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A64451	A testimony concerning the life, death, trials, travels and labours of Edward Burroughs that worthy prophet of the Lord who dyed a prisoner for the testimony of Jesus, and the word of God, in the city of London, the 14th of the 12th month, 1662 / [by] F.H.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.; Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.; Coale, Josiah, 1632?-1668.; Fox, George, 1624-1691.	1662 (1662)	Wing T809; ESTC R34657	20,023	27

A TESTIMONY Concerning the Life Death Trials Travels and Labours of Edward Burroughs That worthy PROPHET OF THE LORD Who dyed a Prisoner for the Testimony of Jesus and the Word of God in the City of London the 14 th of the 12 th Month 1662. F. H. London Printed and are to be sold by William Warwick 1662. The Life and Death of Edward Burroughs that worthy Prophet of the Lord c. SHall days or months or years wear out thy Name as though thou hadst had no being Oh nay Shall not thy noble and valiant Acts and mighty Works which thou hast wrought through the power of him that separated thee from the Womb live in generations to come Oh yes the children that are yet unborn shall have thee in their mouths and thy Works shall testifie of thee in generations who yet have not a being and shall count thee blessed Did thy Life go out as the snuff of a Candle Oh nay thou hast penetrated the hearts of many and the memorial of the just shall live for ever and be had in renown among the children of Wisdom for ever for thou hast turned many to righteousness and shall shine as a Star of God in the Firmament of God's Power for ever and ever and they that are in that shall see thee there and enjoy thee there though thou be gone away hence and can no more be seen in mutability yet thy Life and thy Spirit shall run parallel with Immortality Oh Edward Burroughs I cannot but mourn for thee yet not as one without hope nor faith knowing and having a perfect testimony of thy well-being in my heart by the Spirit of the Lord yet thy absence is great and years to come shall know the want of thee Shall I not lament as David did for a worse man than thee even for Abner when in wrath he perished by the hand of Joab without any just cause though he was a valiant man David lamented over Abner and said Dyed Abner as a fool dyeth Oh nay he was betrayed of his Life even so hast thou been bereaved of thy life by th● hand of the Oppressor whose habitations are full of cruelty Oh my soul come not thou within their secret for thy blood shall be required at the hands of them who thirsted after thy life and it shall cry as Abels who was in the Faith even so wert thou it shall weigh as a ponderous Milstone upon their necks and shall crush them under and be as a Worm that gnaweth and shall not dye When I think upon thee I am melted into tears of true sorrow and because of the want that the Inheritance of the Lord hath of thee my substance is even as dissolved Shall I not say as David said of Saul and Jonathan when they were slain in Mount Gilboa The beauty of Israel is slain upon the high places Even so wast thou stifled 〈◊〉 nasty holes and prisons and many more who were precious in the eyes of the Lord And surely precious wast thou to me oh dear Edward I am distressed for th●● my brother very pleasant hast thou been to me and my love to thee was wonderful passing the love of women Oh thou whose Bow never turned back neither Sword empty from the blood of the slain from the slaughter of the mighty who made Nations and Multitudes shake with the Word of Life in thy mouth and wast very dreadful to the enemies of the Lord for thou didst cut like a Rasor and yet to the seed of God brought forth thy words dropped like Oyle and thy lips as the honey-comb Thou shalt be recorded among the valiant of Israel who attained to the first degree through the power of the Lord that wrought mightily in thee in thy day and was worthy of double honor because of thy Works sake thou wast expert to handle thy Weapon and by thee the mighty have fallen and the slain o● the Lord hath been many many have been pricked ●o heart through the Power of the Word of Life and coales of fire from thy Life come forth of thy mouth that in many a thicket and among many bryars and thorns it ca●e to be kindled and did devour much stubble that cumb●●ed the ground and stained the Earth Oh how certain a sound did thy Trumpet give And how great an Al●rm didst t●ou give in thy day that made the Host of the uncircum●●sed grea●ly distressed What man so val●ant though as Goliah of Gath would not thy Valour have encountered with while many despised thy youth And how have I seen thee with ●hy sling and thy stone despised Weapons as to war with wound the mighty and that which hath seemed contemptible to the Dragons party even as the Jaw-bone of an Asse with it thou hast slain the Philistines heaps upon heaps as Sampson Thou hast put to thy hand to the Hammer of the Lord and has● often fastened Nailes in