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A74896	The generall-good to all people: or, The Lords free love running forth freely to his own people in these latter days, according to his promises made to his people, which he is now fulfilling. With something in answer to the petition put up to the Parliament, by many of the city and county of York, even they of the priests party. / By Richard Farnworth.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.; Aldam, Thomas, d. 1660. Exhortation to the magistrates.; R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666. Gods covenanting with his people.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1653 (1653)	Thomason E703_6; Thomason E703_6*	37,767	34

at them and lye heavy upon them and the sense of no other evil and danger that is the greatest and it is time for the beast to colour over himself neatly and Petition now and cry help Magistrate now or all is gone we cannot defend our selves any way else and if you fail us now we are utterly undone for ever we canot defend our selves by Scripture and our conversation testifies against us that we neither follow the example of Jesus Christ nor his Apostles who were his true Ministers and the People they begin to see it and truth it is we have no right to take tythes nor to have hire we cannot justifie our actions any wayes by Scripture and if you stand not to us now we lose all and shall be utterly undone and ruinated for ever And They think it their humble duty to present unto you the deep sense they have of some evils and dangers Petition which they apprehend very nearly to concern the truth of God and Gospel of Salvation or the prosperous course thereof whereon the glory of peace and safety of this Nation besides the eternal welfare of precious souls more worth then worlds doth depend Answ 1. Consider of it If these Petitioners be not of the same Generation of evil doers that the Scribes and Pharisees were that laboured so much and Petitioned or falsly accused the Son of God Jesus Christ and his Disciples and followers to the Counsel of the people Assembled together time after time to have destroyed not onely them in whom the truth was declared but laboured every way to have destroyed the truth it self but could not for the more that they were persecuted they more did grow and as it was then so is it now 2. But the subtilty of the Serpent that ruled in the Jews chief Priests Scribes and Pharisees then ruleth in these Petitioners now in this age as by their fruits it doth appear 3. When the Lord sent forth his messengers then to declare his truth they strucke them and put them in the stocks and stoned and railed and hated and shamefully intreated them and when they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which they spake as in Acts 6. then some of them they imprisoned as Peter and John and Paul and Silas and stoned Steven and sought false witness against him to put him to death and sought to the counsell to have the life of them all such blood-suckers they were yet it was under a colour or cloak or pretence of godliness and stirred up the people telling them that they were seditious fellows as Steven was Acts 6. and men that came to overturn the Law and the Statutes given forth by Moses and came to speak blasphemous things against the Temple and under that colour of Schismaticks and Hereticks Sedition and Blasphemy did the pure truth suffer and this is the same generation by which it doth suffer now and let but these wicked Priests have but their corrupt wills fulfilled and they would murder all in whom any thing of God was made manifest under colour or pretence of Papists or prophane Persons when as they are themselves the wickedst profane persons of all others and stir up many to be their Executioners to mischief that know not the right hand from the left in point of Religion in strikeing and stoning and falsly accusing the good Conversation of the righteous and shamefully entreating them and Petitioning against them But Fourthly They may justly expect the just hand of God upon them and the plagues of God to be poured forth upon them for their exceeding great wickedness for they are the peace-breakers of the Commonwealth not of England onely but of Israel also as much as in them lies And they may be sensible of it they may see themselves enemies both to the Gospel of Salvation and the prosperous course thereof every ways hindring the truth from being declared Ezek. 34.2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10. Hosea 6.9 as much as in them lies to the utmost of their power deceivers or destroyers of souls which is more worth then worlds And as a troop of robbers wait for a man so the company of Priests murder in the way by consent as it is now by their fruits made manifest Hos 6.9 Therefore O ye shepherds hear the word of the Lord Thus saith the Lord God Behold I am against the shepherds and I will require my flock at their hands and cause them to cease from feeding the flock neither shall they feed themselves any more for I will deliver my flock from them that they may not be meat for them Ezek. 34.8 9. Ezek. 34.9 10. Fifthly Shall you not be visited for these things saith the Lord Let the wicked joyn hand in hand yet they shall not go unpunished for saith the Lord I will be avenged