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A30562	A visitation & vvarning proclamed and an alarm sounded in the popes borders ... being the account of a journey to Dunkirk, and the proceedings there among the Jesuites, and friars and papists, with some particular quæries, and also some propositions sent unto them : which may be satisfaction to many who may behold the difference in part between th papists and the people of God, and between the idolaters and the true worshippers / by one that travells in the labour of the Gospel of Christ for the elect seeds sake, Edw. Burrough.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1659 (1659)	Wing B6055; ESTC R36306	27,470	36

A Visitation VVarning PROCLAMED AND An Alarm Sounded in the Popes Borders in the Name and Authority of the Lord Almighty and the Lamb BEING The Account of a Journey to Dunkirk and the Proceedings there among the Jesuites and Friars and Papists with some particular Quaeries and also some propositions sent unto them Which may be satisfaction to many who may behold the difference in part between the Papists and the people of God and between the Idolaters and the true Worshippers By one that travells in the labour of the Gospel of Christ for the Elect Seeds sake Edw. Burrough LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1659. The particulars and the Heads laid down 1 The Account of the Journey 2 A Letter to the Deputy Governour and the Officers of the English Army 3 Quaeries to the Friars first in Latine secondly in English 4 Propositions as a Charge against the Romish Church first in Latine secondly in English With a Letter to the chief Jesuite Rector in Dunkirk 5 A Warning to the Officers and Souldiers of the English Army 6 Some Propositions to the English Priests in Dunkirk with some other things ACcording to the will of the Lord and being moved of him in spirit and as it lay upon me many dayes I passed to Dunkirk And that which I found upon me chiefly was to visit and warn the Papists the Iesuites and Friars and that company of Idolaters and to sound the mighty day of the Lord among them and to proclaim it in the Popes borders and to warn them all of the day that is at hand upon them by the word of the Lord and to sound forth among them the everlasting Gospel of Truth and against all their Idolatrous ways worships and Practises which I have often felt the weight and burthen of before ever I saw outwardly what their wayes or practises are which when I saw their Idolatrous practises and worships and heard their doctrines and what they professe I found it to be according to what I had seen and felt in the light that trieth all things And about the sixth day of the third moneth 1659. I with Samuel Fisher who was moved to go with we shipped from Dover and came into Dunkirk the next day and being strangers upon earth as the generation of the righteous seed ever was we waited in the will of the Lord to be guided by his wisdom what to do and how to be guided to act and speak to his glory So the next morning the Town Mayor came to us in the street and required an account of our coming and our names and from whence we came to which we gave him sober answers and a reasonable account And that day it much spread over the Town of our being come thither which wrought no small cogitations in the hearts of many as what our business was and wherefore we were come so that the Deputy Governour Colonel Alsop with the Counsel of Officers sent for us that night the chief Governour not being in Town So we went to them who did kindly intreat us and examine us concerning our coming thither and what our businesse was there and such like to which we gave them answers and staid with them in discourse some hours And the Deputy Governour much pleaded to us the danger of our staying in the Town and feared the devision that might grow among them through us and withall much desired us to depart the Town supposing as he said the great danger that might incur unto the Garrison through our stay But our answer was in much plainnesse if he desired us we could not receive any such desire and if he commanded us we could not obey his command in that case neither could we depart the Town but in the will of God according to which will we came thither and having many words and much reasoning with them that night we parted from them And the next morning I was moved to write this letter following and to give them all a sober account of our coming and what our work is in this World wheresoever we come which letter was delivered to them and read by many of them But to it we received no Answer according as the latter part did require as may be seen Dunkirk the eleventh of the third moneth 1659. English account To the Deputy Governour and the Officers of the English Army in Dunkirk these FRiends We the Servants of the Lord are lovers of all your souls and wisheth well unto you in the Lord that truth and peace and righteousnesse may be among you and in your hearts and we are travellers in the labour of the Gospel of Christ Jesus for the elect Seeds sake having received the glad tidings of life and eternal salvation into our hearts through the revelation of Christ in us who is our hope of glory and the Lord hath manifested greatly his power