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A96961	The wounds of an enemie in the house of a friend. Being a relation of the hard measure sustained by Miles Halhead, and Thomas Salthouse, for the testimony of Jesus: particularly in a long, and sore, and close imprisonment, first at Plymouth, and then at Exeter in the county of Devon, though they have neither offended the law of God, or of the nation. Published for the clearing of their innocency from the cloud of transgression, of which they are supposed highly guilty, and by reason of their silent abiding such sharp, and long, and cruell sufferings.	Halhead, Miles, 1613 or 14-1689 or 90.; Salthouse, Thomas, 1630-1691.	1656 (1656)	Wing W3665; Thomason E870_7; ESTC R2977	52,373	80

and hurried with rage and madnesse by the Prince of the Aire who rules mightily in the children of Disobedience beyond bowells and naturall affection And this is the case and this is the condition of these two innocent servants of the Lord who having all their dayes been seeking after the Lord and walking in that which is called good conscience and Godlinesse and having at length through the riches of that free love of God in Jesus Christ come to find what they had so diligently sought for even Eternall life which is in the Son and to witnesse it in their measures and in the light of Jesus Christ by whom the world was made to comprehend and see where all professions and people are who know not nor believe in the light to wit Jesus Christ the light of the world who lighteth every one that cometh into the world nor doe witnesse the life of Jesus made manifest in them as by the light they have been brought to see it in their owne particulars and knowing the terrours of the Lord out of bowels of love to the precious soules of people which are eternall and at the command of the Lord have left their Country and Relations as to the outward in the North and travelled for their sakes to shew unto them what they had found and tasted and seen and handled of the word of life that so their soules might be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus and being come thither did no other thing then to meet in the fear of the Lord with friends to wait upon him and to declare the truth of the experience of what they had found of the free grace of God which brings salvation manifested in them provoking them unto love and to good works according to the Scriptures of the Prophets and Apostles and exhorting to holinesse and the things that are eternall as the day approacheth from the measure of the life of God which they had received as the Spirit gave them utterance out of which meetings they were taken contrary to the practice of the Church of Christ and the example of the Saints in the Scriptures and the instrument of Government and dealt withall as hath been mentioned And which indeed is hardly to be believed but hath been said is true for no other thing but as aforesaid have they done or that is not according to the righteous Law of the holy God which shall be answered with that in every mans conscience And to make appear truly to the contrary are all men here openly charged who can even their greatest adversaries because of whose cruelty and oppression and to manifest what it is this Relation is undertaken Neverthelesse through the power of the Lord in whom is everlasting strength whom they witnesse and for whom they suffer they glory in tribulation and stands over the heads of their greatest enemies who puffe at them knowing that he who shall come will come and will not tarry when their Testimony in sufferings is finished for the Seeds sake and the glorious Gospel of our Lord Jesus for whom they suffer in bonds and are ready even unto the death from the hands of those who professe him as dying at Jerusalem and yet crucifie him in his truth members and have the generation of their forefathers from the beginning And then neither Guards nor Gates shall be able to keep them For our God is King over the whole Earth and his Kingdome is begun to be set up and to him whom man despiseth to him whom the Nation abhorreth to a servant of Rulers Kings shall see and arise Princes also shall worship because of the Lord who is faithfull and the holy one of Israel which hath chosen him saith the Lord the Redeemer of Israel and his holy one who commandeth deliverance for Jacob and Kings shall be thy nursing Fathers and their Queens thy nursing mothers they shall bow down to thee with their faces towards the earth and lick up the dust of feet and thou shalt know that I am the Lord for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me The sons also of those that afflict thee shall come bending unto thee and all those that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet and they shall call thee the City of the Lord the Syon of the holy one of Israel Whereas thou hast been forsaken and hated so that no man went through thee I will make thee an eternall excelency a joy of many generations Thou shalt also suck the milk of the Gentiles and shalt suck the breasts of Kings and thou shalt know that I the Lord am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer the mighty one of Jacob For thus saith the Lord even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered for I will contend with them that contendeth