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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

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

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 D●ughters in the power of his spirit to run to and fro to declare his word WHICH Discovereth the state of England who according to her own lusts hath heaped up Teachers to her self that hath spoken smooth things to her calling her the beautifull Church and Spouse of Christ but in the day of tryall she is found in enmity to Christ in his appearance in his children and to be in the estate deluded from the spirit of truth recorded in 2 Tim. 4.2.3 Which cannot indure sound Doctrine having itching eares and turns them away from the truth to fables and now are Englands Teachers tryed she hath leaped up to her self and their doctrine proved and their Ministery made manifest in the great enmity they manifest against Christ in persecuting the bodies of his Saints them to destroy whom he hath sent to preach freely his eternal Word for which they are stoned beaten and imprisoned and many of Englands Teachers whom she upholds stirs up the people so to doe Being deceived not regarding what is spoken that neither fornicator nor idolator nor a adulterer nor effeminate nor abuser of themselves with mankind nor covetous nor drunkards nor revellers nor extortioners shall inherit the Kingdom of God 1 Cor. 6.9 10. A true testimony of him the world knows by name William Deusbery and in scorn calls Quaker who hath been by them imprisoned in York Darby Leicester and Northampton where he is now kept in the common Goal for the word of God and testimony of I●sus Ch●ist Also his Call to the Ministry of the everlasting Gospel by the still voyce of the Spirit of God and his mighty power destroying with the flaming sword the disobedient that would not stand in his counsell and causing the soul to submit to his counsel the light that comes from Christ in it to wait on him to open the seales of the Book and make known the mystery of eternall life to the soul the Scripture test●fie●h is in Christ the truth of it to know as it is in Iesus The word of the Lord to all in England whom the Lord hath betrusted with power from the highest to the lowest to see the peace be kept and to judg the cause of the People with righteous judgement VVith a lamentation over all in England who oppose Christ in his spiritual app●arance and to slight the day of your visitation to your own destruction From the common Goal in Northampton the 25. day of the 4. month 1655. LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert at the VVest end of Pau●s 1655. The Discovery of the great enmity of the Serpent against the seed of the woman which witnesse against him where he rules both in Ruler Priest and People Oh people in England AM I become your enemy because I tell you the truth and deales plainly with you in declaring the minde of the Lord unto you which in the eternal riches of his love he hath made known unto me by the word of God and testimony of Jesus Christ for which word and testimony I suffer outward bonds and persecutions as my Lord and Master did who was called a blasphemer Belzebub the Prince of Devils by the High Priests who cryed to the unjust Magistrates to deliver him up into their hands that their persecuting murthering spirits that thirsted after his blood might be satisfied which the unjust men in Authority to doe them a pleasure in satisfying their wills abused their power and delivered him up and though they proved not any thing against him they put him to death calling him a blasphemer and he sealed his testimony with his blood And all my holy Brethren Prophets and Apostles were called Blasphemers Hereticks Seducers and Deluders by the false Prophets High-Priests and Pharisees then who professed the name of God in words but denyed him in their practises and persecuted his children who were guided by his word under the names formerly written as I and my brethren is now persecuted by the same generation which professe God and Christ in words but denying him in their practises living in pride and pleasures envy and mu●der every way persecuting and seeking to destroy the bodies of the Saints of the most high God where the righteous seed is raised up which witnesseth against their unrighteous practises and discovers them in their secret hypocrisie which is hid under their voluntary humility which causeth them to appear what they are and manifests what was hid in their hearts under their faire coverings of outward formes and profession of Religion which they now manifest forth by their fruit whose children they are in obedience to their father the Devil who was a persecuter and a murtherer from the beginning whose works they now doe that professe Christ in words but denies to be guided by his spirit for his spirit is no persecuter and so are they made manifest in what they doe to all that have eyes to see that they are strangers to Christ while they continue in Cains nature persecuting the righteous seed without a cause as he did and doth in this Nation both in the North of it and in other Prisons in severall places of it there hath been cast into them the Saints and Children of the most high God for obeying his will in witnessing forth his eternall Word that he hath made manifest in them And no breach of any Nationall Law proved against them but a Popish Law made in Queen Maries Reigne which some hath suffered under and many others of the Saints and Children of the most high God they have persecuted and cast into prisons and not the breach of any Nationall proved against them but in the pride and envy of their hearts doe they persecute the innocent to satisfie their own wills as I am a witnesse against them who have persecuted me and cast me into prison under the name of a Seducer as they say for the Seducing of the people of this nation and for suspition of Blasphemy and breaking of the publick peace in dispersing principles contrary to the truth of the Gospel and peace of the Nation and not any accuser appeared to my face to prove what they charge against me as is formerly written either by the Law of God or the Law of the Nation but the Serpent in whom he rules hath manifest his enmity against me whom the Lord hath redeemed from the Earth and sent to preach the everlasting Gospell to those that dwell upon the Earth and to witnesse against the wickednesse of the dark world that the deeds thereof are evill for which testimony the world that hates the light that comes from Christ whom they ever persecuted to fulfill the measure of their fathers iniquities hath me

