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A29619 A single and general voice lifted up like a trumpet, sounding forth the Lords controversie concerning London, with her governors, priests, and citizens that walk in the manners, customs, and way of the heathen, that know not the dreadful God who is Light among them, neither like to retain God ... with somewhat directed to the ear of Thomas Atkin, called alderman of the said city : a reproof to his perverse and ungodly proceedings, message, and two letters ... also a letter from a servant of God in the said prison to Thomas Allen, Mayor of the city ... / by Daniel Baker. D. B. (Daniel Baker), fl. 1650-1660. 1659 (1659) Wing B485; ESTC R32851 25,174 40

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body and every member of his Creature Man from Commanding or his Creature male or female from subjecting to their Lords Command in or by their body without respect of the outward adorning Life mens persons time place or dayes that the Will of the Almighty Lord of Heaven and Earth might be done in it as it is in the new Heaven and in the new Earth that the Inhabitants of the world might cease to do evil and learn to do Righteousness even as he is Holy and Righteous that calleth his people out of Babel the Land of Darkness and Confusion lest while they partake of her sins they partake of her plagues and judgements Lo the same voice cryes now in these latter dayes He that hath an Ear to hear let him hear and come forth and turn to the Light that 's low in the heart freely from the Lord given to thee drawing Tumults about you to the disturbance of our Peace You and your Companions prophane the Lords Day some opening their Shops on that day which we can no wayes allow of you make a great Complaint of the Jaylor and his Vnder Officers I doubt not but there is great Fault in all of them there is no Good to be learned in such places and I believe it is a Grief to all good People to see and hear such Sins daily committed in such places and if it lieth upon your Spirit as you Write it doth ●his is false I Writ not so but I was burthened with the crying Abominations of the City and Prison Lo in that fear and wisdom of my Lord and Master Christ the Light I have cleared my Conscience whether thou and them who are the Cause of it hear or forbear I marvel you will stay so long in that place If your Vnder Keeper bring you to my House that I may talk with you I may perhaps see Cause that you shall Return thither no more when you are weary of your Company you may take my Advice and so I leave you Resting Your well-wishing Friend THOMAS ATKIN London the 24 of Novemb. After I had Written an Answer to the late Letter the 25 of the 9th Month in the Morning from the Lord had I freedom to pass forth to Thomas Atkin with the Letter and with the words of my Mouth to lay his wicked lyes and false and unjust Accusations and Proceedings upon his own Head and to warn him on the Lords behalf who with his Servants are and will be clear of his Blood if he die in his Sins with many more that reject the Truth and persecute the life of it as its appearance is brought forth in and by the Friends of Christ Jesus the light of the World that lighteth every man that cometh into the World FRIEND DId thou never read Christs words in the Scriptures of Truth which saith For every idle word that men shall speak they shall give Account in the day o● Judgement and all Lyars shall have their part in the Lake that burns with Fire and Brimstone And how is it thou do not fear and tremble before the living God that hath given thee breath but in the hardnesse of thy heart and impenitency instead of laying thy sad wretched and miserable estate to heart when it s so plainly laid before thee had not the god of the World altogether blinded thine eye thou might see so much O man who yet fear not to heap up false Accusations against the Innocent which thou and many more are truly guilty of as I have sufficiently proved to thee who most wickedly and prophanely said to my Friend the Messenger this morning That I had gathered all the Pick-pockets and Whores and Rogues in London about me a wicked Lye so I turn it back upon thy head O man what will be thy end Art thou fit to bear the Name of a Ruler a Christian a Magistrate a Justice of Peace which should be a terror to the Liar the false Accuser the Evil-doer and not fear the God of Truth thy self but speak such most wicked Lyes and false Accusations to the shame of thy greedy dark Teachers the Lord's witness in thy Conscience when the Lord visits for all the Deeds done in thy body will bring them into remembrance and judge and condemne thee for the evil and behold I yet call for thee to Repent and hearken to the witness in thee opprest and cease from thy wickednesse left thou die in thy sins who writ to me in thy late Letter after thou have undeservedly spoke contemptiously and vilely of me and of what I writ in love to thy Soul Thou say I vilifie your Ministers and Ministry Thou err in saying so for I do not vilifie them in speaking the Truth of or concerning them as thou may read and understand by what I have written to thee but can I speak more vilely of them then thou in thy Letter to me saying There is no good to be learned in such places and thou dost believe its a grief to all good people to see and hear such sins daily committed in such places viz. Prisons to thy own shame thou have written this better a milstone were hanged about the neck of such as offend Christs little ones by casting them into such places and much more to the vilifying as thou call it of the hired Priests that take so much Quarterly gain or yearly gain from their Quarter to deceive the poor Prisoners who can learn no good here though they preach for Hire so often so that thou have confirmed what I have truly written and is it not time for them to be silent that are in deceit in an evil way how can they teach the good old way who are out of it themselves consider of this and Repent Another Charge thou layst to me is for calling the Churches made with hands Mass-houses Did not the Popes adherents build them to say Masse in and give them their Monks and Saints Names as St. Gregory St. Dunston St. Sepulcher St. Katherin St. Antlin St. Rood St. Giles St. Clement c. And how is it thou art so blind and dark and called a Magistrate and yet know not the Church of the living God which is the pillar and ground of Truth from an old Popish Masse-house made up of Lime and Stone with mens hands where God dwels not and dost not thou blaspheme to call that a Church which is not but I may say a figure of thy hard heart who art yet a member of such a Church which is not the body of Christ See Col. 1.24 The true Church is the Body of Christ but I deny with my life a stony Idols Temple Steeple house or Masse-house that it is the Church or Body of Christ or the pillar and ground of Truth which is the Church of the living God behold thy blasphemy and the damnable error of thy dark Teachers And why dost thou continue heaping false Accusations upon me and my dear friends the Lords Servants
