, wherein their persecuting spirits is made manifest, and them to be in Cains generation, and stranges to the spirit of Christ, which vener persecuted, and so are noen of his, Rom.8:9. And also, of the unjust dealing of Judge Hills, ... And also, severall queries, that was sent ot the priests and magistrates, shich may be serviceable for them, or any other to answer, whom they do concern. / By ... James Parnell.	Parnell, James, 1637?-1656.	1655 (1655)	Wing P530; Thomason E854_14; ESTC R207483	31,427	32

Justice and Equity in his heart without putting off a hat to a Magistrate and he that so doth Whether is he fit to be called a Magistrate that calleth such a one a contemner of authority and commits him to Prison for mis-behaviour and whether this be Justice or Equity yea or nay 20. And you that pleads this Scripture Be subject to every Ordinance of man for the Lords sake whether is it for the Lords sake that a man would have his Fellow-Creature to stand with his hat off before him or for his selfes sake and whether then it is to be obeyed yea or nay 21. And he that for the Lords sake and for conscience sake cannot so rob God of his Glory and honour as to bow to or Worship any creature but God alone who is the Creator Whether ought he to be imprisoned for misbehaviour or a contemner of authority yea or nay according to the law of equity and whether this is to be called liberty of conscience according to the Law of England yea or nay Now all you that profess your selves christians and the Scripture to be your Rule take the Scripture and prove your practise by the Scripture amongst all the christians or else let the life and practise of the true christians judge you and condem you and own your selves to be in proud Hamons nature and so liable to Hamons judgement and henceforward look to your Office to rule for God and not for your selves and then you will not stand upon such frivolous things for it is a frivolous thing to look for the putting off the hat and is no part of true nobility or christianity Given forth for the clearing of the truth to which the Nations must bow I. P. Here followeth a Copy of a Note that was written against the Idolls-Temple which was iudged a contempt of the Ministry THis is the Idols-Temple where the worship of the Beast is upheld down with it down with it 1 Cor. 8.10 Rev. 13.7 8. Dut. 12. God that made the world and all things therein dwels not in Temples made with hands Act. 7.47 48 49. Act. 17.21 neither is he worshipped in Idolls-Temples made with mens hands Act. 17.24 God is a spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth for the Father is seeking such to worship him Iohn 23.24 All the world wonders after and worships the beast but those who have their name written in the book of life Rev. 13.3.4.8 And they that worships the Beast receives his mark in their foreheads Rev. 13.16 as sprincking Infants and worshipping the works of their own hands Isa 2.8 And following the imagination of their own hearts such must drink of the wine of the wrath of the Almighty powred out without mixture Rev. 14.9 10 11.12 This Idoll-Temple that is made with hands is a place for N●ght-birds and Skrich Owles to meet each one with his male Jer. 34.13 14 15. to the dishonour of the only true God that dwelleth in temples made without hands at new Ierusalem where the tabernacle of God is with men Rev. 21.3 Drunkards and Swearers Revilers and Scoffers and Scorners proud and wanton ones Hypocrites and Dissemblers envious Haters Backbiters Persecutors Iustfull covetous ones and Earth-worms meets here the fearful and unbelieving peevish perverse contentious ones meets in these Idols-Temples to satisfie their lusts and saith the Lord these people draw neer me with their mouths and honour me with their lips but their hearts are far from me but in vain do they worship me teaching for Doctrine the traditions of men Mat. 15.7 8 9. But know you not that no unrighteous person shall inherit the Kingdome of God 1 Cor. 6.9 10. But must be cut down and cast into the Lake that burneth Rev. 21.8 Be not deceived God is not mocked such as you sow such must you reap Gal. 6.7 And to whom you yeild your members servants to obey his servants you are Rom. 6.16 For he that commits sin is the servant of sin and so is of the Devill Ioh. 6.34 1. Ioh. 3. This is a Deceiver that stands up here every first day of the week to deceive the people he is proud and Covetous and speaketh a divination of his own brain but not from the mouth of the Lord and so makes the people light and vain Ier. 14.14 But the Lord is against him hold him not up for he ran and the Lord never sent him therefore he profits not the people at all Ier. 23.21 22.32 but hath stoln the Letter which is carnall with it to feed the carnall for carnall ends and lucre and so hath a form but denyes the li●e and power and therefore from him turn away 2 Tim. 3.5 therefore spend not your moneys for that which is not bread nor your labour for that which profiteth not Isa 55.1 2 for all the children of the Lord are and shall be taught of the Lord and in righteousness shall they be established and they shall be far from oppression Ier. 31.34 Isa 54 13 14. 