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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77950	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.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1657 (1657)	Wing B6012; Thomason E919_6; ESTC R207505	31,897	44

these are their cursed children which now abounds in these Nations at this day and they are filthy dreamers studying for what they speak and dreaming without the Spirit of God an houre in a Pulpit and what they know it is naturally by naturall learning and naturall arts and in that knowledge they are also corrupted in pride and vaine glory and vanities like bruit Beasts in their apparrell and practises and not like ministers of the Gospel nor Saints and they are in Caines way in envy and murder and wrath abounding no people like them and they doe run greedily after Balaams errour for gifts and rewards and unrighteous wages which they run after greedily and they are trees who brings forth these cursed fruits which will wither and fade away and they are like raging proud waves of the Sea foaming out their shame in lies and slanders and cursed speaking in publick and private and they have no habitation in the firmament of God but are wandering Starres and sometime in one opinion and sometime in another but the blacknesse of darknesse is reserved for them and the judgment of the great day and they are murmurers and complainers and they can never have enough but seekes for their gaine from their quarter as the false Prophets did in Isaiahs time and they have mens persons in admiration because of advantage to themselves bowing and worshiping mens persons who will advantage them in their wages or hire and maintenance begging favour of the Magistrates and having their persons in admiration that they may have their advantage in oppressing poor people in tythes in this their wickednesse is hard to be expressed and these have seperated themselves into selfe seperation some into one forme gathered and some into another but all sensuall and in the wisdome which is from below and without the Spirit of God And thus it is proved that these teachers of this age are of the same ge●eration in their practises which Jude describeth to be creeping in in his time And farther the Apostle John 1. epistle 4. He saw that the false Prophets and Antichrists which Christ prophesied of to come was come in his dayes and said many false Prophets are gone out into the world which is the Spirit of Antichrist whereof you have heard said John and even now already is it in the world and they were of the world and the world heard them and so are this generation of teachers who succeeds them that went forth into the world then these are of the world in its wayes pride and wickednesse covetousnesse and envy and all evill and they that are in the evill of the world in wickednesse heareth them and maintaineth them so that according to Johns description these teachers of this age are of that same flock which came in then and John further saw that all the world was gone after them and worshiped the Beast which was then risen and run after the false Prophet which then came in and fat upon the Beast and its plaine that the world is all run after them untill this day which is a day of bringing back againe from the false Prophet and from under the power of the Beast and the Beast and his image and the false Prophet and his divinations must down to the ground and according as John further prophesied the holy Citywhich had been troden down under the Gentiles feet for such a time should againe be gained and the Saints should have the dominion and the old Dragon should be chained and Christ should reigne and his Kingdome should be set up in the earth and the Tabernacle of God should be with men and this is the day that the Lord is restoring againe the way of peace which long hath been lost and the power of God is againe witnessed which hath not been known for generations So that of things spoken this is the sum of truth and the word of the Lord God to all people on the earth that in the dayes of Christ and the Apostles it was a glorious day of light and life and power and the Lord gathered a people which honoured his name while they stood with him and in his counsell walked but since the dayes of the Apostles hath been an Apostacy and darknesse over all and a subversion upon all and night have been over all wherein no man could work as Christ said and formes without power have been established the pure way of God hath not been known in its purity so that this time wherein all are fallen is a time of ignorance of the reigne of the Beast which all the world hath wandred after and a time wherein the Gentiles feet hath troden down the holy City and a time wherein all the world runs after the false Prophet and are deceived and made drunk with the wine of the whores fornications I say this is the time wherein all the men of this generation are fallen and the Scripture is fulfilled the night wherein no man can work is upon the world and further this is the time of Antichrists dominion which hath exalted himselfe in the seat of God shewing himselfe to be God and long hath he reigned with the Beast and the false Prophet ever since the dayes of the Apostles and these same teachers of this generation which now are in the world are manifest by their fruit to be of that generation of that seed and flock of false Prophets which Christ prophesied of should come in the last time after his dayes and which most of the Apostles saw coming in in their dayes by their fruites I say they are known for these brings forth the same fruites and beares the same markes which they described those did in their time so we see Christs prophesie is fulfilled who said they should come for they are come and the Apostles descriptions are fullfilled on these for these teachers are such as beares the same characters as is proved as they said they should beare that would come and long hath the Nations been deceived and kept under the worship of the Beast running after the false Prophet and we see Johns prophesie is fulfilled who said that the holy City was given to be troden under the feet of the Gentiles for so we see it hath been for many generations and also we know the time is now approaching that the dominion of the Beast is near an end and the holy City shall the Saints possesse and the Gentiles shall be driven out of it according as John said who wrote the last of any of the Apostles and gave full testimony of these things which I have declared of viz. of an Apostacy and reigning of the Beast and false Prophet and a subversion from the wayes of God and this hath been and come to passe also he prophesied of the gaining of the holy City in again to the Saints and of a restoration wherein new Jerusalem should be made manifest from heaven and should againe be adorned as a bride

