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A85071	The Faithfull narrative of the late testimony and demand made to Oliver Cromwel, and his powers, on the behalf of the Lords prisoners, in the name of the Lord Jehovah (Jesus Christ,) king of saints and nations. Published by faithful hands, members of churches (out of the original copies) to prevent mistakes, and misreports thereupon. To the faithful remnant of the Lamb, who are in this day of great rebuke and blasphemy, ingaged against the beast and his government, especially, to the new non-conforming churches, and saints in city and country, commonly called by the name of fifth monarchy men.	Horton, Hur.	1655 (1655)	Wing F278; Thomason E830_20; ESTC R207450	41,484	44

that rested in their pleasures slesh c. and not in Christ but did their own work 5. Command Honour thy father and mother c. They brake this commandement in their disobedience to God the heavenly Father 6. Thou shalt not murther c. Murtherers are of many sorts such as have betraied the Blood that hath been shed against this kind of Government c. And then he converted his discourse against Informers that come for blood said to hate a brother without a cause is murder 7. Thou shalt not commit adultery c. This they did with others as Army Lawyers Priests interest and that which they before destroyed 8. Steal not Now there are great thieves and little thieves great ones are now in present Powers and Army thieves Clergy thieves Lawyers thieves and the great thief now in White-hall But the other two he left to another time When he had done he read a Letter from Mr. Feak where was a Dialogue between him and the Governor and then he commented upon it and said It is worse now then it was with the Romans for then Paul might preach though a Prisoner but now we are * Now is Mr. Rogers forced to preach out at the iron bars of the prison on Lordsdaies denied it After that he sung an Hymne and the people joyned with great alacrity against oppression and persecution c. After this Information was read Mr. Rogers said My Lord I had a purpose not to answer one word hereto this being no sutable place or time to answer a charge and no witnesses appearing against me to make it good but yet I shall tell you this for I will not with the Lords help speak a word but what I will own to your face for I love to appear in the sincerity of my soul and conscience for my Lord and Master Jesus Christ plain to all men and to lay open my principles which I have no cause though grace to be ashamed of the matter of this is much of it true but as to the form there is a great deal of patching botching put in by your mercenary hirelings which I will not own but as to much of the matter of it I must dare and with the Lords grace I will though I dy for it and without you should cut my tongue out of my head I shal continue the testimony up and tell you moreover with the rest about you here that I regard your laws in the matters of my God no more than straws for Imperia Divina non sunt subjecta Magistratui saith one of the Martyrs and tell you that I will not be accomptable to the Magistrate nor submit to his judgment in the matters of my Faith which the Civil law can take no due cognizance of One of his Councel said Ha! Imperia Divina Ro. So I say Imperia Divina O.P. Saith he are these spurious Articles now put in by drunkards and swearers and whoremongers too are they not Ha! Ha! Ro. My Lord They would fain have shisted off them from Lambeth as it seems as if they were ashamed of them I know what I say Those which were sent from Lambeth put in by the Prisoners there those I say a●e such I did not say all but those that I see there which lie upon the Table titled from Lambeth and besides there is Serjeant Dendy knows this that I say for hehimself I thank him sent in their Informations against me to M. Thurloe which he cannot deny S. Dendy I delivered him none my Lord. Ro. I say not you delivered them but you sent them by your man who delivered them according to your directions S. Dendy But my Mother my Lord this was my Mother for she Catechized me my Lord and I told her Ro. So that is true as I said before that those from Lambeth-prison are spurious wicked illegal Mr. Cre. Pray my Lord let M. Rogers have a copy of his charge for the law allows it him O.P. No this is not his tryal Ro. Why then let me have it as you are a Christian for is it fit I be denied a sight of my accusation against me but be turned away and would not hear M.Cre. Then my Lord let us have liberty of conscience will you not give us so much liberty as the Parliament gave with that he turn'd about in anger O.P. I tell you there was never such liberty of conscience no never such liberty since the dayes of * He confessed that Antichrists government is now up in England yet so that no wonder the Prisons are so full of precious Saints Antichrist as is now for may not men preach and