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id: A77974
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
title: We the servants and faithfull witnesses of the most high God ...
date: 1655
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  2008-07 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2008-07 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2008-08 John Pas Sampled and proofread 2008-08 John Pas Text and markup reviewed and edited 2008-09 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion WE the Servants and faithfull Witnesses of the most high God , called and Chosen of him , and Redeemed out of Nations , Kindreds , Tongues , and People ; who are Ministers of the word of Life and Reconciliation ; and Messengers of glad tidings , and salvation unto Captive and weary Soules ; ( our glorying is only in the Lord , and not in our selves ) who are by the world in scorn called Quakers ; who are at this present in outward Bonds for the testimony of Jesus Christ : in Dublin ; and who have been in the labour and Travell of the Gospell of God this six moneths and upward , in the Nation of Jreland according to the will of God ordained here unto ; and moved and Commanded by his Eternal Spirit , into this his worke for the seeds sake which is not of this World , to the gathering of it into the fold of everlasting Peace ; & to the clearing of the Lord from the Blood of his Enemies , that they may be lest without excuse , by his powerfull word given unto Us and uttered by Us , ( and herein we are a good savour to God both in them that perish , & in them that beleeve ) and for this cause have we denied our dearest and nearest Relations ; and loves not our lives unto Death , that our testimony we may finish , which is Committed to Us of the Lord , and because of this are we Labourers under many burthens , & Travellers in many afflictions , and sufferings , and are abundantly reproached , and our Lords truth of which we bear witnes , greatly Infamed by many Slandering and Backbiting Tongues ; espetially by the Thachers and Professed Ministers in the eares of their People and Hearers ; slandering Us with being Jesuits , and Deceivers , and Seducers , and Heriticks , and Blasphemers , and Witches and such like : and we of those false accusations being clear , and our Lords truth ( the testimony which we hold ) wholy Innocent ; and are wiling to be tried and proved , & made manifest to the Inhabitants of this City & Nation , in the sight of God ; this therefore are we moved to give forth ; & hereby in the Name of our Liveing eternal God ; of Heaven , and Earth ( whom we serve , & worship in that way which is called Herisie ) doe send it abroad , as a Challenge to all you Teachers , and pretended Ministers , of what sort & form so-ever , and to all you People whom it may really Conscerne ; and especially to all you , in the City of Dublin , & places else where in Jreland to whom this may come . That you meet Us , in the City of Dublin , at some publique place at a convenient time appointed by you ; at which place & time , if the Lord permit , ( by the permission of the Counsel of Jreland whose Prisoners we are ) we shall you meet then , and there to have a faier and sober dispute , in the presence of all people , who may desire to be Informed or satisfied concerning Us , and You , in these things whereof you can accuse Us , and also of those things , by way of sober Questions , which we have to propound to You , not for any end to our selves , nor to set up a Kingdome of our own , God is our witnes , but that the way of our God may be made manifest , and all deceit , and error Discovered , and all People may be informed the way to Salvation , and as you are true to your God and will answer for him ; and are willing to be made manifest in your way of Worship , and Doctrin , and Ministry , You are not to neglect ; but here-in to answer our Desires , and the Desires of many hundreds ; that you and we may be made manifest in the sight of God , to all mens Consciences , who are in truth and who are in error : That shame and Condemnation may come upon the guilty , & Truth may be exalted over all Deceit .


id: A30540
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1660
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title:
  A seasonable word of advice unto all that are or may through the subtlety of the enemy, backslide from the truth Edward Burroughs.

summary:
  Friends , all you to whom the word of the Lord came , and unto whom the way of truth was made manifest , hear and consider how great hath the love of the Father been unto you , how many and ●nfinite hath been his mercies from day to day ; often visiting you ●●th his power , and with his presence , yea when you sate in darknesse 〈◊〉 in the shadow of death , his merveilous light appeared unto you ; ●●d when you were held captive in the Covenant of sinne and death , he stretched forth his hand to redeem you , he loved you while you ●●ew him not ; and he brought deliverance out of a strange Land , wh●●● yee were strayed among devourers , and scattered as sheep with●●t a Shepheard , yea when yee were dead in transgressions , he sa●● unto you live , and he bound you up , when no eye pitied you , ●●en when you were enemies to him ; walking in the vanities of yo●● own hearts , and knew not him that lives for ever , who had 〈◊〉 sought of you , but not found , in the very day he sent to visi●●ou , with his everlasting Gospel of Peace and Truth , to ga●●er you unto himself ( I am a witnesse ) and he caused his powerful voice to be heard , and his name to be published among you , ●●d his truth was declared in the demonstration of the Spirit , and the Power of the Lord was made manifest in you , to the bringing ●f you from darknesse to light , and from death , which had reigned ●●er you , to know a measure of the life of God ; yea the way ●f Life eternal was set before you , that you might not perish , but 〈◊〉 , and his witnesse in you all , which is but one , the Word of the Lord reached unto , by the mouth of his servants , to the reveal●●● sinne , and judging it by his righteous Law set up in your ●earts , causing his terrour to be known among you , and his judgem●nts reached your hearts ; and in that day beautiful was his pre●ence unto you , and precious was his truth among you , in your first ●●ve , and his light and power ; and the knowledge of his wayes ●ere pleasant to you , and the seed of the Kingdome of God you rec●●ved with joy , grew up in you , and you prospered at that day , ●nd the Lord loved you , and his presence was with you , as among h●● own children , whom he begate by his everlasting word , that ●ou should be a praise unto him for ever ; and then the fear of the 〈◊〉 , and his judgements were placed among you , and your ●earts were broken , and while you were of a hungering soul , and thirsty after the Lord , then was it well with you , and the day of peace dawned unto you , and the word of the Lord was swe●t unto you , and he was gladly received , that cometh in the name of the Lord :


id: A30521
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1667
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title:
  An epistle to friends of truth in and about London written by Edward Burroughs, in the year, 1661 ...

summary:
  And now , dearly beloved , as by the free grace and kindness of God ye are called unto this calling , and are renewed and changed into the life of Righteousness ; so it is by the same grace and power of the Father , that ye must stand and be preserved unto the end ; for by grace and faith we all stand , even through diligence , faithfulness , and watchfulness in the same grace , being obedient to its teachings , and fruitful in its motions , and walking by its rule , in meekness and lowliness of heart , in sincerity and godly fear , not being or doing any thing of our selves , distinct or divided from this grace , but being and doing all things , through the grace of God dwelling in us , and this is the highest perfection of Saints ; every ones highest state admits of watchfulness , and faithfulness , and obedience , and to hearken to the Lord , and do his will in all things ; and whatsoever is of our selves , and related to the outward world , may be kept in subjection by his power , that he alone may rule and be exalted in Heaven and Earth , and in all things , what we are , and what we do : And wait upon the Lord that ye may be established , and setled in the Truth , and that ye may be confirmed therein for ever , as being natural heirs of the possession of Grace and Truth , to do , and walk , and live according to his will , being so inherited , never to go forth any more , and able to say , Nothing can separate us from the Love of God ; not Death , nor Life , nor any other thing : For I would put you in mind , and ye also know it , how that many have been touched in their hearts with the sence of the Lord , and his Love , yea , and many have enjoyed of the good gift of God , and walked with us for a time , that have not remained unto the end , but have started aside from the Lord , and been overcome with the temptations of this world , even to the forsaking of the way of Truth and Righteousness , and such have dishonoured the Lord , and forfeited their peace and inheritance in God , and become hardned in their hearts , and dead to God , and the latter end of such hath been worse than their begining ; though yet for a time such walked with us , and tasted of the good gifts of God , yet are become reprobate , because their hearts have not been firm , and constant , and sound , and approved to God , but of an evil frame and temper of spirit ; ambitious , vain-glorious , self-seeking , and such like , which Spirit could not retain the gift of God , but abused it and perverted it from its proper end . And let the Just God bear witness of that faithfulness , and integrity and sincerity of heart , in which he hath carried me amongst you , while many pretious dayes I have passed away with you , and have not sought yours but you , nor do I desire ought concerning you , but your faithfulness to the Lord , and your growth and establishment in the wisdom of Christ Jesus , and that blessings and peace may ever rest with you .


id: A30535
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
title: A message to all kings and rulers in Christendom
date: 1659
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summary:
  FOrasmuch as it hath come to passe in the World for many Ages since the last glorious appearance of Christ Jesus , and the light of his glorious Gospel , through his Servants the holy Apostles , That Antichrist , that man of sin , the enemy of Christ and his Kingdom , hath ruled in the hearts of people , and throughout & over the Christian World , and he hath been exalted within and without , ever since the falling away from the true faith , which once was delivered to the Apostles and true Churches , and he hath shewed himselfe to be God , and hath sitten in the seat of God , and hath exercised Lordship over the persons and consciences of men , throughout generations , ever since the falling away from the faith ; for the true Church , the elected Spouse , the Lambs Wife , which once brought forth him that was to Rule the Nations , and was clothed with the Sun , and had once great beauty and excellency , hath been fled into the Wildernesse , and hath been desolate as without Husband and Issue ; but hath remained in her place , prepared her of God , where she hath dwelt in mourning , and been fed with the bread of sorrow , being pursued thither by the dragon and his floods of cruelty , who also waited to devour the man childe when he was born , and the Martyrs blood hath been shed , and the holy Prophets , and Apostles and Saints , have been made war against , and killed & persecuted for righteousnesse sake , and the two witnesses have long laid slain and rejoyced over in the streets of the great City , and the blood of the Innocent hath been drunk , and the Lamb and his followers hath been made war against , and the dragon , the devil and Satan hath deceived the World , into the name of Christians , without true Christian life , and Righteousnesse and Truth hath stood afar off , and Justice and Mercy hath been wanting , and the fear of the Lord and true obedience to him hath been in a great measure expelled out of Nations , and even all that would not worship the Beast and his Images , and receive his mark , the Beast hath had Power to kill them , and he hath had power to execute his wrath against them that have followed the Lamb , even all this time of darknesse and Apostacy which hath over-shadowed the Christian World , since the Apostles dayes until this time ; And all this hath been since the falling away from the Life and Righteousnesse and Spirit of Jesus , as I have said , and the Beast hath been great that arose out of the Sea , and out of the Earth , ( when the true faith was lost ) and his power mighty amongst men , for he received power from the dragon , that made war against the true Church , and sought to devour the man childe , and power hath been given him over Kindreds Tongues and Nations , and all the World hath wondered and followed after the Beast , and have been admiring his power and his great authority , and saying , Who is able to make war with him , for hee hath had a mouth given that hath spoken great things , and it hath been given him to war with the Saints , and to overcome them by his unrighteous Laws and decrees , and all that dwelt upon the earth hath worshipped him , whose names are not written in the book of Life , and he hath had many heads , ( even divers sorts and changes of government ) and many horns , with which he hath pushed the Innocent , and ruled over the earth , and kept all under his power , and he hath set up Images to worship and likenesses without life , and he hath caused both small and great , rich and poor , free and bond , to receive his mark , and he hath carried the Whore , and she hath journeyed upon him from Nation to Nation through the earth , in the sheeps clothing , and made all Nations drink her cup of fornications , and the whore , that false Church , she hath sate as a Queen , in great state and authority upon Nations , Tongues , Multitudes and Peoples , and through the Beasts authority , which hath carried her , she hath Ruled in great authority over the consciences , persons and estates of people , and she hath drunk the Saints blood , and the Martyrs blood , and in her is found even until this day the blood of the Martyrs and the Prophets , and of just men , and of all that hath been slain upon the earth , and she hath exercised cruelty and tyranny over the heritage of God , and she hath had the sheeps clothing upon her , even part of the garment of the Lambs Wife , and she hath appeared in much beauty with a golden cup in her hand , in which the wine of her fornications , and the filthinesse thereof hath appeared , and which she hath caused the Nations to drink , and by her sorceries and witchcrafts she hath deceived the World , and with her false miracles , and shews and Images and false ministers which she hath set up , she hath corrupted the earth , and all this she hath done by the Beasts power , that hath carried her , who received his authority from the dragon , and from the devil ; and thus Antichrist , the Beast and the Whore have ruled in the World in great authority for many generations , and the World hath been as a wildernesse by them , and waste , and barren of all good fruit , truth and faith hath been departed from amongst men , and love and peace hath been far away , and murders , thefts , wars , strifes and all injustice and wickednesse hath abounded in Nations , and thus the whole earth hath been corrupted through the Whore and false Church , who hath deceived Kings and Rulers and Peoples by her inchantments and sorceries , which she hath caused them to receive at her hand , and out of her golden cup of abominations , out of which they have drunk false doctrines and practises to the deceiving of their soules and bodies ; But now the day of the Lord is come and coming , and the Lambs Kingdom is to be set up , and the Kingdoms of this world must be changed and recovered again , and will become the Kingdoms of the Lord , and of his Christ , and the marriage of the Lamb is come again , and the day of glad tydings unto the poor and to the distressed , and the Lambs wife , shal be adorned for her husband , she shall be cloathed with the Sun , and shall be covered with her former beauty , and shall be led out of the Wilderness , and the earth shall be refreshed and delivered from the oppressions and Tyrannies of Antichrist and the Whore , for the hour of her judgements are come , and the darknesse of the night of woful Apostacy which hath clouded the World is passing over , and the light of the Lamb is risen , and the day-star hath appeared in the hearts of people , and the man of sin which hath sate in the Temple , and shewed himself to be God , and falsly exercised the bodies and consciences of deceived people in false wayes and worships , is discovering and destroying by the spirit of his mouth , and by the brightnesse of the coming of Jesus , and the Beast and the false Prophet shall be taken alive and cast into the lake of fire , and the Beast and false prophet shall be tormented day and night for ever , for the breath of life from God is entered into the two witnesses , and they shall again prophesie , and the light of the glorious Gospel that hath long been hid , must again be preached to Kindreds Tongues and Nations , and the Kingdom of Christ Jesus must be set up , and these things is the Lord God Almighty bringing to passe , and he will confound and destroy Antichrist and all that have worshiped him , and they that have worshiped the Beast , and drunken the cup of fornication , and committed idolatry with the great Whore , they shall be taken and cast into the bed of torment , and shall weep and howl , because of the great destruction of Babylon that great City who hath been the glory of Kingdoms , and made rich her Merchants ( the false Ministers ) with deceivablenes , whom God will overthrow ; that great fenced City of confusion ( the false Church ) that great Whore , the Mother of all abominations , the Lord God is risen against her , to enquire for the blood of Martyres , and Prophets , and righteous men , that is found in her , and she shall be rewarded according to her wayes , and as she hath given others to drink the cup of fornication , so in like manner shal she drink the cup of fierceindignation of the Lords wrath from his Saints , and she shall no more deceive the Nations by her sorceries , but the earth shall be delivered from her , and the Kingdom of the Son of God shall be exalted over all , and the light of the Lamb shall be the Light of all Nations , and all that are saved shall walk in the light of it , and truth shall reign , and the fruit of righteousnesse shall abound , and all people shall glorifie God their Maker , and the whole earth shall be refreshed with the mercy of him that made her . not for man , upon which dependeth the happinesse and welbeing of a Nation and Nations , and their Rulers , and on the contrary dependeth their overthrow and destruction , and this will speedily be brought to passe ; wherefore come out of Babylon , and deliver your selves from that bondage wherewith the false Church hath bound you , she hath caused you to drink her cup , and you have been made drunk with her false faith , and doctrines and practises ; and ye have compelled Nations to drink the same cup of abominations , and ye have executed cruelty and injustice upon all that would not , and ye have been servants to the great Whore , and being in bondage your selves , you have brought all in bondage under you ; but now the Lord is changing times , and things , and powers , and happy are you if ye deliver your selves , and let the oppressed go free , in so doing , if ye fulfil this my request , and do the will of the Lord herein , then blessings and peace eternal ; but if ye be disobedient , and take part continually with the Whore , ye shall partake of her judgements ; And this hath the Lord spoken to you , and in the day of vengeance ye shall confesse that you are warned , By a Friend to the whole Creation , that waits for the Redemption thereof , Edward Burrough .


id: A30527
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1661
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title:
  A hue and cry after the false prophets and deceivers of our age and a discovery of them by their works and fruits and who they are in this age that follow the same spirit, and act the same things as did the false prophets in former generations.

summary:
  Users should bear in mind that in all likelihood such instances will never have been looked at by a TCP editor. A hue and cry after the false prophets and deceivers of our age and a discovery of them by their works and fruits and who they are in this age that follow the same spirit, and act the same things as did the false prophets in former generations.


id: A30547
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1658
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words: 3668
sentence: 59
flesch: 37
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title:
  A testimony against a great idolatry committed and a true mourning of the Lords servant upon the many considerations of his heart upon that occasion ... / by E.B.

summary:
  Are people running after Images again , as in the time of Popery ? And have they made an Image , and deckt it with costly array , and set it up for people to visit a long time , and then haling it from place to place ? Are they doing this in London , as they do at Rome amongst Papists ? But upon another consideration , I said this is come to pass after this manner , though he was once zealous against all popery , yet he did too much forgett that good cause , and too much sought the greatness and honor of the World , and loved the praise of men , and took flattering titles and vain respects of deceitful men , and many great abominations were upheld through him , as tythes , and old mass-houses , and ordaining of ministers by mans will , and the false worships , and sprinkling of infants , and such like popish stuff first invented at Rom● ; and he suffered the servants of the Lord to be persecuted , and imprisoned , for denying and crying against such things as were popish , and which himself sometime seemed to deny , and because of this , said I , this may justly be come to pass , that an Idolatrous Image and Picture , should be made of him when he is dead , and decked , and laid in a sumptuous manner , and visited , and then carried from place to place , ( as was usuall in the time of popery ) for multitudes of foolish people to gaze upon , and wonder after , and admire , and praise ; that all men might see the first cause is lost , and that zeale which his kindred and army had once in their hearts against popery is extinguished , and people are turned again to gaze after Images , which is popish ; for such practises that day between Somersett-house and Westminster were first ordained at Rome , and practised by the papists ; and he that suffered many to be imprisoned , for denying and crying against such worships and practises as were in themselves Popish ; and which he himself once fought against ▪ it 's happened now when he is dead , and it s suffered that they should make a fool of him in a popish way and manner , for such practises is no other then foolery and foolishness , tending to the dishoner of a good man ; but in the midest of my considerations , a pitty struck through me for once noble Oliver that is now dead , and his place no more found , and I was greived he should be thus abused being dead , by such stir about an Image made of him , for many weeks together as hath been , and I began to recall my former acquaintance with him , and the former dealings of God towards him , and what a gallant instrument for the Lord he once was , and how many glorious and noble victories , God once gave him , and what good parts , and what a gallant spirit there was in him , and how once he shewed me , and declared what the former dealings of the Lord had been upon his soul , and how he was troubled in conscience formerly , and my spirit run through many such things , with a great deal of seriousness & pitty ; & then said I alas !


id: A30552
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1659
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 4575
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title:
  To the rulers and to such as are in authority a true and faithful testimony concerning religion, and the establishment thereof, and how it may be established in persons and in nations / by Edward Burrough.

summary:
  Oh blind and ignorant men ! this is a shame unto you , how manie thousands of thousand pounds have the Priests had out of this Nation for teaching religion , & preaching to people , & yet the nation remains unsetled in religion and they are beging to the powers of the Earth , to constrain & compel a settlement of Religion , and this shames them , and shews that they are they that Paul speakes of , and that the people of this nation are them that are ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth , though you have been long learning , you are unsetled , and are not come to the knowledge of the truth : but had these Priests been such that were sent of the Lord , through their ministry would the nations long since have been setled in Religion , for they have been teachers long enough , and put the Nation to charge great enough , that people might have known ere this day the holy annointing to dwell in them , and to teach them , and to settle them in Religion , but it is manifest that they have ran and not been sent , but left peoples and nations unsetled as the waters , notwithstanding , all their preaching , and ministry for so many years , yet it seemes there wants still a settlement in Religion , and seeing their preaching hath had no effect to doe it , but their Ministry hath been all in vain , and people are not learned in Religion , nor yet established therein , whereby their Ministry is proved not to be Christs Ministry ( for the Apostles did setle people , and the Churches in Religion , which theirs hath done no such thing ) & therefore it is that the powers of the Earth are called to , that they may force by violence and by violent Laws , that by that means a worship and Religion may be setled as they say ; and their Ministry hath not drawn people by love , and therefore would they have people forced and compelled to be of such or such Religion but this is not Christs way , nor the way that his Apostles and true Churches were in ; for the spirit of the Father led each one of them , to be Religious , and that same spirit setled and established them in it , and not external Laws nor powers of the Earth , but that was Antichrists way , and the beasts and the false Prophets way , for when they had killed the Saints , and slain true Religion , then the beast and false prophets they established a Religion or worship by outward Lawes ; and it s written , that he caused and compelled all , both small and great , bond and free , to worship the beast and his image ; and here was a setled people in a Religion and worship by an outward compelling power . And thus it was then and is now the same , false Churches and false Religions are setled by an outward Authority ; and it was Nebuchadnezzar and his wicked Princes that setled a Religion or worship by an outward power & by an earthly authority , but that was not the worship of true Religion , but was the worship of Antichrist , and so it hath been for ages ; that worship that is setled , and that Religion which is established by an outward external power and the Lawes of men , is but the worship of Antichrist , and not the true Religion , nor the worship of the living God , which is in spirit and in truth , but it must all be overthrown and brought to nought , both that Religion and worship that is out of the spirit , and that power that upholds it , and now the Lord God is risen to confound the thoughts of mens hearts , and he alone will setle and establish Religion by his own power and by his own Law , and through his own Ministry , and as people comes to that of God in them , to feel the Spirit and power of the Lord God to change them ; hereby will every one particularly be setled in Religion , and by no other way nor means ; and this I know from the Lord .


id: A30546
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1661
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
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sentence: 77
flesch: 27
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title:
  A tender salutation of perfect love unto the elect of God the royal seed, the saints of the most high, who have believed the testimony of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and walks in the light that hath enlightened every man that comes into the world.

summary:
  A tender salutation of perfect love unto the elect of God the royal seed, the saints of the most high, who have believed the testimony of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and walks in the light that hath enlightened every man that comes into the world. A tender salutation of perfect love unto the elect of God the royal seed, the saints of the most high, who have believed the testimony of Our Lord Jesus Christ, and walks in the light that hath enlightened every man that comes into the world.


id: A28148
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1665
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title:
  A certaine sound, or, An alarm sounded to the persecuting episcopalians in and about the cities of London & Westminster those bloody cities in many whoredoms, and to the rest of that sect throughout the nations who prophanely, bloodily, or maliciously now have, or heretofore have had any hand in persecuting the innocent servants and prophets of the most high, for the exercise of their pure conscience to the Lord God their creator.

summary:
  Now if you be men , and would be deemed in any measure rational to posterity , for what you do , & have done against us , positively declare what 's the evil these People called Quakers , as a people , have done , or if you have ought against them but for their worshipping the living God of Heaven and Earth , in Spirit , Truth , and Righteousness : nay farther , if they have left undone any thing that they ought to have done ; in the Spirit of God , and according to the Scriptures of Truth , make it appear : for our souls delight to be , and are subject to the higher , or highest power : and in my heart I intend most willingly , and for conscience sake , actively to be obedient to every Ordinance of man , which is , or shall be made for the Lords sake ; I say , by plain Scripture , command of Jesus our Lord , or pure example from his holy Apostles , detect our principle and practice if you can ; and without supposition or false allegation , orderly set forth to the world what detriment we have brought upon the good People of these Nations , since it pleased the Lord first to raise us up therein ; and also what the evil is that we have done you , who have thus spilt and drank our blood without Mercy . And have you not heard , and every since we were a People , we have carried our Lives in our hands ? And is it not manifestly seen and known to all men now living in these Nations , who are not wilfully blind , that through the God of our Life that strengthens us , we have not valued our Liberties , outward Estates , Preferments , even Lives and all , to the death , in comparison of our Faithful Testimony for Gods immortal and most glorious Truth , before you , that now are , were in outward Power ? And have we not in this your day of thrice woful and heavy Persecution , again and again confirmed and sealed this our Testimony with our blood , and the purely offering up of all that hath been near and dear unto us as men ? And is there not so much as one considerate considerable Gamaliel among you , to consider these things ? However , let not the prophane , so much as think in their dark sensuality , who were never known of themselves , to conquer any thing , but themselves with Drink , Whordoms , Violences , Oathes , and such like Bestialities , to overcome us who believe and walk in the Light , who have taken up the Cross of Christ Jesus for our Armour , in which we sensibly feel the power of God leading to , and surrounding us in his salvation .


id: A30523
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1659
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txt: txt/A30523.txt
title:
  A faithful testimony concerning the true worship of God what it is in it self, and who are the true vvorshippers : in opposition to all the false worship in this nation, which is idolatry, which is discovered in its foundation, and in its manifestation, not to be ever commanded of God, or practised by his apostles and saints, but it is declared to consist chiefly of such things and practises as had their first beginning and ordination in the Church of Rome ... and this is written for a general good to all such as are worshipping in temples made with hands / by E.B.

summary:
  A faithful Testimony concerning the true Worship of God , what it is in it self , and who are the true Worshippers , &c. FOrasmuch as there is in the world a great controversie among people concerning the Worship of God , one crying , This is the right Worshp : Another , That is the right Worship ; and People in these Nations are divided about the Worship of God , and divers one from another in their performances and practices of Worship , one sort worshipping after this manner , another after that , and there is great strife through the whole Nation about this matter , and a great dis-satisfaction among people , which is the right Worship , and who are the right Worshippers , and thousands are desiring after the right Worship of God , and to become Worshippers of him as he requires : Therefore now it is upon me to shew unto all the World what the true Worship of God is in it self , and who are his true Worshippers . But however though something there may be altered , and changed , and converted to another use , and something taken away , and other inventions brought in , instead thereof , yet still they are the same Houses which you worship your God in , which Houses were set up by the Authority of the Pope , and there remains yet the Popes sign and symptome of the Romish Church upon them ; and these Houses you call your Churches , and thousand of thousands of blind ignorant people esteeming and respecting in their minds of these places more then of any other , supposing them to be more holy and that other places are not so good to worship in ; alas poor , blind , ignorant people , that deceives your own souls in the traditions & inventions of man , which you live in the practise of , supposing it to be the very Worship of God , which is no other in it self but Idolatry , and you Idolaters ; for doth not all unconverted people , and unrighteous people , such who are not taught of the Lord , nor led by his Spirit , but daylie rushes into iniquity , and into evil , are not such found Worshippers here in Steeplehouses , conforming themselves to these things , and these practises ? And can such worship God ? Or is God worshipped by such ? I tell you nay , the Lord God is pure , and they that worship him , must be sanctified , and led by his Spirit which leadeth into all truth :


id: A30512
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1662
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 6520
sentence: 145
flesch: 51
cache: cache/A30512.xml
txt: txt/A30512.txt
title:
  The case of the people called Quakers (once more) stated, and published to the world with the accusations charged upon them, and their answers.

summary:
  But we are Judged Just , and our Case not condemned by the Law of God , and Gospel of Christ , and by the holy Scriptures , but rather such as inflict Sufferings upon us : And for any of our Principles and Doctrines that we hold , we deserve no punishment nor Persecution , because hereof ; for we testify before God , Angels and Men , That we hold and maintain , no Principles of Religion , nor Practice of Worship , nor Doctrines of Gospel , but what are according to Scriptures of Truth . Secondly , Though we do disobey Laws , and cannot actively obey every Law of man , when it requireth and commandeth things contrary to a good Conscience ; yet herein also we are Iustified , by the Law of God , Example of Saints and holy Scriptures , and they give Iudgment for us , and consequently against our enemies in this case ; and in particular in the two examples before-mentioned in Daniel , the three children were expresly commanded to fall down and worship the golden Image ; and Daniel was also required by the Kings decree , not to pray to any God or man , save to King Darius ; yet all these holy men of God , did absolutely disobey the Law and Decree , so requiring of them , and did contrary to the commandment : for the three children did not bow , nor Daniel cease to pray to his God , but prayed as at other times , and yet were Iustified of God in so doing .


id: A30541
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1659
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 6843
sentence: 69
flesch: 0
cache: cache/A30541.xml
txt: txt/A30541.txt
title:
  Some false principles and errors discovered and refuted in a short answer to a catechism book, which is said to contain the principles of religion, put forth by a namelesse authour, but is supposed to be the work of one Samuel Eaton ... but upon true examination he is found to be teaching the traditions of men for the commandments of Christ ... / by E.B.

