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A77950	A measure of the times: and a full & clear description of the signes of the times, and of the changing of the times; and of the reign of Antichrist, who hath long reigned, and of his down-fall, which is at hand; and of the kingdom of Christ which is now setting up in the earth. Shewing unto all people in all nations, what the state of things hath been in ages past, and what the state of things are at this present day. ... And also, here it is manifest, concerning the teachers of this age, and the root from whence they sprang, who are manifest to be of that stock of false prophets, which Christ prophesied of should come, and which the Apostles saw was coming in their dayes, and how that the night of darknesse hath been upon all, for many generations: ... And also, the restauration is described, which shortly cometh, wherein Christ shall reign, whose right it is, and shall change laws and decrees, and the lamb shall be the light of all nations, ... and their King shall possesse the uttermost parts of the earth. By one who hath measured the times, who is come to the day that hath made all things manifest. Edw: Burrough.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1657 (1657)	Wing B6012; Thomason E919_6; ESTC R207505	31,897	44

mouth and the church of Thyatira suffered that woman Jezabell to prophesie and to teach and seduced the servants of the Lord to commit fornication and to eat things sacrificed unto Idolls and she and her lovers was to be cast into a bed of torment and her children should be killed with death and all the churches should know that God searched the reines and the hearts and every one should receive according to their deeds and the church of Sardis had only a name to live but was dead and her work was not perfect before God and upon them would the Lord come as a thiefe and they should be in darknesse and not know what houre he would come And the church of the Laodiceans were luke warme and neither hot nor cold and the Lord would spew her out of his mouth for she was wretched and miserable and poore and blinde and naked and the shame of her nakednesse did appeare and if any had an eare to heare they might heare these things were spoken by him that lives for ever the first and the last the beginning and the Amen so that hereby the Lords soul was vexed and his spirit grieved and his wrath was suddenly kindled against them who were revolters and backsliders from his way of salvation which he had made manifest to them through the mouth of his servants so that his fury went out against them to overthrow them and to break them to pieces and they being turned from his Law and from his statutes he gave them up unto their own hearts desire and brought in the heathen upon them to confound them who broke them asunder and trod down many of their Cities and gained great Ports of their dominions and made them slaves by multitudes and overthrew their worship and subjected their power even the Turks and base uncircumcised people made a prey upon them and possessed their habitations and set up abominable Idolatries in the place where Gods honour had dwelt and their dominions and treasures without became spoyle to the teeth of devourers for they having lost the terrour of the Lord he brought up the heathen to be a terrour unto them whose power was mightier then they and overcame them they being without the power of God and this justly came upon them according to the purpose of the Lord because of their backslidings And others of them who was not so given up to the will of an outward enemy yet were they given up to strange Idolatries and subversion and setting up images and worshiped that which is not God but abomination to him to this day so that the holy City which had been full of glory was given to the Gentiles to be troden downe and under their poluted feet hath it been stamped and to their mouth hath it been a prey for such a time even since these things came to passe unto this day as you may read and the Beast and false Prophet hath ruled in oppression and the great whore hath made all Nations drunke with the wine of her fornication All the great men and Princes and nobles and all the people upon earth have been made drunke by her and touched her uncleannesse and ever since the day wherein the backsliding entered she hath fit upon nations and kindreds and tongues and people and hath been decked in divers colours to deceive the hearts of all people and all Nations have been deceived by her and the beast and his power whose dominion hath been great hath upheld wickednesse by a Law and established Idolatry by decrees and all have been out of the way and wandring in blindnesse and darknesse even the whole world have worshiped the Beast and gone after the false Prophet which sits upon the Beast and his power protects him till they be both overthrowne into perdition and cast alive into the Lake which now the Lord is comeing to doe in power and dominion and great Babylon is coming into remembrance before the Lord and as she hath done so shall it be done to her her children is dashing against the stones and her offspring is withering away and the darknesse is vanishing and the Sun is appearing and the beastly power shall be subdued and the false Prophet confounded even the old Dragon shall be bound and chained never more to deceive for the Beast hath had a long reigne with his false Prophet who have prophesied lies and false