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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

amongst whom the Lord sent this his dear Servant and Messenger George Fox with the Message of Life at the publishing whereof in the Demonstration of the Spirit and Power of Jesus Christ the aforesaid John Camm my dear Father with John Audland Francis Howgil Edward Borough Richard Hubberthorn and many Hundreds more were convinced and their hearts opened as was the Heart of Lydia in former days and by the Revelation of the day of God and the inshining of his Heavenly Light in their Hearts they came to see that they wanted the lively possession of what they had made a great profession of which profession several of them had esteemed of as great riches of all which they came to be spoiled their Wisdom that stood in words only being confounded they became as Fools and at the Revelation of Jesus Christ they consulted no more there with but it became as Dross and Dung in comparison of the excellent Knowledg of Jesus Christ revealed by his Spirit to regenerate them and sprinkle their Hearts and Consciences from dead words to which they were Stangers notwithstanding their great profession under the sence of which great was the Gry and the Lamentation of many unspeakable for the day of the Lord was dreadful and terrible upon every high and exalted thing and many lofty ones and tall Cedars high in profession were bowed down under the mighty hand of Gods Power and Judgment begun at the House of God the Heart his Temple and by the Spirit of Judgment and Burning the eternal God entered and begun his blessed Work in order to redeem purge and make clean Vessels for his own use and service through and by whom he might carry on his blessed design and work in the Nations to the Glory of his Eternal Name And John Camm amongst many others was bowed down under the mighty Power of the Lord and the operation of the blessed Spirit was effectually known in his Heart and Soul whereby he was made willing to take up the Cross and become a Fool for Christ's sake forsaking the World and all the Glory Delights Pleasures Wisdoms and Riches of it of which he had enjoyed a share equal if not above many of his degree for naturally he was a Wise Man in Worldly matters having at that time great concerns and dealings therein and the World seemed to smile upon him and the riches and glory of it had exceedingly encreased and was then likely to encrease more yet notwithstanding all this the Lord so prevailed by his Power and Spirit in his Heart that he was made willing to part with all and counted it a blessed exchange to be made an Heir in Christ of that durable Riches laid up in Heaven that his Soul had Travelled for so that it was no hard thing for him to forsake all for Christ's sake and become a despised Follower of him through many Tribulations And after a day of great trouble and inward exercise through the blessed operation of that Spirit of Judgment and Burning wherein he saw the old Heavens and Earth to pass away as a Scrole and all things to be made new even as a prepared Vessel● the Lord filled him with his Power and Spirit and put his Word in his Mouth called him from all his outward concerns and enjoyments to publish the same word in the Demonstration of his eternal Power unto which he of a ready mind was made obedient and Travelled into all the Northren Countries to the Borders of Scotland and to London to declare the Message of the Lord to Oliver Cromwel then called Protector being accompanied by dear Francis Howgil who were two of the first that published the Message of Truth in that City as in this our day gloriously revealed and made known In a little time after his return from London he with J. Audland F. Howgil Edward Borough and Richard Huberthorn who have all blessedly finished their Course and time here in that blessed Work which the Lord called them unto being entred into the Joy of the Lord the Labours together with part of the Travels of Francis Howgil Edward Borough and Richard Huberthorn are already collected by other Brethren to which the Reader is referred these five Brethren Travelled out South-ward John Camm and Edward Borough through the middle of the Nation the others through other parts as the Lord directed them and after some time they all met together with several other Brethren at London where the Lord had a great Work but after some time John Camm and John Audland were called towards Bristol after that time Travelling together where and in the Countries adjacent was a Door effectually open'd unto them and many Hundreds were by the Word and Testimony of Truth by them published convinced and turned to God many of whom have to this day kept their Integrity to God and are their living Epistles and can bless the Lord on their behalfs who made them instrumental in his Hand to beget them again into a lively hope in Christ the Lord through whom they have a strong hope to receive an Inheritance amongst