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<HEAD>Now heare this all yee per&s;ecuting RULERS, PREISTS, AND MAGISTRATES Throughout the <HI>WORLD.</HI>
<NOTE PLACE="marg">The tree is known by it<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> fruits, &s;o &s;ai<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"> the Scriptur<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> as may appe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters"> by what <HI>Joh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> Waterton</HI> ca<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="2 letters">|ed a Ju&s;tice <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 word"> peace, hath been long bearing and hath brough<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter"> forth as may appear by the&s;e follow|ing lines.</NOTE> Woe, woe, terror, terror, and feirce indignation from the Lord God, even the true Te&s;ti|mony written in this Book, by the Servant of the Lord <HI>Daniel Baker.</HI></HEAD>
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<P>T<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 chunk"> is your ju&s;t recompence from the righteous hand of the Lord even the equall portion of your Cup, which the farther you goe on, in per&s;ecution, the deeper will this Cup be filled with the wrath and &s;ore di&s;plea&s;ure of the Lord God of recompence: And yee Prei&s;ts, Magi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">rates and Rulers of England, New-England, and Rome, who have Lawes, made in the corrupt wills of Men, that were in the making of them out of Gods feare, and not in that &s;pirit and wi&s;edome of God, that gave forth Scripture, and &s;o unju&s;t grounded Lawes, by which the Popes in|qui&s;ition, is per&s;ecution to death, by fire, for the te&s;timony of a good con|&s;cience. New-Englands Law, after bani&s;hment to be hanged to death; Englands Law, Mens wills, and impri&s;onment till death; for bearing te&s;timony against corrupt Lawes, and corrupt Mens wills; Oh ye Ma|gi&s;tracy and Mini&s;try of England, and New-England, call not the Church of Rome Whore any more, like ill-bred children (all you that per&s;ecute) &s;eeing you may read your &s;elves, and all that runnes may read you, like Mother, like Daughters, in per&s;ecution, all Sonnes of the Bond-woman, &s;eed of the Adulterer, and the Whore, who mu&s;t all drink
<PB N="2" REF="2" MS="y">up this Cup of Gods feirce indignation, and I &s;ay again the farther you goe on, the deeper will it he filled to you, and it will be for you the more bitter to drinke it; and all you Con&s;tables, Mar&s;hall and Servants to him Goale-keepers and Servants to them, I warne you all, in the feare and dread of the Lord God, take heed how any of you, or any man obey the command of any Magi&s;trates, that doe, or &s;hall in their corrupt willes, or according to any corrupt Law, command you to &s;erve them in per&s;ecuting the innocent, to hale them, without a ju&s;t Order under their hand, and dragge from their pre&s;ence to Pri&s;on, without a ju&s;t mittimus, or &s;omewhat to &s;hew the crime to be ju&s;t, for which you are commanded to doe their command, and let Goalers con&s;ider how they receive any into Pri&s;on, without a &s;ignifying from the Magi&s;trate the crime laid again&s;t them, which is but rea&s;onable, le&s;t blind &s;ervice be done by them, and &s;o they be found Servants to the Devill, in doing what the corrupt willes of Men command them, which feare not God: and &s;o all of you (who joyne with them, and lend a hand to them, in per&s;ecution) partake with them, in what is written in this Booke, even the feirce and bitter Cup of Gods just indignation.</P>
