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A30562 A visitation & vvarning proclamed and an alarm sounded in the popes borders ... being the account of a journey to Dunkirk, and the proceedings there among the Jesuites, and friars and papists, with some particular quæries, and also some propositions sent unto them : which may be satisfaction to many who may behold the difference in part between th papists and the people of God, and between the idolaters and the true worshippers / by one that travells in the labour of the Gospel of Christ for the elect seeds sake, Edw. Burrough. Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662. 1659 (1659) Wing B6055; ESTC R36306 27,470 36

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is death by their law while murder is tolerated and here is nought but tyranie and oppression abounding even great mountains which must be thrown down and for which the sword of the Lord must come upon them and God will make their riches and their falsely consecrated vessels and treasures even a spoil and a prey unto you if you be faithful unto the Lord wherefore all you officers fear the Lord God and be not ambitious nor vain-glorious nor seek not your selves to gain unto your selves Kingdoms to exalt your own horn for if you go in this way and if this be your end then your end shall be frustrated you shall not prosper for the Lord will lay you aside with shame unto you but let it be your work your aime to require and demand the disanulling of their Inquisions and cruel Lawes both in their Church and civil State and that Christ alone may exercise the peoples consciences neither be ye as Lords nor Tyrants over your poor Souldiers but be ye loving and meek towards them I say unto you Officers and to all you that bear Rule in the Army be loving and kind and gentle unto all under your authority be not as tyrants nor oppressors over your poor Souldiers but be examples of all goodness unto them and give them no evil examples in your lives and conversations but lead them in the fear of the Lord and know a measure of his wisdom in you whereby you may walk before them and they may possesse their freedoms in their conditions and may not be as slaves ●o you but as servants to the Lord in their places and herein shall you be blessed as you fulfill that which the Lord requires And likewise unto all the Souldiers I say that ye may be sober and moderate and faithful to the Lord and not go in the excess and superfluity of this creation but may be all kept low in your hearts and tender towards God and obey them that have power over you in all things which are just and be not deboist nor given to vanity But all of you both officers and soldiers live in that which keeps your consciences void of offence and that you may be clear and free in your own spirits from the abominations of the Nations and then you will be a terror to the evil in all people wheresoever you come and being clear and free in the sight of the Lord having no sin lying upon your consciences then shall you face your enemies with courage and not fear death but shall be ready to lay down your lives for a testimony of Jesus in a good cause and upon good engagements and if the Lord be your fear then no man can make you afraid but you will be in that which overcometh the unrighteous power within you and without you also and here is the true honour and in this it doth consist in victory over all that which is contrary to God and here is the true way to happynesse and prosperity in this life and in the life to come by seeking his glory and not your own and all of you come to the light of Christ that Christ hath lighted you with all and that will teach you all things what you ought to do and what you ought not to do for that light of Christ within you ought to be the guide of all the children of men in every state place and condition and upon this you are to wait for counsel to receive it from the Lord by that of him made manifest within you and as for all your outward teachers that hath used their tongues amongst you and said the Lord saith it when God hath not spoken to them nor sent them and that preach for hire and sums of mony and these are them that cannot profit the people nor ever bring you to the knowledge of God nor give you counsel from the Lord and if you seek to uphold them and defend them against the power of the Lord and his word which is gone forth against them then shall you not prosper but fall with them and if you do enterprize any work in that spirit that doth oppose the spirit of Christ Jesus in his people you can never have good success but the Lord will confound you before your enemies And so now that you may all come into the new covenant to be taught of the Lord and to be far from all oppression this is the thing that you are all to wait for and to know the power of the Lord and to go on in that against unrighteous men and unrighteous