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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

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

but your daies shall be lengthened and the purpose of the Lord may be turned to your longer continuance and not to your sudden destruction and if you walk in this way and Rule only for the Lord then shall you be honoured as men if not as an Authority and you and the Nation preserved in peace and the force of the wicked shall be turned backward and you shall not suddenly fall And the late sundry overturnings in this Nation may be examples to you that you follow not the stepps of those that God hath cast out lest you come to the same end of confusion and miserie For as concerning that Assemblie of men that last sate on the Throne something was done by them in their day and time and in both their assemblings in some things they served my Lord and they were a Rod in his hand to smite his Enemies yet they were not faithfull to the end till all his Enemies were destroied but rather joined themselves to fight against the Lord and his people and were hastening on towards the waie of Oppression and persecution and it was time for the Lord to remove them and to laie them aside as an emptie vessel sometimes useful and to break them as a Rod sometime of service to be a scourge upon his Enemies and when the day of their trial was over which God gave unto them being any longer for present unfit Instruments for his hand then he cast him into the fire and this his purpose came to passe upon them so that they and the whole Nation may be contented and yield themselves subject to what he hath done concerning them for they being entring into the very same spirit of wickednesse of oppression and persecution which the Lord had once reproved through them and cast out by them then was a Rod raised up against them even as they had been against others and they were dealt withall as they had done to others and this was in the justice of my Lords hand and what hath Mortal man to question his proceedings and though some of you present Rulers be looked upon as great Traytors and Tyrants in your dealing towards them and doubtless the men of that part will seek vengeance against you even by preaching and praying and they will curse you in the name of their God and seek continually your destruction as such as have taken away part of their strength and cast down their Idol But alass all this is nothing for the Lord doth not account as men For these things must needs thus come to pass for the furtherance of the Kingdom and Government of Jesus Christ that it may arise through all and if you were but faithfull to what the Lord requires of you in your present proceedings what you have done unto them should not be reckoned on account against you neither by God nor good men But and if you of the Army be alwaies treacherous and disobedient towards him and abuse your power and disregard your price that God hath given you and trifle away your hour about places of Honor and such self-seeking matters and the Cause of God be neglected by you and his people continued oppressed sufferers under you as they have long been even then shall you be cast aside with shamefull disgrace and the heavie hand of the Lord shall be upon you in judgment and you shall be smitten more then any before you your Estates shall not be spared from the spoiler nor your soules from the Pit nor your persons from the violence of men no nor your necks from the axe for if you be unfaithfull and continually treacherous to the Cause of God then shall you be left to the will of your Enemies and they shall charge treacherie and treason upon you and your persons and estates shall be given for a prey to your Enemies and you shall not deliver your selves neither will the Lord deliver you from the execution of mercilesse men for my Lord shall leave the cruel-hearted to plead with you Wherefore that you may be warned I advise you be faithfull let not the cause of God fall nor the cause of his Enemies prosper before you for there is no other way wherby you can be preserved nor no other defence shall you ever find from the wrath of the Lord and from the fury of your devouring Enemies then your faithfullnesse in Gods cause and therfore relieve the oppressed and take off all oppression break down all unjust Lawes and set all people free from unjust burdens and let all oppression cease both in Church and Civill State and even all oppressive Lawes and unjust Judges and evil men in power let all this be removed and the Nation clean quitted and discharged even from all men and Lawes whatsoever that have held under oppression the Persons Estates and Consciences of the good people of this Land and let the Nation be corrected and all orders and places of men and Lawes and decrees purified for this my Lord the great King requireth and he will suddenly have it brought to passe in the Nation if not by you then contrary to you and to your utter destruction and this is the very substance of my Message to you that my Master hath given me to say unto you and on his behalf I am come to claime of you my Masters long lost right let him have his right from which he hath long bin banished I demand it of you all yee whatsoever that seemes to beare rule in this Nation I charge you in his name let him have his title and prerogative let him be Lord and King wholly in his own Kingdom let him have the excercise of his peoples consciences by his own Spirit in all things related to his worship and service and let him have the full Authority by his Spirit in all things pertaining to Church and Ministry and Faith and Religion and let his Spirit have the alone Authority to perswade and diswade people from or to such or such Ministry Worship and practises of Religion and let all forced Maintenance to Ministers and Tithes be speedily taken away and let all Lawes and decrees whatsoever made and practised in the dayes of Antichrist upon the Bodyes Estates and consciences of the People in oppression and unjustnesse about Church and Worship and Religion be utterly repealed and made void and never more be in force in this Nation But let my Lord be sole Ruler and Governour and have the full Authority in his own Kingdom in all things whatsoever pertaining thereunto and let no man henceforth hereafter ever be intrusted with the liberties of the Members of Christs Kingdom as they are such nor to judg over them in any matters of Faith and Worship but give that right and priviledg wholly unto the Spirit of Jesus Christ for unto him only it pertaineth to be whole Judg and to have full power in his own Kingdom and untill you give him this right and deliver up unto him

