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A40242	Saul's errand to Damascus, with his packet of letters from the high priests against the disciples of the Lord, or, A faithful transcript of a petition contrived by some persons in Lancashier who call themselves ministers of the Gospel breathing out threatnings and slaughters against a peaceable & godly people there, by them nick-named Quakers : together with the defence of the persons thereby traduced against, the slanderous and false suggestions of that petition, and other untruths charged upon them : published to no other end but to draw out the bowels of tender compassion from all that love the poor despised servants of Jesus Christ, who have been the scorn of carnal men in all ages.	Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.; Lawson, John.	1654 (1654)	Wing F1895; ESTC R37353	29,928	47

the Prodigal ye Luk 15. 24. the Scripture faith This my Son was dead and is alive againe but thou art withput God in the world Object 2. That the day of judgement was past Answ Christ speaks The bruted reed he will not break the Mat. 12. 20. smoaking flax he will not quench till he bring forth judgment into victory Here thou shewest thy sel●e to be ignorant of the Scripture but only as a near-sayer thou speakest and the outside of the Letter and not Christ and canst not witness him who beings forth judgement into victory but standest as a witness against them who witness the Scriptures fulfilled in them and Chri beinging forth judgement into victory and here thou shewest thy se●●e to be unacquainted with Christ and thy nakedness and ignorance thou makest appear Object 3. That he had been in Hell and is now in Heaven Answ Here thou shewest thy selfe to be a witness against the holy men of God Jonah saith Ou● of the belly of He●l cryed Jon. 2. I and thou heardest my voice and the Lord delivered him out of Hell and might n●t 〈◊〉 co●f●s●● thou H●pocrit For thou wilt not leave my soul in Hell neither will thou suffer thy Ps 16. 10. boly One to see corruption Thou hast delivered my son out of death bless the Lord my soul and all that is within me bless Ps 103. 1 2. his holy name How derest thou profess the Scriptures and the holy men of Gods conditions which were raised and brought our of death and witness the holy me lot Gods condition thou persecutest then O thou blind my pocrite I here thou shewest thou never lawest Holis mouth yet therefore thou never cryedst in Hell yet Object 4. That he was came to the infinite company of the first born and the spirits of just men made perfect Answ Paul said who was a Minster of God But ye are come to Mount Sion and to the City of the living God the Heavenly Heb. 12. 22. Ierusalem and to an innumerable company of Angels to the general Assembly and Church of the first born which are written in heaven unto God the Iudge of all and to the spirits of just men made perfect Paul was a Minister of Iesus Christ by the will of God who encouraged the Saints who were brought hither but thou new perseeutest them and art a witnes against them that confess they are brought hither here thou shewest thou hast the spirit of error openly and art no Minister of God no not of the Letter but art against the Letter as it speaks persecuting them that have the life of it Object 5. That he had heard the last Trumpet sound and seen the new Ierusalem Answ Here thou shewest forth thy spite and venome If Iohn was here which saw the great City and holy Ierusalem descend out of Heaven from God Iohn said I saw the holy City New Ierusalem come down from God out of Heaven thou wouldst be a witness against him and thou shewest thy self in the generation that was ever persecutors slandere's opposers of the power of truth Where the same spirit is that was in Iohn he sees these things now as he did then but where the same spirit is not which thou shewest thou hast not but a contrary spirit that pesecutes them which do see those things but is as a dog to bite and devour Iohn saw the last Trumpet sound which shews thou art not come to the first Blow the trumpet in Sion sound Joel 2. 1. an allarum in my holy mountain let all the inhabitants of the earth tremble Here be thou a witness against thy self that thou art a witness against the truth and in the generation of them that ever slow the righteous ●eed Obj. 6. That John Lawson said he had seen God face to face Ans Here thou shewest thy self to be a witness against them that know God and makest thy selfe manifest to be a Heathen 〈◊〉 all are Heathens ●●at do not know God and no man knoweth God saving he that is born of God and who ere born of God are owners of the Truth and not against it but against the deceit Iacob said I have seen God face to face Isaiah Gen 32. Isa 6. 5. and Mine eyes have seen the King the Lord of Hasts Iob and I have heard of thee by the hearing of the care but now Job 42 5. ●●ne eyes have seen thee And God spake to Moses face to Exod 33. 11. 