A Few QUERIES TO SIMON FORD Priest at the Town of Northampton.  
By Daniel Wills.  
LONDON, Printed for Robert Wilson.   

A Few Queries to Simon Ford Priest at the Town of Northampton.  
SIMON FORD,  
I Hearing of thy late change, and of thy public Confession, before thy Congregation (whom thou hast formerly and still dost pretend, is at thy care, and that thou hast a charge over them from the Lord) moved me to write these Queries to thee, of which from thee I expect a speedy answer, either to the clearing of thyself, or else thy silence shall condemn, thee guilty before the Lord and thy Congregation: to as many of whom as I can I shall communicate the same.  
Whether it is the same God that hath given thee the charge over these People since thy change, as did before, yea or nay?  
Whether is it the same spirit that hath moved in thee, to take upon thee to read the Common Prayer to these People, whom thou pretendest to have a charge over, for the good of their souls: as moved thee to preach openly against it not long since, as many of thy hearers can testify, yea or nay?  
Whether that God whom thou worshippedst, (before thy now change) be the same God thou now worshippest, yea or nay?  
Whether thy belly be not thy God whom thou servest: and whether is it not for filthy Lucre thou now labourest, yea or nay?  
Whether thou hadst received the Holy Ghost before thy change, for the Office and Work of a Priest: or whether thou hast received it since, by the imposition of the Bishop's hands, yea or nay?  
Now if thou hadst not received the Holy Ghost before thy late change,  
Whether then do not some of those Curses belong unto thee, and are due upon thee, which thou art to read and pronounce to thy Congregation on the first day of Lent, according to thy late assent and consent made in public, before them, whom thou hast so blindly led, infomuch, they could not believe thou wouldst have deceived them, as thou hast door, although it was told to some of them long since, viz.  
Cursed is he that maketh the blind to go out of his way.  
Whether hast thou done this, yea or nay?  
Cursed is he that putteth his trust in man, and taketh man for his defence, and in his heart goeth from the Lord.  
Whether art thou guilty of this, yea or nay?  
Cursed are the unmerciful, Fornicators, and Adulterers, Covetous persons, Idolaters, Slanderers, Drunkards and Extortioners.  
Whether do not some of these fall weighty upon thine own head, yea or nay?  
Whether thou putst thy trust in man, or was it not for fear of man or for losing of that thou callest thy due, as the False Prophets of old did who preached for filthy lucre, that caused thee thus to change and deceive the people who so much put their trust in thee, answer yea or nay?  
Now if these Curses be due unto thee,  
Whether then hath the bishop (or any other) power to absolve or pardon thee, thereof: seeing thou hast taken upon thee to absolve and pardon others, as thou hast declared to thy Congregation in thy late acknowledgement, answer yea or nay?  
D'ANIEL WILLS.  
A Copy of these Queries were given into his own hand, by one of his hearers, on the 29. day of the sixth month, commonly called August, 1662. of which there hath been no answer.   

Some words of unfeigned Love, to all the  People in the said Town of Northampton or elsewhere, who are yet held in bondage under the changeable Priests of this Age.  
