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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

us that the Way in which we walk is according to his Mind and Will and we look not for direction in our Religion by Mans wisdom or will how we shall serve and worship God for we know its God alone by his Spirit that leads people in the Exercise of the true Religion as it is written I the Lord teacheth thee to profit and leadeth thee in the way in which thou shouldest go and lo we are content with our Religion which the Lord hath led us into and in the exercise of it we have Gods Blessing filling our Hearts with Love and Joy Peace and Satisfaction in which our Souls are comforted and we look not for another Religion contrary to that which we are in but our hearts are fixed waiting upon the Lord and we received it from the Lord and not upon any such terms as to continue in it till Man made a Law against it or speak against it and no longer but even as the Way of Truth was made manifest to us so to press on in it unto the end And we see the Ways and Religions of Men to be so changable sometimes one way and sometimes another that it appears to us as if Men received their Religion but till Orders of another sort of Men to the contrary And we see many people so ready to part with their Religion and take up another that gives us just ground to believe they found not the Presence of God with them in their Way and Exercise And so it s but loose with them and they can leave it upon occasion rather than suffer the loss of any thing for it and this makes us prize that which God hath made manifest to us the more because we receive Refreshment from the Lord in the Exercise of our Religion besides if we had been void of the true Religion till this day we should have been as unstable as others tossed about with winds of Doctrine and have known no true Rest to our Souls but it is well known that we were of the same mind that we are now in the time of the former powers and we received not our Religion from them neither but from the Lord our God neither was our Religion or we in the Exercise of it confirmed by any Law or Decree of theirs but on the contrary did suffer much hardship under them and by them whom they cherished at that time in the Religion which they allowed and they then said Theirs was the right Way and they Stockt and Prisoned many who were contrary to them And now others say they are in Way and useth force and such like to them that differ from them One said the Law is on our side and we are in the right the others say The Law is on our side and we are in the right and you must conform or suffer deeply We say None of these things can perswade our Consciences but come forth in the Power of the Lord as good Examples with spiritual Weapons if you will perswade us for we cannot with a safe Conscience leave our Religion which the Lord hath led us into by his own Power upon these things but must rather give up to suffer in the Will of the Lord for we know plainly it is God alone by his Power that doth bring people into the true Worship And this is according to the Scriptures of Truth and also to the Service which is now allowed for 't is said in the Collect for that which is called the thirteenth Sunday after Trinity Almighty and most merciful God of whose only Gift it cometh that thy faithful ful People do unto thee true and laudable Service Now then if it come only by the Gift of God that the faithful do true Service unto God then they that would force people from serving God according to his Gift given them would force them from the true and laudable Service of God and do make them act contrary to the Gift of God and unavoidably lead and force people from the true Worship of God into hypocrisie and a false feigned lifeless and heartless Worship in which the Lord takes no pleasure And so this being truly considered we can put it to the Consciences of all that fear the Lord to judge whether he can with a safe Conscience leave our Religion which God hath led us into and and the exercise of it according to the Gift of God by which only true Service is done to God in which also we find acceptance with God through Jesus Christ and go to a Religion in the will of Man contrary to the Gift of God by Force and Compulsion where we could not act affectionately with our Hearts nor yet find the Blessing and Presence of God with us acting contrary to the Gift of God Truly it is in our Hearts and Consciences as the Truth of the Lord that we may not falsly do it But if any should object and say Your Religion is but new or of a late standing Ours is a Hundred Years old or thereabouts since Popery was brought from having the upper-hand in this Nation for they forced but they were out of the way but ours is a Reformed Church 'T is answered That though the Name or Denomination by which we are distinguished from other people be but of late Years which was cast upon us by some that mocked us because of the Power of the Lord which caused many to quake and tremble yet the Life in which we live and the Truth which we profess is ancient and the Practice in which we are exercised in the Worship of God is according to the Truth and Practice of the Saints of old And so it might be said of the Saints and of Paul when he was converted and turned from the Jews Worship that it was a new Religion but it was the mighty Power of God that changed them though many in that day opposed them And so we say Force now with Prisons and carnal Weapons is of the same nature as it was formerly in the Papists and others for they said they had a Law and they were the true Church and they forced about Religion and killed many and now here is but the same Argument The Law saith so and so Therefore we see the same Nature forcing now as formerly as it 's said He that was born after the Flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit even so it is now And for being of a Hundred Years standing this adds no strength to it at all for the Jews Religion was far more ancient and yet being in the Persecuting nature and resisting the Holy One and the Just though they professed God with their Mouth yet that would not cover them nor will it cover people now to profess God with their Mouth while they are found in the Nature Steps and Practice of them who Persecuted the Saints and Servants of God in Ages past And for that which is said That we are but of late

