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The everlasting gospel of repentance and remission of sins ... by ... Edward Burrough.
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Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
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hard dealing to your Tenants and Servants and have laid heavy Yoaks upon such with whom you have dealt and that have made your selves great and rich in the Earth by such means Wo unto you Misery is coming upon you weep and howl ye earthly greedy covetous Wretches of this World who have sought Riches more than the Lord and gotten Gain by Oppression and Over-reaching your Neighbours your Riches so gotten shall never prosper nor be blessed to you but shall be a Curse to you and your Children and your Covetousness will God plague Ye that have gotten Goods and not by right shall leave them in the midst of your dayes Wo unto you Carnal minds all the treasures of them are corruptible your Lands Gold and Silver are fading treasures the day of the Lords Judgments are at hand upon you and the Rod of his Wrath will smite you and ye shall have Poverty and Want instead of Fulness and Excess and ye shall have Leanness and Barrenness and God will plead with you in the way of have sinned against him The time of your Visitation draws near Wo unto you Merchants Traders Buyers and Sellers that have been double-dealers and double-tongu'd and dealt deceitfully in your Commodities with your Neighbours VVo unto ye that have got Gain by double-dealing and by feigned and flattering speeches have beguiled one another and sought to out-reach in your barganing every man his Brother These things have ye done O ye Covetous men ye have even robbed the Poor by your craft and guileful dealing by your smooth and flattering tongues and if any amongst you could not use fraud and dissemble such have been your prey and scorn and it 's your use to discommend a Commodity when you buy it and to praise it when you sell it and ye make a fair outside to please the eye and ye use multitude of words and fair speeches and deceive the Simple and get Gain by Oppression Craft and Deceit Wo unto you Repent of this your sin Cleanse your hearts ye Sinners and purifie your hearts ye Double-minded I charge you by the Lord give over your double-dealing and deceitfull merchandize cease to lye and defraud cease your flattery and feigned words and speak the truth every one to his Neighbour and come out of your Iniquities use not a bad conscience any longer for it 's a fearfull Abomination against the Lord but minde the Light of Christ in you which will convince you in your Consciences of your naughty and sinful wayes and that Light will exercise your Consciences to do the Truth and speak the Truth to your Neighbour in all things and this is blessed and the Gain that is thereby gotten is not a Curse for ye ought in all your wayes to reverence the Lord and respect him that he should lead you and guide you in your exercise of all earthly things For the Earth is the Lords and the Fulness thereof and it ought to be exercised to his Glory and there is sufficient in this Creation for all People And therefore covet not earthly things one from another neither oppress nor over-reach one another about them neither treasure up earthly things while the Poor want for if ye do ye hide your selves from your own slesh laying field to field till there is no place for the Poor and wo unto such the Day of the Lord will be upon you but learn the Wisdom of God how to be ordered and how to order all things of this Creation and be in unity and good agreement amongst your selves and do not fall out nor strive not contend nor envy one another about earthly things but if ye have much or if ye have little be contented with what you have and do not grind the hearts and consciences one of another to get earthly things for they will fade and perish away and seek not after that which perisheth but after that which is unto eternal life for the Day of the Lord is at hand and his Judgments upon all Oppressors Double-dealers and false hearted Flatterers that are covetous of earthly things Wo unto all ye Drunkards and Swearers Whoremongers and Prophane Persons the Judgments of the Lord are upon you unawares ye that destroy the Creation upon your Lusts that are run into the Excess of Wine and Beer and that cover it excessively and that drink till ye inflame your selves and spend your time in it ye are like the Beasts of the field and like the Swine that wallows in filthiness ye pervert the right use and end of the good Creatures of God and spend them upon your lusts and have not regard unto the living God and one sin even begets another Drunkenness begets Swearing and Prophane words and VVhoredom and beastly Affections and thus you adde sin to sin and heap up one sin upon another contrary to the Light in your own Consciences and thus ye serve the Devil and Satan committing Iniquity with both hands as it were by Drunkenness and Swearing and taking the Name of the Lord in vain and Cursed Speaches and falling out one with another and your minds are erred from the Lord and ye abuse your selves and your own bodies which were made for the Service of God and not for Whoredom and ye slay your own Souls by your own Iniquities and many times provoke the Lord to destroy both soul and body VVo unto you the Plagues of God are your portion and Misery your end here and hereafter Repent of your Iniquities and turn from them lest the Lord find you in your Iniquities when he comes to Judgement for if you continue in them you can never be pardoned but you sin unto death and the Lord will come upon you suddenly for ye that follow Drunkenness and Prophaness you live contrary to the Light in your own Consciences and you sin against your knowledge against that knowledge that God hath given you and this is your greatest sin even because ye do the things which ye know ye should not do and the Light in your Consciences doth shew you that these things are evil before you do them but ye doing the things contrary to the Light in your own Consciences this makes your crime heinous and your sin unpardonable if ye continue in Sin and Prophaness contrary to the reproof of Gods Spirit in your own Consciences VVherefore ye prophane persons cease to do evil lest the Lords Judgments come upon you suddenly to your destruction and the Lord smite you and you never be healed VVo unto all ye hypocritical and deceitful Professors of Religion that hold the Truth in Unrighteousness that have a talk and a shew of Religion and that have the name of Church-members and of Worshippers of God but are dead in sins and trespasses ye that are Christians by name but want the nature who are wolves in sheeps cloathing that have Christs words the the Prophets and Apostles words but want their Spirit and Life VVo unto you the Day of
