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A30553 To you that are called Anabaptists in the nation of Ireland teachers and people, who profess your selves to be the Church of Christ; this is the word of the Lord God unto you. Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662. 1657 (1657) Wing B6042; ESTC R214915 4,983 7

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TO YOU THAT ARE CALLED ANABAPTISTS IN THE NATION OF IRELAND Teachers and People who profess your selves to be the Church of Christ This is the word of the Lord God unto You. YOu are gathered and not in the Spirit of Jesus nor in the Light of Christ nor in the power of God you are separated but not in the truth nor in the ground for the defiled and uncircumcised nature of the world stands alive in you you are in the uncrucified estate in the dominion of death under the power of sin pride covetousness hypocrisie vainglory and the workes of the flesh abound among you to the Light in you which Christ hath lightned you with all I doe speake which shall beare witness for me herein and against you in the day of the Lord which suddenly comes upon you and all the world who are not in the Light and power of God you are bowing down to the Jmage in the fained hippocrisie of what the Saints Injoyed and witnessed in the life power of God you never came truly through the ministration of Moses which reveales wrath upon the uncircumcised nor you never came to the ministration of Iohn who is a burning Light and brings down the mountaines and prepares the way of the Lord before his face but you are in your taken out observances from the Letter as the Jews were but gainsayes and opposes the life of God as they did and in that nature you stand which put Christ to death who doth not own the Light whereby he lighteth every man that comes into the world though him his words and Ordinances you profess and performes your own Immitations in your fleshly wills and not the worship of God in the Spirit and in the truth for the truth you are strangers too which the divell nor the wicked abides not in and are alienated in your mindes from the way and councell of the living God and hath but the name that you live and are dead in trespasses in sins and the Jmage of God doth not live in you and you have but the forme of godliness in your sensuall understandings in that wisdome which is divelish your dead mindes are exercised in the forme without the power in vaine shewes in set dayes and in set observances glorying in the flesh seeking and receiving praise of men and is but as the Jew outward whose house of worship and sacrifice is left desolate and you know not the pure moveings and leadings of the pure spirit of the Lord God to rule you and to teach you in the way of peace because you doe not beleeve in the Light which Christ Jesus hath lightned you and every man in the world withall but doth gainsay it and strive against it in your high thoughts and Imaginations to your own condemnation in the sight of God who are wise in your own conceits and Righteous in your own Eye and measures your selves and not with the rule of Judgement But this is the condemnation of you al the world that light is come hath shined in your darke hearts but darknes and the workes thereof is loved rather then the light you say you are not of the world but what doe you differ from it in Doctrine or in Worship or in Conversation doth not pride and vanity and selfe seeking rule in many of you yea to your shame might I mention the abominations which I have seen among you who often beheld your devotions to the unknown God and was an Eye witness of your Idolitries and even while you profest to be gathered out of the world you are wallowing in its filthiness and drinking deeply of its polutions in envie in wrath and in bitterness and in all eivill not like members of the body of Christ but may justly be Judged many of you to be the Sinagogues of Satan who say you are members of Christ and are not for you are tried and are found wanting before the Lord and your Pastors Teachers they goe before you and are examples in Iniquity unto you and are guilty of your transgression and you of theirs for you hold them up and loves to have these things so and they through lies and lightness causes you to erre And so the blinde leads the blinde till you both fall into the ditch of perdition and they may be ashamed of you who are in ignorance and blindness of heart w●o have not learned the way of truth and righteousness nor come to the knowledge of God nor denied your selves and sins and you may be ashamed of them who are as they that feed themselves with the fat and not the flocke that through Covetousness by fained words makes marchandise of Soules and goes for gifts and rewards as Balaam and while they Condemne others for hirelings are manyfold guilty themselves therein to be Condemned Judged with the Light of Christ Jesus witness some of your chiefest Pastors and Teachers at Dublin at Limbricke and at Corke and at many places else where in Ireland some having a hundred pounds a yeare others more or less to their shame let this be told and to their Condemnation in the Light of God all that know him who are hippocritticall in crieing against others for that whereof themselves are guilty and are an ill savor and a reproach to some of their own Brethren and a shame to Religion and to all that profess faith in the Gospell of Christ and are out of the example of all the Appostles and Ministers of Christ who freely recived and freely gave and did not seeke and receive maintenance from the powers of the Earth but Preached the Gospell and lived of the Gospell eate of the fruit of the vinyard which they had planted But your Pastors are in the example of the false Brethren who taught for filthy Lucar and with faigned words beguiled the simple and while you have been zealous to pull drown the Episcopall Priests you have exalted your selues in their Seates some of you in the same Temples with Large aditions by oppressions to their maintenances and hath the wages of unrighteousness as Balaam and goes for gifts rewards and is not this a shame to you to be laid to your charge appearing more vile in deepe hippocrisie then your predecessors in publique prophaness to the Light in your Consciences I speake which shall witness this to be true in the presence of God who Condemns al your workes and worships in that nature acted who worships in your Carnall mindes in the Idols temples some of you as the Priests of the world doe upholding the worship of the beast under another name you are as bitter and envious in blind zeale as the prophane world against any that differs from you in Iudgement or that comes among you to declare the word of the Lord witness at Dublin Kilkenny Corke and else where where the Servants of the Lord were halled out of your Assemblies