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<P>Now is the time of thy tryall come oh John Waterton, who &s;halt mo&s;t a&s;&s;uredly give an accompt before the throne of the Lamb, the light of the holy Citty, for all the deeds of darkne&s;&s;e done in thy body, who art weigh|ed in the equall ballance of the true Sanctuary, and art found wanting, notwith&s;tanding thou art called a member of a Church of Chri&s;t, who, I am certaine never had, nor hath, at this day: &s;uch a corrupt, fruitle&s;s, un&s;avory, darke, blinde, wicked member pertaining to his mo&s;t pure body which is the Church of the living God, the pillar and ground of truth: which thou art out of. And all &s;ober people may behold where thou art, and ha&s;t been, exerci&s;ing the power of darkne&s;&s;e of the Bea&s;t and of the Whore that hath bewitched thee with her &s;orceries and made thee drunke that thou ha&s;t long time reeled and &s;taggerd and vomited up thine owne &s;hame through the open &s;treetes, thy &s;tinke and ill &s;avour (behold I tell thee, is come up into the no&s;trils of the mo&s;t pure Lord God of Sabboth, and the eternall eye comprehends thee, and all the fruitle&s;s and wild trees of the Forre&s;t the land of darkne&s;&s;e and barrenne&s;&s;e, the fire is already kindled, and woe to the &s;tuble, the chaffe, the vipers
<PB N="3" REF="2" MS="y">and &s;erpents, the deafe venemous Adders, which in no wi&s;e would heare the voyce of the Charmer, and can a fire be kindled among &s;uch venemous uncleane creeping things, and will they not hi&s;&s;e make a noi&s;e and &s;hoote forth their &s;tinges, &s;urely it hath, and will be &s;o, and who can expect to gather Grapes on Thornes or Figges, on Thi&s;tles (I know their expectations &s;hall faile that doe) a mem|ber of the true Church of Chri&s;t, or the Man of God, of truth, meeke, and mercifull, as a Ruler ought to bee, and of &s;ound Judgement, to &s;hew forth all long &s;uffering, gentlene&s;&s;e, meek|ne&s;&s;e, &s;obriety, temperance, purity, moderation, brotherly kindne&s;s, love without di&s;&s;imulation, or re&s;pect of Per&s;ons, and the&s;e and &s;uch like, are the fruites of the pure cleane &s;pirit of the Lord; but mine eye hath not yet beheld the&s;e fruites proceed from thee, but contrarywi&s;e bringing forth corrupt and un&s;avoury fruites, by which the poor and needy have been long time ep|pre&s;&s;ed and burthened under which they have deeply &s;ighed and groaned, cheifly upon the fir&s;t dayes of the weeke, which thou, in thy blind darke zeale, hath often called the Sabboth, or Lords day, who&s;e is every day, to the &s;hame of thy darke Teachers, who have not yet taught thee to di&s;tingui&s;h, between the dayes of the weeke and the Sab|both and &s;o art found per&s;ecuting with the powers of darkne&s;&s;e, them that feare the Lord and keep his Commandments, who &s;aid, &s;ix dayes &s;halt thou labour, and the &s;eventh, the Sabboth which was given for a &s;igne, to I&s;raell, in the wilderne&s;&s;e: where the Idolaters and Murmerers were de&s;troyed and fell, before the Beleevers entred into the good Land of re&s;t: and many &s;hall fall after the &s;ame example, amongst whom thou art, who &s;halt give an accompt for every Loafe of Bread and ounce of Meate, Flower, and nece&s;&s;ary Foode and Rayment which the poore, the Widdowes and Fatherle&s;&s;e have wanted, which thou through thy per&s;ecuting, oppre&s;|&s;ing, blinde, wicked zeale on the fir&s;t dayes of the Weeke ha&s;t &s;o fre|quently taken from them without pitty, compa&s;&s;ion or mercy, which is all out of the way of God: who&s;e wayes are equall, and if any Man doe the thing that is good, just, or equall, on the first day which is one of the &s;ix, which the Lord commanded I&s;raell, &s;aying, &s;ix dayes &s;halt thou labour, he doth well, and if the Lord command one thing, and blinde per&s;ecuting Magidrates, and great Men of the Earth,
<PB N="4" REF="3" MS="y">make Lawes and Decrees to command another thing, whether is it better to obey God or man, let &s;uch as feare, and de&s;ire to feare the God of truth, judge; and let every Man &s;earch with the light, his owne heart, and &s;o be fully per&s;waded in his owne mind: &s;ee what Daniel in &s;uch a matter, and the three children did, Dan. <HI>3.17.18.</HI> and Dan. <HI>6.</HI> and I am &s;ure it is very unrea&s;onable and unequall oppre&s;&s;ion and cruelty for any one who beares the name,