the hearts of the People but the Seed of Corruption brings forth fruit in them and your Vineyards are like barren and untilled ground that is unplowed and undigged and unplanted with Trees of Righteousness Oh ye have been unprofitable Vineyard-dressers and ye have laboured for your selves and not for the Lord as is manifest and ye have been idle and lazy and the God of Heaven is weary of you and the time is at hand he will pluck you up by the roots and visit you with great destruction and your name shall be a Reproach amongst men for ye have not sought the Lords honour but your own and ye have been changable in your wayes for your own advantages ye have preached for filthy Lucre and through Covetousness made merchandize of People and ye have traded with the Scriptures and made a Trade of Preaching the Gospel and ye have made Traffick of the Souls of men and these things have you done and the Lord hath kept silence and he hath forborn to smite you and therefore have you been hardened the more in your Transgressions as though the Lord took no notice and you have filled your hands with dishonest gain in your unrighteous wayes and your sins are increased every day against the God of Heaven you repent not when you are warned but reject reproof and go on without fear ye are a company of proud men heady and high-minded men ambitious and self-seeking persons even such as the Prophets Christ and the Apostles marked forth for Deceivers and your fruits and works do prove it ye have been covered with the Sheeps cloathing in your unrighteous natures and your Iniquities are almost full and the Lord will bring unresistable destruction upon you in a day when you cry Peace peace then sudden destruction will come Wo unto you because of your Iniquities the Earth is weary of you which ye have corrupted through your false wayes and the Kingdoms groan under your Oppressions and the Earth will spue you out and the People whom you have deceived shall rise up in Judgment against you the dreadful Day of the Lord is at hand upon you ye Apostates from the Life and Faith of Christ Jesus for of that race you are even of them Apostates that went out in the Apostles dayes that went in Balaam's way and Cain's way for ye are of the spirit that kills and persecutes people about Worship and Sacrifices and Religion as Cain did and ye go for Gifts and Rewards even as Balaam did These things are so the Witness of God in your Consciences shall answer and all People shall acknowledge the truth hereof in the day when God pleads with all the wicked All People Return and Repent of your Iniquities the dreadful Day of the Lord is at hand ye Sinners and Transgressors ye hypocritical Professors and prophane Persons the Day of Vengeance is at hand Whither will you fly and where will you leave your glory where will you seek a defence or where can you be hid the Mountains will not cover you nor the Rocks will not fall upon you the wrath of the Lamb you cannot escape even the long-suffering of God will be turned into a flame of anger and patience will be turned into sharp rebuke the wrath of the Lamb will utterly smite you and the Cup of Gods Indignation you must drink all the Earth must tast of it and the Wicked shall drink the dreggs Wherefore all ye Inhabitants of the Earth forsake your Transgressions that the Lord may not cut you off for ever but let God arise to destroy your Iniquities and to save your Souls let him take vengeance upon your Inventions that he may forgive you Oh! why will you dye why will you perish the Lord would have you to return that he might save you And this is the day of your Visitation the door of Mercy is yet open for a little season and the Lord yet calls unto you for a moment but the time is at hand that he who is filthy shall be filthy still and that determination shall be passed Come ye Blessed and Go ye Cursed the doleful sentence shall be pronounced to all workers of Iniquity Into everlasting Burning must they depart prepared for the Devil and his Angels and shall not see the Countenance of the Lord to refresh their souls but in the presence of the Lord and of the Lamb shall the Wicked be tormented Wherefore hear and tremble all ye Transgressors that live and act contrary to your knowledge and against the Witness of God in your own Consciences and this is your great sin for which the wrath of God cometh not because you have acted in Ignorance and without knowledge but because you have acted against the Light in your Consciences and sinned against your knowledge and done the things which you knew were evil before you did them and because hereof you are not to be excused but the burden of your own sins and the guilt of them will fall heavy upon you in the Day of the Lord For this is the Condemnation of the World that Light is come into it but you have loved Darknesse rather than Light and followed evil deeds and loved them and this contrary to the Light that is come into the world and which hath enlightned your own Consciences Certain Propositions of Faith laid down which every one must believe or else they cannot be saved I. NOw none can be saved from the Wrath of the Lord but they who are saved from their Sins for Sin brings the Wrath of God upon the Consciences of men and Anguish upon Soul and Body and who are not saved from Sin cannot be saved from Wrath for Wrath pursues the Guilty and he that doth evil sin lies at his door and continual anguish upon his spirit because of sin and the load and burden of the body of death oppresseth his soul and anger from God kindleth in his breast because he hath sinned and he knows he is guâ—â—â—y of Transgression and the Lord wounds him in his Conscience and no man in that state can speak peace unto him nor can any save him from the Wrath of God because he is not saved from his Sin nor from the guilt of it but his grief and burden is because he hath sinned against the Light in his own Conscience And therefore whosoever will be saved from Wrath must be saved from Sin and Christ must purifie his heart and the Blood of the Lamb must sanctifie him and his Conscience must be cleansed from the guilt of Transgression and Christ must live in him and he must live the life of Faith which gives victory over all Sin or else he cannot be saved with the Salvation of God eternally II. Again Whosoever will be saved with the Salvation of God must own the Light of Christ Jesus in his own Conscience and he must believe in this Light and walk in it even the Light in his Conscience that convinces him and