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A91466	The fruits of a fast, appointed by the churches gathered against Christ and his kingdom, who go about to mock God with their outside-worship, and appointed fasts, and dayes of voluntary humiliation. Or, A declaration of the persecution of a messenger of the Lord, by a people who go under the name of Independants, in Essex, who have set themselves in the enmity of their spirits to oppose the truth of God, calling it a lye, and persecuting his messengers as deceivers, and wanderers, wherein their persecuting spirits is made manifest, and them to be in Cains generation, and stranges to the spirit of Christ, which vener persecuted, and so are noen of his, Rom.8:9. And also, of the unjust dealing of Judge Hills, ... And also, severall queries, that was sent ot the priests and magistrates, shich may be serviceable for them, or any other to answer, whom they do concern. / By ... James Parnell.	Parnell, James, 1637?-1656.	1655 (1655)	Wing P530; Thomason E854_14; ESTC R207483	31,427	32

Minister of Antichrist and do you distinguish the one from the other 11. What Scripture hast thou to give unto the world Davids conditions to be sung in a Meeter 12. What rule have you in the Scripture to abide in a certain place and to agree with the people for so much a year for preaching as 40 60 or 100. or 200. l. as you can get it 13. How and by what are you gathered and united who calls your solves a Church 14. And what is the Church in God and whether to it you be come yea or nay 15. What is the Baptisme into the Church and whether to it you be come yea or nay 16 And Scripture have you to sprinckle children with water and to what end do you do it 17. Whether you be of one heart and one mind as the true Church was yea or nay 18. Whether you have passed from death to life yea or nay 19. What is the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ and whether to it you be come yea or nay 20. Whether he that believes is not born of God and whether he that is born of God doth not commit sin yea or nay 21. Why do not you maintain your Teacher but let him rob the world instead of robbing other Churches and so is chargeable unto the world 22. Whether do you own and hold up the first Priest-hood that took Tythes or the second Priest-hood that took no Tythes and which do you deny seeing you pay tythes and your Teacher takes tythes yea or nay 23. Why do you own and hold up such that are called of men Master and have the chiefest place in the Assemblie and stand praying in the Synagogue and love greetings in the Markets which Christ himself cryed wo against 24. How is Christ the light of the world and how doth he enlighten every one that cometh into the world if it be not in the conscience and whether that Light which comes from him be naturall yea or nay 25. How is the light the condemnation of the world if it be not in the conscience 26. And how is it said that he that doth evill hateth the light and wi●l not bring his deeds to the Light lest the Light should reprove him if it be not in the conscience whether that be a natural light which reproves for sin yea or nay 27. How did Paul turn peoples mindes from darkness to light if it be not in the conscience and whether that light was naturall which Paul was sent to turn the mindes of the Gentiles unto 28. Whether that light which shines in darkness be not one and the same with that which shines out of darkness yea or nay 29. And whether the light of the world be not a saving light in the least measure yea or nay and how can that be said to be naturall 30. Whether the Light which Iohn came to beare witness of was naturall or spirituall 31. How hath the grace of God which bringeth Salvation appeared to all men if it be not in the conscience and whether it be naturall 32. How doth it stand with the impartiall God to give to one man a measure of grace and not to another and yet require obedience from all 33. Whether the slothfull servant hath not a Talent as wel as the faithful though he hide it in the earth and what is that Talent 34. What is the account that God wil require of every one in the day of Judgment and how can he call all justly to an account and reward them according to their deeds if he hath not given to every one a Talent 35. What is that which leads to repentance and whether that which leads to repentance be not in the conscience and whether it be naturall yea or nay 36. And where do you read in the Scripture of a naturall light to be in the conscience 37. What is the redemption and what is the end of Christs coming 38. Whether the redemption by Christ be not as ful in every in every respect as the fall by Adam and what is the fall by Adam 39. And whether you do not go about to make the commands of Christ unjust who saith Be ye perfect as your heavenly father is perfect and you say it cannot be while you are upon the earth then how is it your rule 40. Will you own a purgatory or where is the place betwixt heaven and earth where man shall be clensed if not upon the earth seeing no unclean thing can inherit the kingdome of God 41 Whether do they deny Christ come in the flesh that witness forth perfection from sin here or they that tel people they can never be perfect or be wholly set free from sin so long as they are upon the earth and whether such be not the Ministers of Antichrist yea or nay 42. Where had you this Doctrine to tell people the light in the conscience is naturall and that Christ hath not enlightned every one that cometh into the world 43. And whether in this you do not bring another Doctrine in opposition to the Doctrine of Christ who saith he is the light of the world and doth enlighten every one that cometh into the world 44. And where had you this Doctrine to tel people they could never be wholly clensed or be set free from sin so long as they are upon the Earth 45. And whether this be not in opposition to the Doctrine of Christ who saith Be ye perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect 46. Whether God justifies any in their sin and whether sanctification go not before justification yea or nay 47. Whether you do not seek justification by works who put one another upon prayer and duties observations Ordinances and commands without the Light in imitation of the Letter and whether these be not your own works which are done out of the light yea or nay 48. What is your own righteousness and what is the righteousness of Christ and how do you distinguish betwixt the one and the other 49. And whether he that is justified by the righteousness of Christ doth not dwel in it and it in him and whether he that dwels in the righteousness of Christ doth sin yea or nay 50 Whether any can walk according to the Scripture but by the Light of Christ and whether any that are guided by the Light of Christ do or can act contrary to the Scripture and whether this Light be not a sufficient guide if it be owned and followed 51. How is the Scripture left unto the world for a rule who know not the Light seeing to them it is a parable and as a book sealed 52. And what is the word and whether there be any other word of God then one 53. What is the death that hath passed over all men forasmuch as all men have sinned and whether this death you ever passed yea or nay 54. What is that which is lost which Christ comes to seek and what is that which

THE FRVITS OF A FAST Appointed by the Churches gathered against Christ and his Kingdom who go about to mock God with their outside-Worship and appointed Fasts and Dayes of Voluntary Humiliation Or A Declaration of the persecution of a Messenger of the Lord by a people who go under the name of Independants in Essex who have set themselves in the enmity of their Spirits to oppose the Truth of God calling it a lye and persecuting his Messengers as Deceivers and Wanderers wherein their persecuting Spirits is made manifest and them to be in Cains Generation and strangers to the Spirit of Christ which never persecuted and so are none of his Rom. 8.9 And also of the unjust dealings of Judge Hills who sate upon life and death at the last Assizes at Chansford which began upon the eleventh day of the sixth month And also Severall queries that was sent to the Priests and Magistrates which may be serviceable for them or any other to Answer whom they do concern By a VVitness and sufferer in outward Bonds for the unchangeable Truth of God by Cains Generation who am known to them by the name in Colchester Castle JAMES PARNELL LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert and are to be sold at his Shop at the Black-spread-Eagle neer the West-end of Pauls 1655. THE FRUITS OF A FAST appointed by the Churches gathered against Christ and his Kingdome c. FIRST I shall give unto the Reader a declaration of the work of God in my Soul and the conversion of my heart from darkness unto his marvelous Light and from the power of Satan unto God and out of the path of death into the path of Life where I now walk in the Light of my God with the Ransomed of the Lord who are travelling towards the Holy City and also the cause of my coming forth into the World to declare the truth for which I now suffer Bonds by the persecuting Generation wherein I once lived a Child of wrath as all are by nature and when I was loved of the world while I followed the vain courses and wayes of the world where by nature I was led in imitation of others being in that nature which is prone unto the same the time I was sent unto the Schools of humane learning for to learn the humane wisdome for which end the Schooles are profitable but for the attaining of heavenly wisdom and knowledg they are as far unprofitable and many bookes that are there read are much for the corrupting of youth and the nourishing of the wild prophane nature which then ruled in me and I was as wild as others during the time I followed the School and after I was taken from the School I stil continued in the same nature growing and encreasing in sin and iniquity following the vain courses of the wicked world also was trayned up in the customary way of the worship of the world which is held in the Idols Temple every first day of the week but no conversion there was wrought but all still continued in the old nature both Priest