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love_n	conscience_n	good_a	heart_n	4,051	5	4.9715	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A29607	The guiltless cries and warnings of the innocent against injustice, oppression, cruelty, false-swearers, envious men, and such like witnesses, arisen up against a plain man, or, A living and true witnesse condemned, through want of sound (yet through unjust) judgment : together with the unequall and unreasonable proceedings of Humphry Wildey, Mayor, and Edward Solley, and Robert Sollers, Aldermen, and Justices of the city Worcester, as may plainly appear by what followeth, besides the unjust sufferings of the guiltlesse ... / from the hand, mouth, and very heart of a true Friend, and not an enemy to the person, or well-being of any man, woman, or childe within thee, O city, or upon the face of the earth, throughout the whole creation of God, or of that which lieth under the cruel bondage of death and corruption, for which I suffer, and labour, and travail, with, and among many brethren, for its perfect freedome, and restauration, into the glorious liberty of the sons of God (as in the beginning), whose servant, witnesse, and prisoner for the elects sake, I am called by men Daniel Baker, by scorners, a Quaker.	D. B. (Daniel Baker), fl. 1650-1660.	1660 (1660)	Wing B482B; ESTC R22840	14,464	20

freely cryed within thy Gates O City And this is the message of the Lord in the Name of the Lord and not in my own to the Inhabitants of this City as I declared to be fulfilled in its season And furthermore this Day of the Lord which is the Light of our Lord Jesus Christ the true Light by whom the World was made who lighteth every man that cometh into the world and is the way prepared before the face of all People and this everlasting Light of the Lord Jesus Christ as I declared is breaking forth and shining over all the Nations and is to awaken the Witnesse of God in every mans Conscience So that according to its Testimony in every man even so shall every mans words thoughts and wayes and Actions be tryed and judged justified or condemned Wherefore as I said and yet say The Witnesse of God which is the Light of Jesus and not of the Natural man carnal or darkness in every Conscience of the Inhabitants of this City and of the Nations of the Earth is to and may be awakened and arise to judgment and to guide people in the way of Peace Love and Unity with God and one with another and with the whole Creation and to do unto all men in this good old way the Light as they would be done by and to speak the Truth every man from his heart to his Neighbour And verily if people come not to be exercised in this good old way of Light and Life whatsoever they do and may profess or be called in words all their Religion is and may be vain for this is the Law of the Prophets according to the saying of Jesus Mathew 7. and the Love that fulfills it is the Light in the Heart and the Light is of God and that which may be known of God is manifest in them for God hath shewed it unto them and so the people shall all be taught of God who is a Spirit to worship him in it who is Light to walk in it who is Love to love God again and one another and not to kill or devour but to love neighbour as self as saith the Holy Scripture And Moreover the time is a at hand and behold it cometh to passe That it will be more tolerable for them called Turks Infidels and Heathens then for many of the Inhabitants of this City and of Englands professing and profane Inhabitants whose life doth not shew it self like the Apostles and let as many as desire to have a right and good Understanding to discern the ground and cause of my Sufferings Together with many more of my Dear Friends in this City and throughout the Nation let Them with a meek Spirit and in the fear of the Lord deliberately and not hastily read this throughout and suffer the True Witnesse to arise to answer to the same Testimony from whence the words come and know that according to and after this manner the words of my Testimony was declared in the 8th Month the 20th day without and within thy Gates O City And after that Men that feared not God did beat and also wickedly threatned often to take away my Life as one called Captain Thornbury did many times with his sword drawn directed and put towards my breast and to thrust it into my Guts as he threatned many and divers times with wicked and desperate swearing and cursing not becoming a Souldier or the Spirit of a man an Englishman to a naked man that neither spake nor thought evil against any one man woman or childes person upon the face of the whole earth He that searcheth my