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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A60206	To all the inhabitiants of the town of Youghal who are under the teaching of James Wood ...	Sicklemore, James.	1657 (1657)	Wing S3750; ESTC R24541	13,617	9

To all the Inhabitants of the Town of Youghal who are under the Teachings of James Wood and especially to ye who calls him your Pastor and are Members of his Church I write unto you as I am moved of the Lord and lay these following things before you to be read in the fear of God and seriously consider thereof that you may no longer be deceived but may come to see your own state and condition truly and to know it and the foundation you build upon and the rottenness of it And my heart and soul's desire is That your eyes may be opened that you may see the Deceiver and how you are deceived and may see the way that leads out of Deceipt into Truth which is life to all that know it ON the 23 of the sixth Month 1657. towards the evening hearing that Iames Wood was nigh to the place of my outward being being come thither as I was informed not long after his new Ordination and late sending forth to preach as it was manifest by the sending notice of it abroad among the neighbors amongst whom I was neglected though when any Minister of the Gospel came to my House I gave notice thereof without respect of persons till they refused to come and so had not the convenience of speaking to him as I might have had had not the day been spent I sent a few Lines to him and some Queries desiring an Answer unto them which Letter and Queries I have here inserted and am willing to leave it to that of God in all your Consciences to judge from what spirit they proceeded The LETTER James Wood If I had had timely notice of thy being so near this place I know no other but that I should have seen thy face this day but hearing not of it till this evening I have at this time only sent thee a few Queries here inclosed which I desire thee to Answer before thou goest out of the Country or if that time be too short for thee take them home with thee and send the Answers to him who thinks himself happy if he be found worthy to receive a Minister of Christ into his house called by the name of James Sicklemore Ballinlegane 23. of the sixth Month 1657. The Queries 1. Query What is the everlasting Gospel 2. Qu. Who is a Minister of the everlasting Gospel how is he made a Minister therof 3. Qu. Can any preach the Gospel but he who is made a Minister therof 4. Qu. Hath any Power authority to Preach the Gospel before he is made a Minister thereof is sent if not then tell me 5. Qu. What are those men that have a long time profest themselves to be Ministers of the Gospel and have been preaching of it as they say these 5 or 10 years or more and yet after all this time and Preaching receives Ordination from men and by men are chosen and sent forth to Preach 6. Qu. Whether those who were chosen and sent forth to Preach the Gospel had any certain dwelling place or did abide 3 or 4 years or more in one place 7. Qu. Who made Paul a Minister of the Gospel And who was it that sent him to Preach 8. Qu. What was the maintenance of Christs Ministers who by him were sent forth and what were they to live off 9 Qu. Hath his Ministers in this age any other maintenance and when was their maintenance changed For the sake of the simple these are given forth for whose satisfaction if thou beest a Minister of the Gospel it will lye upon thee to Answer them according to the Scriptures and not to slight it J. S. And although I was willing to give him what time he would desire for the Answering of those Queries and not to press it to him before his return yet he refused to give me any other Answer than these following Lines writ and sent to me in the bottom of my own Letter and so sent me the Queries and my Letter again His Letter followeth Captain Sicklemore I have received the above written and the inclosed and give you only this return That I know not your Rule for sending abroad your Queries nor mine to Answer them they savouring so much of Contention and Contradiction I yet think that I have sufficiently proved my Call to the Ministry before John Perrot and your Self if not to you yet to mine own satisfaction and of many else who I trust fear the Lord in simplicity I sorrow to see your Zeal if so it be so blind You have read surely Acts 13.1 2 3. and yet know Paul had Preach'd some years before But I determine to Answer no more of your Queries or Demands either by word of Mouth or Wrighting till both they and you shall breath out more of the Gospel This is from a servant of the Lord and his people in the Gospel Ja. Wood. Sixth Month 23 day 1657. Let not James Wood think it strange or take it ill That I direct not my speech to him in Answer to his Letter seeing he hath told me that he is determined to Answer no more of my Queries or Demands though I know not that before I desired any such thing from him till such and such a time Yet I cannot cease either from speaking or writing what the Lord hath commanded And this Answer is not to beget Contention as he would accuse me in part of his Letter but to lay open the deceipt of the Deceiver against whom I am a witness that the simple may no longer be ensnared and this for your sakes whose simple desires after God are not yet satisfied In the beginning of his Letter he tells me He knows not my Rule for sending abroad my Queries nor his to Answer them Answ I do not wonder if James Wood be unacquainted with my Rule for sending my Queries to him seeing he is so great an enemy and opposer of him who is my rule and guide Christ Jesus the light of the World who hath enlightned me and every one that cometh into the World and him I professe and no other and his light which shines in my conscience which checks and condemnes for sin do I love and own to be my rule that so by it I may be ruled and guided to do the will of God as it is revealed and manifested in me by his eternal Word and spirit by which spirit I was guided when I wrote those Queries And if J.W. were a Minister of the Gospel of Christ then could he not be ignorant of my rule for all his Ministers have his spirit which is infallible by which all things are seen and tryed and so that which is contrary to it comes to be known so that if my sending those Queries were not from the Lord but from another spirit he would quickly have known it if he had had the same spirit that all the Ministers of Christ had and they that have not his spirit are none of his