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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27083	A true and faithful warning unto the people and inhabitants of Bristol and unto the rulers, priests, and people of England ... that they might prepare to meet the Lord ... / ... Charles Baily.	Bayley, Charles.	1663 (1663)	Wing B1473D; ESTC R16496	30,294	42

is given every one to profit withall walking in it and dwelling in it ye will come to be led into all truth and will come to deny all that is of the Devil and his works which is the other of your sad states and conditions ever saying as you are indeed unprofitable servants leaving undone those things which you ought to have done and doing those things which you ought not to do which is a state far different from a true Christian state even as far as light is from darkness for the true Christians they followed Christ heard his voyce and kept his Commandments because they loved him and not their own lives And again if any should say I would willingly do this that my soul might be saved from eternal condemnation which I do believe will come upon all those who live in their sins and dye in them but alass I have not power to do it I am overcome and accustomed unto evill Unto such in much tenderness of heart I say if thou love the Light and take up thy daily crosse therein thou wilt assuredly find power given thee to do the Will of God in the doing of which thy soul will come to be sanctified and thy body purified and made fit for the Masters use who will come in and live with thee and make his abode there for ever but if thou take not up the daily crosse thou canst not be a Disciple of Christ professe what thou wilt But then if thou shouldst not mind the Light of Christ which condemns thee for sin and hath so done from thy youth up and shouldst enter into the reasoning part with flesh and blood and say what must I now forsake all my worldly delights and run the hazard also of forsaking my familiar friends kinsfolks and acquaintance and all my Parish Priests and be mocked and denyed of all and such like things as these I know will get into thy fleshly mind all which I shall in a few words and in simplicity of heart answer And first as concerning thy forsaking of all which is manifest to be the very way and first step onwards towards thy souls peace and rest for He that forsakes not all and hates not all even to the very life he can never purchase unto himself the pearl which Christ speaks of which was hid in the field And as for the worldly delights thereby the innocent which should give thee life and strength against sin comes to be crucified but as I said if the crosse thou come to know the world and its delights will come to be crucified unto thee and thee unto it all and so the Resurrection of the Just will come to be witnessed which before in thee was crucified by reason of thy worldly delights sins lusts and transgressions And as for the forsaking of thy Parish Priests it is high time for thee to forsake them seeing that little profit thou hast had by them for if thou comest to the Law of God in thy own heart then thou wilt come to know the Lord who will teach thee to profit and to walk in the way of peace and holinesse which the hireling Priests know not seeing they say that men cannot live without sin and yet say it shall go well with them contrary unto the Prophet of God who said There is no peace to the wicked Finally I say unto you all who in any measure desire salvation to your immortal souls to be disentangled from the Devils snares father and mother house and land wife and children thou must not at all count losse for if thou shouldst loose them for the Lords sake thou shalt come to receive an hundred-fold in this life and in the world to come life everlasting And this will be the portion of all those that follow the Lamb through many tribulations into the everlasting Kingdome peace joy holinesse and rest for ever and such know the vanity and emptinesse of your water-dippings of Infants Bels Organs and Surplices and such foolish Popish Inventions to be but the meer Cheats and Traditions of men and also such will come to know the true spiritual Faith Hope and Baptism of Christ which washeth purgeth and maketh clean the soul and gives Victory over Sin Hell Death and the Grave and him to be the only Lord in all and over all blessed for ever in God the Father and Fountain of all good with a sincere heart to be kept and preserved in God the Life and Father of all good who is blessed feared and honoured of all who keep in the word of his patience and sit down in the Lambs Throne of life and comfort for ever world without end Amen Given forth through a sufferer for the truth of God in Newgate Prison of Bristol the 30. of the 3. Month. 1663. Charles Baily A seasonable Word of Exhortation by way of Advice to all the National Priests in this Kingdome of England but most especially to them in and of Bristol wherein their unjust proceedings and violence under a pretence of Ministry of Christ is sharply reproved yet in a mild and moderate frame and temper of spirit Also That they may come to a further tryal of their standing they are required to answer those Queries following to Magistrates and People YOU Priests of Bristol and England the word of the Lord is to you and his Controversie is against you and the Rod of his anger shall bring you down weeping and howling shall be heard in your Assemblies and Satyrs shall possesse your High Places and the skreeking of Night birds shall be heard there Your Prayers and your Oaths are alike unto the Lord and your Fasts and your Gluttony is all one in his sight ye cause the people to erre by your lyes and by your lightnesse and following your steps they are led into confusion who like a bird are taken in your crafty snares of deceitfulnesse The word of the Lord you have not to preach to the people but the conceptions of your own minds and imaginations gathered out of that which other men have said some of which was spoken by the Spirit of the Lord and some is but the ill-shapen brats of your own minds and of others who were of your own Generation who stole the word from their neighbour and then brought it forth in a confused mixture and wisdome all which you compound together and mix with your own deceit to fill up an hours talk with and then like a company of Blasphemers ye come out into your publick Market-places where by the means of your instigations most of the people are constrain'd to come and buy this your ware and then you say unto the people Hear the word of the Lord whereas ye nor your hearers do not know him but have in your vain imaginations limited him above the Skies like an old man O ye deceivers and blasphemers the Lord will arise like a man of War and bring you down and will cast you headlong