of all mine enemies vengeance is mine and I will repay Woe to the wicked It shall go ill with them both Priests and people for the leaders of them cause them to erre Isa 9.16 Hosea 4.9 Isa 9.16 There is like Priest like people Hos 4.9 All joyn together to persecute the truth and to hinder the free course of the Gospel and to break the peace of the Commonwealth and as much as in them lies to destroy the souls of the righteous now that the Lord is sending forth his servants to cry out against the deceits of the world and the worship of the beast worshipping the works of their own hands traditions and rudiments of the world which are not after God Col. 2.20 21 22. but by the will of man Col. 2.20 21 22. and mens corrupt wills being crost and the deceits of the Priests here in Yorkshire being discovered and the Lord sending to them to testifie it to their faces they will not stand to prove themselves neither to be Ministers of the letter nor of the spirit but run away and cause that those whom the Lord sendeth to them be beaten and abused and given up into the hands of the rude multitude which is contrary both to the practise of Christ and his Apostles they never struck nor cause any to be struck but on the contrary received stripes Peter and John were beaten and put in the prison See Act. 5.26 Acts 5.26 27 28 c. 27 28 c. and threatned they should speak no more in the name of Jesus And Sixthly These Priests bear testimony to the same deeds here in Yorkshire for many have been beaten for declaring the truth as it is in Jesus and many stoned that stones have flown as fast as bullets in a battel and the dogs have been set on by their hearers and they themselves having been in the streets and being spoken to would not prove themselves but got away Are not these the fruits of the Jews who were enemies to Jesus Christ did not they stone Steven to death for witnessing the truth Act. 7.59 60. 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my flesh trembles when they lye and lying is dishonour to the Lord and they say O Lord my righteousness when they themselves are the servants of Sin and plead for it and teach the people to lye calling that the service of God but lying is of the Devil and he is the Father of lyes and they teach the People to sing and say O Lord I am not puft in minde I have no scornful eye when they are puft in scorn and derision and so sing lyes to the dishonour of God all lyes howling and lying when they read Davids conditions they read them with hats on and when they turn them into rime and meeter they put their hats off and lye singing and setting that nature on singing and to rejoyce which is for the curse and so worship the works of their own hands following the Imaginations of their own hearrs and take a glass and speak an hour by their old Author studyed spirit and their glass standing by as if the word of the Lord was to be bound to an hour 1 Cor. 14.15 Rev. 14.1 2 3. day or place see if this be not errour or Popery and hold it not up be not deceived God will not be mocked Let him that sings sing with the Spirit and the Vnderstanding to know what he sings They that are redeemed from the Earth shall sing new Songs which none can sing but those that are redeemed out of the Fall up to the Lord God and to the Lamb to Praise him for ever Let not your Priests deceive you and destroy your souls any longer and keep you under Popery Atheism and Ignorance of the Spiritual Ministry Christ is a Mysterie and none know him but they to whom he is revealed put out all your Priests they all deceive you every one And that you may know the truth wait upon the Lord for teaching who is the Teacher of all his by his Spirit and the ministration is powerful to redeem the soul out of the Fal up to God and to reform and change your natures and dispositions which will guide you and lead you into the way of peace to know the Lord to gather out of all the ways and works of darkness Atheism and Popery Covetousness and Prophaness which all are given to Preists and People that live in their first nature and know not God who is a spirit and of purer eyes then to behold Iniquity who is a consuming fire and is both the heart-searcher and tryer Petition and will burn up the wicked in the indignation of his Ire That the Faithful Ministers of Christ by whom we have believed whose labours have been so profitable and are yet so necessary to the Church of God and whose reputations and encouragements ought to be so dear unto us are daily laden with contempt and reproach disturbed in the diligent and peaceable execution of their office by evil and unreasonable men and also undermined in their calling and maintenance whereby the course of the Gospel is much hindered and the spirit of Gods people nay we doubt not to say the Spirit of God himself is grieved and vexed to see the precious Ordinances of Christ trodden under foot c. That the Faithful Ministers of Christ by whom we have believed c. That the Ministers of Yorkshire or the Ministers of the World are the Ministers of Antichrist Answ 1. The Priests Practise as their fruits do make them manifest and their Ministry is of man and not of God and the Faith that is spoken of is corrupt for it doth not purifie but worketh into Pride Covetousness oppression and persecution lust and revenge hatred