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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60656	The standing truth in which may be seen how every ones house is ordered and how their families are provided and what peace they have in their dwellings and whether they be Christians or infidels ... also a narrative of the some unjust and cruel dealings by William Pocklington of North Collington ... against William Smith of Besthorp ... / which are published in love to all people by William Smith.	Smith, William, d. 1673.	1663 (1663)	Wing S4334; ESTC R23653	28,425	37

their apprehension of our transgression of the Law take occasion against us and persecute and spoil us whilst they themselves are the transgressors and that by their own Law which saith The Law of God is the Law of the Land And the Law of God saith Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self but he that will Imprison him and spoil his goods and persecute him doth not love him so is a transgressor but we are free and the Law of God doth not charge guilt upon us nor condemn us in the things we practise and therefore it must needs be that such as act against us are the transgressors and whatsoever stands for Law this day which doth condemn our practice and punish us for the using of it the same doth differ from the Law of God and so degenerates from that Conclusion which the Law it self makes and in plain words expresseth That the Law of God is the Law of the Land And through the miscarriages of men towards us whose wills have wrested the Law in divers cases we have through such things deeply suffered and yet the yoak is continued upon us and our Innocency is made a prey upon for we being a quiet People and disposed in the principle of Love towards all men and cannot seek revenge upon any therefore are our afflictions increased whether with Law or without Law or against Law it is not by many much regarded as in divers cases might be truly instanced which is at present waved And seeing that the Law it self doth make such a Conclusion of its own standing that it is the Law of God then to examine a little some particulars and places in it if in all things it have perfect agreement with the Law of God for the Law of God is pure holy just and good and as it hath been shewed that the practise in divers cases doth degenerate from the Law of the Land so it may come to pass that the Law of the Land may degenerate from the Law of God for the Law of God speaketh on this wise 1. Thou shalt not bow to any graven Image nor the likeness of any thing And whatsoever is set up and not by the Spirit of the Lord is graven out of an imagination and is an Image and to bow unto that thing is to bow unto a graven Image and if the Law of the Land do restrain from such a practice then it standeth right but if it do allow such things or rather compel people to practise such things then doth it degenerate from the Law of God 2. The Law of God saith Thou shalt not take the Name of the Lord thy God in vain And to Swear by his Name is to take his Name in vain and if the Law of the Land do restrain people from all manner of Oathes then it standeth right but if it do allow such things or rather in some cases compel into such things then doth it degenerate from the Law of God 3. Christ Jesus the Lawgiver saith Thou shalt love the Lord thy God and thy Neighbour as thy self and to love God is to keep his Commandments and to love a Neighbour as to love a mans self is to do him good and not to harm him Now if the Law of the Land do encourage such things then it standeth right but if it do allow the breaking of God's Commands and teach men so or if it do allow one Neighbour to spoil the goods of another or in some cases rather compell such things to be done then it doth degenerate from the Law of God and from the Doctrine of Christ Jesus 4. Christ Jesus the Lawgiver saith God is a Spirit and must be worshipped in Spirit and in Truth Now if the Law of the Land do allow such a worship and protect it then it standeth right but if it do prohibit it or rather compel from it then it doth degenerate from the Law of God and from the Doctrine of Christ Jesus and in this case two things are very considerable to be minded and not to be practised 1. Not to bind Peoples Consciences into any Practice or into any Worship which in their own Conscience they are not perswaded into nor to compel a Conformity unto any Practice or Worship which standeth not in the Spirit and in the Truth for to use Force and Compelling-Laws in such Cases is but to force People to bow unto an Image or to the likeness of a thing which the Law of God doth expresly forbid 2. Not to prohibite or forbid People for meeting together in any place or at any time above such a number for this is to limit God if it were possible and to restrain tender Consciences from their holy Exercise in God's Spirit and to keep them from the pure Worship which standeth in the Spirit and in the Truth only and to stop them from that practice which the Father seeks them to perform for Christ saith the Father seeketh such to worship him and no Law of the Land ought to take place to diminish that Liberty which any People have in the Spirit nor to prohibit that Worship that is performed to God in the Spirit though in the practice there may be contrary minds amongst them for the Spirit of the Lord God is