TRUMPET Of the LORD sounded out of SION Which gives a certaine sound to the eares of all Nations and is a true noyse of a fearfull Earthquake at hand which shall shake the whole fabrick of the Earth and the pillars of its standing shall fall and never more he set up againe Fearfull voyces of terrrible Thunders uttered forth from the Throne to the astonishment of the Heathen 〈…〉 all Quarters of the earth who are not sealed in the forehead And is an Alarum and preparation for War against all Nations where Gog and Magog resideth And sheweth the wounding Sword of the mighty God from whose blow the Kings nor the Captaines nor the mighty men cannot fly to escape Declared and written by a Son of Thunder as a warning to all the Inhabitants of the Earth where the great Image is standing or any part of it worshipped speedily to meet the Lord by Repentance that in the day of his fierce wrath they may be hid WITH A Salutation to the Seed who are gathered into the â—old and with the â—hildren of the King The tongue that was dumb sings a joyfull Song of Sion in an unknown Language which none can understand save the redeemed of the Lord By one whose name is truly known by the children of the same birth but unknown to the World though by it called EDWARD BURROUGH LONDON Printed for Giles-Calvert at the Black-spread-Eagle near the West end of Pauls 1656. BY Order and Authority given unto me by the Spirt of the Living God King of Kings and Lord of Lords the 31 day of the 10 month in the year of the worlds account 1655 about the 4 houre in the morning when my Meditations was of my God upon my Bed in Kilkenny City in the Nation of Ireland at that time the Word of the Lord came unto me from the righteous Judge of Heaven and Earth who was and is and is to come who sitteth on the throne of righteous Judgement Judging Nations and Kindreds and Tongues and peoples equally saying Write my Controversie with all the Inhabitants of the Earth unto all sorts of people as I will shew thee By this same Authority and Commission declared this I send unto you the Tribes of the Earth and this upon your heads shall stand for ever to be witnessed by the Light of Christ Jesus in all your consciences in the dreadfull day of Vengeance which upon you O Inhabitants of the Earth is coming Prepare prepare to meet the Lord O Nations Tongues and people unto you all hereby a Warning is come and a Visitation from the presence of the living God which you are straightly required to put in practise as at the terrible day of dreadfull Vengeance you will answer the contrary Given under my hand and sealed by the Spirit of the Eternall God who lives for Ever Through a Servant of the Lord E. 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A TRUMPET OF THE LORD Sounded out of SION O Earth earth earth hear the word of the Lord and awake awake awake all ye inhabitants thereof and give ear give eare unto the controversie which the Lord hath with you Noble and Ignoble listen unto the word of the Lord Men of high degree and Men of low degree be not stouthearted nor stop not your Eares for the Lord hath spoken People of all sorts and men of all conditions the word of the Lord is towards you even from the Princes and Nobles that sits upon the Throne unto the Slaves and Bondmen that are made a prey The Lords Controversie is against you and the mighty terrible day of the Lord is coming upon you wherein He will plead with you because of your Transgressions which cannot be numbred but doth exceed theirs in former Generations who was cut off by his outstretched arme Therefore thus saith the Lord now also will I arise as a mighty man of War and will appear in my Majesty to gather the Nations and to fan them and to try them in the wind of my wrath and to purge them and to refine them in the furnace of my fire of indignation and jealousie And this from my mouth is a warning to you and a sound in your ears by Authority from my Spirit To thee Oliver Cromwell called Protector THus saith the Lord My Controversie is against thee because thou hast not been faithfull to the end in my work but hast taken thy Rest and Ease and pleasure upon thy high and lofty Mountaine of Pride and vaine Glory and hast set up thy selfe to be worshipped exalting thy own horne and hast not fully given Glory and Honour to me of that which I have done by thee but in thy Heart boasts thy selfe against me who hath hewed with thee and made thee an Instrument in my hand to doe my will upon my Enemies and now thou performest not thy Vowes made to Me in the day of thy distresse but thou hast broken truce with me and now thou suffer grievous and hainous Oppression and Cruelty and Tyranny to be acted in thy name upon my people whom I have chosen and elected to exalt my name by by unjust imprisonments and grievous persecution doe they suffer in thy name which the cruell hearted makes a cloke of for their cruelty and even such who have been thy Enemies thy name is a cloke unto to hide their cruell intents and wicked purposes against my People whom they tread upon and this is not unknown to thee and therefore the lesse excusable art then in my sight and the greater will my judgements be upon thy Head which suddenly I will bring upon thee except thou repent and returne to thy first integrity which if thou doe I will