the heads of the Lambs Enemies as D●borah did to Sisera and many a rough stone hast thou polished and squared and made it fit for the building of God and much knotty Wood hast thou hewed in thy day which was not fit for the building o● God's House Oh thou Prophet of the Lord and shalt for ever be recorded in the Lambs Book of Life among the Lords Worthies who have followed the Lamb through great tribulation as many can witness for thee from the beginning and at last hath overcome and found worthy to stand with the Lamb upon Mount Sion the Hill of God as I have often seen thee and thy heart well tuned as a Harp to praise the Lord and to sound forth his great salvation which many a time hath made glad the hearts of them that did believe and strengthen their faith and hope Well thou art at res● and bound up in the bundle of Life and I know tears was wiped away from thy eyes because there was no cause of sorrow in thee For I know thou witnessed the old things done away and there was no curse but blessings were poured upon thy head as rain and peace as a mighty shower and trouble was far from thy dwelling though in the outward man trouble on every side and hath had a greater share in that fo● the Gospel sake though a youth in thy time th●n many besides But now thou art freed from that and h●st obtained a Name through Faith with the Saints in Light Well hadst thou more to give up then thy Life for the Name of Jesus in this World Nay and to seal thy Testimony committed unto thee with thy blood as thou hast often said in thy day which shall remain as a Crown upon thee for ever and ever And now thou art freed from the ●empt●tions of him who had the power of death and art freed from thy outward Enemies who hated thee because of the Life that dwelt in thee and remaineth at the right hand of God where there is joy and pleasure for evermore in the

elect Seed known blessed be the Name of our God for ever and ever G●orge Whitehead London the 12 th day of the first month 1663. A Testimony of truth concerning the Servant of the Lord and Minister of Jesus Christ Edward Burroughs FRiends a necessity is upon me and I am even constrained and pressed in my spirit to bring in and give my Testimony concerning my beloved Brother before-mentioned that it may remain and stand upon Record for Ages and Generation● to come And this first I say and declare unto all people unto whom this shall come That he was a man endued with the Almighty Power of God which lived and reigned in him ●nd the treasury of pure Divine Heavenly Wisdom was opened in him c. and understanding in the things that relate unto God's Kingdom of peace and righteousness and in the things that concern the everlasting peace and well-being of all mankind was plentifully manifested unto him by the good Spirit of God which I may say he had received in a plentiful measure And this many can testifie unto and his own Writings which remain upon record will in a large measure manifest the truth thereof And this spirit dwelt plentifully in him so that thereby he wa● able to instruct many in the way of life peace and true holiness and if any were afflicted in spirit or mind by reason of the wiles of the Enemy of their souls or if they met with any difficulty in their journey as they passed from death to life he was a man able through the large experience that he had of the dealings of the Lord and also of the wiles of Satan having followed the Lamb in the regeneration to administer a word in season to their refreshment and comfort and for their establishment in the most precious holy Faith and this I know the Witnesse of God in thousands must and shall testifie unto who are the seal of his Ministry And moreover he was a man that was able through the wisdom and blessed gift of God that was in him to convince and stop the mouths of all gainsayers of the truth which he with us professed and lived in And it is well known unto many that he was never backwards but always ready and willing to appear in a way of publike conference as in vindication of and against any that should oppose the blessed Truth of God which he held and professed and also to manifest the grounds and reasons wherefore we deny and dissent from the National Prie●ts of the World and their traditional ways of Worship and the hypocritical professors thereof who have not the life and substance of what they profess in words And these things it is well known unto many he was oft exercised in and he did not go about in corners nor creep into dark places hiddenly nor secretly but preached the Truth of God and Doctrine of our Lord Jesus Christ boldly and openly even upon the house tops and his valour for God's Truth on Earth was well known unto many and his voice was as the sound or ratling of the Charriots of God's Host upon the tops of the Mountains and was oft uttered forth in the Name of the Lord even like thunder and the voice of the Son of God was uttered forth through him by which the dead was raised the Witnesses are now alive let