The PROPHET APPROVED, BY THE WORDS Of his Prophecy coming to pass.  
BEING A Declaration of the Message which Daniel Baker received from the Lord to the Parliament, Counsel of State, Officers of the Army, Mayor and aldermans of the City, met together the 6th day of this 8th month in the place falsely called Christ-Church in London, which day was set apart for Thanksgiving, but proved a day of persecution, and voluptuous feasting, to the grief of God's Spirit.  
Also a Letter from Daniel Baker, to the Mayor and Recorder of London.  
Published by Thomas Hart.  
That people may see the Lord hath his Prophets in this land.  
LONDON, Printed for Thomas Simmons, at the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate, 1659.   

To the Serious Reader.  
OFten hath the Lord warned the Rulers of these Nations by his Servants and Prophets, in these late years and months; But they (high and stiffnecked) have slighted instruction, and cast reproof behind them, even until the judgement threatened and foretold of, hath overtaken them one after the other, because none of those that succeeded in the Rule and Government have hitherto laid it to heart, but when the Lord hath sent his Servants to them, they have likewise refused and rejected the Counsel of the Lord, and so have provoked him against them; often was Oliver Cromwell advised of the Judgement of the Lord against him and his family, if he did not repent, and when God's decree was sealed up against him to cut him off, he was let to know it about a month before it came upon him, and how the Lord would also stretch forth his hand against all that was high and lifted up in the Rule of these Nations, even from the one end thereof to the other, which shortly after came to pass; When Richard Cromwell came to the Government, he also was warned and foretold of what at last he found come upon him, likewise his packed assembly was told of their doom, together with their new house of Lords again established to the dishonour of the Lord of Heaven; The Army, when the Rule as well as the power was in their hands, for a little season, before the return of the Long Parliament, were likewise warned to beware of that spirit which had led them aside and betrayed them from their first love, even that spirit that is against liberty of Conscience (which was once clearly asserted by them) they were bid to remember Amaleck (the Soul murdering, and conscience-binding Clergyman) and what they did unto them by the way when they were coming out of Egypt, how they smote the hindermost of them, even all the feeble and week when they were faint and weary, even Amaleck who feared not God, that his name, even the spirit and power of persecution in the Clergy man should be by them blotted from under Heaven; but the Army not harkening to the counsel of God then given, drunk a fresh of the Whore's cup of sorceries till they reeled and fell under her feet; of which also they were warned a second time, and foretold of this hour that is come upon them, as may may be seen in a book tituled Mene Tekel.  
At last the long Parliament being returned by the providence of the Lord to try them again what they would do for God and his people, were often cited to their duty, and made acquainted with what the Lord expected from them; they also turning their backs upon the way of the Lord, and despising the Counsel of his servants, went on in the way of those the Lord had newly brought down, were often told, the Lord would rebuke them, and at last when they, with the Council of State and Officers of the Army, were meet together with the Mayor and Aldermen of London in the Steeple house (falsely called Christ-Church) as they pretended to thank God, (but the Lord abhorred their sacrifice) this servant of the Lord Daniel Baker was moved of the Lord to go to that place, where he spoke part of what the Lord commanded him, but they would not hear him, but suffered him to be haled away, and beaten, and abused, and fling into Newgate (by the rude rabble;) the substance of what the Lord required him to speak to them, he had writ down just before he went to the Steeplehouse, which I here present to thy view, also the words he got forth amongst them as they were haling him down, whereby thou mayest see how the Lord hath left them without excuse, having warned them of what he would bring upon them if they repent not, who were so far from hearing and fearing the words of the Lord by his servant to them that the greatest part of them of the Parliament were ready to make or confirm a law, to keep the servants of the Lord from speaking, though according to the will and commandment of the Lord, in their steeplehouse, like those that went before them; wherefore especially (and for that they delayed to deliver the Nation from the oppressor on every hand) hath the Lord so soon laid them aside with dishonour.  
Nor let the Army think they shall escape the dreadful hand of the Lord, breaking and confounding them also if they come not forth with true zeal for God and his people, and for the general good of all the peaceable people of this Nation, and deny themselves; I say, if they do not lay forth themselves for the Lord and his people (especially) and for the good of the whole Nation in General, but do labour to secure themselves, under and by a corrupt interest, they shall not prosper, for the Lord will break and confound them, and they shall be spewed forth.   

Here follows what the Servant of the Lord had writ down before he went into the Steeplehouse aforesaid.  
WHither are ye turning aside, O ye lofty mountains of the Earth, to nourish your hearts as in a day of slaughter, by which you condemn the Just, and betray the Innocent who do not resist you.  