free and without limitation and all that are born of the Spirit they are a free-born People and their Worship stands singly to God in the Spirit and in the Truth and though there may be a difference in Worships outwardly and amongst the Worshippers in point of practice yet none ought by any outward Law either to compel or prohibit each other for that is peculiar to God alone and no man is to stand up in Judgment concerning it or to bind the Conscience of another by an outward Law either to observe the one or to deny the other for whoever hath outward Power to rule and would set that Power to judge in matters of Conscience Worship and Religion and from their own Judgment in such cases make Laws to compel to one thing and to restrain from another thing such Laws do degenerate from the Law of God and from the Doctrine of Christ Jesus and from his Life and Wisdom And therefore these things considered and weighed it will be found of great necessity to search well into the Laws and where any are found to oppose the righteous Law of God and yet stand in force in any such case to repeal them that so the Law of the Land may be reduced into the truth of its own saying and stand in Justice Equity and Mercy as doth the Law of God then Persecution would cease about Religion and there would be a stream of perfect Liberty to all tender Consciences and no Restraint would be upon any in case of Worship or Religion otherwayes living peaceably in the Nation so would hearts and minds of men come into Love into Peace and into Settlement and good Order and it would allay all the heat and heart-burnings amongst men and cool them and quiet them and then there would not need Swords and Spears to preserve Order for People coming to that of God in themselves and worshipping and serving God in the Spirit and in the Truth and every one standing in the Spirit 's Liberty then People would settle and be quiet and love one another and be at Peace one amongst another and there would be good Order through the Nation but this being wanting and Compelling-Laws ruling it makes Broils in the Nation and causeth Distractions amongst People which would be prevented if Liberty in matter of Worship and Religion was granted and tolerated And what harm would this do to any man or what prejudice could come to any man by so doing Surely none at all but rather happiness both to such as rule and such as are ruled and the comfort of it would be found to be very great unto all that truly fear the Lord And this is the Liberty which the King's Prerogative is to defend according to the Maxime of Charles the first But however it hath been or yet is with us in these cases outwardly our trust is in the Lord God and in him we do rejoyce and we desire that all people were like-minded with us and were as we are except our Bonds and Afflictions for the Presence of the Lord God is with us and by his Arm we are supported and through all these things the Truth standeth and that is the Word of the Lord to all people Truth standeth And if any yet think with themselves that with their strength they can prevail against the Truth then let them try their strength but let them also mind what will be the end of it for this I know in the Truth that whosoever rises against the Truth will toil themselves in vain and spend their strength for nought and in the end will lie down in sorrow for Truth standeth And how many have come up and have appeared in full strength and have been permitted to have a blow at Truth but how are they wasted and how are they passed away and perished yet Truth standeth Therefore all people fear the living God and in time be warned for no weapon formed against the Truth shall prosper for Truth standeth over all and Christ Jesus reigneth his Power and Glory and Dignity is set on high and in his Love all Wrath is swallowed up and here is the beginning known and here is the ending set for the Love of God was first and the Love of God is last and here is the finishing of the Work and the closing up in perfect Peace and with this Love all contrary Beings are comprehended and in its own Being it remains unchangeable and it is Truth and no lye and Truth standeth Glory to the Most High for ever and ever Amen W. S. Here is the Wisdom and Patience of the Saints Who have ears to hear let them hear THE END

passing from Death to Life and Christ Jesus is then known and Life in him and so an innocent birth is born of the Seed of God and man rises in Christ and becomes an heir of Life and blessing and then he knowes the Kingdom and the Inheritance and there he possesses the Peace and the Joy and then the Seed manifests its perfect beauty in its own perfect righteousness and perfect holiness and the glory of it spreads abroad and this is a state which can never be compassed nor attained but as in it self it is revealed for the strongest Reason of man is below it and the deepest of his Wisdom cannot fatham it nor compass it neither is there any other way to possesse it but through death to all that part which would compass it and comprehend it therefore every man to become a fool that he may be wise and if People would but come to such a state they might behold the son in his beauty and the glory of his incomprehensible Life and Wisdom which many are come to witness to his praise for evermore And all that would be answered with Peace must come to the