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truth_n	let_v	lord_n	praise_v	1,625	5	9.2054	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

7.59 And had it not been the Lords power more then their mercy at that time their mercies being very cruelties all had been destroyed for they stoned a great space out of the Town and stones did hit on the backs and heads of the people as if they had clattered on a wall and none did seek to quench the tumult see whether these be fruits of Christs Ministery or of Antichrists but it is but that the Scriptures may be fulfilled and now it is fulfilling here in Yorkshire and the Priests are the greatest persecutors was not Jesus Christ himself stoned Joh. 10.31 32 33. Joh. 10.31 32 33. and persecuted by the high-Priests and shall the servant be greater then the Lord Did the Ministers of Christ ever persecute as the Ministers of the world do and especially here in Yorkshire the Jews were persecutors who were enemies to Iesus Christ and stoned both him and his and beat them and struck them Paul received five times forty stripes save one they struck Iesus and spit in his face Matth. 26. Mat. 26.65 66 67. And those that stoned and struck them and did so shamefully entreat them petitioned or falsly accused them to the Council several times to have had their lives and they were willing to suffer death rather then deny the truth Iesus himself witnessed a good Confession before Pilate which Iesus we are brought to confess before men for whose sake we are hated and persecuted both by Priests and people here in Yorkshire who do profess him as the Iews did but will not confess or witness him ruling in them by his spirit but do deny him in their actions as their fruits make them manifest Seventhly Would they stand the tryal and prove themselves before their people then let them be laid open what they are but they will not stand are they not of a cowardly spirit Such is the University Spirit it is a thievish spirit and will not nor dare not stand they not being able to resist the Spirit of God in those who are sent to cry out against the deceits of them as Steven and the rest did but these run away and because they have a Popish Law to flye to they imprison the servants of the Lord as many are here in prison at York and have been a long time in prison by these persecuting Priests here in York-shire and they will not that the truth should come to light nor they to be tryed by course of Law see if these be not hinderers of the course of the Gospel and destroy the righteous both soul and body as much as in them lies but that the Lords love doth more appear in their preservation then the Priests mercy in delivering but woe is their portion and they break the Peace of the Nation not suffering the truth to be declared after that they have done speaking but rather encourage the rude multitude to beat and strike the servants of the living God and raile and revile them but wil not stand but let the rude people break the peace of the Land and that which they call their Church is rather a slaughter-house but the hireling fleeth because he is an hireling that the Scriptures may be fulfilled and the thief comes not but to kill and to steal and to destroy as it is now made manifest by their fruits or the Priests actings here in Yorkshire and then as the Iews did they petition or falsly accuse the good conversation of the righteous to the Councel of State but they are made manifest whose servants they are and the judgement will return upon their own pate Woe to the Idol-shepherds they are in a deep sense of losing their Trade and Handicraft whereby they have a long time deceived the people and now they cry out Great is Diana or the merchandise of Babylon wherein we receive our gain and if these men be letten alone we shall lose all our profits but we will cry out against them that we be not taken notice on our selves who are the enemies and hinderers of the Gospel which is the power of God unto salvation and we want that power amongst us and that 's the reason why our Ministery works no Reformation And that they may not take notice of us A confession for the Priests An exhortation to the Priests we will begin at home to cut off all those that are scandalous but indeed we may say we cannot cleer our selves for we were never sent but ran and we have not profited the people at all as it is now made manifest by our fruitless Ministery for all is light and vain covetous and prophane therefore let me exhort you by the Lord to begin with your own selves and see that you do not run on further into wickedness now that you are made manifest your sins testifie to your face that you are enemies of the truth of God and he will bruise you with his Iron rod for deceiving poor souls so long for the highest of you in your fleshly wisdom is the highest deceiver and the Lord is against you all both great and small though you say That many scandalous and ignorant persons enemies to the people and ways of God Petition upholders and practizers of the abolished Ceremonies and no friends to the present Government and peace of this Commonwealth are continued in the work of the Ministery to the prejudice of that Calling the hinderance of Reformation and danger of Immortal souls Answer You may see how you have been deceived all this while and lived under a Popish Ministery and now that it is discovered they would have people to take notice of it that many of them are of the Popish Clergy and are scandalous and enemies both to the ways of God and the people of God and if your understandings were enlightened you may see that there is but little difference of them 2 Joh. 9. 1 Cor. 2.14 for they are all contrary both to Christ and his true Ministers and he that abideth not in the Doctrine of Christ hath not God 2 Joh. 9. they are all carnal in their first nature and the natural man knows not the things of God because they are spiritually discerned and no man knows the Father but the Son and he to whom he is revealed The Heathen know not God and all are Heathens that know him not in their natural state and condition the world by wisdom knows not God 1 Cor. 3.18 19.20 Acts 17.20 21 22 23 c. but worships an unknown God and those that live in ignorance and Papists are all in one nature and both worship an unknown God as the Athenians did and every one in his natural state and condition lives in darkness Athiesm Popery and Idolatry worshipping the works of their own hands and following the imaginations of their own hearts drawing neer to God with their mouth and lips but their hearts are far from him as those were that he