pray what they will And have not men their liberty of all opinions Ro. It is true there is liberty enough and too much too for drunkards swearers and men of vile debauched principles and evil lives Common-prayer-men and such like we know round the Nation then his creatures about him scoffed O.P. Ha! Are Drunkennesse Swearing opinions then Ro. I say not so but I say such men may have their opinions whiles we are persecuted for the truth But why do you not my Lord let out my brother Feak at Windsor with my self seeing we suffer in one cause for one testimony and I trust by one Spirit of Jesus Christ let us both out to answer for our selves joyntly together and to make it appear to all uninteressed Christians that we are no evill doers in the matters we suffer for which if we do not then let us suffer O.P. M Feak truly M Feak I think lesse evill may be said of him than of you but there are many of different opinions that come to me and they know they have all their liberty of their opinions Ro. Yea every man almost that talks with you is apt to think you of his opinion my Lord what ever he be his creatures scoffed again O.P. Nay you * But some of that opinion do as Mr. T.G. and others do not saith he in anger his creatures scoffed and laughed again Ro. Some of this Judgment do think you so although as I said before the the Privative or negative part of the Testimony you cannot bear O.P. Pish here is a deal of positive and privative to shew you are a Scholer and 't is well known what you are and where do you find that distinction They thought Mr. Rogers to be an antick because he spake in power and goeat zeal Ro. In Logick O.P. Ha! Ro. I must tell you in the Name of the Lord Jehovah that your condition is very desperate and if you consult the holy oracles you will find it for the next vial which is to be poured out is the scorching hot one and must fall upon the Apostate professours that have forsaken and betrayed the cause of Christ and look to it it is like to fall heavy upon your heads and those that are about you I pray think of that in Hosea 1.4 the

sometimes they said he was too hold and plaid the Antick like Caple and at other times to contradict themselves sufficiently they said he was so pusillanimous that he stood and trembled before them and what not c. Now although it is notoriously known by us and others that they are all most grosse forged untruths and Court devices fetcht from the Father of lies who is now more busie than ever against the Lords faithfull ones to render them odious and obnoxious yet not with any desire to vindicate his or their persons for we commend them to the God of truth in whose eyes we and thousands we think we may say in England are perswaded they are very pretious their God who is the Saints refuge especially when they be in sufferings prisons persecutions or the like for them they must look to lie under the lash of all mens tongues almost and no wonder if Mr. Rogers do now more than ever by the great man himself as well as by his creatures since that day of his Appearance before him suffer so much But the great God that heareth prayers for him and his suffering brethren will doubtlesse deliver them avenge them of their Adversaries and judge righteously as Psal 37.6 to bring forth their righteousnesse as the light and their innocency as the noon day with a Daniels Answer cap. 6.2 My God bath sent his Angel and shut the Lyons mouths that they have not hurt me Forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me yet we say for the truths sake lest the testimony should suffer We shall and must Declare against that Generation of lyers and deceivers as Apostates use to be who go about and spread abroad false reports of the wayes and People of God by Letters messengers or Pamphlets purposely to poyson poore people with-all knowing the advantage they have by our forced silence seeing we are not suffered to print or any other wayes publish the truth for our selves If it were not lawfull to commit Fornication with the Moabites to draw them to the true Religion or if it be unlawfull to steal to relieve the poore it is much more unlawful by lies obloquies or blasphemies to win the poor people to their false way Wherefore in love to the Lord Jesus and this his blessed testimony now up we bring the truth of the whole Matter of the discourse to light whereat none we hope will be offended but those that love darknes rather than light because their deeds are evill John 3. For the honest Tradesman is content to have his Wares carried into the Sun from a dim shop-board 2. It is and hath been but now more than ever since the Court-glosses have been printed and published upon it the earnest desire expectation and indeed Call of many of the Saints to have as true a Narrative of the late Testimonies as we could publish but seeing as Jer. 9.3 saith None so valliant for the truth whileft the wicked Apostates