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A32862	The memory of the righteous revived being a brief collection of the books and written epistles of John Camm & John Audland, those two faithful and honourable servants of the Lord, who were called to the work of the ministry in the morning of Gods blessed day dawned in this generation, and, with other brethren, bore the heat and burden of the day faithfully, to the end and finishing of their course, being entered into the joy of their Lord : together with several testimonies relating to those two faithful labourers / published for the service of truth and friends, by Thomas Camm & Charles Marshal.	Camm, John, 1604?-1656.; Audland, John, 1630-1664.; Camm, Thomas, 1641-1707.; Marshall, Charles, 1637-1698.	1689 (1689)	Wing C390; ESTC R22076	130,282	441

which they ought to have done so are breakers of their Covenants and Vowes made in their Baptism which promised that they would forsake the Devil and all his Works the Pomps and Vanities of this wicked World and all the sinful Lusts of the Flesh c. And that they would keep Gods holy Will and Commandments c. But now they offend grievously Gods holy Laws and leaves that undone which they should do c. And their Teachers tell them they connot forsake the Devil and all his works but their best Actions and their Prayers are Sin while they live and all Sin is of the evil One Therefore we dare not joyn with them to commit Sin But if it be said these are but humble Confession to God laying our selves low and confessing our Sins which we ought to do when we pray to him Answer either your Confessions are true or a lye If true then you are breakers of your Vows and in the Unconverted state yet therefore not the true Church Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not Inherit the Kingdom of God 1 Cor. 6. 4 10 11. Be not deceived neither Idolators nor Thieves nor Covetous nor Drunkards nor Revilars nor Extortioners can Inherit it in that state And said the Apostle to the Saints Such were some of you but you are Washed but you are Sanctified but you are Justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God And if your Confession be a lye then you are also manifest to be a Company of Dissembling Hypocrites and to be of him who was a Lyar from the Beginning and not Members of the Church of Christ Thirdly because the People there met together have no health in them therefore we are not perswaded in our Minds that we ought to joyn with them no health in them Christ is the saving Health of all Nations who believe in him therefore Christ is not in them so Reprobates concerning the Faith and not the Church of Christ nor Congregation of the faithful People but are disorderly out of the order of the Gospel and we are commanded to withdraw from all such as walk disorderly So we meet together in the Fear of God according to the Practice of the Saints and come not to these places which were the old Mass-Houses to Worship amongst those People which have no health in them and these are three Principal things upon which many more things will follow wherefore we do not go to these Places aforenamed J. A. The Coppy of a Letter sent unto two or three Persons in a Family Dear Hearts IN the Light of the Lord wait upon the Lord in his Fear to have your Minds stayed in his Will that you may walk in Obedience Uprightness in the Presence of the Lord to see him amongst you and in his Counsel abide every one faithful in the Calling and Measure which you have received and are called unto that orderly and in order you may wait and walk every one in particular and one towards another in Soberness and Wisdom that in Love you may be preserved and Truth adorned which you profess that God alone may be exalted I warn you and charge you that in Faithfuluess every one of you walk and in Diligence and Love that there be no Disorder Sloathfulness nor Carelessness but every one mind the Presence of him whose Eye is over you before whom all is naked and bare that you may walk in the Light and the pure Fear of God which will keep you Watchful and Sober in all diligence as unto the Lord knowing you must give an account to him And none be high minded but fear and be Low and Humble and take up the Yoke of Christ and learn there And take heed of your own wills which would lead you into the by-Parths But stand single in the Will of God waiting upon him continually that you may receive the living Mercies from him that your Souls may be nourished with the Food that is Immortal and this I lay upon you all that you be faithful and Diligent that all may be kept in Order and Love that the Family may be guided in Wisdom So my Dear Hearts in Love do I Salute you all and I remain your Dear Friend in that which endureth forever John Audland These following Epistles were found in Manuscript after the foregoing Books and Epistles were Printed To which is added