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A89853	Several petitions answered, that were put up by the priests of Westmorland, against James Nayler and Geo. Fox, servants of the most high God, persecuted by the priests of the world, as Jesus Christ and the apostles were persecuted by the Jewish high priests for the witnessing of the truth, and testifying against the deceits of the world. With the answer to an order given forth by the justices at Appleby sessions, contrary to the law of God, and the laws of the land. Also, an exhortation to the people, to mind the light of God in them, the teachings and leadings of the spirit of truth; the which if it be obeyed, will lead and guide them into all truth.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.; R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.; Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1653 (1653)	Wing N316A; Thomason E703_4; ESTC R3636	42,778	72

in the way of Cain and run greedily after the error of Balaam and many shall follow their pernicious ways of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of O all friends and people see if there be not something within you which shews you sin and evil and the deceits of your own hearts which if you do hearken to it and love it you will love Christ for he is the light and hating this light you hate Christ because your deeds are evil and will not bring your works to the light least the light should reprove them and here i● your condemnation the light within you and it is not a Chapter nor a Verse without you And loving this light it will bring you off all the worlds ways and worships to worship God for they walked in their own ways which spent their money for that which was not bread and there you are in your own ways and it will draw you out of all the worlds Churches into the Church in God and wait in this light and it will gather all your hearts together to live in unity one with another and it will lead you to the everlasting day of the Lord and walking in that light there will be no occasion of stumbling for being disobedient to the light there will be stumbling at noon day Therefore all people prize your time this is the day of your visitation and salvation and if ever you own a clean pure conscience you will own us and if ever you come to know Jesus Christ you will own us and if ever you own the Lord God of heaven and earth and come to know him and worship him you will then own us and know us and if ever you own the life of the Prophets and the Apostles you will then own us to be sent of God and of God and we seek not yours but your saving health and souls good and your eternal peace and happiness and eternally shall you witness us to that which doth convince you I speak that which will witness with me in the end when the thoughts of every mans heart shall be revealed and the book of Conscience shall be opened therefore below in heart and consider where you are and learn the lesson of Christ and put him on and forsake all your blinde guides without you and minde the guide within you they are the sons of God that are guided by the Spirit of the Lord they are not the Sons of God who can profess and talk of the Letter and persecute them which are contrary to their opinions but shew forth to be the children of the Devil and not of God MY name is covered from the world and the world knows not me nor my name the earthly name the earthly man knows and he is afraid of reproach and cannot bear it upon the earthly name he that overcometh hath the new name and knoweth it he that is not come into the War knows it not he that overcometh sitteth in his throne he that overcometh is crowned he that is judged and judgement is brought into victory and then it is set in the earth he that overcometh eateth of the hidden Manna he that overcometh shal inherite all things he that is without hath the old name and wants all things and cannot judge any thing for the natural man knows not the things of God but the spiritual man judgeth all things he that hath an ear to hear let him hear and blessed is he that reads and doth understand what he reads G. F. TO THE Parliament of this Common-wealth and the General and Major General of the ARMY A Declaration of the present condition of several Inhabitants in Westmeriand and some part in Lancashire whose names are subscribed who have been faithful to the Parliament and serviceable in their places to this Commonwealth to the hazard of their Lives Liberties and Estates Declareth THat the Lord hath made known himself and manifested his love to us in letting us see the deadness and emptiness of all the outward Ministry of the world and hath according to his own promise led us forth of the barren Wilderness of outward carnal Worships and is his himself become out Teacher and hath made us willing to wait alone upon him for Teaching By the power and vertue of which we deny all the Teaching which stands in the will of man whatsoever and so meeting together to wait upon the Lords unlimitted power exhoring and building up one another in our most holy faith according to the practice of all the Saints before us Not onely spending the First day of the week in such Exercises but several other days and nights as the Lord gives