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A30559	Two general epistles, or, The breathings of love uttered from the pure life, to the wholeflock of God in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and all other places whersoever this shall come, greeting : being a wholesome exhortation ... / given forth by by that faithful servant of God, who, though he hath lately laid down the earthly body, yet he lives with his Maker forever, Edvvard Burrough.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1663 (1663)	Wing B6052; ESTC R6045	15,871	24

you but begets into Idolatry to worship other gods than he who is Light and be not troubled at temptations nor sufferings nor at reproaches nor any other thing but stand in the Counsel of God and in his long-suffering and wait patiently upon him in your own measure of the Grace of God received which is sufficient to preserve you that Victory over Death and over him that hath the power over it you may receive to trample upon all that which is contrary to the Life of God within you and without you neither be you troubled nor offended in Christ if any among you deny the Lord and backslide from his pure Way through an evil heart of unbelief and so become disobedient children and vex the righteous Soul such shall bear their own burden and condemnation in the day of the Lord and know that Truth changeth not but is the same for ever though the deceitful hearted through unbelief depart from it and choose their own wayes and despise the Counsel of the Lord to their own destruction but be ye more watchful faithful and valiant for the Truth upon Earth unto the end that you may be found faithful Witnesses unto the Name of the Lord in this crooked Generation and may receive the fulfilling of the Promise of God and may witness God with you the Emmanuel the Saviour God with us and this is the whole Salvation and there is no other to be expected or witnessed than this That God dwells in us and walks in us according to his Promise and all that know this need not go forth to the right hand or to the left but Salvation is come unto us he that takes away sin and saves from it and from condemnation and they who witness this are begotten by the Word of God and born of the immortal Seed and are new Creatures and there is now no Condemnation but the reward of Righteousness and Peace unto us who are not in the flesh but in the Spirit and here we witness the Lord is our God and we are his People and he sees no sin in us who are born of him nor remembers iniquity but his Covenant is with us and the Kingdom is become the Lords and his dominion is set up where God is all in all where the Prince of darkness is cast out and this is the end and substance of all Ministrations which we bear witness of And I do exhort all you who are called of God every where patiently to wait in the Way of the Lord and in his Judgments to receive this and to possess it within you that you may be worshippers of God and doers of his Will and may have the Witness that you are accepted of him and may know your Calling and Election sure where nothing that defileth can enter but that may be taken away and removed and Him you may feel and witness which Satan hath nothing in who is the second Adam and cannot be overcome but is greater than the first Adam who was overcome though innocent and is lost from the presence of God but he in whom there is no sin and who cannot transgress comes to seek and to save that which was lost in sin and to bring back that which was driven away by sin and He is greater than Innocency and overcometh the Devil and is called the Son of God and to him that overcometh who is the Light of the World is all Power given of the Father And know Him in you all to be the greatest who is not of the world nor cannot bow to the Devil to give you dominion and authority over all the World and the powers of Hell and Death even He who sealeth up the old Dragon in perdition never more to deceive And they w●● witness this know the Election which it is not possible to ●●ceive or be deceived and as every one of you have received Him who is the Lord from Heaven so let your Faith stand in Him and walk in Him and let all your conversations be ordered by Him in all pure and blameless walking in the sight of your Enemies that it may be manifest that you are branches in Him and that you have received power to become the Sons of God and that you are Heirs of the Inheritance which shall not fade away And all you that witness this your eye is opened to see God and you are cleansed from sin by the Word of God and you have received the Peace with God and glad-tydings from him in your own souls and this is Salvation by the second Adam herein be established and setled and look not for another for there is not any besides this Saviour and this Salvation but if any preach another believe them not and if any cry Lo here and Lo there is Christ without you go not after them nor follow them but know him within you which is greater than all yea if we our selves or an Angel from Heaven preach any other Iesus than he which lighteth every man that cometh into the world or any other Salvation than God with us let us be accursed for this is the Gospel of our Salvation Christ Iesus within us the hope of Glory the Power and Wisdom of God to rule and reign in us by which we are changed from Death to Life and translated from the power of Darkness into the Kingdom of his dear Son And now all Friends and Elect of God who are called and faithfull you that have received this Testimony which God hath given of the Son and which the Son hath given of the Father which in faithfulness hath been testified in this generation I exhort you all in the fear and counsel of the Lord take heed to that which you have believed and heard and learned of the Father which is the Truth as it is in Jesus and shall abide forever and be not removed from your hope nor given to change but mind the Life of God in you all which is immortal and is but one and it answereth to the Lord in Judgments and in Mercies one to another in that which is righteous and just and witnesseth against all the works of the world which are evil and not wrought in God Ye that know this which is of the Father in you dwell in it and walk in it and be not shaken out of it nor removed from it for it is the Way of Peace unto Everlasting Rest where there is no sorrow but Righteousness Peace and Joy in the holy Ghost and every one in particular have Salt in your selves to savour withal that you may resist the wicked-one in all his temptations and may not joyn to any thing which is out of Union and contrary to the Life of God and to the Truth which you have received that you may never be betrayed of your hope nor of the simplicity which is in Christ Jesus in which the Father is well-pleased and let the Light of the World guide you in all things