largely discourse of things relating to Religion and the Duties thereof in so much that amongst a Society then gathered or separated from the common National way of Worship he became an eminent Teacher and highly esteemed of amongst them and not only so but many times he would have gone to Chappels or the Parish Steeple house where there was some Idle Sottish Priests and there would have Preached and abundance of People was taken and affected with him and in great Multitudes would have flocked after him Now being grown upward of twenty years of Age he took to Wife a Sober Vertuous and Religious Maid of the same Separated Society called Ann Newby of Kendal and the Lord made them a great Comfort and Blessing each to other while they both lived together which was about thirteen years Since the Death of her Husband the Lord by his Providence hath Blessed me with the enjoyment of her being given me to Wife But in the fulness of God's appointed time as aforesaid the Lord sent his Messenger and Servant George Fox and by the Message of Life by him Preached in the Demonstration of the Spirit and Power of the Lord Jesus Christ This John Audland was reached the first time that ever he heard him and he received George Fox into his House being fully satisfied that he was one that possessed what he himself had but a notion and profession of and then by the Revelation of Jesus Christ in the Light of God's eternal day he came to see the emptiness of his great Profession and high flown Notion and that all his own Righteousness was but as filthy Raggs Dross and Dung so that he sat down in silence and astonishment like Job for many daies and great and weighty was the Work of the Lord upon his Spirit being as a Man stript of all his earthly Wisdom and his Profession being confounded and brought to nought under the exercise of the Hand of the Lords Power he did Mourn and Weep bitterly biding adieu adieu to all the World and all the empty Professions therein a great Hunger and Thirst the Lord having raised in his Heart and Soul for a Saviour one of a Thousand that could give a Ransom for his Soul and redeem him from the Pit of Corruption for he saw all his great Profession all his Wisdom and Knowledge could not help him but it was the Lord alone that his Soul Thirsted for who heard his Cries and Mourning in a time acceptable and in a day of great compassion and revealed his saving Health and redeeming Arm of eternal Power in alarge measure by which he raised him up fitting and filling him with all Wisdom and Strength for the performance of that Work and Service that the Lord had predestinated himfor and to be concerned in to the Glory of his eternal Name in gathering home the out-casts of Israel and the dispersed of Jacob who had been held under a strange King in great and most grievous Bondage to which Work the Lord in a short time called him anointing him to Preach and Publish Redemption in the Name of the Lord Jesus Christ to the Poor and deliverance to the Captive exile the Year of Jubile And the day of Vengeance upon the Wicked in which Work he was found faithful being filled with power and might from on high and girded with the strength of the Almighty And leaving all outward concerns and enjoyments he faithfully Travelled through many parts of the Nation and the Dread Wisdom and Majesty of the eternal God was with him and the mighty and high exalted ones bowed before the Lord and his Power in all places wherever the Lord called him and many Hundreds were Convinced and turned to God through him as a chosen Vessel and prepared Instrument in the Hand of the Lord of Hosts Glory Glory to God for ever saith my Soul The blessed remembrance of this mighty and notable day of the Lord and the splendant breaking forth of his Glory in the Morning thereof in this Nation often and at this time breaks my Heart and makes my Spirit rejoyce in the God of my Salvation and his eternal Power and Presence that was with this and other of his faithful Servants in the first Publishing of the Gospel in this our day can never be forgotten by many but the great and blessed Work that the Lord hath wrought by the Arm of his holy Power revealed in and through his Servants is greatly to be admired for ever for many thousands of his Israel hath the Lord gathered and brought home that were afar of and hath given them a City with Foundations whose Walls and Bulwarks is Salvation in which Praises waits for him and is sounded sorth unto the Lord and the Lamb that sits upon the Throne Reigns for ever more As he was diligent and laborious in the Work and Service of the Lord in many parts of the Nation so was he furnished for that Service as the effects and Fruits thereof hath abundantly demonstrated in many places where the Lord made him as a Father through the Word of his Power and Spirit to beget and turn many to God but most especially in and about Bristol and several Counties in the West of England where many can speak and bear Testimony to the effectual working of that Word of Reconciliation that God had given him to publish by which they were turned from Darkness to the blessed Light thereof In those Countries and many others his Labours and Travels were great being often accompanied by my Father John Camm as long as he had strength outwardly to Travel their Hearts being firmly knit together as David and Jonathan by the Bond of unspeakable Love their very Lives being endearedly bound up in each other in which Bond of Love their Unity was kept inviolated unto the end whereby their Labours and Travels together were-very comfortable and joyous being perfectly of one heart and spirit and minding the same things the glory of God and the gathering of his Israel in which Service they spent their daies strength After my Father John Camm grew weak of Body and at last was taken away Oh how John Audland would often bemoan the loss of so dear a Companion and faithful Brother he being left behind to bear the Burthen of many weighty Travels and Concerns yet through and over all the Lord assisted him to the end I was from my Child-hood very intimately acquainted with him and loved him with a Brotherly Love before we were brought into the blessed Way and Life of Truth as now revealed after which we became more inwardly acquainted and endearedly bound up together in a more Heavenly and Spiritual relation the Fellowship therein being our Life and Joy and therefore can give a certain account of the Gift and Graces of God by which he was adorned and beautified inwardly and outwardly He was a Man beloved of God and all good Men and esteemed of by most that knew him of a