〈◊〉 Here you may take your oaths and swear against Iacob ●gainst Isaiah against Iob and against Moses Where the false spirit is made manifest and who are born of God know God face to face as they did but they who are born of the flesh persecute them who are born of the spirit and there you shew your selves to be taking oaths and swearing against them that know God seeking to bring them to prison or bondage for you never read in all the Scriptures that the Prophets or the Apostles took their oaths against any which confessed they had seen God or put up a Petition to the Magistrates or witnessed it with oaths against any of them the Ministers of God said Swear not at all And here you shew your selves to be no Ministers of God but without God for the Ministers of God are to bring people to know God and to the Church in God and to the heavenly Jerusalem and to the innumerable company of Angels and Ministers to that which is in prison and in death but if any come to witnesse these things fulfilled you are witnesses against them with oaths and would bring the bodies of such into prison where the seed of God is raised out of prison within shewing your selves to be Antichrists persecuters of the power of Truth and beasts which shall make war against the Saints and against the Lamb but the Lamb shall get the victory Job cryed when the Lord hid his face and David cryed when the Lord hid his face and said O Lord I will seek thy face And here you shew you neither know his face nor have seen it but are persecuters of them who know it and seek it Praises praises be to the Lord for ever FINIS

SAUL'S ERRAND TO DAMASCVS With His Packet of Letters from the High-Priests against the Disciples of the Lord. OR A faithful Transcript of a PETITION contrived by some Persons in Lancashier who call themselves Ministers of the Gospel breathing out threatnings and slaughters against a peaceable godly people there by them nick-named QUAKERS Together with the Defence of the Persons thereby traduced against the slanderous and false suggestions of that Petition and other untruths charged upon them Published to no other end but to draw out the bowels of tender compassion from all that love the poor despised servants of Jesus Christ who have been the scorn of carnal men in all ages Mat. 5. 10. 11. 12. Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake for theirs is the Kingdom of Heaven Blessed are ye when men shall revile you and persecute you and shall say all manner of evil against you falsly for my sake Rejoyce and be exceeding glad for great is your reward in Heaven for so persecuted they the Prophets which were be-before you London Printed for Giles Calvert at the black Spread-Eagle at the West-end of Pauls 1614. To all that love the Lord Jesus Christ Dear Hearts YOu love the Lord Iesus Christ and not him alone but Christ with all his Train Great shall be your compensation for your Love you shall have Loves Can. 7. 12. Amores a plurality and infinity of Loves which none but God in Christ hath to bestow The best of his relations upon earth have but single Love and t is happy they have Love to the Brethren But Christ hath Loves for the meanest of you the least of his May you and all his in whom there are yet but buds scarce visible appearances of Graces prove fruitful Vines grow from Buds to Blossoms from Blossoms to abundance of fruits That when the Lord shall get up early to visit his Vineyard you may feast him with pleasant fruits new and old you may bless him for his Loves of former and latter days and be ever to him an humble holy and thankful and to his brethren a comforting people Glory in your habit you wear the signal Favours of the King of kings and Lord of Hosts the Great and Mighty Jehovah Love By which I know to whom ye belong because ye love the Brethren To the Contrivers and Subscribers of the Petition Poor Hearts IS this a time to chide be angry and pick quarrels and if you must needs do so can you find no other objects of your indignation but the Lords Disciples but peaceable holy humble self-denying men Is not the work of the Ministry to preach the Gospel Is not the Sword of the Magistrate appointed to the punishment of evil doers and to the praise of them that do well Are you incumbent in your duties Are you laying out your Talents to the end they were given you or are you mistaken in the thing When did you proclaim war against Drunkards Swearers common blasphemers enemies to the Lord and his people Have you none of those amongst you or are your high-flown contending Spirits gone beyond such slender wrastlings that you scorn to encounter with any below the degree of a Saint The Lord open your eyes and let you see and give you hearts to consider your several duties But tell me ye sons of Levi as ye call your selves ye that pretend a Ius Divinum to persecution What will ye say when the Son of man shall come in his glory and all the holy Angels with him and shall sit upon the Throne of his glory and all Nations shall be gathered before him Mind ye what will be the great work of that great day your Petition will surely then be heard I beseech you read the Paper of Causes set down to be first heard at that Tribunal in Mat. 25. 