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A43121	A collection of the Christian writings, labours, travels, and sufferings of that faithful and approved minister of Jesus Christ, Roger Haydock to which is added an account of his death and burial.	Haydock, Roger, 1643-1696.; Haydock, John. A brief account of the life, travels, sufferings, and death of Roger Haydock.; Haydock, Roger, 1643-1696. Skirmisher confounded.; Haydock, Roger, 1643-1696. A hypocrite unveiled.	1700 (1700)	Wing H1206; ESTC R25420	111,178	301

Thus But rather strengthen our selves in the Lord that we may according to our Membership be more capable to serve the Lord and his People as we had him and others for Examples it was a Portion of the Lord's Spirit that made him a Worthy in Israel that hath made me at this time thus Testifie of him so that I can say He being Dead yet speaketh God by his goodness grant to raise many such helps in Israel to the dignifying of his Name which this our dear deceased Friend sought Since I have known Truth above twenty Years and observed the Conversation of such as were in Christ before me I have beheld few if any more remote from self-Praise or Exaltation I believe while in this Tabernacle I shall not forget his Advice to me the first opportunity I had with him after I was convinced by him viz. Not to Attribute any thing to Man but give God the Glory and with what Reverence and Gravity these things were expressed his Humility at that time reached the better part in me and I hope will remain as a Nail fastned in a sure Place My Prayer to the Lord is that he may raise many such Ministers in his now Israel to the furtherance of his Name Truth and Holiness and that many may be willing as he was to spend and be spent to go to and fro that Knowledge may be increased What I have already testified of this my Father and Friend for in his Bonds he begat me hath eased my Spirit I loved him dearly in his Life and no less at his Death whose Savour reached to People of all sorts and his Death lamented I was several times with him in his Sickness and was concerned in Mind to go down a little before his Departure so that with many good Friends I was present and saw him put off this outward Tabernacle though to our Sorrow yet in a full perswasion that he died the Death of the Righteous prepared for that future felicity which a numberless Number is following after which neither Hell nor Death Beast or false Prophet shall be able to hinder Amen Amen Although I could further Amplify and Enlarge this my Testimony yet shall desist with Real and Ardent Desires to the Lord that he may order our Conversation aright and that all that names the Name of Jesus may depart from Iniquity and be sanctified to reign with the Righteous World without End Christopher Winn. Penk●th near Warrington in Lancashire the 3d of the 3d Month 1697. William Ellis's Testimony concerning dear Friend Roger Haydock I Have much in my Heart concerning our dear Friend Roger Haydock tho' I cannot express to the full what I know of him but however I shall say the less not questioning but that there are Testimonies in the Hearts of many Friends to his Worth and Faithfulness and Service in the Blessed and Holy Truth wherein we have believed and felt the Blessed Effects of our Faith to the great Comfort and Consolation of our Souls It was about twenty one Years the last 3d Month since I was Convinced of the Blessed Truth And though I have since that day had many Instructors in Christ yet I have not many Fathers for in Christ Jesus was I begotten by him through the Gospel and the Operation of the Holy Spirit which did Effectually open a door of Entrance in my Heart as it opened a door of Utterance unto him It was at a Meeting at Bradley near Skipton in Yorkshire where he declared the Day of God which was broken forth in this Age in great Splendor to Enlighten Mankind he spoke many things which reached the States of many in that day alluding from the State of Israel of old who passed through the Sea and saw the wondrous Works which the Lord wrought for their Deliverance yet some forgot him and made themselves Idols of their Jewels and Earings saying These be thy Gods O Israel who brought thee out of the Land of Egypt and then sat down to Eat and Drink and rose to Play With many more precious Words wherewith he did sound forth the glorious Gospel I was abundantly satisfied that day with what I had felt and heard So I took heed unto the Word in my Heart unto which I had been directed by him and it grew and Increased and my Faith Increased and I became according to my small Measure obedient thereunto and my Soul was in love with the Truth and the Followers thereof especially with him who had been the Instrument of publishing the same to me his Feet was indeed beautiful unto me and I could say in Truth Blessed be him that Cometh in the Name of the Lord I saw his Zeal and was sensible of the Sincerity of his Heart