honour thee next unto my chosen and give thee the Necks of Princes to tread upon and their Dominion for thy Inheritance otherwise thus shall it be done unto thee if thou wilt not hear and obey my voyce saith the Lord To all yee his Counsell THus saith the Lord My Controversie is against you because you are one with him and every whit fully guilty of his transgressions and feeds him and your selves in the vallies of vaine glories with vaine shewes and hopes and your indeavour is more to secure your selves from misciefe and plots and wicked intentions which remaine in the hearts of the Rebellious against you then to defend and preserve the innocent for your neglect to take off Oppression and to ease the oppressed but makes your fingers as heavy as your fathers loynes who were cast out before you and the same Lawes stand still in force by which tyranny and Oppression is acted and the same false Prophets you establish by a Law which deceives the Nations and flatters you by subtile speeches and there is no pure Reformation wrought in the Earth but you with your power joynes with the first Beast who was wounded by a grievous blow of fury to make war against the Lamb and his followers and you seek to set up that which I am about to
throw down and you are not ignorant of the grievous Cry of the Poor under the Burden of Oppression laid upon them by your Lawes by which they unjustly suffer the imprisonment of their bodies and the spoiling of their Goods and you suffer this wickednesse to be done and shuts up your compassion and the hands of Evill doers hereby is strengthned through your forbearance they are hardned in their cruelty and because you professe more of the name of the Lord then some that have gone before you and performes as little the greater is your abomination and the deeper is your hypocrisie and the greater will my judgements be upon your heads except you speedily repent and walk in my counsell which if you doe honourable in counsell will I make you and your renown shall generations to come exalt otherwise if you refuse my word to hear I will make you a Reproach and a curse to ages for ever To all ye Judges and Lawyers and your traine and to all that handle the Law THus saith the Lord My controversie is against you because of your abominations for you are the very actors of the allowed oppressions and in judging for Gifts and Rewards and Bribery some of you have exceeded all that ever went before you and many just causes of the poor hath been neglected for want of a large Gift and many unjust actions of the rich men have you pleaded against equity for advantage to your selves your counsell have respected persons and in Bribery and Gifts have you delighted and thereby have made your selves as Lords in the Earth and have set your selves upon high hills and you have followed the counsell of your own hearts and your humane wit and learning in seeking out the justnesse of a cause and in judging thereof and my righteous Law of justice have you not regarded to be your Rule but through the pollicy and craft have you hidden the simplicity of the Law from the ignorant in unknown languages and obscure sentences and your wills many times hath been your Law and true judgement have you turned backward and made a fence against equity that it could not enter Some of you are guilty in a high degree of that cruelty and tyranny which of late years hath been acted upon the innocent yea you have grinded the face of the poor Imprisonned the harmlesse and laid heavy burdens and oppressive bonds upon the guiltlesse who have not transgressed any Law much lesse the Law of righteousnes you have made my freeborn children your slaves and have highly attempted to sit Lords in my Throne of conscience and some of them have suffered by some of you for the exercise of their pure Conscience because they could not swear or worship and respect your persons nor pay Tythes that grievous oppression nor bow to your wills and lusts in things of the like nature of Cruelty And you are guilty in a gross sum of upholding the false Prophet which prophesies lies and falsly with flattering words of guil and he covers himself under your shadow and under your unjust Law which is his staff and strength and he rides upon the Beast till you be both taken alive and cast into the Lake of everlasting indignation The cup of my vengeance will awaken you and my Law will for ever condemn you and my counsel of Equity shall plead against you in the Court of Justice and my eternal Judgement from my Throne of Righteousness shall proceed in sentence of wrath and my faithful evidence the light in your Conscience which hath been eye witness of your vilany against me shall testifie against you and shall accuse you guilty of everlasting torment except you repent To all Astrologers Magitians Southsayers and Wise-men THus saith the Lord my Controversie is against you because of your Witchcrafts and Inchantments you have digged deep as the pit of hell to hide your counsel from the Lord and have discovered your selves in finding out secrets to another then me in your natural Arts and knowledge you are corrupted the ground being cursed in which you stand You have in policy and witchcraft sold your selves into the Power of darkness and your Original of Science and Languages is