Now hear this all ye persecuting RULERS, PRIESTS, AND MAGISTRATES Throughout the WORLD. 
The tree is known by it● fruits, so sai●● the Scripture as may appe●● by what Joh● Warerton ca●●ed a Justice 〈◊〉 peace, hath been long bearing and hath brought forth as may appear by these following lines.  Woe, woe, terror, terror, and fierce indignation from the Lord God, even the true Testimony written in this Book, by the Servant of the Lord Daniel Baker.  

T … is your just recompense from the righteous hand of the Lord even the equal portion of your Cup, which the farther you go on, in persecution, the deeper will this Cup be filled with the wrath and sore displeasure of the Lord God of recompense: And ye Priests, Magi●rates and Rulers of England, New-England, and Rome, who have Laws, made in the corrupt wills of Men, that were in the making of them out of God's fear, and not in that spirit and wisdom of God, that gave forth Scripture, and so unjust grounded Laws, by which the Pope's inquisition, is persecution to death, by fire, for the testimony of a good conscience. New-englands' Law, after banishment to be hanged to death; England's Law, men's wills, and imprisonment till death; for bearing testimony against corrupt Laws, and corrupt men's wills; Oh ye Magistracy and Ministry of England, and New-England, call not the Church of Rome Whore any more, like illbred children (all you that persecute) seeing you may read yourselves, and all that runs may read you, like Mother, like Daughters, in persecution, all Sons of the Bondwoman, seed of the Adulterer, and the Whore, who must all drink up this Cup of God's fierce indignation, and I say again the farther you go on, the deeper will it he filled to you, and it will be for you the more bitter to drink it; and all you Constables, Marshal and Servants to him Goale-keepers and Servants to them, I warn you all, in the fear and dread of the Lord God, take heed how any of you, or any man obey the command of any Magistrates, that do, or shall in their corrupt wills, or according to any corrupt Law, command you to serve them in persecuting the innocent, to hale them, without a just Order under their hand, and drag from their presence to Prison, without a just mittimus, or somewhat to show the crime to be just, for which you are commanded to do their command, and let Gaolers consider how they receive any into Prison, without a signifying from the Magistrate the crime laid against them, which is but reasonable, lest blind service be done by them, and so they be found Servants to the Devil, in doing what the corrupt wills of Men command them, which fear not God: and so all of you (who join with them, and lend a hand to them, in persecution) partake with them, in what is written in this Book, even the fierce and bitter Cup of God's just indignation.  
H. B.   

Now is the time of thy trial come oh John Warerton, who shalt most assuredly give an account before the throne of the Lamb, the light of the holy City, for all the deeds of darkness done in thy body, who art weighed in the equal balance of the true Sanctuary, and art found wanting, notwithstanding thou art called a member of a Church of Christ, who, I am certain never had, nor hath, at this day: such a corrupt, fruitless, unsavoury, dark, blind, wicked member pertaining to his most pure body which is the Church of the living God, the pillar and ground of truth: which thou art out of. And all sober people may behold where thou art, and hast been, exercising the power of darkness of the Beast and of the Whore that hath bewitched thee with her sorceries and made thee drunk that thou hast long time reeled and staggered and vomited up thine own shame through the open streets, thy stink and ill savour (behold I tell thee, is come up into the nostrils of the most pure Lord God of Sabbath, and the eternal eye comprehends thee, and all the fruitless and wild trees of the Forest the land of darkness and barrenness, the fire is already kindled, and woe to the stubble, the chaff, the vipers and serpents, the deaf venomous Adders, which in no wise would hear the voice of the Charmer, and can a fire be kindled among such venomous unclean creeping things, and will they not hisse make a noise and shoot forth their stings, surely it hath, and will be so, and who can expect to gather Grapes on Thorns or Figs, on Thistles (I know their expectations shall fail that do) a member of the true Church of Christ, or the Man of God, of truth, meek, and merciful, as a Ruler ought to be, and of sound Judgement, to show forth all long suffering, gentleness, meekness, sobriety, temperance, purity, moderation, brotherly kindness, love without dissimulation, or respect of Persons, and these and such like, are the fruits of the pure clean spirit of the Lord; but mine eye hath not yet beheld these fruits proceed from thee, but contrariwise bringing forth corrupt and unsavoury fruits, by which the poor and needy have been long time eppressed and burdened under which they have deeply sighed and groaned, chiefly upon the first days of the week, which thou, in thy blind dark zeal, hath often called the Sabbath, or Lords day, whose is every day, to the shame of thy dark Teachers, who have not yet taught thee to distinguish, between the days of the week and the Sabbath and so art found persecuting with the powers of darkness, them that fear the Lord and keep his Commandments, who said, six days shalt thou labour, and the seventh, the Sabbath which was given for a sign, to Israel, in the wilderness: where the Idolaters and Murmerers were destroyed and fell, before the Believers entered into the good Land of rest: and many shall fall after the same example, amongst whom thou art, who shalt give an account for every Loaf of Bread and ounce of Meat, Flower, and necessary