31. to the end of the Chapter And the Lord let it dwell upon your hearts for ever To the Christian READER THese are to let thee know that the onely wise God at this time hath so by his providence ordered it in the North parts of Lancashier that many precious Christians and so for many years accounted before the nickname Quakers was heard of have for some time past forborn to concorporate in Parochial Assemblies wherein they profess themselves to have gained little of the knowledge of Jesus Christ And it is and hath been put upon their hearts to meet often and on the Lords Day constantly at convenient places to seek the Lord their Redeemer and to worship him in Spirit and in Truth and to speak of such things tending to mutual edification as the good Spirit of the Lord shall teach them demeaning themselves without any offence given to any that truly fear the Lord. But true it is that some men and interests of those parts do take great offence at them and their Christian and peaceable exercises some because they have witnessed against pride and luxuriant fulness have therefore come armed with Sword and Pistols men that never drew a sword for the interest of the Commo-wealth of ENGLAND perhaps against it into their Assemblies in time of their Christian performances and have taken him whom the Lord at that instant had moved to speak to the rest and others of their Assembly after they had haled and beaten them and carried them bound hand and feet into the open fields in the cold of the night and there left them to the hazard of their lives had not the Lord of life owned them which he did in much mercy Others have had their houses broken in the night and entred by men armed as aforesaid and disguised when they have been peaceably waiting upon God with their own and neighbour families and yet these humble persecuted Christians would not even in these cases of gross and intolerable affronts acted equally against the peace of the Nation as against them complain but expressed how much in measure of their Masters patience was given them in breathing out their Masters gentle words Father forgive them they know not what they do Who have at any time born such unheard of persecution with so mild Spirits only they in whom persecuted Christ dwels these poor Creatures know how their Master fared and rejoyce to suffer with him by whom alone they hope to be glorified and are as well content to suffer as to reign with Christ but how unwillingly do we deny ourselves and take up our cross and follow Christ and yet a necessity lies upon us if we will be the Lords Disciples to take up our cross dayly and follow him How is it then that the Crown of Pride is so long upon the head of persecutors how is it that such men should dare to divide the people of ENGLAND to trouble the Councel of State in the throng of business concerning the management and improvement of all the mighty Series of glorious providence made out to this infant● Common wealth with such abominable

Husbands Children to their Parents Servants to their Masters Congregations to their Ministers and of a People to their God But Opinions we deny for they are without God and there you are and justice and purity is but one and that we set up and own purity and walking in the Spirit doth make a separation from all uncleanness and can have no fellowship with them who are unfruitful workers of darkness but there is a separation from them the Rom. 1. 2. one hath fellowship with God and the other hath fellowship with darkness which be unfruitful the one is separated to God the other is separated from God Object Have drawn much poople after them many whereof Men Women and little Children at their meetings are strangely wrought upon in their bodies and brought to fall foam at the mouth roar and swell in their bellies Answ The meetings of the people of God were ever strange to the world for it was as though some strange thing had happened 1 Pet. 4. 12. to the Saints as ye read in the Scripture which shew Psal 71. 7. ye are in the same generation wondring and stranging at the work of the Lord despising and casting scandals slanders and false reports upon them and where the works of God are now they think them strange things now as was then who Act. 13. 41. are alive in the flesh It would be a strange thing to see one now sall down as Paul fell down and trembled and as Daniel fell down and trembled and to see one a Habakkuk his belly to tremble and his lips to quiver and as David to ly D o. 10. 9. roaring all the day long who cryed I 'l his sight was grown dim and hi● flesh sailed of fatnesss and till he could number his bones Hab. 3. 16. and to see one as Isaiah to rent his garment and his mantle and pluck his hair off his head and off his beard and sit down astonished and would it not be strange to see such an Assembly as came to Isaiah which had all trembling hearts Hear the Word Ifa 66. 5. of the Lord all ye that tremble at his Word Work out your salvation with fear and trembling Before their faces the people shall be much pained all faces shall gather blackness The Prophets and Ministers of God have all one Spirit accodring to Joel 2. 6. measure and did encourage those that did tremble wherein it shews that you have not the same Spirit but seek to persecute and fix scandals and accuse them fa●●● The Ministery of truth ever drew from all the Ministery of the world and from under all the lawes of the world up to God and from all the Gods of the earth and then they witnessed that the Lord was their Lawgiver the Lord was their King the Lord was their Judge Ob. Geo. Fox professed and avowed that he was equal with God Ans It was not so spoken as George Fox was equal with God but the Father and the Son is one I and my Father are one and where the same is revealed this is witnessed but where the Joh. 14. 