backbiting scornfulness cruelty malice debate deceit malignity and envy drunkenness lying and swearing because of oaths the Land mourns and pride swels and Covetousness and oppression and grinding the faces of the poor and these are the fruits of the reprobate and are Ordinances of Antichrist and not of Christ and they are all gone out of the way both Priests and people and the people are destroyed for lack of knowledge because thou hast rejected knowledge saith the Lord I will also reject thee that thou shalt be no Priest to me seeing thou hast forgotten the Law of thy God I will also forget thy children as they were increased so they sinned against me saith the Lord and as it was then so it is now therefore thus saith the Lord I will change their glory into shame for they eat up the sin of my people and they set their heart to do wickedly it is not now made manifest by their fruits for there is like Priest like people Hosea 4 6 7 8 9. I will punish them for their wayes and reward them their doings saith the Lord. Hos 4.6 7 8 9. 2. It is with the Priests now as it was with the false Priests and false Prophets and the people now as it was with the children of Israel after they had backslid and broken the Covenant of the Lord their sins testifie against them to their faces now as theirs did then Hos 5.5 They call the proud happy and they that work wickedness are set up and they that tempt God are even delivered Mal. 3.15 Mal. 3.15 as it was then so it is now in this generation and the Priests of the World are contrary to Jesus Christ and his Apostles who were his true Ministers in all things 1. They are exceeding proud and are called of men Masters which Jesus Christ hath taught his to deny Mat. 23.8 and herein they walk contrary to the Scripture and the command of Jesus Christ and shew the spirit of errour and are no Ministers of Christ that do not abide in his Doctrine but are of Antichrist and are Lords over Gods heritage Mat. 23.1 2 3 4 5 6 7. Proud Pharisees they are and sit in the same seat and act the same things as they did they have the chiefest places in the Assemblies as the Scribes and Pharisees had which were enemies to Iesus Christ they love the greetings in markets as they did and to be called of men Masters as they were and suffer men to worship them with cap and knee and are enemies to Iesus Christ as the Scribes and Pharisees were and hold up that which he came to throw down and so walk contrary to Iesus Christ herein they shew themselves to be Antichrists and of the sa●…e generation that persecuted Christ when he came in the flesh as they do now that he is appearing in Spirit and the chief Priests were the greatest persecuters of him then as the Priests of Yorkshire are now who follow their steps 3. They are exceeding covetous and burden and oppress poor people Acts 20.33 34 35. 1 Cor. 4.11 12 13. 1 Cor. 9.15 16 17 18. Gal. 1.10 Jam. 2.1 2. and are light and wanton living in pleasures and wantoness upon earth which the true Ministers of Christ did forbid as in all things they were good

examples to the people but these are evil examples and walk contrary both to the Scriptures and the practise of Christ and his true Ministers herein they shew the spirit of errour and are enemies to the Truth of God 4. They are men-pleasers all the Priests of the world and have mens persons in admiration because of advantage denying the Faith of our Lord Jesus Christ Iames 2.1 2. Gal. 1.10 which the true Ministers of Christ did practise herein they walk contrary to the Scripture and shew the Spirit of errour and are enemies to the truth of God 5. The Priests of the World or the Ministers of man and of Antichrist they are blamable and are soon angry and are given to wine strikers and are given altogether to filthy lucre Jer. 23.26 27 28 29 30 31 32. Joh. 1.1 2. c. Joh. 17.14 15 16 17. Jer. 23.29 Heb. 4.12 1 Pet. 1.22 23. Rom. 6. 1 Cor. 6.11 1 Pet. 1.25 Jam. 1.21 22. Col. 1.1 2 Cor. 3.6 Gal. 1.11 12. Eph. 1.1 2 Tim. 1.1 Mat. 23. Mat. 26. Jer. 23.16 17 18 19 20. Jer. 23.10 11 12 13 14. Jer. 23.1 Jer. 5.23 24 25 c. Hosea 4.1 2 3 c. Isa 59. Isa 29.9 10 11 c. Gal. 1.8 9. Mal. 2. to the 10. The two Seeds one of the Flesh and the other of the Spirit contrary to the Ministers of Christ as in Titus 1.7 1 Tim. 3.1 2 3. walking contrary to the Scripture and are guided by the spirit of error 6. The Priests of the world and their Ministry is not of God but of man they are the Ministers of man and not of God and are no Ministers of the Spirit but are of the imaginary wayes what they do conceive of or imagine that they hold forth and know not the word of life which is eternal that sanctifieth and purifieth Soul and Body which word is invisible and is as a fire and a hammer and is quick and powerfull which is the power of God that killeth the old nature and purgeth out the old leaven and raiseth up the immortal Soul out of death to praise the Lord. And they that do Administer it are cleansed and washed justified and sanctified by it which word endureth for ever being the ingrafted word that is able to save the souls of those that know the Ministration of it and the Ministers of it were and are able Ministers of the Spirit not taught of man but by the will of God and administer to that which is kept in the death the immortal seed which the