and Endeavours in his Life-time to promote to his utmost the great Name of God And when through Providence I came to be more Intimately Acquainted with him I was confirmed in my sense of him and his Love to God and Zeal for the Truth and have in many private Opportunities with him been abundantly satisfied in the sweet Society and Fellowship we have injoyed together and I am fully perswaded that his Root was in the Truth and that he was sensible that the Root bore him and he grew therein and laboured much to bring People to be established upon the Sure Rock Christ Jesus the Root of Life upon which the True Church is Built And I know his Labours in that Respect was great and the Lord saw his Faithfulness and poured out upon him the Spirit of Wisdom and Understanding and of a sound Mind to promote Good Discipline and Comely Order in his Church that She might be like the True Church of Old which John spoke of under the Similitude of A Woman who was clothed with the Sun and had the Moon under her Feet Which Glory did far Excel the Glory that attended Solomon in his best State for the sake of which the Queen of the South came far and was overcome with the Sight thereof Thus did he Labour and Travel in his Day spending himself that the Church might be adorned with the Comely Attire and Ornaments of the Holy Spirit and that the Name of the Lord Jesus her Head might spread to the Ends of the Earth Blessed be the great God of Heaven and Earth that raised up him and many more who could hold the Sword and be Expert in the War like the Cant. 3.7 8. Threescore Valiant Men of Israel who kept the Bed of Solomon Or like the Judges 20.15 16. Men of Benjamin who could Sling to an Hairs Breadth and not miss The Lord Raise up more such Faithful Labourers in his Vineyard and give them Wisdom and Zeal to Train up those who shall believe in the Truth in sound Discipline as well as in Word and Doctrine that he may Restore unto the Churc● 〈◊〉 1.26 Judges as at the First and 〈◊〉 as at the Beginning that Men may call them The City of

the said Apostle gave in Charge to Timothy concerning Rishops that they should be Blameless Vigilant Sober no Striker nor greedy of filthy Lucre Not a Brawler not Covetous that he be not lifted up with Pride lest he fall into the Condemnation of the Devil Also the same Apostle to Titus A Bishop must be Blameless as the Steward of God not self willed mark no Striker not given to filthy Lucre one that holds fast the Faithful Word that he may be able by sound Doctrine mark by sound Doctrine to Exhort and Convince gainsayers And whether or no if thou hast been in the footsteps of these Primitive Bishops to whom Paul writ supposing us to be without to wit Gainsayers instead of spending 30 l. to cast us into Prison and of threatning the Jaylor and stirring the Judge against us wouldst thou not rather have laboured by sound Doctrine mark by sound Doctrine and not by casting us into Prison whom thou hast not so much as given the least word of Exhortation unto to have convinced us But I query of thee Whether did any of the Apostles or Ministers of Christ Jesus cast any Man into Prison for denying to pay Tithes or of whom did they ask the Tenths of their increase If thou canst shew me such a President in the Scriptures of the New Testament Or whether they did freely receive and freely give Yea or Nay if Yea then whether Imprisoning People who cannot give their Money for that which is not Bread be not a very unchristian Practice and too much like the way of Cain who was a Persecutor resembling the Error of Balaam who loved Gifts and Rewards And whether such as are in the Practice thereof be not in the footsteps of those Prophets Micah spoke of that bite with their Teeth and he that puts not in their Mouths they prepare War even against him and of such as looked every one for his gain from his quarter Friend Christ said Every Tree is known by his Fruits And if thou be a Minister of Christ the words of Christ will not offend he said Not every one that saith Lord Lord shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven but he that doth the Will of my Father which is in Heaven Such as when he was Hungry gave him no Bread to Eat when he was Thirsty gave him no Water to Drink when he was Naked did give him no Clothing when Sick and in Prison did not visit him such were shut out of the Kingdom of Heaven For said Christ In as much as ye did it not unto them ye did it not unto me Now if such were shut out of the Kingdom who did not these things unto Christ in his Members mark if such as did not visit Christ in his Members in Prison were shut out of the Kingdom of Heaven What then will become of such who Imprison Christ's Members Now Friend consider thy Ways and thy Actions Hast thou done unto us as thou thy self would be done unto Or hast not thou rather broken the Righteous Law of Christ If by thy Works thou be not Justified shalt not thou by thy Works be Condemned