them bring in their testimony that the truth hereof may be confirmed His Doctrine dropped as the Oyle of joy upon the Spirits of the mourners in Sion His Life extended it self as a sweet stream into the hearts of the children of Light that thirsted after righteousness He was one of the Cloud of Witnesses that dropped down the dew upon the tender plants of God He pleaded the cause of the innocent suffering Seed and earnestly contended with the Powers of the Earth of all sorts in the behalf and for the freedom of the suffering people of God He fore prophesied unto them that were in Authority in the days past of their destruction and of their overthrow because of their deceitfulness to God and their false and cruel treacherous and merciless dealings towards his people who had made many fair promises both to God and man in the time of their adversity That they would grant free liberty of Conscience in things relating to the Worship of God and that Oppression should be removed and the like but in the time of their prosperity when they were waxen fat and grown great and lived at ease and in pleasures then they forgot God and regarded not to perform their Engagements neither to God nor his people for which cause the Lord cut them off in hi● sore displeasure and brought an utter desolation upon them according to the words of his Servants and this Prophet of God lived to see their desolation come which was sad to behold and his Prophesies was fulfilled in his own days And he also warned the present Rulers of this Nation to take heed of walking in the steps of them that are gone before And for these things and for the publishing of the Truth of God and for bearing his Testimony with boldnesse against all Oppression and Cruelty he was hated of the men of this gener●tion but chiefly by some of the Rulers of the City of London He sealed his Testimony with his Life in bonds and so they have wilfully brought innocent blood upon themselves and heavy will it lye upon them in the day of account which greatly hastens wherein the Lord God wil make inquisition for the blood of the innocent and reward every man according to his deeds then wil his blood be upon you as the blood of a thousand men and how wil you bear your sentence from the Lord of Hosts because you will be found guilty of the blood of his Prophets Messengers and Servants which he sent unto you in love to your souls to forewarn you of the evil which greatly hastens to come upon you Yet notwithstanding you have done all these things and the cry of innocent blood hath been heard so loud amongst you yet have you hardened your hearts and go on in stiff-neckedness and persist in your cruelty towards the servants of the Lord that are left behind and are found casting them into prison Oh wo is me for you where will a place be found for you in the day of the Lord or what covering will you hide yourselves under Or how wil you appear before the righteous God of Heaven and Earth Have you no consideration in you of your latter end Or else do you believe that the Lord sees not your cruelty towards his people that you will not answer his requirings which is to do justly and love mercy and walk humbly with the Lord and to do unto all men as you would they should do unto surely if the consideration of these things was in your hearts or if you had any regard to keep your consciences clear in the sight of God

appertaining to God in matters of Religion and Worship against the persecution and compulsion which had its Original ●nd Rise from the Power of the Beast which hath made war against the righteous seed that men might be left free to the guidance of the infallible Spirit of God which is not to be limited in these matters and not be compelled nor brought under the corrupt wills of men nor their fallible judgements nor invented forms in these cases And the Name of this Mini●●er of Righteousness is written in the L●mbs Book of Life and all the Enemies of his Life can never be able to blot it ou● nor extinguish his memorial Oh! the remembrance of his integrity uprightness and sincerity hath deep impression upon my heart that tender love and affection in God's Truth which he was filled with towards all the upright who are lovers of peace unity in the Lord is never to be forgotten by u● who are yet remaining in the Work of the Lord and the everlasting Gospel for which he hath left a glorious Testimony the glory of which shall never be extinguished but thousands shall praise the Lord our God because thereof yea even the Seed that 's yet in the lower parts of the Earth where darkness covers it and the child that 's yet unborn in many that 's curiously framed in the Mothers Womb w●ose Members are written in the Book of God shall glorifie the Lord on his behalf And this testimony many have already concerning him that though his Body be dead his Spirit liveth in the immortality of that Life that is immutable and shall never dye nor wax old and is felt among the righteous who walk in their integrity and