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

it will guide your minds towards God who is pure and cause you to stand in his pure fear which will lead you into the true wisdom of God to govern the people in righteousness and to take away that unrighteous Law or Statute made by Queen Mary which the Priests your Petitioners make their refuge to persecute and Imprison the Righteous by and deny the Law of God or practise of the Saints the people of God in former ages as in 1 Cor. 14. When any thing was revealed to him that sate by the first was to hold his peace and the other was to speak and all might speak one by one that all might be edified let that of Mary be put forth and put in one in order to this which was the practise of the Church of God that the deceivers may be laid open and made manifest what they are Act in righteousness that you may receive the blessing Take heed of holding up that which God is throwing down now he is making his power known casting down the mighty out of their Thrones and bringing down the haughtiness of men throwing down every high thought and every high Imagination Let such Laws be established as tend to the punishment of evil doers and countenancing those that do well and then you will see the Foxes and false Priests will be found out Let truth be declared freely by any one where it is made manifest Who art thou that wouldst limit the holy one of Israel by thy carnal mind What ever thou art God will limit thee and throw thee down out of thy Throne be what thou wilt But thou that lovest the truth and standest up for it as it is in Jesus thou shalt be Crowned with Glory Quest 1. Is it according either to Conscience or the Law of Equity and reason that theeves should make their prey of the Righteous Consider of it and lay it to heart 2. Is it according to Equity or the truth of God that any mans Conscience should be kept under a beastly corrupt mans will that swells in anger and if any go to ease his burdned Conscience to be beaten and set in the stocks and stoned in the streets is this according to the practise of the Ministers of Jesus Christ Let the Scriptures be your Rule and the Lord your judge and be not upholders of those deceivers for God will honor himself in throwing of them down 3. Is it according to the righteous Law of God or mans corrupt will that the righteous should suffer and the wicked go free and escape by lies and flatteries let every thing be brought to light and let the transgressors be punished and the Innocent cleared For God will be honored and he will not always strive he will reprove even Kings for his righteous childrens sake and he will take away the reproach of his people himself and no deceitfull person shall dwell in his house God is a Spirit and none knows him but such as are spiritual and born again and the righteous they suffer and no man layeth it to heart but God is judge himself and he will be avenged of all his Enemies 4. Is there are reason that we should pay or be compelled to pay for that which we have not is not this unrighteous They say they are Ministers and we do ask them what Scripture they have for their Rule to take tythe Hay or Corn tythe Lamb and Wooll tythe Eggs and money for Reak passing up our Chimnies and money for Mares and Foals and Kine and Calves and tythe Apples and Cherries and to have an end of all our labors we would have them to give account of their Ministry and how they came to be made Ministers of the Spirit and what Scripture they have for their Rule to take tythes and whether it were ever the practise of the Ministers of Christ yea or no who laboured with their hands and desired rather to dye then to make the Gospel burdensom that they might be examples to all that come after and they walking contrary to Christ and his Apostles have lost their examples and make the Parliament their spiritual sword and carnal bulwark for the account of their Ministry or ground of their Doctrine and say the Parliament do allow them and can no ways clear themselves by Scripture and we finding the Ministry of Christ to be a free Ministry and the Gospel not to be burdensom though they clear themselves to be the Ministers of man and not of God the Apostle was a Minister not made by the will of man but by the will of God and these walking contrary to the Ministers of Christ and contrary to the Scriptures and we never profited by them they starved our souls by their cold dark and barren Ministry of their own Inventions and they say that we would justle God out of his Throne but it is but the God of the World Mammon which they so much thirst after for it is the desire of our souls to see the onely true God to sit upon his Throne ruling by his power and every Spirit and as the Lord is large in his love to us though they call us Papists Quakers or what Nick-name they can invent and every way seek to cast dirt upon the pure Truth standing in opposition against the power of truth in any where it is made manifest as Jannes and Jambres did but their folly shall appear to all men as theirs did but we cannot in Conscience pay for that old rotten stuffe which runs out of their old bottels old corrupt natures which poureth forth nothing but corruption and bitterness as Railings and Revilings and cursed speakings speaking evil of that which they know not and because we cannot buy of their old stinking wares as we did formerly not questioning them took them for good upon their words but now the Fountain of their stinking puddle is made known and the Lord teacheth us better things we are ever bound to praise his name and we receive of his Love and spiritual teachings freely receiving and Grace for Grace growing up from Grace to Grace in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ and as we have received freely we are made to hold it forth freely to others again not seeking our selves as they do but seeking the good and welfare of one anothers Souls by the power of the Lord as it ruleth in us running forth to seek the good of all and we cannot hold them up in their deceits and we cannot pay for that which we have not neither did we ever receive any spiritual food or refreshings from them we testifie against them as it is our bounden duty to let our light shine forth to others and though the proud Priests as in all that which they do it is for money which is their Diana and all that which they look after They do not seek us but ours And as we receive of the Lord freely we cannot but declare though they