amongst us and revealed the riches of his grace in our souls to our own everlasting satisfaction peace with God and also he hath made us Ministers of his grace and of his word to many others to the turning of many from darknesse to light and from Satans power to God and of him we are called and ordained by his spirit into this his work to preach the everlasting Gospel to the Nations and to war against Anti-Christ the Whore and false Prophets come up since the days of the Apostles have reigned over the World for many generations and this is our work in the World to fight the Lambs battel with his spiritual weapons and armour and to follow him whithersoever he goeth and to give up our selves in his service to do or suffer for him whatsoever he calleth us unto and in this hitherto hath the pure and mighty presence of the Lord God been with us and is with us unto this day and great is his Name amongst us his people and to be praised for ever more and of this hath God given us the sure witnesse in our selves even the testimony of his good spirit which bears us witnesse in our own consciences that these things are true whether men believe or re●ect our testimony for we are not Ministers of man nor by mans will neither do we stand to mans judgement to be approved or disproved thereby But to the witnesse and testimony of Gods spirit in every conscience we do commend our selves where ever any of us do come in the simplicity of truth in the demonstration of the spirit and not by words of mans wisdom and in the day of the Lord shall we be justified herein by him and by his witnesse in all mens consciences in the mean time we do suffer all things patiently and in the meek quiet Spirit of the Lord and as for us two in particular who are now come into the Town of Dunkirk as we have in some part declared unto you already and so I here again say unto you

Doctrines and in her worships and ordinances in her orders discipline and government from what the true Church of Christ was in the Apostles dayes before the Apostacy 2. That the constitution of your Church and the chief part of your worship and ordinances and the way and maner of your discipline and Government are of man and set up and standeth by the will of man and are not after God nor according to him but are after the traditions of man learned and practised therein which is Idolatry and are not in the commandements of Christ nor in the example of his Apostles nor according to the Scriptures but without the spirit of God being set up since the dayes of the Apostles and since the Apostacy came in which hath over-shadowed the whole world 3 That there hath been over the world for generations and many ages since the dayes of the Apostles and true Churches a generall declination and falling away from the true faith and doctrines and from the worship and ordinances and from the discipline and Government that was amongst the Apostles and practised in the true Churches of Christ in their dayes and your Church is in that declination and falling away 4. That Ant●christ the Beast and the whore and false prophets have reigned over the world for generations the Antichrist that hath opposed Christ and been exalted in the Temple of God and been worshipped as God The Beast that hath killed the Saints and warred against them and had power over Kindreds and tongues and the world hath wondred after him The Whore whom the Beast hath carried she hath sat upon peoples multitudes and Nations and drunk the blood of the Saints and of the Martyrs and she hath corrupted the earth and caused all to drink her cup of fornications And the false Prophets have overspred the Nations and deceived them and you and your Church are of the peoples the multitudes and the kindred that the Beast hath received power over and the Whore hath sat upon and the false Prophets deceived 5 That the true Church of Christ the Lambs wife the ele●●ed spouse and the beloved City who brought forth him that was to rule the ●ations hath been fled into the Wildernes been fled into the place of mourning dissolation for a thousand two hundred 60 dayes the Gentiles feet have troden down the holy City the Lambs wife and had power over her for forty and two moneths and though she hath not been prevailed against nor overcome so as to be extinguished from having a being yet her being hath been the Wilderness in mourning and disolation and she hath not appeared in the glory and excellency which once she had but hath lost her garments and her attire and her heir and husband separated from her and caught up to God and to his Throne and in this time of the disolation and treading down of the holy City the Lambs wife and the reigning of the Beast and the Whore hath your Church been extant in her glory and power which hath been of the false woman and not of the ele●t spouse that is married to the Lamb 6. That forcing and compelling of persons by any outward Law and Authority to be of such or such a Religion and to conforme to such a way of worship is the worship of the Beast and of the Whore and not the worship of God and to kill and persecute persons for the exercise of conscience and because they will not be of such a Religion and cannot conform to such worship is of the Divill and the Dragon and not of God nor