DEar People,  
since it hath been the good pleasure of the Almighty God to bring a day of Trial upon your Teacher, (whom you could not discern) would have so shamefully dealt concerning you his hearers, until God by his good pleasure hath manifested him and discovered his deceit, and laid him to your open view, with many others in this day in these Nations. O dear and tender People, whose hearts have been and are as yet made sad by the abominations of your Teacher, and his unexpected change; But this know every one of you, it is not enough for you to see your Teacher go aside from the right way of God; but it may well bring you to consider, whether ye ought not ●o come out from amongst such, and ●e separate fro● them, and not to touch the unclean thing, that the unchangeable God may receive you. Oh! let none rest there and say I can go after he hath read that which I do not like of; and if I come there before he hath done it, I will not regard it, I will keep my mind on other things. Oh! dear People how can this be well, where wil● be your Testimony that you bear for the Lord God, who gives you life and breath; and let none think to stand excused before the Righteous God by so doing, for thus you must expect, and it shall surely come to pass, that all who partake of the sins of the changeable Priests in this day, shall assuredly partake with them of their plagues: for so might the chree Children have said, it's but bowing our bodies to the Earth, we may keep our minds to God, and do this, and then shall we escape the wrath of the King, and our bodies will be preserved out of the hot fiery Furnace; but they consulted not with flesh and blood; but in true obedience to the Lord their God; and their faithful standing therein, though but the number three, how mightily did the Lord appear for the preservation of them in the fire, and also to the getting himself a name throughout the Kingdom; and some of you have said we had warning enough, we might have kept ourselves out of Prison, we might have forsaken the assembling of ourselves together for one day, and then it might be, we might have escaped these sufferings, as to be separated from our Families and outward employments, which thing we count of no value, for the sake of whom we suffer; but to the witness of God in your Consciences I desire such to turn and well consider whether they might not as well have said the same to Daniel when the Decree was given forth, that not any should call upon the Name of any other God, but the god who was set up for all people to worship in that day: but mind what Daniel did, when he heard the Decree was sealed unalterably, and he well knew by the same Decree he who called upon any other God for thirty days should be cast into the Den of Lions, yet notwithstanding he presently went and called upon the Name of his God with his window open, as he had usually done; so he was cast in: but God preserved him out of the Lion's mouths, and got himself a name greatly in that day thereby. So dear People mind the Saints and Prophets of old, who sought not to save their Goods nor Lands nor their lives, if the Lord called them to bear a Testimony therewith; but always freely sacrificed up to the Lord God that gave it them; and this is our God only and true, who is the same yesterday, to day and for ever, and he also requires the same faithfulness of his Children in this age, as he did in ages and generations past, even to give up all for a Testimony for his glorious Name, who, we well know is worthy for ever and ever; and we can truly say, he never required any thing of any of his, or to part with any thing for his Names sake, but he hath been ready always to attend with his strength, even so much that he makes the trial's easy: And I well know he is the same to all, who wholly put their trust in him; but mind this dear People, than you must Worship no other god besides him, neither Wife nor Children, Father nor Mother, House nor Land, Liberty nor Life; for which of these is delighted in more than the Lord God, are made Idols on, and so get the heart from the living God and adulterates it from his pure Presence, without which his Children in Ages past could not live, neither can his tender Ones in this Day; So pure, living, eternal Praises do we give to the God of our Salvation always, who hath set the door of his Mercies open, that whosoever will come, may come and drink of the Waters of Life freely without Money or without Price; So dear people, slight not this Day of God's Visitation, but return at the Reproof of the living God, who hath discovered mighty things unto you, and mind his Witness in your Consciences, and be truly obedient unto that when it secretly reproves you, when no outward eye seethe you, Oh! that is always near you, in your Beds that will plead with you, and into your secret Chambers this will follow you; Oh! dear People, it was the Saints desire in the days of old to keep their Consciences void of offence towards God (mind that) and towards men, the same is the desire of the Saints in these days, which makes them cheerfully willing to part with all for the great and glorious Name of God, and it is the desire of our Souls that you might drink of the same Fountain, and eat of the same Bread and no longer feed upon the Husks without, as the Prodigal did, but return inward whilst you have time, that you may find a sure hiding-place, even your lives to be hid with Christ in God; then, even then, and not till then shall you be hid from the wrath of the Lamb, which is surely a coming, and shall surely come upon all the workers of iniquity.  
By one who was forceably taken out of my own hired House, and by the Wills of the Magistrates of the said Town, was (contrary to any Law) by them committed to Prison; but they considering their unjust Action towards me, did the same day send for me from the Prison, who (in execution of their design) tendered me the Oath, and sent me back again, where I remain a present Sufferer for the Testimony of a pure Conscience.  
DANIEL WILLS.