the Sanctified being prepared to the Kingdom of glory everlasting How gloriously the Lord appeared in that City and the Countries adjacent and how he prospered his Work in the Hands of these his Servants how great and manifold their Labours Travels and Perils in those Parts I am not able to relate but shall leave in hope that some one or other of my Brethren in those Parts may be engaged to perform some part of that work who may have a larger knowledge thereof as being present with them in many of their exercises which were not a few to my knowledge but such was their zeal for the Lord and the prosperity of his work that their very lives was not dear unto them for the Lord the Gospel and his Peoples sake but to spend and be spent they were freely in the will of the Lord given up their care and watchings being for the prosperity of his work continually And being that my Father was but naturally of a weak constitution of Body inclining to be Consumptive by the many and daily Travels that he underwent his outward Body did waste and his strength spend exceedingly having a most violent Cough so that for several Years before his death he was never able to walk on Foot half a Mile at one time nay many times he was not able to go up one pair of Stairs into a Meeting-place without help yet nevertheless while the Meeting continued through the enlivening Power and Spirit of God would have been over the sence of his Bodily weakness but after the Meeting was over many times as one ready to be dissolved In this outward weakness he Travelled through many Countries and places of the Nation to the confirming and strengthning of the Flock of God for several Years sometimes taking me along with him to wait upon him his weakness being grown so great that he was not

pleads against his command and saith he bad them avoid a thing which was not unlawful if it be not unlawful its lawful thou hast forgotten now to make Scripture thy rule as for Christ being called Master he was and is so and whom he made Ministers he made them not Masters for they had one Master and him we own to be Master and in this thou art a Lyar and of the Devil who saith we say it is not lawful to use the title of Master to any and we likewise say and exhort thereto that Servants should be Obedient to their own Masters not as Men-pleasers with Eye-service but serving the Lord. Thy sixt is That Infant-Baptism is no Ordinacne of Christ and therefore of no use in the Church of God and thou saiys an express command thou grants is not to be found but thou saith Infants were Circumcised and Baptisin is ordained in the room of that Reply We deny it to be an Ordinance of Christ or that it came in the room of Circumcision the Scripture speaks of no such thing as Infant-Baptism and till thou prove it came in the room of Circumcision thy saying proves nothing the Male-Children were Circumcised In room of what came in your Female Children to be Sprinkled thou speaks thou knows not what he is a Jew who is one inwardly and Baptism is by the Spirit and Circumcision is that of the Heart he that is in Christ is an new Creature born again of Water and of the Spirit such are Partakers of the Ordinance and are Members of the Church and that which is no Ordinance of Christ is of no use in the Church of God but is by the Children of Light denied Thy Seventh head is That we say that the Lords Supper is of no use in the Church of God since the Resurrection of Christ Reply This is an absolute Lye never spoken or owned by us I charge thee to prove it either by our words or writings or let shame cover thy Lips Lyar for the Lake and own thy Condemnation for thy Slandring Lying and false accusing Thou sayst It was not thy purpose to have writ a Treatise of this subject till of late finding that none answered the Book before mentioned Reply Thy Treatise is Lyes and and Rayling Language against the Servants of God but the Book is yet unanswered the filthy fily lying Paper is not taken for answer to that Book and of-late thou beginness to vent out thy mischief and thy ignorance old rotten dull stuff it is like the evil treasure it proceeded from and they who read thy Paper whose understanding is opened will discern thy ignorance and malice and deny thy unclean spirit for among the Children of Light thy unfruitful works of darkness is denied and cast out and thy formed Weapon cannot prosper but the Lord will wound the head of the wicked he will bruise thee as with a rod of Iron and dush thee in peeces like a Potters Vessel this is answered not because it was particularly against me but for the Truths sake that the lies which he had raised against it may return upon his own Head. John Audland An Answer to a Scandalous Paper Entituled The Quakers unmasked put forth by William Prynne wherein his Slanders are made to appear and he is found with a Lye in his Mouth I Meeting with a Paper Entituled The Quakers unmasked and clearly Detected Put forth by William Prynne wherein he