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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30513	The crying sinnes reproved whereof the rulers and people of England, are highly guilty ... : with meek exhortations to this present Parliament ... / E.B.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.; England and Wales. Parliament.	1656 (1656)	Wing B5988; ESTC R20702	16,287	20

light wherewith Christ Jesus hath enlightned every one of you which is the way to knowledge and to receive righteousnesse into your soules and therein to be fruitful to the Lord. And you say Every individual man hath helped to fill up the measure of their sinnes First in not improving mercies so fully as might have been to his glory from whence they were received I Answer Indeed I believe not one of you may be excused in the sight of God but are all guilty in filling up the measure of transgression and even in not improving mercies to the glory of God for had you improved the great mercies of your Deliverance and Conquest over your En●mies the Nations had been in peace and rest before this day but you strove to glorifie your selves and sought a Kingdome of riches and honour to your selves and who might be the greatest and highest to the pleasure of some and to the grief of others and 〈…〉 mercies to your selves and not to him that gave them and 〈…〉 your Dominions filled with distractions and feares and 〈…〉 every side and your Dominions are as broken vessels th●● 〈◊〉 joyned together but is full of wickednesse and false Sects 〈◊〉 worships and in your own Counsels are you filled with 〈◊〉 And thus it is justly come to passe upon you because of your tr●●●●●●sions Again you say In the sad neglect and want of Activity Resoluti●● 〈◊〉 Integrity in Magistrates and others impowred therein for the punis●●●● 〈◊〉 suppression of vice and crying enormities I answer True it is a sad neglect and want of Activity and lo●●●● in the Magistrates hath been and is to punish and suppress vice 〈◊〉 therefore it abounds in all fulnesse in the very streets and it hath 〈◊〉 wholly contrary for vice hath gone at liberty while the Magistr●● and such who have been impowred have been active and full of ●●gour and no neglect found in them to punish or rather to opp●●●● and suppresse the innocent and meek of the earth and even they h●●● done violence to the harmlesse witnesse most parts of prisons this d●● in England how many have been beat and abused and haled and knocked down with staves in the sight of some of the Magistrates and how many have been imprisoned for passing on the highwayes and through their Towns and some for declaring against Vice and crying Enormities which one day must be laid to yours and their charge f●● a sad neglect hath been for want of justice and true judgement and they that have been impowered have turned their power against 〈◊〉 Lord and have been active to lay their sword upon the guiltlesse while the guilty have gone free witnesse many who have been bea● i● your Steeple-houses by violent men and afterwards committed to prison while the peace breakers and violent have gone free And indeed it is time to lay these things to heart for till you purge your selves from these iniquities you shall never be established nor your Dominions in peace for for these things and such like abominations are yo● filled with distractions and feares compasse you about and that justly from the hand of the Lord as the light in your consciences shall answer in the dreadful day of account which commeth suddenly upon you Again you say In the abominable blasphemies vented and spread of late through the apostacie of and the abuse of liberty by many professing Religion Answer No doubt but blasphemy is a crying sin whereof the Lord is guilty if you were able to judge thereof but rather indeed this cause is not rightly stated for you call that blasphemy which is truth such is the grievous ignorance of some of you And this I am sure is your greater 〈◊〉 ●●demning the guiltlesse rather then suffering the guilty 〈…〉 ●●●●lar Friends beware lest your judgement be so corrup● 〈◊〉 evil good and good evil and thereupon approve the 〈…〉 the good being given up to hardnesse of heart and 〈…〉 ●●i●de and such were the sins of the Rulers in Israel who 〈◊〉 the true Prophets under the account of Blasphemie and 〈◊〉 and approved of the Prophets that Prophesied falsly and of 〈…〉 that bore Rule by their means for the people loved to have 〈…〉 5. My soul wisheth that you Rulers may be wise and ye Judges 〈…〉 in this particular lest you go in the way of your Fore●●● to destruction persecuting the innocent without cause through 〈◊〉 ●●●gement of the way of truth which may be called by you He●●● 〈◊〉 Blasphemie who in the blindness of your minds cannot dis●● of the things of God for in that way which the wisedome of the 〈◊〉 calls Heresie do we worship the true God of our Fathers and 〈◊〉 so much the more I may warn you herein to take heed for the 〈◊〉 come because you have some of you been highly guilty of this ●●●gression of late even in condemning the guiltless concerning this 〈◊〉 so that thus for you I may more truly state the particular In 〈◊〉 ●bominable violence and oppressions acted of late upon the inno●● ●●d them who have worshipped God in the Spirit through the wick●●●● of some Rulers and the abuse of liberty by them which have ●●●ssed love to God and his way through the false judgements and ●●●●●ry opinions of many who have called truth errour and the 〈◊〉 of God blasphemie And this is your sin of which if you that 〈◊〉 guilty repent not and turn from it and beware of it for time to come your honour shall fall into the dust and your fall shall be more deeper into confusion and destruction then any that have yet gone before you for of late the Lord powerfully hath begun to work and to vent his truths through the mouths of his servants and to bring out of the Apostacie and Blasphemies which hath reigned since the daies of the Apostles the true and pure Religion which stands in the exercise of a pure Conscience Again you say In the little love and tenderness which is even amongst Professors themselves towards one another who whilest they contend for things disputable lose that which is certain even charity without which they become as sounding brasse or tinkling cymbals Answ This is also your sin and the sin of the Nation want of love and tendernesse in Professors towards God and one towards another and that love which appeares is but in the shew and in the forme and likenesse of things and not from the true ground of love and peace and these are they that hate the Light and walk not in the Light wherewith Christ Jesus hath lighted every man that comes into the world in which the unity of Saints do stand and in which their love is one to another and they that are out of the Light are 〈◊〉 ●●ritie which is the bond of perfection and these that know 〈…〉 of Christ to guide them in the waies of God are in all 〈…〉 and words and actions as sounding brass and as a 〈…〉 and