as it were gone into a far Countrey even all this time hath Antichrist and the devil ruled and reigned and hath made and executed oppressing and tyrannical Lawes and Decrees both in Church and State and all the Nation hath bin out of right order and laid waste and barren of good fruit and it hath bin as a wildernesse by reason hereof and men that have ruled for many years have not ruled singly by my Masters Authority but by another power though not without the knowledge of my Lord neither as though he had not power to have done otherwise but for his own pleasure he hath suffered it thus to be and let men go on to rule and govern in their own wills and after their own lusts and people have walked wickedly towards him and towards one another and all this he hath suffered not as if he gave toleration for it for his messengers now and then and his witnesse in peoples consciences have bin reproving their ungodly wayes and he hath often shewed his dislike by divers wayes and tokens and many judgments and strange overturning to the way and proceeding of both Rulers Prophets and Teachere of this Nation But yet they have gone on against his minde and contrary to his Will notwithstanding his Reproofs and Judgements not that he had not power to have executed his pleasure in wrath upon them and to have destroyed them al together and have made the Nation a heap and as nothing long before this day for power was in his hand to have done it But he hath bin long-suffering and of great patience and born all things and taken the injustice and cruelty and wickednesse and idolatry and all unrighteousnesse that hath abounded in the Nation upon himself and suffered under it and born it for its season while woful and lamentable oppressions hath bin practised in Civil State even hellish Laws and devilish Executors of them mercilesse Tyrants have born the Scepter and reigned for many years over the inhabitants and in Church and State hath bin hainous Idolatry and Superstitious vanities committed in a high nature and measure and even all men and States of men orders of men of every degree hath bin abominably corrupted in the fight of my Lord even from the Prince to the Begger even Rulers and Subjects Teachers and People Judges and Prophets they have bin corrupted both in heart and hand and they have dealt falsly and wickedly towards him and towards one another even to the great displeasure and vexation of him and his blessed Spirit and to the high provocation of him to their own destruction if his long suffering had not prevailed and all this while he hath layed as it were asleep and at rest in himself and he hath left men to try them what they will do and he hath given them a day many Kings and Rulers he hath let them have a little time to see how they would use it but they have abused it and not Ruled for him nor accomplished his work nor fulfilled his will but acted even in defiance of him and of his Power and to his great dishonor Alack I must be plaine with you my Lord hath bin utterly exiled and greatly dishonored and highly provoked and vexed by reason of such proceedings as hath bin in this Nation for this many yeares through the corruption of all sorts of men in place and power who hath not ruled for him but for the Devill to their own corrupted ears only he hath suffered men to go on in their course for a season some as it were appearing on the Stage for a time and suddenly cast down again for their iniquities sake and his hand hath bin in all these things though very privatly and secretly not known and discerned by the Sons of men yet hath he Ruled over the Kingdoms of men and pulled down one and set up another and to forbear the severall actings and proceedings of many by-passed ages and to come to this generation and to speak of things that have happened within these few years and of the changing and overturning that hath hapned in this Nation such was the cruelty tyranny and oppression and Idolatry both in Church and Civil State that the People of this Nation were held under in the dayes of Papal-Power such I say was the exceeding heighth of Cruelty and tyranny of that time that not any that feared or reverenced my Lord in any measure could scarce live or have a being in the Nation even against every man that did but incline towards him and desire the knowledge of his waies Hells mouth was opened against them and they were swallowed up and many of their lives taken from the Earth by the hellish power that had in that day usurped Authority in this Island and when thus it was then he looked down from Heaven and his bowells of compassion were opened for the sake of the oppressed People that desired after him in so much that he broke and threw down the power of their oppressors in some measure as it stood in Papall-Authority and when the iniquity of that power was filled up he took vengeance upon it and I must tell you it was he that brought it about even the destroying of that Power in this Nation and freeing the Nation from it though the men that were instruments in the cause were not his Servants otherwise then as Nebuchadnezzar served him for he hath a secret way to have a service from the wicked and such is his Power that he can turne the wickednesse of the wicked to his glory and he can make a Rod to whipp his Adversaries and burne it when he hath done and he hath often destroyed one wickednesse by another Well but to leave that though he did in some measure free this Nation from much tyranny and cruelty in the casting out Popish Authority yet alack the Nation in a few yeares was neare as much violated by Injustice tiranny and cruelty under the prelatical power as ever it was once under the Papal power though before there had bin some small reformation and change in outward appearance though little in ground and nature yet oppression and tyranny in Civill State and Idolatry and Superstition in Church and State and all profaness and wickednesse among people was grown so high like as it had bin under the Papal power before and all that desired after the Lord and was weary of iniquity and of the then present oppressions and Idolatries were persecuted and slain and destroyed and Injustice and cruelty excercised upon them even allmost to the rooting out of righteousnesse and to the grieving of the Lords Spirit well then because of the cry of the People and the oppression of the Nation under that Authority my Lord looked down again and even for his Name sake and his seeds sake he had compassion on this Nation to set it free and to break off its oppressions and by his hidden hand and secret power

