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A75884	A fannaticks letter sent out of the dungeon of the gate-house prison of VVestminster: to all his brethren in the three nations at liberty; and also in the several goales and dungeons therein, that are under all the principles of the doctrines of Christ, Heb. 6. I, 2. By Henry Adis, a baptized believer, undergoing the name of a free-willer; and also most ignomineously by the tongue of infamy, called a fannatick, or a mad man.	Adis, Henry.	1660 (1660)	Wing A579; Thomason E1084_6; ESTC R208012	21,559	25

deny us 2 Tim. 2. 12. And therefore let us take up a Resolution to follow him in this our Day in singlenesse of Soul and in our Innocency That we may be Blameless and Harmless the Sons of God without Rebuke in the midest of a Crooked and Perverse Generation among whom shine ye as Lights in the World Phil. 2. 15. giving no Offence in any thing that the Ministry be not blamed But in all things Approving our selves as the Ministers of God in much Patience in Affliction in Necessities in Distresses in Stripes in Imprisonments in Tumults in Labours in Watchings in Fasting by Pureness by Knowledge by Long-suffering by Kindness by the Holy Ghost by Love Unfeigned by the Word of Truth by the Power of God by the Armour of Righteousness on the Right hand and on the Left by Honour and Dishonour by evil Report and good Report as Deceivers and yet True as unknown and yet well known as Dying and behold we Live as Chastened and not Killed as Sorrowful yet alwayes Rejoycing as Poor yet making many Rich as having Nothing yet possessing all Things 2 Cor. 3. For ye see your Calling Brethren how that not many wise men after the Flesh not many Mighty not many Noble are called but God hath Chosen the Foolish things of the World to Confound the Wise And God hath Chosen the Weak Things of the World to Confound the Things that are Mighty and Base Things of the World and Things that are Despised hath God Chosen yea and Things which are not to bring to nought the things that are that no Flesh should glory in his presence And seeing it is so my Brethren I shall Earnestly Desire you in the words of our Apostle That you also who are Troubled rest patiently with us when the Lord Jesus shall be Revealed from Heaven with his Mighty Angels in flaming Fire taking Uengeance on them that know not God and that Obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ who shall be punished with everlasting Destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the Glory of his Power when he shall come to be Glorified in his Saints and to be Admired in all them that Beléeve because our Testimony among you was Beléeded So that as you have Cause to Joy in us so we have great Cause of rejoycing in you that we yet stand fast in one Faith And the Churches of God have Cause to Glory in you for your Patience and Faith in all your Persecutions and Tribulations that ye endure which is a manifest token of the Righteous Judgment of God that ye may be counted worthy of the Kingdom of God for which we also suffer 2 Thess. 2. And thus if any of us suffer as Christians let us not be ashamed but let us glorifie God on this behalf As for you my Brethren that are of Kent and other Places who have all your Livelihoods and some of you all that you could be Trusted for as you are Servers in of Stores and Officers in Ships and Seamen and Labourers in the several Yards appertaining to Shipping my trouble is great for you to hear of your deplorable and sad Condition in that Officers make such use of your Tenderness of Conscience in that you cannot Swear so barbarously to use you Refusing to let you have Supplies for the Relieving your poor Families yet be of good Comfort and Roul your selves upon the All-sufficient God For mine own part I cannot but be a fellow Feeler of your sad Conditions for the Case is mine own with one that is too Great for me to deal withal and for more then I am worth but wait we upon God and in his due time he will Relieve us And therefore let us Comfort our selves in the Lord and here what the Apostle speaks James 5. 