according to him and that your Church herein is not successor of the Apostles and the true Church of Christ but is of the Beast and the Whore which Iohn saw was to come in his time and which we see are come in our dayes and have ruled for generations and I affirme that persons so made conformable by force and violent Laws to such a Religion and worship are but two fold more the Children of the Divill and are not at all converted to God thereby but becomes Idolaters whom God will Judge 7. That none upon earth are true members of the true Church of Christ having a portion in the inheritance of eternal life but such who are gathered out of the world by the preaching of the Gospel and are changed and renewed by the power of the Lord God in the heart and are led by his spirit within them into all truth and are joyned unto Christ the head and gathered into the eternall unity of the infinite body by the same spirit and anointing dwelling in them and of such onely doth the true Church of Christ consist now in this present time as it did in the Apostles dayes but of such members doth not your Church consist in this present age neither is it in the order and Government of the spirit of truth but in the forme without the Power therein was its beginning and is its standing at this day 8. That the time is at hand and the day of the Lord draws near and the fulness of time is approaching wherein great Babylon shal be thrown down and fall to the ground and the Lord will be avenged on her and will render Judgments unto her and the Beast and whore and false prophets un●o whom the Kingdoms of the world hath been subject shall be taken and cast alive into the lake and the devil and Satan shall deceive the Nations no more but the Kingdoms of this World shall be changed and become the Kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ whose Kingdom shall be revealed in power and great glory in the hearts of his chosen and the Church of Rome and all the false sects and Churches upon the earth will the Lord God overthrow and his true Church shall be gathered out of the Wilderness and the beauty of new Ierusalem of the holy Church the Lambs wife shall be as glorious as before she fled thither and before she was troden down of the Gentiles and the Lord God Almighty shall be known and his ●abernacle shall be with men These things I assert to you in the Name of the Lord and the truth thereof is certaine and should be ready to argue and dispute these things with any sober person amongst you upon equall tearmes and to prove the infalibility hereof by the spirit of the Lord and according to the Scriptures wherefore consider of them in patience and meekness and believe in the light of Christ which is in your consciences which Christ hath lightened every man that commeth into the world withall that you may come to the knowledge of the truth and out of all false wayes and if any of you will returne an answer hereunto in behalfe of your whole body and can be able to clear your selves in writing from what is charged upon you it shall be gladly received by me and a reply in meekness returned to you for

things are broken down then their Church cannot stand long And as sure as the Lord lives so shall it come to passe a generation shall accomplish it and in the generation of the righteous seed it shall be finished their Lawes shall be broken down and murders avenged and their weaknesse shall then appear and their whoredomes and Idolatries and all their abomin●tions shall be made naked and uncovered and judged by the Lamb and them that follow him whom he will gather to fight his battle And if the people were but sensible hereof as in measure I am through the zeal of the Lord it would raise up the spirit of zeal in them all to seek vengeance and the overthrow of all their unrighteous Lawes and Inquisitions and murders which keeps people in darknesse and ignorance and kills the just that the creatures may be saved and tyranny condemned And when once the Lord doth but reach forth his arme then shall people be awakened to mind what I now say Who would spare their own lives for the accomplishing of such a work that the spirit of the Lord may have liberty and that which limits it may be dashed to pieces and that the earth may be set at liberty and all Europ made free from the cruel●ies and tyranies of Antichrist and of the whore And to all you Papists I say and to all the body of the Church of Rome prepare prepare for the Lord God is comming up against you in his dreadful power his word of eternal judgement is gone forth and his vials are full of wrath to be poured forth and he will be avenged upon your tyrannies and murthers and unequal Lawes and subdue them before him And his d●ead shall ●all upon your consciences ye that are Idolaters hypocrites ignorant wretches wilful persons and bondslaves of Satan The plagues of God and the wrath of the Lamb shall reach un●o yo●r high Throne Repent repent for the Lords wrath is kindled against you and if there be any among you that feareth the Lord let him deliver his own soul by turning from your abominations least the Lord come upon you and destroy you altogether Give up your Inquisitions give up your unjust Lawes and cease to murther the innocent and torment the righteous I demand