proceed from evill to evill and knowing no other are so well accommodated to undertake it as some of us who were either ear witnesses or Writers hereof we reso've to publish it and therefore have compared the papers together that were taken in Characters and have given this accompt which we believe is as well taken as could be in such a crowd and among such interruptions confusions and disturbances we do not say to every individual word point or circumstance but in all the material passages to the best of our knowledge observation or remembrance 3. It is of some concernment to all the Remnant of the Womans seed in City and Country to know how far the Remnant in London with this Testimony of Jesus and Cause have gone and are ingaged and how high it is got up now and what kind of Esau-like Spirit it is that opposes it which you may see in the History following by the variety of passages providences and occurrences and who knows but it may a little warm them that are cold and enliven them that are dead and stir up them that are drowsie and comfort them that are drooping and unite them that are differing and incourage them that are fainting whether in Churches or out in the Countries to consider their work also at this day and what it is the Lord calls them to with their poor Brethren that now suffer in the three Nations for the Lord Jesus and his Cause against the Mighty left they also by their sleepinesse and silence incur the curse Judges 5.26 which God forbid for these and many other reasons are we stirred up to this Narrative seeing as Ahab did send for Michaiah 2 Chran 18. to see if he would say Go up and prosper as his own Prophets did say to him and as Ahab said v. 15. I adjure thee say nothing but the truth which when he said he would not suffer but said as v. 25. carry him back put this fellow in prison and feed him with the bread of affliction so also was Mr. Rogers remanded to his Bonds in Lambeth with more Severity than before too Neither are we without our Temptations in this little businesse for the Lamb some of which that have assaulted us arise from fear of giving offence but when we considered our Call that was soon quelled because offence is taken and not justly given by us herein seeing we are commanded by Gods word to remove the stumbling block of Lyes out of our Brothers way We had a holy Jealousie over our own spirit till we had tried them by Gods word and the Primitive practise of Saints Apostles Prophets and holy Men inspired by the Holy Ghost who ever spake and writ boldly in the name of the Lord for the Truth Jam. 5.10 and who are our example We consider how eagerly our enemies would gape for Advantage against us should they find the least mistake and possibly they will find many for as there is no pen so there is no man without Errataes yet for the Truths-sake so far as the Copies taken in short hand and our friends have agreed in one though we confesse it cannot be published so exactly as we could wish seeing we met with so much interruption as we said before the Lord knows we have been as faithful and impartial as we could befor our lives and we blesse our gracious Father we fear not what Flesh can do unto us as long as the Lord is with us and on our side and as long as we can claim protection from Jehovah our King by Covenant interest priviledge and propriety however some censure that sit at Stern as if we were ignorant of the Covenant of grace they shall find it other wise by the grace of our God ere it be long in the mean time an honest Jury man would rather have brought in an Ignoramus than an unjust and wicked verdict but we will wait with patience till the Lord appear to deliver us and till then we apply Psal 60.4 Thou hast

given a banner to them that fear thee that it may be displayed because of the truth Selah Besides we do not as the Court-Christians set our Diall by the Clocks of the time for so both would go false but rather set the Clocks that strike now adayes by the Dials of truth and according to the Testimony of good Consciences and then the Sunne that is now risen with glorious rayes lustre and appearance in this age will show us the time of the day and what we have to do like the Children of Issachar 1 Chron. 