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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29602	A clear voice of truth sounded forth, and as an ensign lifted up and displayed in answer to the proceedings of the Christians by name in Asia, by way of controversie and expostulation : together with savoury and wholesome admonishments, which may become of good use and profitable to all that read with a single eye, and understand with an upright heart : also the same somewhat tends by way of gentle reproof to their hasty and inequitable proceedings against the innocent servants, messengers and living witnesses of the living and true God : yet with tendernesse of an upright heart and spirit (not onely of a free born English-man, but also of a true Christian) from the same hand its principally directed to the Lord Embassasdor (so called) in Constantinople, and to the English Company of Merchants and Factors in Smyrna, with somewhat to the merchants in Genoa, tendred again by way of visitation, and that from God, for them and others in Italy to consider and not reject to their own hurt.	D. B. (Daniel Baker), fl. 1650-1660.	1662 (1662)	Wing B482; ESTC R22863	27,445	38

Gods Truth for their eternal good freely albeit they hated us without cause as it befell our Lord and Master I also was moved in the fear of the Lord to write and give the Ambassadour an honest and true information of the intent of our hearts to the end he might be honestly warned of receiving any evil and false intelligence that he may not consent with the same nor with the ground of it to joyn or stretch forth his hand therewith against the Lord his Truth and innocent People THE Copy of the Letter is seen meet to be inserted here following seeing the same was made leight of and rejected as a thing of nought as many have done to their own hurt and condemnation namely O. C. and the many Parliaments in their dayes past in which the Eternal God tryed them what if I say to the uttermost before he smote and broke and shattered them to pieces as Potters Vessells and wherled them up and down as Clouds of Tempests and Darkness as it were from one end of the Land to the other in his sore displeasure in the sight of the Nations to the final destruction of many of them that turned the back Albeit they seemed to have their face towards the good Day of their Visitation from on High which they wofully sinned away and the just recompence of reward as a fruit of their own doings even in the sight of the Nations fell upon them as a weight too heavy for them to bear and as great judgements from the same Hand of God is reserved in store and is ready to be revealed and executed upon the Heads of them that walk in the same wayes and paths of unrighteousnesse which provokes the Lord to his Face I speak not on this wise to upbraid without the Fear of the Lord the generation that 's passed away and seems to be laid in the dust of the Earth but rather that the present generation of men of what Name or Denomination they were are or may be under that have but somewhat of the Fear and Zeal of the God of Truth in their Hearts thereby to be warned in their day and not to make the evil example of any to be so to them as evil to follow it nay but contrariwise which is so far acceptable to God for Sodom and Gomorah and the old World were and are evident examples of the sore displeasure of the Eternal God of vengeance to whom it peculiarly and properly belongeth and he will certainly repay Fury to his Adversaries and Recompence to his Enemies when he awakes and stirs up his strength as a MIGHTY ONE the KING the Lord of Hosts is his Name to bend his Bow and whet his glittering Sword he will cast up cut down and overturn and not spare to spend his Arrows of famine and destruction and let them fly with his outstretched Arm of strength to smite and strike into the Hearts of the double-minded so that his anger shall smoak in the fiery Zeal of his Eternal Majesty against such a one that being often reproved goeth on still in his iniquities he shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy as saith one in a certain place Prov. 29. yet the Nations of men may certainly understand that the most High holds forth his Eternal Name as he is the Lord God long suffering and of great goodness neither delighteth he in the destruction of any but rather in their return unto the Wisdom of the Just unto Eternal Life in it to live for ever and not to die in their sins for as he is the Light of Israel and his Holy One for a flame and a consuming fire to burn up Bryars and Thorns against the workers of Iniquity so is he a God of Judgement and blessed are all they that wait for his Salvation and put their trust in him he will shew them his Covenant and establish them in the same in which they shall not be confounded neither be ashamed nor yet shall any make them afraid but quietness and assurance for ever shall be their reward in Eternal Peace and Blessedness together with him and the Spirits of Just men made perfect on this wise my Soul in life breatheth and travels for the Restauration of all things into the Glorious Liberty and Freedom of the harmless Sons of God Verily the Eternal love of my God that 's shed abroad within my heart it s much enlarged to stream forth Universally even to the whole Creation that travels in pain under the Bondage of Corruption over which mine eyes have poured forth many tears and in the brokennesse of my very heart have I dolefully Lamented and Mourned for the same but at present I am necessitated to proceed on to what is before mine eye as I have began concerning this little Treatise The Copy of the Letter FRIEND THy Everlasting Honour and Wel-being with the Lord and with the Spirits of just men our soul wisheth right well so peace be unto thee This is that thou may according to the Just Noble Principle of God in thee have a right understanding of somewhat of the Truth Innocency and Vprightness of our hearts who are the Servants of the One True and Living God and Father of all Truth and called by his grace of life which in our hearts we have received gladly to Declare to the Nations even the same grace that hath brought Salvation to us the same also that appeareth unto all men without respect of persons that they may be saved from the wrath to come by which grace of life I say we are called to peace and good will to all men as our Fathers were in the same to forsake the Pollutions of the World and our Native Country Kindred and Fathers House to do and suffer the will of God and keep his Commandments which are not grievous to us in the life of our Obedience to his Blessed Will who called and sent us into these parts whether the Sons of men believe us or not or hear or forbear And seeing the God of our Life hath blessed and prospered us hitherto in our journey we have the Living Testimony of the Spirit of Life witnessing to the same in our Consciences and to the Truth of what is here written unto thee And forasmuch as we understand from the Consul here that we shall not by him be admitted to pass further without thy advice or consent therefore have we freedom and in the fear of the Lord seen meet to let thee know somewhat from our hands as to the present service of our God whose Power Favour and life in his Covenant of Eternal Light and Peace we possesse Glory to his Name for which our lives are not dear unto us which are also in our hands to serve the Lord his Truth and People and to the end thou may not in any wise be as an Instrument to stop or let the work of God from going on by the hand of his Messengers and