9. 16 sure is not made manifest and revealed Christ is persecuted for the world knows him not Let the same minde be in you Phil. 6. 7. that was also in Christ Iesus who being in the form of God thought it not robbery to be equall with God and yet made himself of no reputation and this I witnesse to be fulfilled for the same Spirit where it is equall with God for be that sanctifieth and they that are sanctified are all of one and it is God that sanctifieth He that hath the Word of God hath God for God is the word and our fellowship is with God There is a natural man and there is a spirtual man the first is of the earth earthly Heb. 2. 1. the second is the Lord from heaven The new man which is created Jude 1. after God in righteousnesse and true holinesse and he that John 1. doth righteousnesse is righteous even as be is righteous 1 Cor. 47. 48. And this I witnesse what the Scripure saith Let no man deceive you 1. Joh. 3. Object He professeth himself to be the eternall Iudge of the world Answ He that was a Minister of God said that the Saints 1 Cor. 6. 2. should judge the world yea Angels herein they do shew themselves to be no Ministers of God who seek to persecute them who are judged of God and justified by him where judgement Mat. 12. 2 is brought forth unto victory and set in the earth and that which is eternall hath judged all the carnal nature in himself and where it is judged there is no unity with it where it is a live and he 〈◊〉 hath not ●ue judgement and hath not Sale Mat. 5. ●● in himself to 〈◊〉 withall is good for nothing and he cannot endure that Christ should speak where he is made manifest I am the nay saith Christ Christ is but one in all his Saints and he speaks in them but he doth not say that George Fox is Christ I am the way the truth and the life Christ is the 1 Cor. ●● light and ye are the light and Christ liveth in you and Christ Mark 1● is the head of the man and it is the Spirit of the Father that speaketh in you and spoke in Christs and he is but one in all his Saints without are many Christ Lo here and lo there but know you not that Christ is in you except ye be Reprobates and if Christ be in you the body is dead because of sin and there Chirst Iesus speaks the same Christ to day yesterday and for ever And Isa 5. 20 thy judgement which is not eternal is carnal and with-evill thoughts thou judgest thou puttest darkness for light and light for aarkness and here thou she west thy judgement to be carnall and no Minister of God but a Minister of the Letter and not of the Spirit for the Ministers of the Spirit have true judgment and did imprison none not persecute as you do but it is that fools may utter forth their folly Object He said be was the way the truth the life Answ The old man cannot endure to hear the new man speak which is Christ and Christ is the way and if Christ be in you must not he say I am the way the truth and the life John 14. 6. Now if Antichrist speak he is owned of the world but he cannot witness it while the old man reigns the voice of John 10. 4. God is not known nor Christ himself to speak in man but Christs sheep know his voice Object He said whosoever took a place of Scripture and made a Sermon of it or from it was a Conjurer and his preaching was Conjuration Ans He that puts the Letter for the light when the Letter saith Christ is the light he

is blind and they that say the Letter John 8. 12. and the Spirit are inseparable when the Spirit saith the Letter is death and killeth and all that do study to raise a living thing out of a dead to raise the Spirit out of the Letter are Conjures and draw points and reasons and so do Jer. 23. 16. speak a divination of their own brain they are Conjurers Jer. 27. 9. 10 and Diviners and their teaching is from Conjuration which is not spoken from the mouth of the Lord and the Lord is against all such and who are of God are against all such for that Doctrine doth not profit the people at al for it stands not in the councel of God but is a doctrine of the Devil and drawes people from God but he that speaks from the mouth of the Lord turns people from their wickednes but that Ministery which God hath not sent and that assembly must be disaffected for the Lord is coming to teach his people himself by his Spirit Heb. 8. 11. Object George Fox said the Soripure was carnay Ans The Letter of the Scripture is carnal and the Letter is death and killeth but the Spirit giveth life which was in them Heb. 7. 16. that gave forth the Scriptures and that I witnes which is eternal and not carnal for the Jews which had the Letter persecuted Iesus Christ the substance and so do you now which have the Letter and not the Substance there were Ministers of the Letter then and Ministers of the Spirit so there is now the Col. 1. 27. same Christ being made manifest is unknown to the world for the whole world Lyeth in wickednes and Christ Jesus is a Mystery to the world and is bid though you may profeses him because the Letter speaketh of him but ye persecute him where 1 Iohn 3. 8 be is made manifest and where he is made manifest the works of the devil are destroyed and there be speaks and is King 1 Ioh. 5. ●● and is the way and is the truth and is the life and he that hath Rom. 8 11. the Son hath life and he that hath not the Son hath not life and he 1 Cor. 6. 