1. who saith Go to now ye Rich men wéep and howl for your Miseries that shall come upon you your Riches are Corrupted and your Garments Moth-eaten your Gold and Silver is corrupted and the Rust of them shall be a Witness against you and shal eat your flesh as it were Fire Ye have heaped Treasure together for the last Dayes Behold the Hire of the Labourers which have reaped down your fields which is of you kept back by fraud Cryeth and the Cry of them which have reaped are entered into the Ears of the Lord of the Sabbath Ye have lived in Pleasures on the Earth and been Wanton ye have nourished your Hearts as in the Day of slaughter ye have Condemned and Killed the Just and he doth not resist you Be Patient therefore Brethren unto the Coming of the Lord And Consider that there is one in Power in Heaven above them and one in Earth that is his Vicegerent intrusted under him and set up by him to be a Terrour to evil-Workers and a Praise to them that do well who in due time may be made acquainted of it and give a Remedy in it In the mean time my Beloved Brethren be ye steadfast unmoveable alwayes abounding in the Work of the Lord for as much as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord To Conclude I shall impart unto you my Resolution freely and shall let you know as to my present Condition though I am in a Dungeon yet I had rather be there as through Mercy I can say I am with a clear Conscience then be in the Kings Palace with a clogged Conscience For mine own part I with others have had Tenders of Liberty upon Engaging as others did the which we dare not do least we ensnare our selves for now we are as to our Meetings in this Condition we have yet the Word of a King for the quiet Enjoyment of our Meetings the which we had from Breda and since Confirmed to some of our Friends by verbal Expressions as well as in the Act of Oblivion and in his Declaration for Ecclesiastical Affairs and that upon Condition which Condition is not yet nor God assisting never shall on our part be broken For as we have Publickly Declared our selves in former times under the other Powers to be a Peaceable People and utterly against both Swearing and Fighting as by my Declaration annexed at the End of my Fannaticks Mite is apparent the which through Mercy I shall Resolve rather to Die then in the least to violate And here some men are ready to say as once the Brethren of David did to him who Queried the Reason of Davids forwardness in the Work of God Whose Answer was Is there not a Cause 1 Sam. 17. 29. So must I say at this Day Is there not a Cause Is not the Israel of God now Defied by the Great Goliahs of our Times Therefore I must say as once Jeptha did in another Case Judg. 1 1. 35. I have opened my mouth to the Lord and I cannot go back And when I am Solicited and Perswaded to betray the Cause of Christ and break his lawes by Complying with Engagements

why I could neither Swear nor Fight for Him If these or any thing of this kind Causeth them thus to become mine Enemy because I tell them and Him the Truth if it be this that renders me vile in their Eyes I must let them know in the words and Resolution of David and say If this be to be vile I according to the Ability received shall be yet more vile But I shall proceed to Discover to you what was Acted as to Searching my House and by what manner of Persons that so you may be sensible whither we are Posting if they were legally Commissionated The Second time that my House was Searched was by one John Gosling a known Papist and Servant to Mr. Hillyard an Apothecary in Long-Aker who beyond his Commission if he had one carried away he and his Party and Confederacy Captain Wharton and others near 30 of my Fannaticks Mite and got Two shillings in Money of me pretending it for the Souldiers And about a Week after Captain Wharton and another of them came and took forcibly out of my House Two more of my Books demanding more which he would have had had there been any ready And the next time that my House was Searched was when I was taken into Custody and that was by Mounseir Lawrence an Italian a Papist who keepeth a Fencing School in Stānnop-street The next was by Mounseir De la Mane a French-man and a known Papist living in Long-Aker a Gilt-Leather man The next time or Another time by one Mr. Kirbey a Cloth-Drawer in our own street a known Papist also And another time by Anthony Welch a limping Porter living in Mr. Roberd's Celler in Drury-Lane near Russel-street whose horrid Oaths Execrations and Debauch'd Actions both to us to Mris. Whitaker Richard Day and others do bespeak him to be no better than an Athiest And as if all these Actions and Reports were not enough to render me and you sufficiently odious to the view of the World the weekly News-monger Falsly Injuriously and most Ignomineously in his weekly Pamphlet hath Branded us with that most Stigmatical Title of Traytors To whom I would give this Christian Caution that for the time to come he take a special care of venting and inventing Lies lest the Lord Christ say One day to Him as once He said to some of Abrahams fleshly Seed John 8. 