Ministers of the world are ignorant of but are persecuters of those that hold forth the word of life now as the Jews and Scribes and Pharisees chief Priests and Elders of the people were and they speak a divination of their own brain and not from the mouth of the Lord and their Ministry will never satisfie nor purifie one soul it hath been long but here is no redemption nor Sanctification by it Nay they say themselves that it will never sanctifie them whilst they are here and by their fruits it doth so appear and so it doth not profit the people at all they teach for Doctrine traditions and rudiments of the world and they are all confused so many men so many minds when as the Ministers of Christ were and are all of one heart and one minde who were taught of God and are Ministers of the Spirit and not of the letter or of man as the Priests of the world and all those here in York-shire are and are contrary both to Christ and his true Ministers and load his Servants with Reproachings and Revilings and are Enemies both to him and his and they and their Ministry is accursed for it is contrary both to Christ and his Apostles and doth neither sanctifie nor purifie but keeps in the lust of the flesh and in the fall There are two seeds one after the flesh as Ishmael was and the other after the Spirit and by promise as Isaac was and they that are after the flesh they persecute them that are after the spirit and they that are after the spirit or by promise are made not onely to believe but also to suffer what the Lord shall permit or see good and they that are of the promised seed are of Abraham now and are born again one Seed one Faith one God one Father one Baptism one Bread one Body all one and in one Baptized by one Spirit into that one body which is spiritual and made to drink into one Spirit and their faith doth purifie them and worketh them out of their old nature and ingrafteth them into the Vine which is Christ Jesus the Vine of the Lords free love and being all one in Christ Jesus set and ingrafted into their own Vine the natural branches being cut off those that are Jews outward and not inward who live in the wild-Olive and in their natural stock or state or condition know them not who are in the true Vine being made partakers of the Divine nature their faith standing out of the wisdom of mans words in the power of God groweth with an increase making fruifull being in the Vine the fruits of true faith do shew it forth as Vertue and Knowledge Temperance Patience Godliness brotherly kindness and charity which maketh fruitfull in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ so shall all men know saith he That ye are my Disciples if ye love one another continue in my love for faith without works is dead as the worlds faith is or the fruits of the first seed which is after the flesh and they that are in the flesh their old corrupt nature and in the wild Olive they cannot please God and their faith standeth without in the wisdom of mans words and not in the power of God which worketh a Reformation and a change but as they are in the fall their fruits make them manifest and their faith is corrupt it doth not purifie their conscience from dead works and so they believe in that which thier priests lead them into for good as say the Petitioners we have believed in them for good like Priests like People as in Hoseas time Hosea 4. and all live in one nature that are in the fall and are under the curse in their old nature both Priests and people and the Priests are evil examples to the people 1. The Priests they live in Pride and the people they believe The Priests are evil examples that if they may be proud that are their leaders they may follow their examples because it is suitable to their earthly hearts and so they believe in them as they say for good calling good evil and evil good but the woe is to such 2. The Priests they live in Covetousness and the people they follow their examples and are all given to Covetousness both Priests and people and love it and believe it is good because it is suitable to their earthly

hearts and that is the good that they believe in them for all feeding daily on the forbidden fruit for both Pride and Covetousness is forbidden and those that live in it both Priests and People are in the broad way in the fall and under the curse 3. The Priests live in rayling and lying and speaking evil of that which they know not and they live in pleasures and wantonness and heady-high-mindedness Lust and revenge to persecution oppression and grinding the faces of the poor and see if these be not fruits of darkness and whether they do not live in them and the tree is known by its fruits and if this be not Atheism Ignorance Blindness Delusion and Herresie and errs from the truth for they are no fruits of the Spirit but of the flesh and of the seed of the Serpent whose head is yet unbruised in them that act those things And the People they follow the example of the Priests and believe that if they do such things that are teachers and leaders of them they may do the same and follow them as Examples and because those things are delightsome to the flesh they love them and believe in them for good and would not leave the evil of their doings but cry out against those that speaks against them for their ungodly deeds And