simple state for the subtil searcher createth grief and trouble and therefore every man and woman to deny themselves and receive Christ Jesus in the despised way of the Cross that he may baptize them into his death and raise them again in his own Life and then his Life and Power and Wisdom spreads abroad and his kingdom over all is set and there is rest from labour and sitting down in perfect peace The Inheritance known in the Kingdom the Possession known in the Riches of it then man knows his portion in God who is the Fountain of everlasting good I thank the O Father Lord of Heaven and Earth that thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent of the world and hust revealed them unto babes even so Father because thy good pleasure is such A Narrative of some unjust and cruel Dealings c. I Having received the Truth of God and coming to walk in obedience to it and to live it I came to be convinced by it of the unlawfulness of many things that in times past I had practised and observed and amongst divers other things I was convinced in my Conscience of the unlawfulness of Tythes and being so convinced I duely considered them in the ground because I would not keep back any thing from another that might be his right And waiting in that which did convince me of the unlawfulness of them it was manifested to my understanding that the ground of them under the Gospel was wholly out of the truth and besides if any man had a due in such a part of my estate as was under the Law when such a part was due to certain People and for certain uses yet I found that the same use was not made of that part now neither were they such a People that now in divers places did receive them for under the Law they were paid into the Storehouse and the Levites had one part and the Fatherless and the Stranger and the Widows they were relieved with another part so that the Store-house did supply the necessity of many and there was not an Impropriator known in that day to have his own private Barn to gather his Tythes into and dispose of them to his own private use But besides this great disproportion betwixt Tythes under the Law and the use of them then and Tythes at this day and the use of them now I also was convinced that Christ Jesus was come to be the end of the Law and the end of that Priesthood and the Priesthood being changed there is of necessity a change of the Law and that by Christ Jesus Life and Immortality was brought to light through the Gospel and that a free dispensation was now to be enjoyed and lived in And still waiting to understand these things perfectly I came to know my own freedom by the power of Truth in my own heart and the Truth set me free from that state where I had been in bondage and so I was gathered by the Light of Christ Jesus manifest in my Conscience into the love of God where he opened his Fountain and I tasted the freeness of his grace and of his Mercy and in this dispensation the Son of God was revealed in me and then I knew the Law to be fulfilled by him and all the Types and Figures and Shadows and variable Things to pass away and come to their end then was my Understanding perfectly informed concerning the particular case of Tythes and I was clear in my Understanding that no Commandment stood in force for the continuing of them but by Christ Jesus the Law and the Commandment was fulfilled and that no man had any right either to give or sell to another any part of that increase which the Lord increased unto me and was truly the fruit of my own labour and charge And upon this ground I could not for Conscience-sake towards God observe that Practise or Custom of Tythes any longer though before I had done it with great diligence yet now I could not set out any part of that to another which I was satisfied was my own but I did mind to gather my corn as it came into order without taking notice of any man And William Pocklington of North Collingham was at that time the Farmer by Lease from the Impropriator of that part called Tythes within that place where I had corn growing but this is to be noted how that he had assigned the interest of his Lease unto Anthony Pocklington his Brother as the said Anthony told me himself and as there was sufficient cause to believe it for the said Anthony was in Possession and did gather the Tythes for his own use by which it did evidently appear that the present Possession after the manner of the Law did lye in Anthony and not in William Yet notwithstanding the said William caused a Sheriffs Warrant to be brought against me and sued me in his own Name and one John Taylor came into my dwelling house and did arrest my Body at William Pocklington's suit and I desired to see the Warrant and he shewed it unto me and I found the day of appearance to be past according to the Warrant and when I told the said Taylor of it he left me and went his way then the said William procured another Sheriffes Warrant against me and one John White came to my house and did arrest my Body and he gave me time untill the next morning to come to his house at Newark and when I came there I found William Pocklington who would have been drawing of me to Composition and said he would put it to me if I would but give him any thing but I could not consent to give him any thing upon that account whereupon he caused me to be sent to Nottingham Prison and it being mentioned