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A91466	The fruits of a fast, appointed by the churches gathered against Christ and his kingdom, who go about to mock God with their outside-worship, and appointed fasts, and dayes of voluntary humiliation. Or, A declaration of the persecution of a messenger of the Lord, by a people who go under the name of Independants, in Essex, who have set themselves in the enmity of their spirits to oppose the truth of God, calling it a lye, and persecuting his messengers as deceivers, and wanderers, wherein their persecuting spirits is made manifest, and them to be in Cains generation, and stranges to the spirit of Christ, which vener persecuted, and so are noen of his, Rom.8:9. And also, of the unjust dealing of Judge Hills, ... And also, severall queries, that was sent ot the priests and magistrates, shich may be serviceable for them, or any other to answer, whom they do concern. / By ... James Parnell.	Parnell, James, 1637?-1656.	1655 (1655)	Wing P530; Thomason E854_14; ESTC R207483	31,427	32

came in upon the seventh day of the week and upon the second day of the next week I was brought into the Court before Judge Hills who sate upon life and death and there I stood for a gazing-stock a while and then the Judg commanded them to take me away and did not say any thing to me for then I was singled from the rest onely had Irons upon one of my hands then upon the next day morning the Goaler sent his man to take off my other Irons and so in the afternoon I was had before the Judge without any Irons and the Goaler took off my hat and cast it upon the floore and then the Clerk read a long Indictment full of falsehoods and asked me if I was guilty and I told him I denyed all guilt and called for my accusers and the Judge said I might see my accusers and told me I might say guilty or not guilty and I told him I was not guilty so they called twelve men to try me and the Foreman was a drunkard and they bid me object against any of them and I told them I owned none out of the doctrine of Christ and all that swore was out of the Doctrine of Christ and they had all sworn before my face and therefore I openly denyed by them to be tryed yet nevertheless they went on with their work and Priest VVillis was called and he swore against me and swore falsly too and the two men called Justices swore against me and swore falsly too and one of the Justices m●● so called and another man swore against me and swore falsly too yet all these false witnesses was heard to the full what they would say against me and thus the leader of the people caused them to erre for if the teacher be a swearer and a false swearer what may the people be for Christ saith swear not at all but let your yea be yea and your nay be nay for whatsoever is more is evil and the Apostle saith Mat. 5.34.35 36 37 Iam. 5.12 2 Iohn 9. in all things my brethren swear not at all c and he that abides not in the Doctrine of Christ hath not God and thus like people like Priest all live without God in the world And when their false witnesses had spoken what they could against me they brought in the Letter which I had sent to the men called Justices in Reply to their Mittimus and it was openly read in the COURT and I owned it for my Name was to it and the reading of it was much satisfaction to many that understood it and they also brought another Paper that I writ against the Idols Temple and the deceiver therein both which shall follow in order afterward and then when they were both read Iudge Hilles took them both and repeated over unto the Iury all that the could gather by wrong interpretation and construction against me whereby to incense the Jury against me and told them if they did not find me guilty the sin would lye upon their heads and he as it were passed the sentence upon me before the Jury went forth yea and told them what they should do whenas they had sworn before to speak the truth and nothing but the truth and I had charged them to take heed what they did for I told them none could judge betwixt truth and heresie but by the spirit of the Lord but when I would have spoken somthing to the Jury before they went forth the Judge interrupted me and would not suffer me though one of the Jury desired it neither would he suffer that the Jury should have the papers that was brought in against me though I required it but sought all that he could against me true or false although I had sent him a true declaration of the grounds of my imprisonment with the hands of four Witnesses to it neither would he suffer that to be read and that which I would have spoken unto the Jury was to clear it unto them that it was no scandalous nor reproachfull words to call a corrupt Magistrate a corrupt Magistrate and to call an unjust Judge and Lawyer an unjust Judge and Lawyer or a persecutor a persecutor or a deceiver a deceiver all which was brought against me and called railing and scandalous for by that account they might have taxed all the Prophets for railing and scandaling for they open and often declared