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A30536	A message to the present rulers of England whether committee of safety, (so called) councell of officers, or others whatsoever : delivered unto them by an ambassadour from the only right heire of the government, whose right alone it is to rule : and by special authority and commission from him, this is sent unto them, that they may hear, and fear, and learn wisdom, and may deliver up the proper right of the only King unto him, that they may be blessed, but on the conrray dependeth their destruction / by Edward Burrough.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1659 (1659)	Wing B6015; ESTC R14580	13,686	20

A MESSAGE TO THE PRESENT RULERS OF England A MESSAGE TO THE PRESENT RULERS OF England Whether COMMITTEE of SAFETY so called Councell of Officers or Others whatsoever Delivered unto them by an Ambassadour from the only Right Heire of the Government whose Right alone it is to Rule And by special Authority and Commission from him this is sent unto them that they may hear and fear and learn Wisdom and may deliver up the proper Right of the only King unto him that they may be blessed but on the contrary dependeth their destruction By EDWARD BURROUGH London Printed for Giles Calvert at the black Spread-Eagle near the West-End of Pauls 1659. THese things were upon me to deliver even by speech and word of mouth to the present men in power that they might be warned lest they perish But no way being made for me so to do I have written what was upon me even as short as possibly I could and in as little Compasse as might be having hinted at things which might more largely bin spoken to and I order this to be printed and given to their particular hands with speed E. B. To the present Rulers of England A MESSAGE to you all by an Ambassadour from the Lord God The Great and Mighty King And Iesus Christ the only Prince of Peace and Righteousnesse whose Right alone it is to Rule over us in our Nation and not Anothers In his Name and Authority I am come unto you FRiends My Master is a High and Mighty and powerful Prince and very Honourable And fear reverence respect and subjection belongs to him alone from you and all mankinde he is wise and understanding and of great strength And his dominion is from everlasting to everlasting And he can do whatsoever he will in Heaven and Earth for he rules with his Iron Rod over the World and whatsoever he saith it is done for his Word is an everlasting Command If he say to a man Live it is so and if he say to him Die It cometh to passe and if he give peace to a man or a Nation none can make War and if he make War with a person or in a Nation no man is able to make Peace For why he hath all power in his hand and to him all Judgement and Authority is given he is the Sonne of the living God the everlasting Creator he was and is and is to come his eye beholdeth all things and his Arme compasseth Heaven and Earth and what his purpose is he hath alwayes and will ever bring it to passe if he set up Rulers they must rule and if he pull them down none can hinder whom he will he honoureth and if it be his pleasure he bringeth men to shame if he break a Nation down none can build it up and if he confound Powers and Authorities in the Kingdomes of men they all fall as withered grasse before him Behold ye men he is so great and mighty and of so great Authority that whatsoever he saith it is done and whatsoever he willeth it cometh to passe and none is able to resist him and overcome his power when his pleasure is to accomplish a work By him all things are that be and all things live that hath life and through him all things moveth and of his fulnesse every creature in Heaven and Earth receiveth and this my Master is altogether honourable in birth and otherwise and altogether mighty in all his works he is just and merciful full of goodnesse righteousnesse and truth and all vertue dwells in him and his Judgment and Mercy his Authority and Meeknesse and his wrath and his Love they are Companions And what are ye before him or how shall ye be able to resist him or to turn backward what his purpose is concerning you and this Nation for ye have no being nor breath without him Behold ye men ye are verily as the dust before the winde so are ye to him soon blown away and your place not found as the Grasse before the Mower so are ye before him soon cut down and withered and your beauty utterly extinguished as a Potters vessel under an iron Rod even so are you to him he can immediately break you never to be bound up as a drop to the Fountain so are you to him soon dried up and made nothing wherefore ye men ye mortal creatures ye ignorant persons sons of a transgressor ye dust and ashes for thus you are in comparison of him this mighty Prince Hearken to his Message which cometh to you from him Hear and fear and be not stout-hearted against the Lord God that is about to speak unto you As for this little Island of England wherein your present place and being is it is an Island which the Lord hath shewed great favour unto in ages past and in this present time and I must tell you he hath a purpose of love towards it and to honour it in the view of the world though through great tribulations and he hath an intent of great good unto it For he hath a seed a precious seed in it scattered abroad and he hath a people that feares his Name and hath walked in his wayes and he hath made them and elected them and what they are it is by him that he may dwell among them and have the whole Government over them all yea he hath a speedy purpose verity concerning this Nation and he will purifie it in Judgment and refine its