slanders and falsly accuseth those People scornfully called Quakers and saith they are sent from Rome to seduce the in oxicated giddy headed English Nation his ground being an information he saith taken upon Oath in the City of Bistol which he sets down as followeth The Information of George Cowlishaw of the City of Bristol aforesaid Iron-monger taken the two and twentieth day of January 1654. who informeth upon his Oath that in the Month of September last this Informant had some discourse in Bristol with one he calls Mr Coppinger an Irish man formerly a School-fellow of his that came thither purposely for his passage into Ireland who told this Informant that he had lived in Rome and Italy eight or nine years and had taken upon him the order of a Fryer of the Franciscan Company and he told this Informant that he had been at London lately for some Months and whilest he was there he had been at all the Churches and meetings publike and private that he could here of and that none came so neer him as the Quakers and being at a meeting of the Quakers he there met with two of his acquaintance in Rome the which two persons were of the same Franciscan order and company that were now become chief Speakers amongst the Quakers and he himself had spoken amongst the Quakers in London about thirty times and was well approved of amongst them and this Informant further saith that rhe said Coppinger asked him what kinds of Opinions in Religion there was in Bristol and this Informant told him that there were several opinions and judgements and not naming any Opinions of the Quakers the said Coppinger asked him whether there had been any Quakers in Bristol and the said Informant answered him no whereupon the said Coppinger told him the said Informant two or three times that if he did love his Religion and his Soul he should not hear them whereupon this Informant told him that he thought none of them would come to Bristol who expresly replyed that if this Informant would give him five pound he would make it five Hundred Pounds if some Quakers did not come to Bristol within three weeks or a month then following and on the morrow following the said Coppinger departed from this City for Ireland his Native place and about eighteen dayes after there came to this City two Persons that bare the name of Quakers This is a true Coppy of the Information taken upon Oath at Bristol This Being the ground of that scandalous Paper put forth by thee William Prynne to it I shall answer and clearly make appear that these scandals are false and full of confusion First that they are false it will appear two of us whom the World reproachfully calls Quakers came from the North being moved of the Lord to come to the City of Bristol our birth and being according to the Flesh was in Westmoreland not far from Kendal and there at this present is our outward Habitations and Families We came from thence in the Month called June and we came into the City of Bristol the 12th day of the Month called July and on the morrow being the 13th day we were at two Meetings the one was with the People called Anabaptists the other with the People called Independants and were moved by the Lord to speak at both their Meetings which we did and this was the thirteenth day of the Month called July which was a little before the Fair at Bristol called Jame's-Fair as several of those People can bear witness

their badness for the Scriptures speaks that out of the North an evil shall break forth Reply To prove that we came out of the North and had never been out of the Nation of our birth and Habitations doth sufficiently confute thee who made that thy ground to have proved by the Information that we were Coppingers acquaintance in Rome for sayst thou those two persons which came to Bristol was most likely his two fellow Franciscan Fryers and here thy likeness is another Lye and the Scripture doth not prove thy shrew'd sign neither doth it cover thee nor hide thee but upon thee will evil break forth who the evil hast committed a grievous Storm and Whirl-Wind will fall upon the wicked and sweep away the refuge of Lyes and Lyers into the Lake read thy Portion and put it not from thee Secondly Thou sayst for affirming that the Quakers use inchanted Potions Bracelets Ribbands Sorcery and Witchcraft to intoxicate their Disciples and thou savst this is evidenced in the Premises and apparent in most places where they ramble and thou shalt prove it no farther but close up all with two Scripture exhortations Reply I demanded of thee before to prove any such thing by us or let thy Mouth be stopt and as touching proving any such thing thy Mouth is stopt and thy Premises proves it not by us but is made up of Lyes and Slanders and false Reports which thou hast gathered where thou hast rambled up and down in thy Imaginations sending out a pack of filthy Lyes spawned out from the old Serpent the Devil and Satan out of whose Mouth proceeds the Frogs and there mayst thou read thy self