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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35836	The discovery of the great enmity of the serpent against the seed of the woman, which witnesseth against him where he rules, both in rulers, priests, and people whose hearts are now made manifest in this great day of the Lords power, wherein he is sending his sons and daughters in the power of his spirit to run to and fro to declare his word ... / a true testimony of him the world knows by name, William Deusbery, and in scorn calls a Quaker ... ; also his call to the ministry of the everlasting Gospel by the still voyce of the spirit of God ... ; the word of the Lord to all in England whom the Lord hath betrusted with power ... ; vvith a lamentation over all in England who oppose Christ in his spiritual appearance ... ; from the common goal in Northampton the 25 day of the 4 month, 1655.	Dewsbury, William, 1621-1688.	1655 (1655)	Wing D1265; ESTC R207336	26,718	32

and my brethren persecuted under the names as formerly written charging me with making tumults and breaking the publick peace for walking in obedience to the Spirit of Christ which guided all he sent to preach his Gospel to run to and fro as I have done in thee oh England that knowledge may be increased as is recorded in the Scripture of truth Dan. 12.4 And is according to the commands of Christ Go your wayes Behold I send you forth as lambs among wolves carry neither purse nor scrip nor shoos and salute no man by the way and into what City ye enter and they receive you eat such things as is set before you Luke 10 3 4 8 verses But beware of men for they will deliver you up to their counsell and they will scourge you in their Synagogues and you shall be brought before Governours and Kings for my names sake but he that endures unto the end shall be saved Mat. 10.17 18 22 verses According as it is written the wicked world that always did as they now do persecute the Messengers of Jesus Christ who to them were and are sent to witnesse against them in their markets and meeting places that their deeds are evil which the children of this generation that are strangers to the leadings of the spirit of truth calls them that are guided by the spirit to walk according to the Scripture makers of tumults movers of sedition breakers of the publick peace as the unrighteous generation did who persecuted Christ and his Apostles whose practice was to declare the mind of God in their Synagogues and Markets as the Ministers of Christ do now And they found him in the Temple sitting in the midst of the Doctors both hearing and asking the questions Luke 2.46 When Jesus came to Nazareth where he had been brought up and as his custome was he went into the Synagogue on the Sabbath day and as was declaring the word of eternal life to the people all they in the Synagogue when they heard these things he spake were filled with wrath and rose up and thrust him out of the City and led him to the brow of the hill whereon the City was built that they might cast him down headlong But he passed through the midst of them and went his way Luke 4.16 28 29 30. And Paul an Apostle of Jesus Christ not of man neither by man but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead Gal. 1.1 He was a chosen Vessel unto the Lord to bear his name amongst the Gentiles and Kings and the children of Israel Acts 9.15 It was his practise to go too and fro to preach the word of eternall life to the people in their Synagogues and Markets as the Ministers of Christ doth When Paul Silas came to Thessallonica where was a Synagogue of the Iewes Paul as his manner was went in unto them and three Sabbath days reasoned with them out of the Scriptures Acts 17 1 2. When Paul went unto Athens his spirit stirred in him when he saw the whole City given to Idolatry therefore disputed he in the Synagogue with the Jewes and with the devout persons and in the Markets daily with them that met with him Then certain of the Philosophers of the Epicureans and of the Sto●cks encountred him and some said what will this babler say other some he seemeth to be a setter forth of strange Gods because he preached unto them Jesus and the Resurrection Acts 17.16 17 18. verses And all my Brethren this day with me that witnesseth Christ Jesus risen from the dead and are sent to preach Christ the Resu●rection who hath enlightned every one that is come into the world that all his light that from him comes that shewes them sin waite for his power to cleanse them from sin and raise them out of the fallen and dead estate by the power of his resurrection to live in pure obedience to God We are by these the world calls their Ministers and Teachers withstood as Iannes and Iambres withstood Moses But the Lord is making them daily manifest that all shall see their folly and by them be no more deceived 2 Tim. 3.8 9. And as the heathen Phylosophers before written encountred Paul so hath these men encountred with us as before written for witnessing Jesus the resurrection and the true