and people young and old and as was the people so was the Priest all walking in darkness and blindness by form custome and tradition but ignorant of the pure light which is the guide and reacher of the faithful which oftentimes did reprove in secret when I was a lone but then I knew not what it was but oftentimes it did strike me into a consideration of my wayes and doings and set life and death before me so that I have sometimes promised within my self never to do the like again but the promise being in the wil made it did not stand but when the temptations came the careless mind got out again and led me still to delight my heart in the vanity which my eye did see and my ear did hear which all passed away with the using thereof and left me to the judgement which was due unto me for my iniquity which did follow me time after time calling me to repentance and the more I did incline my mind and draw nigh to it it also did draw nigh to me and so the goodness of God led me to repentance and the Grace of God wrought in my heart a Reformation and so I was found of him when I sought not and thus he both wrought the will and the deed of his own good pleasure and plucked me as a brand out of the fire to make me a vessel of honor to his name all living eretnal prayses be to his name for ever my soul shall praise and magnifie his name for ever For I may wel say with Paul Of sinners I was chiefe for according to my years J was as perfect in sin and iniquity as any in the Town where I lived yea and exceeded many in the same so that there was as little hopes of my conversion as any in the Town and yet though it is a place of many people J was the first in all that town which the Lord was pleased to make known his power in and turn my heart towards him and truly to seek him so that J became a wonder to the World and an astonishment to the heathen round about but they was such enemies to goodness and so given up to idolatry that as much as before they had loved me in my vain conversation so much the more thdy hated me in my conversion yea and my Families came to insnare me and lay wait for me for to intrap me but when they could not prevaile Psal 41.9 they stood afar of me and reproached me with lyes and proved my greatest enemies yea and my Relations became my adversaries and laboured to destroy what God had began in me because that thereby J came under the reproach and shame of the world because J could not conform to the world in their invented facious customes and traditions and their words wayes fellowship and worship but was made subject to the law of God and could not respect persons neither in word nor deed then the beast which rules in proud flesh was disturbed who before ruled in peace while he was worshipped but when I came to see proud Lucifer Rev. 13.38 the lust in man to be the beast which all the world worships and wanders after but these whose names are written in the book of life therefore J could no longer follow the world in blindness for by the power of God my eye was opened so that J did behold their idolatry and therefore J could no longer be conformable to them so that their rage and persecution arose against me and J became a mock in the streets yea and was I accounted as one not worthy to live amongst them yea and they said he that killed me would do God service but he that had called me out from amongst them unto himself that I might no longer follow the vain courses of the world nor set my delight no things below but that I might serve

house in Great Coggashall where severall friends and neighbours was come to see me and there sate peaceably together waiting upon the Lord and I having heard of a publick meeting at the Steeplehouse in the said town of the Priests and Professors of these times as it was openly published by Priest Sammes and the Priest of the said Town in the said Steeplehouse upon the first day last past to that end as I heard and since did understand for to fast and pray against and lay open the errors as they said of the people called Quakers for the returning of them who owned them and the establishing strengthning those against them that did not own them to wit the people called quakers so I being pressed in my spirit for to go amongst them in the behalf and defence of the truth of God brought forth in these people whom the world scornfully calls Quakers I also being made a Minister of the same eternal truth through the power of God by which I am made able and carryed on to declare it openly and publickly to the confounding of the heathen and the reviving of the witness for God in the Conscience and also to suffer for the same which I did believe the Priests did much blaspheme and reproach striving to present it odious to the people so in obedience to the Lord I went out from amongst my friends not telling one of them whither I was agoing as many can witness and one friend followed me to the dore and perceiving somthing of my going he asked me if he might go with me and I bid him use his freedome to come after but I desired to go alone and so I went on the way single and when I came at the Steeplehouse dore which you