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A86912 Truth cleared from reproaches and scandals, laid upon it by those, who goes by the name of judges, and who went the northern circuit. Also some examinations of those whom the world calls Quakers. Hunter, Cuthbert. 1654 (1654) Wing H3765; Thomason E821_7; ESTC R207367 9,854 16

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TRUTH CLEARED FROM REPROACHES AND SCANDALS Laid upon it by those who goes by the name of Judges and who went the Northern CIRCUIT Math. 5.11 Blessed are yee when men shall revile you and persecute you and shall say all manner of evill against you falsly for my sake Heb. 11.26 Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches then the treasure of Aegypt Micah 3.10 11. They build up Sion with bloud and Jerusalem with iniquity the Heads thereof judge for rewards and the Priests thereof teach for hire and the Prophets thereof divine for mony yet will they leane upon the Lord and say is not the Lord among us no evill can come upon us Also some Examinations of those whom the World calls QUAKERS LONDON Printed in the Year of our Lord 1654. The fourteenth day of August at the generall Assises holden at Lancaster IUdge Nudigate said openly in his charge at Lancaster in the face of the whole County giving reproachfull language upon those people whom the world calls Quakers and many scandals and false aspertions he cast upon them in his charge and he spoke there publickly and said that the Principles that they held which is the light within would lead into all manner of sin and he said further that there was a man before them at Newcastle which had committed adultery with a woman and when they asked him why he did so he said he was moved of the Lord this he affirmed in his charge at Lancaster the truth of which will appear as followeth Newcastle seventeenth day of the month called September THese may certifie all Friends concerning the accusation of the Judge of me Cuthbert Hunter of adultery and fornication in the Towne and Court of Newcastle the second day of the sixt month called August which is here briefly and simply and plainly as followeth An Information being red wherein I was accused of fornication and adultery and divers other things as that I was not married and I answered and said that in fornication I deny for it is false for I am married He asked me where I was married I said I took my wife seven miles from this place he asked me if I was married with a Justice and I said no he said I had broke the Law for there was an Act that all that was to be married was to be married with a Justice I asked him why the Priests did marry then he asked me when I was married I said I was married in the year 1653. the third month of that year called May he asked me if I were married with a Minister and I said no I was not and he said I had broke the Lawes of man and the Law of God for which I was to be punished then I desired him to prove before that people wherein and he said take him away and let him either find sureties or goe to prison and I said I would find none for I said I know no Law I had broken but that which is contrary to the Law of God and then his Officers called of the Jayler to take him away and these are the words which were spoken at that time As for that when he asked me why I did so I said I was moved of the Lord is false and was never thought non spoken by me Dear friends this is to certifie of the manner of my marriage and when I was married and how I took to me a wife according to the example I found in the Scripture that holy men of God did take to themselves wives but I could not find where ever any of the Ministers of God took mony for marrying of any as these Ministers did then therefore according to that example I found among the Saints we did bequeath to each other before witnesse in the presence of the Lord before whom we shall give an account the Father of the woman being there so I became to her a husband and she to me a wife and so I own her before all people this was in the year 1653. in the third month of that year called May it was about half a year before I owned the Truth as a testimony of which I subscribe my name Cuthbert Hunter We whose names are here subscribed are satisfied that this is a true testimony George Arey Tho. Arey Agnus Ewbanck Mary Arey Tho. Turner Richard Ewbanck Lamclet Warde●ll Whereas Judge Nudigate did say in his charge at Lancaster that the light the principle which we hold in every one doth lead unto all manner of sin The light which comes from Christ Jesus which he doth enlighten every one that comes into the world withall is the condemnation of all sin wickednesse uncleannesse and ungodlinesse and the light which is our principle as he calls it in every man will witnesse against the said Nudigate who is called a Judge and doth witnesse against sinne and the same Light will witnesse Christ and make every tongue to confesse and is the condemnation of all that hate it whose deeds be evill Oh that ever such should be set up to be a Judge who utters forth such blasphemy that to say the light which he doth enlighten every man that comes into the world withall John 1.9 to it in every man which we speak of which is the light of Christ which is the condemnation of all sin and unrighteousnesse of all them that hate it it should lead to commit all manner of sin as Judge Nudigate said in his charge Here thou art manifest to be no Judge for God but judged with the just And the light in every mans conscience which comes from Christ will and doth witnesse against thee that thy judgement is false and speakes a lie who is out of the truth and speaks of thy self and the light in thy own conscience which comes from Christ witnesses against thee For to the light in every ones conscience Judge Nudigate with it shalt thou be proved whether it leads into all manner of sin or whether it testifies against all manner of sin let it in all consciences the judge whether thou be a Judge for God yea or nay that in thy conscience shall be a witnesse against thee and witnesse me and be a witnesse for God against thee That which shews thee ungodlinesse and sin and manifests it is light and the light doth not lead into the sin but leads out of the sin and testifies against it And this am I moved to give forth who am a witnesse to the light in all tender consciences which is a witnesse against all sin whose minds are turned with the light towards Christ And thou who should be a Judge upon the evill art found to be a Judge upon the good the light let the light in all consciences bear witnesse against thee which witnesses against evil and leads not into it who here hath manifested thy self that thou art darknesse and doth not comprehend light but at it stumbles and the Scripture is fulfilled upon thee the saying of