us opportunity to the great refreshment of our souls and uniting of our hearts to the Lord and one to another to his everlasting praise and glory and having occasion to praise the Lord for that Freedom which the Parliament doth allow us for which the Priests much maligns us and stirs up the ignorant people in their Publique Assemblies to execute their rigour upon us fomentinglyes and accusing us to the Magistrates falsely causing some to be Endicted some Imprisoned and some bound over for no just cause at all And hath done all that in them lies to deprive us of that Liberty which the Parliament hath afforded As may appear by several Orders made at a late Sessions at Appleby in Westmerland wherein they have Ordered That we shall not meet together in the night time which hath been the practice of the Saints in former ages and hath been our practice because there are many Servants and young labouring people which cannot come on the day which comes at the night because we would not give an occasion of offence Wherein we do witness that while we did meet together on the night to sport and spend the time in vanity we were not medled withal but now we do testifie against all such practices and who lives now in the same nature hates us But Justice which cuts down filthiness and gives way for truth to rise we own But there are several got into Commission of the peace formerly Malignants and some that have been actually in Arms against the Parliament contrary to the Act of Parliament and are utter Enemies to the Truth as doth appear not onely here but likewise in Yorkshire where there hath been ten of our Brethren and Sisters kept in Prison in York Castle some of them the most part of a whole year and since the last Assizes were kept in close Prison until one of them dyed and so continued in close Prison until it pleased the Lord to move the hearts of some to procure them more Liberty And whereas we are a people accused to deny Magistracy it is not so For Justice we own in our souls which cuts down corruption which keeps the soul in the death For let every soul be subject to the higher power For all power is of God and that we set up own and honor for Conscience sake and all men in the Lord. Likewise our dear Brother James Nayler lies in Prison in Appleby who served the Parliament under the Command of Major General Lambert betwixt eight and nine years as we believe some of the Army can witness All that we desire is that Books may be printed whereby the Truth may be manifested And if we transgress or offend we are willing to suffer This Petition was signed by Three hundred and twenty nine of the Inhabitants of Lancashire and part of Westmerland FINIS

SEVERAL PETITIONS ANSWERED That were put up by the Priests of WESTMORLAND Against James Nayler and Geo. Fox Servants of the most High God persecuted by the Priests of the world as Jesus Christ and the Apostles were persecuted by the Jewish high Priests for the witnessing of the truth and testifying against the deceits of the world With the answer to an Order given forth by the justices at Appleby Sessions contrary to the Law of God and the Laws of the Land Also an exhortation to the people to mind the light of God in them the teachings and leadings of the Spirit of Truth the which if it be obeyed will lead and guide them into all truth This is the condemnation That light is come into the world and men love darkness rather then light because their deeds are evill He that loves the light brings his deeds to the light that the light may prove them but he that doth evill hateth the light neither cometh he to the light lest his deeds should be reproved But he that loveth the truth and doth that which is righteous cometh to the light that his deeds may be made manifest that they are wrought in God John 3. 19 20 21 verses Little Children let no man deceive you he that doth righteousness is righteous even as he is righteous he that committeth sin is of the Divell In this the children of God are manifest and the children of the Divel whosoever doth not righteousness is not of God neither he that loveth not his brother 1 Iohn 7 8 9 10. Marvell not if the world hate you it hated me before it hated you Iohn 1● 18. Blessed are you when men shall hate you and when they shall separate you from their company and shall reproach you and cast out your name as evill for the Son of Mans sake rejoyce ye in that day and leap for joy for behold great is your reward in heaven for in the like manner did their fathers unto the Prophets Luke 6. 