persecutors calls a Church and also accounts your selves another Church and thus you set up Churches in your imaginations yet are strangers to the true Church which are no persecutors but when I came there there was several boys and Children that would have flocked in after me I bid them go in before me rather than to go in disorderly whereby to occasion any disturbance and so I went in very orderly and stood very orderly not speaking one word until their peiest had done and was coming out of his seat as many can witness though the priest had been openly reviling reproaching the people of God in particular whom he scornfully called quakers therefore let all people whose understandings are enlightned judge in what riotous manner I entred the place which you call a church bear witness against you who are not ashamed to make lyes your refuge against the innocent and also what are the weopons which you make use of who calls your selves Christians but makes lyes your refuge and covers your actions with deceit But was this the practise nature of Christ for a christian is Christ-like and let all that profess Christ walk as he walked but these are the Fruits of your peblick Humiliation who go about to mock God but your end shall be according to your works 2 Accusation ANd whereas you say being in order thereunto then exercised in the Divine worship of God Almighty he the said James did then and there stand up and told the minister he blasphemed and spoke falsly and used many other reproachful words against the said minister Reply UNtil him called Minister had done the Divination of his own Brain from whence you derive your Divine VVorship and was coming out of his Seat I did not speak one word unto him as hundreds can witness and the first words that I spoke was not as you accuse me but this I said 1 Cor. 14.29 30 31. this is the order of the true Church that all may speak one by one and if any thing be revealed to him that stands by let the first hold his peace then I spoke on in the behalf of those people called quakers whom the Priest had before often and openly reviled but so soon as I had spoke a few words the Priest and severall others disorderly ran into many words and so interrupted me in speaking that it bred much confusion then the Priest asked me what I would object against him I told him in that he reviled the people called quakers and said they was built upon a sandy foundation and so called them Shakers and the like but I told him I would prove their Foundation not to be sandy and him to be the false Prophet and so I declared of The Stone cut out of the Mountain without hands which strikes at the Feet of the Image whose head is Gold and Brest of Silver and Thighes of Brass and Legs of Iron and Feet part Iron and part Clay and this Stone is become a great Mountain upon which the Church is built as a City set on a hill cannot be hid and this is the Foundation of the people that are called quakers not all that are called quakers but the real people whom the world scornfully calls quakers and this is become a stumbling stone and a rock of offence to the nations and so it seems it is unto you because you are the worshippers of the great Image which you call the Divine worship of your God but God almighty you know not for he abhors all the sacrifices of Cain and his Generation which was ever the persecuting generation upon which must come all the righteous bloodshed from righteous Abell untill now therefore wo unto you ye Serpents ye generation of vipers how can ye escape the damnation of hell Mat. 23.35 ver 3 3. Act. 5.7 5● And now you fill up the measure of your Fathers wrath ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in hearts and ears ye do alwaies resist the Holy Ghost as did your fathers so do ye but think not that you shall be heard for your much babbling who for a pretence make long prayers but ye shall receive the greater damnation and the Lord will make your diviners mad who hav● spoke a Divination from their own brain and not from the mouth of the Lord but cryed peace peace where there is no peace Isa 44.25 Ier. 14.14 because ye put into their mouthes and so heals you slightly daubing you up with untempred morter but you shall all fall amongst them that fall in the day that I visit you saith the Lord ye murderers and crucifiers of the just So when I had cleared the foundation of the people called quakers as aforesaid some of you accused me that I owned no CHURCH and I said it was false then some of you asked me what CHURCH I owned and I answered the CHURCH in GOD and more words I spoke about the Church then VVillis the DIVINER stood up in his Will and said I spoke nothing but non-sence and I bid him name one word that was non-sence that I had spoken and he said to say the Church in GOD then I took out my BIBLE and read unto him the