this of you on the Lords behalfe vex not the Lord any longer for his patience is turned into anger against you and his long-suffering will become fury to devour you And no little service we had in Dunkirke among our English Army Divers meetings we had in the Town and declared the message of salvation And I must commend the spirit of our English men for moderation more then the men of any other nation And I did many times clear my conscience among them both as they were men Sons of Adam and in relation to an eternal state did direct them to the way of happinesse out of sin and wickednesse that they might come to God preaching the everlasting Gospel That as they were Sons of Adam in trangression they might come to be healed and come into Christ the power and wisdome of God and might be saved Again as they were soldiers and as they were an army I was moved to speak mcuh unto them that they might know what their service was there in that state some time saying unto them it was possible the Lord might have some good work to do by them if they were faithful and no● seek themselves but the glory of the Lord And at one time being sent for by Governor Lockhart where there were many officers with him we had much discourse with them and this lay upon me to declare in the Name of the Lord unto them that if they did enterprize any businesse as they were an army in a spirit in opposition unto us and in that spirit that did reject us and deny us and gain say us then should they never prosper in any enterprize whatsoever but if they went on in any degree in the fear of the Lord and in that spirit that was among us then should they overcome their enemies and none should have power over them nor overcome them And after I was parted from them this following paper was upon me to write unto the whole Army in general both to officers and soldiers To the English Army to Officers and Souldiers Friends I Am moved to clear my conscience unto you in the sight of the Lord to warn you that you may all learn wisdom and the fear of the Lord God and may stand in his Counsel alwayes for that will be a defence unto you at all times and therein will you prosper in the Lords work and chiefly unto you the small remnant of our English Army in and about Dunkirk I say unto you officers and Souldiers fear the Lord God and walk in his wisdom and every particular person amongst you Inquire of the Lord what he requires of you inquire of the Lord I say and know his will and be obedient unto it in all things and so shall you prosper in standing in Gods Counsel and in performing his will and so shall you be exalted and have victory over your enemies even as you seek the honour of the Lord and his glory for if you honour him and do that which is acceptable to him he will honour you and set you a top of all your enemies and he will make way through the mountains even by you for the further appearance of his glory and he will honour you as his workmen if you be faithful to him and walk in his Counsel and wisdom till he hath prepared his own way by you for assuredly it is not in vain but the Lord had some end in it to himself in bringing you to that place and what do you know but he may have some good work for you to do it is possible there is more in his heart and in his purpose concerning you then yet may be discovered to you wherefore it is good for you that you waite upon the Lord to know his will fully concerning you that you may do it and fulfill it and therein shall be your Crown but on the contrary dependeth your misery and destruction And this I do know that the Lord hath owned and honoured our English Army and done good things for them and by them in these Nations in our age and the Lord once armed them with the spirit of courage and zeal against many abominations and tyrannies and he was with them in many things which he called them to and gave them victory and Dominion over much injustice and oppression and over Tyrants and cruel Laws and he was with them till that a spirit of vain glory and Ambition and self-seeking and the honour of this world entered into some and defiled the whole body made it deformed void of its former beauty and of its valour and nobleness also at which the anger of the Lord was kindled and against you

is death by their law while murder is tolerated and here is nought but tyranie and oppression abounding even great mountains which must be thrown down and for which the sword of the Lord must come upon them and God will make their riches and their falsely consecrated vessels and treasures even a spoil and a prey unto you if you be faithful unto the Lord wherefore all you officers fear the Lord God and be not ambitious nor vain-glorious nor seek not your selves to gain unto your selves Kingdoms to exalt your own horn for if you go in this way and if this be your end then your end shall be frustrated you shall not prosper for the Lord will lay you aside with shame unto you but let it be your work your aime to require and demand the disanulling of their Inquisions and cruel Lawes both in their Church and civil State and that Christ alone may exercise the peoples consciences neither be ye as Lords nor Tyrants over your poor Souldiers but be ye loving and meek towards them I say unto you Officers and