TWO General Epistles OR The BREATHINGS of LOVE uttered from the pure Life to the whole Flock of God in England Scotland and Ireland and all other places whersoever this shall come Greeting Being a Wholesome EXHORTATION tending to the Gathering Uniting and Establishing of all the Faithful every-where into that which is Eternal Given forth by that faithful Servant of God who though he hath lately laid down the Earthly Body yet he lives with his Maker for ever EDVVARD BURROUGH LONDON Printed for R. Wilson 1663. The first General Epistle c. FOrasmuch as in these our days the God of Truth hath made manifest his Name and Truth in the hearts of his People and hath gathered the minds of thousands into it to worship him in the Spirit and in the Truth in which he is accepted and of this Truth which is but one and there is not another are we made Witnesses and Ministers of and have the Testimony in our selves that we are of God and are a good savour unto him in them that believe and in them that perish and we have the Testimony That he that is of God heareth us and we know the whole world lies in wickedness and who are in the Truth in the Light and in the Life have fellowship one with another in Holiness and Righteousness in that which comprehends the world and condemns all the works thereof which are evil and this Truth Worship and Fellowship stands in Christ Jesus the second Adam whose Kingdom and Rule is not of this world but from Heaven who according to his Promise in his Counsel hath made known his Power to the raising up a Righteous Branch a Royal Priesthood and Peculiar People zealous of his Name to shew forth his Praise and Glory in Justness and Righteousness in Love Mercy and Peace and works of Purity having our Conversation in Heaven and since that day of the manifestation of this Truth of the Gospel of Peace and Salvation which is the same now as was in the beginning which is in Christ Jesus the Light of the world who is the same yesterday to day and for ever and changeth not I say since that very day hath the Lord prospered his Truth to the renewing of many into his Image and Likeness and to the turning of many from darkness to Light and from Satan's power to God by the mouth of his Ministers and through great sufferings and tribulations oppressions afflictions and labours hath the Lord honoured his Name and his Truth in Nations and given it a praise among all that fear him and hath honoured it and exalted it in the sight of the Heathen to the confounding of the wise and mighty and to the bringing out of the captivity of darkness sin and death wherein in times past all have walked while strangers from the Life of God so that thousands who have received the Truth are established in it and cannot be moved nor shaken but are built upon the sure Foundation their Faith standing in the Power of God with whom the Arm and Presence of the Lord God is defending and preserving continually and unto such the Truth is precious and the Way of the Lord his Name and Honour is dear yea more than life or liberty or any other thing which passeth away who for the Truths sake as it is in Christ Jesus do daily give up themselves to suffering and to reproach for well-doing and not for evil and love not life unto death that the Lord God and his Name and Truth may be honoured so that in that Truth which is received and learned of the Father daily do we walk in all purity and holiness of life answering the Mercy and Love of the Lord in the exercise of a pure Conscience both towards God and man in patience long-suffering and wisdom towards all to the putting to silence of gainsayers rendring love and mercy towards our Persecutors and are set in our hearts to fulfill the Will of God in all things And now whereas that the Scripture may be fulfilled some may and have denied the Truth which once was received and loved to the making shipwrack of Faith and of a good Conscience abusing the Mercy and Grace of God which to them appeared and follow the counsel of their own hearts and not of the Lord having lost the feeling of the Spirit of the Father and are and may be separated from us in the self-separation through an evil heart of unbelief that it may be made manifest they are not of us though they arise from among us and may by disorderly walking contrary to the Truth cause the Truth to be evil spoken of giving occasion thereby to the Enemies of God to blaspheme his Name and Truth in the Earth and may be a stumbling to the weak and an offence to the Way of the Lord before the simple thorow their Disorders and Confusions raising the rage of the Wicked against the Lambs of Christ being not led in the Wisdom of God but in Confusions taking liberty to their own hearts desire fulfilling the will thereof without the Fear of God above the Cross of Christ in the Nature uncrucified and speaking high words in the presumption and not in the Light and Power of God and acting in the vanity of the mind in the pretence of Truth and the moving of the Spirit such things as Truth and the Children of it who are guided with the Spirit cannot justifie but is judged and denied and cast out from among the Children of Light who walk in the Truth and do try the spirits whether they be of God Therefore in the Fear of the Lord God this is written to go abroad among Friends and others to inform and shew unto all that the Truth and we that are in it Ministers of it do stand clear from all such who act and speak out of the Truth and contrary to it in the disorder and confusion and not in the Fear and Counsel of God and with the Truth such are judged and denied and fellowship with them we have not nor their works do approve though such once owned us and were convinced of the Truth and received the Seed of the Kingdom into the unprofitable ground yet being separated from us and gone out from the Truth are not subject to it and its Government but are unruly and disorderly We and the Truth do such deny and the spirit that rules them being not the Spirit of Christ Jesus and such have done evil against their own souls and against God and are troublers of the righteous Seed and have and do dishonour the Lord and his Truth in the sight of the Heathen causing the right Way to be reviled and reproached and evil spoken of through the offence by them to the making sad the hearts of some whom God hath not made sad and even more especially in that they pretend to the Truth in their words and works and professes to be in it yet secretly condemning and