because they cannot but declare against their deceits in speaking the truth they cry out saying that they lade them with contempt and reproach and disturb them c. But the time is come that they cannot endure sound Doctrine The Priests cannot endure sound Doctrine are not the Priests here in York-shire in the same state and condition that the false Priests and false Prophets were in whom the Lord sent his true Prophets to cry out against then as he sendeth to cry out against these now Isaiah was sent to cry out against them and called them dumb dogs yea greedy dogs shepherds that could not understand that never had enough for they did every one look for their gain from their quarter Isaiah 56.10 11. and because he spoke the truth he was hated of them as those do hate the Servants of the Lord now that testifie against their deceits and disturb them breaking their carnall peace and false rest and now they cry out against it Jeremiah he was sent to cry out against them and said that they held up a filthy and a horrible thing for they preached for hire and did bear rule over the people by their means Jer. 5.30 and do they not so now was not Jeremy lade with contempt for declaring the truth and put in the Prison and in the Dungeon and am I become your Enemy because I tell you the truth doth that lade you and disturb you or do not you lade the servants of the Lord that are sent to tell you of your deceits and deceiveableness and render them odious to the People but the Lord will clear up the Innocency of his People and take away the names of reproach from them and give you the cup of his fury that you may drink the dreggs of it and be ashamed of the evil of your doings Malachi He was sent to the Priests to tell them that their blessings were curst Mal. 2. and you are now found in the same state and condition doth truth lade you and disturb you and break your peace It must be so for God is against you and you are those that cause the truth to suffer and lade it by reproaches and revilings and persecutions as your fruits make it manifest and so you must drink the cup of trembling and astonishment for Jerusalem shall be a burdensome stone to all Nations for the Spirit of God is grieved by you that burden and oppress poor creatures and are never satisfied crying out for means for your bellies making your bellies your Gods seeking after earth and earthly things Whose God is their belly whose glory is their shame who mind earthly things persecuting and imprisoning and shamefully entreating those that are sent to preach the glad tidings of the Gospel and you fill up the measure of your fathers Iniquities as your fruits do witness against you that you are they that stay the righteous and persecute the Innocent and are drawing upon your heads wrath without remedy even wrath to the utmost for he will plague the Beast and the false Prophet and burn the whore with fire and confound the wisdom of the wise and bring to nought the counsel of the prudent that he may reveale himself to babes and teach them the knowledge of his truth for he will rule all Nations with his Iron-rod who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords the Lord God omnipotent ever praised be his name Petition Lastly They take boldness to represent that the liberty granted by the Parliament in matters of Religion and the worship of God is much abused to the increase of Popery and prophaneness contrary to your intentions in the same c. Answ It grieveth these persecuting Priests that any liberty should be granted for the Truth to be declared lest that their deceits should be laid open and are troubled that the Parliament should see beyond them to give some liberty that truth may not alwayes be bound under the powers of darkness ruling in the proud Priests but light is rising in Parliament and people to see the deceits of the Priests though they would be giving meanings by their old-author studied spirit got out of old Authors at the University where the fountain is corrupted full of dead mens bones and now it stinks now that their deceit is discovered how they have deceived the people in the night time the time of darkness whilst the Mysterie of iniquity bore rule in man now light is risen and is arising to see how they have a long time blinded the people in giving meanings to the Scriptures which are true as they speak who do come to see them fulfilled can witness it as there are many in those parts can bear testimony to the same and now that the subtile Foxes are beaten out of that hole they would make the Parliament believe that there stands need of a meaning to be given to their late act or grant for liberty in matters of Religion as if they knew not what they did intend in the thing without they give them a meaning to their intentions but because it is contrary to their intention that is the reason that they would not have any to know any thing but what they suggest or put into their brain but brain knowledge is dying and now the Priests are crying to Magistrates to help to uphold them but as light doth arise in the hearts of the Parliament they will be ready to put out their dim lights and give such grants for liberty of Conscience that truth may be declared in every place that which is revealed in secret shall be declared on the house top and that will make