Food and Raiment which the poor, the Widows and Fatherless have wanted, which thou through thy persecuting, oppressing, blind, wicked zeal on the first days of the Week hast so frequently taken from them without pity, compassion or mercy, which is all out of the way of God: whose ways are equal, and if any Man do the thing that is good, just, or equal, on the first day which is one of the six, which the Lord commanded Israel, saying, six days shalt thou labour, he doth well, and if the Lord command one thing, and blind persecuting Magidrates, and great Men of the Earth, make Laws and Decrees to command another thing, whether is it better to obey God or man, let such as fear, and desire to fear the God of truth, judge; and let every Man search with the light, his own heart, and so be fully persuaded in his own mind: see what Daniel in such a matter, and the three children did, Dan. 3.17.18. and Dan. 6. and I am sure it is very unreasonable and unequal oppression and cruelty for any one who bears the name, 
Read a Book entitled an Epistle to all the Christian Magistrates and powers in the whole Christendom; Sold at the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate; And another sheet entitled, the voice of thunder.  especially of a Christian Magistrate or Chris; tian, or of a member of a Church of Christ, to take food or raiment by force, tyranny and cruelty from the poor and needy, the Widows and Fatherless, after they have wrought hard for their bread; then to have their bread, food, and raiment, with violence, force, and cruelty, taken from them, without mercy, pity or compassion by thee; Oh John Warerton, how hard will it be for thee with many more that's in thy nature, to find repentance unto Life, for in these and such like cruelties hast thou long exercised thyself; now the everlasting light of life is springing up, and will shine over the whole Earth, and spread from Sea to Sea, for it comprehends the darkness, and fathoms the depths of Satan's wiles, his Laws and Decrees, and espieth out the turn and twine of the most subtle Serpents: and thou in any wise cannot be hid from this eye, the light; the Rod of whose mouth, will smite the Earth, the breath of whose Lips shall slay the wicked, who are as the troubled Sea that cannot rest; as thou did manifest thyself, the last first day in thy rage, and fury, without mercy, pity or compassion.  
To my wife and children: who are left as the widow, and father less I being cast into prison, (by unreasonable men) because of my testimony in obedience to the Lord, against the deeds of the world that lies in wickedness, for they are evil, and wicked, and the Lord is pleading with the inhabitants of the earth for these things and thy work, and place should have been, hadst thou been a man of God, (the last first day which thou calls the Sabbath) to be a terror to evil doers and brutish people that are with thee in Cain, Esau, Nimrod, and Ismaells life and nature, to have stilled and restrained them, from offering and doing violence against them that depart from evil by the fear of the Lord; but contrary wise, thou did as much as in thee lay, strengthen the hands of the wicked to make a prey of the innocent, that fear, and obey the pure spirit of the Lord, in doing the thing that's Just, Equal, and good in his sight; though the heathen rage, and persecute, and imagine vain things yet it shall go well with them that fear the Lord, who is, and is to be worshipped in spirit and in truth: out of which thou art, otherwise I say thou would not have so strengthened the hands of evil doers, in going about to ruinated my wife and family, who, I say was left as a widow and fatherless, by throwing one of my servants into prison, and putting the other in the stocks, and making (as it were a prey of my goods, and venting forth bitter wicked vile threaten and unsavoury words, as is thy usual manner so to do, not becoming a man, thou bearest the name of, but art not, speaking these words, of my wife, calling her Baker's Wench, and my Maid Baker's Imp, and of such sober people that could not do, nor act violence with the wicked, calling them Bakers Imps, and sometimes saying, I was a rogue, oftentimes telling people I was mad: and Baker thou wilt be in hell ere long, when I bid thee repent, fear God, and do justice, these, and such like unsound words, and filthy abominations acted by thee, which are for judgement, and to be condemned: came from thee, and the eternal eye and ear of the Lord hath seen and heard these things, and behold, the light of life is arising, who with the hand of his power, is coming near to judgement, with which he will plead with the oppressors, and the cause of the innocent suffering seed of Christ in the male and in the female. Yea he is arising (who comes not to send peace on the earth, but a sword.)  
Here folowtheth some particulars written in a mittimus under John Waterton's hand, who committed my servant Richard Taylor to new Bridewell, who performed the duty of his place, and trust, and honest fidelity about the space of half a year, and as the duty of a good servant is, hath performed his work the time of his being my servant, so that I have no evist thing to lay to his charge, and this I testify that he served under the command of Captain Whore in the service of the Commonwealth, immediately before: and since he came to be my servant who chiefly went through all my business in my honest employment for the maintenance of my Wife and Family, I being in bonds myself, and this my Servant by force taken out of my house and cast in to prison by John Warerton, called a Justice of peace, with the mittimus stuffed with lies slanders and reproaches.  
As the moderate reader may read and understand.  
MIDDLESEX.  
To the Governors of the house of correction.  