22 23. London printed for Giles Calvert at the Black spread Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1653. An Epistle to the Reader Christian Friends REmember the words of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ who said the servant was not greater then his Lord and saith he if they have persecuted me they will persecute you also and saith he marvell not if the world hate you it hated me before it hated you if ye were of the world the world would love you but because I have chosen you out of the world therefore the world hateth you but these are the fruits of darkness that ariseth from Cains generation they that are after the flesh t ey persecute them that are after the Spirit it is the world that persecutes and as they are in their naturall state and condition they know not God but are enemies both to him and His where he is made manifest in Spirit they that are in the corrupt nature are ignorant of him according as it is written in the Epistle to the Corinthians the naturall man knowes not the things of God because they are spiritually discerned and no man knowes the Father but the Son neither knoweth any man the Son but the Father and he to whom the Son reveals him there is no knowing of God but by the Revelation of his Spirit but naturall men such as the Priests of the world who are ignorant of God and are onemies to him being guided by the spirit of error standing up in actuall Rebellion against God now that he is Revealing his Son in the hearts of his people and leading them by the Divine light of his holy Spirit out of Egypt out of bondage and darkness wherein they have been held in the time of the fall while the mystery of iniquitie hath been working and Antichrist sitting in the Temple of God as God shewing himself to be God and the Priests of the world have been casting a mist before the eyes of the understandings of the people by their Greek Latin and Hebrew which is but dung and drosse earthie and ayrie hath driven the people into earthly conceivings imagination having no other knowledge of God but by conceiving and imagining of him are of those whom the Lord complains of by his servant the Prophet saying This people draweth near me with their mouth and with their lips do they honor me but their hearts is far from me and their fear towards me is taught by the precepts of men therefore thus saith the Lord I will gather those that have been scattered in the Cloudie and dark day and I will teach them my self and write my Law in their hearts and put my Spirit in their inward parts then shall ye know that I the Lord have spoken it and I will take you from among the hearthen and gather you out of all Countries and sprinkle clear water upon you and cleanse you from all your uncleanness a new heart also will I give you and a new Spirit will I put within you and I will cause you to walk in my statutes to do them Ezek. 36. Chapter Now the Lord is fulfilling his Promises made of old to the seed of Abraham after the spirit the Immortall seed that is begotten not by the will of man but by the will of God and born again of water and the spirit being separated from all uncleanness and they that live in the filth of the flesh fulfilling the lusts thereof know them not that are born again washed and cleansed sanctified and justified and are taught of God and made pertakers of the Divine nature but are enemies to them it is the same generation now that persecuts that persecuted from the beginning but it is but that the Scriptures may be fulfilled the Beast shall make War with the Saints God and Magog joyns together in Battle against the Lamb the Priests of the world are the greatest persecutors of the truth of God Now as the High Priest was when Jesus Christ came in the flesh the chief Priests were the greatest persecutors of him then stirring up the Rulers and Elders and the rude multitude against him calling him A deceiver and A blasphemer and they spued forth their envie against him in raising false witnesses against him and every way incensing the People against him to cry out to have him put to death Saying Crucifie him Crucifie him and let us have Barabbas let loose which was a murderer and if thou do but Read this little ensuing treatise thou shalt finde something worthy of thy labour being single eyed thou wilt be brought to see Antichrist or the man of sin in A high measure the mystery of iniquitie acting in the Priests of the world that do professe themselves to be the Ministers of Christ but are of the Synagogue of Satan and are enemies to Jesus Christ where he is made manifest and raised up in the spirits of any to testifie against their deceits wherein they do deceive

the people and are in the same state and condition that the Jewish High Priests were in that put Christ to death as thou readest keep thy eye single and be not Partiall and thou shalt see that the battell is begun betwixt Michael and the Dragon the Dragon he casteth forth floods of revilings and reproaches and persecutions after the man childe Christ Jesus as he is arising in the spirits of his people to stifle him in the birth that he may not come forth to raign and where he is Born up into the understandings of any ruling by the Divine Power of his Spirit in any the Dragon with his seven golden heads or the Priests under sever all Colours being the painted Beast that is gilded with their glorious notions having painted themselves over with the words of the Prophets and Apostles that suffered by such as they are of the same generation whose heart is deceitfull and that above measure being full of subtiltie the Serpents head being unbruised in them they labour every way as the Jewish High Priests did to destroy those who are brought to walk in the same state and condition that the holy men of God did In former ages men that were blameless and harmless in their lives and conversations were guided by the holy spirit of God that ruleth in them I know it by experience being acquainted with them