George Fox's Testimony concerning John Camm and John Audland Dear Friends BRethren and Sisters Babes and Lambs Plants of my heavenly Fathers Planting my dear Love in that infinite unchangable Love of God doth my Soul Salute you all yea truly my Bowels of tender Love and Compassion unto the Seed of God in you all that you may be kept pure and blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and travel in pain until Christ be formed in you until the Babe be born in you which is Heir of the immortal Inheritance which never fades away Dear Hearts in the pure Light of Christ all dwell and abide which leads up into the pure Life where there is no Death where we shall all meet together and feed together at one Table and all Eat of one Bread of Life and Drink of one Fountain of living Water which nourisheth all up to the Everlasting Life where we shall meet together and sit together in heavenly Places in Christ Jesus where all Sorrow and Sighing shall fly away and there no Thief can come to rob us of our Crown Therefore in the Bowels of tender Love as a Brother I beseech you all to walk worthy of your Calling for holy is he that hath called you and holy is your Calling unto an holy Life and godly Conversation are you called and to a Separation from the World and to a daily dying to it and to a forgetting of all things which are behind and to walk up to those things which are made manifest in you by the Light which comes from Christ which being obedient unto it it leadeth up to Christ your Head and Example in all things and he was obedient unto the Death of the Cross and being faithful to the Light which comes from him it will lead you to the Death upon the Cross and Crucifie you unto the World and wordly things and raise you up into the pure Life to follow the Lamb whether soever he goeth and if you suffer with him you shall reign with him for he was perfect through Sufferings and through Sufferings and many Tribulations must you enter And therefore all come to the Cross and love it and rejoyce in it that you are counted worthy for his Name sake and take heed that none suffer as Evil-doers for there is no Joy for that nor no Crown nor Reward for these suffers not on the Cross and these Sufferings do not Crucifie but the Condemnation upon all such is Just by the Light which never changeth which comprehends all such hasty Spirits which run

our Ministry begotten into a lively hope in Christ Jesus by the immortal Seed of the Word of God and ye are our Witnesses that we seek not our selves but you nor our own good but the Glory of our God and the recovery of his own Image and the freedom of the Righteous that the Name of our God may be exalted and that he may reign over all and have Dominion in every one of you that you may witness your Head exalted dwell in the pure eternal Light of Christ Jesus which doth discover and make manifest all the deeds of darkness and lays open all deceit and brings it to the righteous Law of God and so condemns Sin in the Flesh and sets up judgment in the Earth and the Inhabitants thereof learn righteousness and when this is witnessed the Oppressor is cast out and the Vail is rent and the bonds of Iniquity is broken and the Serpents Head is bruised and the Seed of the Woman raised which all the Promises of God are yea and Amen unto yea and he fetches up out of time into the beginning before Sin was and leads up into eternity where time shall be no more and therefore dear Hearts all wait in that which you have received the Light which comes from Christ that by it you may come to injoy the pure Life and have Power over all your Enemies for as many as receive him to them he gives power to become the Sons of God and gives them victory over the World to tread and to trample upon it and therefore all of you dwell low and in the pure fear of the Lord abide and in his Counsel stand and be faithful in what you know and imp ove it to the glory of the immortal God that you may be the good Servants and enter into the Joy of your Lord and as you dwell low in meekness and in the pure Fear there you will find the Lord present teaching you and leading you gently by the Hand and open unto you a door of hope and the fresh springs will be opened and the thirsty Land will be refreshed and so you will come to witness the spring time after the Winter be past and the Roses to bud and the Flowers to cast a sweet smel upon the Earth but this is to you my little Ones who is come and coming through the Sword which cuts down the earthly man of Sin it is to you who witness great Tribulation who knows the Day of the Lord to be a day of darkness and not Light and that it is a day that will and doth burn up all the wicked as Stubble and scatter them as the Wind scatters the Chaff and his is the Figure and they who are wicked may read their Portion for the Childrens Bread must not the Dogs have but unto you that