against the corruption of the Priests and Rulers as you may read in many places in the Prophets Records Isajah called the Priests greedy dumb dogs Isa 56.11 Ezek. 34. Iohn 10. Lu. 13 14 15. Luke 13.31 32. Ioh. 3.14 and the Prophets called them Idoll-shepheards and the like and Christ called them hirelings and Christ called the Rulers hypocrites and Herod a Fox and read the 23. of Matthew and see if you may not as wel call that railing and yet in all this they did not raile nor scandalize any but gave to every nature its name and due reproofe whether they would hear or forbear but this is the condemnation of the world light is come into the world and men love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evil So when the Jury came into bring in their evidence they could charge me with nothing but the Paper I had writ in reply to my Mittimus after I was imprisoned which Paper I had before owned in the open Court with my name to it but the Indictment they could not charge me with for it tended to a Riot which I was far from or any that owned me but the Judge and the Clerk both dishonestly strove to draw words out of the Fore-man of the Jury which the rest did not consent to neither could he speak their minds but others of the Jury was fain to speak themselves but nothing was cleared against me then the Goaler was commanded to take me away when I was gone forth of the Court they sent for me again and the Judge imposed two fines upon me to the value of about forty pounds the one he said was for the contempt of the Magistracy the other for the contempt of the Ministry for he said the Lord PROTECTOR had charged him to see to punish such persons as should contemn either Magistracy or Ministry But what a Ministry is this that stands in need of an outward Magistracy to uphold it against a people that comes with nothing but spiritual weapons to defend themselves against spiritual wickedness which now sits in high places but this Ministry is contrary to the Ministry of Christ whose weapons are not carnal but spiritual and also several of mine accusers stood upon the Bench hard by the Judge several times whispering of him in the eare 2 Cor. 10.4 and leavening and incensing his minde against me and I reproved one of them in the open Court for so doing and yet these things was suffered and also the Judge gave charge unto the Goaler to let no

should pay one penny for the liberty of my body in this cause would be as much as if I paid the whole fine which thou hast unjustly laid upon me for therein I should own my self a Transgressor where I am not guilty and also a bought liberty is bondage to my spirit but my liberty under thy bonds is bondage to thee which liberty thou canst not rob me of with all that thou canst do for it is the free gift of God which none can take away though thou wilt not allow me in thy bonds to have the outward liberty that thou allows to Thieves and Murderers and Fornicators that is to have my friends and acquaintance to come to seeme wherein the very heathen wil condemn thee who when they had committed Paul to prison said Forbid none of his friends and acquaintance to come to fee him Acts 22.24 Therefore now read how thou exceeds the Heathen in persecution and injustice though I am a free-born subject in England therefore let the life of all the Christians condemn thee who never was persecutors And this of the Lord I was moved to write which is the VVord of the Lord unto thee whether thou wil hear or forbear in the peace of my conscience I do rest in the VVill of God Known to thee by the name Iames Parnel And now a few words unto you who call your selves gathered Churches who go under by the name of Independants in Essex you are gathered by the wil of man and are joyned by the wil of man and so stands in the will of man and are upheld by the wil of man by which you are begotten but stil alive in the worlds nature in the worlds customes fashions and traditions in the worlds fellowship words and waies and rudiments only differing from others in judgement opinion or profession wherein is your life in high notions and feigned apprehensions and false applications and glorious expressions and customary duties and vain Traditions which all appertains to the great Image which all the world worships by which they are deceived whose head is gold and brest of silver and thighs of brass and legs of Iron and feet part Iron and part clay and in the same nature ye are found with the world the day doth declare it and you to be the enemies and strangers to the light which is not of the world which is now come into the world testifying against the world and the deceit of the world the deceivers in the world and the profession of the world and this is the condemnation of the world Iob. 3.19 that light is come into the world and men love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evill in which evil you are found despising and sett●ng at nought the Corner-stone and standing in the enmity of your spirits and joyning with the powers of the earth to persecute the life and