heart knoweth its even so And while he the said Captain Thornbury so call'd had caused my body to be halled dragged and abused and to be thrown from place to place in the Street of the City breathing out his cruel vile threatnings together with bloody Oaths and cursed Speakings which thereby strengthened the hands of many wilde brutish and ungodlike men women and Children whilest I was among them in the meeknesse and strength of God even as a Lamb among a company of Ravenous Wilde-beasts Bears Lions and devouring Wolves bereaved of their whelps and as they were after this manner drawing me before the Judgment-seat some crying out Knock out his brains before he goes any further and many such like cruel threatnings and revilings doing violence O ye Rulers forget not but remember the wickedness acted by them called Mountebanks many dayes acting wickednesse within the City notwithstanding they were warned by sundry of the servants of the Lord in the 8th Month 1660. who were halled bearen and abused for the same Furthermore one of these called Mountebanks acting wickedness after their accustomed manner folly and madness upon a stage in the open street of the City with his face almost all black with a Crown upon his head And what is this a honour or dishonour to the King O Ye Magistrates But what has your sword been laid upon this Transgressor yet And Is not this and Bull-baiting together with the abuse of the poor Creatures of God and such like madnesse and Revellings and Abominations Are not these things a great dishonour to the God of Heaven to the King to you and your City O ye Rulers in meckness Consider and hold forth your sword and let your eyes be open to see where to lay it lest the Lord require it at your hands These are the words of God to Ye through his Prisoner D. B. A lamentation sounded in my heart for the Sober Inhabitants of this City And Lo the Spirit of the Lord within me shewed me how it was with Jonah and the Nenivites how that they suffered him to deliver his Message and to cry when he entred into the great City Ninevy a dayes journey and behold The Prophane Inhabitants of this City would not suffer me with my precious life in my hand which I had received power to lay it down and to take it again to obey the Lord of Heaven hardly half an hour to cry against Sin and to declare Glad-Tidings and to warn them freely to Repentance as before exprest And Whilest my minde was thus meditating in the Counsell of God whilest they were threatning and drawing this body in which I am before the Judgment Seat the good Spirit of the Lord the Holy God in me rather justified the men of Ninevy than the hard-hearted blood-thirsty men of this City And Lo this Cry immediatly run through me viz. That the men of Ninevy shall arise up in Iudgment against this Generation And Friend and Friends Know Ye again That after this manner the words of my Testimony were sounded forth through me even as the good Spirit of the Lord in my heart gave me utterance to which my Soul is become subject Glory to the God of Truth and Lo I rather chose to fear and obey God than man that shall dye and to be condemned of the world that lyeth in

THE GUILTLESS CRIES AND WARNINGS of the INNOCENT AGAINST INJUSTICE OPPRESSION CRUELTY False-Swearers Envious Men and such like Witnesses arisen up against A PLAIN MAN OR A Living and True WITNESSE condemned through want of sound yet through Unjust Judgment together with the unequall and unreasonable Proceedings of HUMPHRY WILDEY Mayor and EDWARD SOLLEY and ROBERT SOLLERS Aldermen and Justices of the CITY WORCESTER as may plainly appear by what followeth besides the unjust Sufferings of the GUILTLESSE From whom a clear true Sound and many certain Warnings and wholesome Exhortations have been as a Trumpet sounded forth and directed to the ears and hearts of thy chief Magistrate and Rulers O CITY together with the multititude of the Inhabitants within thy bowells fenced Walls strong Holds Borders and Territories O wicked CITY From the Hand Mouth and very Heart of a true FRIEND and not an Enemy to the Person or well-being of any Man Woman or Childe within thee O CITY or upon the Face of the Earth throughout the whole Creation of God or of that which lieth under the cruel Bondage of Death and Corruption for which I suffer and labour and travail with and among many Brethren for its perfect Freedome and Restauration into the glorious Liberty of the Sons of God as in the beginning whose Servant Witnesse and Prisoner for the Elects sake I am Called by men DANIEL BAKER by Scorners A Quaker To this end was I born and for this cause came I into the world that I should bear witness unto the Truth