fear the Name of the Lord shall the Son of Righteousness arise with healing under his Wings and the Secrets of the Lord will be revealed unto you and you shall want no manner of thing that is good as you abide in his Fear and stand in his Will in the daily Cross which Crucifies the Earthly man and works out that nature which hath Crucified the Just and Righteous One and so as you dwell and are faithful to the Light you come to injoy the Life and grow up in the Life and the pure Eye will be more opened in you by which the Enemy the Tempter will be seen and now you had need to stand upon your watch for the Devil like a roaring Lyon will seek to devour you and Pharaoh will pursue you as you come from under his kingdom and dominion and therefore what I say unto one I say unto all watch and be sober stand with your armour on the whole Armour of God by which you may be able to drive back all the fiery Darts of the Enemy and have Oyl in your Lamps burning continually and all who have desires after the Lord whose minds is convinced of the Eternal Truth in that which doth convince you dwell and wait for the Power of the Lord to shake the Earth and rent the Rocks and melt the Mountains and remove the Earth out of its place and the Heart to purge and cleanse and make a place of holiness of the Lord of Hosts to dwell in and when the Lord comes this to do in you dwell in and love judgment that so Sion may be set free And so all dear Hearts wait in your Measures which you have received of the Lord and in them be faithful that so you may increase in the increases of God and have dominion over all the Beast of the Field and the Fowles of the Aire and Fishes in the Sea and over all unclean Spirits and be kept pure in your places that so the Lord God may dwell amongst you and delight to do you good So the Eternal Everlasting Love of God keep you all and preserve you pure in your Measures that he alone may be glorified and exalted over all to reign in you and that all that oppress him and his Goverment in you may be destroyed and this is the desire and prayer to God for you of us who dearly loves you who desires nothing but that the Lord may be Glorified in you and by you so fare you all well and the God of Power keep you now and evermore Amen Yours in the Bond of Love which cannot be broken from its own Image This is to all who love the the Lord Jesus Christ in Truth and sincerity at and about Bristol and Aulston to be read amongst you all our dear Ones John Camm John Camm's Letter to Friends in Bristol from Preston Patraick in Westmorland LOving Friends of Bristol and all round about who are faithful in your Measures and with the prosperity of Sion I have writ a Letter to be read amongst you all and that you may read it within your selves and witness it and with that I have union which witnesseth it in Life but with that which is in Knowledge and Comprehension without Life I have no union but by that which I have union with shall it be judged and condemned for it shall try all and condemn all that is not of it self but acted in the earthly Wisdom and it will not stand in the presence of the Lord who is pure and all shadows shall fly before him and therefore in the the substance dwell which comprehends the shadows and so I bid you all farewel J. C. DEarly beloved Friends in our Head the Lord Jesus Christ doth my Soul Salute you all who are faithful in your Measures and obedient to the Light of Christ Jesus which is made manifest in you which being faithful in will lead you up to Christ your Head to exalt him over all in you all that he may reign whose right it is in you and that his Scepter of Righteousness maybe swayed in you and the strong man armed may be bound and spoilled

know it But I know thee to act contrary to them who would take from me who have received nothing from thee And here let the practice of the Ministers of Christ bear Witness against thee that thou art no Minister of Christ from the Lord God do I charge thee that thou art no Minister of Christ who art out of the Doctrine of Christ and doth not live the Life as they did who was sent of Christ for they never Sued any at the Law for Earthly things whatsoever shew me one Example out of the Scriptures of any of the Prophets or Apostles or any of the Ministers that ever did any such thing then take it and follow their Example otherwise thou shewest thy self openly to walk contrary to all that ever Christ sent and to Christ himself and his Commands and art found in the steps of the false Prophets false Shepherds who sought for their Gain from their Quarters as they do that taught for the Fleece as thou makest it appear thou do'st and held up the filthy horrible thing which thou hold'st up the Priests bearing Rule by their Means which is a filthy thing and the false Prophets prepared War against them that did not put into their Mouths as thou do'st against me