27. that hath the same spirit that raised up Iesus Christ is equal 2 Cor. 6. 10. wth God and the Scripture saith that God wildwel in man walk in man as Iesus Christ which is the mystery hath passed before so the same Spirit takes upon it the same seed and is the same where it is made manifest according to the flesh I am the son of Abraham according to the Spirit the Son of God saith Christ All the plotting of the Priests is and ever was against Christ where he is made manifest and the Boast shall Col. 1. 27 make rear with the Saints and with the Lamb but the Heb. 2. 11. Lamb shall get the victory praises praises be to our God for ever for evermore Obj. Richard Huberthorn writ that Christs coming in the flesh was but a figure Ans Christ in his people is the substance of all figures tipes and shadows fulfilling them in them and setting them free from them But as he is held forth in the Scripture-Letter without them and in the flesh without them he is their example or figure which is both 〈◊〉 that the same things might be fulfilled in them that was in Christ Iesus for even her innto were 1 Pet. 2. 21. ye called because Christ hath suffered for us leaving us an example 1 Pet. 4. 1. that we should follow his steps for asmuch as Christ hath suffered 1 Pet. 1. 19. for us arm yourselves likewise with the same mind Christ was our example in suffering and in holinesse and as he which hath called you is holy so be ye holy in all manner of conversation Iohn 13. 15. because it is writen Be ye holy as I am holy he is our example in humility I have given you an example saith Christ that ye should do even as I have done unto you And as he is so are we in this World He is our forerunner Captain of our salvaton and in all things our example As they have done unto me so shall they do unto you But all they who have not Christ dwelling in them go about to persecute him in all them in whom he is made manifest they neither follow him as an example themselves nor suffer others to follow him as an example and walk in the same steps but deny him both as the substance and example of his people but they who are taught of him do confesse him both as he is the substance of all things and their example in all things for without me ye can do nothing saith Christ and it is so I witnesse it And as for Iames Milner though his mind did run out from his condition and from minding that light of God which is in him whereby the world takes occasion to speak against the Truth and many friends stumble at it yet there is a pure seed in him Object Leonard Fell said that Christ had no body but his Church Answ There is one body and one Spirit even as ye are called 〈◊〉 4. 4. into one hope of your calling and Christ Iesus is the head of the 〈◊〉 1. 18. Body the Church and ye are made free from sin by the body of Cor. 5. 19. Christ and Christ came to redeem his Church God was in Christ reconciling the world to himself for his bodies sake which is 〈◊〉 1. 24. his Church For we are members of his Body of his flesh and of 〈◊〉 5. 30. his bones this is a great Mystery but I speak concerning Christ and his Church And hath put all things under his feet and gave 〈◊〉 22. 23. him to be the head over all things to the Church which is his body The fulnesse of him that filleth al in al in whom also we are builed up together for an habitation of God through the Spirit More Objections against George Fox charged upon him by the Contrivers of the foresaid Petition and Answered by him as followeth Object 1 THat he did affirm that he had the Divinity ossentiall in him Answ For the word essential it is an expression of thir own but that the Saints are the Temples of God and God doth dwell 2 Cor. 6. 1. in them that the Scriptures do witnesse and if God dwell in Eph. 4. 6. them then the Divinity dwels in them and the Scripture saith 2 Pet. 1. 4. Ye shall be partakers of the Divine nature and this I witnesse but where this is not they cannot witnesse it Object 2. That both Baptisme and the Lords Supper are unlawfull Answ As for that word unlawful it was not spoken by me but the Baptisme of Infants I deny and there is no Scripture that speaks of a Sacrament but that Baptism that is into

canst here before the Magistrates But not being able to prove any one he began to accuse James for holding out a light that doth convince of sin Which Saith the Priest all have not To which James said Put out one in all this great multitude that dare say he hath it not Saith the Priest Thes are al Christians but if a Turk or Indian were here he would deny it James said Thou goest far for a proof but if a Turk were here he would witness against thee The people beginning to fight the Priest turned away saying Here will be a disturbance Said James These are thy Christians and this is the fruits of thy Ministery But the Justice with some other did endeavour to keep the rude people off him so that they could not come to their purpose there but he being to passe over the Bridge and throughth Town they that were of the Priests party ran before sweaning they would throw him off the Bridge into the water but comming thither and seeing heir purpose he was encouraged in his God who gave him assurance of protection and did wonderfully keep him and those that were with him for when he came unto the Bridge the word of the Lord came