men are degenerated from God I say that if thou find and feel but such a thing in thee prize it above all for it is of the very life and restorer of all things by which Moses was acted in the dayes of old when he did forsake the pleasure of sin for a season and chose rather to partake of the suffering and afflictions of the afflicted than to be called the son of Pharaohs daughter for it was that in which he wrought the wonders of God and will also do the like in thee if thou obey love and follow it it will be thy guide leader and preserver and teacher in all states and conditions whatsoever through which and in which thy immortal soul will come to be saved and so satisfied for I will tell thee plainly that except man comes to be acquainted with something in himself which is more glorious than all visible and transitory things without him he can never come to forsake all for the Lords sake For this I have seen and experienced through deep travail and sorrow how that if I had not had something in my own self which was more desireable and amiable than all things I could never have been made willing to have forsaken all things else besides it but enjoying the life and presence of my Creator in my own particular all was well enough without me though in hunger in cold and in nakednesse or prisons or bannishment or travails both by Sea or Land I did still find satisfaction and refreshment in the enjoyment of Gods presence and this I say not because another hath said it but because my soul hath found it so in the time of need even since the time that my God separated me outwardly from my Brethren in Virginia who were more neer and dear to me than all my outward kindred because they were such as did the will of my father since which time something of my travail may be seen in my following discourse very briefly of my travels outward but of my travels and sorrow inward in all those travels and prisons I shall leave it to the upright in heart to feel for truly I may in the truth of God say how that the dayes of my sorrow and fastings passed the number of my remembrance Besides the many assaults which the cursed Popish spirit of Inchantments Sorcery Witchcraft did make against me to destroy me cannot be given to be understood by Tongue Pen Ink nor Paper but by those who have undergone the like tryal with me for this I testifie in the Lord and shall leave upon record under my hand how that a deeper spirit of Necromancy and deceit is not upon the face of the whole earth to be found so deep in working in the mistery of iniquity as it is amongst them and this is the testimony which I give for the Lord God of life against them which shall stand for ever For as to my very outward they have sought my death and destruction by this means and I have been almost strangled in the night and day season by that cursed spirit of Witchcraft which hath sought to stop my mouth thereby to have deprived me of my natural breath which thing they would certainly have done had not the Lord preserved me and rebuked them for they have often come into my Prison with many hundred sorts of shapes and likenesses and have sought every way of Inchantment against me and had it been so that it had been possible for them to have prospered against me to the utter destruction of me they would have done it but when the Lord had suffered them every way to try me then he wholly rebuked them and sent his ministring Angels to comfort me every way as those poysoning spirits had every way assaulted me in which day of his everlasting love he sealed up my soul in his everlasting Covenant of love for ever for which cause I cannot forsake the Lord whatever betides me Now though tryals remain yet on every hand yet my God knoweth I can never leave him nor forsake him nor decline from his living testimony in my heart neither in life nor death but must and shall say unto all love fear dread and honour and obey the Lord above all who is worthy to have for ever all the glory honour and praise even him who is God over all blessed for ever and ever Amen And this is the end why my God separated me from my fathers house in the time of my infancy that I should be a true and faithfull witnesse against that spirit of persecution murder and envy in whomsoever it be And seeing the Lord hath thus long preserved me out of many eminent dangers I know he will do the like for ever as he hath spoken it unto my soul that he will never suffer his faithfulness to fail concerning me therefore I shall never be moved and if it were not so my soul would long ere now have sunk under the floods of deep sorrow which yet come upon me without ceasing rowling over my head the Lord rebuke them as I know he will do for his name sake even he who hath heard me out of the Whales belly and answered my request once and again in the day of need for which I say my soul magnifie blesse and praise his holy name for ever Charles Bayly Written in Newgate Prison in Bristol the first of the third Month. 1663. AND now the Magistrates of this Nation through whose hands I have passed thus from Prison to Prison may see what they have done if it be so they are not yet quite heart-blind in the persecuting of a man so unreasonably as they have done who hath been so far drawn forth as in relation to the very natural part as to render his life and body for one of their naturall Countrey men who had been in long captivity in Rome out of their Nation even one who was not himself a natural English man though born in it I say surely following Generations might well say the Heathen in America would not have thus rewarded a man upon the return of such a service as this done for any one of their Nation I am sure they would not have done it And what right can any man expect to have at or of the hands of such men who are thus lead by a spirit of wrong judgement as for to persecute in such a nature their friend in the stead of their enemy especially such a man as hath in this sort jeoparded his life to witnesse against the Popish Religion and not onely so but hath undergone all and much more than the aforesaid miseries rather than to embrace and own it Of these things and concerning these things I shall in the uprightnesse of my heart leave it and commit it unto God the judge of all for to judge of this matter between us A true and faithfull Warning unto the Inhabitants of Bristol as a loving visitation of Gods tender