Every one that is of the Truth heareth my voice saith Jesus John 18.37 As a Sheep before her Shearers is dumb so he openeth not his mouth Lo he was taken from prison and from Judgment And who shall delare his Generation Isaiah 53. Ver. 7 8. Printed for R. Wilson at the black-spread-Eagle in Martins 1660. A COPIE of what was delivered to the Major of the CITY of Worchester for Him and the Aldermen to read Friends IS it not the Honour of a Good Magistrate wisely with a Good Vnderstanding to make diligent Inquiry and search into the Nature and Ground of a Matter or Controversie between a Man and his Neighbour that so True and Sound Judgment may be ministred without Respect of Persons and that the Cause of the Poor may be heard as well as the Rich and so Judgment or Sentence to be passed according to Equity and Mercy that the Sword may be laid in its due Place even upon the Head of the Transgressor lest the Guitless whom God will Justifie be smitten and Equity Sound Judgment and Good Lawes be perverted to a wrong end which will draw down Vengeance a Curse and wrath from the Lord God of Judgment and not Blessing Hearken ye Rulers and consider your Proceedings past against me and let the Light of Jesus in your Consciences give Sentence and answer me whether ye did not respect persons in judgment which you ought not when as ye compelled me to stand bare headed at the Bar and my Accuser John VVinnington sate upon the Bench beside one of your Rulers And Whether you did well after John VVinninton had spake forth the Words of his False Testimony the first time and varied in his Second Speech contrary to his first which I immediately shewed you but ye did not heed it but suffered or caused a Pen Ink and Paper to be given to the False Witness to write down what he pleased as he sate by one of you upon the Bench And if ye remember I questioned Whether it were according to the Law of the Nation what ye suffered him to do then the matter being so weighty as I laid it before you saying For ought I know my Life lay as it were at the stake And Is this a Shame or an Honour to you Rulers Consider of it And I cry even unto You Repent while Ye have a Day and quit Your Selves like Men of Truth fearing God to clear the Guiltlesse and Your Selves also while ye have time and it is in your power But this I tell you in plainnesse That if Deliverance come some other way the Weight of False Judgment and Guilt will lie heavy upon your Consciences before the Lord God in his Day and of your Account Consider I say whether ye have done well or whether ye have not had respect of Persons in Judgment and condemned the Guiltlesse when Ye had an Opportunity put into Your hands to do Justice and Judgment which I expected from You But Behold Oppression and the Needy is turned aside from Judgment And Is it not Joy to the Just to do Judgment but Destruction shall be to the Workers of Iniquity saith Wisedome and Wo unto them that seek deep to hide their Counsell from the Lord whose Works are in the dark and they say Who seeth us Surely Your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the Potters Clay See Isaiah 29.15 16. Worcester Prison this 8th Month the 24th Day 1660. From the hand of a Lover of the whole Creation of God whose Prisoner I am D. B. Hearken You that are called Christians and professe the Scripture your Rule and Pauls words that read this Foelix whom some call a Heathen was so noble to Paul when he was a Prisoner commanded to let him have Liberty and that none of his acquaintance should be forbidden to minister or come unto him Now If any be ready to say to me Thy Case is not Pauls My Answer is Paul was innocent of the things he was falsly accused of and so am I God is my Witnesse whether Men believe or not and Let such called Christian Governours take heed lest those called Heathen Rulers arise up in Judgment against them and condemn them The Sheriffe had a Coppie of this The SHERIFF sent sundry times since to order that I may have more Liberty as to let Friends come to me the City Hall being as it were under my Prison-Chamber I having sometime Liberty to go down and once when the Justices were present upon the Bench I spake these words to them and said Blessed shall they be that without Respect of Persons do Justice and Judgment but Eternall Wo from the Living God will be on them that do it not and they shut me up more close To the Major and for the Aldermen to read also Friend TAke heed as thou wilt answer before the Throne of the Majesty on High even the Lord God of Judgment who from Generation to Generation did and doth and yet will plead the Cause of the Guiltlesse whether men do it or not that thou yet pursue not Evil to thine own Destruction in consenting to or joyning with any in Testimony or Judgment against the Innocent lest the weight of innocent Blood lye heavy upon thy Conscience The Living God behold I testifie hath an Eternall Witnesse that is true in thy Conscience And in love whether thou hear or forbear I warn thee also that thou take heed