summary:
  And thus I have examined some part of thy principles of Religion which thou hast put forth into the world , for others to learn ; and the error and falsness of them is laid open , and how contrary to the Scriptures they are , and in haste as it were , I have passed over it , not willing to rake into things which gave no just occasion against truth ; but have onely confuted a few of thy many particulars ; which had I narrowly sought into other things , much unsoundness would have been discovered ; but what I have said is truly sufficient to discover unto sober persons , the error of thy judgement , and of thy principles and practices , and of thy whole Religion ; and before ever thou be a true instructor of others in the way , thou must first repent and believe , and learn the way thy self , which yet thou are ignorant of ; for thou hast shewed no knowledge but what is sensual and devilish , and from below , and meerly carnal , and natural ; and meeting with thy book , and enquiring what the Author was , I was engaged to say something to it by way of Answer , and to lay it to the line of judgement according to the Scriptures ; and it hath proved very guilty of error , and perverting Scriptures , and of corrupt principles ; and in justice I could not but condemn it , and if thou shall receive the conviction of thy error , and of thy false doctrines by my answer , and repent , it shall prove to thy good ; but if thou shalt be stiff-necked , and harden thy heart , then shall thy condemnation be the greater and thy Judgement the more just ; because God hath warned thee , and given thee a day of visitation , and shewed thee the error of thy wayes and judgement that thou mightest forsake thy transgressions , and be converted and live ; but whether thou shalt harden thy heart and remain in error , or repent or turn from it ; my reward is with the Lord , and in him I have peace in this matter ; whatsoever , thy mind shall be towards me in my work ; for I stand not to mans judgement while I cannot be convinced of error in this business , and if thou shalt envy me , and have wrath in thy heart towards me , because I have dealt to plainly with thee in reproving of thee ; then thou wilt but add to thy own sin , and add more wrath up in store against thy self against the time of thy judgement , and a greater burden will lie upon thy conscience ; wherefore consider of these things and let not the day of thy visitation passe over , and be shut up with the night of darkness , and thou be everlastingly condemned ; And if thou shalt vindicate thy own false principles , by answering to me again ; thinking to clear thy self , and to reprove me , that will not prove thy best way because thou wants the truth and righteousness to stand by thee ; and to appear bold in a bad cause , will shew more wickedness , then sign of repentance ; and if thou do answer a sound reply will further unfold the misterie of iniquitie that lyes hid in thee , and be thy greater shame ; And as for thee and all the false Ministers , God hath discovered you , and you are made bare and naked , and the false woman the Whore , your mother , her shame is discovered and her judgement is come , and God is avenging us on her , and great Babylon is now come into remembrance before the Lord , to bring her down to the ground , and you have long made a prey upon the heritage of the Lord , and been spoilers thereof , rather then builders of her breach , and she hath been troden down , and not pittied by you ; and as for your poor ignorant hearers they lie in thick darkness , and loves to have it so ; and the blind hath led the blind , and yet the light is arising out of thick darkness , and its appearance shall be glorious to expell all your errors , and that mist of darkness that doth now cover them , and this light shall arise in mens consciences , which shall discover the difference between every false , and the right way ; and all that take heed to the light shall no longer sit in darkness nor in the shadow of death , but their steps shall be directed in a perfect way ; and the glory of the Lord shall shine forth upon them , and this will the Lord bring to pass , and hasten his work , and cut it short in righteousness , for his elects sake . THe wayes of the Lord are equall and just , but the wayes of the Sons of Adam are altogether corrupted , and different and contrary to the wayes of Salvation ; And the wisedome that is of this world is foolishness with God , and its end is destruction to it self , and to all that walk therein ; And what is man , that he shall prescribe a way to his Maker ? and who is it , that will be more wise then God , to set him a way how he must teach his people ?


id: A77959
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1657
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 7065
sentence: 117
flesch: 41
cache: cache/A77959.xml
txt: txt/A77959.txt
title:
  The testimony of the Lord concerning London. Witnessed in truth and faithfulnesse, to the consciences of all people in it, that they may returne to the Lord, and repent. Also, the great abominations discovered of this people, who draws near God with their mouths, and professes self-separation, when as their hearts be far from the Lord. With a warning to all sorts of people in it, what the Lord requires of them. By a lover of all your soules, E.B.

summary:
  Thou hast been warned , and thy people , and the day of a glorious Visitation hath passed over thee , the Lord hath reached unto many , and striked many who have not grieved , but carelesly walked , and slighted the day of their visitation , and have not hearkned to the Lords call , unto thousands hath the word of the Lord been declared , and the Kingdome of God preached nigh at hand , and the very way of life and death hath been set before you , for the Lord hath sent unto thee to warne thee , and to shew unto thee what the Counsell of the Lord is ; and thousands have been reached with the power of God , and convinced of the way of life & peace , who yet continues in hardnes of heart , and disobedience , following the counsell of their own heart , and the desire of their own minds , which are wholly evil continually , and the condemnation of such will be just in the day of the Lord , and greater then theirs to whom the way of the Lord hath not been known . Ignorance abounds in thy old men , and rudenesse , and wildnesse in thy youths , and thy people are without the knowledge of God , and perishes for lack of knowledge ; thou art even as a wild untilled garden , which bringeth forth no pleasant fruit , thy vines are as the vines of Sodem , and thy fruit is loathsome to the Lords tast , wild grapes , and soure grapes is brought forth in thee , which the Lord hath no pleasure in , ye bring forth fruit unto your selves , and not unto the Lord , ye kindle a fire , and warmes your selves with your own sparks , ye sacrafice to your own net , and ye think to be heard for your much babling , and your many performances :


id: A30524
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1657
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 8233
sentence: 82
flesch: 1
cache: cache/A30524.xml
txt: txt/A30524.txt
title:
  A generall epistle, and greeting of the Fathers love, to all the saints called and chosen to faithfulness in Christ Iesus ... : and this is to all such as are found worthy to suffer, and is an exhortation to the strengthning of their faith ... : and this is a true testimony of the Father and of the Son ...

summary:
  FOrasmuch as many who are partakers of the Fathers Love , manifested in his Son in measure , in whom these Epistles hath found greeting ; With the same Love in the upright hearted , to which it is a sure Testimony of love from Life it self , to the quickning , strengthning , confirm●ng , and arming of all such as have in the Love , Life and Power heard , and received , and believed the Truth as it hath been declared , and is in Jesus , in whom our Faith is standing ; which Faith worketh by the Love shed abroad in our hearts , wherein we are reaching after each other in the sameness of Love , which is the bond of our unity , wherein we are called together to be joyned in the purity , power and life of one Faith and Love , therein to bear Testimony ( as we have in our measures recieved ) to , and of the everlasting Truth , wherein finding these Epistles of such manifold service to the whole Body , both for instruction , exhortation , strengthening , and forewarning , whereby there is or may be a safe arming against all decee●t and decivable spirits ; hence it is from the earnest love and desire stirred up in many here among us that are faithful , whereby this they put in print , that thereby the service may reach unto all who are worthy thereof in these Nations , for to them is it sent , who are called of God ; therefore in the fear of the Lord let every one of vs to whom this comes walk worthy of the Fathers love , grace , mercy and peace , whereinto we are called in one body , of which Christ is Head . So unto every one of you I am moved to write , and to warn you all 〈◊〉 the fear of God , be content , and long suffering , and patient , and finish your Testimony with rejoycing , if ye seal it with your blood , and dwell with the Lord in his holy habitation of Peace , out of respect to time or places , or things , and give up your selves , that his will in you may be fulfilled . And think it not strange though you have fiery tryals ; neither be moved at any suffering without you , or troubled in spirit ; neither let it break your peace nor fellowship with God by any impatiency or murmurings , or temptations , for then will your sufferings be grievous to you , and the Enemy within and without will have ground against you to overthrow you , and know , it is that which ever was in all ages , and no new thing the Seed of God suffered by the seed of evil doers ; and the wicked alwayes strengthned their hands in cruelty against the righteous , and laid heavy burdens upon the just , and caused the innocent to groan under them for a time , till iniquity was fulfilled , that they might be broken , and the oppressed delivered , and alwayes the Lord exalted his Name by the suffering of his people , as we have a cloud of Witnesses of our Forefathers that went before , who did bear witnesse to the Name of the Lord through faithful suffering ; so it is no strange thing hath happened unto you , but that which is common to all the Saints , who enters the Kingdom through tribulation ; blessed are you if you be faithful unto the end , that you may leap the reward of your works of your sufferings and patience ; even the Crown of Life that never fades away ; so the Lord God of Life preserve you .


id: A30534
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1658
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 9180
sentence: 88
flesch: -2
cache: cache/A30534.xml
txt: txt/A30534.txt
title:
  A message proclaimed. By divine authority from the chosen assembly of the redeemed people in England, to the Pope (chief bishop) of Rome, and to his cardinals, Jesuits, and priests, and all other the officers of the Romish Church, where it shall meet with them through the world: that they may appear, and come forth to triall, and shew if they have the same faith, power, spirit, and authoritie, and government, as had the Apostles and true churches, before the apostacie: and this is a full invitation and challenge to the whole Church of Rome, and the beginning of controversie with her, for the perfect manifestation of the long hidden truth; betwixt them that are in the truth it self, and such as have the form, but not the power; that all things may be brought to light and true judgement. Written by an embassador for the true and living God, E.B.

summary:
  And dare you suffer a certain number of us to come among you and preach what we hold , and a certain number of you shall freelie come among us , and freelie preach what you hold , without persecution or anie violence , as we would expect and have the same from you , engage man for man with us , and do no otherwise deal with ours , then we deal with yours ; and take the free libertie to deal with our men as we deal with your men , but no otherwise , and let each of the messengers preach and hold forth what they would have , and what they reallie hold and believe , and convert the most either of them can to their own Religion , and then let all the world see which hath the Power and Spirit of God with them , and whether your Ministers or our Ministers do turn the more people from you to us , or from us to you ; and send your answer , whether you will agree to the premises : and if you do , send your Messengers when you please , and we will engage in the Lord , their persons shall not be harmed ; but if they were , then take man for man , life for life , of our men sent to you , and let that God be the true God , that appears in most power and authoritie ; and let him be worshipped for ever , whose power converts the most to the knowledge of him out of wickedness , and let that Church be the true Church , which cannot be overcome ; and as you are willing to be made manifest , join issue with us in this business , and propound your own time when the men shall return , whether the continuance of the matter be for daies , months , or years , and let each of the men return without harm of person ; and this will be a way trulie to trie and make manifest all things , to all the world , and whether you or we be in the right way , & of the right Church ; & use you no weapon against us , but the soundest arguments you can , by words according to the Scriptures , and the same weapons we will use against you , and no other , but the authoritie of the Spirit of God , and arguments thereby , which shall be according to the Scriptures , the Apostles writings , and the testimonie of the true Church ; and hereby in the sight of the whole world , let your church , and faith , and principles , and practises , and worships be tried , and our church , faith , doctrines , and worships , and practises , and whether it be yours or ours that do overcome , or are overcome , let that deside the controversie ; and whether it be you or we that are soonest overcome , and that prevail the one against the other in this trial , and in these proceedings ; and that which is overcome and prevailed against , is not the true Church , against which nothing can prevail , no not the gates of hell ; and whether your Church or ours cannot be prevailed against by the other , let that be the true Church , for that which is prevailed against is not the true Church , and whether it be your or we that are elected , and of the election , which cannot be deceived ; if we be not elected , and you deceivers , then it is possible you may deceive us , but if we prove that we be in the election , then you cannot deceive us ; and if we be in the truth , and of the true Church , then it will be happiness for you to be converted and turned to us ; come to the trial as soon as you will , and if you be in the election you need not be afraid to be deceived by any , for the elect cannot be deceived , whoever that be , whether your Church or our Church be the true Church , and in the election ; and if your Ministers among us do preach the same things , and by the same spirit , and hold forth the verie same faith , principles , worship , and practises , which we do , and are of , and it be proved they are of the same spirit and principles we are of , agreeing in all things , then we will own them to be Christs Ministers ; and if our Ministers among you do hold forth that true faith , and principles , and practises , and worship , and by the same spirit as Christ and his Apostles did , and prove what they say by the Scriptures , then shall you receive them as the Ministers of Christ , and renounce all that you hold and profess , contrarie to what they hold and preach among you , and hereby things may come to a fair triall , and the naked truth may be made manifest , whether your Church or our Church be the true Church of Christ , trulie descended from the Church of the Saints of old , and whether your Ministers or our Ministers , be the lawful successors of the Apostles ; and we would willinglie come to deal with you upon these termes , that it may be manifest who it is that are of the true seed , and who it is that are of the election that cannot be deceived ; and we have manie more things to write unto you , and to querie of you , and to demand , when we receive your answer , and if you give us ground to accuse you in your return , we will thresh you , and lay it to your charge , by the authoritie and spirit of the Lord , and if you answer us plainlie , we shall more perfectlie know what to do . By divine authority from the chosen assembly of the redeemed people in England, to the Pope (chief bishop) of Rome, and to his cardinals, Jesuits, and priests, and all other the officers of the Romish Church, where it shall meet with them through the world: that they may appear, and come forth to triall, and shew if they have the same faith, power, spirit, and authoritie, and government, as had the Apostles and true churches, before the apostacie: and this is a full invitation and challenge to the whole Church of Rome, and the beginning of controversie with her, for the perfect manifestation of the long hidden truth; betwixt them that are in the truth it self, and such as have the form, but not the power; that all things may be brought to light and true judgement.


id: A30560
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1660
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 9573
sentence: 155
flesch: 36
cache: cache/A30560.xml
txt: txt/A30560.txt
title:
  A vindication of the people of God, called Quakers ... being an ansvver to a book, dedicated to them, by one George Pressick of Dublin : in which book many lyes and calumnies are presented against the innocent people of God ... / by E.B.

summary:
  2. And till such only rule and bear the Sword of Iustice in the Earth , we do know peace and happiness can never be in the Kingdoms of the World , but divisions and confusions will arise and be brought forth ; for it is the only Blessedness of a Government in any Nation , when the Authority it self is just and according to God , and when such as bear the execution thereof are Iust Kings , Righteous Magistrates , and Ministers of Iustice , that will judge for God and not for man , and we seek not the place of Government in this World , nor do we intrude our selves into such places ; though this we say , while that spirit reigns and rules in the Nations of the Earth , which is not of God , but contrary to us , Peace and Happiness in good Government amongst men through the World , can never be ; though we are truly subject to whatsoever Authority is set over us , by doing or suffering . 4. Be tender and compassionate towards all men ; not perverse , hasty and froward , thinking to bow men to your wills by rigour , but rather win them by love ; and this is of good report to you , to be humble , meek and tender towards all , even towards your enemies ; and insult not over the Afflicted , neither add to their sufferings ; for the Lord can raise up , and bring down whomsoever he will , according to his pleasure ; and remember that Law to walk by it , Do to others , but as ye would have others do unto you in the same case ; and be not too cruel to such , who cannot conform to times , and things , and men , for what know you , but some mens Consciences may be tender in things which you yet make no conscience of ; Meddle not to persecute any for their Conscience-sake in Religious matters , but rule and govern well in outward affairs , according to the Law of God , but afflict not , nor persecute any for their Conscience-sake towards God , while they walk justly , as men , in things between man and man ; take this Counsel , lest ye vex the Lord against you to destroy you .


id: A30542
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1658
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 10088
sentence: 148
flesch: 35
cache: cache/A30542.xml
txt: txt/A30542.txt
title:
  Some of the principles of the Quakers (scornfully so called by men) vindicated and proved sound and true and according to the Scriptures in oposition to the false charges and lying reports given forth against the truth in two printed books put forth by one Philip Taverner, a supposed minister of the Gospel in Middlesex near Vxbridge ... / by Edw. Burrough.

summary:
  My words are truth , for in that book truth was made manifest to many in relation to the former dispute , to the satisfaction of many , and as for rayling and bitterness of spirit , I do deny , only I am zealous for the Lords truth , to speak plainly by reproving them that gain-say it , and to that of God in every mans conscience , do I desire to be manifest and seeks , not by flattering words to cover evil , that I may not be suspected , though thou seem falsly to say it , but let all my enemies suspect what they will , for of the Lord do I seek to stand approved , and not of man , for the Jew inward , hath no praise of man , but of God , and as for rayling language and bitter words against thee I have used none , but speaks the truth in plainness . And indeed I hardly ever read any subscription like to it , by the greatest , and noblest of men , as men account , and it is a thing far above humility , and not beseeming any man , much less one that professes himself to be a Minister of Christ ●o subscribe himself , or be with his consent , Mr. such an one , but he seems to cover himself from ambition , because saith he , he did it not himself but another , I say , I shall not charge him here with falsehood , but I am sure it is very unusual for any man to add any thing to another mans book , without his knowledg ; I never knew it done by any Stationer , who hath had some knowledg of their wayes : but yet he acknowledges it was done in honour to him , to subscribe him Master , and here he hath Justified the thing , and shewed that he is indeed guilty of ambition , who confesseth that it is an honour to him , to be subscribed Mr. by another ; for he saith , the man that did it honoured him with that title ; and here men may take notice what honour this my adversary looks after , even the honor that Christ forbids , who saith to his ministers , be not ye called of men masters ; but the man hath honoured Phil.


id: A30532
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1657
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 11255
sentence: 202
flesch: 46
cache: cache/A30532.xml
txt: txt/A30532.txt
title:
  Many strong reasons confounded, which would hinder any reasonable man from being a Quaker and offences taken out of the way, but particularly foure and twenty arguments overturned and confuted, put forth and sent into the world by Richard Baxter, a professed minister, but a frequent contenter against the ways of God ... / ... by ... E.B.

summary:
  But further , the papists say that sprinkling Infants is baptizing into the faith of Christ , and they say none must be free from sin while they are upon earth , and they cry against heresie and error , and thus doth Richard Baxter and his company , and therefore by his own Arguments he may be judged that the Jesuites and Fryars are his Leaders , and that he prepares people to be papists ; but I will not be so uncharitable to judge him 〈◊〉 by this rule , as he hath falsly done us , though I do know in the sight of God there is a greater concurrence in Doctrine , and practice , and conversation , between many of our Accusers and the Papists , then there is between the Papists and us , and the light of Christ in all consciences shall answer me in the day of Gods righteous judgements , and the papists and him we do deny , and see them to be of one spirit , though differing in appearances ; and what we are it is by grace , and not of our selves ; and what we do it is through Christ , and not by our selves , and to God we appeal for judgement , and tramples upon all mens vain conceivings , false judgements , lyes and slanders , and turns them back to them again where they were hatched . But whatever he judge , we are sent to turn people from darknesse to light , and from the power of Satan to the power of God ; and herein we do as the Ministers of Christ did ; but that wee revile the Ministers of Christ as blind guides , as saith he , this is false again , but such we bear witnesse against who preacheth for hire , and oppresseth the Common-wealth , and are in the steps of the proud Pharisees , and all people that follows them are in darknesse as the Pharisees were , and in the way of damnation , because they are not in the truth who follows not Christ , and yet such people are lightened with the light of Christ , and that is their condemnation because they believe not in it , and it is sufficient to the condemnation of all such . 12.


id: A29476
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1662
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 9298
sentence: 167
flesch: 43
cache: cache/A29476.xml
txt: txt/A29476.txt
title:
  A brief relation of the persecutions and cruelties that have been acted upon the people called Quakers in and about the city of London since the beginning of the 7th month last, til this present time : with a general relation of affairs, signifying the state of the people through the land.

summary:
  Month last , the Meeting of our Friends at Horse-ly-down ( the usual place of their peaceable meeting to worship God for these divers years ) was disturbed and violated by Souldiers in Arms , in the same rude , illegal manner as the Meetings in the City , of whom ye have heard heretofore ; and at divers times on three first dayes , were taken out of the said meeting to the number of about 50. persons , and from time to time committed to prison at the White-Lyon , where they remained till the Assise , which was held at Guilford , to which place the Prisoners were had in order to tryal , the Gaoler taking their words to travel to the place , being 25. miles distance from the Goal , without any Keeper ; which they did faithfully , and appeared at the time and place appointed ; but few of them were called before the Bench , for there was no witnesse against them , nor preparation of Indictments ; for which cause ( it is supposed ) Orlando Bridgeman , then Judge of the Assize , did discharge all the Prisoners saving four , who had the Oath then tendered them , and for refusing , were re-committed back to prison , and the rest were all released , and they onely detained . eng Society of Friends -- Persecutions.


id: A30520
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1659
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 12036
sentence: 187
flesch: 35
cache: cache/A30520.xml
txt: txt/A30520.txt
title:
  A discovery of some part of the war between the kingdom of the Lamb and the kingdom of Anti-Christ held forth in this account of several disputes and queries between a Minister of Christ (really so) and one that hath the name of a Minister, but is proved to be a Minister and member of Anti-Christ by evident testimonies : and is a short account of the covetousnesse, ignorance, envy, and the fruits of darkness brought forth by C. Fowler ... / by Edw. Burrough.

summary:
  E. B. A discovery of some part of the Warr between the Kingdom of Anti-Christ and the Kingdom of the Lamb , &c. FOrasmuch as great hath been the debate for these diverse years of late , between the Lamb and his followers , and Antichrist and his followers , and the one of them hath been opposing the other in their owne Power and Authority ; and great is the debate at this day between these two Kingdomes ; which is endeavouring the overthrow one of the other , and all the strength and power of Antichrist is put forth in defence of his kingdome , by Persecution , Injustice , false Imprisonments , Beatings and Whipings , and Spoyling of goods and Persons , and Railings , Accusings , Slandrings Reproachings : by these wayes and proceedings doth Anti-christ stri●e at this day , for the upholding and maintaining his owne Cause and Kingdome , and by this means and these weapons mentioned , doth he seek to defend himself , his Church and Ministry , and Ordinances ; these are his Weapons and Armour , by which he Opposes and fights against the Lamb and his followers , whom the Lord hath raised up for this end , and they have within these few years , more then ever for many Generations , made an invasion and inroad , upon Antichrist his Kingdome , and Government , and the great City Babylon , and the Seige is raised that hath long been laid against the Holy Seed ; and the great City Babylon is taken , her Walls are scaled and her Gates broken , and her strength defeated , and her Merchants spoyled of their goodly Treasure ; for the day of the Lord is come , and the Holy Seed is he leading out of the spiritual Sodom and Egypt ; and Mistery Babilon the Great , hath God remembred for her Iniquities , and Her crueltyes , and Mercilessnes , and all Her Abominations will God avenge upon Her Head ; and this doth come to passe , and not by the multitude of an host of men , nor yet by Humaine Pollicy and Wisdom , nor yet by Carnal Weapons , not by Goales , nor Prisons , nor Persecutions , these are not the Lambs Weapons , but these are Antichrists and the Dragons Armour and Weapons , which he makes warr by , against the Lamb and his followers , even at this day in every Nation : Laughing , Hooting , Foolish and Vain Words , Nicknaming , and Reproaching ? these things abounds openly among you to your shame , especially at such a time , when Meeknesse , and Sobernesse , and Moderation , had much better become you , to have been brought forth by you ; Your Priests , exceeding the rest in vilenesse , and some of your Rulers hardly being clear : remember your work , and call to mind your words , and wayes , and let shame cover your heads , from the highest to the lowest of you ; and thou proud wild , reproachful professed Minister ; cease thy vain presumptious boastings against the Innocent , and now when thou puts off thy armor , if thou hast gotten a victory glory , or rather hide thy face for shame , & stop thy mouth in the dust , whose lightness , & wildnesse , hath super-abounded some of thy fellows , who may be ashamed of thee in thy words and behaviour , whereby thou art sufficiently proved to be one that was never sent of God , if we had no other testimony : Thy proud presumptious boast against the Quakers , was with sobernesse and in the feare of the Lord answered , to thy shame in the sight of all such , whose hearts are not altogether hardned and given up to believe Lies ; and to do Wickednesse , that they may be damned that believe not the Truth : and first , as to the manner of the dispute on his part , was his Railing , Envious , Reproachful , unsavory filthy words , of God or of the Devil ? with much impudency many times uttered in the discourse ; as Villain , Sirrah , Wretch , Blasphemer , Rogue , and such like lying words of Bitternesse , more like the words of a brawling Drunkard then for a Minister of Christ , and was his hooting , laughfing , and clapping his hands , and rude and unseemly gestures , and behaviour , of God , or of the Devil ? more like in appearance to a Stage player , then to a Minister of Christ ; to his shame I mention it , consider and answer these things , and let that of God in your Consciences Judge , to which I stand to be approved in meeknesse , and he to be reproved and condemned in his filthinesse and bruitishnesse , in the sight of God ; may not you who owned him in that discourse , be ashamed of him in these his words and actions , which appeared ? who boastingly gave a Challenge to dispute of the things of God , and then to manage it in rudenesse and wildnesse , without any feare of God , in lying and slandring ; and at the end when things came to the head for tryal , to run away and not to stand to the end , though several times he was charged to it ; I appeale for Answer to the light of Christ in all your Consciences , not like a Minister of Christ in any measure he appeared ; But as one that knows not the living God , nor his Law , and fear , nor Judgements ; and an unfit fellow upon tryal I found him , to dispute the Pretious things of God , and through some Nations ▪ I have hardly mett with a worse , which caused me to be the more silent then otherwise I would , for I chosed rather to be accounted a fool by silence , then to offend the Just Law of God , by giving holy things to doggs , or casting pearls before Swine , in which nature he and some of you appeared , who Falsly Slandered the Innocent with the name of Jesuite and such like , crying away with him , with bitter and cruel words and gestures , pushing with your hands and crying a prison were the fitest , or such like , even like unto your fore-Fathers the Pharisees , who persecuted Christ under the account of themselves being righteous , and he a blasphemer , and they laid snares for him to entrap him in his words as you did ; who when I would not answer according to your provoking , that you might ensnare me , would hardly suffer me to answere any thing , to clear and defend to the Truth , against the boast of the Wicked ; but by Hooting , and Laughing , and Clapping of Hands , and Foolish Jeastings , and unreasonable Rudenesse , prevented me from speaking , and them that would have heard from hearing , as much as you could , even as bruit beasts or Heathens , and not like civil people ▪ much lesse like godly Christians ▪ nor like such as would or could soberly debate the Truth of God to edification , and truly may I say I fought with beasts at Reading , after the manner of men , but all was to make your selves and your pretended Minister manifest , and all could not be so blind , but might understand his wayes and words , no to be guided by the Spirit of God , but by the spirit of the Devil ; who is the Father of such Works and Confusion , as was brought forth by him in the meeting , in many uncivil actions , and reproachful words of envy .


id: A77938
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1654
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title:
  Ansvvers to severall queries put forth to the despised people called Quakers, by Philip Bennett, who cals himself a minister of Christ, but is found a deceiver; answered by them to whom they were directed. Also, ansvvers to severall other subtil queries put forth by one Iohn Reeve, who lives in the City of London, who cals himself the last messenger and witnesse unto the true God, but is found a false witnesse, and a lyar, and a perverter of the right way of God. / Answered by Edward Burrough, and Francis Howgill, who are witnesses unto the truth against this subtil serpent-like generation.

summary:
  thy self the last Messenger , and witnesse unto the true God , yet I say unto thee , verily the Lord hath a Witness which was before thee , which hath been slain in the streets of the great City , which the Lord will bring forth after thee , which will bear true witnesse of the true God , & against thee , and thou who hast been alive , shall be judged by him which hath laid slain , & he will eternally condemn thy testimony and message ; Friend in the light of Christ , which hath lightened every one that comes into the world , thou art comprehended , and seen , thy beginning , thy time , and thy end , and with it thy testimony and Message is denyed , for thy testimony is such , and if thou swear the Lord lives , thou swore falsly , and further , thou sayes , by inspiration of the holy Spirit thou was moved to present this Epistle : I answer , the language of the holy Spirit is like it self , pure and spirituall , but thy language is carnall and sensuall , and so is thy spirit ; the Saints which spake by the inspiration and moving of the Spirit , cursed not that which God had blessed , as thou dost , neither did they say the Elect was defiled as thou dost , neither did they speak of God as a carnall substance , as thou dost , but said that God was a Spirit , and here be thou a witnesse against thy self , that thou speaks not by the inspiration and moving of the holy Spirit , but speaks thy imaginations , and lies in the Name of the Lord ; and whereas thou sayest in this confused age , there hath appeared variety of Spirits pretending to be sent by the everlasting God , yet they are at war with all their power to overthrow one another , that their own opinions may bear rule ; I answer , Among the many pretenders thou speaks of , thou art one ; and it is true , you are at war with all your power endeavouring to overthrow one another , that your own opinions may bear rule , and though there be among you variety of opinions , yet by one Spirit you act , for the kingdome of the Devil is but one , and yet divided , and it is at war with it self , and therefore it cannot stand , and you cannot overthrow one another , but one is appearing to overthrow you all , and all your opinions , for all you pretenders are made manifest by your fruits , and thereby men may try you , for nothing is to be gathered from you but opinions and ayery imaginations , some of you speaking of a God , and Christ afarre off , to believe in , others of you speaking of a God and of a Christ within , and afarre off to believe in , thus you feed people by your own imaginations , and some of you pretends Revelation , others of you denying Revelation , and thus you strive to set up your own opinion , but you live all in one nature , and are of one generation , and he that walks in the light sees you all , and comprehends you all , and judges all your opinions , and are redeemed out of all your vain im●dgination into the life of God , acting and speaking as the Spirit acts and speaks , and seeks to exalt Christ , and him to bear rule , that all opinions may be by him thrown down , and that by him people may be brought out of a confused age , into the land of r●st , and peace , and righteousnesse to serve the true Spiritual God , in the Spirit , and by the Spirit of his own Son ; and further , thou sayes , some there are takes upon them to speak of a God , and of a Christ in the invisible heavens , above the starres ; but are uncapable to demonstrate how Christ by his spirituall Word lives in mens hearts , and how he reigneth visibly in glory with his Elect Angels : I answer , there are not some but many , which lives in , and speaks forth their own imaginations , upon God and Christ , and one of them thou art , thy spirit is tryed , God who is a Spirit , dwels in the Spirit of his Son , even in the high and holy place , and with him also who is of a contrite Spirit , and trembleth at his Word ; but this by thy vulterous eye is not seen , neither can any demonstrate how Christ dwels in the heart ▪ but he who witnesseth it through death , and where he reigns his glory is with him , and his Elect Angels , this I witnesse , but to thy carnall eye it is invisible , and by thy carnall wisdome he can never be known , Christ and his spirituall word is not to be divided , though thy sensuall spirit would divide them , but by the flaming sword thou that speaks art divided from both , and shalt know neither but to thy condemnation ; and further thou sayest , others there are which speaks of an eternall Spirit , or Christ onely in the consciences of men , as if there were no Creator ●● Christ at all visibly reigning upon his Throne of immortall glory ; I answer , They who talke of an eternal Spirit , or Christ in the conscience by hear say , o●●● other mens words , without ( as thou dost ) and doth not in life and power witnesse it , from the Father within , made manifest , such are denyed by them who witnesse the eternall Spirit dwelling with the contrite heart , which Spirit is the Creator which dwels also in the high and holy place , and reigns upon his Throne for ever , and who do in power witnesse this , sees and judges all y●ur carnall imaginations , and conceptions of the living God in your carnall minds , where he dwels shall no unclean thing enter , but is without to be troden in the wine-presse of his wrath for ever and ever , and by him shall thy carnall conceptions be consumed , even by the breath of his mouth , for he is eternall , and his Throne is eternall , and by the carnall eye shall never be seen ; and further thou sayest , there are , who through unbelief that ever any living creature had a beginning , they affirm there is no God or Christ at all , but perishing nature , of this sort are innumerable , witnesse the lives and conversations of people every where ; I answer , All who do witnesse the eternall Spirit made manifest , to rule and guide all such , doth deny and declare aagainst , for nothing was without beginning but the eternall Word , which was the beginning of all things , and which will be the end of all things , even the destruction of the wicked , and the salvation of them that believe , who are born of the immortall seed , and redeemed out of the perishing nature into the image of God , and such do set to seal there is a God , who will reward every one according to his works , and beares witnesse against them , who in their lives and conversations denies God , as all do who do not witnesse the eternall Spirit of Christ ruling in the consciences , but talkes of a God in imagination at a distance , and such are innumerable , and saith in their heart , there is no God , and such are the fools the Scripture speaks of , and whereas thou beseeches to consider of these ensuing particulars ; I answer , They are considered , and by them thy ignorance is made manifest , and thy folly disclosed , and thy blasphemy , who cals thy self the last witnesse . Ans. Here again , thou hast made thy sha●e and thy ignorance manifest and knows not so much as the Letter of he Scripture , Paul in Apostle of Jesus Ch●ist , notby the will of man , and Minister of the everlasting God , he witnessed the Son of God revealed in him , and he ●●i● , kn●w ye 〈…〉 Christ ●s in you , or else you are rep●●●ates , and ●h●i●t is no● divided , and he tha● is joyned to the Lord is ●●e Spirit , and 〈◊〉 my Father are one , ●●d w●●●e Christ dwells the Father dwells , and if thou have ●● e●● to hear ●hou may h●●● , and if the ●●●e Spirit be not in you that raised Christ 〈…〉 he ●●●d , you are 〈…〉 , and he that declared these things speak of a spi●i●ua●l Christ , and an invi 〈…〉 God , and who ●●all ascend up to heaven , the word is nigh , in thy mo●t●● and 〈◊〉 heart , and this is the same Christ that suffered without the ga●e at Jerusalem , and


id: A30543
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1658
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title:
  Something of truth made manifest (in relation to a dispute at Draton in the county of Middlesex in the first moneth last) in opposition to the false account given of it by one Philip Traverner, in his book styled the Quakers-rounds, or, A faithfull account, &c. / and this is written ... by E.B.