<NOTE PLACE="marg">Read a Book entituled an Epi&s;tle to all the Chri&s;tian Magi&s;trates and powers in the whole Chri&s;tendome; Sold at the Bull and Mouth neer Alder&s;gate; And ano|ther &s;heet entituled, the voyce of thunder.</NOTE> e&s;pecially of a Chri&s;tian Magi&s;trate or Chri&s;;tian, or of a member of a Church of Chri&s;t, to take foode or rayment by force, tyranny and cruelty from the poor and needy, the Widdowes and Fatherle&s;s, after they have wrought hard for their bread; then to have their bred, food, and raiment, with violence, force, and cruelty, taken from them, without mercy, pitty or compa&s;&s;ion by thee; Oh John Waterton, how hard will it be for thee with many more that's in thy nature, to finde repentance unto Life, for in the&s;e and &s;uch like cruelties ha&s;t thou long exerci&s;ed thy &s;elfe; now the everla&s;ting light of life is &s;pringing up, and will &s;hine over the whole Earth, and &s;pread from Sea to Sea, for it comprehends the darkne&s;&s;e, and fathomes the depths of Satans wiles, his Lawes and Decrees, and e&s;pyeth out the turnings and twinings of the mo&s;t &s;ubtle Serpents: and thou in any wi&s;e cannot be hid from this eye, the light; the Rodde of who&s;e mouth, will &s;mite the Earth, the breath of who&s;e Lippes &s;hall &s;lay the wicked, who are as the troubled Sea that cannot re&s;t; as thou did manife&s;t thy &s;elfe, the la&s;t fir&s;t day in thy rage, and fury, without mercy, pitty or compa&s;&s;ion.</P>
<P>To my wife and children: who are left as the widdow, and father le&s;s I being ca&s;t into pri&s;on, (by unrea&s;onable men) becau&s;e of my te&s;timony in obedience to the Lord, again&s;t the deeds of the world that lyes in wickedne&s;&s;e, for they are evill, and wicked, and the Lord is pleading with the inhabitants of the earth for the&s;e things and thy worke, and place &s;hould have been, had&s;t thou been a man of God, (the la&s;t fir&s;t day which thou calls the Sabboth) to be a terror to evell doers and bruiti&s;h people that are with thee in <HI>Cain, E&s;au, Nimrod,</HI> and <HI>I&s;ma|ells</HI> life and nature, to have &s;till'd and re&s;trained them, from offring
<PB N="5" REF="3" MS="y">and doing violence again&s;t them that depart from evill by the feare of the Lord; but contrary wi&s;e, thou did as much as in thee lay, &s;trengthen the hands of the wicked to make a prey of the innocent, that fear, and obey the pure &s;pirit of the Lord, in doing the thing thats Ju&s;t, Equall, and good in his &s;ight; though the heathen rage, and per&s;ecute, and imagine vaine things yet it &s;hall goe well with them that feare the Lord, who is, and is to be wor&s;hiped in &s;pirit and in truth: out of which thou art, otherwi&s;e I &s;ay thou would not have &s;o &s;trengthned the hands of evill doers, in going about to ruinate my wife and family, who, I &s;ay was left as a widdow and fatherle&s;&s;e, by throwing one of my &s;ervants into pri&s;on, and putting the other in the &s;tocks, and making (as it were a prey of my goods, and vent|ing forth bitter wicked vile threatnings and un&s;avoury words, as is thy u&s;u|all manner &s;o to do, not becomming a man, thou beare&s;t the name of, but art not, &s;peaking the&s;e words, of my wife, calling her <HI>Baker</HI>'s Wench, and my Maid <HI>Bakers</HI> Impe, and of &s;uch &s;ober people that could not doe, nor act violence with the wicked, calling them <HI>Bakers</HI> Imps, and &s;ometimes &s;aying, I was a rogue, oftentimes telling people I was mad: and <HI>Baker</HI> thou wilt be in hell ere long, when I bid thee repent, fear God, and do ju&s;tice, the&s;e, and &s;uch like un&s;ound words, and filthy abominations acted by thee, which are for judgement, and to be condemned: came from thee, and the eternall eye and eare of the Lord hath &s;een and heard the&s;e things, and behold, the light of life is ari&s;ing, who with the hand of his power, is comming neare to judgement, with which he will plead with the oppre&s;&s;ors, and the cau&s;e of the innocent &s;uffring &s;eed of Chri&s;t in the male and in the female. Yea he is ari&s;ing (who comes not to &s;end peace on the earth, but a &s;word.)</P>