lawes which are set up in the Nations that they may be destroyed and brought under and yet though such a victory would be honourable unto you yet there is a victory more honourable to wit the victory over sin and death and the Devil in your selves and that you are to mind and there is a kingdome which is not of this world which cannot be obtained by an outward sword and this kingdom are you to wait for that you may know it and feel it in your own particulars and this is the doctrine of the Gospel of peace unto you and the glad tidings held forth unto all of you come into the power of the Lord and minde it that you may be lead of it and then may you be fit instruments for the Lord to work by and take heed how you oppose those whom the Lord hath sent and is sending abroad in the nations to proclame the mighty day of the Lord they are no enemies to you nor to any mans person and therefore be tender over them for they go about the Lords work of this I warne you all in the presence of the Lord And so you dwelling in the power of the Lord there is nothing shall destroy you nor confound you but you shall have victory over all your enemies within you and without you and the Lord will make you a dread and a fear to the Nations and so this is a warning unto you all both officers and soldiers that you may minde what the work of the Lord God is in the nations your worke hath been and may be honourable in its day and season but he hath a work more ho●ourable to work after you that is to destroy the kingdome of the Devil and the ground of wars and your victorie hath been of the Lord but there is a more honourable victory to be waited for even the victory over sin and so we are the friends of the creation that doth preach this victory and this kingdom and peace which is endlesse and everlasting and which many are come into yet we reject not the state and work and victory and honour of a soldier but hath a respect thereunto in their season and as for the many and divers sorts of worship which is come up since the dayes of the Apostles and are of the whore and not of the true Church they are
veni●tis unquam est pars ista in vobis subacta necne ab qu●m addite fuit lex Dei venistis ad Christum ad ipsum cognoscitis sicut fuit ante Abrahamum ante Mariam Et quammodo fuit Davidis Dominus Et quammodo ejusdem filius utrum natus est Christus in vobis vobis Revelatus per quam mundus fuit factus expectatis necne perfecte liberari a paccato adeo ut in hac vita terrestri non amplius illud committetis 5. Quid est anima quinam fuit status conditio ejus ante transgressionem quaenam in transgressione potestne aliquis per Adamum secundum restitui manens adhuc in terra in statum eundem quem amisit in primo etiam vel non Amici in nomine potentia Domini Dei a vobis requiro ut per atramentū calamum de hisce mihi respondeat aliquis vestrum subscribantur nomina vestra ut reddam itidem vobis responsum ulterius queramus de vobis a Domino enim missi sumus ad visitandū explorandum vos si in perfecta veritate sitis alios ad religionem vestram covertere desideretis tum candide nobiscum agite in zelo vestro optimis utamini armis vestris spiritualibus ad defendendum causam vestram contra nos pro Deo ve●tro appareatis sine vero de vestris ipsorum viis observationibus dubitatis nec ad Religionem vestram defendendam sufficientes sitis tum obtaretur os vestrum divertite ab idololatria nunc enim orbus est Dominus ad judicandum vos juste etiam ac universum orbem Sum animarium vestrarium amator sed testis contra quascunque falsas vias Antichristi ac meretricis qui diu valde in mundo regnavere quin etiam sum Servus Domini Edvardus Burrough per derisores mundi vocatus Aglice A Quaker The English of these Queries followeth The English is this To all ye that Professe your selves devoted to the service of God and separation from the world and mortification in your lives who are called by the name of Fryars and Nunns in and about Dunkirk THe mighty day of the Lord God is come and coming upon you and all the world Awake awake ye that sleep in in the earth for the dreadful God is arising to plead with you and to give unto all the world the cup of his fierce indignation because of your idolatries and hypocrisies and abominations which hath corrupted the earth is come up before him and hath provoked him and the cry of the just who hath been smitten and laid slain is entred into the ears of the most high and his sword which is the words of his mouth is awakened to wound and slay all his enemies and the day of your visitation is now come wherein the Lord is searching you and trying you that he may recompence you and this is the word of the Lord to you Wherefore I am moved of the Lord to propound some few Q●eries to you for the tryal of your spirits and wayes to which I demand your answer that all things may be brought to light and true judgement and that you may be Judged justly and by the spirit