with thee and I will save thy children and I will feed them that oppresse thee with their own flesh and they shall be drunken with their own blood as with sweet wine and all flesh shall know that I the Lord am thy Saviour and Redeemer the mighty one of Jacob And the Nation and the Kingdome that will not serve thee shall perish yea those Nations shall be utterly wasted Therefore hear now this thou afflicted and drunken but not with wine Thus saith thy Lord the Lord and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people behold I have taken out of thy hand the cup of trembling even the dregs of the cup of my fury thou shalt no more drink it againe But I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee which have said to thy soule bow down that we may goe over and thou hast layed thy body as the ground and as the street to them that went over A Testimoniall of severall honest men of Plymouth concerning the meeting aforesaid and the passages thereat upon which is laid the pretended ground and cause of the sufferings of Miles Halhead and Thomas Salthouse at which they were present FOrasmuch as we are concerned in the sufferings of our dear Friends Thomas Salthouse and Miles Halhead who have been kept close Prisoners in and near the City of Exeter almost six Months contrary to equity and justice they having not broken the least clause of any Law we think it necessary to give a briefe Relation of the state of their Sufferings After some trouble and difficulty which the said Thomas Salthouse and Miles Halhead indured in coming to Plymouth May 16. 1655. they came safe to Plymouth where then had severall Meetings with most of us and the first day of the week following we had a Meeting which was appointed by us at John Harris his house a little out of the Town where both our Friends spake in the forenoon and afternoon and were approved of by those that heard them there being no lesse then thirty persons of the company in the afternoon that came

with many other words of truth and sobernesse which was not to any one in particular If these be provoking words and worthy of such bonds as we suffer let all men that have moderation bear witnesse And in that you say We refuse to be tryed by the Country Oh! how dare you give such things under your hands when you your selves and all people that were in the Court can bear us witness that we did not refuse to be tryed but did appeale to the highest power that was there unto whom many in the Country came for Justice and from whom we expected righteous judgement for you know we said We were willing to be tryed by the Bench to whom all the Court was in subjection to whose power we were and are subject to for conscience sake and did not resist your power but for the ve pounds that is demanded of us we answer we owe nothing to any man but to love one another therefore we deny to pay so much money for naught but if any man will come to us and say that we have wronged him we will make him satisfaction and pay him the utmost farthing And as for Sureties for the good behaviour they that walk in the light of Christ who is the Surety of a better Covenant then mans Covenant whom we witnesse teaching us to deny the customes and fashions of the world and all ungodlinesse and worldly lusts and to doe to all men as we would they should doe unt● us And we are tyed to the good behaviour by the Righteous Law of God and dare not lye nor swear nor be drunk nor use any deceit pollicy shifts or double dealing nor respect mens persons for the liberty of the outward man or any other advantage to that in all your consciences doe we appeale whether we be wo thy of such bonds as these where none of our friends nor acquaintance must come at us or speak with us but they must be imprisoned Is the Law of England so exact against us such as have been alwayes faithfull in that which hath been manifested and in the States service and desires nothing else but to worship God in Spirit and truth according to what is manifested and witnessed in the light of Jesus Christ who is the way to the father that when we were locked up in close Prison the Souldiers kept John Gannyclife who is a Constable in their custody for coming to speak with us and another person who did spy in at a hole of the door where we were this they did by an Order from Captain Joyce who hath given it under his hand to take into their custody all such as they suspected to be of us whom they called Quakers But this they doe that the Scripture may be fulfilled which Jesus Christ spake to his Disciples They shall hale you before Magistrates and Rulers who shall cast some of you into prison and the time shall come if they kill you they shall think they doe God good service But here is our confidence in his Promise that he that endures to the end shall be saved and if we suffer with him we shall also reigne with him for whose sake we are made willing by his eternall power to suffer the losse of all things that we may receive an inheritance with them that are Sanctified and witnesse against all deceit and abomination to the laying down of our lives if it be required who are Prisoners for the Testimony of Jesus in Thomas Parish neer Exon in Bridewell Thomas Salthouse Miles Halhead A copy of their Letter sent the Mayor of Plymouth after their first Apprehension FRIEND SEing