and his name and power is declared in the hearts of his people to the overturning of all unrighteousnesse and though every horn of the Beast push against this and every head with his members set it selfe against it yet the councell of the Lord shall not be disanulled nor made voyd for the Scepter and dominion of his Son shall be exalted over all the earth and the Princes of the world and the Kings of the earth shall lay down their Crowns and become subject for the Kingdomes of this world shall be changed and shall become the Kingdomes of the Lord and of his Christ the Kingdome of the Beast must down and the Princely power of darknesse must be overthrowne and Lawes and times and things and powers of men shall be overturned and overturned till he come to reigne in the earth whose right it is to reigne over Nations and people And because of this the rage of the Heathen hath been great and the councells of the wicked many and strong from the prophane drunkards to the chiefest professed teachers of this age even all the whole body of the Beast hath joyned it selfe against the purpose of the Lord men of all conditions from the highest to the lowest have armed themselves with mischiefe to offend the way of truth This is written as moved of the Lord to go abroad through the Nations that all may understand concerning the times and the changing of times how that the Beast hath reigned in dominion over Nations tongues and people and all have worshiped the Beast and gone after the false Prophet here all may come to a good understanding what hath been and what is and what shall be how that when the power and government of Christ was lost through departing from the faith which ruled in the Apostles dayes then the whole world was as unstable in wayes and judgments as a Sea then out of the Sea one beast arose and another after him arose out of the earth and all hath been caused both small and great bond and free to worship the beast and the image of the Beast yea all the dominions of the world hath for many ages been subject to the power of the Beast in all things and not known the worship and power of God and the pure subjection to him but the Kings of the earth and all her Princes have given their power to the Beast and hath received their authority from him and acted thereby many of them in great unrighteousnesse in injustice and oppression and cruelty in pride and rebellion and vaine glory in quarilling one with another to the murdering of thousands of thousands and this hath all been brought forth under the power of the Beast and by it and his heads and hornes hath exalted themselves one against another and smitten one another and the great whore hath made them all drunke and all people upon earth with envy pride wantonnesse and all unrighteousnesse this hath been since the Apostles dayes in this night of Apostacie wherein the whole world hath been subverted by false Prophets and deceivers and the Kingdome of Christ hath not been known upon earth for many generations but the Beast hath been established in his Throne of rebellion against Christ Jesus his decrees hath been Lawes and statutes and he hath made war against all the Saints and overcome them and reigned over them untill this time and troden down their City and defaced their glory but the blood of the just hath cryed day and night under the Altar the soules of such as hath been slain for the Testimony of the word of God have cryed day and night how long Lord how long when wilt thou avenge our blood upon the heads of our enemies even the Beast the whore and the false Prophet and this hath been for many ages even while the Kingdome of Antichrist hath been set up and advanced through the world and his power and authority hath reached over Nations bond and free from the Prince on his Throne to the begger on the dunghill even all hath been subjected under the power of the Beast that nature having ruled within every particular hath given him the authority without over all and admired him and said who is able to make war with him Antichrist hath ruled over all by injustice oppression and tyranny in unrighteous Lawes and through wicked decrees old Pharoah-like he hath laid heavy yoakes and oppressive bondes upon the just for who would not be subject to him he hath had power to kill them and none was able to gainsay such hath been the greatnesse of his power and the strength of his dominion over all that none hath been able to make war against him he hath been admired in all the world not any Nation excepted where the government of Antichrist hath not borne rule and there hath been none left to bear witnesse against him or to stand up against him for the faithfull witnesses hath been killed and slain in the streets of the great City which spiritually is called Sodome and Egypt and all them that have dwelt upon the earth have made merry over their dead bodies and rejoyced in their iniquities over the slaine and been without a reprover and not tormented nor troubled but have sent gifts one to another because they have slain them who have tormented them that dwell upon the earth and the government of the Beast hath been enlarged and the whole world hath wandered after him and been in subjection under him for many generations even for fourty and two monthes he that can read let him understand so long hath it been given him to make war against the Saints and to overcome them and it hath been given him to reigne over all people in the wrath of God and in his anger because of the rebellion of all the earth and all people in it but he shall be taken away in Gods displeasure who reignes in his anger over the Nations who hath forsaken the Lord and was given up to the power of the Beast to be subjected in slavery and bondage in pain sorrow and misery and through deceit craft and pollieic and oppression and by the wisdome of this world and naturall artes and knowledge his government hath long been established and his dominion hath been upon earth times and Lawes and things and powers of men have been in his hand to change and subvert and overturne into his own image and to transforme them like to the Beast none upon earth hath bought or sold or judged or given evidence or been respected in all the world that have not had the marke of the Beast and the number of the names of Antichrist rich and poor and small and great hath received his marke as a seale of their subjection to the Beast whose many heads and many hornes hath subjected all by the force of his arme and he hath blinded the eye least men should see him and cast darknesse over all faces and the false