divinations and led away the minds of all people For marke and consider Christ Jesus who came into the world with glad tidings of good things even with peace and salvation he said the glorious day was come and even that day which many Prophets and wise men had desired to see but had not seen the earth was filled with light as I have said yet he farther prophesied and said that the night would come when no man could work and that in the last dayes false Prophets should arise and deceive many and should come into the world and should cry loe here and loe there is Christ and and if it were possible should deceive the very elect and the Apostle John in his time who had been an eye-witnesse of Jesus and had handled and tasted and felt the word of life and had been with Jesus and bore a true testimony unto him in that very age and generation he saw the false Prophets and antichrists come and coming in and aluded to the very sayings of Christ by this we know said he that it is now the last time for there are now many false Prophets and antichrists gone out into the world they were not of the true Apostles but went out from among them being gone out from the light in their own particulars and beguiled the hearts of the simple by good words and faire speeches and went in Balaams way for gifts and rewards and in Caines way to envy and murder as you may read in the Scripture so that in Johns time the false Prophets which Christ foretold off were come and they did deceive many according as Christ had said and they drew many from the wayes of God and subverted many from the truth and made havocke of the flock and were grievous wolves according as Paul had said and truth began to perrish from among men and the power thereof ceased and the apostacy came in and the forme was set up for a season so that John farther saw and said the whole world went after the Beast and false Prophet whom he saw before was come and worshiped the Beast and his image But a few whose names were written in the book of life and as I have said the holy City with the outward Court was troden down by the Gentiles foot and darknesse surprized all and wickednesse abounded more and more and the night came upon all as Christ had prophesied and the Beast grew in his dominion till there was hardly any man left to beare witnesse in the truth and in the power of God unto the name of

A MEASURE OF THE TIMES And a Full Clear DESCRIPTION OF The Signes of the Times and of the Changing of the Times And of the Reign of Antichrist who hath long reigned and of his Down-fall which is at hand And of the Kingdom of Christ which is now setting up in the Earth SHEWING Vnto all People in all Nations What the state of things hath been in Ages past and what the state of things are at this present day And also what shall be the state of things hereafter which suddainly cometh to passe the time is at hand for times are changing and renewing and the Kingdomes of this world shall be Translated into the Kingdome of the Son of God And also Here it is manifest concerning the Teachers of this age and the root from whence they sprang who are manifest to be of that stock of false Prophets which Christ prophesied of should come and which the Apostles saw was coming in their dayes and how that the night of darknesse hath been upon all for many generations and how that the Beast hath Reigned over Nations and Kingdomes and his false Prophet hath deceived the whole world who have all worshipped the Beast and wondred after him who have warred against the Saints and overcome them and the whole earth hath been made drunk with the abominations And also The Restauration is described which shortly cometh wherein Christ shall Reign whose right it is and shall change Laws and Decrees and the Lamb shall be the Light of all Nations and there shall be no need of any other light when the Kingdoms of this world are become the Kingdom of Christ and he alone shall bear the Government and no other King for he shall rule all Nations with his Iron Rod and the Kingdomes of the Beast shall be overthrown and his power subdued and they that have given their power unto Him shall be ashamed and all the Kings of the earth shall lay their Crowns down at the feet of the Lamb and the numberlesse number of the Saints is gathering and the Dominion shall be in their hands and their King shall posesse the uttermost parts of the earth By one who hath measured the times who is come to the day that hath made all things manifest EDW BURROUGH LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1657. A MEASURE OF THE TIMES THE Lord hath opened my heart to declare and the words of my mouth shall be the words of truth and of a good understanding to every one who hath an eare to hear whose eare the Lord hath opened to hear and understand things of old and the state of things as they have been in ages and generations past and as now the state of things are at this day Hearken and consider and let your eares be open to instruction For the word of the Lord is towards you that your hearts may understand the things that belongs to your peace now in your day before the time come that they be hid from your eye and your eye be darkned never more to perceive but you left to perish and to die with the uncircumcised Behold and give eare ye Inhabitants of the world see and consider in what time you are fallen even in a time of darknesse and Apostacy wherein thick darknesse covered all the world and a vaile of ignorance the