the Serpent whose image and mark you bear your wisdom is divelish gained by the strength of corrupted reason which is the habitation of the Serpent whom you have chosen to be your Instructor and exalted for your God There is a secret sealed from you and a Star whose course you do not know and a Sun eclipsed of which you make no mention and a circuit of heaven of which you know not the Compass and you cannot find out the secret by Divination but the discovery of it will be the discovering of your sorceries and the making bare of your Inchantments your knowledge is in time and leadeth not into the understanding of things everlasting which are without beginning my flaming sword is against you and doth divide you from the Tree of eternal life of which you cannot touch and live My wrath shall sweep you out of the land of Peace and my eye which seeth you shall be the Star of Condemnation and Darkness unto you to the confounding of your Sun and Moon for ever To all you Generals Colonels and Commanders and Officers and Souldiers in England Scotland and Ireland THus saith the Lord my controversie is against you for some of you are wofully fallen from that Uprightness and Integrity which once was in you and you are abundantly waxed fat and exalted through victories and deliverances and now you kick against the Lord that hath handled you as Instruments in his hand to do his will and many of you who hath been raised out of the dust are set down in your high nest of liberty in the lust and pride and filthiness of the flesh and vain glory and fleshly exaltation abounds and with greediness you divide the spoil and some of you takes more by your cruelty and hard heartedness then justly was given you in victory and now you being at ease have forgotten many former straits and dangers delivered from and in your hearts you say our hands have gotten the victory and doth not exalt the Lord herein who somtime eminently hath appeared for you your enemies themselves being Judges and now you â—read under foot by your might and beastly power many of my innocent and harmless people some of which have served you in many tryals and now they being redeemed from that nature of strife you hate them and doth and suffers violence to be done unto them and regards it not but sets it at naught and though you have said you have labour'd for liberty of Conscience in your long Travel of War yet in the Birth you have turned your victory into carnal and fleshly liberty to your selves and into bondage to your Brethren and many promises have you vowed which you neglect to perform and the same Oppression and kingly power of cruelty stands in
of perdition It was your generation of the same seed that put the Apostles to death and now you make merchandise of their words and exceeds in hypocrisie and double-heartedness and have turned every way according to the changing of the power of the Beast Some of you were Teachers for the King and Bishops and were ordained by their Law and your Prayers have been to your Idol God for all sorts from whom you could receive a reward or be advantaged and you are now divided in many Sects and judgements and false Opinions and have divided the people into divers ways of Idol-worship throwing down one part of the Image and setting up and exalting another and your Offerings and Oblations and Prayer and Praises hath been a burthen and weariness to my soul saith the Lord and you now are at war in your minds one with another divers in your Language though but one Original which is the womb of Witchcraft and your Kingdom is darkness and a heap of confusion under the dominion of death reigning but you are at concord in war against me and against my servant whom I have chosen from among you to bear witness against you you are the most of all guilty of that great persecution and unjust suffering and Imprisonment through Tyranny laid upon them for you stir up and intercede the Power of the Beast thereunto upon which you sit till you both be cast into the Lake you are risen in all your power to manage War against my Kingdom which is appearing to make yours a desolation for ever The Beast is risen in defence of you already and you pray to your dead gods and preaches to your ignorant people against my Heritage deceiving thousands whose blood will be of you required who are ever learning of you but never able to come to the knowledge of the Truth by you being kept in infidelity and blindness under you whose blood you are absolutely guilty of your Rebellion is the crime of Witchcraft who cannot cease to do evil for you have bound your selves in the Covenant with hell and are at agreement with death while you are upon earth and would bind the people with you in the same Faith or rather Unbelief that none can be perfectly saved from sin while they live upon earth but you are the filthy dreamers which doth defile the flesh and when you awake you will be found empty of all righteousness your cup is full of fornication and of the wine of Whoredomes and Idolatry my patience will be turned into fury against you and my cup of indignation is the assured portion of your lot and blood shall you have to drink as your gift and reward from me and your present pleasure shall be turned into howling everlasting and your songs shall be changed into Wo worth