to all you that bear Rule in the Army be loving and kind and gentle unto all under your authority be not as tyrants nor oppressors over your poor Souldiers but be examples of all goodness unto them and give them no evil examples in your lives and conversations but lead them in the fear of the Lord and know a measure of his wisdom in you whereby you may walk before them and they may possesse their freedoms in their conditions and may not be as slaves ●o you but as servants to the Lord in their places and herein shall you be blessed as you fulfill that which the Lord requires And likewise unto all the Souldiers I say that ye may be sober and moderate and faithful to the Lord and not go in the excess and superfluity of this creation but may be all kept low in your hearts and tender towards God and obey them that have power over you in all things which are just and be not deboist nor given to vanity But all of you both officers and soldiers live in that which keeps your consciences void of offence and that you may be clear and free in your own spirits from the abominations of the Nations and then you will be a terror to the evil in all people wheresoever you come and being clear and free in the sight of the Lord having no sin lying upon your consciences then shall you face your enemies with courage and not fear death but shall be ready to lay down your lives for a testimony of Jesus in a good cause and upon good engagements and if the Lord be your fear then no man can make you afraid but you will be in that which overcometh the unrighteous power within you and without you also and here is the true honour and in this it doth consist in victory over all that which is contrary to God and here is the true way to happynesse and prosperity in this life and in the life to come by seeking his glory and not your own and all of you come to the light of Christ that Christ hath lighted you with all and that will teach you all things what you ought to do and what you ought not to do for that light of Christ within you ought to be the guide of all the children of men in every state place and condition and upon this you are to wait for counsel to receive it from the Lord by that of him made manifest within you and as for all your outward teachers that hath used their tongues amongst you and said the Lord saith it when God hath not spoken to them nor sent them and that preach for hire and sums of mony and these are them that cannot profit the people nor ever bring you to the knowledge of God nor give you counsel from the Lord and if you seek to uphold them and defend them against the power of the Lord and his word which is gone forth against them then shall you not prosper but fall with them and if you do enterprize any work in that spirit that doth oppose the spirit of Christ Jesus in his people you can never have good success but the Lord will confound you before your enemies And so now that you may all come into the new covenant to be taught of the Lord and to be far from all oppression this is the thing that you are all to wait for and to know the power of the Lord and to go on in that against unrighteous men and unrighteous lawes which are set up in the Nations that they may be destroyed and brought under and yet though such a victory would be honourable unto you yet there is a victory more honourable to wit the victory over sin and death and the Devil in your selves and that you are to mind and there is a kingdome which is not of this world which cannot be obtained by an outward sword and this kingdom are you to wait for that you may know it and feel it in your own particulars and this is the doctrine of the Gospel of peace unto you and the glad tidings held forth unto all of you come into the power of the Lord and minde it that you may be lead of it and then may you be fit instruments for the Lord to work by and take heed how you oppose those whom the Lord hath sent and is sending abroad in the nations to proclame the mighty day of the Lord they are no enemies to you nor to any mans person and therefore be tender over them for they go about the Lords work of this I warne you all in the presence of the Lord And so you dwelling in the power of the Lord there is nothing shall destroy you nor confound you but you shall have victory over all your enemies within you and without you and the Lord will make you a dread and a fear to the Nations and so this is a warning unto you all both officers and soldiers that you may minde what the work of the Lord God is in the nations your worke hath been and may be honourable in its day and season but he hath a work more ho●ourable to work after you that is to destroy the kingdome of the Devil and the ground of wars and your victorie hath been of the Lord but there is a more honourable victory to be waited for even the victory over sin and so we are the friends of the creation that doth preach this victory and this kingdom and peace which is endlesse and everlasting and which many are come into yet we reject not the state and work and victory and honour of a soldier but hath a respect thereunto in their season and as for the many and divers sorts of worship which is come up since the dayes of the Apostles and are of the whore and not of the true Church they are