apparently his Disciple intoxicated and thee with all the rest of the spawn of Romish Frogs Jesuites and Franciscan Fryers is denyed and cast out from amongst the People of God scornfully call'd Quakers and if thou canst prove no better then to close up as thou dost the Lyes will rest upon thy own head but wilt thou turn back a little and take one Exhortation where thou art giving two if there be any spark of honesty in thee or any remembrance of thy latter end or any consideration that Lyars must be cast into the Lake repent of the evil of thy doings and cease lying and slandering the Innocent which thou canst not prove to be Offenders and lay thy Mouth in the dust if so be there may be hope so here in plainness thy Lyes is turned upon thy own Head and the former answer is just and stands a witness against thee and thou art more unmasked and clearly detected and till thou canst begin upon better evidence silence best becomes thee Remember again thou art warned cease thy gain-saying lest thou perish in thy rebellion and go down alive into the Pit. By one who is a Witness against the prophaneness of Priests and People called John Audland Luke 11 52. Wo unto you Lawyers for ye have taken away the Key of Knowledge ye entred not in your selves and them that were entring in ye hindred John Audland's Epistle to all who love the Truth Given forth from Oxfordshire the 12th Month 1656. DEarly beloved Friends unto whom the large Love of God hath been made manifest in visiting you from on high with his marvelous Light which hath clearly shined in the midst of you by which you have seen your way to the eternal Rest and Peace and have tasted of the Power of the Lord and been often refreshed with his Love and Life being shed plentiously amongst you so that you have found in some measure Redemption from the bondage of Corruption and the way is plain before you which leads to perfect Freedom in the pure and precious Truth of the living God which as you stand in it and walk in the undefiled way in the pure Fear and Counsel of God you will be kept in the pure Unity in the Love unfeigned to grow together in the Life of Truth in the Power of God in which is your beauty your comliness your strength your order and your peace every one in particular and one with another all glorifying the Lord in your uprightness and obedience in your holy calling in the measure of the Grace of Life in which every one abiding you receive power from the Life which gives Dominion over the World and the powers of Darkness and the wickedness in the high places you dwelling in the Life and Power of God are kept in subjection to the higher Power which is the Ordinance of God which throws down the man of Sin the deceitful works and raiseth up the dead to Life quickning the slain and opening the Prison Doors which brings Joy and Peace and the Oyl of Gladness and the Garments of Praise and the acceptable Year where the meek come to be beautified with Salvation there the Treasures of Life is seen of Wisdom and of Love which reached to the Poor to raise him up and there the weary finds rest and the hungry Soul comes to be satisfied with the unsearchable Riches of the Lords Love of which there is no End unto them who wait upon him in faithfulness Dear Hearts other Foundation can no man lay then that which is laid already which is Christ Jesus the Light of the World the Way to Life and everlasting Rest and those that believe enter into the pure and peaceable Kingdom which is prepared for the little Flock who follow the Voice of the true Shepherd who leads into the fresh and pleasant Pasture where the Lambs feed in peace and lie down in safety in the sure Habitation grounded on the Foundation of God which stands firm and unmoveable forever against which the Winds nor the Storms nor the Floods can never prevail blessed for ever are all you who are on it builded and established for the day will manifest every ones work and he that is not rooted in the Life and stands not in the Power of God will suffer loss but you abiding in the Power of God which is the Cross of Christ you receive a Kingdom which cannot be shaken and a Crown which doth not corrupt and an Inheritance which fades not away and in the Light of God every one walking you read your part in the Resurrection unto Life which is a blessed Condition and to seed upon the Life which makes you grow in the heavenly Image the new man which is after God in Righteousness and true Holiness which is perfected in the Fear of the Lord All being kept watchful and diligent your Garments are kept clean and you are found covered with the Spirit in the day of the Lord which comes suddenly upon the Sloathful and Careless in which day the Hypocrite can never stand nor the foolish Virgin cannot enter but is shut out of Gods Kingdom wanting the Garment which gives an entrance in the Marriage-Chamber where the faithful rejoyce and praises the God of their Salvation And verily Friends it is the Gold tryed in the Fire