to the Justification and Salvation of the Righteous which of the Lord is to turn the sons of men from ungodliness now after this long night of Apostacy and also as it were to awaken the eternal Light of our Lord Jesus which is the witness of God in every conscience yea and to answer the same in all men which is to guide Nations the Sons and Daughters of men into all truth against which they have rebelled and from the same they are fallen by transgression And behold the Lord God that lives for ever as in the ancient dayes is doing this and much more and accomplishing his own work not according to mans way will or time in these latter dayes but as in the dayes of old is he provoking of Nations to jealousie to anger and to wrath by those which are not a people he is provoking them to anger and to wrath with a foolish Nation forasmuch as they have provoked him the everlasting Lord of Heaven and Earth to anger with their vanities for saith the Lord a fire is kindled in mine anger and it shall burn unto the lowest hell it shall consume the Earth with her increase and set on fire the foundations of the Mountains Listen ye great Mountains and inhabitants of the Earth what will become of you where will you hide or sly when your foundations is set on fire wherefore give ear ye lofty trees and strong oaks the Lords controversie is with you for saith he A fire is kindled in mine anger which will burn unto the lowest Hell mark that I will heap mischiefs upon them I will spend mine Arrows upon them they shall be burnt with hung●● and destroyed with burning heat bitter destruction And friend as sure as God hath given thee breath know that so sure are we his Servants and Messengers freely given up into his hand to suffer his Will and Pleasure and to do the same in Earth as it is in Heaven as thou thy self prayest but it would be well if thy actions did not speak the contrary as certainly they do concerning this matter And behold the time will certainly come to pass that the true witness of the Everlasting Light in thy Conscience will answer to thy understanding that we are men of truth fearing God and sent of him and not of or by man whom thou hast so reproached and defied together with many more Alas poor man I pitty thee and as for my part I am honestly perswaded that King Charles whom thou calls Lord and Master would not have given forth such a ridiculous vile and reproachful Sentence against the guiltless an innocent harmless people as thou hast done under thy hand and seal peradventure in thy hast in a strange Land howso ever we pray the Lord that the same may not be laid to thy charge when thou hast most need of mercy if happily repentance unto life thou may witness and albeit we may freely forgive thee by what we do or may suffer because of thee yet we know that the Lord will not hold you guiltless after so clear a warning from his mouth that liveth for ever as you have had in your day that are guilty in the same thing and God Almighty will be clear of thee and so also will his Servant if in your sins you dye and therefore behold I yet cease not to cry Repent Repent And seeing that the Everlasting Lord and King of Eternal Life laid a necessity on me more especially to preform this service if Sathan hindred not and to try thee also and the English Nation together in Asia concerning the same for your good and not otherwise but behold how you have joyned together with one consent to reject and defie the same message of life and salvation through letting up the dark spirit of prejudice and evil surmisings against the Lord the Innocent and guiltless and thus to your greater condemnation have you been permitted by the everlasting God so far to have your own hearts desire and to expell the Friends and Messengers of Christ out of your Coasts or Borders once and again and not only so but as much as in you concerns not to suffer them to come within the extent of your Authority in the Turks Dominion in which you are as saith the Warrant but will you bear with me if I question with you saying what are they contrary to all men as a rebellious Generation said to the holy Apostles And what do they bear Testimony not for but against the World because the deeds thereof are evil and can they not neither receive the Honour and Glory of it nor give the same to any man according to the compleat example of their Lord and Master the life of man the true Christ for which end Christ is come in the flesh as he did many hundred years since who hath by his grace of life manifest in us freely redeemed us from the same vanities and pollutions which we witness and testifie against in others And will you blame me if I say what are not you of the same generation as Job saw rebel against the Light who know not the wayes thereof neither abide in the paths thereof Job 24.13 and Job 21. Alas poor men are you the men also that are without a good and noble understanding and are wise to do evil and hate to be reformed to discern between the pretious and the vile Alas for you yea woe and alas for you what have ye done cannot you smite upon your thigh and say on this wise how shall we account with the Lord of life of eternity for these things and much more when his mighty hand and the weight thereof you feel heavy upon your Consciences in the day that shall burn as an Oven according to the Prophesie of the Eternal Spirit by Mallachi Mal. 3. Behold and know ye O ye great men of the Earth ye high Mountains Strong Oakes and lofty Trees this I with a clean mind declare unto you if I be no more viz. that our Consciences are clear in the sight of God that lives for ever who with a pure eternal eye perfectly beholds the intents and uprightness of our hearts though hid from you concerning this service and the living testimony of life answereth in us to the same and therefore have I bouldness in the Truth to stand and also to write on this wise And again I say we are clear from the guilt which remains upon your Consciences And furthermore know ye that our service is so far accepted and we are also clear of the same in and by Jesus Christ our Lord and Master who moved us hereunto and sent us freely to and among you in the Turks Borders and Dominion the which by your actions its manifest ye would have stand but God Almighty hath otherwise determined with a notwithstanding and surely it would be well with you could you witness and savour the answer of a good Conscience the which in the truth