his own Kingdome and the excercise of Peoples consciences in all things about Religion you shall never prosper nor none that comes after you that shall in any measure abridge my Master of his proper right from which he hath long bin banished as I have said and till his right be given him in the case aforesaid he will dash one man against another and none shall never be Established but horne after horne shall be broken and one power after another brought into confusion And therfore ye men do not strive with him in this matter but yeeld unto him the excercise of your own consciences by his Spirit in you and let him do so unto all others even as yee hope to prosper and upon the penalty of his sore displeasure upon you in this World and in the World to come and let just men and righteous men and meek men and men that have the fear and wisdom of God in them without exceptation of Birth or otherwise let such men have the Power and judgment committed to them to determin in things between man and man down with all the false hearted flatterers that have ruled for man and not for God and for themselves and not for the good of the people cast all such out from among you for the good among you is choaked by them down with all that judge for rewards away with all hireling rulers that executes the Law for money and will not plead the cause of the poor without great fees and down with all that will not serve places of Trust without so large stipends away with all these things out of the Land for they are hainous oppressions unto men and great abominations in the sight of God and the Land has long groaned under the waight of these things and the Earth is weary of them and my Lord requires their utter dissolution as being iniquities fully ripe and having the guilt of so much cruelty Injustice and oppression lying upon the Nation because hereof therfore is the Lords season to destroy them and remove them out of the Land which if you be the instruments in such a work it will be your greatest Crown and your perpetuall honour for the Lords purpose is one way or other to cleanse the Land of all these and other oppressions whatsoever that the people of this Land may be a free people from all the heavy yoakes of Antichrist which hath long sorely pressed them down and the purpose of the Lord is to break the yoakes of oppression and tyranny from off the necks of this People and therfore is it that he overturneth yea and will overturne all men and Authorities that shall oppose his work and none shall be able to stand before him for the presence of my Lord is more dreadfull to a Nation when he shews himself in his wrath then any multitude of Armed men and woe is unto you if you be found opposeing of him and if you seek to stopp his work you shall not cumber the Earth very long nor oppresse the Nation many dayes wherfore consider cursed will you bee if you be unfaithfull in what you have to do on the Lords behalf for your houre passeth over that is allotted you and will be suddenly expired never to be recalled and then you cannot work And whereas there is a great Cry about Ministry for sending forth and maintaining and encouraging a godly Ministry as you say now to this I do answer on my Lords behalf and I must tell you plainly as for a true godly Ministry truly called and sent of God such a Ministry and such Ministers you can never be able to hinder but the Lord will send them out maintaining them and preserve them whether you will or no and while you are troubling your selves about such a matter you are but medling with things above your line and out of your Jurisdiction while you act in such a Case for it belongs to his Government to send out Ministers whom and as he will and to maintain them and defend them according to his own pleasure and all this without you for such Ministers truly called thereunto and sent of the Lord will not seek to you to be sent forth or maintained by you they will not be beholding to you in such a Case but even without you and contrary to you must they be sent out and maintained so that the Lord will have a Ministry in this Nation purely of his own and not of man nor by man and such a Ministry you shall not be able to hinder And I must tell you plainly as for these men called Ministers in this Nation the way of their setting up and sending forth and the way of their Maintainance and the way of their standing and defence and in every particular of their being such they are the greatest and most wofull oppression in the Nation even the most abominable and unjust cruelties and tyrannies is acted through them as any other thing in the Nation and they are as such aforesaid the woful cause of the Nations groaning under mercilesse dealing and there is upon their account the guilt of blood injustice and oppression lying upon this Nation their iniquities their iniquities cries for vengeance upon their own heads for they are full they are full and the measure thereof is neer finished and Gods eternal vengeance is their next reward from the eternal God what shall I say of them but this The Earth is oppressed by them the Inhabitants groanes under them and the righteous God is vexed through them and they are the very men of high indignation and fierce wrath and all their practices as such are the fewel of his Anger to be consumed by the fire of his jealousie the Nation is wearie and its Inhabitants and the Lord is wearie because of these men and is this the Ministery cried up by you as godly and pious c are these the men that the Nation must be forced to maintain in their pride and idolatrie is this the Ministery that must be encouraged Well if these be the men and this the Ministery which must be established and encouraged by you in so doing you shall never prosper but thereby gain the displeasure of the Almighty unto you to bring a curse upon all your doings even because hereof for I must tell you the hand of my Lord is against them and whosoever shall seek to defend them shall not prosper in their doings because their oppressions cruelties deceits and abominations are nigh finished and fulfilled wherefore take heed unto your selves for this is my Masters advice unto you let this Ministery alone and join not your selves to Baal lest you perish neither take part with Antichrist any longer neither be yee fighters against the Lamb and his Kingdom but free the Nation and let all its Inhabitants be freed from the cruel tasks and yoaks of such men and such a Ministery as aforasaid uphold it not against the Lord for