and unthankfulness among you and the cause why you abuse the mercies which you do enjoy having lost the sence of the former dealings of the Lord with you Further you say all which with other the grievous sins of these three Nations call aloud upon all the good people in them to lay low in the sight of our offended God and by Prayer ond Humiliation a way which in our deepest distresses we have found both our duty and comfort to tread in to seek to appease his wrath and that he will be pleased for his own Names sake to remove whatsoever accursed thing there is amongst us and that as he is our God so we may be his people Answ Indeed many more grievous sins is highly abounding in these three Nations your own oppressions and self-seeking honors and vain glories in your self-performed righteousness which your persecution of the Innocent by grievous and unjust Fines and Imprisonments not regarding the cry of the poor which lies under the heavy hand of oppression of you subordinate Rulers these abundantly adds to the measure of the iniquity of these three Nations all which abominations cries aloud for vengeance upon the heads of some of you rather then for humiliation for sin cries not for humility this is your ignorance but the good people of G●● doth lay low in his sight who ye highly offend every day and 〈◊〉 you and suffers under your iniquities though you reward 〈◊〉 them with persecution and hard censures of cruel dealing till 〈◊〉 your wickedness you repent and turn from it all your Prayers 〈◊〉 H●miliations and set dayes of seeking God in your rebellious Hy●●●t●cal hearts shall never appease Gods wrath but the rather shall 〈◊〉 ●●ereunto and kindle it more abundantly against you away with 〈◊〉 oblations and false divining Prophets they are a weariness to ●●●●d and his hand is against them while your hearts are upright 〈◊〉 him and though sometimes some of you have found God near 〈…〉 distress when you called upon him even when your hearts were 〈◊〉 a measure upright with him yet in vain you now set your selves to 〈◊〉 him and your cry he will not hear nor his wrath shall not be appea● 〈◊〉 for you have truly confessed the cursed thing is amongst you even 〈◊〉 Idolatry of the deepest nature both in Teachers and people and ●ll you repent and remove every burden from off the innocent the ac●●sed thing cannot be taken away but for his Names sake which is E●●ty and Justice Judgement must he bring upon your heads and unto you ●e will be a God of vengeance and unto him shall you be a people of his Curse except you break of your sins by righteousnesse and your ●●●●ities by shewing mercie to the poor Further you say and this you desire That he will infatuate the Counsels and defeat the designes of all those that labour to exalt themselves against the ●●terest of his Son and his people Ans Friends you or some of you are the men which seeks to exalt your selves and not with and therefore against the interest of the Son of God and his people instance the unjust suffering of many of Gods people who know the Son in them to rule them under your Laws upheld by you and acted in by some of your selves and you say in your hearts you will not have this man to reign over you for you own not the bringers of that Message but uphold your false Prophets which speaks smooth things to you and cries Peace while you follow your own wayes and verily herein you go to seek God against your selves to your own destruction as being some of you the very men guilty of the Abominations which you set and propound to your selves in your humiliation to pray against your eye is blinde and your hearts unbelieving and ye know not what you do and your own counsels and designes or so much of them at least as is against the Innocent is sure to be infatuated and defeated and you shall receive from the Lord the answer of your requests upon your own heads for you labour against the Interest of the Son while you seek to binde any mans conscience to this or that Worship Again you say That he will be pleased in a most special manner to 〈◊〉 his presence to those who are entrusted with the management of the A●●● these Nations Answ If you do his will and fulfill his Ordinance of Justice and ●quity towards all men not seeking your selves in any thing 〈◊〉 Lord in all things and wait on him in his Light by which Christ ●●●neth every one of you to be guided thereby in all your wayes 〈…〉 presence you may enjoy in a special manner in the managing of all ●●fairs to his glory but if you keep not the conditions of the Lord in f●●●ing his honor onely and in denying your selves his presence you 〈◊〉 not finde with you but shall be filled with desolations and content●●● and the Nations over whom you are entrusted shall not have peace 〈◊〉 deliverance in your dayes but they under you shall have confusion 〈◊〉 oppressions and the special presence of the Lord shall not be sho●● 〈◊〉 you or to them and remember this is a warning to you Again you say That he will appear the mighty Counsellor experimentally 〈◊〉 them Answ If you stand in his counsel and walk in uprightness of he●●● before him in the Light of Christ Jesus then will he appear to be mighty in his counsel with you and for you otherwise shall you be given up to follow the counsels of your own hearts which shall never bring forth good but evill to your selves to your whole Nations and this shall you know experimentally by the Light in your own consciences Again you say That he would in all things spirit you unto the work 〈◊〉 which you are called and give you unity among your selves even the best ●●●ty that of the Spirit in the best Bond that of Peace that as you are a people ab●●●ding in mercies so you may abound in returns Answ The work is great unto which you are called and shall hardly be accomplished by you except you receive the Spirit of the Lord to be ruled therewith in your own hearts for if you rule for him you 〈◊〉 first be ruled by him mark and ordered with his light which will condemn every evill affection in you and this is the Spirit of unity in the best bond of peace which is most precious which brings forth a humble walking with the Lord in all righteousness before him and being led every one in particular with this spirit and united to God and one to another in not seeking your selves but the Lord This is the way where Gods blessing is received and a returning unto him of praise for his mercies but I wish you are not rather adding sin unto sin and fulfilling the measure more and more of your transgressions till the wrath of the Lord break