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A49523	The Lyn persecution: being the case of our brother the Baptist minister there James Marham whose goods have been seized, and himself harrased in law (and is now prosecuted in Chancery) for holding a Baptist meeting in that town, notwithstanding his and the houses legal qualification. Here is also, a brief relation of his former service and sufferings in promoting the great, though much despised docrin [sic] of believers baptism. Well approved and advised by the general elder deceased Thomas Grantham. Attested by the adjacent churches, and directed to the churches at London and the country.	Grantham, Thomas, 1634-1692.	1693 (1693)	Wing L3571AA; ESTC R221783	8,713	16

THE Lyn Persecution Being the Case of our Brother the Baptist Minister there JAMES MARHAM WHOSE Goods have been seized and himself harrased in Law and is now prosecuted in Chancery for holding a Baptist Meeting in that Town notwithstanding his and the Houses legal Qualification Here is also A brief Relation of his former Service and Sufferings in promoting the great though much despised Doctrin of Believers Baptism Well approved and advised by the general Elder deceased Thomas Grantham Attested by the adjacent Churches and directed to the Churches at London and the Country Printed to be read only by the Lovers of Believers Baptism because it is sitted only for their Use 1692 3. Christian Brethren holding the Doctrin of Believers Baptism IT 's known to some that much of this Case was moved to our Brethren and Churches at London that being our Centre about September 1692. and then it was advised to give a more particular Relation Therefore and because the Case is grown more heavy is now a Relation given and given in Print that it may be effectually intelligible to all our Baptized Brethren which otherwise we could not propose how to easily make it so And to do this credibly we have composed ●his Narrative of those parts whereof you see it doth ●nsist viz. The brief Account of Matter of Fact which our Brother Marham left under his own Hand at London September 1692. and also the Testimonial from the Brethren at Lyn and Parts adacent Also the Testimonials of Brother Nicholas Knowles Elder of the baptized Church at Whitelsey And as Circumstantials to his present Case here are prefixed several remarkable Services done by Brother Marham for the Baptist Interest and are therefore cogent Arguments for our reason to work upon Brethren the Circumstances of our Brother James Marham which preceded his present Troubles being very remarkable are Tokens of a good and great desire to promote what in him lay the great though much despised Doctrin of Believers Baptism and therefore we think it proper to let you know them as well as his present Troubles that it may appear that his present Trouble is not a light single Trouble upon him neither a Trouble fallen upon a Brother of a slothful Spirit but 't is an unsupportable Trouble come upon the back of several preceding Troubles through which he hath strugled with great Charge Loss and Pains and yet his Love to Truth hath not declined its Promotion this I think is a Wonder But 't is native for a Christian to do Wonders in Perseverance and therefore is a great Demonstration of Christianity or a Work of Grace upon the Soul the consideration of which together with the publick Interest of Christ must needs move in us that Love that as an instinct is in every true Christian to the Brethren And I assure you my Brethren this is that that hath wrought in me he having hardly any other Acquaintance in London to thus appear in behalf of his and our Interests or rather Christs Interest for otherwise I have my own worldly Business to mind as other Brethren have and could as gladly rest from this But when I see a Brother ingaged in our publick Cause on the Frontiers made War upon by our common Enemy I cannot be silent but must publish it to Brethren that their Strength may be called in to his Relief before by the violence of Storms he is utterly ruined and the Cause there lost and our selves made the next Spoil to the Enemy Pray my Brethren let it not be with us as it was with the Priest and Levite that passed by their Brother that fell among Thieves and was wounded lest it lies as a Reproach upon us as it doth upon the Priest and Levite unto this day God doth mind our labour of Love and Christ saith That forasmuch as you did it not to them that believe on me you did it not to me And 〈◊〉 this Relief Brother Knowles hath spoken very essen●ially Bis dat qui cito dat He that gives quickly ●…ves twice For it will be too late to take a Man out of 〈◊〉 Water when he is drowned Pro's and Con's about whose right and duty are dangerous Delays even as when we see a Man a sinking 't is then no time to contend about the price and whose right it is to pay the charge of a Boat going out to to take him up Now or never is the time as you may also perceive by this pressing for great Strains are for great Reasons and we thus strain because the Burden upon our Brother Marham is now to him intollerable having always readily expended his Substance for the publick Interest of Believers Baptism And this heavy Loss to come upon the back of all the rest at last is unsupportable to him as it would have been to many of us though we had not as he so liberally bore the Charges of divers former Occasions for a Man cannot always hold out Mony has an end all Men have not abundance tho they may have enough for their own support could they enjoy that peaceably Methinks my Brethren we should not know how to let Neglect charge dreadfully charge our Consciences with so great a sin as neglect in this case will do are we willing or shall we chuse to save our help and lose the Gospel or at least run the venture Or shall we think that a Brother such a Brother doth not oblige us nearly concern us Methinks our Saviour's saying reaches this Matter Whosoever hateth his Brother without a Cause is guilty And so Whosoever neglecteth his Brother without a Cause nay when there is meritorious Cause to relieve him is also guilty 'T is more Justice than Charity And now more directly to our Brethren of the particular Point I say That this Case as it comes from the Enemy is not upon the Account of the general or the particular Points but against Baptism it self for the Enemy being much of the general Point themselves the enmity must needs be as they have declared purely against Believers Baptism only and not th●… Person and therefore this Case doth also concern our particular Brethren the Consideration of which hath so affected our Brother Elder Rix of Wisbich that he hath sent a brief Relation thereof not only to me but alse to Brother Keach for he finds the Lord hath a People in that Town having discoursed with some on whom a work of Grace hath been wrought And I think I may note that many Ministers of different Professions have of late united because they would promote their School-Fellows c. and shall not we Baptists that both of us of an humble Spirit slighted the superstitious World's Reproach and Contempt by submitting to Baptism for the sake of its being a great Gospel Ordinance I say shall not we also unite to defend that Gospel Ordinance for which we in obedience exposed our selves and ought still to suffer for when called thereto May our