the day my plagues shall remain with you upon Earth and follow you to the lake and your staff and strength in which you trust even the power of the Beast shall be broken with you and be buried in the grave of everlasting contempt to arise in reproach unto my heritage for ever and my fire of Indignation is already kindling upon you which will burn for evermore and not be quenched To all you called Papists to your whole Body and Head at Rome the Word of the Lord reacheth THus assuredly saith the Lord my Controversie is against you and my vengeance and wrath and fury shall for ever world without end be upon you though you pardon one another yet will not I pardon any one of you for your grievous Adulteries and Abominations hath surpassed all other generations in the womb of whoredoms your children are conceived begotten by the seed of adulteries in the very strength of the man of sin and at the Breasts of murther and cruelty you are nourished in sucking hainous and cruel Tyrannie you are seated upon the highest mountain of Oppression and Idolatry Peter was not your Predecessor but the Divel himself you succeed in blood and envie and cruelty and he is your Rock with whom you shall fall in everlasting perdition being upon him builded in your whole Body and he is the Father of your Faith received from him by succession tâ—aditionally and your Religion is of Cain's antiquity who was the Ancient in your profession of offering sacrifice and killing the just your sword hath been made fat in the blood of the innocent you have sought to slay even the very likeness of Righteousness and hath stood armed with cruelty against the upright waiting for the blood of the guiltless to asswage your thirst and your Seat at Rome which once had the Faith of Jesus Christ in purity where members of his Body inhabited you have turned into the habitation of Divels and it is become the open Mother of profess Whoredoms which brings forth cursed children of witch craâ—t and is the abiding place of members of an abominable harlot and the profession of Jesus have you turned into a cruelty against Jesus and into the murther of him Some of you are made a curse already and with vengeance and indignation shall the rest be pursued till your Body be rooted from off the Earth you have been strong in your Seat of darkness upon your seven mountains of perfect abomination and none was able to encounter you in your strength of Infidelity but it shall be turned into weakness and your whoredoms shall appear and your present honour shall be turned into contempt everlasting for while you say you have wrought to merit life eternal your unbelief will bring death everlasting and your Works merits my fire of eternal judgement and condemnation and while you have said you eat and drink the Flesh and Blood really you have crucified his life totally and your consecrating of things unto youâ— Idol god hath been your defilement and pollution in the sight of the true God to Images and Pictures have you bowed and have worshipped the Saints Days and Names and bowed to their likeness of mans inventions but have slain their life and trodden under foot their nature and glory and buried their righteousness and knowledge in the grave of your wickedness and ignorance and in imaginations have you rested and in vain superstitions have you hoped honouring the name of Christ and killing his life the womb of darkness are you shut up in upon earth and it will be your bed for ever in hell and death and your Purgatory will deceive you and your clensing will never come Defiled defiled and loathsom are you in the pure eye of light which the secret of your deceit searcheth and your darkness feeleth and shall judge you for ever Rome Italy France and Spain and your Dominions to all your Kings Princes Bishops Priests Jeâ—â—its Prelâ—tes and Frâ—â—rs and Nuns and whole Train of Idolaters The Cup of my vengeance is towards you and the dregs thereof shall you drink and my overflowing whirlwind of wrath as an irresistable flood is against your
the Scriptures and selling their imaginations upon them for money gaining many thousand of pounds a yeer thereby having stolen the Saints words into their unclean hearts uttered forth by them for advantage to themselves when the Lord hath not sent them nor spoken unto them nor ordained them for his service but their Call and Ordination hath been by man and their work and testimony of themselves and hath not profited you at all and yet you have loved to have it so but what will you do in the end thereof even you that hath been helped and they that have holpen shall both fall together in the day of the Lords recompense which will fall grievously upon you and none shall be able for to deliver you but miserable comforters and Physitians of noâ—value shall all be unto you and your long applyed Promises shall suddenly fly away No peace from God is to the wicked neither do I sow pillows under your elbows but to the light in your consciences I speak which Christ hath lightened every one of you withal which shines in darkness and you cannot it comprehend nor in it believe But it it stumbles and by it shall be broken which if it you loved it would teach you in the Spirit the living God to worship and would condemn all your set form of Worship in the Imaginations the