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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30536	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.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1659 (1659)	Wing B6015; ESTC R14580	13,686	20

if you do you shall never be established and this is from the mouth of my Lord unto you And last of all my Master hath a People in this Nation even a suffering people that have born the burthen of the cruelty and injustice and wickednesse both of Rulers and Teachers who hath as it were trodden them down and made them a very prey to their devouring mouthes the very crie of their sufferings hath reached unto heaven and the very sound thereof your eares have heard and this People are greatly beloved and my Lord will assuredly honour them and his hand shall be continued to preserve them and defend them against all their Enemies whatsoever and hee doth reserve them to himself and for a glorious work that hee hath to do by them and hee hath formed them for himself and they cannot joyne with any of the hornes of the great beast neither can a place of honour pervert them from their perfect way but my Lord he compasseth them about on every side and hath kept them in the midst of tryalls reproaches and sufferings and covered them in the heath and in the storme and his pleasure is to make further use of them they are his and not their own and they must fulfil his will and none besides and they lye at rest in him while Mountaines are overturned and while one Potsherd of the Earth breaks another and this must be even till the appointed time and to say no more of them though much might be said they are had in remembrance before the Lord to do with them even for his own glory and for this Nations perpetuall good and to the Authority of the most high through them shall Kings of the Earth and Nations of the World bow and tremble wherefore ye men touch them not neither do yee afflict them even as you hope to prosper remember their cause and suffer it not alwayes to be rejected as it hath long bin but keep your selves free from the injustice and cruelty of them that have gon before you who have bin merciless and oppressors of that people even till my Lord hath confounded them and brought them into confusion for there is the weight of blood of tyranny and oppression lying upon the Nation in that peoples cause and my Lord will revenge them in his season and though they are not weary of their sufferings but are in the patience which beareth all things yet the Nation can never be happy nor its Govrnment ever blessed while this people are held in bondage and their sufferings are deeply considered of the Lord and the season therof is expireing towards an end and when this cometh to passe then woe unto the Kingdome of Antichrist and to the Whore and false Prophet even when their strength is dryed up by which they have made Warr against the Lamb and his followers yea woe unto them great fearfulnesse shall be upon all the World when the King of that people Reigns upon the Earth and the time is at hand blessed is the man that waiteth for it and blessed is he that is not offended in his coming but is prepared to receive him in his appearing which suddenly cometh upon all the World And thus I have told you the Lords present Message unto you which I received from him and thus farr I am clear and whether you accept it or reject it my peace and reward is for ever with him who am a Subject of his Kingdom and a Friend to this Nation however otherwise judged by ignorant men The 9. Mo. 1659. THE END Is meant here chiefely the new Committee of Safety so called

but your daies shall be lengthened and the purpose of the Lord may be turned to your longer continuance and not to your sudden destruction and if you walk in this way and Rule only for the Lord then shall you be honoured as men if not as an Authority and you and the Nation preserved in peace and the force of the wicked shall be turned backward and you shall not suddenly fall And the late sundry overturnings in this Nation may be examples to you that you follow not the stepps of those that God hath cast out lest you come to the same end of confusion and miserie For as concerning that Assemblie of men that last sate on the Throne something was done by them in their day and time and in both their assemblings in some things they served my Lord and they were a Rod in his hand to smite his Enemies yet they were not faithfull to the end till all his Enemies were destroied but rather joined themselves to fight against the Lord and his people and were hastening on towards the waie of Oppression and persecution and it was time for the Lord to remove them and to laie them aside as an emptie vessel sometimes useful and to break them as a Rod sometime of service to be a scourge upon his Enemies and when the day of their trial was over which God gave unto them being any longer for present unfit Instruments for his hand then he cast him into the fire and this his purpose came to passe upon them so that they and the whole Nation may be contented and yield themselves subject to what he hath done concerning them for they being entring into the very same spirit of wickednesse of oppression and persecution which the Lord had once reproved through them and cast out by them then was a Rod raised up against them even as they had been against others and they were dealt withall as they had done to others and this was in the justice of my Lords hand and what hath Mortal man to question his proceedings and though some of you present Rulers be looked upon as great Traytors and Tyrants in your dealing towards them and doubtless the men of that part will seek vengeance against you even by preaching and praying and they will curse you in the name of their God and seek continually your destruction as such as have taken away part of their strength and cast down their Idol But alass all this is nothing for the Lord doth not account as men For these things must needs thus come to pass for the furtherance of the Kingdom and Government of Jesus Christ that it may arise through all and if you were but faithfull to what the Lord requires of you in your present proceedings what you have done unto them should not be reckoned on account against you neither by God nor good men But and if you of the Army be alwaies treacherous and disobedient towards him and abuse your power and disregard your price that God hath given you and trifle away your hour about places of Honor and such self-seeking matters and the Cause of God be neglected by you and his people continued oppressed sufferers under you as they have long been even then shall you be cast aside with shamefull disgrace and the heavie hand of the Lord shall be upon you in judgment and you shall be smitten more then any before you your Estates shall not be spared from the spoiler nor your soules from the Pit nor your persons from the violence of men no nor your necks from the axe for if you be unfaithfull and continually treacherous to the Cause of God then shall you be left to the will of your Enemies and they shall charge treacherie and treason upon you and your persons and estates shall be given for a prey to your Enemies and you shall not deliver your selves neither will the Lord deliver you from the execution of mercilesse men for my Lord shall leave the cruel-hearted to plead with you 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