that Case provided hath notwithstanding been prosecuted as an Offender for so doing from Sessions to the Assizes and from thence to London and other several Places by _____ and _____ aforesaid upon Statute made in the Reign of King Charles II. entituled An Act to Prevent and Suppress Seditious Conventicles And the Goods of the above seized and he himself in great Danger to the great disturbance of his Peace and hindrance of his Trade with great Expences of Mony and loss of Time to defend himself at this Time of Day of Liberty notwithstanding in the worst of Times he hath suffered greatly c. He doth therefore most humbly beseech the Baptized Churches as aforesaid to inspect his Affair which is a Precedent the like not found in England and to commiserate his condition who desires nothing but to enjoy his Liberty according to Law and as other Dissenting Protestants do enjoy the same without any Molestation in the same Town where it is denied him with great Rigour and many Threatnings to be routed out of the Town John Gregory Will. Harper Samuel Philips John Shipley John Poyed George Robson Richard Robins Joseph Marham Richard Cousons The Case of our Brother James Marham of King's Lyn in the County of Norfolk humbly offered to the Christian Consideration of all the Baptized Churches and Brethren who look upon themselves concerned to strive together for the Promotion of the Gospel of Truth in this Day of Liberty THat there is a Meeting of Baptized Believers at Lyn abovesaid we suppose is already knowm to many not only in the Country but in London also together with the Hard Things that have hitherto befallen them through the inveterate Malice of some great Adversaries of Truth therefore both Substance and Circumstance is as followeth viz. Our deceased Brother and Elder Thomas Grantham heretofore about three Years since came to Lyn and Brother Marham the now Minister being always a very forward Promoter of Truth though to his great Cost and worldly Damage heretofore in the Times of great Persecution yet still by God's Providence of Grace bearing an inward Love to the same upon Brother Grantham's offering to preach there at Lyn Brother Marham did procure the Town-hall which at that time was so well replenish'd with attentive Auditors like hungry and thirsty Souls so that Brother Grantham being exceedingly pleased put the said Brother Marham upon hiring and licensing some convenient Place that a Meeting might be continued in the said Town which being chearfully consented to by Brother Marham he did it accordingly and fitted the same at his own proper Charge without help of any Which Place so fitted was managed and supplied sometimes by Brother Grantham and sometimes by the Baptized Churches at Whitelsey and other Places as Brethren had occasion to travel that way which Brother Grantham observing and receiving the greater Kindness from the Brethren from London to have Brother Will. Long sent to Norwich as a help to him he very freely Jan. 8. 1690. sent Brother William Long to reside at Lyn for a Time that that new Place of young Converts might taste the Kindness of the London Brethren by which means the Meeting grew great and numerous which Satan envying stirred up some Adversaries but by what Means or Persons soever the great Enemies were stirred up to espouse this unjust Cause under Pretence of the House not being licensed nor qualified according to the Direction of the late Act for Liberty although the House was licensed with all the Formalities directed by the said Act and did therefore procure and encourage Robert Whitehead and Hen. Oseingcraft to become Informers who coming to the Meeting entred their Information before the Justices who forthwith issued out their Levy 20 l the House 20 l. the Preacher and 5 s a piece the Hearers by vertue of the Act against Conventiclcs Our Brethren all this while being ignorant of their Proceedings till the Justices not knowing upon whom to charge the 20 l. for the House sent for Brother Marham and asked him If there was not a Meeting kept in such a Place he answered yes and then they demanded Who hired the House He told them himself had they then said He must pay 20 l for that Meeting in the House and said that it was a new Religion and they would not suffer the Meeting to continue but break it up or force him out of Town He then shewed his Licence or Qualification of the House and alledged the Priviledg by the late Act for Liberty which they would by no means allow but caused their Levy to be executed both upon him and others which causeth Consternation to many young Beginners who gladly received the Gospel After all this the Informers threatned to make a Rogue of Brother Marham because he still kept up the Meeting so that last March on the twenty sixth or thereabout they pretended a very hard Thing against him demanding Security of him but he refused and then they swore one Witness against him thinking to have committed Brother Marham to Prison but they could not bring their Purpose about then Brother James Marham getting a Copy of their Levy found they had sworn against one John Marham to be then Preaching though it was really Brother Long who was only at Prayer and not Preaching And also that the Informers had sworn That one Francis Robbinson was at the said Meeting who was not there We having this Advantage advised with divers and particularly with the London Brethren what was best to be done in this Case the Country Friends thought it best to lay it before the King and Queen by way of Petition but the Brethren at London that were conversed with did not think that advisable but rather advised our Brother Marham to go to Common Law and take Relief there Which Advice was acco●dingly followed and the two Informers were put into the Crown Office and our Brother had that way effectually done the Business had not the greater Enemies espoused the Business and encouraged the Informers when they should have been proceeded against in order to a Tryal then discharging Mr. Bur our Brother Marham's Attorney in London from any further Prosecution as he would answer it in the Hands or Custody of a Messenger so that 〈◊〉 said Attorney by this great Threat desisting his Proceedings for a Time the Informers took the Advantage to remove it from the Common Law into the Court of Chancery and there is already a Subpoena served at Lyn upon Brother Marham to answer their Bill of Complaint Which Bill being now received by Brother Marham which I my self did peruse contains 31 Sheets by their way of drawing though the very Substance of the same will be proved utterly False notwithstanding which it will cost more Mony by far than Brother Marham is able to disburse without evident Ruin it having cost him a great deal at present to vindicate their Meeting Brethren It is not questioned but that our Country