44. Ye are of your father the Devil and the works of your father ye will do he was a Murtherer from the beginning and abode not in the Truth because there is no Truth in him when he speaketh a lie he speaketh of his own for he is a lyar and the Father of it And therefore I would have him further to consider the shame of it for as the Lip of Truth shall be established for ever so the lying Lip is but for a moment Prov. 12. 19. And as a Righteous man hateth lying so a wicked man is loathsome and cometh to shame Prov. 13. 5. And if we may believe the wisest of men he telleth us that he that hideth hatred with lying Lips and he that uttereth a slander is a Fool Prov. 10. 18. And farther I would have him consider the great danger of it for first lying Lips are an Abomination to the Lord but they that deal truly are his delight Prov. 12. 22. Secondly These six things the Lord hateth yea seven are an Abomination unto him a proud look a lying Tongue and Hands that shed Innocent Blood an Heart that deviseth wicked Imaginations Feet that be swift in running to Mischief a false Witnesse that speaketh Lies and him that soweth Discord amongst Brethren Proverbs 6. 16. Thirdly It will exclude him Heavens Glory For without are Dogs and Sorcerers and Whoremongers and Murderers and Idolaters and whosoever loveth and maketh a Lie Rev. 22. 15. For there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth neither whatsoever worketh Abomination or maketh a Lie but they which are written in the Lambs Book of Life Rev. 21. 27. But the Fearful and Unbelieving and the Abominable and Murtherers and Whoremongers and Sorcerers and Idolaters and all Lyars shall have their part in the Lake which burneth with Fire and Brimstone which is the second death Rev. 21. 8. But leaving the man to consider of his wicked action in suffering his Pen to run to that excesse that causeth men to raise false reports upon the Innocent I shall in love to his soul earnestly desire him to set himself upon the effectual work of Repentance that so he may make his peace before he go hence and be no more that when time shall be no more he may then have a well-being with him who gives a being to all beings in that Kingdom that shall never fade away the which that you my Brethren and I may make sure let us work out our own Salvation with Fear and Trembling and let us not be slothful but be followers of them who thorow Faith and Patience inherited the Promises Heb. 6. 12. And let us be found in Gods Way doing Gods Work being Fortified with Christian Courage and Boldnesse following the foot-steps of the flock of God gone before us not at all fearing what man can do unto us for this is the requirement of our Lord and Master Mat. 10. 28. Who saith Fear not him that can kill the Body onely and afterwards can do no more but rather fear him that after he hath killed the Body can cast both Body and Soul into Hell I say Fear him And in his Fear let us be found in well-doing endeavouring as much as in us lyeth to see that the Peace and Welfare of the Nation be secured For if every mans particular interest be involved in the General Good then it stands every particular man in hand to study the Good Peace Safety and Welfare of the whole To this end let us take the advice of our Apostle 2 Tim. 2. 3. Even as good Souldiers of Jesus Christ to endure hardship and take to us the whole Armor of God that we may be able to withstand in the evil day and having done all to stand let us stand therefore having our Loyns girt about with Truth and having on the Brest-plate of Righteousness and our Feet shod with the Preparation of the Gospel of Peace above all taking the Shield of Faith wherewith we shall be able to quench all the fiery Darts of the Wicked and take the Helmet of Salvation and the Sword of the Spirit which is the Word of God praying with all Prayers and Supplication for all Saints Ephes. 6. 13. c. and for all men for Kings and all that are in Authority 1 Tim. 2. 1 2. yea for our very enemies and all that hate us Mat. 5. 44. and of them that persecute us let us cry out and say in the Words of that Holy Martyr and Brother Stephen Lord lay not this sin to their charge Acts 7. 60. and in the Words of our