the Lord God of power who is Lord of Heaven and Earth hath entrusted thee with the power of a Magistrate to bear the Sword of Justice which is for the punishment of evil doers and the encouragement of those that doe well and to rule for him who brings peace on earth and hath good will towards men even Jesus Christ the Mediator of the New Covenant who is the end of the Law for righteousnesse to every one that believeth who was supposed to be the Son of Joseph but was the Son of God and he that hath the Son hath life and he that hath not the Son hath not life and we know that the Son of God is come and hath given us an understanding to know him who is true and he that hath the Son hath the Father also and he that hath the witnesse in himself hath set to his seale that God is true he that hath understanding let him read he that loveth not knoweth not God for God is love and if any man say I love God and hate his Brother he is a lyar for his Commandement is love and he that rules in love rules with Authority and not as the Scribes and Pharisees The Law of God is perfect and endureth for ever he is our Judge and Law-giver before whom all must appear to give an accompt for all the deeds done in the body when every man shall receive according to his works Now Friend to thee for Justice doe we call that the truth may be freed from scandalls and false reports and the oppressed set free which is pure Religion that we may have that favour at thy hands which the Law doth afford to bring our Accusers to us that have any thing to lay to our charge worthy of Bonds that things may be tryed by the light and actions weighed in the ballance of equity that truth may spring up out of the Earth and righteousnesse may run down as a mighty stream and peace and Justice may kisse each other for know assuredly although we are counted deceivers yet are we true and nothing doe we desire from thee as thou art a Magistrate but to have the truth cleared by the light and truth set at liberty and if there be any that knoweth the onely true God and Jesus Christ whom he hath sent and hath eternall life abiding in him we desire to be tryed by him even him that is guided by the Spirit of God and as many as are led by the Spirit of God are the Sons of God And whereas some ignorant men say that we deny the Trinity and the God-head which is false for God is a Spirit and as many as are led by the Spirit are the Sons of God and the Father Son and Spirit are one and this we witnesse according to the Scriptures and this God is but one in whom all things live move and have their being who is above all and in all and through all God blessed for ever And for the word Trinity there is no such Scripture as speaks of a Trinity so in tendernesse of conscience and love to the Spirit of Truth which gave forth the Scriptures we dare not wrest them nor speak any other language nor add nor diminish from them So Friend to the light of Jesus Christ in thine own conscience and the measure of the

so far doe the Priests and men of this Generation who in works pretend to the Prophets and Christ Jesus and the Apostles and the holy men of God and the Scriptures outstript their fore-fathers in a sottish and malicious persecuting of the truth for till this example the like hath not been heard of since the foundation of the world and is voyd of understanding and ridiculous amongst all rationall men On this foot he that tells an envious person that he is a murderer and he that looks on a woman to lust after her is an adulterer and the covetous person that he is an Idolater and he that speaketh a Divination of his own heart for the word of the Lord useth witchcraft and he that knowes not nor speakes from the mouth of the Lord is a dumb Dog that cannot bark and he that saith when the Lord saith not is a devourer the murderer of soules and he that biteth with his teeth and prepareth war when men put not into his mouth is a greedy Dog and those who are in the nature and Generation of the Pharisees who professe what they are not and persecute and murder the life of what they professe where it is manifested are Serpents Generation of Vipers with such like would be Indicted as Offendors against the Ordinance for preventing of Duells He that taketh what is none of his as to the things without the things of this world is a Thief and truly is so judged and accounted of He that taketh the words of the Prophets and Christ Jesus and the Apostles which they spake from the life and useth his tongue and saith the Lord saith when the Lord spake not to him having not the life that spake them forth taketh that which is none of his and is a Thief as to the things which are within the things that are spirituall and truly is so judged and accounted of He that steals without hath an outward Law to passe upon him as a Transgressour he that steals within hath the Law of Christ Jesus by which he shall also be judged for further then the outward the Law of man hath no power and this is agreeable to that of God in every mans conscience also to the Ordinance against Duells which they and all the Children of light own in its place as a bearing of the sword against fightings quarrellings evill speakings and such like as evill doing which the Principle of light which is Jesus Christ discovers and witnesseth against and the root from