inhabitants through the fire of tribulations that it may be pleasant to him and fit to do his Will he hath a purpose to work some great thing in it I must tell you as he hath said unto me so to do he will have his Name exalted and reverenced in this Island and his terrour shall be sent out of it through the world and his branch from it shall spread over the earth he doth purpose in his season to take it into his own hand and to sway the Government therof with his own Scepter and to set up Righteousnesse alone and to overthrow all oppressions and oppressors and the Kingdoms of this world must become the Kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christis True it is such hath bin the coming to passe of time and of things for many Ages by-past that my Master hath bin as it were banished from the Nation and hath not bin suffered to enjoy his Right but hath bin expelled even as it were by the force of Satan and Antichrist who hath long usurped Authority over the inhabitants of this Nation and in my Masters absence lamentable injustice cruelty unmercifulnesse tyranny and oppression hath bin exercised upon the inhabitants and the poor creatures hath bin held in great slavery by their Rulers that have ruled by the Dragons power and bin kept in great blindnesse and ignorance and under great oppression both in body and spirit by Antichristian Teachers for this many years even while the great King hath bin absent and

he overthrew that oppressing power of Kings Lords and Bishops both in Church and Civill State and brought some Tyrants and Oppressors to just execution for their wickednesse and in a great measure he did deliver the people of this Nation in many things and there was a part of reformation wrought and much pretended and looked for and all this came to passe through him and my Lord did accomplish it however the instruments by which he wrought proved deceitfull and became oppressors as others before them and though there was in this Nation a day of great troubles and warrs and contention and great strife and the wasting of much blood and earthly treasure and none of these things I must tell you fell without the ordering of my Masters hand yet so it was and came to pass that after this Nation was restored to peace though much unrighteousnesse and Injustice was removed yet there was much also left behinde and men that he had used as instruments in his hand in a good work and to whom he had given wisdom and understanding and appeared in much mercy and in great deliverance yet they even turned to seeke themselves and became corrupted in the spoyles of their Enemies and when peace and plenty abounded the Lord was forgotten again and then the Land fell under oppressors and began again to cry out for freedom even when other horns of the first Beast sprang up and went one each of them after his fellow and though one horne hath striven to break another yet after one hath bin cast down another hath risen and made an Image to the first and ruled and reigned by the same Spirit and Authority derived from the Dragons power in cruelty and oppression and made Lawes and executed them to the dishonour of the Lord and to the great oppression of his people and to the filling of this Island with Injustice and cruelty even from one generation to another untill this day and thus up and down hath times and seasons bin altered power and Authority changed and altered Statuts Lawes and Decrees changeable and alterable for as the iniquity of one power was filled up that was cast down and another had its day till the measure of the first was also finished that he might partake of the same judgments and in all these over-turnings breakings down and over-throwings the very hand of my Lord hath bin though secretly and not discerned yet his power hath brought about and suffered all these things to come to pass and who shall charge him with Injustice or who shall say what hast thou don or why hast thou don it for as I have said he is a high and mighty Prince and can do whatsoever he will and he is the Supream Power and Authority which Rules and Reignes in and over all the Kingdomes of men and what though he hath used wicked men as an instrument to accomplish his work and made the wicked his Rod and even brought it to pass that one wickednesse should destroy another and one oppressor break down another and the Kingdom of Antichrist confound its self yet what of all these things all flesh must bee silent before him and all people and the whole Earth must be subject unto him for the Government and Dominion over Heaven and Earth are his and all Power and Dominion belongs to him alone and all Judgment is in his hand to bring to pass whatsoever he will and by whomsoever as he pleaseth But now my Friends though I would not be tedious to you yet must I tell you the truth and faithfully deliver the Lords Message unto you and as concerning this last overturning there was something of the hand of my Lord in it and hee can and will bring forth his own work and praise by it and it shall be for the good of all his people that waites upon him though there was much ambition and corrupted ends in the Instruments and neither part were perfectly single to the Lord in their proceedings but their work was tasted with the false Idolatrous spirit of self-seeking Yet notwithstanding the Lord may bring forth his Government and his pleasant Plant through and beyond all this even out of another Root which yet appears not among either of them and Righteousnesse may arise in the Nation contrary to both of them out of another stem and he will set up his Kingdom and in the mean time leave one Potsheard of the Earth to break another