to betray and insnare the Innocent that we should hear the Priest one time to try us yet he saw and also confest to a Friend That the Priest his heart failed him so that he could not or dare not come in until we were carried away and l●cked up in the Hole as at other times but had he been a Minister of Christ he would not have been afraid or ashamed neither would his heart have failed him or feared the face of any man but would with boldness without guilt upon the Conscience which causeth the heart to fail and bringeth shame to have answered a sober question which by one of them was denyed but would if a Minister of Christ or Spirit of Life with all readiness of mind count it all joy to Convince the gain sayers by sound Doctrine and if we were in Errors as we are falsly accused the Lord is witnesse he ought to do so and bring his deeds to the light that they may manifestly appear before all that they are unreproveable wrought in God and if such hired Priests be Ministers of Christ or of the Spirit of Life let such as fear and desire to fear the God of truth judge And let this be a Warning to Humphry Gifford or any that sees the deceit of the Hirelings and I told one of them in the prison before he did fly that he would make himself manifest to the people and immediately he did fly because he was a Hireling and so the Scripture is fulfiled upon his head lest such partake with them in their plagues for behold the Lords hand is lifted up against the hired Priests and bruitish Pastors of England that steal the Prophets good words that were spoke freely forth and boast in other mens lines made ready to their hand which they make a Trade on through Covetous practises beguiling unstable Souls and keep them ever learning what to say but like themselves do not And the Cry that hath often passed through me since I have been a Prisoner here against the abominations in this prison has been O the Ungodliness O the Oathes O the Blasphemy O the Cursed Speaking O the ungodly Unclean Songs of the Drunkards O the Deceit of the Priests O the ungodly hard Speeches O the Excess O the Revellings O the want of the poorer sort O the unreasonableness of men hardened from Gods fear O the cruel Mockings Revilings from sinful men O the Oppression O the Extortion O the wicked Customs O let this enter into thy heart O many lie even upon thine the Keepers head who as for thy part when I sent a Letter to thee in love to thy Soul thou tore it to pieces and laughed as I hear not becoming thy Age and gray Hairs and place but thou hast more need to weep and howl for the misery that is comming on thee because of thy mighty crying sins And thou Humphry Gifford hath often by words our of thine own mouth rejected the Lords Testimony to my face from time to time and this is truth whether thou canst believe me or nay it will stand upon thy head if happily thou find a place of Repentance unto life the Lord lay not these things to your Charge however so far have I cleared my Conscience and my Peace in which I rest no man can take from me From the Hole in the Inner-Prison in the Counter the 19 of the ●th Month and 7 or last day of the week and of the year according to the Worlds account 1659. Who am a Friend to the whole Creation that groans for Deliverance and lieth under the bondage of corruption and with that which judgeth the evil-doer but justifieth and giveth life to him whose deeds are wrought in God in Truth in Righteousness Daniel Baker The Original of this in Writing was delivered into the hand of Thomas Atkin by a Friend of Gods Truth Elizabeth harris who with much tenderness and bowels of Compassion tendered it to him and spake some good wholsome words being grieved to see the injustice of such men as he who instead of being ashamed of his perversness and disowning of his injustice and unequal proceeding against the Innocent persisted and reiected wholsome Counsel and spake forth a most wicked Lye saying That I had gathered all the Pick-pockets Rogues and Whores in London about me and that I was like to lie in Prison till I was dragged out and Reviled the sober Messenger saying to some that stood by You may know that she is a Quaker by her Language which I say is pure and true Now I leave this to the witness in all sober peoples Consciences to judge whether such a man befit to Rule over men It 's like I might be about an hour and half at the Mayors Gate and it would be much if all the pick-pockets and all the Whores and all the Rogues in London should be gathered together in so little time except they had been summoned before-hand but I deny such unclean vile Transgressors with my precious Life the Lord is witnesse and seeing if Thomas Atlin knew so well of so many Cut-purses pick-pockets Whores and Rogues were gathered together I say it had been a fitter time for him and many more of his Brethren to have laid the Sword upon such vile Transgressors and not to have let them gone free and condemne the guiltless by throwing Truths testimony into prison within and without But I have spoke enough and my Reward is with the Lord though Thomas Atkin have unwisely rejected his Testimony with many more who greedily are hastening farther under the vail of thick darkness therefore their glory which is their shame is to be made manifest to all that others may learn wisdom by the fear of the Lord which is to depart from evil A Coppy of another Letter from Thomas Atkin with something added in Answer DAniel Baker I this day had brought me by a Sister of yours a large Discourse but little to any good purpose you magnifie your selfe in your Gifts as if no man have such Knowledge as your self you may know much but your Practise is far short of what you seem to know Mark you vilifie our Ministers and Ministry and call our Churches Mass-houses your language and terms are provoking Cannot you and them of your gang be quiet and exercise your Gifts in your own Meeting-places but disturbe us in our Congregations and Act in the Streets in a most uncivil manner like distracted men then sober persons * * How if thou had been in the dayes of the holy Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel to have seen one go naked and bear a sign three years and another to bake his bread with mans dung or Cowes dung at the Commandement of the Lord its like thou would not have ceased to falsly accuse them to be distracted and uncivil persons mad-men and the like But why should the Spirit of the holy One be limited resisted or stopt that made the