since every Man must receive according unto his Deeds be they Good or be they Evil Now If a Bishop should bite with his Teeth and prepare War against an Innocent People because they cannot put into his Mouth and cast them into Prison some of which neither owes him any thing either according to the Law of God or any Law of Man as is known to some of his Agents The like of which I think cannot be parallell'd by all the Impropriators and Priests in England Besides yet done by or at least in the Name and at the Suit of the Bishop and threatens the Jaylor with severe Punishment if he suffer them to have any Liberty at all and likewise stir up the Judge to straiten their Bonds that if possible he might have the Lives of such for whom Christ dyed and bring the Guilt of their Blood upon his Head I say if a Bishop have thus done I Query Whether this be the way for such a Bishop to stand approved in the sight of God and to be manifest to the Conscience of all People and to have a good Report of them which are without or rather the way to fall into Reproach and the Snare of the Devil and bring the Wrath and Judgment of God upon his Head So let the Witness of God in thy Conscience Answer to these things And the Lord God of Heaven and Earth the Righteous Judge of all the Earth whose Judgment is Just Judge betwixt thee and us And unto him we Appeal with whom there is no respect of Persons who Judgeth the Cause of the Poor and the Cause of the Rich and to his faithful Witness in thy Conscience we also Appeal in this matter Whether it be not more Christian like more according to Truth the Example of Christ and his Apostles who gave Commandment unto the Church That they should walk as they had them for Examples in Christ which all true Christians ought to follow to ser us at Liberty than to keep us Prisoners until Death having contrary to the Law ensnared us and bring the Guilt of Innocent Blood upon his Head But now Friend if thou shalt say It is because you will not pay Tithes I Answer One of us being one of the three thou imprisoned and writ against in order to straiten our Bonds hath nothing according to the Law of the Nation Titheable therefore wrongfully imprisoned according to that Law and so detained and as to the other who for Conscience sake refused to pay them if thou canst make good by the Scriptures of the New Testament that Christ or his Apostles sued any Man for Tenths or Tithes and cast them into Prison if they would not pay them give us Chapter and Verse for this and let us see where it is so written that Christ Jesus who has all Power in Heaven and Earth given unto him made such a Law and gave it to his Disciples Apostles Ministers Ambassadors and Evangelists and if so let us see where it is written in the New Testament and where his Disciples and Apostles did practice any such Law shew this plain Scripture unto us and we to wit who have any thing Titheable will pay thee Tithe But if thou canst not art not thou a Transgressor of the Command of Christ that said to his Disciples Freely ye have received freely give So to be one that Transgresses and abideth not in the Doctrine of Christ as thou may'st see in the se cond Epistle of John and the ninth Verse And did ever Christ or his Disciples force any to hear them and come to their Church and if they would not cast them into Prison And did ever Christ and his Apostles force any that were not of their Church to give them Maintenance or Tithes and if they would not cast them into Prison and threaten the Jaylor to

lately been Hearers of the said J. B. Priest of Wareham to which said Meeting also resorted several of the said Priest's Hearers After the Meeting I went that Evening with some Friends to Croton being about a Mile distant from the place where the Meeting was where a Friend late one of J. B's Hearers did acquaint me That J. B. raged sore against the Quakers I replied to the Friend It was the manner of some Priests so to do where Truth spreads and where such as had been their Followers were convinced and turned from them The Friend did farther acquaint me That J. B. railed in his Sermons against the Quakers charging them to be led by the spirit of Antichrist and that it was the spirit of Antichrist they directed People to or words to this purpose and that some who heard him being dissatisfied therewith did afterward speak of it and John Barber being spoken to he did assert it again and challenged to make it out against any Quaker that would meet him before a Congregation of People After I had heard the Friend I spoke something to him as not to mind what the Priest said for I hoped he and the rest who were convinced of the Truth were satisfied the Priest's Charge was false He said He was satisfied but some who had heard of the Priest's Challenge were desirous he should be met Farther adding That if he should not be met he and many others would boast as tho' the Quakers durst not Dispute with them I would