<P>Here followth &s;ome particulars written in a mittimus under <HI>John Wa|terton's</HI> hand, who committed my &s;ervant <HI>Richard Taylor</HI> to new B<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">ide|well, who performed the duty of his place, and tru&s;t, and hone&s;t fidelity about the &s;pace of halfe a yeare, and as the duty of a good &s;ervant is, hath perform|ed his worke the time of his being my &s;ervant, &s;o that I have no evi&s;t thing to lay to his charge, and this I te&s;tifye that he &s;erved under the command of Captaine Whore in the &s;ervice of the Common-wealth, immediately before: and &s;ince he came to be my &s;ervant who cheifly went through all my bu&s;ine&s;s in my hone&s;t imployment for the maintenance of my Wife and Family, I being in bonds my &s;elf, and this my Servant by force taken out of my hou&s;e and ca&s;t in to pri|&s;on
<PB N="6" REF="4" MS="y">by <HI>John Waterton,</HI> called a Ju&s;tice of peace, with the mittimus &s;tuft with lyes &s;landers and reproaches.</P>
<P>As the moderate reader may read and under&s;tand.</P>
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<OPENER><SALUTE>To the Governours of the hou&s;e of correction.</SALUTE></OPENER>
<P>The&s;e are in the names of the keepers of the libertyes of <HI>England,</HI> &amp;c. To re|ceive into your cu&s;tody the body of Richard Tailor being a di&s;&s;olute and di&s;or|derly per&s;on and cannot give any good account of his living nor whence he came.</P>
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<P>Now herein be it known to thee. <HI>John Waterton</HI> that thou ha&s;t much a|bu&s;ed, belyed, and fal&s;ly accu&s;ed the poor man, who did and yet may te&s;tify to thy face that he was my &s;ervant, and that he had been &s;o long with me as a|bove mentioned about halfe a yeare: and this was a good account of his liv|ing I beare reccord al&s;o, though thou have cau&s;ed &s;uch lyes and &s;tanders to be written under thy hand of the poor man my &s;ervant, and moreover he told thee concerning his name where it was to be found in the mu&s;ter rolles, and al&s;o told thee his name, and when <HI>James Brock</HI> asked <HI>John Waterton</HI> why he put my &s;ervant in pri&s;on, his an&s;wer was becau&s;e he would do it, then <HI>James Brock</HI> asked if this were an an&s;wer be&s;eeming a Chri&s;tian, much more a Chri&s;tian Magi&s;trate, and he &s;aid twice it is good enough for thee.</P>
<P>And thou telling people (concerning the people of the Lord) who wor&s;hip him in &s;pirit and in truth, that they were a company of Whores and Rogues, and that they met together to play the whore and the rogue, and this is true that thou &s;aid &s;o, but in the feare of the Lord in the behalfe of his innocent &s;uffer|ing people, behold I te&s;tify that it is utterly fal&s;e, and the&s;e unclean wicked a|hominations is hated, abhorred, and utterly denyed by us. A<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 letter">d moreover <HI>John Waterton,</HI> thou &s;aid&s;t to <HI>Jeffery Winchur&s;t</HI> when he &s;aid to thee, that it was better to &s;uppre&s;&s;e the Ale-hou&s;es which were &s;o many, and the cau&s;e of much &s;in in the land, then thou told him, it was long of him, and he an&s;wered thee, it was long of thee, and other Ju&s;tices that did grant them Licences, next day thou told <HI>J. W.</HI> That thou would indite him to the Se&s;&s;ions for denying to put my maid in the &s;tocks, though <HI>J. W.</HI> were not then there in thy pre|&s;ence: and thou may remember that thou &s;aid, if thou were a theife thou would&s;t rob the Quakers rather then any other, as thou pa&s;t the fields with him to Stepny &s;teeple-hou&s;e and it's manife&s;t what was in thy heart, was it not fulfil'd la&s;t fir&s;t day of the week, when thou commanded two Men to take my goods out of my &s;hop, and ha&s;t not yet re&s;tor'd it again, which was about
<PB N="7" REF="4">a bu&s;hill of flower, and its written, the theife &s;hould re&s;tore fore-fold, or be &s;old for his theft, and I would not have the theife hang'd, but that he might live to repent and reform his life. And work with his hands in the thing that is good, and this is according to Mo&s;es &s;pirit in the Scriptures of truth, and the Apo&s;tles doctrine, who &s;aid let him that hath &s;tolen &s;teale no more, and I would not have any hanged for &s;tealing on the fir&s;t day or any other day, as the Mayor and &s;ome Aldermen of the Citty of London can te&s;tifie, for I am a friend to Mo&s;es, Chri&s;t, the Prophets, and Apo&s;tles &s;pirit. O man what will be thy end, for &s;urely the&s;e things will lye heavy upon thy con&s;cience when the hand of the Lord vi&s;its.</P>