summary:
  Now to justifie him in evil , thou hast wronged me and the truth ; for he did say when I held up my Bible , I had in my hand the thing therein signified upon this very occasion ; I holding up my Bible in my hand , and saying to this very effect , that that in my hand , I had the thing which did signifie in words of such and such things ; but I had not the thing signified ; and R. G. made answer and said , but I had the thing signified , and this some can witness , whereupon I made answer and said , if it be so that I have the thing signified in my hand , then I have God , and Christ , and the Saints , and Heaven , and Hell , men and beasts , and all things that here in is written of , and then he saw the folly of his own argument , I perceive . I need not much strive to confound this black doctrine by many arguments or multitude of words , for the thing as laid down in his own words , is vile and abominable to the understanding of any spiritual man ; for say I , if it be the spirit working in us , and for us , not in our own strength , then is it God that worketh in us , both to will and to do , and the fulfilling of the righteousness of the Law in us , and not the righteousness of the Law wrought by us ; and if it be in the strength and power of grace , & not in our own strength , then it is the work of Christ in us , and the work of Gods own righteousness in us ; and any man that knows the least of God in truth , will witness to this , and against his imagined doctrine held forth by P. T. I might demand a proof of him from Scripture , where it is said or signified , that the working of the spirit , all in us , and for us , and the working of the power of grace in the creature , is reckoned to be our own righteousness , the righteousness of the Law ; and my words stands true from which he draws his false consequences , and layes down his dark assertions , and my own words I do own , which are , such as are taught by Christ , and guided by him in all the wayes of righteousness , are justified by him , and none else , not in any word or work whatsoever , but in what they are led to fulfil by him ; and in these words there is neither contradiction nor unsoundnesse , though he hath ignorantly charged them with both ; but the words shall stand for a testimony against him , and all his false deductions , and he and all shall know , that God justifies the righteous , and condemns the wicked , and that it is the new man that is justified , and not the old , and let righteous men judge what can be in such a mans heart , who can draw so bad consequences from such upright words .


id: A30519
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1661
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title:
  A discovery of divine mysteries wherein is unfoulded secret things of the kingdom of God, being a testimony ... : all which are published for the edification of such as desire to know the truth / by a servant of truth, Edward Burroughs.

summary:
  For where Sin is brought forth , and Transgression lived in , there the Conscience is bound , and the Cord of Iniquity imbondageth the Conscience , and it hath not its liberty in the Service of God , nor from the service of the Devil , because the Spirit of God doth not exercise it ; but the spirit of unrighteousness leadeth the mind into the lusts of this world , into Lying , Swearing , Pride , Drunkenness , Hypocrisie , and Idolatry ; and the guilt of these things burdeneth and presseth down , and is a bondage upon the Conscience : and where the Conscience is bound by unrighteousness within , and by the spirit of the world , which leadeth contrary to the Lord , there is no power of man without can set that Conscience free , or give liberty to it ; because the Cord of Iniquity hath bound it within , and the burden of guilt is upon it , and Conscience lies under bondage , unexercised with the Spirit of God , which is free , and setteth free the Conscience in the practice of all Good , and from the power and captivity of all Evil. Therefore , before true Liberty of Conscience be witnessed , or any have true Liberty in Conscience , Iniquity must be purged out , and Sin crucified , and the body of Death put off , and Guilt washed away , and the Anointing received that leadeth into all Truth , and the Blood of Christ ( the Seed ) felt , that sprinkleth the Conscience from all sin , and works of the flesh , and washeth away all that which stains and defileth the Conscience , and then the pure Conscience hath its true liberty from the bondage of all Evil , and from the guilt thereof , and in the exercise of all Good ; and this is true Liberty of Conscience ; and thus it is attained , and by no other way nor means , than by the sword of the Spirit of God , which cutteth down the contrary : and where Conscience is thus freed within by the Power of the Lord , and delivered from the bondage of Evil , and from the burden of all guilt , and exercised in all good by the Spirit of God ; Then nothing without , nor any Power of Man , which may work against such by Persecution , and act in opposition to such whose Consciences are thus freed , can imbondage the Conscience to God-wards , or bring it under a burden to Godwards , I say : for it is not altogether bondage of Conscience , or the burden or oppression upon his Conscience , that is set free , as aforesaid , though he is outwardly persecuted by Men ; for that doth but hinder the exercise of his Conscience to manwards , but not to Godwards ; for there his Conscience is free , in Joy and Peace , though , by reason of Persecution , he cannot have the exercise of it to men : I say , though such be put in Prison , banished , or whatsoever suffering be laid upon them , by any men , or Laws without ; yet their pure Conscience is free and at liberty in it self to Godwards , through all this , and over it all ; for he Lord hath set them free from all that bondage and guilt of Iniquity , which hath been a bondage upon their Consciences within : and whether they do suffer , or have freedom or captivity in their persons from men , yet is their pure Conscience at liberty to Godward , and in perfect freedom in it self , and to themselves , though for the Name of Christ , and his Truth , they be persecuted , and all evil done against them by evil men , and the exercise of their pure Consciences prevented , as to manwards .


id: A30545
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1658
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title:
  A standard lifted up, and an ensigne held forth, to all nations shewing unto the whole world, and to all people to whom it shall come, by open proclamation, what the testimony of God is ... / ... Edward Burrough.

summary:
  GOvernours , Rulers , and Magistrates we own , and do respect in the Lord ; ( and yet cannot respect any mans person whatsoever ) such as be a terrour to all evill in their government , and that fears God and hates covetousnesse , and delights in equity , in justice , and true judgement , and gives diligent heed to try the cause of the poor , and will judge justly without respect of men , who justifies the good and gives praise to the well-doer , such Government and Governours we reverence , where sinne and iniquity is kept under , drunkenness , swearing , Murther , quarrelling , and all the waies and works of the flesh are terrified , and a well-doer praised and justified , this Government of men , reaches to the witnesse of God in every man , and that answers to the justice and righteousnesse of all such Governours and Government , and these witnesse that they are of God , but the witnesse of God in every man , beareth witness against all unjust men , and Laws , and Rulers , and Governments , which strengtheneth the hands of the wicked , and oppresseth the just , where the making and execution of Laws are in the power of proud men , and covetous men , who fears not God , neither hates covetousnesse , neither doth respect the cause of the poor ▪ but rules by their wills and tyranny , and not by just Laws in righteousnesse ; but makes unrighteous decrees to oppresse the poor and innocent , letting the wicked go free , such who upholds unrighteous worships , and teachers by oppression , and cause the innocent to suffer , and makes them offenders , because the exercise of a pure conscience towards God and men ; such Rulers and Government we cannot be subject to for conscience sake , but doth rather fulfill the law and will of God , though we transgresse their wills and unrighteous Laws , and yet doth not rebell against them , nor seek defence from them , but patiently suffers under them , and bears their injustice and cruelty without seeking any revenge , but leaves vengeance to the Lord to whom it belongs , and this is our judgment in ful , the Government and Laws which we cannot obey nor fulfil for conscience sake , we chuse rather to suffer under them for disobedience to them , than to transgresse the righteous Law of God , written in our hearts by obeying them ; so that what we cannot obey for conscience sake , for conscience sake we resist not , but suffers under that ( the punishment of it ) patiently , and herein are we subject to every ordinance of man , for conscience sake : in fulfilling of the good , the just , and righteous , and in patience suffering under the cruelty and oppression of the unjust and unrighteous , and this we do and teach every where , subjection to every ordinance of man , and are not destroyers of true Government , not rebellious against just Governours , but are exalters of true justice and judgement in the earth . THE Kingdom of God and of his Son , is not of this world , but is from above and stands in righteousnesse and in truth , in mercy and in peace , in true judgement and justice , and this dominion is from everlasting to everlasting , and it reacheth beyond all the world , and its Government is love and unity , and everlasting peace , and is perfect liberty to the just and bindeth and chaineth the unjust ; in it there is no oppression but perfect freedom from all unrighteousnesse , and it consists not in word , but in power , to the bringing down of the Kingdome of the devill , and to the breaking off the bonds of all injustice , and all ungodlinesse which is the Kingdom of satan , which hath long ruled in the world , that Kingdom whereof Christ is King , which stands in righteousnesse , no unclean thing can have any part therein , and this we believe it shall be set up and advanced in the earth , but not by might of man or arm of flesh , not the multitude of an host , neither by policy , nor craft , nor by revenge , but by the arm of the Lord alone , through the suffering and patience of his people , and by faithfull witness bearing unto Jesus Christ by doing and by suffering , by doing his will in all things in a pure life and conversation , and upright walking in the sight of the Lord , and by patient suffering under the injustice and oppression of men , and of their unjust Government and Laws , till they be overturned and confounded ; and further we give testimony , that suffering in patience under the cruelty and oppression of the devils government and Kingdom ; more reaches to overthrow them than the rising to rebel in any way of outward offence toward them , or defence from them , and the Kingdom of Christ is near to come , and the Kingdoms of this world shall be changed , and none shall have any part therein but they that are redeemed out of kindreds , tongues , and people : this we believe , he that can receive it let him . CHAP.


id: A30522
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
title: The everlasting gospel of repentance and remission of sins ... by ... Edward Burrough.
date: 1660
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summary:
  Wherefore , Repeat , Repent all sorts of People , all Sinners and Transgressors , tremble before the Lord ye stout-hearted and rebellious Children ; Wo unto ye unjust Rulers and Judges , that have exercised unjust Judgment in the Land , that have judged for Gifts and Rewards , and that have turned aside just Judgement , Mercy and Truth , and that have persecuted the Innocent without just cause ; Wo unto you that have been Oppressors of the Poor and Needy , ye that have not judged for the Lord as ye ought to have done , but have been ambitious and vain-glorious , and puffed up in the flesh by high Titles and Places of Honour , ye that have exalted your selves above your Brethren , and sought Honour of Men , and loved the Honour of this World more than the Honour of God , Wo unto you ; for the day of the Lords Judgment is at hand , and an account of your Stewardship must you give : Wo unto you Carnal minds , all the treasures of them are corruptible , your Lands , Gold and Silver are fading treasures ; the day of the Lords Judgments are at hand upon you , and the Rod of his Wrath will smite you , and ye shall have Poverty and Want instead of Fulness and Excess , and ye shall have Leanness and Barrenness , and God will plead with you in the way of have sinned against him ; The time of your Visitation draws near .


id: A30530
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1660
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title:
  A just and lawful tryal of the teachers and professed ministers of his age and generation by a perfect proceeding against them, and hereby they are righteously examined ... : whereunto is added, A short description of the true ministry of Christ ... justified by the people of God called Quakers, in England / by ... Edward Burrough.

summary:
  5. Again the shepherds of Is●del , idle Pastors , and Deceivers , they eat the fat , and they cloath themselves with the wool , and they killed them that were fed , but they feed not the flock , the diseased they did not strengthen , neither healed they the sick , neither bound they up the broken , neither brought they again that which was driven away , neither did they seek again that which was lost , but with force , and cruelty , they ruled the flock , and was scattered , and become meat to all the beasts of the field , and the sheep wandred throughout all the Mountains ; and the flock was scattered , and none of the Shepheards did search or seek after them ; and they eat and drank up the good of the Pasture , and trod down the residue with their feet ; and they thrust with side and with shoulder , and they pushed all the diseased with their horn , till they scattered them abooad ; Now this is a fit comparison with the practice of the teachers of this age ; for they eat the fat , and lives in pleasures , and fuln●ss most of any , and they cloath with the wool , for they claim the tenth part of every mans wool ; and if any be fed by the true shepheard , they seek to kill them , and to devour their lives by causing them to be imprisoned , and cruelty done unto them ; and they feed not the flock , neither do they strengthen the diseased , nor healeth the sick , neither bind they up the broken ; for if any be wounded and cries out because of the burden of sinne , and be sick , and broken , and trembles at the word of the Lord ; such they cry out is deceived and mocketh at them ; and the Image of God which hath been driven away and lost , they have not sought in people , but with cruelty have they ruled among people , by running to Magistrates , and causing such to be put into prison that would not help to maintain them , and thus with cruelty do they rule among people , as it is witnessed by many testimonies in England ; and the people are scattered , and wandered into many sects , and false judgements , and false opinions , and they are not sought after by the Teachers of this age to regain them to the truth by sound doctrine , but they persecute them ; and the shepherds feed themselves , and feeds not the flock , and even eats up the good pasture , and treads down the residue ; and drinks of the deep waters , and fouls the residue with their feet , so that none that follows them can drink of the pure waters , nor eat of the bread of life ; and they thrust with side , and with shoulder , and push all the diseased which are wounded , because of their sin , who is ready to die for want of the Bread of life , which denies , & are weary of their abominations ; these they push at with their horns , and causeth to be persecuted : and thus they fitly agree with the false shepherds of Israel , and are no whit wanting in any thing wherein they were guilty , but rather abounding ; which sheweth that they follow the same spirit , and are of the same stock , and seed , and the Lord is against these , as he was against them in old time , and no more are these Ministers of Christ that acts these things , then they were which acted the same things by the same spirit ; and this is plain to all that shuts not their eye and stops not their ear . 4. Again , the Ministers of Christ preached to bring people into fellowship with God by preaching of the Gospel through converting sinners unto the knowledge of the truth , and by no other way did they make Christians , nor counted any so but such as had repented and were changed by the spirit .


id: A30558
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1656
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title:
  Truth defended, or, Certain accusations answered cast upon us who are called Quakers by the teachers of the world, and the people of this generation with a clear discovery who are the false prophets and when they came in, and how they may bee known, and who they are that deny Christ and that preach another gospel ... / by one who is a labourer in the vineyard ... Edward Burrough.

summary:
  Oh blinded , stiff-necked people , which are not ashamed to call such Ministers of Christ , and of the Gospel ( and by your corrupt wills and Laws to defend 〈◊〉 which seek for their gain from their Quarter , and which feed themselves 〈◊〉 Fat , and clothe themselves with the Wool ; and which pre●ch for hire , and 〈◊〉 for money , and prepare War against them that put net into their mouths ▪ 〈◊〉 you justifie such as the Prophets of the Lord were sent to cry against , and 〈◊〉 Isai●h , Ezekiel , and Micah , to be true Prophets ; for i● you did believe that 〈◊〉 spoke from the mouth of the Lord , the word of the Lord , and understood 〈◊〉 they spoke , then would you not uphold them which act those things which 〈◊〉 declared against ; for that which was abomination to the Lord then , is abo●●tion to him now ; and that spirit which declared against these things then , 〈◊〉 uphold them now . And here the Teachers and people are tryed , not to have the same spi●i● 〈◊〉 was in the holy Prophets of the Lord , but the spirit of the false Prophets , 〈◊〉 by it that which they acted , which the true Prophets cryed against ; and 〈◊〉 by upholding that which the Lord sent his servants to declare against you 〈◊〉 against the Lord , ye Magistrates and People .


id: A30562
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1659
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title:
  A visitation & vvarning proclamed and an alarm sounded in the popes borders ... being the account of a journey to Dunkirk, and the proceedings there among the Jesuites, and friars and papists, with some particular quæries, and also some propositions sent unto them : which may be satisfaction to many who may behold the difference in part between th papists and the people of God, and between the idolaters and the true worshippers / by one that travells in the labour of the Gospel of Christ for the elect seeds sake, Edw. Burrough.

summary:
  4. What is that death that hath passed over all , and reigned from Adam to Moses ? and whether it doth not reign yet in and over you ? and what is Moses Ministration , and whi●her ever through it you yet truly came ? and whether that part be subdu●d in you which the Law of God was added upon , and whether are you come to Christ , and knowes him as he was before Abraham , and before Mary ? and how was he Davids Lord ? and how his Son ? and is Christ within you born , and reve●led to you , by whom the world was made ? and do you expect to be perfectly freed from sin that ye shall not commit sin in this life upon earth , yea , or nay ? 5. What is the soul , and what was its state , and condition before transgression ? and what is its state , and condition in trnasgression , and whether may man come to be restored by the second Adam into the same estate , while upon earth , as he lost in the first Adam yea , or nay ? FRiends , We the Servants of the Lord , are lovers of all your souls , and wisheth well unto you in the Lord , that truth and peace , and righteousnesse may be among you , and in your hearts ; and we are travellers in the labour of the Gospel of Christ Jesus for the elect Seeds sake , having received the glad tidings of life , and eternal salvation into our hearts , through the revelation of Christ in us , who is our hope of glory , and the Lord hath manifested greatly his power amongst us , and revealed the riches of his grace in our souls , to our own everlasting satisfaction & peace with God ; and also he hath made us Ministers of his grace , and of his word to many others , to the turning of many from darknesse to light , and from Satans power to God , and of him we are called and ordained by his spirit into this his work to preach the everlasting Gospel to the Nations , and to war against Anti-Christ , the Whore and false Prophets , come up since the days of the Apostles , & have reigned over the World for many generations ; and this is our work in the World , to fight the Lambs battel with his spiritual weapons and armour , and to follow him whithersoever he goeth , and to give up our selves in his service , to do or suffer for him whatsoever he calleth us unto ; and in this hitherto hath the pure and mighty presence of the Lord God been with us , and is with us unto this day ; and great is his Name amongst us his people , and to be praised for ever more ; and of this hath God given us the sure witnesse in our selves , even the testimony of his good spirit , which bears us witnesse in our own consciences , that these things are true , whether men believe or re●ect our testimony ; for we are not Ministers of man , nor by mans will , neither do we stand to mans judgement , to be approved or disproved thereby ; But to the witnesse and testimony of Gods spirit in every conscience we do commend our selves , where ever any of us do come , in the simplicity of truth , in the demonstration of the spirit , and not by words of mans wisdom , and in the day of the Lord shall we be justified herein by him , and by his witnesse in all mens consciences ; & in the mean time we do suffer all things patiently , and in the meek & quiet Spirit of the Lord ; and as for us two in particular who are now come into the Town of Dunkirk , as we have in some part declared unto you already ; and so I here again say unto you , not being ashamed nor unwilling to give you an account of our coming ; for we came to be made manifest openly in the sight of all men in our doctrines , principles and practises which are of and from the Lord , and fully agreeing in all things with the Scriptures of truth , which were given forth by the spirit of truth as the holy men of God were moved , and as we have said to you , we still testifie , we were moved of God , and by his spirit to come unto this place in love to the souls of people , and it is the Lord God that hath sent us , and not man ; and whether you believe us herein , or doth reject us , the testimony of God is sure , and remains with us ; and for the truth hereof , we are not affraid to do and suffer , but can do , and suffer in the strength of Christ whatsoever is put upon us ; Though chiefly our coming was ( so far as the Lord shewed us ) in relation to these Popish Idolaters , to discourse with their Iesuites , Friars and Priests , and to discover to them the errors of their wayes , and the falsnesse of their worships , and to testifie unto them in the fear and power of the Lord concerning their Church , that it is not a true Church of Christ , but a false Church come up in the Apostacy ; and these things we have to argue with them , if the heads of them will admit dispute ; otherwise to charge these things upon them from the Lord , and by his authority ; and if they do any of them receive our testimony , and turn from their idols , and be converted unto the truth , they may be happy ; but if they shall reject our testimony , and not believe the truth , then shall they the more be fitted for destruction , and the day of their destruction the sooner approach , and the Lord shall be clear of their blood , and our reward shall be with us from God ; for our testimony shall not returne to us in vaine , but shall accomplish its end wherefore it is sent , and the Word of the Lord by us shall either convert to God , and to the truth that they may be saved , or shall through rejecting of it , harden the heart against God and against the truth , that they may the more justly be condemned , and the Lord and his servants be the more clear ; and no other thing saving this do we promise to our selves as the success of our endeavours : And not so much in relation to the men of our English Nation are we come , though the Gospel of Salvation is freely come to them also , that they may be freed from the Captivity of sin and death , and we may not work , nor cause any disturbance or grief to any of them , further then what they may take at us for the truth sake , or for declaring it in the fear of God , and without any just cause given by us to any of you , or them , though we dare not promise to you , nor our selves , what we will do , nor what we will not do ; onely this we say , if the transgression of any just Law can be charged upon us , we refuse not to suffer what shall be imposed ; and this we do beleeve that the Lord will so keep us , and order us by his spirit of truth , and carry us in meekness , and righteousness towards you , while we stay amongst you , be it weeks , or moneths , that you will have no just occasion against us , by any offences justly Ministred by us ; and if you do take occasion against us without any just cause given , be it upon your selves , to your own shame , and condemnation in the sight of God and men , for we are cleare ; Onely this we do give unto the Lord , and cannot unto men , the exercise of our consciences , and to be obedient unto the teachings of his spirit in all things , as he shall guide and lead us , and if he commands to do , or not to do any thing , and you the contrary , we must obey him , though we disobey you ; for its better to obey God then man , and when he bids speak , in what place or season soever we may not be silent ; for to keep our consciences cleare in the sight of God in all things by obedience to him is our care , and study , and that which we are given up to do ; and if you set your selves to gain-say this , it will turne to your own destruction ; for no other promise then this can we make for our selves , but to do , and speak amongst you , as the Lord our God shall move us , and lead us , and this Testemony we do bear for the Lord , he doth not move us , nor lead us to any thing , saving to what is just , and good , and holy , which may tend to the happiness , and peace , and welfare of your souls and bodies also : and in the Fathers will we stand , and as we came in his will , so we cannot submit to stay or go at any mans will save the Lords alone : And as concerning our coming and staying , and work here , this is a sober account to you , which may satisfie you and any sober and reasonable men ; And as conscerning our being with you yesternight , many things passed from some of you and your Minister chiefly , to which I had a great desire to have answered , and to have cleared the things objected against us , but time and his patience afforded not the opportunity ; therefore now this I do propo●nd about the call to the Ministry , which was the thing in dispute , to which I then could freely have spoken ; whether he will give me and us a faire meeting in some publique place that is convenient for your selves to hear , and be Judge between us , to discourse this matter ( viz. ) what the true call to the Ministry is , which is truly according to the Scripture , and that to be laid down first , and then to compare his call to his Ministry , and also his call to Dunkirk , with what the true call is which is allowed of , and aproved in the Scriptures , and also to compare our call to the Ministry , and even our call to Dunkirk , with what the true call of Christs Ministry was , as declared in the Scriptures , that it may be seen whether his call , or our call is the more different from , or agreeable to the Scriptures , and even the light in your own consciences shall be Judge between us in this cause ▪ and upon such an Issue , upon a just determination would we gladly joyne tryal ; and such a meeting upon such grounds and proceedings may tend to satisfie your selves , and many more , and such a meeting I do fully desire with your consent , and concurrance who may preserve the people in peace and soberness , that all may be edified in the things of so great moment as this is ; For if he can prove his call to the Ministry to be such as was the Apostles and Ministers in the true Christian Churches before the apostacy , then shall we own him , and not deny him ; but if he cannot do this , and if we can do it on our own behalfe , in the power and spirit of the Lord , then may you and all men judge who are the true Ministers of Christ , and who are the deceivers ; And this manner of proceedings would decide all doubts in you , about us ; and we shall be clear in manifesting the truth concerning the true Ministry and the false , and the difference between them in their call , in their practice , and in their maintenance ; and this is sent to you to read and consider of , in the fear of God , as the testimony of our love to you , and the truth , that you may take heed to your waies ; and we would receive first your answer , whether you do consent , and will allow such a meeting , and secondly his answer whether he will undertake such a dispute , and we further are ready to clear all doubts that may remain in you about us , who are your friends , and desire your prosperity and faithfulnesse in what the Lord calls you unto .


id: A30549
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1660
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title:
  To the beloved and chosen of God in the seed elected particularly in London and elsewhere, who have seen the day of Christ, and received the message of peace and reconciliation in these last dayes of his glorious appearance.

summary:
  But though it is thus that some are entred into the rest , and have received of his fulnesse , and hath the Testimony of Life and assurance in the Father , and are risen with Christ , yet are you and we and all the children of the Father , so set and placed in this Creation , as that there is an enemy to be ruled over , and also a service to be fulfilled by us for the Lord that hath chosen us ; and therefore watchfulnesse and faithfulnesse is required from us ; And unto this I cannot but exhort you all , even to walk in the fear of the Lord , in watchfulnesse and faithfulnesse , in humility and meeknesse , in truth and justice , and in every good thing , and that you fulfil the Will of the Lord in all things whatsoever the motions of his own life draws you unto , that every member of this infinite Body which is highly exalted at his right hand , may be preserved in dominion over sin and death , and also may shew forth the Honour , and Glory , and Praise of him who is the head ( even Christ ) whose virtue hath annointed every member , and is shed abroad through the whole body ; I say Friends , of every member is required the duty and service thereunto pertaining , according as it is placed of him , that the Treasure of Life may shew forth its virtue in one manner or another through you all in all well doing , to the glory of him who is God above all , and that in the sight of your enemies ( whom you know watches for evil , and would rejoice in any occasion against you , that they might speak evil of the Lord because of you ) you may walk without offence in the answer of a Good conscience , and if you walk as such as are the Lords , you will cut off all occasions from them that seek it , and they will be confounded , and you preserved in the blessedness and peace everlasting , and you will grow in immortality , and into the knowledge and fulnesse thereof more and more till you know the Father , even as you are known of him . And be not unmindeful of the word of Lord wch begat you , wch first entred into your hearts , & wrought mightily in you to the wounding and destroying of death and emnity , and remember the travel of the dayes past , and the indignation which once you felt because of sin , through the Word of God , and the Word endures for ever , of which you are begotten ; and if any appearance of iniquity , or motion thereunto arise in you into desire to be fulfilled , the word will quench it , and give you dominion over sin and death , and save you from the effects thereof ; for the word changes not , but is the same alwayes , but if man change and pervert his way into iniquity , it reproves and corrects , and so delivers him , for this word keeps clean the heart , and it sanctifies , and also keeps in subjection the mortal man with all his thoughts , desires and actions , and destroys the man of sin , the sinful man by whom the whole Creation hath been corrupted and perverted into evil in its practise of degenerate man , and if you forget the word , then iniquity prevails again and the love of this world and its vanities , and the riches and pleasures of the mortal man steals away the heart , and they possesse the habitation of God unrighteously , and all things are become sinful , and the body of death comes over the pure Life , and peace with God in the Conscience is lost , and that because the word of God is forgotten which once begat unto God , and where the unclean spirit enters again , the latter end of such is worse then the beginning , more sinful against God , and more hated of him ; and therefore let none follow the way of such , for it leads to death and darknesse , and misery will be the end of it . I am now according to the will of the Father in Ireland , it is some weeks since I arrived at Cork City in much peace and safty , with my dear companions , it having been long upon my spirit to visit the seed of God in this Nation , even of love have I felt it in me and not of constraint ; but of a willing mind and free spirit , and not of force ; and after the time of patience and waiting for many days to see my way clear for it , the Lord hath ordered it and brought it to pass acceptable unto me and many here ; and this is the time in which this visitation must be effected , for till now my way was not clear ; & but that this journey , hath laid upon me , I should have rejoyced to have been present among you either in testimony by suffering or otherwise , but this is the will of God .


