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A75884	A fannaticks letter sent out of the dungeon of the gate-house prison of VVestminster: to all his brethren in the three nations at liberty; and also in the several goales and dungeons therein, that are under all the principles of the doctrines of Christ, Heb. 6. I, 2. By Henry Adis, a baptized believer, undergoing the name of a free-willer; and also most ignomineously by the tongue of infamy, called a fannatick, or a mad man.	Adis, Henry.	1660 (1660)	Wing A579; Thomason E1084_6; ESTC R208012	21,559	25

deny us 2 Tim. 2. 12. And therefore let us take up a Resolution to follow him in this our Day in singlenesse of Soul and in our Innocency That we may be Blameless and Harmless the Sons of God without Rebuke in the midest of a Crooked and Perverse Generation among whom shine ye as Lights in the World Phil. 2. 15. giving no Offence in any thing that the Ministry be not blamed But in all things Approving our selves as the Ministers of God in much Patience in Affliction in Necessities in Distresses in Stripes in Imprisonments in Tumults in Labours in Watchings in Fasting by Pureness by Knowledge by Long-suffering by Kindness by the Holy Ghost by Love Unfeigned by the Word of Truth by the Power of God by the Armour of Righteousness on the Right hand and on the Left by Honour and Dishonour by evil Report and good Report as Deceivers and yet True as unknown and yet well known as Dying and behold we Live as Chastened and not Killed as Sorrowful yet alwayes Rejoycing as Poor yet making many Rich as having Nothing yet possessing all Things 2 Cor. 3. For ye see your Calling Brethren how that not many wise men after the Flesh not many Mighty not many Noble are called but God hath Chosen the Foolish things of the World to Confound the Wise And God hath Chosen the Weak Things of the World to Confound the Things that are Mighty and Base Things of the World and Things that are Despised hath God Chosen yea and Things which are not to bring to nought the things that are that no Flesh should glory in his presence And seeing it is so my Brethren I shall Earnestly Desire you in the words of our Apostle That you also who are Troubled rest patiently with us when the Lord Jesus shall be Revealed from Heaven with his Mighty Angels in flaming Fire taking Uengeance on them that know not God and that Obey not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ who shall be punished with everlasting Destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the Glory of his Power when he shall come to be Glorified in his Saints and to be Admired in all them that Beléeve because our Testimony among you was Beléeded So that as you have Cause to Joy in us so we have great Cause of rejoycing in you that we yet stand fast in one Faith And the Churches of God have Cause to Glory in you for your Patience and Faith in all your Persecutions and Tribulations that ye endure which is a manifest token of the Righteous Judgment of God that ye may be counted worthy of the Kingdom of God for which we also suffer 2 Thess. 2. And thus if any of us suffer as Christians let us not be ashamed but let us glorifie God on this behalf As for you my Brethren that are of Kent and other Places who have all your Livelihoods and some of you all that you could be Trusted for as you are Servers in of Stores and Officers in Ships and Seamen and Labourers in the several Yards appertaining to Shipping my trouble is great for you to hear of your deplorable and sad Condition in that Officers make such use of your Tenderness of Conscience in that you cannot Swear so barbarously to use you Refusing to let you have Supplies for the Relieving your poor Families yet be of good Comfort and Roul your selves upon the All-sufficient God For mine own part I cannot but be a fellow Feeler of your sad Conditions for the Case is mine own with one that is too Great for me to deal withal and for more then I am worth but wait we upon God and in his due time he will Relieve us And therefore let us Comfort our selves in the Lord and here what the Apostle speaks James 5. 1. who saith Go to now ye Rich men wéep and howl for your Miseries that shall come upon you your Riches are Corrupted and your Garments Moth-eaten your Gold and Silver is corrupted and the Rust of them shall be a Witness against you and shal eat your flesh as it were Fire Ye have heaped Treasure together for the last Dayes Behold the Hire of the Labourers which have reaped down your fields which is of you kept back by fraud Cryeth and the Cry of them which have reaped are entered into the Ears of the Lord of the Sabbath Ye have lived in Pleasures on the Earth and been Wanton ye have nourished your Hearts as in the Day of slaughter ye have Condemned and Killed the Just and he doth not resist you Be Patient therefore Brethren unto the Coming of the Lord And Consider that there is one in Power in Heaven above them and one in Earth that is his Vicegerent intrusted under him and set up by him to be a Terrour to evil-Workers and a Praise to them that do well who in due time may be made acquainted of it and give a Remedy in it In the mean time my Beloved Brethren be ye steadfast unmoveable alwayes abounding in the Work of the Lord for as much as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord To Conclude I shall impart unto you my Resolution freely and shall let you know as to my present Condition though I am in a Dungeon yet I had rather be there as through Mercy I can say I am with a clear Conscience then be in the Kings Palace with a clogged Conscience For mine own part I with others have had Tenders of Liberty upon Engaging as others did the which we dare not do least we ensnare our selves for now we are as to our Meetings in this Condition we have yet the Word of a King for the quiet Enjoyment of our Meetings the which we had from Breda and since Confirmed to some of our Friends by verbal Expressions as well as in the Act of Oblivion and in his Declaration for Ecclesiastical Affairs and that upon Condition which Condition is not yet nor God assisting never shall on our part be broken For as we have Publickly Declared our selves in former times under the other Powers to be a Peaceable People and utterly against both Swearing and Fighting as by my Declaration annexed at the End of my Fannaticks Mite is apparent the which through Mercy I shall Resolve rather to Die then in the least to violate And here some men are ready to say as once the Brethren of David did to him who Queried the Reason of Davids forwardness in the Work of God Whose Answer was Is there not a Cause 1 Sam. 17. 29. So must I say at this Day Is there not a Cause Is not the Israel of God now Defied by the Great Goliahs of our Times Therefore I must say as once Jeptha did in another Case Judg. 1 1. 35. I have opened my mouth to the Lord and I cannot go back And when I am Solicited and Perswaded to betray the Cause of Christ and break his lawes by Complying with Engagements