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A60091	A Short relation concerning the life and death of that man of God, and faithful minister of Jesus Christ, William Simpson, who laid down his body in the island of Barbadoes the eight day of the twelfth month, M DC LXX	Fortescue, William.; Hooton, Oliver.; Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Hooton, Elizabeth, ca. 1600-1672.; Simpson, William, 1627?-1671. Going naked a signe.	1671 (1671)	Wing S3618; ESTC R10632	9,466	16

how God would Strip them of their Power and that they should be as Naked as he was and should be stript of their Benifices All which came to pass after King Charles the Second came in And moreover he was made oftentimes to colour his face black and so black they should be and appear so to people for all their great profession and so it came to pass And then when it came to pass he was made to put on his clothes again who was made before many times to go through Markets to preists-houses and to great Mens-houses and Magistrates-houses and to Cambridge stark naked And the Mayor of Cambridge put his Gown about him being sensible there was somthing in the thing And he was made to go through London naked and this was all before the king came in And he was obedient unto the heavenly command and often ventured his Life and it was given up Who many times did receive many stripes upon his naked body with Thorn Bushes so that when his service was done Freinds were forst to pluck the Thorns out of his flesh But he was caried over all by the mighty power of God I say over all his Persecutors And the Lord brought the things upon them for which he went as a Sign who was moved by the Lord to go to Barbados where he finished his dayes He was bred and born in Lancashire and there first received the Truth G. F. And this is my Testimony for our dear B●oth●r William Simpson who went naked for a sign against the Professors and their unjust dealings before the King came in And many sore Blows he bore on his naked Back with Staves Wands and Hedg-bindings he bore a Testimony against their Profession and standing and through the most part of England he went and now hath he laid down his Body in Barbados where God made him serviceable in his Truth there to preach the everlasting Gospel so them that sate in darkness he brought to the Light and them that sate in Death he brought to Life This is my Testimony for him Elizabeth Hooton Going Naked A SIGNE OH Church of England This is unto thee who livest in oppression and cruelty pride and covetousness a day of misery is coming upon thee thy nakedness and shame is coming upon thee as an armed man from which no man can hide thee neither Hills nor Mountains shall be able to hide thee in this the Day of the Lord neither shall the Clefts of the Rocks preserve thee from the Day of the Lords Controversy with thee Thy nakedness and thy shame is near to come upon thee from it thou shalt not fly Oppression and cruelty hath been as a staff for thee but the Lord is arisen to break thy Staff of Oppression and thou shalt be left naked though thou hast seemed to be the glory of the Nations with thy deceitful covers but now thou shalt be left Naked and Nations shall be ashamed of thee Howl and weep ye Teachers for the Lord is gathering his people from you and ye shall devour his flock no more The Day is coming upon you that none shall buy your wares any more ye Marchants of Babylon All your Scarlet colour the Lord our God is coming to take off Then your Nakedness shall appear to many Nations and you shall sit as a Widdow and ther shall be none to comfort you Distress and anguish shall take hold upon you and pain as a woman in travell and is not able to bring forth so shall your misery come upon you The Decree of the Lord is gone out against all unrighteousness he will surely reward every one according to their works for as a troop of Robbers lye in wait for a Man so a company of Preists by consent lye in wait to murther the Innocent Lambs of God and for their sakes the Lord is risen in his mighty power to break the bonds of wickedness and to set the oppressed free for the Lord hath heard the groaning of his Seed and he is risen to deliver to bring it out of Captivity and from under the taskmasters where his Seed hath been long oppressed by unreasonable M●n But the Lord will spare no longer but he will reward the oppressors double into their bosoms and his seed he will deliver Oh howl and weep your day is far spent Night is coming upon you that you shall not have a Vision nothing shall be left to cover you As naked shall you be spiritually as my body hath been temporally naked in many places in England as a sign of the nakedness and shame that is coming upon the Church of England who liveth in oppression and cruelty and all who lift up a weapon for her shall fall in the shame with her which will assuredly come to pass So all sober people consider your ways and turn to the light which comes from Iesus that with it you may be gathered unto the Lord from the false Teachers to the teachings of the Lord from the false Worships to the worship of the Lord in spirit and in truth for a necessity was laid upon me from the Lord God of Life and Power to be a Sign But before I was given up to the thing it was as death to me and I had rather if it had been the Lords will have died than gone on in this service But when the Word of the Lord came unto me saying Go on and prosper It was sweet unto me as the honey and the honey Comb. And blessed saith Christ are they that are hearers of my Word and keep it William Simpson THE END