id: A77940
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1659
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title:
  A declaration of the present sufferings of above 140. persons of the people of God (who are now in prison,) called Quakers: with a briefe accompt of about 1900. more ... Together with the number of 21. persons who were imprisoned and persecuted until death. All which was delivered to Tho. Bampfield, then Speaker of the Parliament, on the sixth day of the second month, 1659 ... As also an accompt of some grounds and reasons, why for conscience sake we bear our testimony against divers customes and practices at this day in use amongst men. Also a cry of great jndgement [sic] at hand upon the oppressors of the Lords heritage, as received from him on the 18. day of the first month called March. With an offer to the Parliament of our bodies, person for person to be imprisoned, for the redemption of our brethren, who are now in bonds for the testimony of Jesus.

summary:
  Thomas Beal at the suit of WILLIAM BENET Priest of T●●ligh was for Tythes cast into Glocester Goal , in which time the said Priest BENNET took away some of his Corne and Hay , the said Priest being an officer in the late Kings army , and the said Thomas Beal was in the service of the Parliament both in England and Ireland for divers years , the value of the tythes being but four shillings , and for which he hath been a prisoner 18. moneths . ( we have a Testimony before us ) hath it not been upon that Rock of limiting tender consciences in former dayes , that hath broken many before these , which might be examples to these , not to do the same things ? and many sober people are offended at such newes , and it makes their hearts sad , whose conscience and the witnesse therein doth answer that we are the Lords people , and it ought not thus to be done concerning us , as the newes reports ; so that by this newes of the intended purpose , to break the Lords peoples meetings , the ungodly and prophane , are gratified , and strengthened in their wickednesse , and the righteous are made sad ; And further , as for us , we have been trodden down , and made a prey unto our enemies , and the gates of death and Hell have stroven against us already , but have not prevailed unto this day ; for the Lord is with us , and who is it that shall prevail against us , and I may say what is this that is reported to be done ?


id: A77950
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1657
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 16839
sentence: 126
flesch: -30
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title:
  A measure of the times: and a full & clear description of the signes of the times, and of the changing of the times; and of the reign of Antichrist, who hath long reigned, and of his down-fall, which is at hand; and of the kingdom of Christ which is now setting up in the earth. Shewing unto all people in all nations, what the state of things hath been in ages past, and what the state of things are at this present day. ... And also, here it is manifest, concerning the teachers of this age, and the root from whence they sprang, who are manifest to be of that stock of false prophets, which Christ prophesied of should come, and which the Apostles saw was coming in their dayes, and how that the night of darknesse hath been upon all, for many generations: ... And also, the restauration is described, which shortly cometh, wherein Christ shall reign, whose right it is, and shall change laws and decrees, and the lamb shall be the light of all nations, ... and their King shall possesse the uttermost parts of the earth. By one who hath measured the times, who is come to the day that hath made all things manifest. Edw: Burrough.

summary:
  The shadow of death hath been the lodging place of all people , and the vaile of ignorance hath been a covering , and the darknesse of heart hath been followed for a Law , and a blind understanding have been the guide , for ordinances and statutes : and Death in the beastly power hath ruled as King , in all the dominions of the earth , and in all mens hearts ; and men hath been without the wisdome of God , even every eye blind , and every eare deafe , and every tongue dumb , and every heart corrupt , and void of understanding , and every foot lame , and all men have been altogether imperfect ; for the living God hath been as a stranger unto the children of men , lesse known by men then the owner to the Ox , and lesse perceived then the crib by the asse , and all flesh hath corrupted its way before the Lord . And the church of the Laodiceans were luke warme , and neither hot , nor cold , and the Lord would spew her out of his mouth , for she was wretched , and miserable , and poore , and blinde , and naked , and the shame of her nakednesse did appeare ; and if any had an eare to heare , they might heare ; these things were spoken by him that lives for ever , the first , and the last , the beginning , and the Amen ; so that hereby the Lords soul was vexed , and his spirit grieved , and his wrath was suddenly kindled against them , who were revolters , and backsliders from his way of salvation , which he had made manifest to them , through the mouth of his servants ; so that his fury went out against them to overthrow them , and to break them to pieces ; and they being turned from his Law , and from his statutes , he gave them up unto their own hearts desire , and brought in the heathen upon them , to confound them , who broke them asunder , and trod down many of their Cities , and gained great Ports of their dominions , and made them slaves by multitudes , and overthrew their worship , and subjected their power ; even the Turks , and base uncircumcised people made a prey upon them , and possessed their habitations , and set up abominable Idolatries in the place where Gods honour had dwelt ; and their dominions , and treasures without , became spoyle to the teeth of devourers ; for they having lost the terrour , of the Lord , he brought up the heathen to be a terrour unto them , whose power was mightier then they , and overcame them , they being without the power of God ; and this justly came upon them , according to the purpose of the Lord , because of their backslidings ; And others of them , who was not so given up to the will of an outward enemy , yet were they given up to strange Idolatries and subversion , and setting up images , and worshiped that which is not God , but abomination to him , to this day ; so that the holy City , which had been full of glory , was given to the Gentiles to be troden downe ; and under their poluted feet hath it been stamped , and to their mouth hath it been a prey , for such a time , even since these things came to passe , unto this day ; as you may read , and the Beast and false Prophet , hath ruled in oppression , and the great whore hath made all Nations drunke with the wine of her fornication ; All the great men , and Princes , and nobles , and all the people upon earth have been made drunke by her , and touched her uncleannesse , and ever since the day wherein the backsliding entered , she hath fit upon nations , and kindreds , and tongues , and people , and hath been decked in divers colours , to deceive the hearts of all people , and all Nations have been deceived by her , and the beast and his power , whose dominion hath been great , hath upheld wickednesse by a Law , and established Idolatry by decrees , and all have been out of the way , and wandring in blindnesse , and darknesse , even the whole world have worshiped the Beast , and gone after the false Prophet , which sits upon the Beast , and his power protects him , till they be both overthrowne into perdition , and cast alive into the Lake , which now the Lord is comeing to doe in power , and dominion : and great Babylon is coming into remembrance before the Lord , and as she hath done , so shall it be done to her , her children is dashing against the stones , and her offspring is withering away , and the darknesse is vanishing , and the Sun is appearing , and the beastly power shall be subdued , and the false Prophet confounded , even the old Dragon shall be bound , and chained , never more to deceive ; for the Beast hath had a long reigne with his false Prophet , who have prophesied lies , and false divinations , and led away the minds of all people .


id: A30511
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1661
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title:
  The case of free liberty of conscience in the exercise of faith and religion presented unto the King and both Houses of Parliament ... / by ... Edward Burroughs.

summary:
  upon the occasion of diversities of opinions then in that Kingdom , said he , It is an errour of State in a Prince for an opinion of piety to condemn to death the adherers to new Doctrines ; for the constancy and patience of those who voluntarily suffer all temporal miseries for matters of faith , stir up numbers who at first and before they had suffered were ignorant of their faith and doctrine , not onely to favour their cause , but to embrace their opinions , pity and commiseration opening the gates , and thus their faith is spread , and their number daily increaseth , &c. 7. Consider , If that ye do not allow Liberty of Conscience but do impose and persecute as aforesaid , though some for your fear , and terrour , and force against their Consciences should deny their Principles , and conform to your Church , such ye cause to sin ; for whatsoever is performed by force and not of faith is sin , as it is written , and such their sin will be laid to your charge ; and such who cannot deny their Principles and conform , will be destroyed , and their death will be accounted against you in the day of the Lord ; and therefore if ye do not allow Liberty of Conscience , many grievous evils will infallibly follow , both to your selves and your people And what advantage of honour will such be to God and your ; Church , that are against their Consciences and light forced into a conformity for fear and terrour of men ; it makes them manifold more the Children of the Devil , and time-servers , and Hypocrites , and destroys their souls , and such can be no true members of the true Church of Christ , but are Reprobates , and a dishonour to God and your Church . 8. Consider , if ye constrain and compel in matters of Religion , and do not allow liberty of Conscience , it is unreasonable and unequal , and down-right contrary to the Holy and pure Law of God , which saith , ye shall do unto all men , as ye would that men should do unto you , and thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self , and this is the fulfilling of the Law ; But to be imposed upon and persecuted for the cases of Consciences , and for the matters of Worship of God , your selves would not willing be against your light and knowledge , and then it is unequal and unjust , and contrary to the Law of God , for ye to do the same to others , which your selves would not be done unto ; And do not you to this day cry out against the Papists in Queen Maries daies , and at this day in other Nations , and condemn them as Tyrants and Oppressors , for Persecuting , Killing , and Destroying the Protestants , for the matters of their Conscience and difference in Opinion and Judgment ? And will you do the same at this day as they do to others , and follow their example of cruelty and persecution , and break the Law of God , and walk contrary to it , in doing to others what you would not be done unto ? And seeing you condemn the late foregoing Powers in these Kingdoms for Tyrants and Usurpers , and Oppressors , for prohibiting your way of worship , and commanding the contrary , and disanulling so much as they could your service Book and Ministry ; how can you justly do the like to others , as to force waies of Religion upon them , and prohibit theirs and command the contrary ? if you do it , ye condemn your selves by judging of others in the like case .


id: A86663
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1657
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 20718
sentence: 320
flesch: 38
cache: cache/A86663.xml
txt: txt/A86663.txt
title:
  The cause of stumbling removed from all that will receive the truth; and from before the eyes of the wise men of London: in a treatise shewing the difference between the spirit of a man which is the candle of the Lord, and the light which hath enlightned every man that cometh into the world. Also shewing ... there is not diversity of lights and spirits, by which they are ministred ... Herein also is a false hosanna, and a false testimony reproved ... the name of him which hath so long travell'd to bring forth wind and confusion, is one known in the city of London by the name of Iohn Iackson ... that so ... understanding and knowledge of the truth may be increased, in those that follow on to know the Lord. Given forth from the Lords servant, Richard Hubberthorne.

summary:
  Now all people is to know that there was a ministration different from the administration of the Gospel , the new Covenant a different administration from the old ; but there is no necessity that it be ministred from another spirit , nor from another Lord , nor from another Light ; therefore to say , that because the Covenants or Admini●●ration● are diverse one from another , that therefore it must not be the same spirit , but the one by the spirit of man , the other the spirit of God , and that the light● is to be diverse the one from the other , this is a false Testimony ; TO THE READER MEN of low degree are vanity , and men of high degree are a lye ; and the heart of man is desperately wicked and deceitful above all things .


id: A77961
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1659
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 2050
sentence: 39
flesch: 45
cache: cache/A77961.xml
txt: txt/A77961.txt
title:
  To the whole English army, and to every particular member thereof, both officers and souldiers, whether of England, Scotland, or Ireland; these are for them to read, and consider, as wholesome animadversions in this day of distractions / E. Burrough.

summary:
  FRIENDS , WHere is the Good Old Cause now ? and what is become of it ? in whose hands doth it lie ? and where are they that truly contend for it ? as for you , have not you foregone it ? and long since trodden it under foot , and despised it , and only talked of it , but not rightly prosecuted it ; but your own Cause , and not Gods have you served , what do you say ? is the Good Old Cause ceased , and clean perished ? or are you ceased to contend for it , through your unfaithfulness ? or is your strength betrayed , that you cannot plead for it as formerly ? the people of these Nations thinks that you have buried the Good Old Cause , and quite forgotten it now ; for was not the Good Old Cause for liberty , both in Spiritualls and Temporalls ? was it not the ju●● Freedom of all People , that was once contended for , and all Tyranny , and Oppression , and unju●t Lawes once contended against ? and you have seemed once to be the asserters of this , and sometimes the vindicators of it , but what is become of it now ? is your zeal perished ? and where are the faithful contenders for it , seeing so many of the people of the Lord , and of the free people of this Nation have been , and are at this day grievous sufterers under the Opressions and Cruelties of men , and under unjust men , and unjust Lawes ? can you be Ignorant how many hundreds in these Nations have wofully suffered some Imprisonment , others whipping , and others banishment , and others have suffered until death , for Conscience take , and without the breach of any just Law ? and many great Oppressions are this day abounding in the Nations ; and was not the Good Old Cause once laid down , to be against all these things ? but because of your Treachery and unfaithfulnesse , and your forgetting to prosecute the Good Old Cause , therefore have these things come to passe , and the Nations lies like a wildernesse under groaning Oppressions , and in Confusion , and unsettled in the way of peace , which is as a weight and burden of Iniquity in the fight of the Lord ; and the guilt of those unjust sufferings , and of the present oppressions and distractions lies upon you principally , even as much as upon any others ; for time and power hath been in your hands to have freed the Nations from bondage , but you have long turned up and down , and about , for earthly Honor and self-interests ; serving mens pleasure , and have not rightly followed the Good Old Cause , but the rather forgotten it , and neglected it , and have bowed under the Lu●●s and Ambition of men , and served mens private ends , and not the Nations general good ; sometimes appearing for one thing and way , and sometimes for another ; and changing your way , and have been unstable and unconstant in good things , so that the Nation and the good People in it , cannot any longer trust you , for there is no considence to be placed in you ; many had good hopes that some good thing might have been effected by you , when power and time was in your hands ; but you have betrayed such hopes , and are ( as ) quite changed from the Good Old Cause ; and the Nation can judge you now , to be little better then a Mercinary Army , that will do any thing for money , and be led about according to the wills of men ; but how long will it be e're you consider of your selves ? and how woeful you are fallen , from what you once seemed to be ; and when will you remember the Good Old Cause ? but alas , you are divided and broken in pieces , some for one thing , and some for another ; some for an Old Parliament , and some for a New ; and some for a Protector , like as if the names and titles of men and Governments , were sufficient to redeem a Nation from oppressions and miseries ; and so being divided about self-interests , and names , and for persons , you have all left the thing it self Worthy to be contended for , and the Good Old Cause is lost : and now you are for men , and you turn about at their pleasure , and are about things of no value in respect of the Good Old Cause once laid down by you ; ( to wit ) even the perfect freedome of the Nations ; and you are under a great reproach at this day among good men , and your glory is fallen in the sight of the Nations , and your terror lost , and your shame appears : And because of your hypocrisie and unfaithfulness , the Lord hath reproved you , and suffered a check to your ambition , and brought you under the reproof of hard-hearted men : Is there no hope of your return to the Good Old Cause ? When will you begin to appear for things for perfect freedome and liberty , and cease to be for names and men , while the good Cause it self is lost , and the interest of oppression seems to be promoted : Therefore consider , Oh! what an excellent thing would it be , if you would sincerely return to the Good Old Cause : and if you could agree among your selves , few or many of you , to state the Good Old Cause once more in clear and plain principles , and positions ; and if you could lay down right things worthy to be contended for ; and upon which you could engage your lives , ( viz. ) even the perfect liberty of all people , and then say here is the Good Old Cause , and here is the freedome of the Nations laid down , and perfect liberty asserted unto all people whatsoever , both as men and as Christians ; and these things we will vindicate , these things we will have brought to pass , and for these things we will only stand , that they may be accomplished , and neither for Old Parliament nor New , nor any other man nor men , but as they directly are for these things , even for the establishing of Righteousness , Mercy , and Truth in the earth , and taking off all oppressions : and as they proceed upon , and forthwith endeavour the effecting these things ; and whoever are for these things , we are for them , and they for us ; and whosoever are against the Good Old Cause , and perfect freedome , whether Old Parliament or New , or any others whatsoever , we are against them , and will ingage our lives against them .


id: A77966
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1654
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 8961
sentence: 173
flesch: 51
cache: cache/A77966.xml
txt: txt/A77966.txt
title:
  Truth defended. Or, Certain accusations answered, cast upon us who are called Quakers; by the teachers of the world, and the people of this generation. With a cleare discovery, who are the false prophets, and when they came in. And who they are that deny Christ, and that preach another gospel. And who deny the scriptures, churches, ministers, and magistrates, whereby the magistrates and people of this nation may see they justifie that which the scripture condemns, and condemne that which the holy men of God justified. / By a servant of the Lord, whose name in the flesh is, Edward Burrough.

summary:
  True Preaching we owne , and doe witnesse it , which is the Crosse of Christ , and in the power of God , and it is foolishnesse to the World , and its wisedome now , as ever it was ; and we deny all speaking of imaginations from Scripture ▪ which is in the wisedome of the World , and which stands in the will of man , limitted to a set time , or day ▪ or place . And selfe-righteousnesse we have denyed , and have seen it in the same light which Isayah did to be as filthy raggs ; and we declare against it ▪ and against them which live in it ; for selfe must not be saved ▪ it is accursed from God , it is wholly unrighteous ( and makes the best of actions so ) and is ▪ and must be cast out from God Christ Jesus made manifest and revealed in us , is our righteousnesse , and selfe is judged and condemned by him who is made unto us righteousnesse ; nei●her doe we teach people to labour in their owne strength to obtaine life ▪ but doe direct people to the light of Christ within them , which walking in ▪ will be strength to them to leade them to life , the light which is of Christ , to which we direct all to waite in to be taught by ; it will leade out of selfe-righteousnesse , and from under the power of selfe , to witnesse the power of God , to leade , and to act , and to witnesse Christ Jesus revealed the righteousnesse of God And the Church which is in God , which is the body of Christ whereof Christ is head , we witnesse ▪ and are members of it , gathered and joyned by the Eternall spirit , and not by tradition in the wisedome of man .


id: A30553
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1657
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 2951
sentence: 41
flesch: 28
cache: cache/A30553.xml
txt: txt/A30553.txt
title:
  To you that are called Anabaptists in the nation of Ireland teachers and people, who profess your selves to be the Church of Christ; this is the word of the Lord God unto you.

summary:
  YOu are gathered and not in the Spirit of Jesus , nor in the Light of Christ , nor in the power of God ; you are separated but not in the truth , nor in the ground , for the defiled and uncircumcised nature of the world stands alive in you , & you are in the uncrucified estate , in the dominion of death , & under the power of sin : pride , covetousness , hypocrisie , vainglory , and the workes of the flesh abound among you ; to the Light in you which Christ hath lightned you with all , I doe speake , which shall beare witness for me herein ; and against you in the day of the Lord which suddenly comes upon you and all the world , who are not in the Light and power of God : you are bowing down to the Jmage in the fained hippocrisie , of what the Saints Injoyed and witnessed in the life & power of God : you never came truly through the ministration of Moses which reveales wrath upon the uncircumcised , nor you never came to the ministration of Iohn , who is a burning Light and brings down the mountaines , and prepares the way of the Lord before his face , but you are in your taken out observances from the Letter , as the Jews were , but gainsayes and opposes the life of God as they did , and in that nature you stand which put Christ to death , who doth not own the Light whereby he lighteth every man that comes into the world , though him & his words and Ordinances you profess , and performes your own Immitations , in your fleshly wills , and not the worship of God in the Spirit , and in the truth , for the truth you are strangers too : which the divell nor the wicked abides not in , and are alienated in your mindes from the way and councell of the living God , and hath but the name that you live ; and are dead in trespasses & in sins , and the Jmage of God doth not live in you , and you have but the forme of godliness in your sensuall understandings , in that wisdome which is divelish ; & your dead mindes are exercised in the forme without the power , in vaine shewes in set dayes and in set observances , glorying in the flesh , seeking and receiving praise of men , and is but as the Jew , outward whose house of worship and sacrifice is left desolate and you know not the pure moveings and leadings of the pure spirit of the Lord God to rule you , and to teach you in the way of peace , because you doe not beleeve in the Light which Christ Jesus hath lightned you and every man in the world withall , but doth gainsay it , and strive against it , in your high thoughts , and Imaginations to your own condemnation in the sight of God : who are wise in your own conceits , and Righteous in your own Eye , and measures your selves and not with the rule of Judgement .


id: A30555
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1663
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 4119
sentence: 80
flesch: 48
cache: cache/A30555.xml
txt: txt/A30555.txt
title:
  A true description of my manner of life of what I have been in my profession of religion, and what I am at present, by the grace of God / this was given forth some time before that faithful servant of God laid down his body, who was known amongst many, by the name of Edward Burrough.

summary:
  A true description of my manner of life of what I have been in my profession of religion, and what I am at present, by the grace of God / this was given forth some time before that faithful servant of God laid down his body, who was known amongst many, by the name of Edward Burrough. A true description of my manner of life of what I have been in my profession of religion, and what I am at present, by the grace of God / this was given forth some time before that faithful servant of God laid down his body, who was known amongst many, by the name of Edward Burrough.


id: A30525
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1660
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 5933
sentence: 80
flesch: 26
cache: cache/A30525.xml
txt: txt/A30525.txt
title:
  A general epistle to all the saints being a visitation of the Fathers love unto the whole flock of God ... : to be read in all the assemblies, of them, that meet together to worship the Father in the spirit and truth ... / E.B.

summary:
  But if the mans part live above the Seed of God , that , will be drawn aside by the love or by the terrour of this world , for that is changable , and the evil one hath a part in it ; so that part is to be kept in subjection in you , under the Seed of God , and it must bear the Cross of Christ alwayes , else you will be overcome of the wicked , for in that part ( the mans part ) which is of this world , the Devil hath something , a place to receive him , and a part to obey him ; but in the Seed of God he hath nothing , neither place nor part : And so Friends , live in the Seed of God , for in that is your Victory and heavenly Dominion ; and also your Election and your Assurance for ever , even in the second birth , begotten of the Father , for that is the Heir of God , and therein doth man inherit Eternal Life , and Rest , and Peace , to his Soul , and therein is Blessings and Peace , and life inwardly and outwardly , and all fulness is enjoyed , where the Lord is the Teacher , the Father , the Shepheard , the Master , the King and Iudge ; and he is become to us the all in all , and the Kingdom delivered to him , and all subjected under him , even God with us , the substance of all , the end of all , and all the contrary put under , even the Lyon and the Lamb laid down together , and man lives in Peace according to the Promise ; and the Mountain of the Lords House is established on the top of all , in which nothing can destroy or hurt the pure Life ; but life is in Dominion over all , and Death is swallowed up of it . And for this cause , that men should be saved from wrath , and have peace with God , the message of Life and Salvation , hath the Lord sent abroad plentifully in this Nation , and you have received it and believed the report , though many have rejected it unto their destruction , whose Iudgement will be upon them ; but you haue tasted , handled , and felt of the Word of Eternal Life , by which the Lord hath wounded you , and healed you again ; and many hath he slain and made them alive , even through his Word and Power , which hath entred into many hearts , which killeth the enmity , and quickneth the Seed , and which breaketh off from all the worlds fellowship , both in Transgressions and Righteousness , and makes all void , all Covenants with Death and Hell , and marryeth unto the Lamb , and the marriage of the Lamb is come unto many , even unto all in whom his innocent and heavenly nature is begotten and brought forth ; for this is of his flesh and of his bone ; and here is his wife that hath made her self ready , and is prepared for the Bridegroom ; and blessed are ye , if ye know these things and be witnesses of them , even the marriage of the Lamb , and the making ready of his Elected in you , even the reviving and quickning of his flesh , and of his bone ; for this is the Virgin unto whom he is joyned , that hath put away all other lovers , and loveth the Lord with all the heart , and with all the Soul , who is cloathed with perfect beauty and innocency , and covered with Divine Righteousness , in which there is no spot , being delivered out of the wilderness , and freed from her mourning state , and is no more separated from her husband , but she again quickened into Life , and adorned with beauty , and married to the Lamb , to live with him for evermore .


id: A30526
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1659
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 26724
sentence: 151
flesch: -75
cache: cache/A30526.xml
txt: txt/A30526.txt
title:
  Good counsel and advice rejected by disobedient men and the dayes of Oliver Cromwells visitation passed over, and also of Richard Cromwel his son ...

summary:
  O let thy ear be opened unto the cryes of the oppressed in the prisons ; and let the cause of the innocent come before thee , and let thy heart be pierced at the consideration of these things which are come to pass in thy dayes , contrary to the expectation of many , and see if it be , not contrary to thy own promises sometimes vowed by thee ; let the light of Christ in thy own conscience answer , and some of the multitude of the grievous oppressions of which the Land is full , hath been laid at thy door and brought unto thee , but scarcely found an entrance upon thee ; and this aggravates the crime of thy transgression , in that thou knowest of these things ; & wonderful is it to consider , that even thou with whom the power of the Lord hath sometimes been , should now suffer that people with whom the power of the Lord is to be persecuted , and thy name to be a cloak for it ; how many in all parts of this Nation have been and are at this day grievous sufferers under cruel bondage concerning tythes , that great abomination and idol , and cause of heavy groanings ? the bodies of many just men violently surprized , and cast into Goals and prisons unjustly , and some illegally ; their cruelly suffering the loss of their liberties and the enjoyments of their families , and honest Assemblies ; and others have their goods spoiled and made havock upon , almost to the ruine of families by unreasonable men , through unjust Judgement and cruel dealings of some in Authority for so much unjustly , challenged by the Priest or impropriator , it may be ; they distress five times so much , to the great shame of the government of a Christian Nation ; as may appear in a Book called the cry of the oppressed ; and how many are ready even to faint under the hard oppression of maintaining hireling Teachers , and idol Temples ; many for that cause also being unjust sufferers in bodies and estates , by cruel imprisonment and spoiling of goods ; the very cry of this oppression reaches unto heaven against thee , who suffers it , and against the idol shepherds who are the ground of it , who makes a prey upon Gods heritage ; and the Lord God will be avenged upon them , and they and their staff shall utterly perish ; wo unto them , and to the idol worships of which the Land is full , which they uphold , which causes the hearts of the righteous to mourn , because of the seed of God which is in captivity under them ; again many are unjust and woful sufferers because they cannot swear on this or that occasion , though in all causes they speak the truth , and do obey Christs commands , even such are trodden upon by unjust fines charged upon them , and imposed oppressions ; the example of which never went before ; many parts of this Land is witness of this ; and this is by the corruptness of some that bear rule under thee , who rules not for God as they ought , but turns the sword of justice , and doth unjustly thereby , and grieves the Lord , and dishonours thee ; Again some suffer long and tedious imprisonments , and others cruel stripes and abuses , and danger of life many times from wicked men , for reproving sin and crying against the abomination of the times , which the Scriptures also testifie against , in streets or Temples , or other places ; some having been sent to prison , taken on the high way , and no evil charged against them , and others committed , being taken out of peaceable meetings , and whipped and sent to prison without transgression of any Law , just or unjust , wholly through the rage and envy of the Devil , and such who have perverted Judgement and Justice , and some in prisons have suffered superaboundantly from the hands of the cruel Gaolers , and their servants , by beatings and threatnings , and putting irons on them , and not suffering any of their friends to visit them with necessaries ; and some have died in the prisons , whose lives was not dear to them , whose blood will be reckoned on account against thee , one day ; and many more other wayes have suffered grievous things , as banishments out of Towns , and whipping and stocking , and grievous unjust abuses , and none of these for evil doing , but for good ; even because they cannot bow to the Devil , but are redeemed out of the world and therefore the world hates them , and some have suffered hard cruelties because they could not respect persons and bow with Hat , or knee ; and from these cruelties canst thou not altogether be excused in the sight of God ; being brought forth in thy name and under thy power ; consider friend , and be awakened to true Judgement , let the Lord search thy heart , and lay these things to mind , that thou may be an instrument to remove every burthen , and may at last fulfill the will of God , are they nothing to thee ; that such things should be brought forth under thee ? O , be awakened , be awakened , and now seek the Lords glory and not thine own , least thou perish before the Lord and men ; nay if men would give thee * honour and high Titles and princely thrones take it not , for that which would exalt and honour thee in the world , would betray thee to the world and cast thee down in the sight of the world , and this is Gods word to thee ; what ? shall the whole Nation be perjured men , and thou the cause of it ? and wilt thou transgresse by building again that which thou hast destroyed ? then shall the Lord and his light in every conscience bear witness against thee , let it not be , but deny thy self and thou wilt find the Lord honouring thee , give heed unto my words and understand my speech , be not exalted by man least man betray thee ; the Lord give thee an understanding in this and guide thee in his Councel , and the rather above all things , let thy heart be stirred up in thee for the Lord , for now is he setting up the dominion of his Son , which never shall have an end , and thy Dominion must bow under it , and all the Dominions of the earth , or else be confounded and broken to pieces , the glory of the Lord is revealing , and thine shall be vailed before it , and the glory of all flesh shall fall ; therefore strive not openly nor secretly against his way , for it shall prosper , there is no enchantment against us nor any formed weapon that can prosper ; knowest thou not that the King of Righteousnesse might command thousands of his Saints to avenge him of his adversaries , and to plead his cause against the rebellious ? all power is in his hand , yea and the authority and dominion shall be in the hands of his Saints , and every one that exalts himself against them shall be brought down , not by an outward sword or might of man , but by his out-stretched arm , and all crowns that are mortal shall be troden down , by him whose crown is immortal and never fades away ; therefore be wise and learned , this is thy day , as thou dealest or sufferest to be done with the Lords people , so to thee it shall be done in that day , when their Government shall outreach thine and be set a top of it , as thou hopes for mercy from the Lord , when his Kingdom conquers thee and thine ; Now deal favourably and relieve the oppressed ; boast not thy self though the Lord hath used thee in his hand , but know that when he will he can cast thee , a rod , out of his hand into the fire ; for in his hand thou art , if thou honour him he will honour thee , otherwise he can , yea , and will confound thee and break thee , and make thee weak as water before him ; his love , through my heart , breaths unto thee ; he would thy happinesse if thou wilfully contemn it not , by exalting thy self and seeking thine own glory , and hardening thy heart against the cry of the poor ; and this I was moved in the bowels of pitty to lay before thee , who am thy friend , not in flattery , but in an upright heart , who wisheth well unto thee in the Lord . Dear Friend , BE still , and in the Counsel of God stand , and that will give thee wisdom , that thou maist frustrate mens end , and calm mens spirits , and crumbel men under , and arise and stand up in the power of the Lord God , the Lambs authority , and fear not the face of man , but fear and dread the Lord God , then his presence and wisdom and counsel thou shalt have to throw down the rubbish , and quell all the bad spirits under thy dominion , and fear them about thee ; live in the Lords power and life , then to thee he will give wisdom , and the pure feeling thou wilt come into , whereby thy Soul will be refreshed , and it will be thy delight to do the Will of God , and thy meat and drink , as thou in the pure Eternal Power , Counsel , Will and Wisdom of God dwells , things all will be made plain before thee , and to thee from the Lord God , in what thou doest for the Lord God thou shalt have peace and the blessing , and in that so doing , all the sober true hearted people will be one with thee in travels , sorrows and pains , and then in that a blessing from the Lord will come upon thee , will abound to thee and cover thee , as thou lives and art kept in the power and dread of the Lord God of Heaven and earth , where Wisdom is not wanting , nor peace lacking , but peace enjoyed , and counsel and instruction from the Lord God given , and the helping arm and hand that stretcheth over all the Nations in the world , thou wilt feel it , and with that thou wilt come to break down all mens ends that they have to themselves , and the worships that men invent , and images they have set up , for the arm of the Lord helps the righteous , by his hand he carries the Lambs , which arm is turned against the wicked stretched over them , and the hand of the Lord is against them that do evil , in which hand the Soul is , and brings it into peace ; therefore live in the power of the Lord God , and feel his hand that is stretched out over the Nations , for a mighty work hath the Lord to do in other Nations , and their quakings and shakings is but entering .