These are in the names of the keepers of the libertyes of England, etc. To receive into your custody the body of Richard Tailer being a dissolute and disorderly person and cannot give any good account of his living nor whence he came.  
Now herein be it known to thee. John Warerton that thou hast much abused, belied, and falsely accused the poor man, who did and yet may testify to thy face that he was my servant, and that he had been so long with me as above mentioned about half a year: and this was a good account of his living I bear reccord also, though thou have caused such lies and standers to be written under thy hand of the poor man my servant, and moreover he told thee concerning his name where it was to be found in the muster rolls, and also told thee his name, and when James Brock asked John Warerton why he put my servant in prison, his answer was because he would do it, than James Brock asked if this were an answer beseeming a Christian, much more a Christian Magistrate, and he said twice it is good enough for thee.  
And thou telling people (concerning the people of the Lord) who worship him in spirit 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 said so, but in the fear of the Lord in the behalf of his innocent suffering people, behold I testify that it is utterly false, and these unclean wicked ahominations is hated, abhorred, and utterly denied by us. A●d moreover John Warerton, thou saidst to Jeffery Winchurst when he said to thee, that it was better to suppress the Alehouses which were so many, and the cause of much sin in the land, than thou told him, it was long of him, and he answered thee, it was long of thee, and other Justices that did grant them Licences, next day thou told J. W. That thou would indite him to the Sessions for denying to put my maid in the stocks, though J. W. were not then there in thy presence: and thou may remember that thou said, if thou were a thief thou wouldst rob the Quakers rather than any other, as thou passed the fields with him to Stepny steeplehouse and its manifest what was in thy heart, was it not fulfilled last first day of the week, when thou commanded two Men to take my goods out of my shop, and hast not yet restored it again, which was about a bushill of flower, and it's written, the thief should restore fore-fold, or be sold for his theft, and I would not have the thief hanged, 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 Moses spirit in the Scriptures of truth, and the Apostles doctrine, who said let him that hath stolen steal no more, and I would not have any hanged for stealing on the first day or any other day, as the Mayor and some Aldermen of the City of London can testify, for I am a friend to Moses, Christ, the Prophets, and Apostles spirit. O man what will be thy end, for surely these things will lie heavy upon thy conscience when the hand of the Lord visits.  
And the reason thou gives, in thy lying Mittimus of my Servants commitment was for assisting silly women to keep open my shop on the Lord's day, but art not thou in the night, in the darkness, and is not the light good, and is not that which is good called day: and is not the first day of the week a good day, and so is every day, whose is the Lords, that made them, and tell me which day I shall open my shop that is not the Lords day.  
And whereas thou calls them silly women, whom thou saidst my servant did assist, I tell thee again, thou hast falsely accused the innocent, and they are not silly women, for they have learned of Christ the light, the Lord of the Sabbath, the substance that ends the signs to come out of the shadows and likenesses, and thou may read in the Scriptures that they are silly women that are laden with sins, led away with divers lusts, ever learning, etc. 2 Tim. 3. chap.  
The thorny briery and unsavoury professors of the Prophet's good words may read themselves, who are so proud, haughty, and scornful in their costly array, and changeable suits of apparel, being at ease in the flesh, whose minds are led captive after every lust, and vanity, and so become defiled and hardened, walking haughtily with stretched forth necks, the spirit of envy exercising their minds, with such scornful eyes, that they can hardly tell how to look one another in the face without disdain, not knowing a bridle to their own tongues, nor like to Sarah's adorning within, which will bridle the whole course of the proud rebellious nature, and I say this is not liked nor believed in by these which serve the Lusts, Pride, Vanity, Pleasures which are of the world, and not of the Father of truth, and yet such are called Christians, members of Churches, and of the body of Christ (the light, the la … 〈…〉 … fore whose throne such shall assuredly give an account, and 〈…〉 also tell thee, such are silly women, and they are not so, who learn of Christ whom thou hast falsely accused and freequently vented forth bitter lying reproaches against them, which I say again, Will lie heavy upon thy conscience, when the Lords hand visits, from which in any wise thou canst not fly, nor hid.  
Though thou say he refused to tell his name yet thou knew it and did express it in thy mittimus, and also to make him odious with thy enmity, thou hast caused to be written in thy lying mittimus these lying reproachful words, saying he appeareth before me to be a dangerous suspicious person of idle life, and this I testify for the poor man my servant to thy face, which will stand upon thy head that this is evil, and wickedly false, and many people and neighbours about my dwelling house can bring in their record, and bear testimony with me against thee; and the Lords eternal witness in thy conscience will also bear a true testimony, and judge thee for these, and many other abominations acted by thee, against me, my wife and family from time to time, and behold this I tell thee, the Lord knows my heart, I desire these things I have written, might not be laid to thy charge, at the time when if happily thou may find a place of repentance unto life.  
D. B. Poultry Counter, the inner prison, the 1. 9th. month 2. day of the week. 1659.  
THE END.    

Printed for M. W. 1659.