because I do not put into thy Mouth and here be witness against thy self that thou art in the steps of the false Porphets and the false Teachers which loved the Wages of Unrighteousness and followed the Error of Balaam which thou followest and to take Wages from me for whom thou hast done no Work neither did I ever hire thee or set thee to work This cannot but be Unrighteous Wages to the Light in thy Conscience I speak here let the Life that they lived in that gave forth the Scriptures judge thee and condemn thy practice for the Holy Men of God did not so therefore give over calling thy self a Minister and either make proof of thy Ministry and walk according to the Example of them that were sent of God otherwise I do deny thee and I may not put into thy Mouth although thou prepare War against me for I must walk according to the Commands of Christ and his Apostles though thou wilt not Now blame not me that I walk according to the Scriptures and turn away from proud and Covetous Men such as thee for if I should uphold thee in thy ways which is contrary to the Way of God I should be guilty of thy Sins and might pertake of thy Plagues Now thou art warned if thou goest on in thy Deceit I am clear of thee thy Blood be upon thy own head And now Friend seeing thou professest thy self to be a Minister of Christ thou ought'st to convince me by sound Doctrine and in plain Words I desire thee to shew and prove how I became indebted to thee For no Man would I hinder of his Right neither would I owe any thing to any Man but love This I do acknowledge that the Labourer is worthy of his Hire and the Work-man is worthy of his Meat Now shew when I hired thee or what Work thou hast done for me no Tradesman in the Nation can force their Wares upon me contrary to my mind much less take my Goods from me when I have none of their Ware When did'st thou Plow for me When did'st thou Thresh for me When did'st thou tread out Corn for me Art thou the Ox that treads out the Corn whose mouth must not be muzled Or art thou one of the evil Beasts and slow Bellies who for fi thy Lucre subverts whole Hearts whose Mouth must be stoped Shew me by what Scripture-ground thou claim'st Tythes to be thine and whether ever the Ministers of Christ took Tythes of the People And where ever they took by force from them for whom they did not work and whether the Priest-hood be not changed which received Tythes and whether the Commandment be not disanulled by which the Priests receied Tythes and whether Christ be not the end of the Law which Law made many Priests and whether is not the Law changed as well as the Priest-hood and where did ever Man provide maintenance by a Law for the Ministers of God or whether did not the Lord provide for them and opened the Hearts of People to receive them and where did any Minister of God take by force from them whose Hearts were not opened to receive them Give me a reasonable Answer concerning these things for I would owe nothing but love to any Man and that which is right according to Gospel Order and maintenance allowed by Christ thou shalt have povirded if thou prove thy self a Minister of Christ and abide in his Doctrine now shew thy self whose Servant thou art for he that abides not in Christ's Doctrine hath not God and such I may not follow nor receive into my House Read this to the People which thou profestest to be a Teacher unto and either clear thy self from these things or else stop thy Mouth and confess thy self to be a Hireling John Andland The Suffering Condition of the Servants of the Lord at this day Vindicated And some Reasons given why the People called Quakers do own the Doctrine of Christ to continue in it and to meet together in the Name and Fear of the Lord to wait upon him and Worship him in Spirit and Truth notwithstanding they meet with sufferings in this present time for so doing THe good and blessed Day of the Lord is come and the Heavenly Visitation of Life wherein the Light of Righteousness is springing up unto many People and many have received the Blessed Visitation of the Lord and are made partakers of his Heavenly Power by which they are quickened and raised up unto newness of Life to serve him and to follow him in Truth and Righteousness and the blessed Day wherein the Lord Visited us and the notable Works which the Lord hath wrought and his noble Acts which he hath done are not by us to be forgotten but are recorded in our Hearts as things remarkable and considerable to be remembered by us while we have a being upon the Earth and that with fear and reverence in our Hearts unto the Lord our God who is great and mighty whom we have known to execute Judgment in Righteousness to the judging and bringing down of that which was once exalted for when the acceptable Year of the Lord came unto us Judgement was laid to the Line and the Lord did arise to shake terribly the Earth the loftiness of man was bowed down and the haughtiness of man was laid low that the Lord alone might be exalted and the Earth reeled to and fro and was removed like a Shepherd's Tent and the Light of Israel was as a Fire and the Holy One as a Flame to burn up the Thorns and the Thickets in a Day many Faces gathered paleness and Hearts grew weak and Knees feeble and many had their Hands upon their Loins because