should pay one penny for the liberty of my body in this cause would be as much as if I paid the whole fine which thou hast unjustly laid upon me for therein I should own my self a Transgressor where I am not guilty and also a bought liberty is bondage to my spirit but my liberty under thy bonds is bondage to thee which liberty thou canst not rob me of with all that thou canst do for it is the free gift of God which none can take away though thou wilt not allow me in thy bonds to have the outward liberty that thou allows to Thieves and Murderers and Fornicators that is to have my friends and acquaintance to come to seeme wherein the very heathen wil condemn thee who when they had committed Paul to prison said Forbid none of his friends and acquaintance to come to fee him Acts 22.24 Therefore now read how thou exceeds the Heathen in persecution and injustice though I am a free-born subject in England therefore let the life of all the Christians condemn thee who never was persecutors And this of the Lord I was moved to write which is the VVord of the Lord unto thee whether thou wil hear or forbear in the peace of my conscience I do rest in the VVill of God Known to thee by the name Iames Parnel And now a few words unto you who call your selves gathered Churches who go under by the name of Independants in Essex you are gathered by the wil of man and are joyned by the wil of man and so stands in the will of man and are upheld by the wil of man by which you are begotten but stil alive in the worlds nature in the worlds customes fashions and traditions in the worlds fellowship words and waies and rudiments only differing from others in judgement opinion or profession wherein is your life in high notions and feigned apprehensions and false applications and glorious expressions and customary duties and vain Traditions which all appertains to the great Image which all the world worships by which they are deceived whose head is gold and brest of silver and thighs of brass and legs of Iron and feet part Iron and part clay and in the same nature ye are found with the world the day doth declare it and you to be the enemies and strangers to the light which is not of the world which is now come into the world testifying against the world and the deceit of the world the deceivers in the world and the profession of the world and this is the condemnation of the world Iob. 3.19 that light is come into the world and men love darkness rather than light because their deeds are evill in which evil you are found despising and sett●ng at nought the Corner-stone and standing in the enmity of your spirits and joyning with the powers of the earth to persecute the life and power which now is manifest in the earth and is come to discover your empty shadows forms and fair shews of godliness but without life and power which you have set up in your imaginations and thereby are deceived and blinded and led in blindness so that you cannot see the light nor receive the substance now it is come and made manifest but stands up in your wills and wisdome to oppose the same and persecute it in the enmity of your spirits as if you hoped to kill the heir that the inheritance might be yours and therefore because you do despise this day of your visitation and reject slight the glad tydings which now are come to them that dwel upon the earth and revile and reproach persecute and slander the faithfull messengers of the Gospell rejoycing your hearts in their sufferings by you and amongst you therefore the Lord will rayse up a people out of the dust gather them from far to bear testimony unto his name and bear witness against you yea and shall sit down with Abraham Isaac and Iacob in the kingdome of the Son and you and such as you shall be cast out into Tophit prepared of old for hypocrites and unbelievers therefore now read your portions ye stiff-necked and uncircumcised in hearts cars who do alwayes resist the Holy Ghost as did your fathers so do ye but the greater wil be your condemnation who go about to mock God with your wil-worship with your calling of Assemblies and Solemn Meetings with your appointed Fasts and dayes of voluntary Humiliation with your long Prayers and feigned duties all which is done out of the Light and so are your own works acted by selfe for selfe But who hath required these things at your hands it is all abomination to the Lord his soul loaths it for your sacrifices are as Cain's for your are found in Cain's nature envying and persecuting the righteous yea the witness lies slain in your streets therefore wo is unto you who go on in the way of Cain for upon you shal come all the righteous blood shed from righteous Abel until now and your professions stinks in the nostrils of the Lord for you have lift up your hands against him and his Annoynted opened your mouths in blasphemy and false reports against the truth yea you are blinde and stumble at the noon day you come neer the Lord with your lips but your hearts runs awhoring after other Lovers and you know not the only true God that dwels in Temples made without hands whose worship is in spirit and in truth but would limit the unlimited under your wils as if he were not a God of might but that you could controle him with the arm of flesh but be not deceived God is not mocked such as you sowe such shall you reap and your end shal be according to your works Gal. 6.7 for our God is a God of Judgement and Justice wil avenge