whence they proceed to wit from mens lusts that are within them And he that said Let him that stole steale no more was the Minister of God who addeth the Law upon the transgressour and he that said He that entreth not in by the doore into the sheep-fold but climbeth up some other way the same is a Thief and a Robber is the Law-giver the Prophet whom whosoever doth not hear in all things shall be cut off from his people and he that said I am against the Prophets that steales my word every one from his neighbour is the Lord of glory who shall judge the quick and the dead by the man Christ Jesus the Law-giver and Minister of God at his appearing and coming But the Priests have gotten a new weapon against the Lamb to wit the Ordinance against Duells and with it they will fight against his battle Axes and Weapons of War to wit his Witnesses and none shall testifie against their deceit with a spirituall weapon but they will have it to be a carnall one and will take an Ordinance of man to fight against it and judge it by which never intended it But their Weapon formed shall not prosper the overflowing scourge shall sweep away their refuge of lyes and their coverings are ripping off nor can the Rocks and Mountaines hide them from the wrath of him who sitteth on the Throne and judgeth righteously And whereas something is mentioned in the Indictment of the Trinity one of them said I know no such Scripture that speaks of three persons in the Trinity but the three the Scriptures speak of the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost these three are one and that Baptism by one Spirit into one body and the Father the Word and the Spirit the Scriptures declare to be one and he that hath the Son hath the Father also and this we own he that can receive it let him And this was spoken as to what G. Brookes said of a Trinity in Unity and a Unity in Trinity which as he was told the Scriptures no where spake Court To this Indictment they were demanded to answer guilty or not guilty Answer We are not guilty in what is there charged upon us Court By whom will you be tryed Answer By you whom the Lord God of power hath set in Authority to judge righteously between man and man and to put a difference between the precious and the vile and set the oppressed free from whom we doe expect justice and equity Court Will ye be tryed by God and the Country Answer We are willing to be tryed by this Bench and desire that our accusers may be brought in and that we may have liberty to speak for our selves and make our defence against the false accusations laid to our charge Court Will ye be judges of your own case Jaylor take them away which was done immediately When they were first apprehended and brought before the Mayor and Magistrates of Plymouth many honest people who were present at the meeting aforesaid and were ready in the Hall to testifie the truth of things were all turned out and not a man or woman that favoured them permitted to stay notwithstanding which and the keeping fast of the doores of the common Hall that so none of them might returne in did they in the presence of near one hundred of other people desire openly that if either man or woman had any thing to lay to their charge they would speak but no man or woman appeared to speak nor ever were their accusers brought face to face that they might see them or hear them speak And now after seven weeks imprisonment being brought before the Sessions and such an abominable pack of falshood and lyes in an Indictment exhibited against them unto which they pleaded not guilty and declared againe and againe in answer to what they required of them to wit by whom will ye be tryed That they were willing to be tryed by the Bench whom the Lord God of power had set in Authority to judge righteously between man and man c. as aforesaid and desired their accusers might be brought in and that they might have liberty to speak for themselves and make their defence against the false accusations layed to their charge because they spake it not in the form of words which they would have though they both pleaded and submitted to a tryall as aforesaid and a Jury might they have called and tryed them by or otherwise

there unto then they had liberty to expresse when they were examined but there still continued them Prisoners And now after seven weeks further durance it was tendred them againe and they refusing are returned againe to Prison Christ Jesus the onely a beggoten Son of God by whom the b world was made the c light of the world who d lighteth every one that cometh into the world who is greater then e Solomon who is f Davids g Root and Lord whose day h Abraham saw and rejoyced whom i the Angels of God are commanded to worship who is the k end of the Law for righteousnesse to every one that believeth l the surety of a better Testament the m Mediator of a better of the n everlasting new Covenant the o Prophet whom Moses said the Lord their God should raise up like unto him whom they should hear in all things whatsoever he should say unto them and it shall come to passe that every soule that will not hear that Prophet shall be destroyed from amongst the people he who p said Heaven and earth shall passe away but my word shall not passe away who q came not to destroy the law of the Prophets but to fulfill who is r the