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A trumpet of the Lord sounded out of Sion which gives a certaine sound in the eares of all nations and is a true noyse of a fearfull earthquake at hand which shall shake the whole fabrick of the earth ... with a salutation to the seed who are gathered into the fold and with the children of the king ... / by one whose name is truly known by the children of the same birth ... Edward Burrough.
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Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
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banks and thy fire of eternal fury shall bâ— through your stubble and my everlasting light shall make search and Inquisition for the blood of my Elect which is found in thy skirts Thou abominable harlot of lothsome adultry Tremble tremble tremble at my dreadful living presence ye worshippers of dead Images the day of repentance is well nigh past your long Idolatry will my long patience turn into everlasting misery and judgement and Nations shall see your shame and in the sight of your Lovers shall you be tormented And this from Authority by my Spirit of Glory is sent you a warning and is the voice of a Trumpet which gives a certain sound against the mighty dreadful day of the Lord which upon you is coming to make you an desolation for ever and ever and the eternal Decree is sealing against you never to be altered To all you called Protestants of the Eldest sort THus saith the Lord my controversie is against you and my hand will be upon you you have a strong taste of the Bottle wherein the wine of Fornication is and your scent is leavened with the first vessel of abomination you are seated in darkness pitched upon six of the first mountains under another branch of the first Tree Ignorance and are children of the first womb begotten in another appearance of the Whores Beauty and are more comly in stature then your eldest Brethren and little is your difference to be discerned from the first Beast in your appearance and nothing at all in the ground you say you believe for eternal life but your unbelief will bring upon you everlasting death your talking of Christ and his righteousness imputed which you profess will not cover your infidelity and filthiness for you are in the enmity against his life the working of the first for life and your believing for life springs both out of one ground and while you say you eat and drink the Body and Blood of Christ in the figure you kill and crucifie him in the substance and art partakers of thy Sisters sins in whoredom and Idolatry and must partake of her plagues Wo wo will be your Inheritance in the Pit of Earth for ever instead of a heavenly glory which you dream of above the sky I have armed my Armies to do my work herein which hath in part and will fulfil it to break you to pieces the intents of your hearts hath been known to be always against my people neither could you bear any appearance of me but blasphemes my name and truth in every discovery you have loved darkness upon earth and in its chains shall you be bound in the Lake for evermore To all you that are called Presbyterians and Independents THe Lords controversie is against you for you are a higher Branch of the first Tree deeper rooted in the cursed ground of fleshly and sensual wisdom and the womb of your conception is the first Whores daughter more comly decked and your Cistern holes the wine of fornication at which you drink in a measure her abomination and where you say you beleeves for justification and applies the promises for salvation your works of wickedness and hypocrisie will bring damnation and gains the promise of condemnation who are in pride and high-mindedness and double-heartedness which is the condition of that promise and you are found wanting every whit the conditions of the promise of eternal life you have reformed the outward man into obedience unto another likeness of the truth without the life and are as vise in the inward in hypocrisie and self exalting and hath covered yâ—â—r selves with the Saints words and said up more in store of the report of their riches then your fore-fathers and now you are become worshippers of the form and words of the Saints and are grown in the knowledge more then some of your father's children but in extolling the Saints words you limit their Spirit and keeps in death their life which was not of the world neither in appearance nor ground and while you say you eat and drink the flesh and blood of Christ in secret and separate you put him to death openly and among the multitudes your hearts are ful of bitterness against my remnant whom I have called and aloud you cry Heresie and Error and Blasphemes my Name and loaths the honey-comb in your full Stomacks you worship the same God as your fore-fathers did only in another appearance more refined through stronger wisdom and appears in the reformed old man thinking him to be the new man and deceives your souls hereby and are zealous in your blindness in your Will-worships and fained humility which is without the knowledge of God and you depend upon your Imaginations thinking to have life in the Scripture as they did which put Christ to death and will not come to Christ that you may have life you are in the knowledge gathered from without you which is natural and in it you are corrupted and some of you are brutish in your knowledge and are thereby puft up into pride and vain-glory your separation from the world is sensual and self separation and differs but a little in your appearance and nothing in the ground for the cursed ground stands within untilled and unbroken and you worship God ignorantly at a distance and feeds upon the report of a thing done many hundred of yeers ago and your faith doth not give you victory over the world for 't is set in your hearts and the vanities of it without is followed pride and oppression and fulness Some of you are hot and furious in your blind zeal and cannot endure sound Doctrine your fruits will wither and all your knowledge will perish and all your hopes and expectations will fail and all your praiseâ— and prayers and all your good works brought forth in your own wills in that nature in which the enmity lodges is a lame and a blind sacrifice and of Cains nature which God accepteth not you are in the liberty of the flesh and the daylie Cross of Christ you do not know but lives daylie to the world and dies not in it and your knowledge of Christ is without you by what such a Prophet and such an Apostle spoke of him and the witness of the operation of his Spirit and Power you have not in you nor his Sufferings you do not know in your life but by your life makes him to suffer in his life the horrible filthy thing is commited amongst you and your Teachers are perfect in the false Prophets steps and some of you are as brute beasts in their knowledge gathered in by vain study and humane learning through Philosophy and vain deceit and hath large quarters from which they seel their gain and through covetousness with feigned words makes merchandise of souls and are compleat in Bâ—laâ—mâ— way of Idolatry following his Error loving the wages of unrighteousness teaching for filthy lucre devouring souls for dishonest gain by trading with