faces of all people Death hath reigned King over all and the Cloud of thick blindnesse hath laid on the hearts of all men O how hath darknesse blindnesse and ignorance covered all men even as a cloak and a garment How hath the eye been blinded the eare stopped and the heart hardned So that the Lord God and his way his truth and salvation hath not been manifestly known heard nor felt nor witnessed for ages and generations the words thereof have been professed but the power and life thereof hath not been enjoyed But men have been deceived with the forme of Godlinesse without the power and cheated with a likenesse of things without life and have sought the living among the dead and worshipped Idols which have been without sence and understanding and with lying imaginations and feigned likenesses hath the carnall part which ruled in people above the seed of God been fed and with shadowes and outward appearances and the soule hath been starved Alas alas woe is me because of these things my heart within me is broken and I am perplexed The shadow of death hath been the lodging place of all people and the vaile of ignorance hath been a covering and the darknesse of heart hath been followed for a Law and a blind understanding have been the guide for ordinances and statutes and Death in the beastly power hath ruled as King in all the dominions of the earth and in all mens hearts and men hath been without the wisdome of God even every eye blind and every eare deafe and every tongue dumb and every heart corrupt and void of understanding and every foot lame and all men have been altogether imperfect for the living God hath been as a stranger unto the children of men lesse known by men then the owner to the Ox and lesse perceived then the crib by the asse and all flesh hath corrupted its way before the Lord Woe is me when I consider how man who was planted with the choisest vine even Gods image and was a noble plant is degenerated into the plant of a strange vine unto God and brings forth wilde grapes and soure grapes which the Lords soule loathes and thus have the vineyard and the plants thereof rewarded the husbandman with fruit of a bitter tast and with the reward of corruption And man is condemned in his transgression for want of the knowledge of God more then the Oxe and the Asse Pride covetousness lust and envy backbiting lying drunkennesse whoredome theft murder and all manner of evill and sin against God more then can be expressed is abounding and supera bounding among men in this Generation Iniquity is grown to the full the measure is up and the number of transgression is sealed that the Lord may arise who hath been pressed as a cart with sheaves and now is the Lord arifing and he hath said Ah I will ease me of my adversaries and be avenged on my oppressors And vengeance belongs to him and he will repay and will destroy the vineyard with the plants and fruits thereof and the bryers and thorns shall be consumed and he will lay wast and devoure and confound all his enemies in a day when his indignation goes forth and his sword is made bare and his purpose cometh to pass in rooting out the oppressive seed of evill doers which hath filled his habitation wherein he should dwell with cursed children and a brood of evill births In the dayes of Christ and his Apostles was the hand and power of the Lord felt and the Lord gat himselfe a name and a glory and he caused his

Christ said and led aside and blinded and bewitched by him And as I have said these teachers of this generation are of them of their Root and off-spring which long hath flourished on the face of the earth But the day is at hand that the heaven and the holy Apostles and Prophets shall rejoyce over the whore and over the false Prophet for the Lord comes to avenge us on her and as she hath done so shall it be done unto her now in this day wherein Jerusalem shall be builded againe and the holy City which the Gentiles have trod under foot for fourty and two monthes which time is expired and near a full end accounting from the dayes of the coming in of the Apostacy untill this day if any have an eare to heare let him heare this I have received from God I say the holy City shall be measured and the Gentiles cast out and she shall be adorned and as a bride for her husband shall she be prepared and Gods Tabernacle shall be with men and he will dwell with them and they sh●ll be his people and God himselfe will be their God and all teares shall be wiped away and there shall be no more death nor sorrow for the former things are passed away and all things shall be made new And what I have said are the faithfull sayings of God every one that is a thirst shall drink of the water of life freely and he that overcometh shall inherit all things and shall be called the Son of God and shall dwell in the holy City which long the Gentiles foot hath troden under which shall againe be adorned and prepared as a Bride for her husband if any hath an ear to heare let them heare And the glory of the Lord is risen and his day is breaking forth more abundantly and the Lambe is given for a light and all Nations that are saved shall walke in the Light of the Lambe and the King of righteousnesse who hath been long fled into Egypt while Herod the Beast which hath sought his life and driven the woman into the wildernesse hath reigned shall againe be set upon the holy hill of Sion and rule all Nations with a rod of Iron and trample upon the necks of all his enemies the Nations