Oath of God the Å¿ end of contention and strife where he is witnessed the Amen the faithfull and true witnesse t the Judge of all whose u sheep hear his voyce saith You x have heard it hath been said by them of old time thou shalt not forswear thy selfe but shalt performe unto the Lord thine Oathes but I say unto you swear not at all but let your communications be yea yea and nay nay for whatsoever is more then these cometh of evill Then which there is no command in Scripture more plaine and positive either for obedience to Magistrates or forbidding to doe that which is evill And the Apostle James saith But z above all things my brethren swear not neither by Heaven neither by the earth neither by any other Oath but let your yea be yea and your nay nay least ye fall into condemnation And yet how are his sheep the children whom the Father hath given him and who in obedience to this his command dare not to swear at all but are come to the yea and nay in their communications imprisoned and cruelly dealt withall throughout this Nation for refusing in conscience to swear at the will of man who calls himselfe a Magistrate of God and requires obedience as to the Minister of God to this his command which is contrary to the command of the higher powers Jesus Christ by whom a Kings reigne and Princes execute justice to whom b all power belongeth unto whom the Father hath committed all judgement and at whose c name every knee shall bow of things in Heaven and things in earth and things under the earth and every tongue shall confesse and who will render d tribulation and anguish upon every soule that doth evill to the Jew first and also to the Gentile for there is no respect of persons with God And yet those who swears where they forbid them they punish and thus doe they exalt themselves above all that is called God The bloody Persecutors in the times of Popery thought not their other persecutions of the poor Protestants to secure the Papacy against them but the Sacrament of the Altar they had by a Law whereupon to examine them by which they sought to destroy their consciences or their bodies in the fire and many of their lives they had in witnesse of the truth against it upon whose examinations the next question usually was what say you to the Sacrament of the Altar and where they suspected a man to be a heretick as they called then the witnesse of the Lord and had malice against him presently was tendred the Sacrament of the Altar The Bishops of late who in words denyed the Sacrament of the Altar and cryed out against the Papists for shedding of the blood of the Martyrs who testified against it were not satisfied with what dispersions they had made of the tender conscientous Puritans the witnesses then against them in and out of these Dominions but that their Kingdome might be established and remaine unmoveable an Oath et caetera they had for every one to take who should be admitted Priest to uphold the Government by Arch-Bishops Bishops c. Whereby to catch and work out of the Priesthood and their beings and lively hoods the residue of those non conformable factious men as they called them whom by no other device they could reach or attach and at length the sword they drew and joyned with the Papists in a war against them These carrying the war against the Bishops and Papists a part of them climbing up into the Chaire of Presbytery to affect and establish the Authority they intended over the State and the consciences of their brethren in the three Nations had a Covenant and neither in Church as they called it nor State and how universall as to others time had manifested as it was by some timely foreseen and understood and prevented was any to be intrusted but such as should subscribe to that and as many of those as they could though never so deserving in the wars for the Nations interest of liberty and justice and faithfull turned they out of imployment who in conscience scrupled it as Hereticks and Schismaticks though above any of them they affectually answered the just and righteous ends thereof but what use these men of the Presbitery made of it against the libertyes of England and what a snare it proved as to that is not yet forgotten and when they saw they could not submit the Army thereto who were made the Sword of the Lord for the ending of the Wars against the Papists and the Bishops they drew the sword against them and their poor wasted Countrey and not prevailing in a first War many of them joyned with the Papists and the Bishops and the then neighbour Nation of Scotland and the Rebells in Ireland and the common enemy yet to accomplish And now an Oath of Abjuration of Popery is found out and tendred to them to swear as suspected Papists upon the penalty of the sequestration of their estates if they refuse who have been known throughout their time to be constant Witnesses for the Truth and most faithfull to the Common wealth and its Army and have born the brunt and heat of the day in the late Wars with the perill of their lives in the field and the losse of their Estates against the Popish Prelaticall and Presbyterian party and have been known all their time to be most contrary to Popery and now in life above any witnesse against all Popish and formall Religion who dare not in conscience to the Command of Christ swear at all And these are