Wherefore assemble yourselves together oh ye great Mountains, that the invisible everlasting God may pour forth upon your heads his indignation, and shatter and break you to pieces, and confound and overturn your devises, and give you up to the deceit and imagination of your own hearts lusts, forasmuch as you have vexed and grieved the eternal and invisible spirit of the most high whom you pretend to honour, but too manifest that your own you prefer before him and his Counsel.  
Wherefore hear the Word of the Lord ye strong Oaks and lofty trees, your counsels are not good, and you have soon turned aside (out of the way) therefore the Lord of Hosts will meet with you, and with his besom of destruction will he sweep you all away in his anger, if you yet repent not speedily, and subject to the spirit of meek men, holy men, and of sound judgement in you.  
Are not the eyes of all the honest hearted in the Nation, looking for this spirit to break forth in its power and life in the midst of you, and to shine over the Nations, that the Heathens round about might be amazed, astonished and confounded, and come to know that the power, and dread, and life of the everlasting God is in the midst of you?  
And is it a time to feed yourselves without fear, and to run greedily into the excess of Riot, to devour the Creatures, and to destroy the Creation upon your ungodly lusts?  
Wherefore the indignation of the Lord as a fire is kindled, [and many of you shall feel it] against you▪ And woe be to the Hypocrites, the Lords soul abhors your prayers and solemn assemblies, the day of your Calamity is at hand, for ye have wearied the Lord of Hosts with your hypocrisies from time to time; why should ye be smitten or warned any more, seeing you have thus in the eyes of all people tempted and evil requited the Lord God, strong and powerful, dreadful is his everlasting name, who will take vengeance and ease himself of his Adversaries, who deal deceitfully with the everlasting (the I am, a) consuming fire.  

Hear followeth the words which the Lord put into D, Bs, heart to speak or give forth, which stands a testimony upon the heads of Parliament, Army, Mayor, aldermans and Citizens of London met together the 6th day of this 8th month, being the fifth day of the week, at the Steeplehouse (falsely called Christs-Church) wherein obedience to the Lord, his body was given up to suffer, and the Testimony was thus given forth from him at that place, saying;  
HEar, hear, hear the word of the Lord, oh ye mountains and Inhabitants of the earth; the day, even the day of God's visitation is upon your heads, for ye have chosen the way that is not good; wherefore assemble yourselves together, oh ye strong Oaks, that the Lord might pour upon your heads his Indignation, for deceit and hypocrisy the Lords soul abhors.  
As sure as the Lord over-turned them that went before you, so sure will the Lord overturn you.    

Friends,  
KNow ye that I am a man freeborn in this Nation (the land of my Nativity) and have faithfully served my generation in the late wars and commotions from time to time against the common enemies, namely the Kings, the Dutch, the Portugal, French, and Spaniard, and what I have from time to time suffered, at present I mention little; besides the wounds and shedding of my blood, with my bone: shot and shattered to pieces, and taken out of my body; And there was a time and times also, in the behalf of the Nation, I could say to one, go, and he goeth, and to ten, come, and it was so; and to a hundred, do this and that, and it was done: but this is passed away as the dust before the wind; but behold I am this day in bonds for exercise of a pure conscience, in obedience to the invisible pure Spirit of the Lord God, in my heart, to which my soul is become subject; for its the higher power, and the most high that searcheth my heart, knoweth my heart, that I speak the truth in his fear and dread in the truth, and lie not.  
Now that you may not be altogether ignorant of what you have done, In the Lord have I freedom now to write to ye, to the end that you might have a more perfect understanding, what hath already been past concerning me, before and since the time of my imprisonment, and that ye might be altogether left without excuse in the time of your trial before the throne of the Lamb, slain since the foundation of the world, whether you now hear or forbear; but if the eye and ear of a good understanding be opened in you, to hearken to the cry of the oppressed within you, and without you, and let it go free by breaking the bonds of wickedness within and without you (Read within and understand) of a truth my soul, into which the Lord God hath breathed his pure breath of life, and thereby it now only lives; will exceedingly rejoice in the Lord, otherwise my soul in secret (as hitherto) shall mourn and lament over the oppressed seed, until the Lord, strong and mighty, arise to render vengeance upon the head of the oppressor, and to plead in truth with his righteous judgements, the cause of the innocent, who are the signs and wonders of these latter days, as in the days of old.  
Now if you can believe my words, O ye men that shall die? hearken and hear, and bear with me a moment, which I know you will, if you subject to the measure of that noble, just, equal, pure, meek principle, or spirit that was in Moses, and behold I tell ye, is in you also, but 'tis exceedingly oppressed, let it arise to hear me, for to that only I desire to be manifest.  
