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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

at several times he spoke several precious words from the sensible feeling of God's spirit in his heart and said I have had the testimony of the Lords love unto me from my youth and my heart hath been given up to do thy Will And he said I have preached the Gospel freely in this City and have often given up my Life for the Gospels sake and now Lord rip open my heart and see if it be not right before thee Another time he said when he had a little ease There is no iniquity lyes at my door but the presence of the Lord is with me and his life I feel justifie me Another day afterwards he said Thou hast loved me when I was in the Womb and I have loved thee from my Cradle and from my youth unto this day and have served thee faithfully in my generation And he spoke to Friends that were about him to live in love and peace and love one another And at another time he said The Lord taketh the righteous from the evil to come and he prayed for his Enemies and for his persecutors and said Lord forgive Richard Brown he may be forgiven And though the distemper and the disease was violently upon him yet he was preserved sensible and in the morning before he departed this life being sensible of his death he said Now my soul and spirit is centered in its own Being with God and this form of person must return from whence it was taken And after a little season he gave up the Ghost and dyed a Prisoner and shall be recorded and is in the Lambs Book of Life as a Martyr for the Word of God and the Testimony of Jesus for which only he suffered and gave up his Life whose death was precious in the eyes of the Lord. But now he ever liveth with God and his Works follow him and labour● shall testifie of him in generations to come and thousands beside my self can bear witness His Life and death was to the praise glory and honor of the Grace of God unto whom be the glory of all his Works for ever and ever Amen AND oh thou City of London who hast been a professing City of the Name of God and Christianity so many years must it be said of thee as Christ said of Jerusalem that a Prophet cannot perish out of thee Oh how many Warnings hast thou had and how dost thou remain in obdurateness and impenitency Oh! thou art not worthy of those heavenly tydings of salvation which hath been proclaimed in the midst of thee these many years by this faithful Messenger of God deceased with many more who is taken away in judgement unto thee because many of thy Inhabitants despised and set at nought that in which the blessedness of all Nations consisteth Oh how is thy Gold become dim and how is thy glory stained How is thy countenance marred How is all thy profession become dead and thou like a withered Tree without sap The symptomes of death are upon thee Your Sun is set your glory is passed away night is coming and darkness is surrounding you and you shall have enough of da●kness and your pathes and ways shall be filled with it because you have hated the Light and would not have him who is the Light of the World to rule in your hearts but hath chused darkness rather than Light because your deeds are evil and in the end thou shalt be made to see you have chosen lying vanities and have taken pleasure in the flesh and have forsaken your own mercies Repent repent if any can find a place while it is called to day lest you be shut up in everlasting darkness and Truth be hid from your eyes for ever Take warning cease from persecution and afflicting the Lords people who desire to live quietly and peaceably and to worship God in truth and righteousness with a pure heart It is too too much that you have done already the suffering and death of many innocent righteous men who have suffered these Winters past will lie as a load upon your City in Summers to come Remember what God did to Amaleck the first of the Natio●s and to Moab when Israel would have passed to their own Land an● Countrey that God had promised them and have eaten their own bread and drank their water and have passed on peaceably but they rose up and fell upon the poor and upon the hindmost and weak God was glad ●o force his way though it proved the ruine of Amaleck and the misery of Moab We would gladly walk on our way to the promised Land wh●ch belongs to the Saints in Light we would eat our own Bread and drink our water and what we needed and keep our Consciences clear in our generation we must to that which God hath promised and if we cannot have a way God will make one for us and that you that set your selves against the Lord in the end shall be sure to know and feel though we shall never lift up carnal Weapon nor drawsword neither use Bow nor Spear for God hath taught us to love our Enemies and out of these things we are come and to the end of Wars and to be for it yet God's purpose shall be fulfilled and he hath ways enough to plead the cause of his people and he will do it and wo to all their Enemies And do you cry ou● of Popery because of cruelty and persecution And will you be found in the same footsteps and in the same nature Oh! let it never be said nor thought that ever the Church of God or true Christians did drink the blood of the Saints or cast them into prison for that is Babylon the Mother of Harlots that doth so Therefore be informed and warned set not bryars and thorns in battel against the Lord neither stubble before devouring fire for if you do a consumption will come upon you and your name and memorial shall rot dye wither and melt away as Snailes and glory shall rest with and upon the Heads of the sufferers of Christ for ever By one who hath chosen rather to suffer with the people of God called Quakers than to en●oy the pleasures of sin for a season or to be reckoned as a Prince amongst the uncircumcised Fran. Howgil Reading the 22. of the 12. Month 1662. ANd as for E.B. our dear Brother and companion in travel suffering and consolation for the everlasting Gospel● sake in his day his Testimony lives with us he was a Preacher of Righteou●ness and one who travelled for the redemption of the creature from under the bondage of corruption and proclaimed liberty to the captives in the power and authority ●f God and therein was a true Witness against Oppression and all the Antichristian yokes imposed in the night of Apostacy upon the persons and consciences of people and truly and valiantly he held forth the Liberty of Conscience and vindicated it to the great men of the Earth in things