id: A30531
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1661
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title:
  A just and righteous plea presented unto the King of England, and his council, &c. being the true state of the present case of the people, called Quakers, truly demonstrated, and justly pleaded, on their behalf : and this is laid down in six particulars ... / by ... Edw. Burroughs.

summary:
  It is his great Enemy , because it is contrary to the Trust which God hath reposed in him , in promoting him to be King over these People ; for God hath not committed Power to him , to judge in the Cases of Mens Consciences , and to persecute any because of the exercise thereof , whether they be of this Profession and Practice in Religion , or the other , yet living peaceably and uprightly as Men , he ought not to persecute any , nor to suffer them to be persecuted by , nor under his Authority ; but he ought to defend and preserve all mens Persons and Estates in their Just Rights , from the violence each of others , without respect to what their Profession and Practice of Religion is ; but if the contrary be brought forth , it is contrary , and not answerable to the end of God's Restoring Him to these Kingdoms ; and if He do not what God hath justly called him unto , but otherwise , this is his Enemy ; and such is Persecution for Conscience sake , it is contrary to the end of Just Government , and wherefore God hath Restored him ; and therefore this Persecution is an utter Enemy both to the King's Person and Authority . 4. Nor is it manifest , but that we are ready to acknowledge so to continue , in all good Conscience and Righteousness : And therefore we do appeal to the God of Heaven , and to King Charles , and to all People whatsoever , That our present Sufferings by Imprisonment , and whatsoever else we may suffer in this Case , for Refusing to take the Oath of Alleagiance , it is not for Plotting against the King , nor for refusing to acknowledge Iust Authority to the King , nor for denying Iust Obedience to him and the Good Laws of the Land , nor for denying to live peaceably in the Kingdom under the King's Authority ; Because to all this we acknowledge solemnly in Yea and Nay : Neither are our Sufferings in this case , for any Evil-doing towards God nor Men ; but our Sufferings are for keeping the Commands of Christ , which to us is matter of Conscience to perform , more than to save our own Lives or Estates ; and our Sufferings are , because we cannot Swear at all , and not because we are Rebellious , or that we deny Iust Allegiance to the King : and such our Sufferings are not as Evil-doers , nor justly and righteously as Offenders ; because we are not guilty of Evil in this case , towards God nor Man , and our Sufferings are Cruel Persecution for our Tender Conscience sake , and for the Name of Christ Iesus : And we call God and Just Men to witnesse between Us and our Prosecutors , that as Saints and Servants of God we suffer in this Case , and for our Faithfulnesse and Obedience to the King of Heaven , and not for Evil-doing or Disobedience to King Charles and his Authority : And if any be persecuted in this case , for Refusing to take the Oath of Allegiance , to the Ruine of Persons , Wives and Families in this World ; then we shall have cause to say , Occasion is wrongfully taken against us , to destroy us , and we are proceeded against , contrary to the End of Iust Government , which is , to preserve the Peaceable , and not to destroy them ; and contrary to the King 's former Promises , who hath said , VVe should not suffer for matters of our Religion and Conscience , living peaceably in the Land ; And if we suffer , because we cannot swear at all , such our Suffering is for our Conscience sake , and we are therein persecuted unrighteously , as Innocent People , and without just cause ; And we must commit this our Cause to God , who regardeth the Oppressions of his People , and will avenge their Cause in his season .


id: A86649
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1654
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title:
  The fiery darts of the divel quenched; or, Something in answer to a book called, a second beacon fired, presented to the Lord Protector, and the Parliament, and subscribed by Luke Fawne, John Rothwel, Samuel Gellibrand, Thomas Underhill, Joshua Kirton, Nathaniel Web. Wherin, their lies and slanders are made manifest against the innocent, and those books which have been published by them they call Quakers, owned and vindicated, and all the rest which is in that book disowned, and their deceite laid open; how they have perverted the truth and our words in those books which they cry out of as blasphemy, that the truth may not suffer under the reproach of the heathen. / By one who is a witnesse for the truth against Gog and Magog, called after the flesh, Francis Howgil. Also something in answer to a booke called a voice from the Word of the Lord, by one John Griffith, against us, whom the world calls Quakers, wherein his false accusations is denied, and he proved to be a slanderer, and the truth cleared from his scandals. By one who is a witnesse against the deceits of the world, called Edward Burrough.

summary:
  Faith was before the Scripture was , and therfore the Scripture is not the ground of it , but a declaration of it , and no other faith we owne but the faith which Abel had , and which Moses had , which was when no Scripture was written , and that we own to be the rule of our conversation , which they walked by , the immediate spirit of God which was before the Scripture was written ; and all you who professe the Scripture to be your rule , your own rule shal testifie against you when the eternal God judges you , and they vvho vvitness that to bee their rule which gave forth the Scripture , walkes up in the life of the Scripture more then you all ; and you are proved to be but the Jew outward , who bosts of the Ordinances from the letter , but persecutes them by slanders and false reproaches , who witnesse the substance ; and your praise is only of men , and not of God ; and the same woe which thou pronounces upon us wil fall upon thy owne head for this thy grievous slander , that we neglect the law , and teach men so to do ; and whereas thou brings many Scriptures , and saith thus saith the Lord , I answer , the Scriptures we owne , and by that spirit which speaks them forth , wee witnesse them to be true , and they are ours ; and though you say they are the savour of death to us that perish , yet thou art found a lier , for wee are saved out of the perishing state , and death is destroyed through death , and thou hast diminished ( through faith ) from that Scripture 2 Tim. 3. 15. false prophet like againe , and so art both an adder and a diminisher , and thou maist read thy portion in Rev. 22. 18 , 19. and whereas thou saiest , know this thou perverter of the right way of God , thou shalt bee judged by the word of Christ spoke . O thou lier and false accuser , the Lord who takes our part against thee will plead with thee , and render upon thy head according to thy deedes ; prove what thou speaks that we are fleshly minded and spiritually proud , or else let thy mouth be stopped and shame cover thee for ever ; sorceries and witchcraft and drawing from the simplicity of the Gospel wee doe deny ; but the plaine single truth wee doe declare , by which the eye of the blind is opened in many to see your deceits who call your selves Churches and Preachers of the Gospel ; which is not the Gospel that the Apostles preached but an adding your own Imaginations upon their words , who witnessed the Gospel , and it shal stand for thy own condition , thou art in the sorcery and witchraft ; who draws people to observe an outward visible thing , from the light of Christ within them ; which leades to the simplicity of the Gospel , which is inward and not outward ; and thou art in thy fleshly and corrupt thoughts , crying up the Ordinances and Oracles , of God , which are but carnal and beggerly rudiments of the world , which passeth away ; and here thou art seen and made manifest in the light of Christ , to be a hypocrite , who false accuses others of that which thou art guilty of thy selfe ; the same Gospel as ever was , doe we declare ; and not another , which wee received not from man , neither was taught it by man : and as the Oracles of God it shall stand for ever for a witnesse against thee , and all the world who doth not believe , for even the Father beares witnesse of us , and therefore our witnesse is true ; and the righteous God will plead with thee thou lyar and false accuser , and here be a witnesse against thy selfe that the Lord moved thee not , but the Divil , acting in thy owne imaginations , and in the vanity of thy one minde , and in thy one fleshly and corrupt thoughts ; and whereas thou sayest to us thou directs thy speech from the Lord , thus saith the Lord to thee O Quaker , thou art fleshly minded .


id: A30548
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1659
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title:
  To Charles Fleetvvood, steward, Robert Hatton, recorder, Sackford Gunstone, Henry Wilcock, baliffs being judges in the Court of Kingstone upon Thames : the state of the old controversie ... between Richard Mayo, plaintiffe, and Edward Burrough, defendant / by Edward Burrough.

summary:
  At my first appearance in my first answer , I demurred to the jurisdiction of your Court , and shewes that your Court and Judicatory being temporal , you could not ( in that Courtt ) ake cognizance of this cause , being of a spiritual Dependancy , and ought onely to be tried in spiritual Jurisdiction by spiritual Judges ( if there were any such ) and shewed out of the Laws of England reasonably that your Court had no power to try this matter ; But one of the Bayliffs , Iohn Forth said ( which should have been my equal Judge ) they would over-rule that , and they would try the matter , without shewing any just reason out of the Laws , against my Argument grounded upon the Laws , and they did over-rule me in that ; and the Court-day before the Tryal , when the Jury-men was to be chosen and nominated , I told them that the Jury-men should be such as had the gif of the holy Spirit , and the holy Ghost in them , or else they could not try the matter , because it was Doctrine that was to be Tryed ▪ which none could try , but by the Spirit of God ; Neither could I cast my self into the Determination of any in this cause but such ; And the Bayliffs Obadia Wicks , and Iohn Forth answered , if they were men that could take the evidence that I spoke my words against Richard Mayo , they were sufficient to try the matter ; whereby it doth appear that they had unjustly determined in themselves , not to try the Doctrines , but to have a verdict against me howsoever ; again some that were called to be of the Jury were heard to say , before they saw me , or ever heard the matter ; if I came into their hands they knew well enough what to do with me ; hereby it doth appear they were not equal men , but malicious and prejudiced against me ; and moreover in the very time of the tryal , some of the Jury , at the Bar , said , they would not believe any thing , or take any witnesse for testimony , which any of those on my part , that were called Quakers , spoke ; and this was also the witness of their malicious , and envious spirits against me , who were rather as a party against me , then my equalls ; And were not these unjust men for the tryal of such a matter ? and moreover when all his witnesses could not say enough to give colour for a verdict against me , one of the Bayliffs , Iohn Forth by name , who was one of the Judges upon the Bench , proffered to come down off the Bench , and swear as a witnesse against me ; and when some spake against that , he sent for a man into the Court out of the Town , Iames Levite by name , and whispered with him upon the Bench , & told him what he should swear , and he went to the Bar and took his oath against me , that I followed Richard Mayo with reviling Language , in three several roomes , in Bayliff Gunstones house , which I do testifie , was a false oath , before the Lord , and all men ; and many knowes that I speak the truth , & that that man took a false oath , who was sent for into the Court , & told by one of the Judges what he should swear ; I suppose Bayliff Gunston himself knowes that this was a false witness , & are not these unjust proceedings ? I appeal to your consciences , and upon such proceedings as these , was a verdict gained against me , by much a do , in above three hours time ; and the Foreman of the Jury himself said , he would not have brought a verdict against me , but onely for the mans oath , Iames Levite , which as I have said , swore falsly , being sent for , and told by another man what he should say ; Again , when the foreman of the Iury said , they could not try the cause , and desired it might be referred , the said Bayliff Forth on the Bench cryed no , and told Richard Mayo he should not referr it , he should have a verdict first , and ought my Judge thus to have spoken ? Therefore in the fear of the Lord God , I say unto you , take heed what you do in this matter ; but deal impartially in the sight of the Lord , in the examination thereof , and try , whether I have spoken the truth , or whether I have spoken falsly ; and hearken to my plea , which I have often asserted before you , and do yet once more lay before your view , and I do appeal to the light of your consciences , and let that justifie me , or condemn me ; and this I testifie as my sufficient Plea : unto you , ( which no man hath truly answered before you , ) that I have spoke nothing but the truth of Richard Mayo my adversary ; to this I stand to be justified , and if I be condemned , it is for this , this resteth with me for ever , and if I fall , I fall for it , ( viz ) for speaking the truth , and if I stand , I stand by it , and no man whatsoever can convince me to the contrary ; and hereof am I invincible , and if you condemn me for this ( to wit ) for speaking the truth , it will be upon you , and I am clear , and this is my onely plea , which I have often , and may by the spirit of the Lord alwayes clearly demonstrate , and I do indeed wave all the multitude of arguments that hath been , or can be made , by the lawyers in this businesse , and not by words of mans wisdom , but by truth must I be justified ; and I do here again return to my first manner of proceeding , and stand to the naked simplicity of truth , and I have no other defence to shelter under , neither do I chuse any , nor no other weapon to resist my enemy with , but the word of the Lord which is truth ; and if truth will not justifie me , I will not be justified , and if it will condemn me , my mouth shall be stopped ; for by the truth I stand , and if I fall , I fall for it , in this matter ; and therefore you my Judges patiently hear a few words again , as to the beginning of the matter betwixt Richard Mayo , and me , which is thus , He sent for me by a messenger to come to him , and being come to him , he challenged me to speak what I had against him , & again under his own hand he challenged me to dispute , either in publick or private with him ; and he again bad me call him deceiver if I durst , and upon all these four particular invitations and challenges , and also knowing him to be guilty , as I am still able to prove ; I did say to him that he held forth damnable doctrine , and errour , and that he was a deceiver , and this was the beginning of the controversy ; whereby I would have you to take notice , how unrighteously he hath dealt with me , first to invite me , and challenge me several times ; and then for speaking the truth of him ( which I am able prove ) to arrest me , imprison me , and thus to prosecute me , is not this unchristian like , & not like a Minister of Christ ? and this I proved in your court , his challenging of me , and also I have manifested divers particular sayings of his , which doth appear to all sober men to be damnable Doctrine , and error ; and for the manifesting of my innocent cause further , and that you may know , that you ought not to condemn me , ( neither can you with a safe and good conscience in the sight of God ) and to lay the truth as plainly as I can before you ; therefore I do here insert the particulars to you again , which I proved in the open Court against Richard Mayo , which I do say is damnable doctrine , and error , all , or some of them at least .


id: A30554
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1658
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title:
  The true Christian religion again discovered after the long and dark night of apostacy, which hath overshadowed the whole world for many ages ... by a friend to all people, especially them that feares God, and loves righteousness.

summary:
  Come forth and plead your cause all ye that are called Presbyterians , and Independents , and all others , stand up , and prove if you can , your practice in religion to be according to Scriptures ; but seing no man is able to prove these things mentioned , which is practised by you for Religion , to wit , Sprinkling of Infants , and singing Davids experiences in rime and meeter , and worshipping God in set-places , as Idol-Temples , and preaching for , and giving great s●ms of money for preaching , with other things practised by you for Religion ; neither were these things ever commanded in Scriptures ; neither is there any example for the practise of these things in Scripture by any of the Lords people , & therefore you cannot justly own a title in the Protectors oath , to be maintained and upheld by vertue thereof in these your practises of Religion ; for it appears he is but bound onely to uphold and maintain that Religion which is according to Scriptures , and not them who practiseth those things for Religion which are not according , but contrary to the Scriptures ; Likewise all ye that are called gathered churches , who holds forth for Doctrine that the Scriptures are the word , ( by which the world was made ) and that the Scriptures are the foundation ; and that the Scriptures are the way to salvation ; & that the Letter and the Spirit are unseparable ; and that the Scriptures are both the writings and the thing signified ; and that except a man be baptized with water , he cannot be saved ; with such like Doctrines which have been held forth by some professing themselves to be of the church of Christ ; all you are manifest not to be of the christian religion , because those doctrines are not according , but rather contrary to the Scriptures : Likewise all ye whose practise in the exercise of Religion is but by imitation from the Scriptures , and you are not led by the spirit of the Father in what you speak , & practise , you are not of the true christian religion wch the Scripture speaks of ; for the sons of God , & who are of the true Religion , are led by the spirit of God , & not by their own thoughts & imaginations , & the traditions of men ; and all that are not led by the spirit of the Father , are not of the true christian Religion as it is held forth in the Scriptures , and not any that are such can justly own to be protected in their Religion , because it is not according to the Scriptures ; likewise all ye that doth profess the things of God and Christ , and that you are members of the church of Christ , and professes righteousness and truth in words , and yet lives in pride and the vanities of this world , and in unrighteousness , and the customs of the heathen , which are vain ; & are not clensed from unrighteousnes , nor freed from the body of sin & death ; neither doth answer your profession wth a conversation , shewing that you are not guided with that spirit whose words you do profess , all you are hypocrites , & lives in hypocrisie , none of you are of the true Christian Religion as it is held forth in the Scriptures ; for the exercise in true Religion sheweth forth in life what is professed in words ; come try your selves , and prove your selves all sorts of people , for now your Religion is to be tryed , what Name soever you go under ; and all you that practise and profess those things for Religion for which there is neither command nor president in Scripture , your Religion is concluded not to be according to Scriptures , and so no title or priviledge can any of you justly own of being upheld or maintained by the Protectors oath ; but as I have said , for sprinkling of Infants , and singing Davids experiences in rime and meeter , &c there is neither command nor president in Scriptures , and therefore you that practise those things which I have mentioned for Religion , are not of the true christian Religion which is according to the Scriptures , which is to be protected . So that all people may see , though the people of the Lord be persecuted , and reviled , and imprisoned , and cruelty done unto them ; and though it be done by the chief Magistrates , and chief Rulers , and the wise men of this age , all this is according to the Scriptures , and that the Scriptures might be fulfilled ; and the same things which are now done unto the people of God , were done unto the people of God in ages past by the same instruments , to wit , the Rulers and Magistrates ; and by the same means , to wit , by the information , and false accusations of the chief Priests and Teachers ; in Jeremiah you may read how the Priests sought to take away his life ; and you may read how the chief Priests consulted against Christ , and how they complained to the Magistrates against him and the Apostles ; and the same things are now come to pass , and we do not strange at it , for it is the chief Priests of England that doth most seek the persecution , and causes the people of God to be persecuted by their complaining and petitioning to the Magistrates ; so that in all these things , not onely what is practised and preached for Doctrine , but also in what is suffered , is perfectly according to the Scriptures , and all people that are not blind , may see that this Religion is in all things agreeable with the Scriptures , both in what they do and in what they suffer , so that this is given forth for the good information of the Protector , and all Magistrates , that they may hear the tryal of all things , and may not falsly conjecture or suppose , and thereupon give judgement without any true knowledge , let them search the Scripture , and try ; I hope the worst of men hath so much conscience , that they will stand in awe of the breach of their own oaths , and that they will perform unto the Lord and unto all men , what they have firmly ( and not compell'd ) sworn to do ; and thus it may be hoped the woful persecution wil cease , which is lamentable to be declared , how the people of the Lord have sufferd in many things , even them whose Religion is proved to be according to the Scriptures , who practice nothing for Religion , neither holds forth any thing for Doctrine but that which is perfectly agreeable to the Scriptures , as all people hereby may understand ; which Religion the Protector hath sworn to maintain and uphold ; then who shall presume to persecute the people whose practise in Religion is proved to be the very same which his oath extends to maintain ? Surely no men will be so impudent , or shew such rebellion to Government , as to endeavour to break down and destroy that people whose Religion is proved to be justly that which he is by oath bound to maintain ; some heretofore before this Oath was taken , might plead ignorance , and say they knew not the mind of the Protector ; but now his mind is fully discovered , and he doth not onely allow , but also hath solemnly sworne to maintain and uphold that Christian Religion which is according to Scriptures ; and it is proved what people it is whose Religion is so ; and I say again , That same people mentioned doth practice nothing , neither holds forth any thing for Doctrine , but it is either commanded , or there is president for it in Scripture , or agreeable thereto ; and therefore that same people is of the true Christian Religion which the Lord Protector hath bound himselfe to maintain , by oath in the face of the whole Nations , so that none of the Magistrates now can plead ignorance ▪ for as he is sworn to uphold the people of God in their Religion , so are they bound to be true to him and the Government , and to fulfil the good Laws , and his oaths and enterprises ; so that I say again , it may be hoped for the time to come , for protection , and to be maintained , and no longer persecuted and destroyed in their persons and estates , as formerly they have been , if men regard their own oaths , or there be any truth or sincerity in the heart of man ; and I say ,


id: A30561
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
title: A visitation and presentation of love unto the King, and those call'd Royallists
date: 1660
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summary:
  We do believe he may and ought justly , and with most safety to himself , and happiness to the Kingdoms , Tollerate and Allow free LIBERTY of CONSCIENCE in all the Matters of Faith and Worship towards God ; for LIBERTY in exercise of CONSCIENCE , in the Matters of Gods Kingdom , is a very precious thing to the Lord , and very dear in his sight , and he is tender of it ; and I do stedfastly believe , he will not bless the Rulers of this Nation , that shall deny ( to the People of this Nation ) and oppose LIBERTY of CONSCIENCE in the exercise of Faith and Worship towards God ; for I do know it is not given of God to any Earthly King or Ruler whatsoever , to exercise Lordship over the Consciences of People in the Matters of Faith and Worship , and the things pertaining to Gods Kingdom ; for Kings and Rulers , are but to Rule over men in a Nation , in the Matters between one man and another , in outward things and worldly affairs ; and therein only men ought to Rule in Equity over a Nation , or City , or Country ; and Magistracy in this state , and for such an end is Gods Ordinance appointed of him , for the preserving of Peace and good order among men in outward things ; and it is a priviledge of the Crown of Christs Spiritual Kingdom , to be Lord and Ruler over and in mens Consciences , in Faith and Worship , and all the Matters of his Kingdom , even as and according to his pleasure , and as his Spirit leads and guids ; for , and if any man shall assume to prescribe God a way how he must be Worshipped , and shall limit his Spirit from this , or to the other way of Religion , and think to be Lord in mens Consciences in religious Matters , such are but Usurpers , and are not well-pleasing to the Lord ( in such their way and Government ) if they oppress mens Consciences , by limiting from , or compelling to any such way of Worship or kind of Religion ; neither are they Ordained to Rule among men for that end , not to be King and Iudge , and Law giver in Heavenly and Spiritual Matters ; and this ought not CHARLES ( the King ) to do : but and if he do it , and will not let Christ alone be the Head over his Church , it cannot be with safety to himself , nor happiness to the Kingdoms , nor justly in the sight of God , but it will work contrary effects : And whether this Rebuke and Reproof that you have had in this measure of Suffering that hath been upon you , was not in some measure Iust as from the Lord ; that you might be humbled before him ; though it is by me acknowledged that your Enemies ( these I mean ) who are now cast out before you ; brought great guilt upon themselves , in executing Wrath upon you , in that , and because they proceeded further , and into more Bitterness , and Cruelty towards you , then they had either Commission or Authority from God ; But whether there was not a Iustice as from the Lord in that which partly befel you ? And was not his hand many times against you in Battel , though Number nor Valour was not wanting on your part , yet are not you sensible how by a Secret hand you were often Defeated , and Victory given to your Enemies , though the less in Number ? And were not these things in the Iustice of the Lords Hand ? Whether do you not believe it , and acknowledge it ? Quer. 5. Whether or no you do intend any Reformation from OLD Oppressions ? Or whether you intend to tread in the very steps and to walk in the very path in every Particular of Government , as it stood & was carryed on in the beginning of CHARLES the First his dayes ? And whether you ought not in the sight of God and before him , to consider how to relieve the Oppressed , and break off all Cruel Bonds of Injustice , & how a Government may be set up , which may be answerable to the Lord , & not unto your own and other Corrupted mens ends ? but if you shall do so , Whether do you Answer the End or Deny the End , wherefore the Lord hath thus dealt with you , in giving of you this Day unexpected , and contrary to all your Enemies ? And whether do you not believe , that God hath set you between good and evil , between Right and Wrong , between doing of his Will and the Will of the Devil , in the doing and fullfilling one or the other by you , whether doth not Depend Happiness and Blessedness upon you ; or the Woe and the Curse , your Standing or your Fall , your Renown or your Dishonour perpetually ? Quer. 6. Whether or no you do not believe in your Consciences , that the Prosperity , and Continuance , and Happiness of this your Government to your selves , the King , and Kingdomes ; or the Unhappiness , Overthrow , Misery , and Confusion of the Government it self , the King and these Nations , doth not stand and wholly depend upon the Government and Authority , as it proceedeth in Iustice , Righteousness and Equity , or as it is , and proceedeth contrary , and is Injustice , Oppression , and Unrighteousness ? And if therein it stand , whether do you believe in your Consciences that God shall Bless it , and Prosper it ; or he shall Destroy it , and Confound it ? for is not the hand of the Lord Stretched forth in Mercy , or in Iudgment accordingly as men walketh in his Fear , or without his Fear ? And whether if your CAUSE be Iust in it self , yet if-you walk in Unrighteousness , and Ungodliness , and Oppression , and Cruelty , Whether may not you thereby destroy your Cause and Loose it , and provoke the Lord to anger against you , and your Cause , to Confound you , and Destroy you ? And whether you do seriously Consider of this ? And is it not your Duty so to do ? And ought you not to endeavour to stop this Flood of Wickedness that is broken out ? which if it it be not stopped may provoke God against you , to overthrow your proceedings . Quer. 7. What is the very End of Rule and Government outward in this World ? And for what Cause did God at the first ordain it ? whether upon this , or not , really consider ; Was it not that Evil Doers might be Punished ; And them that did well , might be Praised ? And was not the outward Law added because of Transgrssion , and to Punish Transgressors ; But for the Preserving of the Peaceable and Meek , who walked in the Law of God ; and when the People had forgotten God , and his Law in their hearts , and his Power that executed Iudgment and Meroy ; Was it not then that the Law outward was added , and committed into the Hands of Men to execute upon such as regarded not the Law of God in their hearts ? And is not this the very End of Rule and Government , and Magistracy , at this very day ? Whether ought it to be extended further than only over and concerning the Affairs of the outward Man , to keep that in good order , not to be a Load and Burthen , and Vexation , and Bondage upon a Nation and People ; but to Suppress that which would Load and Burthen , and Oppress the Creation and People , that all men may be preserved in their just Right , and not Vex and Oppress one anothers Persons and Estates ? And if your Government be not from this Ground and for this very End , shall it ever be blessed and happy , either to the Governors or Governed ? Quer. 8. What do you believe of , and concerning LIBERTY of CONSCIENCE , in all Matters appertaining to the Kingdome of God ? Whether ought not you to give that LIBERTY in your Government , that every man and all sorts of People may believe in God , and Worship God according as he or they shall suppose and be perswaded in his or their Consciences ; provided still , that he and they annoy not , or Oppress his or their neighbors Person or Estate ? for if he or they do that , then he and they go out of the true Faith , and breaks the Law of God ; and the outward Law is to take hold of him and them : But whether it is not a just Right , and may justly be allowed from you , to all the People of this Nation , to live under what Ministry , and under what Worship , and to go to what Assemblies , as they shall suppose or be perswaded in their Consciences is the Best and Rightest ? And whether or no it be not GODS Proper Right alone to be Ruler and Lord over mens Consciences , and that he alone should Prescribe , Instruct , and Teach Faith , Worship , and Duty , in all things in the matters of his own Kingdome ? And whether God hath committed that Power and Authority , ever since the dayes of Christ , to any Emperor , King , or other Ruler whatsoever , to be Lord , and to exercise Lordship , in , and over mens Consciences in the matters appertaining to Gods Kingdome ? And whether it is not Gods only and alone Peculiar Priviledge to be Lord there ; and not any man to impose one upon another in Spiritual Matters ? And whether you your selves would be Imposed upon in such case ? ( that is ) Whether you would have such a Church-Government and Ministry , Imposed upon you , upon such or such a Penalty , which you Know , or Believe , or Suppose is not Right , nor according to God , nor Suiting with your own Consciences ? And then how can you with good Conscience in the sight of God , Impose upon others , whenas your selves would not be Imposed upon in such a Case ? Quer. 9. Whether or no , if that you cause any to Suffer Loss , or be Afflicted in Person , or Estate , for and because of their Conscience sake ( that is ) because they are of such a Faith , and of such a Worship , and of such a Principle in Religious matters , though different from others and from you ; yet if they walk Honestly , and Soberly , and Peaceably as men , and not Plotting and Contriving any Mischief in the Nation : I say , if you Cause any Such to Suffer upon that account , while you can charge nothing against them , but matters of Faith and Iudgment , and Opinion in Spiritual things ; Again I say , Whether or no such Suffering is not absolute Persecution , ( and Innocent on his or their part that so Suffereth any Injustice , Cruelty , Tyranny , and Oppression ) on your part that doth Inflict ? And will not the Lord require it of you , if you bring Innocent blood , and Cruel Sufferings upon your selves ? And is not that Innocent blood which is Spilt , and Unjust , and Cruel Sufferings which is Inflicted upon a man or a People , for his and their Conscience , and Religions-sake , when no matter of wrong or evil dealing amongst men , And in that Relation , is , or can be Charged upon them ? And whether do you not believe , that God will Avenge such a Suffering , which is for Conscience sake , upon the Heads of the Causers and Inflictors of it in his Day and Season ? Quer. 10.


id: A30538
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1660
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title:
  A returne to the ministers of London by way of answer to their seasonable exhortations, (so called) directed to their congregations : with sober reproof sent unto them, because of their secret smitings against the despised people called Quakers, whom they have secretly reproached in their said exhortation ... / by E.B.