of the great Travel that was upon them because of the mighty Power of the Lord which was made manifest in them for the bringing down of that which had been exalted against him and for the restoration of the oppressed Captive that deliverance might be known from the power of Satan and from the bondage of Corruption that we being set free wherein we were held might serve the Lord in Truth and Singleness of Heart and wait upon him and follow the leadings of his Spirit in the exercise of our Hearts and minds in Serving and Worshiping the Lord our God And so the God of Heaven hath revealed and made manifest the Way of Life and Peace the Way wherein Comfort and Satisfaction to the Soul is found the Gate of Mercy even the entrance to the everlasting Kingdom of Rest and Joy for evermore which although it be strait and narrow and a cross to the fleshly part and earthly ground and wisdom yet it is easie pleasent and delightful living in the Spirit and becoming little even as a Child for so must he become that enters in at the strait Gate to eat of the Tree of Life which is in the midst of the Paradise of God So we have found the way of everlasting Peace through the rich Mercy and tender Visitation of the Lord walking in the Spirit and living in that which mortifies the deeds of the Flesh being subject to the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ Here is rest to the Soul here is the sweet Visitations of the Lord known which are as the former and latter Rain to refresh the lowly in Heart and Poor in Spirit Here waiting upon the Lord the strength is renewed and here the Lord speaks Peace to People even as they are in Christ the Power of God growing up in him who is the Truth and the Life they are possessors of lasting Peace which God speaks not to the wicked which is the Portion of the upright in Heart and as the Lord hath made manifest the way of Peace Life and everlasting Happiness he hath also discovered the contrary even the way of misery darkness and destruction the way which is broad and many in the lusts of the Flesh take pleasure in it following the motions of the Flesh and the desires of the carnal mind resisting the motions of Gods good Spirit and hating the blessed Light of the Lord Jesus Christ and so spend away their precious time and in this state that is to say in the Flesh resisting the Spirit of the Lord they cannot serve God nor please him nor worship him in Truth though they may profess him in words and draw near him with their Mouth yet being in the Flesh contrary to the Spirit of Truth the Ear turned away from hearing of God's Law their Prayers are Abomination their plowing is Sin their sacrifice is as Cain's not accepted by the Lord no Peace from God no ture Rest no Satisfaction no beholding the Countenance of the Lord nor no assurance of the Eternal Inheritance which never fades away but an earnest of wrath pain misery anguish and trouble which will come upon all who live and dye in Disobedience of the Glorious Gospel of Jesus Christ And so we see the Way of Life to all that believe in the Name of the Lord Jesus and the way of death to all who live in unrighteousness and are not changed by the power of God and translated from Death to Life and from the Kingdom of darkness into the Kingdom of the dear Son of God. And these things are of great concernment unto us and we see it is very needful to wait upon the Lord and to follow the motions of his Spirit that we may feel his Power to preserve us in his Will out of the evil of the World that so in the Power of the Lord our God we may war a good Warfare and finish our Course with joy And verily this a matter of great weight unto us even to have our hearts exercised towards the Lord in obedience to his Will in what he requireth of us that we may have a Conscience void of offence towards him And so the Day of the Lord God being come and his Eternal Power made known in many hearts by which many are raised to serve him and obey him yea to worship him according to his own Will and the leadings of his good Spirit We are even constrained by the Power of the Lord to meet together in his Name and Fear to wait upon him and to worship him and also to exhort one another in his holy Power as the Spirit of the Lord directs yea and so much the more as the day appeareth And this we find also to be according to the Scriptures of Truth and practice of the Servants of the Lord in former dayes who did not forsake the assembling of themselves together but met often and