1 John 2.27 He that hath an car to hear let him hear what the spirit saith and be deceived no longer J. P. Here followeth severall queries that was sent to four of the chiefe Priests in Essex with some more added which may be serviceable for them or any other to answer whom they do concern SEverall queries unto Priest Sammes Priest Sparrow Priest VVillis and Priest Stellum and your gathered Churches by you to be answered according to Scripture which you profess to be your rule Query 1. How and by what was you called to the Ministry which you profe's 2. What is the Gospel which you pretend to preach and how did you receive it and whether your Gospel be free and without charge as the Apostles was yea or nay 3. What do you Minister from and what do you Minister to in the naturall man and what is the end of your Ministry 4. What rule have you in the Scripture to take a Text of the Apostles words and speak from it what you have studyed with your Uses Points Tryalls and Motives and Applications 5. Whether do you speak by the same infallible spirit as they did that spoke forth the Scripture yea or nay 6. And whether he that hath the same infallible spirit need study how or what to preach 7. And whether it is not as lawful now for Fisher-men Plow-men or Herds-men to preach if they be called to it and fitted for it by the same power and spirit as they was in the dayes of old and whether Christ is not the same yesterday to day and for ever according to Scripture 8. And whether any now ought to teach and preach in the name of Jesus but who are caled to it and fitted for it the same way as the holy men of God was spoken of in Scripture 9. Whether do you own immediate Revelation now yea or nay 10. What is a Minister of Christ and what is a

him in newness of life that in me his workmanship might appear to the confounding of the heathen who know him not he by his power kept me and gave me strength to bear his Cross and despise the shame so that neither foul words nor faire words could cause me to deny what God by his grace had wrought in my heart but by his power he carryed me above the raging waves of the tempestuous sea so that I knew that he that was in me was greater than he that is in the world yea and out of my kinred and acquaintance I came and became a stranger to them that loved not the truth yea and presently I came to see the Priests of the world by their fruits and the fruits of their Ministry which was cursed from God and therefore profited not the people at all but when the Lord by his power had changed and converted my heart unto himself the Priests became mine enemies and said I was deluded whenas before when I lived in the vain conversation of the world they took no notice of me either to reprove me or instruct me but as they went on in a customary way for again and lucre speaking against sin in the generall but not reproving it in particular but was as deep in it in their lives as others and so what they preached down with their tongues they upheld in their lives and countenanced in their conversations and so from them I turned whom I saw had gotten a form but denyed the life and power and I sought for a people with whom I might have union and there was a people with whom I found union a few miles from the Town where I lived whom the Lord was a gathering out of the dark world to sit down together and wait upon his name but we was the objects and reproach of the countrey and was accounted as the off-scourings of the world but in all this we saw the Scriptures fulfilled and that we might thus suffer if we would live godly in Christ Jesus 2 Tim. 3.12 and here was our confidence and strength which carryed us above our sufferings as knowing it greater riches to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season and about this time I was about 15 years of age afterwards I was called forth to visit some friends in the North part of England with whom I had union in spirit before I saw their faces and afterwards I returned back to my outward dwelling place and remained in my outward calling and the Lord all this time stil more and more perfecting and encreasing his work in my heart which by his power he had begun in me by his pure power bringing forth his truth in me and making known his wil unto me until by his power he opened my mouth to declare his truth in the world stil I continued in my outward calling and also in the work of the Lord as not being called far from my dwelling place and when I was betwixt 17. and 18. years of age I was moved in my spirit to go to a place about fifteen miles from my outward dwelling place southward amongst a people to whom the Lord was making known his truth not knowing when I went out of going farther than that place but when I was there I was moved of the Lord to come on to Cambridge and in obedience unto the Lord I came to see what he had to do for me not knowing one soot of the way but as I was directed neither knowing when I came there where to be received but had heard before of two of my friends that was there whipped caused by the Mayor that then was onely for declaring the truth as they past through the town against the deceipt thereof neither did I know but it might be my portion also when I came there but without conferring with flesh and blood I passed on my journey and he that called me forth went along with me and did direct me and when I came there I found these that was worthy that received me and also I found a friend whom the corrupt Rulers had put in prison for the same testimony which I also was sent to declare and before I had continued there the space of fourteen nights VVilliam Pickering the Mayor of Cambridge committed me to Prison for publishing two Papers the one against the corruption of the Magistrates and the other against the corruption of the Priests at the time of their commencement as they call it and there they kept me in Prison the space of two Sessions and tossed me from Prison to Dungeon and had nothing to lay against me whereby to prove the breach of any Law but when I came to the last Sessions they called a Jury to prove the Papers to be scandalous and seditious Papers and they was nigh two hours about them but could not prove it but came and said that they found nothing but that the Papers was mine which I had before owned in the open Court and there was my name to them to testifie the same and so they was crossed in their intentions and their plots came to nought then they committed me back to Prison again and after the space of three dayes they sent me away with a Passe under the name of a Rogue yet durst not give me the Law which belongs to Rogues but had me away with Clubs and Staves and I could not see the Pass until I was three miles out of the town where I lodged that night and the next day there came a Justice of peace from Cambridge who