hath not for many ages been ruled by him But the Beast who hath ruled over kindreds and people and said who hath been able to make war against the Beast and to the power of the Beast hath all Nations been subject and the dominion of Christ hath been troden down and despised and his holy City hath been laid wast and his Princely power hath not been felt nor witnessed in the Kingdomes of men for ages and times nor him the one head and the one horne hath not been known but many heads and hornes hath been exalted and all Nations and all the Princes and Kingdomes of the earth hath been subject unto the Rule and Law of the Beast and to the divinations of the false Prophet and darknesse hath been over all and God hath been as a stranger in the earth as one not known he hath been worshiped ignorantly and the inscription every where hath been to the unknown God but now after all this the glorious God of truth hath appeared and great and mighty hath been his hand and power in this our day in raising up a righteous branch out of the Root of righteousnesse and in gathering his scattered people up to himselfe who have been scattered by the Idoll teachers and deceived by the false Prophets and made a prey upon by the wilde Beasts of the Forrest O how hath the people been made a prey upon by their teachers and greedily devoured by dumb shepherds who have sought themselves and sought for their gaine every one from his quarter for many ages how hath people been led blind by their blind shepheards and none to this day come to the knowledge of the truth by them for these have run and was not sent and therefore the people have not been profited at all as it was in Jeremiahs dayes so is it now no profit among people in the knowledge of the wayes of God but leanesse and barrennesse and as the teacher so his people all out of the way in prophanesse and wickednesse and prophanesse is gone forth from them into many Nations yet is the Lord bringing backe his inheritance which hath been driven away into the desolate wildernesse yea and the Lord hath caused his light to shine out of darknesse and unto them that have sit in darknesse and in the shaddow of death is the marvellous light risen that the glory of the Lord may be revealed and Gods Tabernacle may be with men and the holy City is a preparing as a bride for her husband and darknesse shall fly away and sorrow and sighing shall no more be known but life and immortality shall againe be brought to light as it was in the dayes of the Apostles This I have received from God and the Lord shall be known to be the God of his people and for this cause hath he called and chosen faithfull witnesses and given his powerfull ministry by the gift of the holy Ghost as it was in the Apostles dayes and now many are called to declare abroad the things which we have heard and seen and handled and the Gospel of Christ is received by the Revelation of Gods eternall Spirit and Son in our hearts and the power is made manifest and the forme of godlinesse is denied and judged and Christ the one head is exalting and the one horn of Gods salvation is revealing and the many heads and many hornes must be broken to pieces and be confounded in this the day of the Lord for his purpose is powerfull in carrying on his own work against all his enemies so that none is able to hinder But they that set themselves even the Beast and his power which is now struck at and his Kingdome is invaded hath raised the force of his power and the policie of his arme yet shall they be confounded and no formed weapon shall prosper against the Lord and his way who is now arisen to avenge himselfe of the Beast and his power and the whore and her fornications and the false Prophet and his divinations which all must into the wine-presse of Gods dreadfull wrath to be troden and all that worship the Beast and repents not shall partake of the plagues of the Beast and of the whore and though the false Prophet gather Gog and Magog together to fight against the Lamb and to compasse the beloved City about yet he shall and them that he gathers be broken to pieces and driven as dust before the wind and as stubble before the fire for the purpose of the Lord shall stand Great Babylon is come into remembrance before the Lord to reward her according to her deeds and the Lord will cause his truth and his salvation to be known in the earth

and his name and power is declared in the hearts of his people to the overturning of all unrighteousnesse and though every horn of the Beast push against this and every head with his members set it selfe against it yet the councell of the Lord shall not be disanulled nor made voyd for the Scepter and dominion of his Son shall be exalted over all the earth and the Princes of the world and the Kings of the earth shall lay down their Crowns and become subject for the Kingdomes of this world shall be changed and shall become the Kingdomes of the Lord and of his Christ the Kingdome of the Beast must down and the Princely power of darknesse must be overthrowne and Lawes and times and things and powers of men shall be overturned and overturned till he come to reigne in the earth whose right it is to reigne over Nations and people And because of this the rage of the Heathen hath been great and the councells of the wicked many and strong from the prophane drunkards to the chiefest professed teachers of this age even all the whole body of the Beast hath joyned it selfe against the purpose of the Lord men of