And as for you that now sits on the Throne and beares Rule whether Committee of Safety so called chiefly though it is not without my Master for he hath the knowledge of it at least yet you are not the onely men of his Choice truly called of him to the place of Government neither is your Government the Government of the Lamb neither must it be for ever established by him its foundation is not blessed nor can its building be prosperous For why alas it is but another Horn of that fourth Beast that hath been made to Rule over the world and upon the earth for many Generations and it is but hitherto a very little refined from the last and is of the last even as the eight was of the seventh spoken of by that servant Rev. 17.11 and it may also make warr with the Lamb and his followers for a little season and it may have a small measure of injustice and persecution to bring forth in the Land even till the words of God be fulfilled and his Kingdom be fully come the way of which is but yet a preparing by all these overturnings and this your present Government Originally is leavened with the spirit of the old Dragon that hath killed the Saints and drunk their blood and how should the Lord establish it Nay your Kingdom may prove but small and little and full of uproars and troubles and little peace and satisfaction and establishment in it to your selves nor the people under you but confusion will attend it and feare will compasse it about Though this I must tell you as you are men you have your day of Trial what you will do as many others have had before you and something you may and ought to do if but to make the Whore the false Church more naked and to scourge her more than some others have done and indeed my Lord requires something more of you as such to do then others before you could do and you have a price put into your hands which you may improve to the Lords honor and to the Nations good and to our own happinesse which if you be faithfull to the Lord to do what he requires of you and if you become meek and humble men and fear his name and deny your selves and not seek your own honours nor any earthly advantage to your selves if you do thus then My Lord will shew Mercie to you and you shall not suddenly fall before your enemies though many may rise up against you

if you do you shall never be established and this is from the mouth of my Lord unto you And last of all my Master hath a People in this Nation even a suffering people that have born the burthen of the cruelty and injustice and wickednesse both of Rulers and Teachers who hath as it were trodden them down and made them a very prey to their devouring mouthes the very crie of their sufferings hath reached unto heaven and the very sound thereof your eares have heard and this People are greatly beloved and my Lord will assuredly honour them and his hand shall be continued to preserve them and defend them against all their Enemies whatsoever and hee doth reserve them to himself and for a glorious work that hee hath to do by them and hee hath formed them for himself and they cannot joyne with any of the hornes of the great beast neither can a place of honour pervert them from their perfect way but my Lord he compasseth them about on every side and hath kept them in the midst of tryalls reproaches and sufferings and covered them in the heath and in the storme and his pleasure is to make further use of them they are his and not their own and they must fulfil his will and none besides and they lye at rest in him while Mountaines are overturned and while one Potsherd of the Earth breaks another and this must be even till the appointed time and to say no more of them though much might be said they are had in remembrance before the Lord to do with them even for his own glory and for this Nations perpetuall good and to the Authority of the most high through them shall Kings of the Earth and Nations of the World bow and tremble wherefore ye men touch them not neither do yee afflict them even as you hope to prosper remember their cause and suffer it not alwayes to be rejected as it hath long bin but keep your selves free from the injustice and cruelty of them that have gon before you who have bin merciless and oppressors of that people even till my Lord hath confounded them and brought them into confusion for there is the weight of blood of tyranny and oppression lying upon the Nation in that peoples cause and my Lord will revenge them in his season and though they are not weary of their sufferings but are in the patience which beareth all things yet the Nation can never be happy nor its Govrnment ever blessed while this people are held in bondage and their sufferings are deeply considered of the Lord and the season therof is expireing towards an end and when this cometh to passe then woe unto the Kingdome of Antichrist and to the Whore and false Prophet even when their strength is dryed up by which they have made Warr against the Lamb and his followers yea woe unto them great fearfulnesse shall be upon all the World when the King of that people Reigns upon the Earth and the time is at hand blessed is the man that waiteth for it and blessed is he that is not offended in his coming but is prepared to receive him in his appearing which suddenly cometh upon all the World And thus I have told you the Lords present Message unto you which I received from him and thus farr I am clear and whether you accept it or reject it my peace and reward is for ever with him who am a Subject of his Kingdom and a Friend to this Nation however otherwise judged by ignorant men The 9. Mo. 1659. THE END Is meant here chiefely the new Committee of Safety so called