12.32 to keep all True and to make the Clocks and Dials to center in one period of hour and time As Christ our Sun appears we hope to appear with him and to rise with him and shine with him and sit with him on thrones to Judge those that have and do Judge us every day Jude 14 15. Rev. 20.4 though this be their day yet we are sure to have our day to Judge them and then that question they are so cranck in shall be put out of question viz. whether we are busie-bodies in other mens matters that Christ and his Messengers have nothing to do with or in Christs matters that all true Christians have and ought to have to do with all that are followers of the Lamb and for which matters of Christ and all Saints against the Beast our dear Brethren are so barbarously abused persecut●d plundered and imprisoned and for which we with them through the grace of our Lord Jesus are resolved to stand whether by life or by death And this we are sure of by experience however they unworthily censure us as a blind man would not believe there was a Sun because he saw it not though some effects might have convinced him so some effects we hope in the Lord shal lere long convince them that we suffer for the pure Testimony of a good conscience and meerly for Christ and his Interest and not for any man Men Thing or Interest whatsoever that is on Earth This conscience feasts us with very excellent viands from above which we believe no caterer in the Court can provide their Great Masters withal but theirs is like to have but sowr Sawce though it be out-landish-like as when Chirurgions open the dead bodies of Epicures they find many indigested crudities so will the Ancient of dayes ere long when he sits to anatomize dissect and rip up their Consciences find many a foul crudity viz. the sculs blood and bones of thousands of the Saints to stick there But the Lord have mercy upon them for the Plague is begun if they be not past recovery or true Repentance But if they be then the Righteous and Holy just God who is our God will appear against them and their interest speedily powerfully and effectually according to all the Faith Tears and Appeals of his poor Worm Jacob in whose hand we believe will be the New threshing Instrument visibly are long And then this contemptible testimony or course Barley-Cake of Truth will tumble from the Gideon Campe and smite down all their Tents according to the Faith and Prayer of Christ's and his poore Remnants despised Servants To do or to suffer to live or to die with them in this most glorious though clouded precious though Persecuted Cause of CHRIST JESUS Hur Horton Christopher Crayle Hugh Day Edward Grove John Pugh John Durden Samuel Bradley William Bragg William Medley Francis Young James Wilson Daniel Ingoll List up a Banner upon the high mountain exalt the voice unto them shake the hand that they may go into the Gates of the Nobles I have commanded my sanctified ones I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger even them that rejoyce in my Highnesse Isa 13.2,3 A faithfull Narrative to the faithful Remnant round the Nation the new Non-conformist-Churches and Saints in City and Countrey that go under the name of fifth Monarchy-men THE Hope we have of fair weather arises from the Rainbow in the Cloud though the Cloud be black the Sun is up and looks ●ull upon it which hath produced divers colours put the poore Saints hard upon faith grones and prayers to make up that tremendous Judgement and dreadful Thunderbolt that must fall out of this black Cloud and which begins to rattle already over the heads of the present Persecutors as Rev. 4. and the 5. From the throne of the Lamb goeth thunders and voyces so in Chapter 8 and the 5. The Angel cast the Censer for he was before the throne full of fire and incense viz. the Faith and Prayers of the poore persecuted Saints into the earth and there were voices and thunderings and lightnings and an Earthquake chap. 16.18 and 19.6 and it is well known the new Non-Conformists round the nation are at it day and night c. filling this Censer full and before the Throne giving the Lord no rest and though many have been as dead as dry bones yet they begin to gather Sinews apace now and are like may we speak it without Alaraming the New Court to be an exceeding great Army for the witnesses are warm and begin to stir and benummed senses by use get life apace so that the Remnant of the womans Seed are like to have their hands full Ere long and long they think it among them are those despised ones of the Lord that walk in fellowship with Mr. Rogers now prisoner for the Testimony of Jesus at Lambeth who after several solemn dayes and whole nights did find it a present duty incumbent upon them and preparative to future to go to Whitehall the revived Court and demand the Lords prisoners and bear their Testimony against these in present powers for their grosse sins and Apostacies which the whole Body agreed unto not one dissenting with a loud Suffrage of Joy and alacrity blessing the Lord that they should be honoured by the Lord Jesus as to be called to this Testimony for his suffering Truth and Saims at this day They sought the Lord earnestly two whole nights herein though the first night they were disturbed by some rude abusive Ruffians that seemed Zealots for their Protector they roughly handled scurrilously miscalled and abused some of the Brethren that they hurried them away from Prayer to prison for night-prayers are reputed dangerous and disturbful to the Court interest yet for all that they kept another night to have directions from the throne in the management of so high and noble a Message and that they might not in the least dishonour the dear name of the Lord Jehovah nor the cause and Kingdome of Jesus Christ that now suffers So after they found much of Gods presence and many sweet promises to apply and concluded unanimously upon the number of twelve which is the Lambs number against the Beast and the Root and square number of the hundred fourty four thousand in Rev. 14. to deliver the Message in trust to Oliver Cromwel in person in the name of the great