wickedness rather than to be condemned of the Lord by his Witnesse the Light of Everlasting Life of Righteousnesse revealed in me Yet I am subject to every Ordinance of Man for the Lords sake Active or Passive to be plain thus Active in obedience to the Ordinances of Man that are Just Equal or Equitable Wholesome and Reasonable founded on and according to the Righteous Equall Royal Law of God which is so just and also Passive by suffering under the contrary as a Testimony against it and them that ministers it forth in its many and Various Appearances And This many Hundreds that fear and obey the God of Truth with me in the strength of Jesus the Light that saves us from Sinnes Do even for the Lords sake And through thy Gate and Street O CITY the sound words of the Living Testimony of God in this his mighty Day hath entred and even into the Ears and Hearts also of many of thy Inhabitants whether they love to retain or keep the wholsome Sayings or not or hear or forbear yet bear with me and listen O Ye Inhabitants of this CITY and hearken O all ye Inhabitants of ENGLAND and of the NATIONS afarr off to whom this shall come and give ear to the words of a True Friend even to the whole Creation of God and to the soul of every Man of Male or Female that lieth under the Bondage of Corruption and groans for Deliverance to be brought into the Glorious Liberty which is the true Liberty the same that was in the Beginning the Dominion and Perfect Freedome of the Sons of God Let the Meek Wise in heart answer me Worcester Prison this 9th Month the 12th Day at even and of the Year accounted 1660. D. B. Here followeth a true Relation of several Persons who heard what was declared by Daniel Baker the 20th of the Moneth called October 1660 through part of this City some of which heard him from the begining untill he was forced off the Beast that he did ride on and their Testimonies are as followeth Imprimis FRances the Wife of John Rose heard him declare from the beginning unto the end And her Testimony is That he did warn the people to Repent for Destruction and Misery was near at hand and such like sound Exhortations but not any thing against the King or any other Person Anne the VVife of John VVinfield heard him speak thar The Dreadfull Day or a Terrible Day was near at hand or to this purpose but not any thing that was hurtfull to any mans person Henry Dyson his Testimony is that he spake to this purpose that A Gloomy and Dark Day was at hand but a Day of Gladness to them that fear the Lord and exhorted people to repent William Till heard him speak to this purpose that Wo is to the Wicked or to such who love Sin but unto them that did deny Ungodlinesse a Day of Peace with many other Godly Admonitions Robert Smith heard him say that A Day of wo and Astonishment was at hand but a day of Gladness and joy to the Upright in heart witness Elizabeth Smith Richard Till said that he heard him counsel the people to Repent for the Kingdome of God was at hand but not any thing touching the Rulers of this Kingdome Philip Bearcroft and Edborough his Wife heard him exhort the Inhabitants to be awakened for the day of God was nigh I Robert Edwards restifie That the Man that declared in the Street from the Cross to the Place where he was pulled off the Horse I was an Eye-witness an ear witness of his riding and of his behaviour in his declaring as I went from the Cross near to him within the hearing of him all the way And he spake nothing touching the King nor of his Majesty nor of Tyrant nor Usurper nor of the Nation nor Nations nor Government nor Governours Rob. Edwards Dorothy Martine and Margaret Drue they heard him say That the Light was a shining forth and that it would shine forth more and more and that the Day of the Lord was at hand But nothing against the King His Government or any ones person Thomas Garret's Testimony is this that he heard him say that Christ was a shining forth in the Nation and that he warned people to Repent and that the Day of Judgment was at hand but nothing against the King his Government or any mans person And divers others who were VVitnesses of what D. B. said their Testimony may be produced who heard him speak words to the same purpose who heard nothing spoken by him against the King or Government or the person of any one D. B. THE END