On the sixth day of the eighth month, and fifth day of the week, tidings came to me of a feast for the Mayor and Aldermen, Parliament and Army that day, upon which I weighed and pondered in my mind, whether it were a time to feast, and the Nation with her freeborn inhabitants, so greatly oppressed under such grievous yokes and bonds of wickedness, and so many poor, naked, blind and lame, that wants bread, and such great things promised by such wise men, (and whether the Lord God will not visit for these things) and were going to eat and to drink, and nourish their hearts, as in a day of slaughter; and immediately the power of the indignation of the Lord stirred within me, and his word, which is the higher power, I felt to be quick and powerful, moved, and I immediately subjected to its command, which was to speak these words in the Audience and presence of you all assembled together, whether you can believe me or not, or hear, or forbear; these words the everlasting God put into my heart, and in obedience to his invisible spirit of life, I speak them forth, as ye may remember, if you did mind, thus, in the old Masse-house, called Christ's Church.  
Hear, hear, hear the word of the Lord, O ye Mountains and Inhabitants of the earth, the day, even the day of God's visitation is upon your heads, for ye have chosen the way that is not good, wherefore assemble yourselves O ye strong oaks, that the Lord might pour upon your heads his indignation, for deceit and hypocrisy the Lords soul abhors.  
And if thus to obey the Lord God be a transgression of any of your Decrees or Laws, behold here is a body prepared to suffer, let Gods witness, the light of Christ in your consciences judge, & whether it be not better to obey God rather than man, judge ye; But if you reply, and say, thou madest a disturbance, thou didst disturb the Minister that was praying, and we had a Law which was founded upon Queen Maries, that bloodthirsty persecuters Law, which was three month's imprisonment, after due accusation and examination heard, and conviction of two witnesses before two Justices of the Peace; mark that, to any one that should on purpose maliciously, or contemptuously disturb the Preacher; and because her Law was not severe enough for the Priests, Oliver Cromwell and his Council added three months more to it, but I have fulfilled that Law, by suffering under it with many more, as a testimony against it, and the Founders and Builders up of it, for ever; but this late Parliament have made this Law null and void; However, thou oughtest to be had to prison, and to suffer; what? without a Law? because thou disturbest us, and we cannot believe that it is according to Christ or his Apostles doctrine, though we call the Scripture our Rule, may ye say in your hearts, and God is a God of order, and he is not the Author of confusion; To which I answer, he that speaks true and sober words, in obedience to the moving and commandment of the Lord, without respect of persons, days, place or time, is not disorderly, nor the Author of confusion; and if you were in all things guided by Moses, Christ, his Prophets, and Apostles spirit; yet oppressed in bondage, in you, ye would know it: but they are disorderly, that break forth into confusion, and are like Bears, Lions, Dogs, and wolves, in their devouring nature, to rend, tear, and devour, knock down, drag, and offer violence, and buffeting a poor single Lamb, or Friend of Christ, both in and out of the Synagogue, or Masse-house, and drag the poor Saints before the Judgement Seat.  
Neither is it contrary to the Apostles doctrine, who spoke (by the Spirit of Christ Jesus the light in him) who said, if any thing be revealed to another that sits by, let the first hold his peace; and as many poor wise men that were among you, even they might have seen and felt, that I was not out of the Apostles doctrine, neither spoke contrary to the pure spirit that gave forth the Scriptures of truth, but stood up a certain time in the fear & dread, and power of the Lord God, before I spoke forth the words, so that the Priest had time to have stopped & held his peace; & if he had done so, together with the brutish People, or rude multitude, it would have been good order, and according to the Apostles doctrine, and Scriptures of truth; and after I had spoken the words of the Commandment of the Lord forth, I know I should have departed in God's fear and peace orderly as I came in; yet notwithstanding, I neither resisted, nor offered violence to either man, woman, or child, and it would have been a noble thing of any of you Magistrates, chief Captains, Colonels, or Soldiers, and according to your place, to have called out or used means to have restrained the disorderly, rude, brutish people, from dragging, pulling, or tearing me to pieces, or from buffeting me in the face, and from pulling my hair, and beating, and dragging me, See Act. 23, 9, 10. Even in and forth of your high place of worship, and from dragging me to prison, contrary to your Laws without Mittimus, or being called before any of you, who should without delay have heard a lawful trial, and true witnesses, with due accusation, that you might then have signified the crimes to the Gaoler, and this had been but reasonable; and in such a matter, him whom the Priests and professors, and profane of England, call a Heathen, Namely, Festus, was more noble, and will judge you, See Acts 23.27. verse, but they, who all of them are called Christians, but more like, yea, and far worse than Heathens, that know not the dreadful God among them, in their rage and enmity dragged and threw me into the Goal Newgate, & after they had thus thrown me into the Goal, as if I had been a dead dog, or swine, they beat me there with a staff, besides, one unreasonable merciless man struck me over the bare head with a staff, even in the Idols Temple, being at the same time dragged between four or five men.  