have put the thing still from me it being cross to the Inclination of my own Mind and I being engaged for several Days in Truth 's Service which was the occasion of my being in Cheshire at that time though I was not altogether easie concerning it so I left it that Evening not giving the Friend farther answer Next Morning it was upon my Mind and the Friend again spoke of it so it resting pretty much before me I bid the Friend write down what he heard the Priest say which he did and the words were to this effect John Barber saith He hath said it and will say it again That the Light and Spirit the Quakers are led by and direct People to is the spirit of Antichrist and that of any of the Quakers would meet him he would eng age to prove it by Disputation before an Assembly of People The Friend that writ had also heard J. B. repeat and vindicate it When I had read it it was in my Heart to write a few words under it which was to this effect Friend if this be thy Assertion and that thou wilt according to thy Challenge undertake to-prove it by Disputation before an Assembly of People against any Quaker that will meet thee then Subscribe thy Name to it and I do undertake on the behalf of the Light and Spirit the Quakers are led by and direct People unto to meet thee and stand by the Defence of the Truth against thy wicked Charge leaving to my Friend John Low the Bearer hereof with thee to agree of Time and Place To which I subscribed my Name Time and Place was agreed upon betwixt J. B. the Opponent and my Friend J. L. on my behalf who was to be Defendant which was to be at Croton the 20th of that Instant the 4th Month 1676. To which Place appointed came John Barber in order to prove his Charge and to his assistance John Davis Priest of Fradsham and John Cheyney Priest of Burtonwood-Chappel these were Opponents John Cheyney gives some Relation himself of his coming to this Dispute in p. 1 2. of his Warning to Souls how he was in suspense what do he says He sought the Lord determined to go though not without some doubts in his Mind Which gives ground to any wise Man to believe he had not an Answer from God nor a Command to go for if so what needed he to have doubted But when he comes to the place he says He was no ways engaged in the Dispute but came as an Hearer where at present I leave him John Davis was the first of the Three Priests that I heard speak who offered to be a Moderator in the Dispute betwixt John Barber and me When he ceased I had a few words upon my Mind 〈◊〉 speak to the People when I had spoken them J. D. said He hath spoken well Afterwards I read J. B's Charge asserted in to be False and put him upon the Proof thereof J. B. Propounded an Argument for Proof viz. That the Quakers asserted God Man to be in them But failing in Proof he Argued again That the Quakers asserted the Totum Christum or the Whole Christ to be in them and that they denied the Lord that bought them I denied his Proposition That the Quakers asserted the Whole Christ to be in them and asserted his Conclusion to be false saying The Quakers do not deny the Lord that bought them yet I owned that Christ was in us to which J. B. replied Either the Whole Christ or No Christ Such was J. B's Ignorance I shall 〈…〉 some Scriptures which agree with my owning Christ to be in us Col. 1.26 27. Even the Mystery which hath been hid from Ages and from Generations but 〈◊〉 is made manifest to his Saints To 〈…〉 what is the Riches of the Glory of this Mystery amongst the Gentiles which 〈◊〉 Christ In You the Hope of Glory 2 Cor. 13.3 Since ye seek is Proof of Christ Speaking In Me which to you ward is not work but mighty In You Vers ● Examine your selves whether ye be in the Faith prove your selves know you not your own selves how that Jesus Christ is In You except ye be Reprobates John 17.23 I In Them and th●● in me John 14.20 As that day ye shall know that I am in my Father and you in me and I In You. 1 Pet. 1 11. Searching what or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was In Them did signifie when it testified before-hand the Suffering of Christ and the Glory that should follow I might add many more Scriptures but these may suffice for the Reader 's Information and Satisfaction if unprejudiced To J. B's Assertion That either the Whole Christ or No Christ was in us I replied That the Whole Christ or No Christ is in us I deny For the Heaven and the Heaven of Heavens cannot contain Christ the Lord how much less then should the Whole Christ be in us Yet unto us God hath given of his Spirit by Measure and the Earnest of his Spirit is in our Hearts And is not this according to Scriptures Col. 1.16 Ephes 3.9 John 1.3 All things both in Heaven and in Earth visible and invisible were created by Jesus Christ for he is Lord of Lords and King of Kings Rev. 17.14 19.16 1 Tim. 6.15 Behold the Heaven and Heaven of Heavens cannot contain thee 1 Kings 8.27 And is not Christ and God one John 10.30 14.9 10 11.