light that lightneth every one that comes into the world And as Tertullus the heathen Orator accused Paul before Felix Acts 24.1 5. We have found this man a pestilent fellow and mover of sedition amongst all the Iews throughout the world and a ring-leader of the sect of the Nazarens The same spirit that was in the heathen Orator Tertullus that led him to accuse Paul before Felix did Edward bowles whom the people of the world calls Minister and teaches in the high place in York manifest to be in him who never had spoken to me when he by that dark spirit was led to give in an information against me and at the time when it were expected I should have the priviledg of the Law that theeves and murtherers had by it to be tryed and my accusers to appear face to face the said Edward Bowles did not appear to prove against me what was written in the Information neither a perfect copie of it would he or they that had it in keeping give 〈◊〉 when it was demanded least their works of darknesse should be brough●●o light but what was brought to light when it was demanded of Edward Bowles This is a perfect copie that he wrote with his own hand as followeth It is informed that on William Deusbery a ringleader of the persons called Quakers goes up and down the country of York and is now in the west riding thereof dispersing principles prejudicall to the truth of the Gospel and peace of the Common-wealth It is therefore desired that seeing no man is allowed publickly to exercise his gifts to a particular Congregation unlesse he be first tryed and approved that the said William Deusbery may not be permitted to go up and down from place to place teaching untill he receive approbation of some persons who shall be thought fit to judge how agreable his principles are to truth and peace This is the substance of what I delivered into Mr. Payler but the particular words I cannot exactly remember but I believe they doe not any thing considerably vary from this Paper E. B. This man whom Edward Bowles call Mr. Payler was the fore-man of the Grand Jury to whom he delivered the information against me that they it might deliver to Hugh Windham who sate Judge of life and death at the general Assises holden at York about the time of the 13 and 14 dayes of the first moneth called March 1653. Upon the sight of the information given in against me the Judge granted a VVarrant in the open Court to the men that was in Commission to doe Justice in Yorkshire to apprehend me VVhich

had it transgrest but again ●o prison did mee commit to answer at the Assizes holden at Northampton the 10 and 12 day of the first month called March 1654. And three times I was there brought before Matthew Hail who did sit judge of life and death to answer what might be objected against me and the last time I before him was brought Hugh VVindham was with him who then was in commission with to have judged the cause in righteousnesse between me and my accusers and though not any accuser appeared against me to prove mee the transgressor of any Law neither would these that sate to judge my cause any Law to me read that any evidence given in against me was the transgression of but they me committed to prison where I had been amongst those arraigned for fellony and murther so under all these lies and aspertions false accusations I suffer and instead of being cleared of them when I was brought before those that are in Commission to judge with righteous judgement more accusations is laid upon me by them which was done by John Parker at the general Sessions before written and Hugh VVindham at the general Assizes before mentioned which both did accuse me in the open Court before the people that I was a seducer and when I required them to make manifest wherein I did seduce any they would not answer to what then was required and a copie of the ground of the evidence they pretend they have against me they denied to be given me in all places where they have proceeded against me as is formerly written least their wo●ks of darknesse should come to light and their folly made manifest and truth cleared of the lies and false accusations with which they blind the eyes of many and cause them to stumble at the wayes of truth in speaking evil of the things they know not as is manifest in what is written So for the truth sake I bare testimony of and it to clear from all lies and aspe●sions cast upon it which hath caused the simple to stumble at the way of truth and that they no longer be turned aside by the lying spirit who every way seeks to murther and destroy the truth from the earth in persecuting the bodies of the Saints and shutting them up in prison under the names of blasphemers deceivers seducers and disturbers of the peace so make lies their refuge as that persecuting spirit ●ver did in all ages to stop the lying mouth and for the simple sake that desires in the truth of their hearts to know the leadings of the spirit of truth in the way to know the onely true God I here publickly declare to the inhabitants of England and to all that