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A50567 A true relation of the former faithful and long service with the present most unjust imprisonment of Anthony Mellidge, sometime called a captain; now in scorn called a Quaker. Mellidge, Anthony. 1656 (1656) Wing M1648; ESTC R217798 8,459 10

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of the Lord was upon me yet I walked in the vanity of my mind and was not obedient to the Commands of Christ who saith I am the Light learn of me but I followed still the teachings of men but I did not profit at all by them At length I was called forth from among them called Baptists whom I had followed for a time to hear those people whom the world calleth Quakers and the first time I heard them that of God in me did witness that they were the people of God yet I could not joyn with them for I was then out of their life but I went to comprehend it in my wisdom and so I lost my own condition again and then I followed the Baptize again and afterwards I heard more of those called Quakers and then I was really convinced that they were the Ministers of Jesus Christ that did walk in the ways of God and in the Commands of Christ and that their Ministers was to turn peoples minds from darkness to Light and from the power of Satan to God according to that in Act. 26. Verse 18. Yet afterwards I was going to hear the Baptize again and as I was in the way somthing in me ●●●d me I was seeking the living among the dead so to it then I hearkned and returned back and sat in silence most part of that day with some of the people of God who were waiting upon the Lord in a silent meeting then I was under some judgment for some time after for my former disobedience and many times wept much in secret and then my former acquaintance who lived in the vanity of their minds would be pittying of me And somtime after I was released out of the Ship that I had served the Common-wealth in almost three years then I went to London for my pay but then those who formerly would have preferred me to honour would take little notice of me because I could not respect persons After all this I came to Lyme where my outward being was then and is where I found the love of but few in the Town because I could not respect persons and I went but seldom out of the house of my abode unless it were somtimes about my occasions And after this I went to visit Friends that were imprisoned at Exon and there was the Captain and others of the Brist man of War which I had formerly taken his name was George God who knew me as I was passing along in the prison and came in a rage and beat and kicked me so that some of my blood was spilt by it and he was not restrained by the keeper until he had had his wil of me for I was brought to stand still and not in the least to resist yet there was somthing in my will which vvould then have sought for revenge but that vvhich is pure of God in my conscience said vengeance is mine I vvil repay and to that I vvas obedient Aftervvards vvhen I vvas at Lyme at my outvvard habitation one of my Friends vvho is called Humphrey Smith whom I had visited at the prison in Exon there he vvas kept some four vveeks by Mayor Blakemore after an order vvas come into his hand from the Protector and his Counsel for the releasing of him and the rest he being at last released came to visit me upon the thirteenth day of the tvvelfth Month vvho was intended also to pass unto Pool back again nigh unto the place of my natural birth vvhere she doth inhabit that is my Mother according to the flesh whom it hath layn upon me somtime before to go to visit both she that is a Widovv and the Fatherless So I having such an opportunity to Travel a Foot vvith that Friend Humphrey Smith on the morrovv vve past on not knovving or intending any other but that he might in his freedom pass vvith me by my Mother I might pass with him to Pool and so back to my habitation again within seven or eight dayes the journey being not much above thirty six miles for Lime and Corf is both in the County of Dorset But when we came to visit the Widow and Fatherless the Priest and Rulers made insurrection against us being moved with envy against the Lambs of Christ as their fore Fathers were Acts 5.17 For we coming into that Town called Corf and so presently into my Mothers house in the latter part of the day and we went not that night into any other house neither did we walk the streets which if we had were free but remained in the house and in the evening some came to see me it being the place of my former acquaintance when I used the customs of the people that are vain Jer. 10.3 So that it is like there might be some six or seven more then us and them of the house who being all quiet my Friend Humphrey Smith was moved of the Lord to speak unto them who heard with patience the words of Truth and were all very peaceable until the Priest and Mayor and the Bayliff as they are called came in and disturbed us who were in the fear of the Lord contrary to their own Law read the Instrument of the Government about the 37. Article For as Humphrey Smith was speaking the word of God with boldness the Priest came in like a Sorcerer making signes with his fingers in a scoffing manner and Richard Jones who is called the Bayliff spake hastily in a rage without the fear of God unto Humphrey Smith as he was speaking and also with his harsh word he pluckt Humphrey Smith with violence as though he thought thereby to fright him and so at last forced him to stop then the Priest examined Smith by what Authority he did these things after that manner the Priests Scribes and Elders came to Christ Luke 20.1 And the Priests vvere still some of the formost in persecuting formerly as they are also novv in England Novv the Priest being desired by H. S yet vvould not let him have liberty to ansvver the Question but vvent on in many vvords from the first vvisdom among vvhich vvords he confessed that H. S. had spoken the very vvords of the Holy Ghost and being spoke to again to give liberty to ansvver the Question he said he vvould speak but one vvord more and vvhen he still continued in many vain vvords I then charged him to be a Lyer in speaking so many vvords vvhen he said he vvould speak but one vvord more then the Priest Nicholas Gibbens vvho is called Doctor Gibbens said one might speak that which is not true and yet not be a Lyer mark that so vvith his many vain vvords and light carriage he caused the people to laugh and began to be uncivil being himself in the same nature of the false Prophets of old vvho caused the people to Erre by their lyes and by their lightness Jer. 23.32 so after there had been some stir in vvords among the people by