but reason and gratitude to his Great Master to possess all he can against the poor persecuted Saints in the behalf of him to whom he is so highly obliged above any one man almost in England for his large favors beneficial Patentees But ere long the Merchants who were made Rich by compliance with Babylon shall weep and wail and say Alas Alas Rev. 18.15 16. It is to be observed somewhat observable that very day the Sword was drawn twice at the Witnesses and Womans Seed The Providence is also admirable at that very juncture when Mr. R. and the Brethren were before him to maintain the Testimony and Demand made by the Twelve that on that very day many Assemblies of the Saints in several places being hard at the Throne the Lord should call out one unknown to any of us whole Meeting of the praying number being about 34 men to go to Whitehal and bear their Witness also The concurrence of the Testimony and the Demand is no less considerable seeing one had not the knowledge of the others Message that M.G. Harison Mr. Carew and the rest should second the aforesaid Twelve by a meer hand and call of God which they were obedient unto which is very exemplary and encouraging to all the Saints and Churches in England who are faithful to the Cause of Christ seeing so leading and calling a Providence The Demand and the Testimony is of a sudden gotten to a high pitch The Testimony up at a high pitch which doth mightily raise up the expectations of the believing remnant It is not meet for us to publish the matter of their Testimony being of the same nature with this Narrative neither can we do it so accurately and faithfully as we hope some others will The present work of the Day to gag the misreports thereupon for the quickning and strengthning them that are to follow us calling for the publication thereof without delay where-ever it lies And the rather for that Those choice servants of the Lord Jesus M.G. Harison Mr. Carew Mr. Courtney sent away with a Troop of horse to prison we know not whither the 22 day of the 12 month M.G. Harison Col. Rich Mr. Carew and Col. Courtney are so cruelly used for their Testimony and the Truths sake having no fact but their faith to charge them with and hurried away to Prison with a Troop of Horse and we know not whither So that the man must needs be wilfully blinde indeed now that will not see and say The Saints are under Persecution Therefore let not the good People of the Nation be so shamefully abused and deceived as they have been A word of Caution with lying Pamphlets and Informers whiles the Truth cannot must not date not be printed for fear of offending the men in Power and suffering a Prison or worse Of all beware of that Abominable Oracle the late Ironmonger but now Parish-Preacher * A man so base and scandalous as makes him horrible and his Name to stink among the Churches as very unfit matter to be a member of a Church but rather fit to be excommunicated exploded the society of all the Saints for bringing so foul reproach upon Religion which he hath formerly pretended to till he followed this Trade of Merchant for Lyes Walker his Weekly Proceedings whose forehead hath for many yeers been plated and brazened in the Trade and Art of Lying making it his Calling and his Living except the Tryers help him more easily to the Parish-Tythes This drives the poor man to so much pitiful soraping among the Court-Clerks for a few Lyes to sell every week at an easie rate that he and his family may live comfortably upon the lying slandering and traducing the Lords peculiar ones who are as the apple of his eyes How lamentably he hath abused Mr. Feak Mr. Rogers M.G. Overton and many others is well known and one day he must answer before the just Judge of all hearts with a wan countenance and woful conscience however he thinks to palliate it at present with a So 't was told me But as Solomon says Prov. 17. 4. A lyer giveth ear to a naughty tongue and the curse is threatned not onely to them that make but them that receive and report Lyes Rev. 21. Therefore Exod. 23.1 Put not thy hand to an unrighteous witness These things are published in meer love to the Truth and despised Saints of God for whose sake we are contented to become a reproach in the world and to suffer any thing by his Grace that man can inflict upon us so our dear Lord Jesus may but reign his Truth triumph and his Kingdom be exalted Amen Amen FINIS