in their godly conversation which those Cainish and Jewish spirited Priests goes about to cast dirt upon making them odious to the world stirring up the people in envie and malicionsness against them if it were possible to take away their lives and the Jewish high Priests stirred up the rulers and Elders of the people against both Jesus Christ and the Apostles who were his true Ministers to persecute Imprison and put them to death so do these stir up not onely the rude people in envie and malice but they stir up the Parliament and Rulers of the people by their false petitions to incense them against a harmless and an innocent people to take away if not their lives yet their liberties but where the Lord doth appear in any of the Rulers of the people they will see into the wickedness of the Priests that they are those that persecute the Lord of life in his Saints and servants and they do openly manifest themselves that they are none of the Ministers of Jesus Christ for they did never persecute nor imprison but on the contrary were both persecuted and imprisoned and so are those to whom Jesus Christ is made manifest in spirit now the Lord is setting up the Kingdom of his Son in the spirits of his people and the Kingdom of Antichrist Babylon the mystery of iniquity must be thrown down take heed of holding up that which God will not have to stand he is setting up the ministery of his Son in the spirits of his People and throwing down the ministery of Antichrist which is the ministry of the world as it is made manifest hey do openly appear to those that have their eyes in their head Now friend if thou do but read this with thy understanding thou shalt see that these persecuting Priests knowes nothing of God but are enemies to him and are guided by the Spirit of error walking contrary to Christ and his Apostles who were his true ministers and were guided by his holy Spirit and suffered by the ministry of the word as those dear hearts do that are guided I am sure by the Spirit of the Lord and are as dear to him as the Apple of his eye and if thou do but give thy diligence in reading to Read by the same guide that those are led by that write the ensuing treatise it will bring thee to see the innocency and uprightnes of their blomeles lives and conversation that they are made to suffer willingly for Righteousnes sake according to the command of Jesus Christ and walkers in his obedience knowing that their reward is in Heaven having their conversation in Heaven according to that of the Apostle in the third to the Philip. 20. And their affections being set on things above and not on the earth seeking a Kingdom but not of this world for were they of this world the world would love its own but because they are chosen out of the worlds ways and worships customes and fashions being dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world are brought to worship God in spirit being born again of water and the Spirit as John 3. and having their souls purified in yielaing abedience to the commands of the Spirit as the Saints had which more obedient to the same spirit which purified their souls as in 1 Pet. 1. 22 23. Who were born again as these are Children of the most High God whom the world and the persecuting envious Friests know not for the spirit that is in them is not of God because it Iusteth to envy bontrary to the Spirit of Jesus Christ which is pure and holy and is loving as it is raised up in any to rule and guide them it beareth all the worlds Judgements Reproaches Revilings and Persecutions and suffereth with Joy having the promise of this life and that which is to come thus saith the Lord woe to the wicked it shall be ill with them and they shall be rewarded according to their doings as in Isaiah the 3. 10. But say unto the righteous it shall be well with them v. 11. and saith Jesus Christ blessed are you when men revile you and persecute you and say all manner of evil against you falfly as the Priests do by those innocent and harmless ones who are dear and precious in the sight of God and may rejoyce for their reward is great in Heaven according to that of our Saviour in Mat. 5. 10. 11. 12. And that of Peter who saith if ye be reproached for the name of Christ happy are you for the spirit of grace and of glory Resteth on you Rejoyce and be exceeding glad all ye that love the Lord Blesse ye the Lord praise him and magnifie him for ever for the Lord is glorifying himself and making his power known and all the Crowns of pride and vain glory and fleshly exaltation must be thrown down and the Son of his Love Raised up and exalted in the hearts of his people to sit upon his Throne Rejoyce for evermore A Friend to the Truth of God where it is made manifest Richard Farnworth To the Right Worshipfull the Justices of the Peace for the County of WESTMORLAND The Humble Petition of divers Ministers and other Inhabitants in the said County who earnestly desire the Glory of God and the Peace of his Church and this Common-Wealth Humbly Sheweth THat James Nayler and George Fox men whose Country habitation profession and condition is to us generally unknown meerly of their own accord without any Pasport Licence or Authority whatsoever that they can shew or we ever heard of have entered in to