light is given you from Christ Jesus unto life eternal or unto condemnation everlasting when the hand of the Lord in judgement is upon you Remember you had warning and when you are in the Lake and in the Pit Remember you had a day of Visitation upon Earth The light in all your Consciences shall witness Gods judgements to be just and your mouths shall be stopped To all you that are called Anabaptists VVIth you also is the controversie of the Lord for you are children of the same seed more purged in the fire of blind zeal and begotten in the transforming of the Serpent into more secret hypocrisie and deeper subtilty your covering being larger the greater deceit and abomination lodges under Death reigns among you and your Kingdom is scituate in the mountains of exaltation and you feed abundantly in the Vallies of Pride and Vain-glory and are nourished with the bread of prosperity you are grown high and great in your number and have joyned your selves for advantage and glories in your strength having through Policy and Craft and bowing to the Beastly power highly exalted your own Horn and and by Flattery have gained much of your Dominion which you hold in possession by the Law of guil many simple ones hath by your curious colour and bed of fair pretenses been deceived to commit Adultery with your Image brought forth in the likeness of the Saints God By Imagination from the Saints words you worship the practise and exercise of the Saints with the same mind that the Papists do worship their Names and Days You allow not Idols without nor a vain conversation in the world but you are strict in observation in your outward conformity in your self-righteousness which is your greatest sin you are clothed with the Saints words and practises which you have climed up in your own wills to obtain not having entred in by the door and while you say you eat and drink the Flesh and Blood of Christ in the Saints manner shewing forth his death till he come to salvation you kill him as the Heathens do till he appear unto condemnation and you shew forth daylie that you crucifie him in the world eating and drinking to your selves condemnation you say Christ died only for you as elect but your works makes manifest that he dies by you as Reprobate you take up a command from the Letter and imitates the Apostles some of you in a lower and some of you in a higher degree in that mind and nature which in the Apostles was crucified and you say Christ commands it when the Letter doth but declare it and you are not led with the same light which gave forth the commands declared to observe them but saith in such a verse of such a chapter such a command is not having received the command by the same Spitit Here you are proved to be them which use your Tongue and saith he saith it when God hath not spoken unto you but as you read it without you as the false Prophets might do the words of the true Prophets and thus you are in the Witchcraft as they were Gal. 3. who takes on things in your own wills and observe commands without from the Letter thereby drawing from the teachings of God within by the Spirit you are zealous as they were for the Traditions and Figures and cannot see him which is the end of all that which perisheth with the using so you are not dead with Christ from the world who are yet subject to Ordinances which is of the world They that obeyed Christ and followed him was led by the Spirit and not by the Letter for they were not Ministers of the Letter but of the Spirit and such were judged to be in errour and this is your condition who saith such are breakers of Christ's commands and makers vold of the Scripture and destroyers of the Ordinances who witnesseth Christ the substance and him to be King and Judge and Law-giver and in whom and upon whom the Scripture is fulfilled and so it established and the commands of Christ kept which are in Spirit and his Law daylie walked in which condemneth sin And this is not contrary to the Scripture but a fulfilling of it in Principles in Doctrines and in Practise and Conversation The Apostles was sent to preach the Gospel to every creature and they were all led by the same Spirit and did not go before it in their own wills as you do neither did one go from the command which had been given to another using anothers words and exercising themselves in anothers practises when the Lord had not commanded But such they bare witness against which did use their Tongue and transform themselves into the likeness of true Prophets and Apostles as you have done and are in the love of the world and only separated in the appearance and not in the ground You stumble at the light and therefore knows not the door of entrance nor where the commands of Christ is to be received and the Will of God to you is to be known and so your obedience is the conformity in your own wills to that which was the Will of God to another This Sacrifice is also lame and blind and God saith to you Who hath required this at your hand For 〈◊〉 you have observed and done all those things which the Declaration of the Law and Gospel doth require you are unprofitable servants and yet one thing do you lack the Dying with Christ and the Sufferings and Cross of Christ is not known but in the liberty of the flesh you are and not in the condition of