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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

herein you could never do as you have done Wherefore consider these things and lay them to heart and repent speedily lest you sin your day away and place of repentance there cannot be found For this I tell you plainly that it is in vain for you to strive against the Lord or to seek to stop or hinder his work which he hath begun for he will be too strong for you and he will make you bow and bend to his own Name and Power whether you will or no. And though he bear with you long and suffer you long yet his long-suffering wil come to an end and though you should be permitted to fulfil your envious wills and lustful desires so fa● as to banish or kill or destroy us from off the earth yea all of us who are now in being which I do not believe ever shall be yet would God raise up another people by the same power and spirit in and by which we stand which should be a terror unto you and should possess God's everlasting Kingdom which is not of this World over your heads And in the time of his outward weakness he was heard to say That though this body of Clay must return to the dust yet I have this Testimony that I have served God in my generation an● that spirit which hath lived and acted and ruled in me shall yet break forth in thousands and my faith is That it shall be indeed even so for we have found him a true Prophet amongst us and ●o the Nations And this also near his departure he was heard to desire of the Lord That if it were possible to forgive Brown c. And so let all Friends be encouraged to wait upon the Lord in the feeling of the same Spirit that was in him which we know is the Saints Comforter that thereby you may be carried through all tribulations and persecutions with chearfulness that in the end you may all receive the Crown of everlasting righteousness with him and the rest of the Saints of the most high God and holy Prophets and Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ And so the Lord God Almighty of Heaven and Earth be with you all and keep you all in faithfulness unto the end Amen MY Brother dear the Lord hath call'd away That in this World he should no longer stay Who was to many an Instrument of good While in the body in God's great Power he stood For many were from darkness by him turned Unto the Light in which they were confirmed By the Power and Doctrine which to them was preached By him through which God's true Witness was reached In their dark hearts where Satan long had reigned Over whom through God's great power Victory 's gained He was a valiant Souldier of the Lamb And faithful to the Lord did always stand Till with his Life he seal'd his Testimony A London-Prisoner as it 's known to many But now in peace with God he is sate down And hath with Christ an everlasting Crown Of Immortality Life and lasting joy Which never shall from him be took away He was intrusted with the hidden treasure In a large and in an abundant measure Which he dispensed to the Lambs of God But to the wicked he was a Scourge and Rod. He fed the Babes and Children with the Word Which to the Wicked was a piercing sword Before him stil God's Enemies did fall He never turn'd his back to them at all But now he hath thus finished his course With joy and peace yet 's Life we do not lose For oh dear Brother thy Life I stil do feel Remaining with me else I could not wel Remain behind thee with true satisfaction Because 't would turn upon me with reflexion For truly can I say My heart is fill'd With sorrow great and grief is not expell'd For oh the sence of my dear brother's Love Remains upon me and shall never move But herein is my soul greatly refreshed That thy good savour and thy Name is blessed And shall remain in ages yet to come When visibles standing now is past and gone But oh my brother dear Why soul did love Thy Life which not●ing was nor is above For all t●ings it transcended as to me In my esteem there 's nothing like't can be Because it stood in that Eternity Which always wil remain and never dye And Ages yet to come shall tast thereof And call thee blest in whom it was brought forth He was a man in whom Gods Power reigned Through Faith in which he a great Vict'ry gained Over Death and Hell the Grave and Power of sin And all things that were centered therein He was a man in whom the fulness dwelt Of Grace and Virtue was by many felt To live in him and speak in Gods great power And he descended as a sweet plenteous shower Which did refresh the Garden of the Lord The Plants that met together with one ●●cord On God to wait refreshment to receive And afterward in love to take their leave He was a man that was upright in heart Towards God and man and hated all deceit And what he was to God there 's few do●h know Neither can my Tongue or Pen declare or show But this I say He was ● men of God And in the Light of Righteousness he stood What might I say of this my precious Friend My soul lov'd him entirely to the end And stil his Life is felt amongst the Lambs Who in the Light and Power of God doth stand Here he is read here he is felt and known Amongst the faithful who with him are one His savour's good my Life 's therewith refresht His Name is now and ever shall be blest And now my brethren dear and sisters all In this be you refresht both great and small Although our brother outwardly be gone Yet hath not God the Lord left us alone For his Almighty Power is with us stil Which in the Light of Life you all may feel To your refreshment and eternal joy Which no man in this World can take away Here is our peace herein our joy lasts stil In which my love is to you all Farwel And this is my Testimony for that man of God who hath been a blessing to the Lord in his generation and also to this Nation And in this I have eased my Spirit and am clear in my Conscience in the sight of God having done that which was my duty to do Josiah Coale A Testimony of G. F. concerning E.B. HIs Name is Chronicled in the Book of Life a righteous plant pure chaste clean Who can tax him for oppressing them or burdening them or being chargeable to them who through the sufferings hath finished his course and testimony who is now crowned with the Crown of Life and reigns with the Lord Christ for ever and ever And in his Ministry in his life-time he went through sufferings by bad spirits who never turned his back on the Truth nor his back from any out of the Truth a valiant Warrior more then a Conqueror who hath got the Crown through death and sufferings who is dead but yet liveth amongst us and amongst us is alive G. F. The End