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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91466	The fruits of a fast, appointed by the churches gathered against Christ and his kingdom, who go about to mock God with their outside-worship, and appointed fasts, and dayes of voluntary humiliation. Or, A declaration of the persecution of a messenger of the Lord, by a people who go under the name of Independants, in Essex, who have set themselves in the enmity of their spirits to oppose the truth of God, calling it a lye, and persecuting his messengers as deceivers, and wanderers, wherein their persecuting spirits is made manifest, and them to be in Cains generation, and stranges to the spirit of Christ, which vener persecuted, and so are noen of his, Rom.8:9. And also, of the unjust dealing of Judge Hills, ... And also, severall queries, that was sent ot the priests and magistrates, shich may be serviceable for them, or any other to answer, whom they do concern. / By ... James Parnell.	Parnell, James, 1637?-1656.	1655 (1655)	Wing P530; Thomason E854_14; ESTC R207483	31,427	32

first Chapter of the Thessalonians and the first verse where the Apostle writeth to the Church of the Thessalonians which is God the Father then paleness struck the face of the Diviner neither would any of his fellows stand up to justifie what he had taken in hand and this was it wherein I said he blasphemed to say the Church in God was non-sence then there was one Priest Stellum a Magician of Aegypt who stood up in the enmity of his spirit and accused me with severallys slanders which hardned Pharoahs heart so that you corrupt rulers would not suffer me to clear my self from what he had accused me withall but the Magician got up into the seat of Divination and was going to his abomination a●d then the RULERS called to me to put off my hat then I bid you call to the Priest to put of his cap. And thus may all see the blindness and ignorance of Priests and People who are offended at a hat and not at a can and this is as the vain traditions of the Pharises who observed the washing of Pots and cups and such like things making clean the out-side which Scripture Priest VVillis who said the Church in God was non-sense brought in reference to the people called Quakers because they do not put off their hats in respect or worshipping of mens persons but let any who hath understanding consider which is more Traditional for a man to keep his hat on his head for which end it is made as also his shooe for his foot his glove for his hand or the putting off these things in observation of customes Mat. 15.7 8 9. and reverencing mens person for all which there is no Scripture therefore a vain Tradition of Man and thus they teach for Doctrine the Traditions of Man therefore in vains do you worship God who come neer him with your lips and with your mouths but your hearts are farre from him Iohn 5.44 in the unbeliefe seeking honor one of another and observing vaine Traditions and customes as did your forefathers whom Christ pronounced woe against who were his Persecutors and in whose steps yee are found and therefore read your portion And thus while you are crying against the Scribes and Pharisees for observing vaine Traditions and customes and their strictness in their observations and yet Persecutors of the Iust you also are found the same who are set up in the chiefest place of the Assembly Mat. 23. as they were and called of men Master as they were stand praying in the Synagogues as they did teaching for Doctrine the Traditions of men as they did and are strict in your Observations and calling of Assemblies and in your set-times of VVorship and appointed Pasts and days of Humiliation and yet are persecutors of the just as they were yea in the very height of your VVorship the bitterness of your spirits appeared but is this such a Fast as God hath chosen Nay it is abomination his Soul loaths it and hee will judge the cause of the Innocent upon you Hypocrites and be avenged of you his Adversaries and give you your portion with Vnbelievers in the Lake that burneth prepared of old for Cains Generation in which you are found by the Eternall Light of God which cannot lye which will rise up in Iudgement against you at the last day though now you stumble at it and are offended at it yet then shal you behold him whom you have pierced though with Lamentation and Sorrow of Minde when there is none to deliver you from the wrath of the Almighty and this is answered and witnessed in your Consciences Then the occasion of my passing out of the Steeple-house was this when I could not have liberty to speak in the vindication of the Truth against gain-sayers ye would have had me have stood with my hat off the time the Priest was praying which Worship I denied and therefore could not be conformable to it and so I said before I would stay to fulfill your wills I would pass out of the Steeple-house and many came out after me but not of my calling and many that I knew not and yet you are not ashamed to fay my followers And again That I went into the Common High-way and there kept with the people unlawfully together as you affirm is a very abominable Lye especially for men of your profession to tell which many can witness against for I was passing on the way quietly without disturbance towards my friends house from whence I came not purposing to stop until I came there but that he that writes himself Dyonisius VVakering came hurrying in amongst the people and clapped me on the back and sail He arrested me in the Name of the Protector and there stopped me and the first words that I spoke was VVhere is thy VVrit and so the people gathered about and thronged much but that any gave out menacing and threatning speeches J cannot say neither whom they was spoken against but any that owns me it is wel-known they are not men of such boystrous spirits but rather are made willing to to be reviled then to revile for from me no other example they have as hundreds will acknowledge but VVakering if the was true to that of God in his conscience he would confess how I laboured in his presence to still the people when he had violently laid hands on me and given the occasion and so let all take notice that there was no disorder nor disturbance until the Magistrate came and laid violent hands on me tending to the breach of the peace and against the Law and this is the fruits of your hypocritical fast and voluntary humiliation 3 Accusation And also you accuse me That I could give no good account of my last settlement or of my life and conversation Reply As for my life and conversation let it preach forth it self and them that can accuse me let them and as for my settlement it is in the Lord where I have found a habitation and so am no vagabond nor wanderer though I challenge no propriety in the earth because my Kingdome is not of this world though you accuse me that I appear unto you to be an idle disorderly person and before you set me down Iames Parnel Labourer and thus you utter forth your folly with your changeable minds but I am a Labourer in the Gospel of God in which work none can tax me with idleness since I came into these parts but if I had been more idle in the same ye would have been more pleased for it is my great Labor and Diligence in this work of the free Gospel and the prosperity thereof in the overturning and lay open the deceits of deceiving and deceived men that torments you who are the shelterers of the false Prophet whom you carry in your bosome because he cries peace unto you when the Lord cries woe yet nevertheless it is but for a time for the hand of