the cause of the innocent upon you his adversaries yea and though your Teachers do cry peace peace unto you because you put into their mouths and so daubs you up with untempred morter that you cannot see your wound and so heals you slightly yet you shal know that our God is a God of Truth and his word shal stand for ever and their sorcery shal appear and their witchcraft shal be laid open and the cup of fornication wherewith they have made drunk and deluded the Nations shal be taken from them and the cup of the wrath of the Almighty given them to drink their reward and then shal you behold the Harlot with whom you have committed fornication who now lies in your bosomes bewitching you with a golden cup with whom you have defiled your garments then to be cast into the bottomless pit where you shal all be tormented together who now partake of her pleasures and thus shal you fal amongst them that fal in the day that I visit you saith the Lord. And all you my dear friends you scattered and despised ones in and about the County

of Essex whom the Lord by his powerful word is now gathering out of darkness into his marvellous light out of the Kingdome of this World into the Kingdome of his dear Son whom he is seperating unto himself to walk before him in holiness that you might know him and he might know you in the light of his countenance whose faces he hath turned to words Sion to seek after a Land of Rest unto your wearied Souls which hath been tossed to and fro from mountain to hil in this cloudy and dark day seeking rest but finding none but now is the day of beauty broken forth nigh you even in you yea glad tidings is come unto your wearied souls by which a pure love is begotten in you to the everlasting truth which hath been freely declared amongst you by the messengers of the most high who hath reached the witness for God in your consciences which doth seal the same upon your hearts which your teacher is and unto it you hearken and are abedient in which light all stand stil behold the work which the Lord hath begun amongst you and you shal have no cause of discouragement though the sea do rise and the raging waves do swel as if they would swallow all up yet it is limited by the unlimited it shal but foam out its own shame And as I had a time to preach the truth amongst you to the convincement of many so also now I have a time to seal the same with patient suffering in the bonds of the Gospel that you may see that it is no other but what we are made able and willing to seal with patient suffering yea with our blood if we be called to it as many of us hath done in this Nation though it be called a Land of Liberty but it is for Iniquity but truth and equity are strangers in it therefore are persecuted but you that are found worthy to receive these strangers happy are you though the raging Sodomites compass you about for to cause you to cast out these strangers that they may work their wils upon them yet be faithful and fear them not but cast out your darlings before them stand in the faith of the God of truth equity and you shal see the Sodomites struck with blindness that they shal not be able to prevail against you but when they are weary with striving they shal be made to sit down in sorrow so shal it be fulfill d which of old was prophesied that no weapon formed against the faithful shal prosper but woe unto them that lift up their heel against them therefore I charge you all in the name of the God of truth be faithful valiant bold for the truth received and as you have received it so walk in it that you may profess no more in word but what in life you seal that the light may be preached forth in your lives shine forth in your conversations to the glory of the father of lights and the confounding of the heathen who profess God in words but in life denies him be willing that self shal suffer for the truth and not the truth for self for the truth was ever sealed with persecution since Cains generation had a being upon the earth and so own the Cross and despise the shame and give up your selves to suffer for the truth received all you that would follow the Lamb to the Land of rest and through many trials you wil wax strong and bold and confident in your God for God is not known what a God he is until the time of tryal and all keep your meetings in the name and fear of the Lord God waiting for his power in the obedience to his Light which in your consciences doth reprove you when you do amiss that in it you may wait and watch over the foes that are of your own house that you may know the warfare begun in your hearts against your spiritual enemies and so the God of Power manifest himself amongst you by his mighty power bringing down all that in you which opposes him would not that he should reign over it and exalt his own seed in your hearts establish you in righteousness that his image you may bear and he shal be your God and you shal be his people And so in the unchangeable Truth I rest in unity with all the faithful in the glorious liberty of the Sons of God though in outward bonds for your sakes Known to all that can read me in spirit I.P. FINIS