constancy to the Lord. And this faithful servant of the Lord and valiant Souldier of the Lamb as in his day was evidently apparent as to live to him was Christ to dye was gain And though in his time many were the sufferings and aff●ictions which his life went under and his upright spirit suffered by both from his open enemies and persecutors in the World because of the valour and courage for the Truth of God and from deceitful and transforming exalted spirits which burthen the holy Seed but now his Life is caught up above them all and is out of their reach in the transcendent and unspeakable glory in the everlasting habitation and firmament of God's Power where he hath shined and doth shine among the Stars that have kept their habitations as one that hath turned many to righteousness and that hath overcome by the blood of the Lamb and the Word of his Testimony with those holy Prophets and Martyrs who rejoice over Babylon and her abominations in whom their blood is found and against whom he was a faithful Witness and valiant Warrier whose living and absolute Testimony therein God hath blessed made prosperous and wil fulfil to the uttermost And though he be ceased from his labours his Works do follow him which wil be had in living remembrance and precious esteem among the upright when his persecutors shall be broken and laid low in the desolation and ruine of Babylon and all that continue in enmity and deceit and all the deceitful spirits that have burthened his righteous soul shall fall and their blossome wither and come to nought And if any of his persecutors or oppressors be yet so impenitent and obdurate as to triumph and be elevated in an exalted or prejudiced spirit because of his death and in their exaltation and pride of heart say he was taken away in judgment or in wrath To such in Gods fear I answer That thousands of the servants of the Lord are of another perswasion not questioning but it was in Gods tender love as to his own particular that he was removed out of the Earthen Vessel in which he though a man as in the prime of his years endured great travel in his time for the Truth 's sake and the gathering of many into the way of the Lord and in which his travel was the greater when the time of his dissolution drew near to be dissolved because of his suffering and the extremity of his sicknesse occasioned thereby which many others were partakers of who suffered persecution and imprisonment by unreasonable men in this City of London for the cause of God and of a good Conscience as chi●fly for their meeting together fingly in the Worship of God But this I testifie in the Lord as in him I have felt that his being removed was in judgement from the Lord against his persecutors who desired and sought his destruction and what they have done against him hath greatly added to the fulfilling of their iniquities that the blood of the righteous which cryes for vengeance may be avenged to the utmost upon them who would not suffer the righteous to have a being amongst men nor lay to heart their being taken away from the evil to come And they who in a byassed or prejudiced spirit of enmity are lifted up because of his decease they were not worthy of him nor of his Testimony and they have cause to mourn and lament amongst those that have pierced the just and slighted and despised the Messengers of Truth and Righteousnesse whom God hath therein honored and God will debase such and their vain glory unto the dust and exalt the testimony and life of his faithful Witnesses over all their heads But we who have been well acquainted with the deep suffering of the righteous Seed and with the worth of true unity in the weighty body and spirit of Christ and therein do behold the glory and compleatnesse of the City of our God which is at peace within it self cannot but prize the Ministers of Righteousnesse and every Member of the same Body and oh how blessed and precious is the memorial of the righteous in our eyes And how deeply is my soul affected with that comfortable communion and those many and living refreshments that we have enjoyed one with another even with him and others who have finished their course Well however in this I am satisfied that though we be left in travel and our days have been days of affliction and suffering for Christ and the gospels sake as in the World yet in him whom the Prince of this World hath nothing in we have peace being come into communion with the Spirits of just men who are the Family of God written in Heaven and called by one name both in Heaven and Earth and the God of Life is their portion and his glory is the Rereward of his called and chosen and faithful ones who have dealt their Bread to the hungry and brought the poor to their House even to the habitation of the righteous where the living Bread is received and the Heavenly Mansions lived in and enjoyed by all who abide in the Truth and retain their first Love and habitation therein in which true fellowship is enjoyed and the prosperity of the