And Friends, this was disorder, tyranny, cruelty, oppression, and injustice, and it had been better you had been found executing true and sound justice and judgement, without respect of persons, gifts, or rewards; (when shall it once be?) then to have thus met to feed yourselves without fear over the oppressed seed; and Magistrates, that are to rule for God, will, and in his pure noble principle in them, should be just men of truth; a terror to evil doers, that offer violence in the devouring nature against the innocent, (whose praise is not of men, but of God; and such as rule for and with him) and for these and a multitude of such like things will the everlasting God of truth visit the haughty oppressors, and persecuting priests and Magistrates of England's Nation, and dominions, whose day of visitation, of salvation, is hastening over their heads, who to this day have rejected its appearance.  
And although there was not found among all the multitude, after I had waited two days before your Judgement Seat, one man, woman, or child, that did, or could accuse me of the breach of any Law, except it were one or two of you that sat upon the Judgement Seat, did accuse me. Now consider (if you be a little cool) with the spirit of wisdom, meekness, and of sound judgement, whither I have done or spoken any thing contrary to any Law or Decree (if you can make it appear, do it without delay; for behold I am yet under your hand, and behold here's a body in which I am prepared to suffer) as I demanded before all the people assembled before your Judgement Seat, that it was but reasonable, and an equal thing to show and convince me by the Law before the people, what evil I had done either in word or action, but no Law was brought or admitted to be read to or against me, and so this reasonable thing was denied me; and herein you cannot be said to be noble, while you thus turn the sword against the innocent; and the Lord God will plead with you for it; for the Lord is nigh at hand to try you, and to judge and reward for all your deeds done in every of your particular body; And thou John Ireton, instead of doing Justice, and executing true and sound Judgement, after true searching and enquiring into the nature and ground of a matter, and so to plead the cause of the innocent, whose consciences are exercised towards God, this would have been thy honour; but even thou replyedst, and sayedst, Take him away, he is mad. Alas poor man, thou knowest not what thou hast done, and surely I perceive thou dost not yet know or believe, against whom thou, together with the rest of the persecuting Magistrates and Priests of England, Scotland, and Ireland, have lifted up your hands; and behold this testimony I give forth, whether you can believe, or receive it or nay, that here is three of us in bonds in Newgate Goal; namely, Humphrey Bache, Anne Gould, and Daniel Baker (committed by your order and wills) who, as sure as the Lord God hath given you and all men breath and life, and all things, so sure are we his Servants and Friends, and worship him in spirit and in truth; for he who is a most pure, invisible, eternal spirit, hath sought and found us, and we are in him that is true, and so is our testimony, and therefore cannot lie nor swear, nor give flattering titles to any man, if we should, the Lord our God, whom we serve, would condemn us, and we assuredly know, that the whole world lieth in wickedness; and therefore in love to the world on the Lord's behalf as his friends, we testify against the deeds and friendships, and honours thereof, for they are evil; and its enmity to our God, who is the living God. And this know assuredly from my hand, that is guided by the good spirit of the Lord, to write these things, that I am this day in bonds for the testimony of him that saves from sin, and for the exercise of a pure conscience, who desires that in the day and time of your trial, when the tribes of the earth shall mourn (and they shall look upon him (the Light) whom they have rebelled against, and pierced.)  
That these things where Repentance unto life is truly witnessed, may not be laid to your charge, who yet sit in the habitations of cruelty and darkness, and I am with that which is the condemnation of the unjust, but is the life of the Just.  
Newgate, this 17. of the 8th, month, and 2. of the week. 1659. DANIEL BAKER.   

Something after to the Officers of the Army.  
Friends, in love to your souls and bodies is this, desiring you to call to Remembrance the many warnings which the Lord our God hath given by his servants to Protectors (so called) and to Parliaments, that they might escape his judgement, which (because of their hardheartedness, and carelessness towards God's Council) hath overtaken them at unawares. And unless ye repent, and turn to the measure of God's Grace, and do the things that are Right, ye shall not escape. The Righteous lives in everlasting peace, but the wicked are shut up in darkness, till the great and terrible day of our God, which is at hand; wherefore, whilst you have part of a day, prise it, and believe the warnings of the Lord to you, left ye also suffer.  
THE END.