summary:
  It is true , many that do professe themselves the people of God , but are not , but by their lives and practises gives odious scandalls , and are self-seeking , as you say ; but upon whom the guilt of this may truly be charged , that remains to be sought out , doubtlesse it lies as neer your doors as any others , for is not your pride and oppression by taking tithes , and suing people at law for wages , and casting them in prison , because for good conscience sake they cannot pay you , your seeking for your gain from your quarter , and your taking great sums of money , and preaching for hire , taking so much yearly , are not these odious scandalls , and very self-seeking practices which you are guilty of , while you pretend publique good ? as for breaches of oaths and covenants , I wish you to search your own hearts , for that iniquity doth lye as near your generation as any others , witnesse that you and your brethren have from time to time engaged to such and such things : as first , did not you engage for the government to be without King , and House of Lords ? And did not you then cry up the Protector , contrary to your engagements , and now cry up another : and thus it is very evident , that the guilt of breach of Oaths & Covenants , lies neer unto your selves , which indeed opens the mouth of iniquity ; for the very Cavaliers and Prelates say , you were once strict in your way , but now you have struck hands with them , and are now your selves doing that which you cryed out against in them ▪ And thousands in this Nation is abated in their affections from your Church and Ministry , as knowing them to be upon a false Foundation , and to be of Babylon , and not of the Heavenly Ierusalem : And what do you mean by severe punishment of professors ? do you mean to set up Ecclesiastical lawes again , and that all must be forced to your Church way and Religion ? is it in your hearts to drive the Nation by force , and if they will not , to punish them with fire , and faggot , and prisons ? The Ministers of Christ in the daies of the Apostles , they never complained of being interrupted ; for they were haled before Rulers , and commanded to preach no more in that name , and yet they were not discouraged thereby in their work , nor when they were called movers of sedition , and deceivers , and such reproachful names , they regarded not these things , but as for you , you seem to be troubled that any should speak to you , or ask you a question , or exhort you to repent , if any out of good conscience query with you , concerning your practise and Doctrine , and if any exhort to good , and cry against evil amongst you , this you call interrupting of you , in your Ministerial duty , and to prison , houses of Correction , and to Whips and Stocks , must such go , which was never the Apostles practise , never was any sent to prison for opposing of them ; and what if the Ministers of England be called Hirelings , and false Prophets , and greedy dumb dogs , the practise of some of them doth prove it that they are so ; these things you must bear , as coming deservedly , and not unjustly upon you , for the servants of the Lord in all Ages ever cried against deceivers , and false Prophets , and called them deceivers , and greedy dumb dogs , and Serpents , and vipers , and evil beasts , and slow bellies ; these names and terms did Christ , the Apostles , and Prophets , use unto such as are some of the Ministery of this Nation , and not with revilings and reproachings , but with the Spirit of Authority from God , that reproves the wickedness of Prophets , Teachers , and people ; and tell me , have not some of you sued men at the Law , and cast them into prison in this City , because they would not give you money , and tythes , and hire , though such as have not heard you , nor received you as Ministers , not received any thing from you , and such as you did never any work for , have you sought wages from , and caused them to be imprisoned that would not give you ? And tell me in good earnest , can any less be said of such who thus walk , but that they are insatiable hirelings , and as bad as Baals Priests , and even cheaters , and greedy dumb dogs , let the Witness in your own consciences answer , and you shall have a reply .


id: A86667
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1657
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title:
  The rebukes of a reviler fallen upon his own head, in an answer to a book put forth by one Iohn Stelham, called a minister at Terlin in Essex. Wherein is shewed unto all spiritual men, that he himself is justly proved to be a contradictor of the scriptures, while he falsly accuses others thereof, that are clear, and the saying is fulfilled upon him, he is fallen into the pit, which he digged for others, for even that way which he calls heresie, do we worship the God of our fathers. By R.H.

summary:
  And in the end , he desires his Reader to receive in Love , what in his Book is found agreeable to the Spirit of God in Scripture truth , agreed ; so let it be , and therefore many things in his Book , which is not given forth by the Spirit of God , nor according to the Scripture truth , which the honest Reader may find upon a serious reading and search , with the Spirit of God , and according to the Scripture is to be judged and condemned , and not received ; what shall the honest Reader receive this for truth , That the Light of Christ Jesus is A Preverse Principle , and that Christ blessed Infants Baptism , with very many such like things of the like nature proceeding from the same spirit , which is proved not to be of God ▪ but of the Devil , for every tree is known by its fruit , and every spirit by its works , and words : many other things more devilish , if more devilish can be ; he charges us withal in a most unreasonable manner , that our Religion is the Fort of Babel , and that Jesuitical Plots and Designes are carried on by some of us ; and Quakerism is built upon the fourfold pillar of Papistry , with such like ; the very transcribing of his words shewes his wicked spirit by his unsavory words ; which things we do deny in the presence of the Lord , and are clear in his sight from these divilish accusations ▪ though I. S. play the Devils part , in this Epistle as well as in his whole Book : and is an accuser of the brethren , and is to be cast out and judged , with the life of God , and to give testimony against his lyes and slanders is sufficient Answer , and the next time he enterprises the like Work , we demand of him witness of his words , what these Jesuitical Flots and Designes are , we do carry on ; Which slander is so divelish could he prove what he saith ▪ his words would take away our lives ; but to raise the unclean spirits against us , though the Nations is truly supposed the purpose of his words , and not being content with what he himself can believe us in , his work reaches to raise the rage of whole Nations to execute their fury as well as his own upon us , and so his words gives ground to all the wicked that doth believe h●m ( for none else can ) to persecute the people , and way of the Lord , under the false account of being Plotters , and of having ill Designes , which things we stand witness against , and seeks the peace of all men , though he have bent his tongue for Lyes , and brazen'd his face to utter them without fear or shame , to suggest evil into mens minds that they may harm the upright , but it is known by his words what lodgeth in the heart of such a person , who thus openly and impudently doth slander just men to the taking away of life ▪ if any were so divilish to witness lyes and slanders , as he is in forging of them , and declaring of them , and that to the Protector and his Council too ; but from these things we being clear , are the more ready to bear his Lyes with Patience , and doth not pray for fire to devour him , though he be our enemy and the Lords ; but rather wishes his returning from his ungodliness , than a destruction upon him in his ungodliness ; and whereas the substance of his matter invented in his mind and brought forth into view , is a going about to prove that in twenty two particulars mentioned by him , we do contradict the Scriptures , but his ground is false from whence his whole work proceeds , for not in any particular of what is mentioned do we contradict the Scriptures , though his whole work be founded upon this thing , of our contradiction to Scripture , and while we be approved in the sight of the Lord , we reckon his s●●nders to be rather a testimony to us , that we are of God , than a discouraging of us in the wayes of God : and we do not allow that I. S. be our Interpreter , and the Expositor upon our words : for then no question but he will judge out of his prejudicial mind , false Judgement , and pervert the innocent words into contradiction of Scripture , and of our selves , but to the single mind and witness of God in every man we appeal for judgment , and doth in the sight of God commend our selves to every mans Conscience , and begs not belief of any , but knows all that be in the light of the Son of God witnesseth to us , and feels our Doctrine to be the Doctrine of Godliness , reaching to the witness of God in every one whereby we are a good savour to God in all , and though I. S. judge our doctrine to be Scripture contradictions , yet his judgement is but out of his old lying heart , which can bring forth no better than it self even false judgement , and lying words , which out of it hath plentifully abounded , in his false Rebukes ; therefore let the Reader first search into the ground from whence his work and judgement doth spring , and try if an old Lying heart , and sinful wretch ( as he confesses he is ) can bring forth good fruit ; no , we matter not what his judgement of us be , when as we know the heart is corrupt from whence it doth spring , not in the light of the spirit of God , do we in any one particular insisted upon , by him Contradict the Scriptures , though by his dark minde so he wickedly judgeth of us , even as the Pharisees , his forefathers , did judge of Christ to be a Blasphemer and a Contradictor of Moses , and the Prophets , who did fulfil them , and put them to an end , and not destroy them , nor contradict them not in the sight of his Father , though to their corrupt judgement ; and Christ tells them that they erred not knowing the Scriptures , nor the power of God , who had old lying hearts , & were sinful wretches , even such as John Stelham hath confessed himself to be , and therefore his words and judgment , and theirs is like to be all of one nature ▪ judging truth to be error , and the way of God to be Heresie and Blasphemy , this the Pharisees did of old , and even thus doth John Stelham and his Companions do at this day ; but why should any be troubled hereat , seeing herein Christs words are fulfilled upon us , who said , they shall speak all manner of evil falsly against you for my names sake ; and so hath this man done with his light scornful spirit , and fulfilled Christs words , who because he hath not known the Father , nor the Son , hath spoken evil falsly against them that follow Christ , and this were sufficient answer to his whole Book ; yet let us see what follows , and let the Reader try with all moderation , that he may be edified , and may know the true spirit from the false , and the doctrine of the Gospel from lying visions ; and may cleave to the truth , and escape the error , and let none believe hastily , things uttered without knowledge , out of I. S. deceitful heart . And for E. B. to say , That he came not to them with en●icing words , neither what he had gathered from the Scripture without him , But to declare the Word of the Lord , and not to speak his own conceivings and imaginations ( this is true and no contradiction in it , though I. S. say these cannot both be true , to say , That he neither came with what he had gathered from Scripture , nor his own imaginations ▪ for the Apostles of Christ did not preach what they had gathered from Scripture , neither their own imaginations , but preached the Word and Gospel of God which they had received from God , and not gathered from Scripture , nor in their own imaginations ; and because he saith , both these negatives cannot be true , then it is concluded , that himself preaches either what he hath gathered from Scripture , or his own imaginations , and let him chuse to say whether he will ; and in the next , he will be proved a false Prophet , and that E ▪ B. compiled a Book out of Scripture , Collections , is false , for having the same Spirit which gave forth the Scripture , which brings the Scripture to remembrance , is not compiling a Book out of Scriptures ; and I. S. is found a false accuser , and E. B. neither a self Contradictor , no● self curser , and these are true words to this generation ▪ and owned with the Spirit of God , though I. S. in his scornful spirit abuse them ▪ he that hath the Word of the Lord , from the mouth of the Lord , to declare , he is reviled ▪ and mocked .


id: A30517
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1657
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 3406
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flesch: 49
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title:
  A declaration to all the world of our faith, and what we believe and this is written that all people upon earth may know by whome, and how we are saved, and hopes for eternal life, & what we believe concerning God, Christ, & the Spirit, and of the things that are eternal : appertaining to all mankind to know & believe.

summary:
  And vve believe herein is the love of God manifested to all mankind , and that none is shut out by him before they vvere born into the VVorld ; but unto all men is a Visitation given , and they that do perish , it is because they do not believe in Christ ; & destruction is of a mans self , but salvation is of God , through believing in his Son , vvho takes avvay sin , and renevveth into his ovvn Image , that they may become Heirs vvith him . And vve believe that there is a Crovvn of eternal glory , and an Inheritance of eternal life to be injoyed for evermore by all that believe and are chosen of God , and that there is everlasting misery and destruction to be possessed by all that believe not , but continues in the stare of reprobation , and are not changed from the Wayes of sin and death , but walks after the wayes of their own hearts lusts , fulfilling the Will of the flesh , in the evil of this World , and follows not Christ the Light of the World , that they may be saved ; and we believe upon all such the Wrath of God abideth , and that they have no part in the Inheritance of God . And we believe this Ministry is received by the gift of the Holy Ghost , and all they that receive it , are lawfully called to the Ministry , and they may preach the Gospel of Christ freely , as they have received it freely ; and this Ministry is not of man , but of God , and is made powerful to the converting of sinners , and to the bringing of people to God , and to the knowledge of his Wayes .


id: A30550
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1659
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 3653
sentence: 42
flesch: 9
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title:
  To the Parliament of the common-wealth of England who are in place of authority to do justice, and in present power to ease the oppressed nation from its bonds : councel and advice unto you / from a friend that seeks after truth and righteousness from you ...

summary:
  Wherefore I am moved in Spirit , and in love to you and to this Nation , to lay it before you , and to desire it of you ( in whose hands the Liberties of this Nation yet remaineth ) that you will so prepare and allow the Foundation of Government in this Nation , that the Lord may be the chooser of our Rulers , to give and to execute righteous Laws for us , and that men that fears God and hates covetousness and every evil way , that Just men and Righteous men , men of Truth and uprightness , men of humility and soberness , men that are Constant to good Principles , and such whom the Lord hath blessed with the Spirit of sound Judgement , and with understanding , who may truly discern of Causes and equally Judge thereof , men that are for the Just freedom of all , and for the General good of all , and men that in all things will seek the glory of the Lord , be they rich or poor , high or low in birth or breeding ; yet let such be Rulers among us , and Judge this Nation , that all that do well may have praise and be justified , and all that do evil may be afraid , and punished ; and hereby shall the whole Nation be refreshed and comforted with the Mercies of the Lord , and his Name shall be the greatest among us , and Truth and Righteousness should run down , when Justice sits in the Throne ; And not men for greatness sake , in Titles or Birth , or otherwise , Chosen in Tradition , and not by Appointment of God , but men for Vertues sake , and not for earthly honour which perisheth , not Covetous nor Ambitious men , not proud and vain-glorious men , not such as seeks the honour from below , that respects vain titles & flatteries of men , not such as will seek themselves , and be perverted by gifts , not such as are Persecutors for a good Conscience sake , that are Zealous , but not according to knowledge , not wilful and heady men , not unconstant and changeable men , not Traitors that have turned for self-advantage , and will change with the times to any way of Government for earthly honour , for such will Judge for man and not for God , not ignorant men that wants the Spirit of sound Judgement , nor such as are prophane and without the fear of God ; nor such as these , be they rich or great , let not such be our Governours nor Judge over us , to make Laws and execute them for us in our Nation ; let all such men be cast out from among you , and disenabled by certain Just restrictions from ever receiving Trust or Authority over us ; for while such men have been in power and sate in the Throne , Justice and true Judgement have been perverted , and our Land hath groaned under oppre●sions , and the Inhabitants mourned for very grief of heart , because of the abounding of injustice and cruelty through their Rulers ; and the Lord hath been vexed with them , while ini●uity hath sate upon the Throne , and wilfulness Judged the people , and mercy been wanting , and just Judgement neglected , and the whole Land hath laid desolate because hereof ; And therefore I call unto you on the Lords behalf , make way and prepare for Righteousness to sit as Judge , & that men alone , that fears God , and are ordained of him thereunto , of what Profession or Birth soever they be , men of truth and justness , that have the Spirit of a good understanding , and are called of God , may have Authority in our Nation , to give Laws and execute them for us , such being brought into a capacity by you to be chosen , for to such men appointed of God , and fitted for that end , and truly called of him , being qualified as aforesaid , do we give the Authority and Power in our Nation , to Judge and to Govern in the things pertaining to this World , and over us as we are Members of this Nation , and over the outward man , and in the things between man and man , even to be a terrour to such as are without the fear of God , and to punish such by Just Laws without ; as breaks the Law of God within , though to the Lord God alone , we give the Authority and Power over us to Rule us and to Judge us in that Relation , as we are Members of his Kingdom , and over our inward man , and in the things pertaining to our Consciences in all things related to his worship , and service , and faith , and practices in Religion . And while thus it hath been in our Nation that our Kings have attained to the Throne of Government hereditarily , and by succession of Birth , and our Parliaments and Rulers have attained to the place of Judgement over us , by such a way of traditional choise , as hath been the custom in our forefathers dayes ( that knew no better , being in the dayes of Apostacy & great ignorance themselves ) and thus it hath continued for many Ages , whereby the Inhabitants have been alwayes suffering under , and lyable to great oppressions & vexations , being subjected under such a Government , falling as aforesaid , from Parents to Children , after the manner of the Heathen Nations , and being subjected to such Laws , made and executed by men , not truly called and ordained of God thereunto , insomuch that nothing hath been perceived nor intended by men of the hand of the Lord , and of his good Spirit in the calling of our Kings , and choosing of our Rulers ; but these things have com'd to pass and been after the Traditions of men , and not after the Order and Councel of the Lord God ; And our Nation hath been under the bonds of slavery in this respect , even because men have governed that ought not : and while the great and rich men hath been set to rule over the poor , and while men for earthly honour , and for riches sake in birth and breeding , have claimed to be Princes over us successively , and to be chosen our Rulers according to custom , without respect to their vertue and goodness , and without true calling from the Lord , or any certain Testimony from him , and thus it hath continued for many ages ; because of which the free born people hath deeply suffered the cruel oppressions of proud and ambitious and self-seeking men , who hath long ruled for themselves , and not for the Lord , and have com'd into the place of Authority over us , otherwise then by appointment and right calling from the Lord , as I have said ; and thus the Government of our Nation hath been out of course , and not as the Lord requireth it , even until this day , while great darkness hath remained upon the hearts of the people , which hath so blinded them , that they have not known their own bondage , nor yet how to be redeemed into perfect liberty , while they have subjected themselves ( through ignorance ) to be ruled by such men as had no right from God to that place of Rule and Government .


id: A30537
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1660
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
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sentence: 526
flesch: 42
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title:
  The principles of truth being a declaration of our faith, who are call'd Quakers: whereby all that wants peace with God, may return into their first estate, through the operation of the Light and power of God in the great work of regeneration. Written by E.B. J.C. W.D. H.S. I.P. and A.P.

summary:
  For it is not the Scriptures without the Spirit , nor the Spirit contrary to the Scriptures , but the Spirit 's discovering the Will of God in the Heart o●… opening of the Scrlp●…ures in its own Time and Way , and not in or by the Will of Man , but as it self pleaseth , who searcheth all , even the deep things of God , and manifests them unto the Soul , which gives the Perfect Sound and Saving Knowledge ; for , said Christ , The Spirit shall take of mine , & shew them unto you . As the Cures which the Physitian doth , manifest and establish his Skill and Ability , so doth man's dying unto Sin , and Self , and living unto God , manifest and establish the Virtue and Power of Christ's Death : for as man manifests his being risen with Christ , by his seeking the things that are above , Col. 3. 1 , 2.


id: A77975
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1657
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 13769
sentence: 141
flesch: 2
cache: cache/A77975.xml
txt: txt/A77975.txt
title:
  The vvofull cry of unjust persecutions, and grevious oppressions of the people of God in England, through the injustice of some of her rulers, and wikednesse of teachers and people, who hasten to fulfil the measure of their forefathers cruelty. With a lamentation over them all who rewards the Lord evill for good, and is a warning to them all for repentance; shewing that the coming of the Lord is nigh. And this may serve for an answer in full, to all such who have persecuted by violence, by word or writing the innocent people in scorn called Quakers. With a short addition, which shewes unto all, the ground of persecution; in its first cause, and the enmity which is betwixt the two seeds, is clearly discovered, by a friend to the suffering seed of God, E.B.

summary:
  Who would not be afraid to offend him ? who giveth unto man breath and takes it away in a moment ; all Nations are as the drop of a bucket before his eternal eye , he dwells in the high and holy place , and his habitation is high above the world ; he inhabits eternity forevermore , and yet abideth , and walketh , and dwelleth with the children of men , that fear his Name and tremble at his Word ; he hath been as a stranger , as one not known , for men have been seperated from him by transgression , and have been ignorant of his wayes ; he hath been as one hidden for many ages , and hath been worshipped ignorantly , and hath winked in the time of ignorance , but now he calleth all to repentance every where : Blessed are they that wait upon him , that they may know him and their souls may live , and now the purpose of his heart is to bring in his scattered people into the fold of peace , where Christ Jesus is the shepherd , and his people shall dwell in safety , and shall be a free people , to worship him in the Spirit and in the Truth , and every yoake of bondage shall be broken , and the oppressed shall be set free , and Christ shall reign , and his Government above shall be established over all the world , mans honour shall be laid in the dust , and the pride of all flesh shall be stained and the glory thereof shall wither as a flower , the loftinesse of all flesh shall be laid low , and the Lord alone shall be exalted , and his people , which now are oppressed , shall replenish and fill the earth : All corrupt men and Rulers their strength and might shall utterly fail them , and men that fear God and love righteousnesse shall take their place , and all things shall be changed , and the world shall be turned up-side down . The vvofull cry of unjust persecutions, and grevious oppressions of the people of God in England, through the injustice of some of her rulers, and wikednesse of teachers and people, who hasten to fulfil the measure of their forefathers cruelty.


id: A71239
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1661
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 37094
sentence: 507
flesch: 27
cache: cache/A71239.xml
txt: txt/A71239.txt
title:
  The son of perdition revealed by the brightness and light of the Son of God in his saints, and the preachers of his light within and their doctrines & principles (concerning the mysteries of God & the weighty things of salvation) vindicated and cleared ... / by the light of the Son of God in his servants Geo. Whitehead & Edw. Burroughs.

summary:
  2005-02 TCP Assigned for keying and markup 2005-04 SPi Global Keyed and coded from ProQuest page images 2005-05 Melanie Sanders Sampled and proofread 2005-05 Melanie Sanders Text and markup reviewed and edited 2005-10 pfs Batch review (QC) and XML conversion THE Son of Perdition REVEALED , By the brightness and light of the Son of God in his Saints : And the Preachers of his Light within , and their Doctrines & Principles ( concerning the mysteries of God & the weighty things of Salvation , Vindicated and Cleared , from the Reproache● Slanders & Calumnies cast upon them by the spirit of Satan and Antichrist , which hath largely appeared in one Joseph Wright , ( who esteems himself one appointed by the Flock of Christ for a Defence of the Truth of the Gospel ) as is apparent in his Book intituled A Testimony for the Son of man and against the Son of perdition ; &c. which he hath given forth against them that preach the Light within . Though they were wicked men , and sought to shut up the Kingdome of God against others , as this J. VV. hath done , in his foaming out his own shame , and uttering his rage and folly against the Light within , so that he might as well have reviled Christ , and said , that he Preached up a delusion , and a most pernitious stratagem of Satan , and a device of Satan , as so charge us for Preaching those things that are agreeable to the Doctrine of Christ ; And yet note that notwithstanding all this mans raging against this Doctrine of the light within all men , and his reviling it as delusion , and a most pernitious stratagem of Satan , and gross darknesse , he hath ( in page 165 ) distinguished the Light which is in us and all men , from the spirit of darkness , as accusing our speaking to be not from the Light within all men , nor from the light within our selves , but from the spirit of Darkness , &c. Which though he hath falsly accused our speaking , yet he hath hereby truly Implyed , that there is a light in us , and all men that is opposite or contra-to the spirit of Darkness ; and thus he bewrayes his own confusion and folly about the Light of Christ in all men , one while to rail so bitterly against it and the Doctrine of it , as the most pernicious delusion , stratagem of Satan , and gross darkness ; another while so intimately to grant to a light within all men ( which leads to speak truth ) as opposite to the spirit of Darkness ; As also in page 16 , 20.28 , 29.41 .


id: A62696
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1662
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 4630
sentence: 89
flesch: 46
cache: cache/A62696.xml
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title:
  To all dear Friends & brethren in the everlasting truth & covenant of the Almighty Jehovah, blessed for evermore

summary:
  WE the Prisoners of the Lord , and for the Testimony of Christ Jesus , do bear in our remembrance with dearest Salutations of perfect love , all our suffering Brethren every where , and also the whole Flock of our Fathers tender Love , whom he hath elected and chosen in his own secret Counsel before the world began ; Dearly and well beloved , our very Souls this day , are deeply affected with the Cause of God , and our persons at this time are engaged in these Bonds , for the Testimony of the same ; and truly , in Soul , Body , and Spirit , are we offered up to the perpetual loss of all , that the Name of the Lord , and his saving Truth , may be testified unto , in faithfulness unto all the world ; and in the Lord our hearts are resolved in the confidence of his Spirit , to suffer the greatest of Afflictions and Persecutions , rather than forfeit or loose , one grain of this so blessed a Testimony now trusted with us , and for whic● , we now suffer these Bonds : And unto faithfulness herein , We find that the Lord our God , daily increaseth our strength and boldness , our patience and long suffering , and doubleth his Spirit of Power and Wisdom upon us , that we may never faint in Trial ; and we labour to be armed in our inward man , with whatsoever may uphold us , and defend us in this day of our Afflic●ions ; even that our faith and patience , our holiness and meekness , our long suffering , and love to enemies ; and all Heavenly Vertues may be compleated in us , and possessed of us , till our God take Vengeance upon the wrath of our Adversaries , and deliver his ( now ) poor despised and oppressed people ; for these Vertues are the armour with which we delight to be cloathed ; these are our weapons with which we chuse to be defended , and this must be our final Vic●ory , when the faith and patience , the meekness and long suffering , and heavenly Vertues of Christ Jesus in us , have exceeded in measure , and superabounded in effect , all the unbelief and impatiency , the enmity and ungodliness , in all that hate us ; Love shall overcome wrath and envy ; Patience shall subdue rigorous Persecutors , and hatefull workers ; the very God that dwells with us , shall condemn and confound the wicked one , with all his might , and power , and malice , and Persecution , cruel Imposition on tender Consciences , and Oppression and Injustice shall be no more : Dearly Beloved alwaye● h●ve a special regard unto your standing as to God-ward , and what increa●e of Life , Love , Peace and Comfort , ye daily receive in your spiritual ; man knowing , that by the inward vertue of the Fathers presence , the Peace and Joy of God in your inward man dayly receive● from him , by that must you stand in strength and dominion against all enemies within and without .


id: A30533
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1658
extension: .xml
mime: application/xml
words: 11415
sentence: 58
flesch: -98
cache: cache/A30533.xml
txt: txt/A30533.txt
title:
  A message for instruction to all the rulers, judges, and magistrates to whom the law is committed shewing what just government is, and how far the magisrates power reacheth, and what the sword of justice is to cut down, and what it is to defend ... / E.B.