for her husband and the Saints should inhabit it and the Tabernacle of God should be with men upon earth and the Lord would dwell for ever with his people and this day is approaching nigh at the doors for the fig tree hath blossomed and we know it is near at hand the summer wherein the glory of the Lord shall be revealed unto all Nations and they shall know that he is the Lord God Almighty that will take vengeance upon the great whore who hath made all drunk with the wine of her fornication And now after the long night of Apostacy and darknesse which hath been upon the face of the earth is the Lord appearing and his day dawning and his light breaking forth as the glory of the morning and the Kingdome of God is revealed and his dominion is setting up after the long reigne of the Beast who hath had his power and his seat and his great authority from the dragon after whom the whole world hath wandered and him hath worshiped who have been saying who is like unto the Beast who is able to make war with him his mouth for many generations hath been opened in blasphemy against God and his name and he hath made war with the Saints and his power hath overcome them marke overcome them and then himself hath reigned and the reigne of Christ for many yeares hath not been known but over kindreds and tongues and Nations hath the Beast had power and over them hath reigned for many ages and all that dwell upon the earth hath worshiped him whose names are not written in the book of life the earth hath been caused and them that dwell therein to worship the Beast and by his wonders he deceiveth them that dwell on the earth and as many as would not worship the Beast and his image the Beast hath had power that they should be killed and many hath he killed who would not worship him and are persecuted and both small and great rich and poor free and bond hath received the marke of the Beast and the number of his name which is the number of a man he that reads let him understand these things hath come to passe and been fulfilled since the Apostles dayes in this night wherein no man could worke which Christ said would come but now the fourty and two monthes which time the Beast and his image was to continue and so long was his power to remaine to make war and to overcome the Saints I say the time is well nigh expired and finished and the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb is arisen to make war against the Beast and his image who hath reigned over the Kingdomes of the world and the judgment of the great whore cometh who hath sit upon the Beast and drunken the blood of the Saints and with whom the Kings of the earth since the Apostles dayes have committed fornication and all the inhabiters of the earth have been made drunk with the wine of her fornication and all the merchants of the earth hath been made rich through the aboundance of her delicacies and she hath sit upon the scarlet coloured Beast and her cup in her hand hath been full of abominations and filthinesse of her fornication and her name is mistery Babylon the mother of harlots and all the Kings of the earth hath given their power unto the Beast and committed fornication with the great whore and she hath sit over people and multitudes and Nations and tongues since the Apostles dayes and even some who have hated the whore and fulfilled the will of God and made the whore naked yet they give their power also to the Beast untill the word of God be fulfilled Consider these things you that hath an ear to heare but now the mighty day of the Lord and the judgment of the whore is approaching wherein she shall be rewarded according to her works and double shall be given her into her cup and as she hath loved blood so shall blood be given her to drinke and the merchants of the earth shall lament her whom they have waxen rich by who hath glorified her selfe and lived deliciously and hath said in her heart I sit as a Queene and am no widow and shall not see sorrow but now the one day is dawning wherein her plagues shall come death and mourning and famine and she shall utterly be burned with fire for strong is the Lord that is risen to judge her and the Kings and merchants and all the inhabiters of the earth shall lament her and shall cry Alas alas and now are they beginning for the hour is come that her judgment cometh and all her merchants who have trafiqued with the souls of men shall partake of her plagues who have partaked of her sins and lived deliciously with her and the fruites that her soul lusted after shall depart from her and all things that are dainty and goodly shall depart from her and she shall find them no more at all when her judgment cometh and in an hour all her riches is come to nought and her merchants at land and Sea shall lament her even her that hath ruled over Nations and sit as a Queene for many generations ever since the dayes of the Apostles untill this day yea all that have wandred after her even the whole world shall lament and bemoan her and such as have served her and made slaves of the souls of men by merchandize and trafique shall bewaile her and their gaine shall cease for ever for in one hour shall she be made desolate and her glory shall fade and her beauty shall wither and the Beast that hath carried her shall utterly faint and the false prophet that hath wrought miracles in their sight and deceived the Nations shall be cast into a bed of torment with her and the Beast and the false Prophet shall be taken and cast alive into the Lake of fire to be tormented for ever day and night world without end and the whore in whom hath been found the blood of the Prophets and of the Saints and of all that were slaine upon the earth and the Beast who hath caused all that dwell on the earth to worship him and his image for many ages and the false Prophet who hath deceived the whole world and all Nations and made them subject unto the power of the Beast by his miracles which he hath wrought in the sight of men these shall be plagued together and tormented together for the false Prophet and the Beast hath sent forth their uncleane spirits like frogs unto all the Kings of the earth and unto the whole world to gather them to battell with their Armies to make war against him that sits on the white horse even the Son of God and this is the false Prophet which Christ prohesied of to come which long since came and hath served the Beast and the great whore for many generations and many even all Nations have been deceived as