unto him and he was made to cry out against their rage and the power of the Lord was with him so that he received no harm though he was made to speak all along and in the Market place and til he came out of the Town But the raging people continued shouting crying and throwing of stones at him a quarter of a mile out of the Town But such was the power of the Lord that neither he nor any with him received any harm The work was wonderful and we were brought much to admire it end praise the Lord who is blessed for euer and ever Another time Iames being desires of many Christian friends to be at a meeting at Orton there to wait upon the Lord for what he would make known to his people did accordingly and many friends and brethren accompanied him but the Priests having intelligence some days before five of them were gathered together and many people from all quarters A friend in the Town desired Iames to come to his house and being come into his house a message was sent from the Priests desiring him to come into the field under pretence for a more convenient place for the great multitude To which Iames answered It is my desire that all may be edified and comming into the field the Priests came with a great multitude and asked him by what authority he came thither and had gathered together so many people to break the peace and tempting him said Wilt thou he bound that none here shall break the Peace To which Iames answered We come not hither to create offences but if any break the Law let him suffer by the Law for he perceived they intended violence as it appeared afterwards But seeing they could not prevail in that mother of them desired him to go into the Church as he called it tempted him saying The people may all sit and hear better But Iames perceiving their deceit said All places were alike to him he would abide in the field Wherein they pulled out an Ordinance of Parliament forbidding any to speak but such as were authorized to speak either in Church or Chappel or an publick place and bade him speak at his peril as he would an wet the contempt of it To which he answered saying This is not a publick place No said one of the Priest Is not this a publick place the Town field and charged the Constable of the Town to do his office and examined his authority Iames answered Those that are sent to declare the things of God have not their authority from men But they bad him prove that He said Paul received not his commission from man nor by man To which one of 〈◊〉 answered That was his Gospel but they would prove saint Paul had a call from man to preach and for that end 〈◊〉 that place in Acts 13. 2. where the Holy Ghost sad Separate me Barnabas and Saul and the Apostles laid their hands upon them which said one of them 〈◊〉 Presbytery 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was the laying on of hands of the 〈◊〉 But when he had found that place James asked him it that was Pauls call to the Ministry three times but he answared nothing Then said James If that was his call he had preached long without a call before that and instanced to prove it Gal. 1. Whereupon that business ended But another Preist stood up and said Thou oughtest to give an account of thy Faith to every one that a keth whereupon he asked divers questions whereunto James answered in so much that some that stood by cryed out Answer not all but ask him some A while after Iames asked him how he would proved himselfe a Minister of the Gospel and live upon Tithes To which he would not answer Then said Iames Neither will I answer thee if thou ask me twenty more The next question he asked was Whether Christ was ascended or no but Iames said I will not answer thee Whereupon he cryed out to the people and said he denies the humanity of Christ and made a great out cry among the people of it But the people cryed out saying Let us hear him you have often told us many things against him let him speak and then if he speak not truth you may then reprove him Iames hearing the desire of the people began to speak and the people gave audience and were very silent But beginning to hold out Christ alone to be the Teacher of his people in spirit and truth one of the Priest cryed out I cannot endure to hear this Seducer any longer Vpon which Iames said Prove me a Seducer before all this people or else thou art a false Accuser But he had not one word to say against any thing that he had spoken But said If thou wilt not answer me that Question I asked thee I will call thee a Seducer as long as I live Whereupon seeing there could be no peace there nor liberty to speak they desired Iames to goe into the house and they kept closed about him to keep him from violence of some that came along with the Priest but they raged so that he 〈◊〉 other friends received stripes with much ad● got to the house But the raging Sodomites waited about the door to do mischief and kept shouting about the house all the while he was speaking but the house being filled with people they could not come to their purpose and the Lord so ordered it in the Evening we came away without any more harm but not long after there came some of the Priests party about the house and asked if Nayler was gone and when they heard he was gone they said He may thank God of that Thus by the wisedom of God he escaped their violence at that