knowing me to be innocent of what was laid to my charge so he witnessed the Passe to be false and took it back to Cambridge and so I was set free And not long after I went to Cambridge again and went abroad preaching and declaring the truth freely in the Countries about and many I found that received the truth gladly but more enemies yet nevertheless Truth spread and conquered over its enemies there I continued labouring in the work of the Lord about the space of halfe a year in the Countries about Cambridge and from thence I was moved of the Lord to come into Essex where I heard of the people that was seeking the Lord and when I came there I found those that were worthy who received the truth gladly and there I continued freely declaring and preaching the truth from place to place sometimes in the Synagogues and was haled out by the Priests party that the Scripture might be fulfilled upon that Generation yet nevertheless I continued in constant preaching of the word to the consciences of the people freely and publickly in severall plains of the Countrey notwithstanding much opposition both of Priests people and professors and much did the truth prevail in the hearts of people to the glory of God the father of truth which did make glad the hearts of many who

giddy-headed people come to me as he called them which I never desired that any such should come but thereby they take occasion to keep my friends from me accounting them giddy-headed people but they are not giddy-headed people that own sound Doctrine but they are giddy-headed people that cannot indure sound Doctrine but have itching ears carried about with reports and hear-says to speak evil of the things they know not But thus without all honesty they acted in the enmity of their spirits against me yet in all I was made to rejoyce for I see their deceit was manifest to the people and the Truth owned in many hearts so that my sufferings was not grievous but joyous but as the Judges dealings was rigorous and unjust towards me it was so much the more on the contrary to Barrabas for there was three or four arraigned for suspicion of Murder and others for Felony yet he did deliver them and there was not one that dyed or was branded neither which I did desire but onely this I do declare to shew how the world loves its own and how the same spirit now rules in both Priest people and Rulers that ruled amongst the Iewes who esteemed Barrabas above Christ and numbred him amongst Transgressors and so in all this the Scripture is fulfilled Isa 53.12 and the day further appears to the Glory of God the Father of Truth who wil exalt his truth by his own Power over the heads of all its enemies So then they brought me back to prison again where I stil remain in the peace and freedome of my spirit which none can take away though in the hands of mine Enemies yet this I know That the invisible God is working in secret by his power and with a strong arme carrying on this great worke which hee hath begun in the Earth yea and he will bring down and overturn all untill it come into his hand whose owne it is and hee will exalt his Kingdome in the hearts of his people and his Son shal rule ovre the earth yea and all his Enemies shall be his footstool and shall bow unto him and bee glad to lay downe their crownes before him and acknowledge his power yea and he wil dash all the forms and false likenesses and images which is set up by man in his imaginations calling them Churches and he will dash them and the Powers of the earth in pieces one against another like a Potters Vessel though now they set at nought the Corner-stone yet then by it shall they be grownd to powder for our God is a consuming fire and who is able to stand in the day of his wrath Therefore it is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God then woe to all his enemies or he that lifts up his hand against his Maker to contrary what he hath decreed Here followeth a Reply to my Mittimus which was adjudged a contempt of the Magistracy VVHereas I who am of the World called James Parnell am committed as prisoner to bee kept in the Common-Goal by a Mittimus sealed and signed by you four men who are called Justices of the Peace who write your selves Herbert Pellham Thomas Cook Dyonisius Wakering William Harlackinden wherein I finde severall Lyes Slanders and false Accusations cast upon me therefore for the Truths sake and for the satisfaction of the simple I shall reply to the same and cleare the truth and return the venome upon your venomous spirits from whence it comes that you may bee convinced of your evill and cease fighting against Christ and his Kingdome First your own as followeth VVHereas it duly appears unto Us by our own view and also by the Examination of James Parnell who saith he was borne at Retford in the County of Nottingham Labourer that he the said James Parnell with very many other persons of his gathering together did this day in a riotous manner enter into the Parish Church at Great Coggashal aforesaid and there being a great number of Chrians met in the said Church to hold and keep a day of Publike humiliation and seeking of God and being in order thereunto then exercised in the Divine Worship and Service of God Almighty hoe the said James did then and there stand up and told the Minister blasphemed and spoke falsly and used many other reproachfull words against the said Minister and afterward hee departed the said Church and went into the Common High-way in the said Towne of Great Coggashall with a great number of persons his followers who kept there unlawfully together and some of them gave out menacing and threatning speeches tending to the breach of the Peace and against the Law and also the said James cannot give us a very good account where he was last setled or of his life and conversation but doth further appear unto us to bee an idle disorderly person These are therefore in the Name of his Highness the Lord Protector to will and require you to convey forthwith the said James Parnell