all conditions from the highest to the lowest have armed themselves with mischiefe to offend the way of truth This is written as moved of the Lord to go abroad through the Nations that all may understand concerning the times and the changing of times how that the Beast hath reigned in dominion over Nations tongues and people and all have worshiped the Beast and gone after the false Prophet here all may come to a good understanding what hath been and what is and what shall be how that when the power and government of Christ was lost through departing from the faith which ruled in the Apostles dayes then the whole world was as unstable in wayes and judgments as a Sea then out of the Sea one beast arose and another after him arose out of the earth and all hath been caused both small and great bond and free to worship the beast and the image of the Beast yea all the dominions of the world hath for many ages been subject to the power of the Beast in all things and not known the worship and power of God and the pure subjection to him but the Kings of the earth and all her Princes have given their power to the Beast and hath received their authority from him and acted thereby many of them in great unrighteousnesse in injustice and oppression and cruelty in pride and rebellion and vaine glory in quarilling one with another to the murdering of thousands of thousands and this hath all been brought forth under the power of the Beast and by it and his heads and hornes hath exalted themselves one against another and smitten one another and the great whore hath made them all drunke and all people upon earth with envy pride wantonnesse and all unrighteousnesse this hath been since the Apostles dayes in this night of Apostacie wherein the whole world hath been subverted by false Prophets and deceivers and the Kingdome of Christ hath not been known upon earth for many generations but the Beast hath been established in his Throne of rebellion against Christ Jesus his decrees hath been Lawes and statutes and he hath made war against all the Saints and overcome them and reigned over them untill this time and troden down their City and defaced their glory but the blood of the just hath cryed day and night under the Altar the soules of such as hath been slain for the Testimony of the word of God have cryed day and night how long Lord how long when wilt thou avenge our blood upon the heads of our enemies even the Beast the whore and the false Prophet and this hath been for many ages even while the Kingdome of Antichrist hath been set up and advanced through the world and his power and authority hath reached over Nations bond and free from the Prince on his Throne to the begger on the dunghill even all hath been subjected under the power of the Beast that nature having ruled within every particular hath given him the authority without over all and admired him and said who is able to make war with him Antichrist hath ruled over all by injustice oppression and tyranny in unrighteous Lawes and through wicked decrees old Pharoah-like he hath laid heavy yoakes and oppressive bondes upon the just for who would not be subject to him he hath had power to kill them and none was able to gainsay such hath been the greatnesse of his power and the strength of his dominion over all that none hath been able to make war against him he hath been admired in all the world not any Nation excepted where the government of Antichrist hath not borne rule and there hath been none left to bear witnesse against him or to stand up against him for the faithfull witnesses hath been killed and slain in the streets of the great City which spiritually is called Sodome and Egypt and all them that have dwelt upon the earth have made merry over their dead bodies and rejoyced in their iniquities over the slaine and been without a reprover and not tormented nor troubled but have sent gifts one to another because they have slain them who have tormented them that dwell upon the earth and the government of the Beast hath been enlarged and the whole world hath wandered after him and been in subjection under him for many generations even for fourty and two monthes he that can read let him understand so long hath it been given him to make war against the Saints and to overcome them and it hath been given him to reigne over all people in the wrath of God and in his anger because of the rebellion of all the earth and all people in it but he shall be taken away in Gods displeasure who reignes in his anger over the Nations who hath forsaken the Lord and was given up to the power of the Beast to be subjected in slavery and bondage in pain sorrow and misery and through deceit craft and pollieic and oppression and by the wisdome of this world and naturall artes and knowledge his government hath long been established and his dominion hath been upon earth times and Lawes and things and powers of men have been in his hand to change and subvert and overturne into his own image and to transforme them like to the Beast none upon earth hath bought or sold or judged or given evidence or been respected in all the world that have not had the marke of the Beast and the number of the names of Antichrist rich and poor and small and great hath received his marke as a seale of their subjection to the Beast whose many heads and many hornes hath subjected all by the force of his arme and he hath blinded the eye least men should see him and cast darknesse over all faces and the false