summary:
  Now such as handle the Law , and are executors thereof , who are ordained of God to iudg and govern the people ; ought to be iust men ; fearing God , and walking in his Law , and hating and denying every false way , that people may receive examples of righteousness , and holy and lawfull walking from their Conversations ; and they that are set to govern the people ought to have the spirit of true and sound Iudgment to try into the root of all causes , whereby they may be able to discerne of different causes ; and to give iust Iudgement in all things ; and such will iudge by equall measure for God , and not for man , but without respect of persons ; and such will be a terror to transgressors , and will strengthen and encourage them that doe well ; and then the execution of the Law will answer the end wherefore it was added ; for because of transgression was the law added to slay transgression , and to bind under the transgressor , and to make him stand in awe and be afraid ; for the just law , reacheth to the just witness of God , and answereth it in every man , and he that walkes in the law of God , and hath his heart therein exercised , the law of man hath no power over him , to condemne him , but it justifies him , and defends him , and preserves him from all wrong ; but who doth not walk in the law of God , but is excercised in evill , and transgresseth the light and pure law of God in his conscience by doing evill & by wrong & unjust dealing ; then the law of man takes hold upon him , and binds him , & judges him , & Condemns him ; for the evil done by him , contrary to the light in his own conscience , which answereth to the just execution of the law in condemning of him : And this is the work of the law in the hand of faithfull executors , who justly executeth the just law , in defending and preserving the iust and Innocent men from wrong doing , and in condemning and iudging the ungodly and evill men , for wrong doing ; whereby the witness of God in them both may answer to the Iust government in defending the one , and in condemning the other ; and this is a good savor to God where the iust lawes are iustly executed , by ius● men , But where unrighteous men are in power , and the execution of the law in their hands , that are themselves transgressors , such will not iudg for God , but the good lawes will be subverted unto wrong ends , from their proper vertue ; and the hands of the wicked will be strengthened , and the evill doers will escape unpunished , and the Innocent will suffer , and Iustice and true Iudgment will be turned backward , for when the wicked beares rule , the people cannot rejoyce , nor Iustice and true Iudgment cannot be received from men , who are themselves unjust and unrighteous ; for though the lawes may be good and iust ; yet the executioners thereof being evil , and themselves transgressors , worthy of condemnation by the law ; the transgression of the law in others cannot iustly be Iudged by such , who are themselves guilty of Iudgment , and therefore the lawes will be subverted , and iustice and true iudgment neglected , because such as handle the law knowes not God , but are in the transgression of the righteous law , and of the iudgment thereof are themselves guilty ; Soe therefore they that handle the law should be men iustified according to the law , and free from the transgression ; that they may the more iustly punish , reprove and condemn it in others ; and may minister Iustice and true Iudgment through the law to all people under them ; and no man ought to be respected in Iudgment , but every mans cause ought to be heard , the poor as well as the rich ; and their matters diligently sought into , and all ought to receive iust iudgment from Iust men by the iust law ; for the law is a defence about all the righteous , to defend and preserve them ; in peace and freedome , from all their enemies , who are to be limited by the law , as I have said : And they that are reconciled to God , whose consciences are excercised towards God in all things , they are not under the law , nor the law hath no power over them , for the law is fullfilled in them , by Christ who teacheth them in all things to walk without offence towards God and all men , in truth and in righteousness , to God and all men ; and such the law of man is to defend and not to Iudg them ; to iustifie them , and not to condemn them ; and to be a praise to them , and not a terror , and such setteth to seal that the law is iust and good and holy ; who walketh in iustness , in goodness and holiness ; and doth not transgress the good lawes of any nation , but walk void of offence towards all , for they walk not in the flesh , but in the spirit , and are doers of the law , and not breakers of it ; and so comes not under the guilt of condemnation , in any thing , but are iustified in all things ; for the light of Christ leadeth them into all truth ; and so out of all condemnation ; their wayes are righteous and pure , and their workes are iust and equall towards God and all men ▪ and they seek not the wrong of any mans person or estate , but seekes the good of all , forgiving their enemies , and praying for them , and seekes not vengeance upon their adversaries , but they bear all things patiently , and such are the servants of God , and not transgressors of his law , nor the iust lawes of man ; And if such doe suffer by a law , that law is uniust , and so is that Magistrate that executes that law ; and that suffering is not for evill doing , but for a good conscience sake , and the Innocent can rejoyce in such suffering , but the executioners thereof shall howle and weep ; So that in all ages there was such suffering , which was not for evill doing , but for the exercise of a pure conscience ; and such sufferings there are at this day ; and this is because the unrighteous and the uniust beares rule which subverts the law , and turnes true Iudgment backward , and oppresseth the seed of God , and rules over it in Tyrany ; and this is where darkness rules in the heart , and Ignorance in the mind ; and true Iudgment is wanting , for light is called darkness , and darkness light ; and good is put for evill , and evill for good ; and truth is called heresy , and error is called truth ; and because of this the righteous are Iudged uniustly , and falsly condemned ; and the guilty are set free , and thus is Iudgment turned quite backward ; where the seed of enmity ruleth above the seed of God ; and such a government is not blessed , but made a curse unto that dominion ; where it is seated , and this is because such are set to rule and govern ; who are not ruled and governed by the Lord , but are in the transgression of the Iust and righteous law ; and are uniust men , and not reconciled unto God ; upon whose shoulders the government lyes , and the execution of the law in their power ; who cannot minister true Iudgment , nor discerne of different causes among men . And also it is a very shame to the people of this Nation for whom such ministers do labour , who cannot maintain their own ministers themselves , who labours for them , and of whose labours they do partake , but others are compelled by iniustice , to maintain them , who doth not partake of any of their labours , nor set them to labour , but denies them and their labour on that account , and yet are forced to pay them wages ; and this is uniust and unreasonable , that men should be constrained by force to pay other mens servants , which works and labours for other and not for them ; and what man in the world having reason in him , would do it or be forced to do it , without complaining of heavy iniustice as to maintain another mans servant with wages , who works for others , and not for him , neither was hired by him , nor set on work nor receives any benefite by him , but another hires him and partakes of his labours , and yet he is compelled against all reason , and equity to give him his wages ; all will conclude this were uniust and not according to God but against him ; and this is the very cause between the people of God , who cannot pay to maintain false teachers and the people of the Nation , who hires such teachers and receives of their labours and teaching and yet compells others to give them wages , contrary to good reason and Iustice , and against the excercise of a pure conscience , And above all the magistrates blindness and Ignorance , and the uniustness and wickedness of some of them doth appear , to their shame , by whose authority these things are done , reaching out their power in those things , further than they have received power from God , and abusing the law and iust government , and subverting it to another end than wherefore God hath ordained it ; for the magistrates power and authority , is not to be laid on mens consciences to oppress and Imbondage the tender consciences of the lords people ; in forcing things to be done contrary to good reason and against a good conscience ; and by these things is the land filled with violence and oppression , and the Innocent and iust doth deeply groan ; till the Lord arise to plead their cause , and to bring deliverance unto them , through the destruction of all their enemies ; and he will break down all the bonds of cruelty and oppression , and will take away every yoak that doth burden and oppress the upright , that his people may be a free people , from all uniust men , and the people of the Lord doth claime this as their priviledge , belonging to them by the iust Laws of God and men , to worship God in spirit and in truth , and to uphold and maintaine that worship onely , without being compelled by force to maintaine any other whatsoever , and they claime as right unto them to maintaine what Ministers , and uphold what ministry , as they know is sent of God , by which people are profited , and which they have received the knowledge of God through by his spirit , and to be free to maintaine how and as the Lord leads them unto , without being forced by any Law , or unequall authority , to maintaine the false Prophets and hirelings , and deceivers , who lives in pride and excess , through the oppression of the poor and innocent , and such ( as Ministers of the Gospel of Christ , ) the people of the Lord cannot maintaine , but rather gives themselves to suffer heavy and cruel things by unjust and wicked men , who violates the just Laws of God and man ; and the suffering is for a good conscience sake , & for righteousness sake , and not for any wrong or evill doing , and for a testimony that they are of God , and for a witness against their enemies , that they are of the Devill ; who doth his works , and these makes war against the Saints and the Lamb , and the Beast seeks to kill all that will not worship him , for he hath been great in the earth , and his seat upon Nations , and who hath been able to make war against him , for many generations : againe there is another suffering great and grievous which is unjustly laid upon the people of God , which suffering is not for evill doing , but for a good conscience sake as is manifest ; as because many are moved of the Lord by his spirit , to goe into the Steeple-houses and meeting places , or other places to reprove sin , and among people , or to exhort them unto good , and to follow Christ , and to deny the wickedness of this world , or such like , as they are moved , some are moved to reprove a hireling teacher , who deceives the people , and walks in the steps of the false Prophets , and lives in pride and vanity and evill , contrary to the doctrine and practise of Christ and the Apostles , and this practise of the servants of the Lord in reproving evill and exhorting to good , is called a disturbance of the peace , and an unlawful practise , and such like ; it is falsly judged by unjust men ▪ who knows not the spirit of the Lord , nor the moving thereof , and because of this , many innocent men are caused deeply to suffer , contrary to a good conscience , and some are sent to the house of Correction , there suffering cruell things from hard-hearted men , and some are put in the Stocks and whipped , and others fined and cast into prison , and such like sufferings are unjustly imposed upon them , and not for evill doing , as I have said , for though they reprove sin in teachers or in people , or exhorts them to good , whether in Steeple-houses , Markets or other places , yet they do not hereby wrong any mans person or estate ; neither is this any matter of wilfull wrong , or to such an intent , neither doth it disturb the peace , nor is any unlawfull practise ; but onely out of a good conscience to God and man , is it done ; and it is a matter of conscience to the servants of the Lord , to do so , and they cannot leave it undone least they should transgress the law of God in their own consciences ; because they are commanded of God so to do , that people may be Instructed in the right way to God , and be converted out of every false way ; and this is the very end , of their work and their intent in doing it ; and they ought not in justice to suffer for it , for it is according to the law of God , and in reason and a good conscience , and the Lord justifies them in it , then that law and Iudgment must needs be corrupt and unjust , which condemnes the people and servants of the Lord , as for evill doers , for obeying the commands of God and for the exercise of their pure consciences , and no mans person or estate being wronged or Injured but onely sin and wickedness reproved and exhorted from ; And hereby thus is the law perverted , and true Iudgment turned backward , and the guiltless is condemned guilty , and the guilty is set free ; and the obeying the commands of God and the excercise of a good conscience is unjustly iudged a transgression ; and this is a shame , and will be great condemnation to such , in the day of the Lord by whose Authority this is done ; even that the excercise of a good conscience , even reproving of sin and exhorting unto that which is good ▪ to follow that and to forsake all evill ; should be iudged and punished as a hanious transgression in a nation and Common-wealth professing Christianity and pure Religion ; and this makes the sin much more great and unpardonable , because the practise and faithfull excercise in Christianity , and in the pure and true Religion , is adiudged transgression & condemned by such who professes the same thing in words , and yet persecutes and punisheth the excercise of it in others ; and this shews them uniust iudges and hypocrits ; who causes the Servants of the Lord to suffer ; for the practise of that which themselves profess in words , to wit Religion and Christianity , for I affirme against all opposers whatsoever , that it is , a practise in Religion according to the Scriptures , to goe into the Steeple-houses , meeting places , Markets , Highways , or other places , and reprove sin and wickedness , and cry against evill in Priests and people , and exhort to good and to forsake evill , and therefore it ought not to be prosecuted and punished , but defended and maintained , by the just Government of a Common-wealth , and by just Laws and Magistrates ; for this the Lord requireth that justice and truth , and true iudgement be exalted , and the innocent and upright defended , in all their ways of a good conscience , and that evill doers and sinners and transgressors , be condemned and righteously iudged .


id: A30539
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
title: Satans designs defeated ...
date: 1659
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  Jesus Christ he is the seed of the woman , and the seed of Abraham according to the flesh , and after the spirit the Son of the living God , and this Christ that was , and is , and is to come , who was dead but is alive , and lives for evermore , the alone Saviour of the world , he hath given a measure of Light and Life unto every man , and there is a Light from him that shines in the hearts of all men , shining in darknesse ; the Light shines , but the darknesse comprehends it not , and this was Iohns Testimony , and is our Testimony that Christ enlighteneth every man , or all mankind that cometh into the World , for in him was life , and the Life was the Light of men , as the scripture saith ; and the Apostle Preached the Light that shined in peoples hearts , and it was that Light that gave them the Light of the knowledge of the Glory of God ; but thou hast discovered thy self to be a stumbler at the stumbling-stone , and hath taken offence at the light , like the Pharisees who professed the scriptures as the Priests of England do , but were ignorant of the Life , the end of the words , and knew not Christ the substance ; but the stone at which you stumble will break you to pieces , and grind you to powder , even Christ the Light of the World , that lighteth every man that cometh into the World . And whereas the Author further saith , such as hath saving work in their souls , and that knowes God and Christ , &c. can not but bless God for keeping them from the great blackness and darkness that hath invaded the souls of these deluded wretches . Answ.


id: A30514
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1659
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title:
  A declaration from the people called Quakers, to the present distracted nation of England with mourning and lamentation over it, because of its breaches ...

summary:
  Alas , not any of-these things are accomplished , neither do we see a right thing propounded , and rightly prosecuted , by any party yet appearing ; but the cause hardly yet appears , carried on by any among them , which can be said of it , this is of the Lord , and is perfectly right , and the Lord will prosper it , for most of the men that have yet appeared on the Throne , they have rejected the Word of the Lord and his Councel ; and what wisdom is there in them , only the policy , and subtiltie , and wisdom of this world , wherein they build , but the Lord throws down , even before it be finished ; and they consult therein , and the Lord dasheth to peeces ; they set up , but he pulls down , because they want his spirit and wisdom , and his authoritie amongst them , and they are as the Potsheards of the earth , that the iron Rod must break in peeces ; and this we declare , the men ( yet ) seems not to appear in all these Parties , which are worthie to handle the Lords Scepter , and to be crowned with the honour of Authoritie in his Government ; but even this partie , and the other party seems to be un worthie to rule for the Lord , for they appear to be choaked with the honour of this world , and corrupted thereby , and uncapable of receiving that anointing that men must have , that shall truly rule for God ; and though many in our days that have ruled over us , have promised great things to the Nation , yet we see all hitherto have wanted power to perform , and have not bin blessed with the Presence of the Lord , so as this Nation hath bin healed and redeemed by them , and we are utterly out of all hopes of this party , or the other party , of this man , or that man , to bring salvation unto this Nation , from all its bonds and oppressions , for we know , whatsoever men professe to do , yet they cannot performe any good thing , nor Rule for God in our Nation , till that themselves be reformed , and ruled by him , and have the Spirit of God poured upon them for such a work , and this we declare , till that a man , or men , be ruled of the Lord , they can never rightly Rule for him , nor bring deliverance and freedome to an oppressed Nation , though men may , and have promised much , yet their fruit is but little ; and thou O Nation , hast long bin deceived by such men , who have flattered thee with the multitude of faire words , and promised thee deliverance ; and hereby might'st thou learn wisdom , O England , never more to rest under the shaddow of such men , make no more a mountaine to cover thy self , rest not under the shaddow of dead Trees , that wants the vertue of God , but now look at the living God , and wait for that King of righteousnesse , and peace , whose right alone it is to Rule , for he alone can bring salvation to thee , he alone can heale thy breaches , even Jesus Christ , whose coming is at the doore , and in the mean time O Nation , while he is absent , thou art dry , and barren , and empty , thou art tossed , and shaken , and thou art tossed , and perplexed , and cannot be rightly comforted ; for men shall not be a rest unto thee , but one after another shall they be overturned , for it is the Lord alone , and under his Government shall people finde perfect rest , and freedom from all oppression , for what is a King ? and what is a Parliament ? what is a Protector , and what is a Councell ? or any other sort of men , while the presence of the Lord is not with them , and while his Spirit and Authority is wanting to them , what can any of these bring forth , none of all these whatsoever , if the Lord be not cheefe in them , and amongst them , and his counsell their only guide , shall be any otherwise unto this Nation , then as a broken Reed to leane upon , and no more then a shaddow which shall not save the people from the heat , nor from the storme ; this we know , and this we declare , in the Name of the Lord ; and we are not for Names , nor for Men , nor for Titles of Government , nor are we for this party , nor against the other , because of its name , and presence , but we are for Justice , and Mercy , and Truth , and Peace , and true freedom , that these may be exalted in our Nation ; and that goodnesse , righteousnesse , meeknesse , temperance , peace , and unity , with God , and one with another ; that these things may abound , and be borught forth abundantly , such a Government are wee seeking , and waiting for , wherein truth , and righteousnesse , mercy , and justice , unity and love , and all the fruites of holynesse may abound , and all the contrary be removed , cast out , and limmitted ; and we are not for such and such Names , and Titles of Government , that promises faire , and performes nothing ; but if a Council , if a Parliament , if any one Man , or a number of men whatsoever , that shall have the Spirit of the Lord poured upon him , or them , and shall be annointed of the Lord for such an use , and end , to Govern this Nation , under such only shall the Nation be happy , and enjoy rest , from such men fitted of the Lord , and called by him , and under such a Government , of truth , and righteousnesse , shalt thou O Nation , enjoy rest from all thy Travells , and under such a Government , shall the righteous rejoyces and the whole Land sing for joy of heart , when Tyranny , and oppression shall be cleane removed , strife , and contention , and self seeking , utterly abandoned , and when peace , and truth , flowes forth as a streame , and the Lord alone rules in thy Rulers , and he the principall amongst them , and under such men , and such a Government only and not under any other , shalt thou O Nation , be happy , and thy people a free people . when wilt thou begin to look to the Lord ; when wilt thou begin to set up him , and not man , when wilt thou minde his Power and Presence in and through men , more then any men themselves ; when shall it once be , O ye people of our Nation , that you will seek after him , to be the principal and chief power among you : Oh let your eyes be turned to the Lord alone , that he may deliver you , and bring salvation and freedom , and look no more at men , but only as they are in him , and guided by his Spirit ; and only expect good from men , as men are guided by the Lord ; and then shall you not ever any more be deceived , as long you have bin , with Kings , with Parliaments , with Councels , with Armies , nor any others ; for in these have you trusted , and not in the Lord ; from these have you expected great things without him ; whenas alass , what shall men accomplish , or what can they bring forth , while they reject the Counsel of the Lord , and his Word , as hitherto they have done , and therefore hath he broke them and confounded them , yea , and he will break them and crush them under his Rod , even till they learn his judgments , and know him the alone Power , and give honour to him that doth whatsoever he will , and he will overthrow yet once and againe , even till he come , whose right it is to Rule , and he is at work in this his day , and because of iniquities doth he visit with tribulation , and through great tribulation , and overturning of Men , and Powers , will he advance his own Kingdome , and Government , and the end of all these things shall bring forth his glory , and men that will not honour him by dealing righteously in their day upon Earth , they must honour him in their destruction , at their latter end , and let not men glory one over another , while some are put down , and others set up , but let them all know , they have but each sort their houre , and their end will come even as others , for an everlasting Kingdome , and Government will God set up , that must rule over all , and this is the hope of a poor despised people , though for present hated of all , and sought to be destroyed by all , yet our soules are anchored and stay'd , even in the sure promises of our God , in this the day of the Nations trouble , and though we are very poor , and rejected of all , and have nothing to glory in amongst any party or sort of people , but even in our reproaches , and sufferings , that we sustain from all , yet have we perfect rest in God , and satisfactions over all these distractions , we know him in whom we have beleived , and we trust in the shaddow of his wing , and we are not of a doubting heart , concerning what can come , or whomsoever doth Rule , for this we know , though all seeks after our blood , yet he can deliver us if he will , we know him that can do all things , and if he save none can destroy , if he blesse none can curse ; him we know , and in him we rest , and we give our power in all things to him , and not unto mortall man , whose breath is in his nostrills , who must perish as the dung , we cannot be afraid of their horror , nor can we be drawn by their love , but we trust in his Name , and under his defence shall we be saved , we give our power to him , to be defended and preserved by him alone , and we are well contented with our sufferings , and murmurs not , our sufferings are our present Crown ; but yet woe unto that Authority which maketh us to suffer , and woe unto the men upon whom God shall charg the guilt of our oppressions , and woe unto that Spirit that is found acting against Gods annointed , behold , ye Mountaines of the Earth , behold ! ye Rulers , and ye People , the Lord hath blessed his people , and every tongue that riseth up in witnesse against them shall be condemned , and every weapon that is formed against them shall be broken ; this is our hope in this gloomy day , and the hope of a Kingdome of righteousnesse , and peace which must be set up , is our refreshment in this day of trouble , and let not our Enemies glory over us , for though we are poor , yet shall we be made rich , and though we have no carnal weapon , yet shall we conquer : and thus have we declared our selves in much plainnesse and 〈◊〉 to our Nation whom we love , and whose present condition we pity and lament over , and we are freonds to any Appearance of good , that may come forth in truth and sinceritie , and as righteousnesse doth appear in any , we are ready to joyne with it in our prayers and desires , yea , and otherwise ; even that which hath the Image , of our God upon it , whenever it shall appear , we shall rejoyce therin and adde our help thereunto that it may prosper , for , for the establishing of righteousnesse in the earth , our all is not dear unto us , though hitherto we have bin silent and not medling with this party or the other , but by way of reproof of the evil in all , and informing all to the good ; and it cannot be charged upon us , that we have sided with one or another , for we have beheld all hitherto out of the right way as we have said , but we truly seek the general good of our Nation , and though we are accounted so and so , yet we have not lost true reason nor understanding , but we well know what is wrong , and what would be right , even in way of Gover●●●nt , but the time appears not to be yet , when innocencie and simpli●●●●● of heart can be embraced , for men are yet too wise in their own wisdom , and cannot receive the Councel of the Lord that they may prosper , and therefore are they , and must they be confounded amongst themselves ; and dashed one against another , till they learn the way of Righteousnesse and Truth .


id: A30536
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1659
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title:
  A message to the present rulers of England whether committee of safety, (so called) councell of officers, or others whatsoever : delivered unto them by an ambassadour from the only right heire of the government, whose right alone it is to rule : and by special authority and commission from him, this is sent unto them, that they may hear, and fear, and learn wisdom, and may deliver up the proper right of the only King unto him, that they may be blessed, but on the conrray dependeth their destruction / by Edward Burrough.

summary:
  Wherefore that you may be warned , I advise you be faithfull , let not the cause of God fall , nor the cause of his Enemies prosper before you , for there is no other way , wherby you can be preserved , nor no other defence shall you ever find from the wrath of the Lord , and from the fury of your devouring Enemies , then your faithfullnesse in Gods cause , and therfore relieve the oppressed , and take off all oppression , break down all unjust Lawes , and set all people free , from unjust burdens , and let all oppression cease , both in Church and Civill State , and even all oppressive Lawes , and unjust Judges , and evil men in power , let all this be removed , and the Nation clean quitted and discharged even from all men , and Lawes whatsoever , that have held under oppression the Persons , Estates , and Consciences of the good people of this Land , and let the Nation be corrected , and all orders and places of men , and Lawes and decrees purified , for this my Lord , the great King requireth ; and he will suddenly have it brought to passe in the Nation , if not by you , then contrary to you , and to your utter destruction , and this is the very substance of my Message to you , that my Master hath given me to say unto you , and on his behalf I am come to claime of you my Masters long lost right , let him have his right , from which he hath long bin banished , I demand it of you , all yee , whatsoever , that seemes to beare rule in this Nation , I charge you in his name , let him have his title and prerogative , let him be Lord and King wholly in his own Kingdom , let him have the excercise of his peoples consciences by his own Spirit , in all things , related to his worship and service , and let him have the full Authority by his Spirit , in all things pertaining to Church , and Ministry , and Faith , and Religion , and let his Spirit have the alone Authority , to perswade and diswade people from , or to such or such Ministry , Worship , and practises of Religion , and let all forced Maintenance to Ministers , and Tithes be speedily taken away , and let all Lawes , and decrees whatsoever , made , and practised in the dayes of Antichrist upon the Bodyes , Estates , and consciences of the People , in oppression and unjustnesse about Church , and Worship , and Religion , be utterly repealed , and made void , and never more be in force in this Nation ; But let my Lord be sole Ruler and Governour , and have the full Authority in his own Kingdom , in all things whatsoever pertaining thereunto , and let no man henceforth hereafter , ever be intrusted with the liberties of the Members of Christs Kingdom , as they are such , nor to judg over them , in any matters of Faith , and Worship , but give that right and priviledg wholly unto the Spirit of Jesus Christ , for unto him only it pertaineth , to be whole Judg , and to have full power in his own Kingdom , and untill you give him this right , and deliver up unto him his own Kingdome , and the excercise of Peoples consciences in all things about Religion , you shall never prosper , nor none that comes after you , that shall in any measure abridge my Master of his proper right , from which he hath long bin banished as I have said , and till his right be given him , in the case aforesaid , he will dash one man against another , and none shall never be Established , but horne after horne shall be broken , and one power after another brought into confusion And therfore ye men , do not strive with him in this matter , but yeeld unto him , the excercise of your own consciences by his Spirit in you , and let him do so unto all others , even as yee hope to prosper , and upon the penalty of his sore displeasure upon you in this World , and in the World to come ; and let just men and righteous men , and meek men , and men that have the fear and wisdom of God in them , without exceptation of Birth or otherwise , let such men have the Power and judgment committed to them , to determin in things between man and man ; down with all the false hearted flatterers that have ruled for man , and not for God , and for themselves , and not for the good of the people , cast all such out from among you , for the good among you is choaked by them , down with all that judge for rewards , & away with all hireling rulers , that executes the Law for money , and will not plead the cause of the poor without great fees ; and down with all that will not serve places of Trust without so large stipends , away with all these things out of the Land , for they are hainous oppressions unto men , and great abominations in the sight of God , and the Land has long groaned under the waight of these things , and the Earth is weary of them , and my Lord requires their utter dissolution , as being iniquities fully ripe , and having the guilt of so much cruelty , Injustice and oppression , lying upon the Nation because hereof , therfore is the Lords season to destroy them , and remove them out of the Land , which if you be the instruments in such a work , it will be your greatest Crown , and your perpetuall honour , for the Lords purpose is one way or other to cleanse the Land of all these and other oppressions whatsoever , that the people of this Land may be a free people from all the heavy yoakes of Antichrist , which hath long sorely pressed them down , and the purpose of the Lord is to break the yoakes of oppression and tyranny , from off the necks of this People , and therfore is it that he overturneth , yea , and will overturne all men and Authorities that shall oppose his work , and none shall be able to stand before him , for the presence of my Lord is more dreadfull to a Nation when he shews himself in his wrath , then any multitude of Armed men , and woe is unto you if you be found opposeing of him , and if you seek to stopp his work , you shall not cumber the Earth very long , nor oppresse the Nation many dayes , wherfore consider , cursed will you bee if you be unfaithfull in what you have to do on the Lords behalf , for your houre passeth over that is allotted you , and will be suddenly expired , never to be recalled , and then you cannot work . True it is , such hath bin the coming to passe of time , and of things for many Ages by-past , that my Master hath bin as it were banished from the Nation , and hath not bin suffered to enjoy his Right , but hath bin expelled , even as it were by the force of Satan , and Antichrist , who hath long usurped Authority over the inhabitants of this Nation ; and in my Masters absence , lamentable injustice , cruelty , unmercifulnesse , tyranny and oppression , hath bin exercised upon the inhabitants , and the poor creatures hath bin held in great slavery by their Rulers , that have ruled by the Dragons power , and bin kept in great blindnesse and ignorance , and under great oppression both in body and spirit , by Antichristian Teachers , for this many years , even while the great King hath bin absent , and as it were gone into a far Countrey : even all this time hath Antichrist and the devil ruled and reigned , and hath made and executed oppressing and tyrannical Lawes and Decrees , both in Church and State , and all the Nation hath bin out of right order , and laid waste and barren of good fruit , and it hath bin as a wildernesse , by reason hereof ; and men that have ruled for many years , have not ruled singly by my Masters Authority , but by another power , though not without the knowledge of my Lord , neither as though he had not power to have done otherwise ; but for his own pleasure he hath suffered it thus to be , and let men go on to rule and govern in their own wills , and after their own lusts ; and people have walked wickedly towards him , and towards one another , and all this he hath suffered , not as if he gave toleration for it : for his messengers now and then , and his witnesse in peoples consciences , have bin reproving their ungodly wayes , and he hath often shewed his dislike by divers wayes and tokens , and many judgments and strange overturning : to the way and proceeding of both Rulers , Prophets and Teachere of this Nation :


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author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
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title:
  A description of the state and condition of all mankinde upon the face of the whole earth. And a discovery unto all; shewing what man was in his creation before transgression, and what he is in transgression ... Also, the way of restoration, of salvation, redemption, and of life eternal, is here declared ... that all may come to the knowledge of the Creator, and to have fellowship with him again, from whom all the children of men are separated in the state of enmity, and are ignorant of him, and drove from his presence. This is to go abroad into all the earth, through the whole world ... that they ... may be restored again to serve, and worship, and glorifie the living God, who made heaven and earth, and all things therein. By ... Edward Burrough.

summary:
  And this Restorer , and Saviour , the Power and VVisdom of the Creator , hath lightned all mankind , every one that cometh into the world is lightned by him , that every one may follow him , and be guided by his power and wisdom ; and every one that doth receive him , sin and iniquity , and transgression is condemned , and the seed of the Enmity is cast out by his power , which is revealed against all unrighteousness , and he subdues it , and works it forth of the hearts of all men , and so reconciles man again to his Maker , to have fellowship with him ; and this Restorer , the second Adam , comes to be revealed within every man , who executes true Judgement upon the Transgressor , and bindeth under the rebellious Nature , and death and condemnation passes upon the seed of Enmity and all its fruits , upon the Devil and all his works , upon him who is born of the flesh , and all his wayes , his joy is turned into mourning , his pleasures into sorrow , his glory and rejoycing into sadness of heart , and the life which he has lived comes to be crucified , & the ways which he hath walked in comes to be hedged up , and no more followed , and his strength is turned into weakness , and all his ways and pleasures fadeth and perisheth , and the birth which is immortal comes to be brought forth , which is not of this world , but Heir of the Creators Inheritance , who hath no glorying under the Sun , nor no pleasure in the glory of this world , which passeth away , but lives unto God in all things , and brings forth fruit unto the Father , and is replanted into the living Vine , and is leavened into a new lump , and placed in the Garden of God , all the old garments are put off , & old things are passed away , the devil is cast out , the blinde eye is opened , & the vail is taken away which hath been spread over all , & the deaf ear is unstopped , & man is again returned unto his Maker , & hears , & sees , & understands the things which are eternal , which belongs to his peace ; the fear of God is set up in his heart , and Gods secrets are revealed unto him , & he is become the glory of his Maker , to praise him , to glorifie him , & to magnifie him for evermore , being restored again unto Gods Image , & guided with his power & wisdom , & have received dominion and authority from his Maker to reign & rule over all creatures , & to be exercised in all things to his glory by whom they were made ; he is not in bondage to any creature , but in liberty over it , & the creatures are become his servants , & he servant to his Maker , & the earth yeilds its encrease unto man , the curse is removed , & the blessing restored in the Covenant of Peace and righteousness , where all creatures comes to be injoyned ; the covenant of Death and Hell being broken and disannulled , where the curse stood ; & standeth in all the world , where the Restorer of the second Adam is not received , who moveth by the measure of his power against the evil in the hearts of all men , & he knocketh at the door of the heart , that he may be received , and come in and dwell with the children of men , whose delight is with the sons of men ; & every one that openeth unto him , & hearkeneth to his cry who calleth by the Light , & moveth by his Power , by him they receive life and peace , and sulness from the Father , and are raised from death to life , & redeemed from under the power of Satan to the power of the Creator , all evil in the ground and in the fruits , judgement goes upon it all , and condemnation ; & thus mankind comes to be restored again to God his Maker , to be the children of God , and heirs of his Inheritance , and is no more of this world , but redeemed by Jesus Christ out of kindreds , tongues , and people , out of respect of time , place , creatures , or things , and sees through all creatures , to be before the world was , beyond all the glory of this world , to the glory of the Lord ; and here is the praising , the singing , & rejoycing , the living & walking in that life which cannot change , & in the world , of which there is no end ; and here a greater glory is known then the first mans glory , a greater state then that which was overcome of the Devil , a greater dominion then that which was lost ; this dominion never can have an end , death is swallowed up of life , all sorrow and anguish is swallowed up of rejoicing , all tears are wiped here , and there is no more sorrow , the quickning spirit is felt and witnessed , which hath quickned again to God , and God Tabernacle is with men , and his dwelling place with the children of men , and that is felt and seen , and tasted , which was before the world was , before any creature was made ; and the whole world is comprehended , and mans state in his first creation is here known , what it was ; and mans state in transgression is also known , whiat it was , and mans state restored again , is also witnessed , and the difference sperceived betwixt the first Adam , which was overcome of the Devil , though he was innocent and without sin , and bore the likeness of his Maker , and of the second Adam , who cannot be overcome of the devil , whom Satan hath nothing in , who is the express image of the creator it self . And through transgression of the Povver that made him he vvas cast out of the Creators Garden , and out of his love , to labour under the curse in unprofitable ground ; and also out of his ovvn dignity , and honor , & dominion vvas he cast , & became heir of death , and child of Wrath , and Enemy in his mind unto the Creator , and an enmity vvas placed in him against the Povver that made him , & rebellion in his mind from vvhich all the Works of unrighteousness proceeds , & innocency vvas lost , & man became hurtful to himself & to all creatures , & grieved continually the Povver that made him , & vvas drove from the presence & feeling of his Creator , into insensibleness : and in this state unto this day are all ye sons & daughters of the first Adam in the enmity against the povver that made you , every moment transgressing it ; & death reigns over you all , & the povver of darkness rules in you all , & the Lavv of sin , & death , & transgression are you all subject to & led captive in your minds , affections & desires , at the vvill of the povver that leads into transgression , called the devil ; & in that state you are all strangers to God , & are vvithout him in the World , & ignorant of the knovvledg of his ways , and are in the perishing state for want of knowledge , and subject to the curse of the power which you transgress , and are heirs of his Wrath , having no part in the Inheritance of blessing ; for a vail of darkness through sin hath overspread you all , and covered you all from the sight , and hearing , and feeling of the Creator , and of the mystery of his glory and wisdom ; and every one in particular , and none excepted of all the children of Adam upon the face of the whole earth , but all have sinned and transgressed , and death reigns over all , and blindness of heart hath possessed all , and all have fallen short of the glory of the Creator , & all men are concluded ( by his spirit ) to be under sin , and children of Wrath , and Heirs of Corruption , and in disobedience & rebellion to the life that gives all men a being ; the whole world , & all people in it , without exceptions of tribes , Generations , or Nations , this is the state & condition of all the sons of men ; all flesh hath corrupted his way upon the earth in his sight that made it ; and the wickedness of man is great in the earth , and the imaginations and thoughts of every mans heart is evil continually , and grieveth the Creator ; for the whole earth is filled with violence through mans trnsgression : And now if any stock or age hath priviledge one above another , to redemption and salvation , and to the Kingdom of Peace and Glory , but Jew and Gentile , wise and foolish , Noble and Ignoble , Male and Female , all people without exception are in transgression , and by the line and measure of true judgement are shut out from the knowledge of life and salvation , and of the Inhheritance of the Father , in that state of enmity wherein every man in the world is fallen into , and by one the offence came , & so death upon all men , which reigns in the hearts of all , and opposeth the life of the Creator , and every one is imperfect in the sight of the Lord , blind , deaf , dumb , lame and without the sence of the Power that made him and brought him forth , his eye sees not , for it is covered with a vail of darkness ; neither doth the ear hear , for it is stopped ; nor the Tongue speak , nor the understanding pecceive any thing of the secrets of the Lord , but all are separated and divided from the tree of life , and are cast out from his presence by whom the world was made , into blindness of heart , and to the loathing of your selves , and are more ignorant of your Maker then the Ox is of his owner , or the Asse of his Masters Crib ; for you know not him that gives you life and all good things , and that upholds you by the Word of his Power ; and this is his word unto you all , You are all under the power of Satan , and subject to his wil , acting in iniquity and in evil , bringing forth the fruits of death from that ground in which you now stand , which is cursed , and your Maker hath no pleasure in it , for your fruits grieves his spirit that made you , and vexes his soul which brought you forth ; for man is degenerated into the plant of a strange Vine , and brings forth wild grapes and cursed fruits which is of a bitter taste unto the Lords soul , who planted all things for himself , who is the good Husband man ; but the whole earth is currupted , and all mankind in it , and man is not now acted , nor led , nor ruled in his heart by the Power that made him , which gives him all good things ; but the power of Satan , the Serpent , the old Dragon , which deceived from the beginning who is in the enmity against the life of the Creator ; he acts man , and rules man , to the abuse of all creatures , and to his own destruction , and every particular man is liable to the wrath , and to the curse , and to everlasting wo , and misery , and tormeut from his Maker , in that state of disobedience whereinto all mankind is fallen , not one upon the face of the whole earth excepted from transgression , and so from misery ; nor none priviledged one above another unto happiness , but as I have said , Male and Female , who was made in the Image of their Maker in the first Creation ; but now every man in the whole world is in the enmity against the life of the power that made him and is a child of wrath and shut up in blindness and unbelief under the Devils power , which power abode not in the truth , but is out of the truth , and all mankind is left in this condition without help , or helper , or deliverance , or means , or way of salvation from himself or any other creature upon the face of the whole earth but is a Sheep without a Shepherd , straying and wandering in the thoughts of his own heart , after vanity , and that wherein there is no profit to the Lord , nor to his own soul , but death and sorrow in all his wayes , having forsaken the Fountain of living waters , and gone a whoring after other Lovers , and defiled himself , and so brought destruction upon himself by his own doings , who abounds in all evil , lying , theft murder , envy , strife , stealing , and Whoredom , and such like which are the fruits of the ground that is cursed for mans sake :


id: A30559
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1663
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title:
  Two general epistles, or, The breathings of love uttered from the pure life, to the wholeflock of God in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and all other places whersoever this shall come, greeting : being a wholesome exhortation ... / given forth by by that faithful servant of God, who, though he hath lately laid down the earthly body, yet he lives with his Maker forever, Edvvard Burrough.