sometime in one place and sometime in another as they were directed in the fear of the Lord And they that feared the Lord spake often one unto another and the Lord hearkened and heard it and a Book of Remembrance was written for them that feared the Lord and that thought upon his Name And they shall be mine saith the Lord in the day that I make up my Jewels and I will spare them as a man spareth his own Son that serveth him And this was in a time when the proud were called happy and they that wrought wickedness were set up and they that tempted God were delivered yet even in such a time did they that feared the Lord speak often together and also in the time when the Gospel of Christ was published by the Apostles and Ministers of Jesus many were brought into the obedience of the Truth and were gathered from the Jews Worship and way of service and they to wit the Jews could plead more justly for the Antiquity of their way of Worship and their order in their Worship then many who this day profess themselves to be Christians and a reformed Church and in that time did they meet together sometime in a Chamber sometime in an House and sometime in an upper Room as the Lord directed them and as they had opportunities and gathered Churches which met at Houses and waited upon the Lord and exhorted one another and might all speak one by one as the Spirit of the Lord led them that all might hear and all be comfored And we do not read that the Jews made a Law or the Romans either who at that time had the Principality that they should not meet above four together or if they meet five or above they should be fined Indeed the Jews who believed not were bad enough and persecuted the Saints from City and haled out of Houses they that professed the Name of Jesus and sometimes scourged them but they are evil examples to be followed and its pitty that any who profess themselves Christians should do the like to any that meet

Heir of another World and Heir of the certain Riches which is manifest to that of God in all Consciences so to you all to use plain words and plainness of Speech so to you all this is a Warning from the Lord who are in the Light and love the Light which Christ hath enlightned you withall which is contrary to your wills and to all mens wills that with it you may use plainness of Speech to all to be made manifest to that which they hate which is their condemnation and shall condemn the World from God from Christ and all who are of God To you all this the Word of God which is against all mens wills that in that which is contrary to your wills you may all wait and walk for that will lead you from all your thoughts and desires And you all in the Light which Christ hath enlightned you withal abide so in him you will abide in Christ who is the Vine and every one will come to witness the Branch abiding in the Vine and sitting under the Vine So to you all this is the Word of the Lord which is not no go among the World which hate the Light but to Friends that you may come to use plainness of Speech this was I moved of the Lord to send out amongst you as a Message to all Plants of the Lord if you spake any thing contrary to the Light which Christ hath enlightned you withal with the Light you are to be condemned and if you do not speak when you are moved and live in the Light and walk in the Light with the Light you are to be condemned and if you do speak Experiences and not dwell in the Light but in Hypocrisie and Presumption and Envy without the Fear of God thou art to be thrown down and with the Light condemned from God and woe upon thy Head from God and Christ proceedeth thou Hypocrite art to be thrust out with the Light and judged with the Light and all who are in the Life and with the Life Therefore in the Light dwell and walk every one in particular then you will all have Unity one with another and grow up to be Trees of Righteousness the Planting of the Lord. We are not of many Religions which is no true Religion but of one Religion which is the true Religion which hath not been by us taken on by Imitation but gathered into it by the Eternal Spirit and it planted in us by the same Spirit And we are not known nor can be by any thing but by that which we live in which was in the beginning which is not subject unto time but which comprehends all time and that which hath its rize in Time. So if any would us know and our Principles they must come to live in the same for none knows us but who are with us in the Unity in that which was before Time which neither had Beginning nor shall have End in that we comprehend all Sects and Opinions and see their Rice and Foundation And from the Life which was before they were we declare against them all for by it out of them all we are come into that which was before their Foundation and by it we judge their Foundation and their Actions acted by the Principles which with God hath not