of the Lord cleared or condemned according to your deeds 1. Whether there was such orders of men and women in the true Church of Christ in the Apostles dayes and where did Christ give Institution for such worships practices and manner of life and slothful idleness and unprofitableness to God and men as ye hold forth And whether any are bound to believe you and follow your Religion and practices except you can prove by the Scriptures the words of Christ or example of his Saints and Apostles your Religion and lives and practices and worships and whether you do admit of tryal in all your whole Religion by and according to the Scriptures and writings of the Apostles yea or nay 2. Whether the world in your hearts and the worlds nature even the root of lust the root of pride covetousness and the love of this world and its vanities and the root of Idolatry is subdued in you to the light in your consciences I do speak and what is the root of all these things and what is it that subdues it is it an outward abstinence by the force of locks and doors and bolts or self-separation and secret places that subdues the worlds nature in men and women and is i● by such means that Christ gives victory over sin and overcomes it in his people or is it not by the power of God in the heart onely And whether is it not damnable hypocrisie in you to appear outwardly holy and free from these things while yet the nature and root of all these things are alive in you and boiling up in the motions of them and is any outward thing the Crosse of Christ and Christ crucified which mortifies to the world which the Apostles Preached and rejoyced in 3. Whether is it a true denial of the world in you to deny it in one manner and place and to run into it and imbrace it in another way and place it doth not appear to me that you have denyed the world as the Apostles did for answer me where had they any such ●eats in the finest and fattest places of the Cities and Towns as ye have such great fine houses and Gardens and such revenues by the year as ye have staying all their dayes in a great house and spending their time in sloth and idleness as ye do they went up and down the world Preaching the Gospel and had no certain dwelling place but followes the Lamb of God in the spirit and did not settle themselves in fat places of the earth continuing all their dayes as ye do therefore we judge that you are out of the life and not in the spirit as the Apostles were in but are in the form of righteousness and holiness without the power So I demand an answer to clear your selves if you can and to prove that you are of the true Church and t●at your w●yes and practices are in and by the spirit of God and according to the Scriptures 4. What is that death that hath passed over all and reigned from Adam to Moses and whether it doth not reign yet in and over you and what is Moses Ministration and whi●her ever through it you yet truly came and whether that part be subdu●d in you which the Law of God was added upon and whether are you come to Christ and knowes him as he was before Abraham and before Mary and how was he Davids Lord and how his Son and is Christ within you born and reve●led to you by whom the world was made and do you expect to be perfectly freed from sin that ye shall not commit sin in this life upon earth
the further manifestation of truth that truth and righteousness may clearely appear and be imbraced and all deceit and false wayes of Antichrist may be confounded and denied and who are in the truth shall be confirmed and who are in the error may have warning now in the day of the worlds visitation The Lord is coming to Judgment who will Judge the Secrets of all hearts and the whole world in equity Dunkirk 20. of 3. moneth 1659. English account By a friend unto righteousness and a lover of all souls Edward Burrough This was sent to the chief Rector of the Iesuites Colledge in Dunkirk in Latine FRiend thy wisdom and thy knowledge is earthly and sensuall and thereby canst thou not know the things of the Kingdom of God thou canst neither learn them thy self nor teach them to others for thou art but a blind leader of the blind and thus saith the Lord God unto thee the fruitles tree is standing in thee that brings forth no fruit unto God the head of the Serpent is not broken in thee that deceives the soul nor the body of sin put off that burdens the just and the Sword shall cut thee to pieces even the sword of the Lord it shall slay thee and friend the time is at hand that the Lord will make thee know that thou art and hast been in thy life time a dishonour to him and that thou hast not serv'd him but thy self and the Divil and thy heart is not right in his sight but is corrupt and deceitfull for thou art tryed and measured and thou art found wanting in all things and God will Judge thee and the witness in thy conscience shall answer his Judgments and all thy Idolatrous practises