summary:
  And all faithful Friends , this is the Word of the Lord God to you ; Hear and fear , walk in the Truth which ye have heard , and learned , and received of the Father , in it dwell and live , and know there is no other than that which is made manifest , which is sure to you all , and cannot deceive nor be deceived ; and be not shaken in mind nor troubled , though some deny the Lord , but let their fall be a warning to you , to be more watchful , to be kept to the Lord , lest you be tempted : and dwell in the Mountain of Holiness , which no Beast can touch , where is a hiding-place to preserve you in the time of tryal ; and I charge you all in the presence of the living God of Life , let your minds be setled , and hearts stayed in the Truth , which is the Foundation of God , and know the Armour of God to gird you up to God , where no offence is taken against Christ , nor against the way of Truth , but the Power of God doth remove that which would be offended , and tramples upon that which gives the offence , and in this you will be preserved until the day of Salvation ; and be aware of that spirit which boasts above the measure , and of that which makes the offence of the Cross to cease , for there hardness of heart and unbelief enters , and so another is followed than the Light , and another joyned to than Christ Jesus , and there is the way to perdition ; who go from the Light within them , they deny God and his Truth , and follow the imaginations of the foolish heart , and run in rashness and in the frowardness , and that ground receives the unclean spirit in again , with seven worse , and the laiter end is worse than the beginning ; and this Truth doth not change , which is the begotten of the Father , but is the same for ever : So in it all be faithful and fruitful to the Father in your places and callings , shewing forth in all wisdom and pure conversation among your enemies , to the putting them to silence when they speak evil of you ; and be Examples of Holiness one to another , that the Lord God may dwell among you , and may never have cause to withhold his Presence from you , which is Life and Peace , and Rest for ever : and believe not every spirit , but dwell in that which discerns spirits ; and if any say , Lo here , or Lo there is Christ , go not after them without you , for you have not been so taught ; but know the Christ of God , the Lamb of God within you , and follow him , and obey his Voice ; and be established all of you , on this sure Foundation , whom God hath laid , & no man can lay any other , and if you build thereon and thereby , you shall never suffer loss , but your work shall abide the fire , and in the Father's house your bread you shall receive , and never shall hunger nor thirst , but the Life will be refreshed and encreased daily , and your Lamp will alwayes shine , and you shall never be darkned , nor stumble ; for that which stumbles is out of the Truth , and the ground stands to receive the seed of Satan , who is a devourer of the simplicity , and the betrayer from the Truth ; Therefore I charge you all in the presence of the living God , that you hold fast the Faith and Hope which you have received through the Gospel , that you may never be moved from the Grace of God , and from the Love that hath abounded in you , but may be found watching in the door , with your Light shining when the Bridegroom cometh ; and , behold he cometh quickly , and his Reward is with him ; blessed are they that tarry for him . The first General Epistle , &c. FOrasmuch as in these our days , the God of Truth hath made manifest his Name and Truth in the hearts of his People , and hath gathered the minds of thousands into it , to worship him in the Spirit and in the Truth , in which he is accepted ; and of this Truth ( which is but one , and there is not another ) are we made Witnesses and Ministers of , and have the Testimony in our selves that we are of God , and are a good savour unto him , in them that believe , and in them that perish ; and we have the Testimony , That he that is of God heareth us , and we know the whole world lies in wickedness ; and who are in the Truth , in the Light , and in the Life , have fellowship one with another , in Holiness and Righteousness , in that which comprehends the world , and condemns all the works thereof , which are evil ; and this Truth , Worship and Fellowship stands in Christ Jesus the second Adam , whose Kingdom and Rule is not of this world , but from Heaven , who according to his Promise , in his Counsel hath made known his Power , to the raising up a Righteous Branch , a Royal Priesthood , and Peculiar People , zealous of his Name , to shew forth his Praise and Glory , in Justness and Righteousness , in Love , Mercy and Peace , and works of Purity , having our Conversation in Heaven ; and since that day of the manifestation of this Truth of the Gospel of Peace and Salvation , which is the same now as was in the beginning , which is in Christ Jesus the Light of the world , who is the same yesterday , to day , and for ever , and changeth not ; I say , since that very day hath the Lord prospered his Truth , to the renewing of many into his Image and Likeness , and to the turning of many from darkness to Light , and from Satan's power to God , by the mouth of his Ministers , and through great sufferings , and tribulations , oppressions , afflictions , and labours , hath the Lord honoured his Name and his Truth in Nations , and given it a praise among all that fear him , and hath honoured it , and exalted it in the sight of the Heathen , to the confounding of the wise and mighty , and to the bringing out of the captivity of darkness , sin and death , wherein in times past all have walked , while strangers from the Life of God , so that thousands who have received the Truth , are established in it , and cannot be moved nor shaken , but are built upon the sure Foundation , their Faith standing in the Power of God , with whom the Arm and Presence of the Lord God is , defending and preserving continually ; and unto such the Truth is precious , and the Way of the Lord , his Name , and Honour is dear , yea , more than life or liberty , or any other thing which passeth away ; who for the Truths sake , as it is in Christ Jesus , do daily give up themselves to suffering , and to reproach ( for well-doing , and not for evil ) and love not life unto death , that the Lord God and his Name and Truth may be honoured ; so that in that Truth which is received and learned of the Father , daily do we walk , in all purity and holiness of life , answering the Mercy and Love of the Lord , in the exercise of a pure Conscience both towards God and man , in patience , long-suffering and wisdom towards all , to the putting to silence of gainsayers , rendring love and mercy towards our Persecutors , and are set in our hearts to fulfill the Will of God in all things : And now whereas ( that the Scripture may be fulfilled ) some may and have denied the Truth , which once was received and loved , to the making shipwrack of Faith and of a good Conscience , abusing the Mercy and Grace of God which to them appeared , and follow the counsel of their own hearts , and not of the Lord ; having lost the feeling of the Spirit of the Father , and are and may be separated from us ( in the self-separation ) through an evil heart of unbelief , that it may be made manifest they are not of us , though they arise from among us , and may by disorderly walking contrary to the Truth , cause the Truth to be evil spoken of , giving occasion thereby to the Enemies of God to blaspheme his Name and Truth in the Earth , and may be a stumbling to the weak , and an offence to the Way of the Lord before the simple , thorow their Disorders and Confusions , raising the rage of the Wicked against the Lambs of Christ , being not led in the Wisdom of God , but in Confusions , taking liberty to their own hearts desire , fulfilling the will thereof , without the Fear of God , above the Cross of Christ , in the Nature uncrucified , and speaking high words in the presumption , and not in the Light and Power of God , and acting in the vanity of the mind ( in the pretence of Truth and the moving of the Spirit ) such things as Truth and the Children of it , who are guided with the Spirit , cannot justifie , but is judged , and denied , and cast out from among the Children of Light , who walk in the Truth , and do try the spirits whether they be of God.


id: A86654
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1656
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title:
  The visitation of the rebellious nation of Ireland. And a warning from the Lord proclaimed, to all the inhabitants thereof, to make their peace with him before hislong [sic] suffering come to an end. With a lamentation over its unfruitfulnes and rebellion after so many visitations. And an exhortation to all the honest hearted, to meet the Lord by repentance, while the patience of the Lord continues. Or the sealing of the Lords testimony unto all sorts of people in that land, by his servants, after their several months sore labours, and travells, and sufferings therein, who loved not their lives for the seeds sake. Also some particular papers, written in that nation, to severall sorts of people. I. A warning, to the heads, and rulers, and people of Dublin. ... VII. An invitation to all the poor desolate souldiers, to repent, and make their peace with the Lord, and their duty shewed them, what the Lord requires of them. By them who are sufferers, for the seeds sake; waiting for the building of distressed Sion: F.H. E.B.

summary:
  Therefore awake , awake , ye carelesse and unbelieving , and fear and tremble ye children of disobedience , who hates the light , and loves your evill deeds , and upholds your false Prophets , whom God never sent , and will not own the Lord to be your teacher , the light in your conscience is your condemnation , for this is the condemnation of the world , that light is come , and men hates it . Oh your abominations is loathsome to all the children of light , professing God in words , but in your lives and works denies him ; oh that thou hadst known in this thy day the things that belongs to thy peace , a crooked generation you are , the yoke must be laid upon your necks , will neither plague , famin , nor sword bring thee into subjection unto the Lord , will neither mercy nor judgement take place in your hearts ;


id: A77973
author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
date: 1654
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title:
  A vvarning from the Lord to the inhabitants of Underbarrovv, and so to all the inhabitants in England, where it shall meet with them, who holds up the false teachers, and false worship, and who beats, stone, stock, and persecute, and hail out of their assemblies, those who are sent by the Lord, to speak his word freely; with an exhortation, that they hast to meet the Lord by true repentance, by putting off the works of darkness, lest the Lord cut them assunder, by his sword, which is already drawn and put into the hand of his servants. Also, a word to my brethren, and companions in tribulation in the kingdome and patience of Jesus Christ, who is by the world scornfully called Quakers. With the manner of my passage through the dark world, (wherein the simple ones may see the deceits of the man of sin in his actings like the true spirit) to warn all to follow the true light within, which leads unto God, & to beware of the voice, lo here & lo there, by one who is a labourer in the vineyard, who is not known to the world; (though named of the world) Edvvard Burrough.

summary:
  True Communion of Saints I own , for we have Union , and the Bread , which we break is the Body of Christ ; and the Cup which we drink is the Blood of Christ , by which we are nourished and fed up to eternal life ; for he that eats not Christs Flesh and drinks his Blood , he hath no life in him , he among you that can receive it let him , but your Communion I Deny , for it is Heathenish , and no more but an imitation , having proceeded out of the imagination of the Proud : Your breaking of Bread , and drinking of the Cup is abomination ; and God never commanded it , and this doth your Pharisee uphold , sitting in the Seat of Christ and of the Saints , as the Pharisees did in Moses seat , saying , and not doing : True singing I own with the Spirit and with understanding , singing in the Spirit , making melody in the heart to the Lord , this singing was and is among the Saints in the Church of Christ , this is well pleasing to God , for it is not an imitation , nor by tradition , as your singing is , but it is true Sacrifice , the Song of the Redeemed ones , which none can learn but the Redeemed ones of the Lord , who is come and coming to Zion with songs and everlasting Joy upon their heads ; but your singing is Carnal , Traditional , and Heathenish , and is an imitation , and is not with the spirit of Jesus , but with the spirit of the World , with the spirit of Drunkards , Swearers , Lyars , Mockers , Scornners , Covetous ones , with the spirit of Wrath , Envie , Malice , with the spirit of Cain , with the spirit of the Scribes and Pharisees , and chief Priests , who persecuted the Saints which sang in truth in former generations , and now the deceit is turned into the form of singing , and they that live there , persecutes them that sings in the power ; for thus it was ever , They that lived in Profession in the Word Outwardly , persecuted them that lived in the power of which was Professed , and there you and your Hireling is ; but know that the Lord will take an account of you , and give unto every man his reward , according to his deeds : You and your Priest , have got the Form of Baptism , of the Communion , of Singing , and of a Church ; but the power and substance of these Ordinances you know not , for they are hid from all vulturouus eies , and from the generation of the Pharisees , and Serpents , who are called of men Master , and which have the chief place in the Assemblies , as your Hireling hath , and who is called of men Master , as they were which Christ cryed Wo against : true Preaching of Jesus Christ Crucified we own and do witness , for the Preaching is out of the Will of man , out of Form and Custom , and is foolishness to the wisdom of the World ; now as it was ever , this is not with the inticing words of mans wisdom , but in the demonstration of the Spirit , and of Power , and the Preaching of the Word of Faith , which is nigh thee in thy mouth and in thy heart , that Preaching we do own , for Faith comes by the hearing of this Word Preached , and the Prayer with the Spirit of truth we do own , for that is not in word to be seen of men , but led to that , not by Custom , Form , and Tradition , but by the eternal Spirit , which proceeds from God , which hath free recourse to God , which God heareth and doth accept , for there iniquity is purged out of the heart and is not regarded , for he that regards iniquity in his heart , God will not hear his Prayer ; but the Preaching and Praying of your Hireling I do deny , for they are abomination to the Lord , for his Preaching leads from God , stands in his own Will , in his own Time , in Form , Custom , and Tradition , and your Souls are not refreshed by it , neither is true Faith known among you ; for how can he being evil speak good things ? And from this same Light do we Declare against all such , and seeth them to be abomination to the Lord , now as they did then , praised , praised be the Lord for ever , for now the abominations of the whore is made manifest that sitteth upon manie waters , that hath made all Nations drunk with the Wine of her Fornication , and now is the Judgment of the Whore come , and the day wherein she must reckon to drink the wine of the Wrath of God ; and he who was , and is this Light , cried Wo against then that said , and did not ; and against them that had the chiefest place in the Assemblies , and that were called of men , Masters : this same light do I witness , to be made manifest from God the Father of Light , and am not ashamed to declare it before men , for he that denies Christ before men , he must be denied by Christ before the Father ; and this Light lived the Saints in , and spoke from , who were called Mad-men , and Deceivers of them that professed truth in word , but persecuted them in whom the Son was born and made manifest , in which generation you and your Priest dailie makes manifest your selves to be , therefore repent , and come down ye high minds and lifted up spirits , for the Lord is against you , and hearken to the Light of God in you , and wait in it according to measure , and cease from all your formal , customarie , traditional worshipping , and from all your dumb Teachers , who are Antichrists , and denies the Light as having enlightened everie one ; this Light is the onlie way to the Father , which all must ( who comes to God ) follow and walk in , for he that walks not in this Light , walks in darkness , and stumbles , and knows not whither he goes ; and there are all Priests and people in darkness and ignorance , who walks not in this Light ; therefore love the Light and obey it , it will separate you from all filthiness and corruption , and lead you into puritie and holiness , without which none shall see God , and here is your Teacher alwaies present with you , which teaches to denie ungodliness , and the wicked waies of this world ; he who walked in this Light , by this Light saw all the world to lie in wickedness , but said they were of God , and all that were of God heard them who dwelt in the Light , but he who disobeyes this Light , follows the blind guids of the world as you do , and sets up Teachers to themselves having itching ears , and that Ministerie is of man , and by man called to the Ministerie by the earthlie powers , by earthlie Magistrates , or at Oxford , Cambridge , or Newcastle , all this Ministerie , who is here called is by man , and their Gospel is of man , which the true Gospel is not , and he that hath the Word of God to declare from God , his Call is not by man , neither doth he go to man to be approved ; for he that Preached the true Gospel , consulted not with flesh and blood , and so it is now , the same thing do we witness , and to be Ministers of the everlasting Gospel , called not by man , but by God , praised be the Lord for ever , from generation to generation , who hath revealed himself unto Babes , and hath hid himself from the Wise and Prudent of this World ; stop your mouths ye Ministers , which is by man , which Gospel is according to man , for now the Lord is arising , whose Angel is gone forth Preaching the everlasting Gospel : Sing praises to the Lord for ever ye Redeemed ones , who are brought from under the emptie , dead , deceitful Ministerie , which is by man , to be true witnesses of the true Ministerie which is of God : therefore be ashamed ye upholders of the deceitful Ministerie , which is but the Ministerie of witchcraft , by which your eies are darkned , and under which your souls lieth in blindness and ignorance under the power of witchcraft and sorcerie ▪ Be confounded ye Back-sliders , who once heard the Word with joy , and received it ; who were once among us , yet not of us ; who hath chosen the glorie of this world , rather than the everlasting Truth , and hath sold your birth-right of the everlasting inheritance , for the satisfying of your earthlie minds , with the earthlie treasures : Hear the Word of the Lord ye sloathful Servants , who not abiding waiting upon God , eats and drinks with the Drunkards , and beats your fellow servants , and are now become haters , mockers , and revilers , suddenlie will the Lord come and cut you all asunder , and give you your Portion in the Lake that burns with fire , except you repent :


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  A trumpet of the Lord sounded out of Sion which gives a certaine sound in the eares of all nations and is a true noyse of a fearfull earthquake at hand which shall shake the whole fabrick of the earth ... with a salutation to the seed who are gathered into the fold and with the children of the king ... / by one whose name is truly known by the children of the same birth ... Edward Burrough.

summary:
  〈…〉 t●e , World 〈…〉 ●…ey whose ●…en in the Lambs 〈…〉 He●●s , ●…s . ANd 〈…〉 Image 〈…〉 Earth worshipped by 〈◊〉 d Pe 〈◊〉 many mixtures , and it 〈…〉 the 〈…〉 , which strikes at the ●o●●ome ; 〈…〉 sev 〈◊〉 , and divers appearances out 〈◊〉 ●nd diff 〈◊〉 ●…dgements and Opinions , will stand 〈…〉 dr●●●ful day of the Lord which u 〈◊〉 , 〈…〉 glory , Wo , wo 〈…〉 ●ll ●…ession , when Christ comes in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 way , ●…trary to ●ll your divided expectations , and groun 〈◊〉 hopes ; He was before the world ●as ; and sha●●●nd doth reigne for ever , when it is 〈◊〉 ; ●●d in this ●…ay will the Lord God setup 〈◊〉 everlasting Kin 〈◊〉 of whose 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 D●minion 〈…〉 shall be no end , b●t 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈…〉 , ●…ded Kingdom of the ●ea●●ly 〈◊〉 and 〈…〉 ●e da 〈◊〉 to pieces , never 〈◊〉 to be ●…d your Mountains shall be burned , 〈◊〉 your 〈◊〉 and your 〈…〉 the Pit of everlasting wr 〈◊〉 t 〈◊〉 al j 〈◊〉 , from him th 〈◊〉 upon ●…f infini 〈◊〉 an● Glory , 〈…〉 〈…〉 i● a day , and y 〈◊〉 h 〈◊〉 〈…〉 at ●oonday , and all your 〈…〉 thrown down , and shall bec 〈◊〉 of Dragons : I have viewed you all 〈…〉 you are weighed in the Balance of 〈…〉 stumbles at 〈…〉 and Christ I 〈◊〉 light , by whi 〈◊〉 e 〈◊〉 ●omes i●to ti●e world , o● 〈◊〉 and therefore shu● up ●…a 〈◊〉 gro●●g as ●lind me 〈◊〉 pl 〈◊〉 i●●he ●arren ●…ed ●…o 〈◊〉 gh you are divided 〈◊〉 nd 〈…〉 selves in on●●●●y , 〈…〉 a 〈◊〉 the 〈…〉 ●●s Followers , who c 〈◊〉 ●ow to you●●…age , and you are li●●ed in t 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of Gog 〈◊〉 , 〈…〉 whom the Lamb is 〈…〉 his ●…ome ●●rth , having the Bowe 〈◊〉 d , 〈…〉 to conquer , and will 〈◊〉 ●…r e 〈◊〉 ; All your Sacrifice is corru 〈◊〉 the Lo●d G●d of Heaven and Earth is wear 〈◊〉 i th 〈◊〉 O 〈◊〉 Offerings , your 〈◊〉 are f 〈◊〉 m ●…are full of blood ,


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author: Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
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  The true state of Christianity, truly discribed, and also discovered unto all people what it was in its beginning and purity, and what it now is in its apostacy and degeneration ... / written by ... Edward Burrough.

summary:
  I say look back to your Original , and see how you are Apostatized from them in your entrance into your profession of Christianity ; fo●… though you have the name of Christians , yet you were no●… made so ▪ nor received that name by being first converted and changed , and translated from death to life , and 〈◊〉 being the children of disobedience , to be the children of God , through the work and operation of the spirit of God in you , for hereof are thousands and ten thousands of Christians now wholly ignorant , and altogether without the feeling of the spirit of God , to change them , to convert them , and to translate them , but are accounted Christians b●… tradition , or natural education , and because of being sprinkled with a little water upon the face , being Infant●… , or by a bare confession and profession of the name of Christ in words , and professing of a bare belief in the Scriptures , by this way and means were you made ( and received you the name of ) Christians without any real change from darkness to light , and from Satan to God , as I have said . 〈◊〉 in this all ye Christians generally how you are fallen ; then in the beginning of Christianity , no lack nor want was amongst them ; they that had much , sold it , and gave to them that had none ; but now thousands are oppressed through want , while others have too much ; some are feeding and cloathing excessively with their multitude of dishes , and changes of rayment , while others hath scarce whereon to feed , or to cover their nakedness ; and this manifesteth that you are not members of the body of Christ , neither is he head in you , nor amongst you , but you are members of an harlot , and joyned to a h●…rlot , and one with a harlot , for you profess many faiths ; some say they believe Christ is given to all , others believes not so ; some say they believe he died for all , others they say , they believe contrary to that ; and thus the one faith which the Apostles had , the Christians of this generation have lost , and they have lost the one head Christ , and hath many heads , every Sect hath their head , many heads among the Protestants , many heads among the Papists , but thus it was not in the beginning of Christianity ; therefore you Christians are subverted from the true life of Christ ; the Christians then were of one faith , but now of many ; the Christians then had one head Christ , but now the Christians ( so called ) hath many heads ; the Christians then could lay down their life one for another , and were written in the hearts of one another by the spirit of the living God ; but the Christians now , are in envy one towards another , and in strife one with another ; the great men doth oppress the poor , and they go to Law one with another for earthly things , and one stealing from another , and one hanging another , and murdering one another , and making slaves one of another , and robbing one another , and seeking utterly to destroy one another , and yet such hath the name of Christians , amongst whom all this is acted ; but consider how woful is your fall , and how wicked is your degeneration from the life of God , and from the true Christian life and unity , which was amongst them in their beginning , then they were of one heart , and of one way , but now divided , and in strife and contention about Religion , and the worship of God , and also about earthly things , for which they destroy one 〈◊〉 ▪ and seek so to do ; then they could lay down their life one for another , but now they are taking the life one from another , through wickedness , a woful Apostacy , and great night of darkness is upon you ; then none amongst them had lack of any thing , nor none destroyed through wasting any thing upon their lusts , but now thousands perisheth for want , while others hath too much , and are destroying it upon their lusts ; then had the Christians one head Christ , but now the b●…ast reigns that hath many heads ; then they were of one faith ▪ but now the Christians profess many faiths ; then the Christians handled , saw , heard and felt , of the Word of life in the●… , and they had fellowship with the Father and with the Son , but now thousands of thousands of Christians are without the sence , and feeling , and knowledge of the Word of life in them , and walks in darkness and in ignorance , and hath no fellowship with the Father nor with the Son .


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  Truth (the strongest of all) witnessed forth in the spirit of truth, against all deceit: and pleading in righteousnesse its owne cause, to the understanding of the simple, against a very great number of lyes, slanders, perverting of the Scriptures, contradictions and false damnable doctrines, held forth by the Independants. And in particular by one John Bunion, (one of Gogs Army) in two severall bookes put forth by him, against the despised scattered people called Quakers. And is a reply unto his second book, called A vindication, &c. wherein what was wanting in his former of fulfilling wickednesse is now appeared; by his adding sin unto sin, against God and against his owne soule. And this is to cleer the truth from above 100 of John Bunions foule dirty lyes and slanders: by a friend of the truth as it is in Christ Jesus; and not as it is in mens carnall apprehensions, Edward Burrough.

summary:
  To which I Reply , Their practices I deny , and the ground in which they stand and their false doctrines yet dare we not deny any truth as it is in Christ ; though they , as thou may professe it in words , which is seldome they doe , for we have respect unto the truth , for the truths sake only , but how uncharitable art thou in thy measure and judgement : Consider , as if he should say , J. Bunion is of the same mind with the Pope in many things ; the Pope holds Christ was born of Mary , and was crucified and raised again , and ascended , &c. And this holds John Bunion , and is of the same minde with the Pope in many things ; and therefore must partake of the same plagues with the Pope as thou said of us , though thou hast by unequall measure thus judged us , yet I render not evil for evil , but in love to thy soule , shewes thee thy folly and weaknesse . And as to that which I say is true , that the Pope can speake as much of Christ without as thou , I own it , and may add ; I beleeve he can speake more then thou of Christ without , and with as good or better understanding ; though both a like sar from the Kingdom of God ; yet in thy answer , thou askes me if I put no difference betwixt the speaking of ; and beleeving in Christ without ; Yea , I doe a great deale for he that beleeves in in him hath the witnesse in himselfe of him , and his heart is purifyed , and he is a new creature , which thou art not , but thou I suppose would be reckoned a Believer , for I think the Pope hath both more words , and more good workes and makes as much conscience of lying and false accusing as thou , for ought as may be understood , of a tree by the fruites , which is our way to judge as Christ hath given us example ; then in that I said thou hast answered thy selfe a question deceitfull , thou art offended , and boasts thy selfe against me , Charging me to be an enemy to the truth , and the like , in that I did not manifest thy deceit ; but now I shall , therefore to stop thy proud boasts in that answer thou calls it a sad doctrin which saith , follow the light which Christ hath enligh ned every man withall , and other such like things following that question which are deceitfull , and wicked , and thou thereby is proved the enemy to truth thy selfe , and thou and thy words are both deceitfull and therefore boast not thy self : then thou answers my Question which was , doth not the Scripture witnesse that all who have not Christ within are Reprobates ; the Question is sound , and of worth to be noted , and in thy answere thou sayes , yes it is true , to which I soberly Reply , then what a condition are all in , that hath not Christ within , nor no knowledge of him , but what they have of him as he is without , by the letter without doe thou consider this ; and whether it be not of the cheifest prize to life and salvation , to waite for him , and seeke for him within , seeing all that have not him within are Reprobates .