power which now is manifest in the earth and is come to discover your empty shadows forms and fair shews of godliness but without life and power which you have set up in your imaginations and thereby are deceived and blinded and led in blindness so that you cannot see the light nor receive the substance now it is come and made manifest but stands up in your wills and wisdome to oppose the same and persecute it in the enmity of your spirits as if you hoped to kill the heir that the inheritance might be yours and therefore because you do despise this day of your visitation and reject slight the glad tydings which now are come to them that dwel upon the earth and revile and reproach persecute and slander the faithfull messengers of the Gospell rejoycing your hearts in their sufferings by you and amongst you therefore the Lord will rayse up a people out of the dust gather them from far to bear testimony unto his name and bear witness against you yea and shall sit down with Abraham Isaac and Iacob in the kingdome of the Son and you and such as you shall be cast out into Tophit prepared of old for hypocrites and unbelievers therefore now read your portions ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in hearts cars who do alwayes resist the Holy Ghost as did your fathers so do ye but the greater wil be your condemnation who go about to mock God with your wil-worship with your calling of Assemblies and Solemn Meetings with your appointed Fasts and dayes of voluntary Humiliation with your long Prayers and feigned duties all which is done out of the Light and so are your own works acted by selfe for selfe But who hath required these things at your hands it is all abomination to the Lord his soul loaths it for your sacrifices are as Cain's for your are found in Cain's nature envying and persecuting the righteous yea the witness lies slain in your streets therefore wo is unto you who go on in the way of Cain for upon you shal come all the righteous blood shed from righteous Abel until now and your professions stinks in the nostrils of the Lord for you have lift up your hands against him and his Annoynted opened your mouths in blasphemy and false reports against the truth yea you are blinde and stumble at the noon day you come neer the Lord with your lips but your hearts runs awhoring after other Lovers and you know not the only true God that dwels in Temples made without hands whose worship is in spirit and in truth but would limit the unlimited under your wils as if he were not a God of might but that you could controle him with the arm of flesh but be not deceived God is not mocked such as you sowe such shall you reap and your end shal be according to your works Gal. 6.7 for our God is a God of Judgement and Justice wil avenge the cause of the innocent upon you his adversaries yea and though your Teachers do cry peace peace unto you because you put into their mouths and so daubs you up with untempred morter that you cannot see your wound and so heals you slightly yet you shal know that our God is a God of Truth and his word shal stand for ever and their sorcery shal appear and their witchcraft shal be laid open and the cup of fornication wherewith they have made drunk and deluded the Nations shal be taken from them and the cup of the wrath of the Almighty given them to drink their reward and then shal you behold the Harlot with whom you have committed fornication who now lies in your bosomes bewitching you with a golden cup with whom you have defiled your garments then to be cast into the bottomless pit where you shal all be tormented together who now partake of her pleasures and thus shal you fal amongst them that fal in the day that I visit you saith the Lord. And all you my dear friends you scattered and despised ones in and about the County

Minister of Antichrist and do you distinguish the one from the other 11. What Scripture hast thou to give unto the world Davids conditions to be sung in a Meeter 12. What rule have you in the Scripture to abide in a certain place and to agree with the people for so much a year for preaching as 40 60 or 100. or 200. l. as you can get it 13. How and by what are you gathered and united who calls your solves a Church 14. And what is the Church in God and whether to it you be come yea or nay 15. What is the Baptisme into the Church and whether to it you be come yea or nay 16 And Scripture have you to sprinckle children with water and to what end do you do it 17. Whether you be of one heart and one mind as the true Church was yea or nay 18. Whether you have passed from death to life yea or nay 19. What is the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ and whether to it you be come yea or nay 20. Whether he that believes is not born of God and whether he that is born of God doth not commit sin yea or nay 21. Why do not you maintain your Teacher but let him rob the world instead of robbing other Churches and so is chargeable unto the world 22. Whether do you own and hold up the first Priest-hood that took Tythes or the second Priest-hood