and profession of Religion and Church and Ministry thy many Prayers and thy works of Righteousness all this shall not hide thee from thee wrath of the Lamb though now thou art hardened and utterly insensible yet the stone shall fall upon thee that will grind thee to Powder and thou shalt not escape but the burden of thine own iniquities shall weigh thee down into perdition except thou speedily Repent Therefore fear and tremble before the Lord God and remember thou art warned by one that seeks the peace of souls but makes War by the sword of the spirit against the kingdom of the Divil and Antichrist in whom soever it stands And friend answer me this one Querie What is that Whore that hath sat upon multitudes and peoples and what is that Golden Cup in her hand and what are the Abominations and Fornications of which her Cup is full which she hath caused the Kings and people to drink and with which she hath deceived the world Answer me this and subscribe thy name E. B. And now this I have to say concerning the Church of Rome to them to all the world as having been in a measure an eye and eare witnesse of their idolatrous and false waies practices and doctrines never having in all my daies till this time and at this opportunity of going to Dunkirk not having any knowledge outwardly what their waies and practices were not having any knowledge I say by my sigh● and particular hearing concerning them without me otherwise then what the spirit of the Lord within me did make manifest Though from a child the spirit of the Lord in me hath abhorred popery and all that which savours of i● But now having been an eye and eare witnesse in a little measure of their practices and doctrines this I have to say to them and all men blindnesse and ignorance covers them as with a mantle and they are wrapped up in the body of darknesse and grosse darknesse they do dwel in and all their waies and worships are but the works of darknesse which they are led on in by the false feigned spirit of imitation from one generation to another being exercised therein And the sense of the spirit of life they have not but have wholy lost it and they know nothing at all of the leading of it nor of its teaching This they hisse at as a thing of nought when it is spoken of to them They have even sold themselves into the land of ignorance and blindnesse and they hate to be reformed they are setled upon a false foundation even the traditions of men which the Lord will break down and their whole building will fall And when I consider how thousands and ten thousands lies in the captivity of blindnesse and darknesse under them my heart is rent for them upon the consideration how they are led in darknesse and blindnesse and how they rest in a false confidence which will destroy their Souls and the blood of many rests upon the heads of them that leadeth them for they that lead them cause them to erre and the blood of souls will be required at their hands And as for the poor and the common sort of them there is a pity in me for them because they are led by the blind and are out of the way but as for the Priests and Jesuites and Clergy men they are to be cut off with the edge of the sword of the Lord God and the woe is unto them and no pitty because they cause the people to erre and keeps the people in ignorance and blindnesse under their false and unrighteous waies and worships And this I know the word of the Lord is gone forth against the whole body of the Romish-Church from the head to the tail of them will God plead with them the time is at hand and his eye shall no● pitty neither shall his hand spare to punish them The decree of the Lord is Sealed and he will take vengeance upon their unrighteous lawes which binds the consciences of people and limits the spirit of the holy one their unrighteous Ecclesiastical Lawes I meane under which is defended all manner of Idolatry and they compel people to be Idolaters by a Law and whereby they drink the blood of the Saints and of the Martyrs but the Lord will take vengeance upon them and disannul their covenants and decrees and his spirit shall not be limited but shall rend them to pieces even their Laws and cruelties and Inquisions by which they are defended and their Religion upheld in the world and whereby they kill the j●st and murders the innocent that are better then they for the fulnesse of time is come and all these shall be tumbled down for their unjust Lawes and Inquisi●ions are the main strength and pillars of their Church whereby their Church and worishp doth stand and if they had not these cruel Lawes and Inquisitions to defend themselves by in their Religion they would be soon prevailed against for they have nothing of the spirit and authority of God to stand in nor to fight with against such as do oppose them but their weapons are carn●l and devilish and by murders oppressions and tyrannies they do defend themselves and when these