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 14 th of the 12 th Month 1662. F. H. London Printed and are to be sold by William Warwick 1662. The Life and Death of Edward Burroughs that worthy Prophet of the Lord c. SHall days or months or years wear out thy Name as though thou hadst had no being Oh nay Shall not thy noble and valiant Acts and mighty Works which thou hast wrought through the power of him that separated thee from the Womb live in generations to come Oh yes the children that are yet unborn shall have thee in their mouths and thy Works shall testifie of thee in generations who yet have not a being and shall count thee blessed Did thy Life go out as the snuff of a Candle Oh nay thou hast penetrated the hearts of many and the memorial of the just shall live for ever and be had in renown among the children of Wisdom for ever for thou hast turned many to righteousness and shall shine as a Star of God in the Firmament of God's Power for ever and ever and they that are in that shall see thee there and enjoy thee there though thou be gone away hence and can no more be seen in mutability yet thy Life and thy Spirit shall run parallel with Immortality Oh Edward Burroughs I cannot but mourn for thee yet not as one without hope nor faith knowing and having a perfect testimony of thy well-being in my heart by the Spirit of the Lord yet thy absence is great and years to come shall know the want of thee Shall I not lament as David did for a worse man than thee even for Abner when in wrath he perished by the hand of Joab without any just cause though he was a valiant man David lamented over Abner and said Dyed Abner as a fool dyeth Oh nay he was betrayed of his Life even so hast thou been bereaved of thy life by th● hand of the Oppressor whose habitations are full of cruelty Oh my soul come not thou within their secret for thy blood shall be required at the hands of them who thirsted after thy life and it shall cry as Abels who was in the Faith even so wert thou it shall weigh as a ponderous Milstone upon their necks and shall crush them under and be as a Worm that gnaweth and shall not dye When I think upon thee I am melted into tears of true sorrow and because of the want that the Inheritance of the Lord hath of thee my substance is even as dissolved Shall I not say as David said of Saul and Jonathan when they were slain in Mount Gilboa The beauty of Israel is slain upon the high places Even so wast thou stifled 〈◊〉 nasty holes and prisons and many more who were precious in the eyes of the Lord And surely precious wast thou to me oh dear Edward I am distressed for th●● my brother very pleasant hast thou been to me and my love to thee was wonderful passing the love of women Oh thou whose Bow never turned back neither Sword empty from the blood of the slain from the slaughter of the mighty who made Nations and Multitudes shake with the Word of Life in thy mouth and wast very dreadful to the enemies of the Lord for thou didst cut like a Rasor and yet to the seed of God brought forth thy words dropped like Oyle and thy lips as the honey-comb Thou shalt be recorded among the valiant of Israel who attained to the first degree through the power of the Lord that wrought mightily in thee in thy day and was worthy of double honor because of thy Works sake thou wast expert to handle thy Weapon and by thee the mighty have fallen and the slain o● the Lord hath been many many have been pricked ●o heart through the Power of the Word of Life and coales of fire from thy Life come forth of thy mouth that in many a thicket and among many bryars and thorns it ca●e to be kindled and did devour much stubble that cumb●●ed the ground and stained the Earth Oh how certain a sound did thy Trumpet give And how great an Al●rm didst t●ou give in thy day that made the Host of the uncircum●●sed grea●ly distressed What man so val●ant though as Goliah of Gath would not thy Valour have encountered with while many despised thy youth And how have I seen thee with ●hy sling and thy stone despised Weapons as to war with wound the mighty and that which hath seemed contemptible to the Dragons party even as the Jaw-bone of an Asse with it thou hast slain the Philistines heaps upon heaps as Sampson Thou hast put to thy hand to the Hammer of the Lord and has● often fastened Nailes in the heads of the Lambs Enemies as D●borah did to Sisera and many a rough stone hast thou polished and squared and made it fit for the building of God and much knotty Wood hast thou hewed in thy day which was not fit for the building o● God's House Oh thou Prophet of the Lord and shalt for ever be recorded in the Lambs Book of Life among the Lords Worthies who have followed the Lamb through great tribulation as many can witness for thee from the beginning and at last hath overcome and found worthy to stand with the Lamb upon Mount Sion the Hill of God as I have often seen thee and thy heart well tuned as a Harp to praise the Lord and to sound forth his great salvation which many a time hath made glad the hearts of them that did believe and strengthen their faith and hope Well thou art at res● and bound up in the bundle of Life and I know tears was wiped away from thy eyes because there was no cause of sorrow in thee For I know thou witnessed the old things done away and there was no curse but blessings were poured upon thy head as rain and peace as a mighty shower and trouble was far from thy dwelling though in the outward man trouble on every side and hath had a greater share in that fo● the Gospel sake though a youth in thy time th●n many besides But now thou art freed from that and h●st obtained a Name through Faith with the Saints in Light Well hadst thou more to give up then thy Life for the Name of Jesus in this World Nay and to seal thy Testimony committed unto thee with thy blood as thou hast often said in thy day which shall remain as a Crown upon thee for ever and ever And now thou art freed from the ●empt●tions of him who had the power of death and art freed from thy outward Enemies who hated thee because of the Life that dwelt in thee and remaineth at the right hand of God where there is joy and pleasure for evermore in the