One God and Father of all who is above all and through all and In You all Bat unto every one of us is given Grace according to the Measure of the Gift of Christ Ephes 4.6 7. Rom. 12.3 2 Cor. 10.13 The Manifestation of the Spirit of God is given to every Man to profit withal 1 Cor. 12.7 God hath given the Earnest of his Spirit unto us In our Hearts 2 Cor. 1.22 5.5 He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all Heavens that he might fill all things Ephes 4.10 J. D. said I deny that God hath given of his Spirit by Measure I replied Then thou deniest Scripture To which J. D. answered not Now I further add some Scriptures that the Reader may take notice thereof and see J. D's Folly John 3.34 For God giveth not the Spirit by Measure unto him viz. Christ Jesus Col. 1.19 2.9 In him it pleased the Father all Fulness should dwell But unto every one of us is given Grace according to the Measure of the Gift of Christ Ephes 4.7 2 Cor. 10.13 Hereby know we that we dwell In Him and he In Us because he hath given us of his Spirit 1 John 4.13 And of his Fulness have we all received John 1.16 Mark Of Christ's Fulness have we all received of his Spirit he hath given us and Grace according to the Measure of the Gift of Christ Observe We have received but Measurably of Christ's Fulness of his Spirit according to the good Pleasure of God the Giver some of us more other-some less yet of the same Fulness of the same Spirit And though given to us Measurably it is the same with the Fulness it is of the Spirit and whether a larger or lesser Measure or Manifestation of the Fulness of the Spirit be by one or another of us received yet still it remains undivided from the Fulness from the Spirit which is invisible Neither is the Measure Manifestation or Gift of the Spirit of God the Fulness dissected or parted from the Fulness but is really of the Fulness One in us all proceeding from the Fulness One through all and over all abiding in the Fulness and so of the Godhead which cannot be divided into Particles nor cut into Shreds or Pieces for to assert that were Blasphemy Which Assertion our Adversaries have unjustly laboured to force upon us being blinded through Envy and altogether ignorant of the Glorious Mystery Christian Man the Hope of Glory But they have all come short and we are clear from any such Assertion and farther hold forth That God is an Infinite Spirit Omnipresent an Immense God Immensurate yet Measureably doth he manifest himself unto us and gives us to partake of the Divine Nature 2 Pet. 1.4 And so we are in Christ and Christ dwells in us and walks in us according to the Measure of his Gift given us of his Spirit and we daily grow up in Grace from Stature to Stature from one Degree of Holiness to another a Habitation for God and Christ through the Spirit And is not this according to the Scriptures And is not J. D's Holly as well as J. B's Ignorance discovered Let the Reader judge Then spoke John Cheyney and said Every Man is so far enlightened with the Light and Spirit of Christ as that he is left without excuse This was J. C's grant Which Light and Spirit the Quakers are led by and direct People to This grant or rather assertion of J. C. overthrew J. B. and cleared the Quakers of his false Charge as was noted to the People It being according to the Doctrine the Quakers preach That Christ the true Light lighteth every Man that cometh into the Wo●●● John 1.9 What said J. C Every Man is so far enlightned with the Light and Spirit of Christ as that he is left without excuse In this J. C. said what is true But hath not J. C. by asserting every Man to be enlightned with the Light and Spirit of Christ done more against J. B. I suppose without his leave for this was before he saith He gave him leave to propound an Argument than by the Argument he propounded he was able to do for him I leave the Reader to judge Only adding for his Information That it is the Light and Spirit wherewith Christ lighteth every Man that cometh into the World which the Quakers direct People to This is evident by their Books and Doctrine J. B. asserted this Light and Spirit to be the Spirit of Antichrist J. C. affirmed it to be the Light and Spirit of Christ saying Every Man is so far enlightned with the Light and Spirit of Christ as that he is left without Excuse But J. B. in the closure of this Assertion of J. C's excepted against Heathens being so enlightned So these three Priests all Episcopal Priests differed in Principle amongst themselves J. D. denied the Spirit to be given by Measure J. C. asserted every Man was enlightned with the Light and Spirit of Christ And J. B. denied Heathens who are Men to be so enlightned Again J. D. denied the Light of Christ to be Saving but J. C. and J. B. acknowledged the Light of Christ to be Saving These Contradictions of the Priests were noted down and so kept since the Dispute And upon these Points at the Dispute I told them They were like the Scribes Pharisees and Saducees who differed among themselves yet joyned together against Christ and so they joyned together against us yet differed amongst themselves Therefore said I Go and be Reconciled amongst your selves to which J. D. replied Reflect not I answered What I said is true The Reason which induced me to give this short yet true Relation is To inform the Reader what Arguments J. C. saith we were canvassing about the Light within in which he saith Many Quakers spoke beside R. H. and would make his Reader believe on the other side none spoke but J. B. until J. B. gave him leave to speak when as in the canvassing of this Argument there were J. B. J. D. and J. C. Besides what was spoken by the Standers by on their part as well as that there were some others besides R. H. who spoke on our part To give a Relation of much of what was spoken either by one or other or either sides is not my purpose But since John Cheyney over the Heads of John Barber and John Davis seems to assume a Glory of Conquest to himself concerning that Dispute and would be somebody therefore he never mentions John Davis and only makes mention of Mr. B. as he stiles him that he may shortly tell his Reader what he hath done therefore I thought meet to hint a little of what each of the three aforementioned Priests as well J. C. as the other two said that the Reader may not only hear they spoke but see something of what was spoken by every one of them and I thought in most safe to publish what was