us to understand the same saying It lyes very hard upon me it is fixed in me relating the thing that he had seen and I observed that the pangs of Death seized on him at that instant which might be about the eleventh hour and being desired to keep his bed because moving of him caused him to faint he gave us an innocent look like a Babe as he was lying still submitting to what we said whose innocent looks and behaviour caused tears from some which he beholding was trobled speaking to us tenderly that we should not be grieved c. And towards evening he grew so weak that he spake very inwardly so that we could scarcely hear him and after that manner he spake much of and to the Lord praising him wonderfully but with a very low voice And after a while we perceived that he did not know us saying Friends be noble and do not hinder me in my Passage for I am an innocent man And being asked whither he would go he said I must pass away And by what else he spake at that time we surely know That his heart was wholly fixed upon the Lord For had any evil been in him something of it would have shewed it self at such a time yet this holy Man of God did not neither spake he at any time any word unbecoming the Truth which he once more powerfully preached Between the sixth and seventh hour he lay very still and silent and one came there who hath been invited to Meetings but never came and taking him by the hand asked him how he did who answered I am a very sick man And looking towards the man William Simpson was on a suddain endewed with the Power and Spirit of the Lord by which he marvelously preached the glorious Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ about a quarter of an hour sweetly praising and magnifying the Lord which was so contrary to our expectations that it caused great amazement with trembling and tears who held forth powerfully the Doctrine of Perfection and freedom from sin on this side the Grave and that Friends should be valiant for the Truth upon Earth and that they should not again be entangled with the Yoak of Bondage which brings Imperfections but to stand fast in the Liberty wherewith Christ had made us free that every Bond and Yoak may be broken that that which is pure of the Lord God might go free in all that God might be glorified and honoured and we preserved in the day of tryal which must come upon all flesh and so to grow from grace to grace and from strength to strength and from one degree of holiness unto another that a daily growth may be witnessed in all further saying Oh Friends It is the Life that the Lord looks at for he that hath the Son hath Life and he that hath not the Son hath not Life Examine your selves no Son no Life without the Son without Life c. And thus he Declared wonderfully and often glorifying and praysing the Lord after this manner Oh all that is within me praise and magnifie the Lord God who is worthy for ever and ever of all Glory and everlasting Prayses to the God of my Life who is only worthy and lives over all is above all God blessed for ever Amen And after this sort did he often ascribe living praises to the God of his Life c. And in his Declaration he said That what he had spoken was laid upon his Spirit by the Lord so to do c. When he had spoke a word not plain he repeated it again and so went forward until he had finished his Last Testimony with supplication Continuing sensible unto the last Richard Clarke asked him If he knew him and William answered That he could not tell But when he told him his Name was Richard Clarke the Candle being brought near William wrung him hard by the hand and spake no more And about the tenth hour of the Night he departed this Life like a Lamb and the next Day his Body was carried to the Bridge-Town it being General Meeting day nigh which he was buried in a Garden belonging to Richard Forstal being honourably accompanied thither with several hundreds of Friends This Relation I hope will give content to his Son who I have heard him speak off and all Friends who may enquire after him for as he lived so he died Preaching the Word of the Lord in the Demonstration of the Spirit and Power and many Seals are in this Island confirming the Gospel that hath been ministred by him and his Fellow-Labourer And as for the Sufferings of this Just Man William Simpson his being often in Perils by his own Country-men who honour not their Prophets Whipt Stockt Stoned and Imprisoned Such Bonds and Tribulations have attended him yea as much as any man most Towns and Cities bear record for him in England and Scotland He hath been a Man of Sorrows and acquainted with Grief and was made perfect through Sufferings who is ceased from his Labours and is entred into his Rest. Written in Barbados the 10th of the 12th Month 1670. By one of the least of the Flock of Christ whose Name is William Fortescue Here are a few Lines more concerning our dear Friend and Brother WILLIAM SIMPSON The Righteous perish and no man layeth it to heart and merciful men are taken away and none consider that the Righteous are taken away from the evil to come Isa 57. 1. THE glorious day of God everlasting is dawned and the light of his excellency hath shined by the glory of his heavenly virtue through the thick clouds of darkness which hath long been as a Vail over the hearts of the people of the Nations during which time the world was as a Wilderness that was untilled and brought forth Thistles Thorns and Briars in stead of Corn Wine and Oyl but since it hath been the good pleasure of the Lord of the whole earth to manifest the glory of his Spirit of burning by the operation of Life which appeareth through the Light to burn up the Briars and Thorns and to sow his good Seed He hath sent forth painful Labourers to gather the Harvest of the Earth for his Seed hath long been sown in the heart of Man and how can he expect any thing now but fruits and he hath sent his Servants into many Nations Kingdoms and Countries some whereof have been raised from Death to Life by the Ministration of the glorious Gospel and have brought fruits to the praise and glory of God Almighty Now those whom the Lord hath been pleased so to send forth he hath not sent them empty nor without the enjoyment of his heavenly presence but hath endued them with the operation of the power of his Divine Spirit even the Spirit of Wisdom and Vnderstanding of Righteousness and true judgement And among the many Regions Kingdoms and Countrys the Lord hath been pleased to visit this Island of Barbados whereunto