Work of the Lord his whole business without taking so much liberty unto himself or about any outward occasion in this World as to spend one Week to himself to my knowledg these ten years He had ventured himself often for the Bodies sake and a great care I know was in his heart that them that he had ministred unto and others that had believed in the same truth might thrive and prosper and might walk as becometh the Gospel of Jesus Christ. He was of a manly Spirit in the things of God he hath engaged himself often upon the Lords account singly in great Disputes when there were many opposers he hath stood in the door and in the gap against all his Enemies for the worthy Name of God and taken the whole weight of thing● upon his o●n shoulders that others might be eased though often to ●he weakening and almost destroying of the outward man yet doing all in love to the Lord and for his peoples sake he did it with chearfulness and it was a grief to him if any opportunity was missed of doing good He was a man of no great learning in natural Tongues which men so much applaud yet indeed his heart was full of matter and his Tongue was as the hand of a ready Scribe and yet he had the tongue of the learned having had experiment of the Work of the Lord and being acquainted with many conditions which God had carried him through he could speak a word in season unto all who declared their conditions unto him of otherways in his publike Ministry he was very plausible and elegant in his speech indeed had the tongue of a learned Orator to declare himself to the understandings consciences of all men with whom he conversed by which many received great profit and their understandings came to be opened for his words ministred grace to the Heare●● and his words were forcible and very pleasant as apples of Gold in pictures of silver This young man of whom I am speaking was one of the first with some others who came to the City of London where he met with no small opposition both from professors of divers forms and also prophane who heeded no Religion at all and the way of Truth seemed contemptible and without form or comeliness to them all which made the opposition so great and the labour so hard that notwithstanding it pleased the Lord to reach unto the Consciences of many and many were prickt to the heart so that they cried out what shall we do to be saved And God made his Ministry very effectual to the conversion of many in the City of London whereby a great change was wrought in the hearts of many many hundreds brought to know the Lord their Teacher which are as seals unto the Word of Life through him unto this day And many hundreds I may say thousands heard the lively Word of God declared by him and were convinced of the way of Truth though still remaining in the disobedience to that of God in their own hearts unto which he declared and many have lost their day which they had of hearing and receiving the things of God for now he is taken away which might have been a help unto them while they had time and all such are not worthy of him He continued in this City very much at time and times betwixt eight and nine years together preaching the Word of God and speaking of the things of his Kingdom to all that looked after it and great watching travel and exercise in the Work of the Lord and his earnest desire was That all might have come to know God's salvation and the redemption of their souls And his great diligence was known unto many that his only rejoicing was in the prosperity of the Work of the Lord and the encrease of Faith amongst them that did believe And his heart was much drawn towards this City and often times hath he said to me when suffering did come for the Gospel sake which he knew would come I can freely go to that City and lay down my Life for a Testimony of that Truth which I have declared through the Power and Spirit of God Which in the end indeed came to be his share and will for ever be his Crown who loved not his life unto death for the Testimony of our Lord Jesus Christ. And in the same year 1662. being pressed in his spirit to go visit them who were begotten unto the Faith of God's Elect at the City of Bristol and in divers other Counties at divers Meetings and divers particular Friends he took his leave of them saying unto very many That he did not know he should see their faces any more exhorting them all to faithfulness and stedfastness in that wherein they had found rest for their souls And said to some I am going up to the City of London again to lay down my Life for the Gospel and suffer amongst Friends in that place as having some sence of his suffering before And a little after his return to the City at a publike Meeting which the people of the Lord have kept these many years to hear and speak of the things of God to edification at the Bull and and Mouth near Aldersgate by certain Souldiers under the command of Richard Brown then General of the City of London he was violently plucked down and haled away in a barbarous manner and carryed to the guard and so committed to Newgate not for evil-doing but for testifying unto the Name of the Lord Jesus and for the Worship of God as though this were become a great crime worthy of Bonds and at last death he was had to the Sessions in the Old Baily and his accusers were Witnesses against him and them that had abused him violently their Testimony was received as good proof against him And at last after two or three Sessions he was fined by the Court one hundred Mark which at last was reduced to twenty Mark and to lie in prison while payment Where he continued a pretty long season above 8 Months with 6 or 7 score Prisoners be●ide upon the same account many being shut up among the Felons in nasty places and for want of Prison-room the natures of many were suffocated and corrupted till at last many grew vveak sickned and dyed At last this same young man grew vveak and though a special Order from the King was sent to the then Sheriffs of London for the release of him and the rest that were left in prison yet such was the enmity of some of the Rulers of the City that they did what in them lay to obstruct the execution of the Order that he should not be released And so weakness grew upon him daily though in much patience he was carried through all In the time of his sickness he was very fervent in prayer and that often both day and night unto the Lord as concerning himself and also his people and

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