Then further thou saith it being in September George Cowlishaw being asked by the said Coppinger if there had been none of those People called Quakers at Bristol he answered no now this is false some of us who is so called was then at Bristol and here I shall take many People to witness against thee for we had Meetings then in Bristol the tenth day of the Mouth called September we had a Meeting at the Fort the thireenth day of the same Month a Meeting at the Red-Lodge in Bristol and at both Meetings there were several Hundreds of People and likewise a Meeting at Fieltin the fifteenth day of the same Month and the seventeenth day we had a Meeting at Bishford and Hundreds went out of the City of Bristol to that Meeting the nineteenth day we had another Meeting at the Red-Lodge and several other Meetings we had in about Bristol in the same Month called September which will all bear witness against thee that thy slander is false and thy Oath false who saith we were at Bristol in September which he hath said on his Oath we were not and here I have proved thy information false again it is full of confusion who saith that Coppinger said that none came so near him as the Quakers and that he met with two in London of his own order and yet he saith to the Informant if that he loved his Religion and his Soul he should not hear them and yet saith they came near him and was of his own order which is false we deny such Lyers and their Order and here he is proved to be in confusion let all that can discern judge Again the man that took the Oath as thou sayest said that Coppinger was one of the Franciscan company and had taken upon him the Order at Rome or Italy here the Informant hath made himself guilty of and liable to the Law in such cases provided who was privy to him who said he had taken up that Order and did not discover him but let him go and then accuseth those that are Innocent which bear the Name of Quakers Now here thou art made manifest to be a false Accuser and a Slanderer I have proved that we came to the City of Bristol in the Month called July before the Fair and likewise that we were at those Meetings before-mentioned and several other Meetings we were at in and about Bristol in the Month called September and this Oath before-mentioned being the ground of a Warrant given forth by the Magistrates of Bristol and several of our Names therein expressed we who had been at Bristol whose names were there mentioned came all forth of Westmoreland near unto Kendal none of us having never been out of the Nation but we lived and walked in and at our own Habitations as that Country can bear witness to our Places and Beings and here your Lyes and Slanders are made to appear and utterly denyed and William Prynne here thou art clearly detected who slanderest the Innocent living in the Spawn thou speaks of the Poison of Asps being under thy Tongue and spuing out thy Venom against the harmless and thy Informant is proved to be guilty in not discovering the man he speaks of which he hath on his Oath said that he confessed to him he had been at Rome and taken upon him the order of a Fryer of the Franciscan company Now here let all people take notice of the dealings of the Magistrates who gave out a Warrant against the Innocent whom they cannot justly prove any thing against whereof they do accuse them and yet lets him go free who concealed the said Coppinger which on his Oath declared that the said Coppinger confessed himself to be one of that Order and we deny all of his Order who lives in lyng and confusion or any such to speak amongst us for we know the Voice of Christ from the Voice of the Stranger so the Devil being the Father of Lyes and a Lye being thy Foundation thou art taken with a Lye in thy Mouth and so adds Lye unto Lye and builds one Lye upon another and then thou cryes against thy own Lyes for thou canst prove no such thing by us as thou accusest us of saying that the Quakers use inchanted Potion Bracelets Ribbands Sorcery and Witchcraft which is false and thou like the raging Sea casts up thy mire and dirt O! thou full of all mischief and Enemy to all Righteousness I charge thee or any of thy Companions of the same Order who lives in lying to prove any such thing by us and make it appear publickly as thou hast accused us or let thy Mouth be stopped and own thy condemnation and confess thy deceipt and call in thy filthy Paper and take shame to thy self for know this that the Lord God will plead with thee for all thy hard speeches and justly by him shalt thou be rewarded and we utterly deny and do bear witness against all such filthy wayes and practises of all such Frogs as thou mentions and against thee who prints Lyes as I have already proved and Lyars must be cast into the Lake and here I have found thee and proved thee in the intoxicated giddy-headed condition thou speaks of who art already deceived and need be deceived no farther and thou art fallen into the Pit thou digged and they for whom thy Net was spread being Innocent are escaped and thy folly is unmasked and thou art clearly detected and proved to be in error in thy very Foundation and so all thy building is made void and if thou cannot begin upon better evidence let thy Mouth for ever be stoped and let shame cover thy Lips and repent of the evil of thy wayes lest the Wrath of the Lord break out against thee and there be no remedy to the Light in thy Conscience I speak and remember that thou are warned Friend thy Spirit is savoured and tryed and now this is the end of thy zeal who art become a Persecutor of the Life which thou hast professed in words and now thy zeal appears without the knowledge of God and so there is many unsavoury speeches in thy Paper put forth by thee William Prynne which worth the mentioning are not but thou hast manifested the end of thy Profession who appears now to be one of those giddy headed English men thou speaks of and as touching leading silly Women Captive laden with sin and led away with divers lusts ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the Truth to thee this home shall I return who appears to be in this state learning alwayes and silly for how many years hast thou been learning and now dost resist the Truth with thy unclean Spirit as Jannes and Jambers did the Children of Israel which was comming out of Egypt with their corrupt Spirits So with what Measure thou measurest it shall be measured to thee again good weight running over pressed down And Friend in the day of