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

ease was in mourning to a God I knew not nor none could tell mee where I should get acquaintance with him In the place where I was in the outward being in a Town called Allathorp nigh Pocklington in Yorkshire but hearing of a people about Leeds that walked more strictly in profession of the name of God then any did where I was I had no rest in my spirit till my Parents in the flesh sent me thither to be an apprentice not regarding what Calling so I might be amongst those that feared the living God that I might be acquainted with the God of my life who had created me for himself and the desires the Lord raised up in me was answered when I was thirteen yeers old of my naturall birth I was bound an apprentice to a Clo●k-maker in a Town called Holdbeck neer Leeds and as I heard so it was there was much speaking of God which they called preaching and professing him in words from the letter of the Scripture what the Saints had spoken forth so intimating the Saints practice in their carnall wisdom seeking the Kingdom of God in outward observations as I had done before I came there but when I met with none that could tell me what God had done for their soules in redeeming them from the body of sin which I groaned under and separated me from the presence of God though I walked strictly with them in their outward observations running to hear one man after another which they called Ministers yet I found no rest nor peace to my weary soul but the flaming sword the righteous Law of God cryed in me for a perfect fulfilling of the Law of God and did meet with me where-ever I was that I could find no peace in that worship of God the world hath set up as in receiving the bread and wine which they told me was the seals of the Covenant which were long ere I durst receive it because I saw not my self prepared for the evil of my heart stood before me and when I was to receive it I sought the Lord to keep me by his power that I might receive it worthily and when I did receive my desire was the Lord would seale up his love to my soule but I found nothing sealed up to my soul with it Then much fear seized upon my soul for a long time after and Iudas condition was cast into my mind until it were shewed that the seal of the Covenant was the Spirit of Christ and no outward element and the supper was the body and blood of Christ which the world doth not know nor I at that time but was made to wait for the manifestation of it to me Then I durst joyn no more with the world in that practise nor in their practise in singing Davids conditions which they called Psalms for the light in my conscience let me see the evil of my heart that I was not in Davids condition the sence of which stopped my mouth and while they were singing I did mourn and weep for want of the pure spirit that David had that caused him to sing neither could I apply the promises which they told me belonged to me for I found no promise belonging to that nature but the wrath of God abode upon mee for my disobeying his counsel in me the light in my conscience but being ignorant it was his counsell I departed from it and lent my eare to those without that said they spoke from the mouth of the Lord so was deceived and caused to erre by their lies that did draw mee to seek the Kingdom of God in observations without but the word of the Kingdom was in mee and executed the righteous justice of God upon my adulterous heart that took councell and not at his mouth till I was consumed and my body was brought so weak I was not able to answer the expectation of him whom the Lord hath placed me with though my conscience was clear I did what I were able and he in his carnal wisedom thought I were in a consumption and was in mind sometimes to have sent mee away to my friends in the flesh and othersome times he would have the men the world calls Doctours to apply some things to my body for my recovery but I was not free to let them but once for fear of giving them offence for I knew my infirmity was the evil of my heart that separated mee from the presence of my God and how to be freed from it none told me and when I found no help in outward observations in reading praying hearing or meditating of what I heard my sorrow and misery was so great it constrained me to run to those the world calls Ministers and Professours which appeared to me had most acquaintance with God to ask them what I might do to be saved and they spoke smooth things to me to beleeve in the name of Jesus Christ and to apply the promises but that he was to be found within me none told me which added to my sorrow telling me to believe in Christ I knew no● where he was then at that time did the wars begin in this Nation and mine eyes being s●ill abroad to do something in outward observations for my life The men called Ministers cried ●u●se ye Mer●z b●cause they went not forth to help the Lord against the mighty Then I was willing to give my body to death in obedience to my God to f●ee my soule from sin that I might escape the wrath I lay under and get acquaintance with him I j●yned with that little rem●ant which said they fought for the Gospel but when I was amongst them I found as much ignorance of the Gospel as was in th●se I had been with none told me what the Gospel was but the dead letter which is the outward tes●imony and declaration of the Gospel which is Christ who is the glad tidings to sinne●s but they called the dead letter the Gospel as I had heard before so I found no rest to my soul amongst them Then I heard there was in Scotland a refo●med Church who they said walked in the fear of the Lord I journ●yed into that country and to Edenbourgh where I found nothing but formality their Teachers calling to the people to seek the Kingdom of Heaven in outward observations as I had heard in England Then I returned back to England again and went amongst those that called themselves the Church of Christ who is call●d by the names Anabaptists and Independents who were setting up a more glorious image in outward observations and said they were the children of God but I could not joyn with them for the testimony of his love my soul wanted And then the Lord discovered to me that his love could not be attained in any thing I could doe in any of these outward