<P>And the rea&s;on thou gives, in thy lying Mittimus of my Servants com|mitment was for a&s;i&s;ting &s;illy women to keep open my &s;hop on the Lords day, but art not thou in the night, in the darkne&s;&s;e, and is not the light good, and is not that which is good called day: and is not the fir&s;t day of the week a good day, and &s;o is every day, who&s;e is the Lords, that made them, and tell me which day I &s;hall open my &s;hop that is not the Lords day.</P>
<P>And whereas thou calls them &s;illy women, whom thou &s;aid&s;t my &s;ervant did a&s;&s;i&s;t, I tell thee again, thou ha&s;t fal&s;ly accu&s;ed the innocent, and they are not &s;illy women, for they have learn'd of Chri&s;t the light, the Lord of the Sab|both, the &s;ub&s;tance that ends the &s;ignes to come out of the &s;haddows and like|ne&s;&s;es, and thou may read in the Scriptures that they are &s;illy women that are laden with &s;ins, led away with divers lu&s;ts, ever learning, &amp;c. <HI>2</HI> Tim. <HI>3.</HI> chap.</P>
<P>The thorny briery and un&s;avoury profe&s;&s;ors of the Prophets good words may read them&s;elves, who are &s;o proud, haughty, and &s;cornfull in their co&s;tly aray, and changeable &s;uites of apparrell, being at ea&s;e in the fle&s;h, who&s;e minds are led captive after every lu&s;t, and vanity, and &s;o become defiled and hardened, walking haughtily with &s;tretched forth neckes, the &s;pirit of envy exerci&s;ing their minds, with &s;uch &s;cornfull eyes, that they can hardly tell how to looke one another in the face without di&s;daine, not knowing a bridle to their own tongues, nor like to Sarah's adorning within, which will bridle the whole cour&s;e of the proud rebellious nature, and I &s;ay this is not liked nor beleev'd in by the&s;e which &s;erve the Lu&s;ts, Pride, Vanity, Plea&s;ures which are of the world, and not of the Father of truth, and yet &s;uch are called Chri&s;tians, members of Churches, and of the body of Chri&s;t (the light, the la<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 chunk"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 chunk">fore who&s;e throne &s;uch &s;hall a&s;&s;uredly give an account, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="MURP" EXTENT="1 span"> al&s;o tell thee, &s;uch are &s;illy women, and they are
<PB N="8" REF="5" MS="y">not &s;o, who learne of Chri&s;t whom thou ha&s;t fal&s;ely accu&s;ed and freequently vented forth bitter lying reproaches again&s;t them, which I &s;ay againe, Will lye heavy upon thy con&s;cience, when the Lords hand vi&s;its, from which in any wi&s;e thou can&s;t not fly, nor hide.</P>
<P>Though thou &s;ay he refu&s;ed to tell his name yet thou knew it and did expre&s;&s;e it in thy mittimus, and al&s;o to make him odious with thy enmity, thou ha&s;t cau&s;|ed to be written in thy lying mittimus the&s;e lying reproachfull words, &s;aying he appeareth before me to be a dangerous &s;u&s;picious per&s;on of idle life, and this I te&s;tifie for the poor man my &s;ervant to thy face, which will &s;tand upon thy head that this is evill, and wickedly fal&s;e, and many people and neighbours about my dwelling hou&s;e can bring in their record, and beare te&s;timony with me again&s;t thee; and the Lords eternall witne&s;&s;e in thy con&s;cience will al&s;o beare a true te&s;timony, and judge thee for the&s;e, and many other abominati|ons acted by thee, again&s;t me, my wife and family from time to time, and behold this I tell thee, the Lord knowes my heart, I de&s;ire the&s;e things I have written, might not be laid to thy charge, at the time when if hap|pily thou may find a place of repentance unto life.</P>
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<DATELINE>Poultrey Counter, the inner pri&s;on, <DATE>the 1. 9th. month 2. day of the weeke. 1659.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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