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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30535	A message to all kings and rulers in Christendom	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1659 (1659)	Wing B6014; ESTC R24243	5,550	10

A Message TO ALL KINGS and RULERS in CHRISTENDOM To all called Christian Kings and Princes and to all the Parliaments and Rulers and Governours of every degree throughout the whole Christian World A Call unto you all by a servant of the Lord in the Name of the Lord God dreadful and mighty and the highest Power over all the World That ye take off oppression and relieve the oppressed and cease to grinde the face of the poor and from drinking the Whores cup and from carrying of her and from all oppressions whatsoever least the Lord God Almighty execute his fierce indignation upon you if yee will not turn at his reproof and hearken to his voyce when he calleth unto you 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