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 But yet they have gone on against his minde and contrary to his Will notwithstanding his Reproofs and Judgements not that he had not power to have executed his pleasure in wrath upon them and to have destroyed them al together and have made the Nation a heap and as nothing long before this day for power was in his hand to have done it But he hath bin long-suffering and of great patience and born all things and taken the injustice and cruelty and wickednesse and idolatry and all unrighteousnesse that hath abounded in the Nation upon himself and suffered under it and born it for its season while woful and lamentable oppressions hath bin practised in Civil State even hellish Laws and devilish Executors of them mercilesse Tyrants have born the Scepter and reigned for many years over the inhabitants and in Church and State hath bin hainous Idolatry and Superstitious vanities committed in a high nature and measure and even all men and States of men orders of men of every degree hath bin abominably corrupted in the fight of my Lord even from the Prince to the Begger even Rulers and Subjects Teachers and People Judges and Prophets they have bin corrupted both in heart and hand and they have dealt falsly and wickedly towards him and towards one another even to the great displeasure and vexation of him and his blessed Spirit and to the high provocation of him to their own destruction if his long suffering had not prevailed and all this while he hath layed as it were asleep and at rest in himself and he hath left men to try them what they will do and he hath given them a day many Kings and Rulers he hath let them have a little time to see how they would use it but they have abused it and not Ruled for him nor accomplished his work nor fulfilled his will but acted even in defiance of him and of his Power and to his great dishonor Alack I must be plaine with you my Lord hath bin utterly exiled and greatly dishonored and highly provoked and vexed by reason of such proceedings as hath bin in this Nation for this many yeares through the corruption of all sorts of men in place and power who hath not ruled for him but for the Devill to their own corrupted ears only he hath suffered men to go on in their course for a season some as it were appearing on the Stage for a time and suddenly cast down again for their iniquities sake and his hand hath bin in all these things though very privatly and secretly not known and discerned by the Sons of men yet hath he Ruled over the Kingdoms of men and pulled down one and set up another and to forbear the severall actings and proceedings of many by-passed ages and to come to this generation and to speak of things that have happened within these few years and of the changing and overturning that hath hapned in this Nation such was the cruelty tyranny and oppression and Idolatry both in Church and Civil State that the People of this Nation were held under in the dayes of Papal-Power such I say was the exceeding heighth of Cruelty and tyranny of that time that not any that feared or reverenced my Lord in any measure could scarce live or have a being in the Nation even against every man that did but incline towards him and desire the knowledge of his waies Hells mouth was opened against them and they were swallowed up and many of their lives taken from the Earth by the hellish power that had in that day usurped Authority in this Island and when thus it was then he looked down from Heaven and his bowells of compassion were opened for the sake of the oppressed People that desired after him in so much that he broke and threw down the power of their oppressors in some measure as it stood in Papall-Authority and when the iniquity of that power was filled up he took vengeance upon it and I must tell you it was he that brought it about even the destroying of that Power in this Nation and freeing the Nation from it though the men that were instruments in the cause were not his Servants otherwise then as Nebuchadnezzar served him for he hath a secret way to have a service from the wicked and such is his Power that he can turne the wickednesse of the wicked to his glory and he can make a Rod to whipp his Adversaries and burne it when he hath done and he hath often destroyed one wickednesse by another Well but to leave that though he did in some measure free this Nation from much tyranny and cruelty in the casting out Popish Authority yet alack the Nation in a few yeares was neare as much violated by Injustice tiranny and cruelty under the prelatical power as ever it was once under the Papal power though before there had bin some small reformation and change in outward appearance though little in ground and nature yet oppression and tyranny in Civill State and Idolatry and Superstition in Church and State and all profaness and wickednesse among people was grown so high like as it had bin under the Papal power before and all that desired after the Lord and was weary of iniquity and of the then present oppressions and Idolatries were persecuted and slain and destroyed and Injustice and cruelty excercised upon them even allmost to the rooting out of righteousnesse and to the grieving of the Lords Spirit well then because of the cry of the People and the oppression of the Nation under that Authority my Lord looked down again and even for his Name sake and his seeds sake he had compassion on this Nation to set it free and to break off its oppressions and by his hidden hand and secret power