dwell upon the earth what I was in the fallen estate and how the Lord raised me up by the arm of his mighty power and carried me on through the great work of regeneration that all may know the truth I am sent to bear testimony to the consciences of those that dwell upon the earth is not any seducing nor contrary to the truth of the Gospel but is according to the truth as it is in Jesus He that hath an eye to see let him see and ●n ear to hear let him hear The first Birth I Was conceived in sin and brought forth in iniquity and in that state lived and delighted in pride and pleasures lightnesse and vanity as all doth in that nature untill I were about eight years of age though before that time when I did live in vanity the light in my conscience did witnesse against mee and caused some trouble in me but I departed from the light and so followed the counsell of my own heart that lead mee into vanity to live without the fear of God And about the time when I was eight years of age of my natural birth the word of the Lord came unto me I created thee for my glory an account thou must give to me for all thy words and actions done in the body which word enlightned my heart and opened the book of conscience in me where all was written I had done in the body ever since I was a child or had any remembrance and when I had read my condition how I had lived without God who created me for his glory The word of the Lord then came unto me Shall the axe boast it self against him that heweth therewith or shall the saw magnifie it self against him that shaketh it As if the staffe should shake it self against him that lif●eth it up or as if the staffe should lift up it self as if it were no wood and by the power of the word of the Lord that spoke in me my understanding was enlightned and my conscience bore witness that it was my condition I had lifted up my self against the livi●g God in living without his fear who created me to live in obedience to him but I had lived in disobedience to him untill that day so deep sorrow seized upon me and I knew not what to do that I might get acquaintance with the God of my life who created me for his own praise and glory then I ceased from my vain conversation which I had lived in and began to read the Scriptures and books and mourn and pray to a God I knew not where he was but expected him without looking up towards the firmament where my carnal imagination told me he was and as I had heard those the world calls Ministers whom I went to hear whose words did witnesse with my carnal imagination of God they said he was above the skies calling it heaven but I felt the hand of the Lord within me executing justice upon the wicked in me and what way ever I turned to seek him in observations thither the flaming sword turned which was placed against me to keep the way of the tree of life and executed the righteous justice of God upon me so I stood before the Throne of the Lamb reading in my mournfull estate the sentence of condemnation that passed upon me from the glory of his presence and in this condemned estate I continued and through the ignorance where God was what his worship was I strove to satisfie his justice in outward observations imitating what the Saints did sometimes in fasting and prayer which was the practise of Cornelius and others of the Saints of the most high God as I found recorded in the Scripture of Truth But notwithstanding all my strict walking in observations in which I was seeking the Kingdom of God I found him not but the flaming sword cut me down so my sorrow increased for I found none in my condition that I could declare it to Then it pleased the Lord to order my friends in the flesh to put me to keep the sheep where I was retired from company so my mind was kept in my mournfull estate where my great

hath led me through the gates of the City into the new Ierusalem where there is nothing enters that works abomination or makes a lye but what is written in the Lambs book of life where my soul now feeds upon the tree of life which I had so long hungred and thirsted after that stands in the Paradise of God where the●e is no more curse nor night but the Lord God and the Lamb is my light and life for ever and ever I witness I am regenerated and born again of the immortal seed and hath pertaked on the first resurrection on whom the second death hath no power And this I declare to all the inhabitants in England and all that dwell upon the earth that God alone is the teacher of his people and hath given to every one a measure of Grace which is the light that comes from Christ that checks and reproves for sin in the secret of the heart and conscience and all that wait in that light which comes from Christ which is the free gr●ce of God for the power of Jesus Christ to destroy sin and to guide them in obedience to the light so shall they come to know the onely true God and Father of light in Christ Jesus who is the way to him And 〈◊〉 I witnesse to all the sons of men that the knowledge of eternall life I came not to by the letter