unity which the Principle of God hath victory dominion over So he that would us know and our Religion must come out of many things into one to abide in it and walk in it only and as he knows God he will know us who are of him and as the man of Sin is cast out in him which makes a separation so will he have Unity and Fellowship with God and with us in that unto which the will of man is contrary and doth oppose which Will must be cast out for it cannot inherit or enter but keeps in the Enmity against the Seed of God which is opposed where the Head of the Serpent is not bruised but where the Serpents Head is bruised by the Seed of the Woman the Enmity is slain and the Seed raised and the Seed is the Head and the Head is exalted and he that witnesseth this hath Unity with us and in it we rejoyce together and our Joy no man can take from us for he reigns which hath overcome the world and gives the Victory over the World by which Spirit we bear witness against the World that the Deeds thereof are Evil Therefore are we hated and reproached by the World but this is our Riches John Audland John Camm Some Particulars concerning the Law sent to Oliver Cromwell Who is Chief Ruler in these Nations according to man And to the Counsellors who sit in Counsel with him wherein is plainly laid down the difference betwixt the righteous Law of God and those Laws which are made and acted in the will of man and how they who make act those Laws which are according to the will of man and contrary to the Law of God are found opposing the righteous Law of God and so are Transgressors of that Law which is according to that in the Conscience With a Word of Discovery of the cruel Oppression of the Priests who call themselves Ministers of Christ and the Gospel which gives freedom but they are found to be Opposers out of the Life that gave forth the Scriptures so with it judged which is according to the Law of God which gives freedom to the Righteous Seed but have cleared themselves from Christ who disobey his Doctrine and sue men at the Law and take treble damages contrary to the Scriptures With a Word of Exhortation to the Rulers and Magistrates to own the Righteous Law of God which will cut down Sin and cleanse the Land of Evil-doers and discover the Deceivers of the People FRiend thou sayest That in thy Conscience tells thee that there is no Law that is extant bywhich the People of God are kept in bondage To thee I did alledge the Act of Mary which I say is contrary to that in the Conscience which is of God for her Law did cause the Righteous to suffer which guarded the Jesuits which guard the Priests now which thou with it wouldst limit the holy One and cast the Saints into Holes and Prisons and Dungeons and countest it just and some are beat and stockt and cruelly persecuted and then after sent to Prison see if thy Law here do keep peace or break it give liberty to all the Peace-breakers and Fighters and Strikers for them to beat to stock and after send them to prison and there the Wicked the Fighters and Strikers rejoyce over them and they can scarce walk in the Streets and this Law thou countest just which prisons the Righteous and encourages the Evil-doers which is contrary to the Law of God which is according to that in the Conscience and which is contrary to Paul the Minister of Christ who said If any thing be revealed to

him that stanas by let the first hold his peace And if Paul were here again to go up and down the Synagogues and dispute with them to bring them off the figures shadows to bring them up to the substance Queen Mary's Act would take hold of him and he was made manifest to the Consciences of all and here thy Act is contrary to that in the Conscience which would limit the Spirit of the Lord. And thy Act as Queen Mary's would take hold upon Amos and the rest of the Prophets and Christ who was supposed to be the Carpenter's Son who went up and down in the Synagogues and was hated of the Priests and when he spoke in the Synagogues they were full of fury and there again thy Law is contrary to that of God in the Conscience and except thou dost repent God will remove thy Kingdom and if thy Laws were upon them that act contrary to that in the Conscience Fighters Envious Quarrellers Drunkards Murderers and all Unrighteous such Laws we own this is wholsome and good but that which would limit the holy One and the Just we cannot own Secondly There is another Law which is acted contrary to that in the Conscience to put men to death for Cattel or Money when they were according to the Law of God to make restitution if not they were to be sold for their Theft and there they had space to repent for that in the Conscience will let them see what they have done Thirdly And another thing is acted in the Nation contrary to the Light of Christ in the Conscience men that cannot Swear but abide in the Doctrine of Christ who saith Swear