the Scriptures and selling their imaginations upon them for money gaining many thousand of pounds a yeer thereby having stolen the Saints words into their unclean hearts uttered forth by them for advantage to themselves when the Lord hath not sent them nor spoken unto them nor ordained them for his service but their Call and Ordination hath been by man and their work and testimony of themselves and hath not profited you at all and yet you have loved to have it so but what will you do in the end thereof even you that hath been helped and they that have holpen shall both fall together in the day of the Lords recompense which will fall grievously upon you and none shall be able for to deliver you but miserable comforters and Physitians of noâ—value shall all be unto you and your long applyed Promises shall suddenly fly away No peace from God is to the wicked neither do I sow pillows under your elbows but to the light in your consciences I speak which Christ hath lightened every one of you withal which shines in darkness and you cannot it comprehend nor in it believe But it it stumbles and by it shall be broken which if it you loved it would teach you in the Spirit the living God to worship and would condemn all your set form of Worship in the Imaginations the light is given you from Christ Jesus unto life eternal or unto condemnation everlasting when the hand of the Lord in judgement is upon you Remember you had warning and when you are in the Lake and in the Pit Remember you had a day of Visitation upon Earth The light in all your Consciences shall witness Gods judgements to be just and your mouths shall be stopped To all you that are called Anabaptists VVIth you also is the controversie of the Lord for you are children of the same seed more purged in the fire of blind zeal and begotten in the transforming of the Serpent into more secret hypocrisie and deeper subtilty your covering being larger the greater deceit and abomination lodges under Death reigns among you and your Kingdom is scituate in the mountains of exaltation and you feed abundantly in the Vallies of Pride and Vain-glory and are nourished with the bread of prosperity you are grown high and great in your number and have joyned your selves for advantage and glories in your strength having through Policy and Craft and bowing to the Beastly power highly exalted your own Horn and and by Flattery have gained much of your Dominion which you hold in possession by the Law of guil many simple ones hath by your curious colour and bed of fair pretenses been deceived to commit Adultery with your Image brought forth in the likeness of the Saints God By Imagination from the Saints words you worship the practise and exercise of the Saints with the same mind that the Papists do worship their Names and Days You allow not Idols without nor a vain conversation in the world but you are strict in observation in your outward conformity in your self-righteousness which is your greatest sin you are clothed with the Saints words and practises which you have climed up in your own wills to obtain not having entred in by the door and while you say you eat and drink the Flesh and Blood of Christ in the Saints manner shewing forth his death till he come to salvation you kill him as the Heathens do till he appear unto condemnation and you shew forth daylie that you crucifie him in the world eating and drinking to your selves condemnation you say Christ died only for you as elect but your works makes manifest that he dies by you as Reprobate you take up a command from the Letter and imitates the Apostles some of you in a lower and some of you in a higher degree in that mind and nature which in the Apostles was crucified and you say Christ commands it when the Letter doth but declare it and you are not led with the same light which gave forth the commands declared to observe them but saith in such a verse of such a chapter such a command is not having received the command by the same Spitit Here you are proved to be them which use your Tongue and saith he saith it when God hath not spoken unto you but as you read it without you as the false Prophets might do the words of the true Prophets and thus you are in the Witchcraft as they were Gal. 3. who takes on things in your own wills and observe commands without from the Letter thereby drawing from the teachings of God within by the Spirit you are zealous as they were for the Traditions and Figures and cannot see him which is the end of all that which perisheth with the using so you are not dead with Christ from the world who are yet subject to Ordinances which is of the world They that obeyed Christ and followed him was led by the Spirit and not by the Letter for they were not Ministers of the Letter but of the Spirit and such were judged to be in errour and this is your condition who saith such are breakers of Christ's commands and makers vold of the Scripture and destroyers of the Ordinances who witnesseth Christ the substance and him to be King and Judge and Law-giver and in whom and upon whom the Scripture is fulfilled and so it established and the commands of Christ kept which are in Spirit and his Law daylie walked in which condemneth sin And this is not contrary to the Scripture but a fulfilling of it in Principles in Doctrines and in Practise and Conversation The Apostles was sent to preach the Gospel to every creature and they were all led by the same Spirit and did not go before it in their own wills as you do neither did one go from the command which had been given to another using anothers words and exercising themselves in anothers practises when the Lord had not commanded But such they bare witness against which did use their Tongue and transform themselves into the likeness of true Prophets and Apostles as you have done and are in the love of the world and only separated in the appearance and not in the ground You stumble at the light and therefore knows not the door of entrance nor where the commands of Christ is to be received and the Will of God to you is to be known and so your obedience is the conformity in your own wills to that which was the Will of God to another This Sacrifice is also lame and blind and God saith to you Who hath required this at your hand For 〈◊〉 you have observed and done all those things which the Declaration of the Law and Gospel doth require you are unprofitable servants and yet one thing do you lack the Dying with Christ and the Sufferings and Cross of Christ is not known but in the liberty of the flesh you are and not in the condition of