of the Scripture nor hearing men speak of the name of God I came to the true knowledge of the Scripture and the eternall rest they testify it in Christ by the inspiration of the Spirit of Jesus Christ the Lyon of the Tribe of Iudah who alone is found worthy to open the seales of the book and I witnesse none else can for he alone opened the seales of the book in me and sealed it up to my soul by the te●timony of his own spirit according to his own promise I will bind up the testimony and seale the Law amongst my D●sciples and I will write my Law in their hearts and put my spir●● 〈◊〉 ●heir inward parts and they shall not depart from me ne●ther shall they need to reach every man his neighbour and every man h●s brother for all shall know me from the least of them to the greatest for I will be merciful to their unrighteousnesse and their sins and in●qu●ties will I remember no more and all my child●en shall be taught of me saith the Lord God and great shall be the peace of my ch●ldren and this here declared the Scriptures witnesse and I witnesse the Scriptures fulfilled in me Praises pra●ses Hallelu●ah and eternal praises be unto thee Lord God Almighty who ha●h taken unto thee thy great power to sit upon thy throne and to the Lamb for evermore It being charged on me my imprisonment to be j●st untill I give a reason of the hope of my calling and that I am u●willing so to do to stop the ly●●g mouth of the false accuser and to clear the truth of the lies layd on it as before written and in love to the souls of the people that they the truth may know as it is in Jesus Here I have declared the work of the mighty God in revealing his Son in me who led me on my journey through the dark world where I passed through great tribulations as forme●ly written until I came to the end of the world over it to rejoyce in the power of my God 1 Cor. 10.11 upon whom the ends of the world are come whom the whole world that lies in wickedness hates and persecutes but to the pure single eye that is not of the world I lay this before which is written that all which it mindes may see the truth I bear testimony of is not any Popish Tenet though I was questioned concerning them at the general Assizes holden at Northampton the 10 and 12 dayes of the first month called March 1654. neither is it seducing nor blasphemy nor prejudicial to the truth of the Gospel or peace of the Nation but according to 〈◊〉 truth of the everlasting Gospel and sound peace of the Nation for which testimony I am still kept in bonds in the common Goal in Northampton numbred amongst the transgressors in the low prison with those arrained for fellony and murther waiting in rest and peace till the sufferings of the righteous seed be fulfilled And all you that are enemies to the truth of God persecuting it under the names as formerly written calling the preaching of the truth seducing this I declare and confesse unto you in the presence of God after the way you call seducing d● I worship the Lord God of my fathers and witnesse fulfi●●● what is written in the Law and the Prophets he that can receive me let him W. D. Dear friends whose minds are turned to the effectual light that comes from Christ all mind your own measure and be content in what the Lord hath committed to you with the light judge that which would draw your minds to look forth at others conditions and in impatiency to covet what the Lord ha●h given to them before it be manifest to you be faithful every one in your own measure and in patience wait in the light for the unlim●ted spirit of Christ your life to open the seals of the book and make known unto you the mystery of eternal life which he will daily reveal in you that are faithfull in your own measure to follow the Lord in what he makes manifest to you whom he hath called into his Vinyard at the ninth and eleventh hour be faithfull to the Lord in walking in obedience to him in the light hee will make a short work in the earth for his seed sake and your reward shall be rest and peace in the presence of God in Christ with those that came into the Vinyard the third and sixth hours and laboured the heat of the day God almighty be with you his chosen servants and children and all in your measure keep in his eternall power bold valiant and faithfull unto the end and crown you with eternall glory in Christ one Judge Lord and King God over all blessed for ever Amen To all you that rule ●n England from the highest to the lowest whom the Lord hath betrusted with power to see the peace be kept and to judge the cause of the people He hath given you power theri causes to judge with righteous judgement the evil doers to punish and the righteous set free out of the hands of those that oppresse them This is the word of the Lord God to you THat you lend not your ears to the counsel of your own hearts or to the counsel of any without you that tempts you to draw your mindes from the pure counsel of God which is the light that comes from Christ Jesus and calls on you in your consciences to judge with righteous judgement as