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A77554 Now heare this all yee persecuting rulers, preists [sic], and magistrates throughout the world. Woe, woe, terror, terror, and feirce [sic] indignation from the Lord God, even the true testimony written in this book, / by the servant of the Lord Daniel Baker. D. B. (Daniel Baker), fl. 1650-1660.; Bache, Humphrey. 1659 (1659) Wing B482C; ESTC R170425 6,824 8

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it is very unreasonable and unequall oppression and cruelty for any one who beares the name Read a Book entituled an Epistle to all the Christian Magistrates and powers in the whole Christendome Sold at the Bull and Mouth neer Aldersgate And another sheet entituled the voyce of thunder especially of a Christian Magistrate or Chris tian or of a member of a Church of Christ to take foode or rayment by force tyranny and cruelty from the poor and needy the Widdowes and Fatherless after they have wrought hard for their bread then to have their bred food and raiment with violence force and cruelty taken from them without mercy pitty or compassion by thee Oh John Waterton how hard will it be for thee with many more that 's in thy nature to finde repentance unto Life for in these and such like cruelties hast thou long exercised thy selfe now the everlasting light of life is springing up and will shine over the whole Earth and spread from Sea to Sea for it comprehends the darknesse and fathomes the depths of Satans wiles his Lawes and Decrees and espyeth out the turnings and twinings of the most subtle Serpents and thou in any wise cannot be hid from this eye the light the Rodde of whose mouth will smite the Earth the breath of whose Lippes shall slay the wicked who are as the troubled Sea that cannot rest as thou did manifest thy selfe the last first day in thy rage and fury without mercy pitty or compassion To my wife and children who are left as the widdow and father less I being cast into prison by unreasonable men because of my testimony in obedience to the Lord against the deeds of the world that lyes in wickednesse for they are evill and wicked and the Lord is pleading with the inhabitants of the earth for these things and thy worke and place should have been hadst thou been a man of God the last first day which thou calls the Sabboth to be a terror to evell doers and bruitish people that are with thee in Cain Esau Nimrod and Ismaells life and nature to have still'd and restrained them from offring and doing violence against them that depart from evill by the feare of the Lord but contrary wise thou did as much as in thee lay strengthen the hands of the wicked to make a prey of the innocent that fear and obey the pure spirit of the Lord in doing the thing that 's Just Equall and good in his sight though the heathen rage and persecute and imagine vaine things yet it shall goe well with them that feare the Lord who is and is to be worshiped in spirit and in truth out of which thou art otherwise I say thou would not have so strengthned the hands of evill doers in going about to ruinate my wife and family who I say was left as a widdow and fatherlesse by throwing one of my servants into prison and putting the other in the stocks and making as it were a prey of my goods and venting forth bitter wicked vile threatnings and unsavoury words as is thy usuall manner so to do not becomming a man thou bearest the name of but art not speaking these words of my wife calling her Baker's Wench and my Maid Bakers Impe and of such sober people that could not doe nor act violence with the wicked calling them Bakers Imps and sometimes saying I was a rogue oftentimes telling people I was mad and Baker thou wilt be in hell ere long when I bid thee repent fear God and do justice these and such like unsound words and filthy abominations acted by thee which are for judgement and to be condemned came from thee and the eternall eye and eare of the Lord hath seen and heard these things and behold the light of life is arising who with the hand of his power is comming neare to judgement with which he will plead with the oppressors and the cause of the innocent suffring seed of Christ in the male and in the female Yea he is arising who comes not to send peace on the earth but a sword Here followth some particulars written in a mittimus under John Waterton's hand who committed my servant Richard Taylor to new B●ide-well who performed the duty of his place and trust and honest fidelity about the space of halfe a yeare and as the duty of a good servant is hath performed his worke the time of his being my servant so that I have no evist thing to lay to his charge and this I testifye that he served under the command of Captaine Whore in the service of the Common-wealth immediately before and since he came to be my servant who cheifly went through all my business in my honest imployment for the maintenance of my Wife and Family I being in bonds my self and this my Servant by force taken out of my house and cast in to prison by John Waterton called a Justice of peace with the mittimus stuft with lyes slanders and reproaches As the moderate reader may read and understand MIDDLESEX To the Governours of the house of correction These are in the names of the keepers of the libertyes of England c. To receive into your custody the body of Richard Tailor being a dissolute and disorderly person and cannot give any good account of his living nor whence he came Now herein be it known to thee John Waterton that thou hast much abused belyed and falsly accused the poor man who did and yet may testify to thy face that he was my servant and that he had been so long with me as above mentioned about halfe a yeare and this was a good account of his living I beare reccord also though thou have caused such lyes and standers to be written under thy hand of the poor man my servant and moreover he told thee concerning his name where it was to be found in the muster rolles and also told thee his name and when James Brock asked John Waterton why he put my servant in prison his answer was because he would do it then James Brock asked if this were an answer beseeming a Christian much more a Christian Magistrate and he said twice it is good enough for thee And thou telling people concerning the people of the Lord who worship him in spirit and in truth that they were a company of Whores and Rogues and that they met together to play the whore and the rogue and this is true that thou said so but in the feare of the Lord in the behalfe of his innocent suffering people behold I testify that it is utterly false and these unclean wicked ahominations is hated abhorred and utterly denyed by us A●d moreover John Waterton thou saidst to Jeffery Winchurst when he said to thee that it was better to suppresse the Ale-houses which were so many and the cause of much sin in the land then thou told him it was long of him and he answered thee it was long of thee and other