that took no Tythes and which do you deny seeing you pay tythes and your Teacher takes tythes yea or nay 23. Why do you own and hold up such that are called of men Master and have the chiefest place in the Assemblie and stand praying in the Synagogue and love greetings in the Markets which Christ himself cryed wo against 24. How is Christ the light of the world and how doth he enlighten every one that cometh into the world if it be not in the conscience and whether that Light which comes from him be naturall yea or nay 25. How is the light the condemnation of the world if it be not in the conscience 26. And how is it said that he that doth evill hateth the light and wi●l not bring his deeds to the Light lest the Light should reprove him if it be not in the conscience whether that be a natural light which reproves for sin yea or nay 27. How did Paul turn peoples mindes from darkness to light if it be not in the conscience and whether that light was naturall which Paul was sent to turn the mindes of the Gentiles unto 28. Whether that light which shines in darkness be not one and the same with that which shines out of darkness yea or nay 29. And whether the light of the world be not a saving light in the least measure yea or nay and how can that be said to be naturall 30. Whether the Light which Iohn came to beare witness of was naturall or spirituall 31. How hath the grace of God which bringeth Salvation appeared to all men if it be not in the conscience and whether it be naturall 32. How doth it stand with the impartiall God to give to one man a measure of grace and not to another and yet require obedience from all 33. Whether the slothfull servant hath not a Talent as wel as the faithful though he hide it in the earth and what is that Talent 34. What is the account that God wil require of every one in the day of Judgment and how can he call all justly to an account and reward them according to their deeds if he hath not given to every one a Talent 35. What is that which leads to repentance and whether that which leads to repentance be not in the conscience and whether it be naturall yea or nay 36. And where do you read in the Scripture of a naturall light to be in the conscience 37. What is the redemption and what is the end of Christs coming 38. Whether the redemption by Christ be not as ful in every in every respect as the fall by Adam and what is the fall by Adam 39. And whether you do not go about to make the commands of Christ unjust who saith Be ye perfect as your heavenly father is perfect and you say it cannot be while you are upon the earth then how is it your rule 40. Will you own a purgatory or where is the place betwixt heaven and earth where man shall be clensed if not upon the earth seeing no unclean thing can inherit the kingdome of God 41 Whether do they deny Christ come in the flesh that witness forth perfection from sin here or they that tel people they can never be perfect or be wholly set free from sin so long as they are upon the earth and whether such be not the Ministers of Antichrist yea or nay 42. Where had you this Doctrine to tell people the light in the conscience is naturall and that Christ hath not enlightned every one that cometh into the world 43. And whether in this you do not bring another Doctrine in opposition to the Doctrine of Christ who saith he is the light of the world and doth enlighten every one that cometh into the world 44. And where had you this Doctrine to tel people they could never be wholly clensed or be set free from sin so long as they are upon the Earth 45. And whether this be not in opposition to the Doctrine of Christ who saith Be ye perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect 46. Whether God justifies any in their sin and whether sanctification go not before justification yea or nay 47. Whether you do not seek justification by works who put one another upon prayer and duties observations Ordinances and commands without the Light in imitation of the Letter and whether these be not your own works which are done out of the light yea or nay 48. What is your own righteousness and what is the righteousness of Christ and how do you distinguish betwixt the one and the other 49. And whether he that is justified by the righteousness of Christ doth not dwel in it and it in him and whether he that dwels in the righteousness of Christ doth sin yea or nay 50 Whether any can walk according to the Scripture but by the Light of Christ and whether any that are guided by the Light of Christ do or can act contrary to the Scripture and whether this Light be not a sufficient guide if it be owned and followed 51. How is the Scripture left unto the world for a rule who know not the Light seeing to them it is a parable and as a book sealed 52. And what is the word and whether there be any other word of God then one 53. What is the death that hath passed over all men forasmuch as all men have sinned and whether this death you ever passed yea or nay 54. What is that which is lost which Christ comes to seek and what is that which