unto the Common-Goale for this COUNTY there to remaine untill the next Generall Goale-Delivery to be holden for this COUNTY and until thence delivered by due course of Law unless he the said James shal come before us or any two of us or two some other Justices of the Peace for this COUNTY and shall finde very able and sufficient Sureties to be bound with him by Recognizance for his personal appearance at the said next Goale-Delivery there to answer what shal bee then objected against him and not to depart thence without license of the Court and in the mean time to bee of good behaviour and thereof faile not at your peril Dated at Coggashal aforesaid the twelfth day of Iuly 1655. The Keeper of the said Common-Goale is hereby required to receive and keep the said Iames if hee shall be brought unto him Herbert Pellham Thomas Cook Dyonisius Wakering William Harlackinden A Reply to the aforesaid Mittimus WHereas I am hereby accused that I who am of the World called IAMES PARNELL with very many other Persons of my gathering together did this day in a Riotous manner enter the Parish Church of Great Coggashall aforesaid Reply ARe you not ashamed who profess your selves Ministers of law justice and peace to begin with lyes and make them your refuge against the innocent tending to the disturbance of the peace of the faithfull whom you both ought and would encourage and countenance if you were faithfull Ministers of peace and justice standing in the pure counsell of God ruling for God and not for your selves in all things discharging your consciences unto God without partiallity or respect of persons as faithfull Ministers of Law and Justice but contrary unto this you have acted in your corrupt wills turning your swords against the messengers of the most High and wilfully resisting the truth of God making lyes your refuge as here doth plainly appear for upon the day aforesaid I was at a friends

of Essex whom the Lord by his powerful word is now gathering out of darkness into his marvellous light out of the Kingdome of this World into the Kingdome of his dear Son whom he is seperating unto himself to walk before him in holiness that you might know him and he might know you in the light of his countenance whose faces he hath turned to words Sion to seek after a Land of Rest unto your wearied Souls which hath been tossed to and fro from mountain to hil in this cloudy and dark day seeking rest but finding none but now is the day of beauty broken forth nigh you even in you yea glad tidings is come unto your wearied souls by which a pure love is begotten in you to the everlasting truth which hath been freely declared amongst you by the messengers of the most high who hath reached the witness for God in your consciences which doth seal the same upon your hearts which your teacher is and unto it you hearken and are abedient in which light all stand stil behold the work which the Lord hath begun amongst you and you shal have no cause of discouragement though the sea do rise and the raging waves do swel as if they would swallow all up yet it is limited by the unlimited it shal but foam out its own shame And as I had a time to preach the truth amongst you to the convincement of many so also now I have a time to seal the same with patient suffering in the bonds of the Gospel that you may see that it is no other but what we are made able and willing to seal with patient suffering yea with our blood if we be called to it as many of us hath done in this Nation though it be called a Land of Liberty but it is for Iniquity but truth and equity are strangers in it therefore are persecuted but you that are found worthy to receive these strangers happy are you though the raging Sodomites compass you about for to cause you to cast out these strangers that they may work their wils upon them yet be faithful and fear them not but cast out your darlings before them stand in the faith of the God of truth equity and you shal see the Sodomites struck with blindness that they shal not be able to prevail against you but when they are weary with striving they shal be made to sit down in sorrow so shal it be fulfill d which of old was prophesied that no weapon formed against the faithful shal prosper but woe unto them that lift up their heel against them therefore I charge you all in the name of the God of truth be faithful valiant bold for the truth received and as you have received it so walk in it that you may profess no more in word but what in life you seal that the light may be preached forth in your lives shine forth in your conversations to the glory of the father of lights and the confounding of the heathen who profess God in words but in life denies him be willing that self shal suffer for the truth and not the truth for self for the truth was ever sealed with persecution since Cains generation had a being upon the earth and so own the Cross and despise the shame and give up your selves to suffer for the truth received all you that would follow the Lamb to the Land of rest and through many trials you wil wax strong and bold and confident in your God for God is not known what a God he is until the time of tryal and all keep your meetings in the name and fear of the Lord God waiting for his power in the obedience to his Light which in your consciences doth reprove you when you do amiss that in it you may wait and watch over the foes that are of your own house that you may know the warfare begun in your hearts against your spiritual enemies and so the God of Power manifest himself amongst you by his mighty power bringing down all that in you which opposes him would not that he should reign over it and exalt his own seed in your hearts establish you in righteousness that his image you may bear and he shal be your God and you shal be his people And so in the unchangeable Truth I rest in unity with all the faithful in the glorious liberty of the Sons of God though in outward bonds for your sakes Known to all that can read me in spirit I.P. FINIS