not at all for what is more then Yea and Nay is evil And the Apostle said My Brethren Swear not at all lest you fall into Condemnation And some that cannot Swear such are Fined and Prisoned and many suffer now because they cannot Swear and so you would bring them into condemnation and into the evil contrary to the Doctrine of Christ Fourthly another Law is acted contrary to that of God in the Conscience that men are forced to pay Priests Tythes and so deny Christ come in the Flesh and if they will not pay Priests Tythes they sue them at the Law or Imprison them and that Law requires treble damages and this Law is Oppression contrary to that of God in the Conscience neither is there honesty in it I charge it upon you for Moses which had the Law and gave it forth to the Priests and People and the Priests that should receive Tythes they were to have a Store-House to put it in and it was to be filled with Tythes but it is not so with you and all the Strangers and the Widows and the Fatherless were to come to be filled within the Priests Gates and this the Priest was to Minister out of the Store-House a Figure of the Everlasting Priest who ministers out of the Everlasting Treasury The Apostle who preached him said the Presthood that received Tythes was changed and the Law was changed also yet you have a law that if any one do not pay the Priests Tythes he must pay treble damages or lye in Goal as many lye in Goal now because they cannot deny Christ come in the Flesh pay the Priests Tythes but they witness him and deny the changeable Priesthood which you give Tythes to but no Store-House who deny Christ come in the Flesh though you talk of him in words but no Store-House to Fill all the Widows the Fatherless and Strangers in England that there might be no beggar in England as there was no beggar to be in Israel but be sed within the Priests Gates which receive Tythes but by this Law by which your Priests receive Tythes you help the Priests to make many Beggars which is contrary to the Scriptures and that of God in the Conscience both and by that Law many Righteous ones suffer all who own Christ in Life suffer by your Law and are opprest and all your Laws acted contrary to that of God in the Conscience that of God in the Conscience will testifie and witness against you and your Laws and witness the Law of God which is according to that in the Conscience which is perfect and endures for ever You that Swear deny the Lord Jesus Christ that bought you and his Doctrine and you that compel men to give Tythes and you that take them are men that deny the Lord Jesus Christ come in the Flesh the substance you that sue men at the Law deny the Lord Jesus Christ for he saith In all your communications let your yea be yea and your nay be nay And if you had a Law given forth to keep peace upon them that act contrary to the Light of Christ in their Conscience and put in just mens Hands to be executed but such are turned forth that art faithful that are just and so here you encourage Evil doers Fighters Quarrellers and Drunkards that they that Fear the Lord can scarce pass to that in all your Consciences I speak that with it you may see your selves and what is acted in the Nation There is another thing in the Nation acted by them in authority which is contrary to that of God in the Conscience with such many have been Fined and Imprisoned because they could not respect Persons for if they did they were convinced by that in the Conscience to be Transgressors of the Righteous Law of God and their Judges Justices and Mayors would force them to Sin against and contrary to that of God in the Conscience in bowing to them with that and respect the Persons which that in the Conscience which is according to the Righteous Law of God saith Thou shalt not bow down to any nor Worship any but God and he that respects Persons and would have others to respect Persons is convinced by that in the Conscience to be a Transgressor of the Righteous Law of God to that of God in all your Consciences I speak which lets you see you should not do so and yet you do so and would have others to do so and them that do not ye Persecute Prison or Fine with great Sums of Money to the Light of Christ in all your Consciences I speak which shall condemn all you that act contrary to it and witness me eternally to that in the conscience I speak which respects to mans person He that receives the Law from God dwells in the Light of God and he doth not respect any mans person nor the Law which is received from God and he that doth respect persons this Law goes upon him and that in his Conscience which is according to the Law of God doth convince him to be a Transgressor of this Law. And whereas the Priests should have Store-houses that the Fatherless Children and Widows might thither come and be refreshed that there might be no Beggar in England as there was to be no Beggar