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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

and outward observances which is not the worship of God in the Spirit and in the truth but superstitious and Idolatrous and when the word of God was not received immediately from his mouth nor the Gospel by the revelation of Jesus Christ as it was in the dayes of the Apostles then darknesse being come in they used their tongues when the Lord had not spoken to them as the false Prophets did before Christs time and long have they said the letter is the word and that the letter is the Gospel and that it must be received by the Scriptures and by naturall learning and artes and that none can be ministers of Christ but such who are learned in the languages and knowes the originall of Scriptures Latine and Greek and Hebrew not any of these have received the Gospel by revelation or the word of God from his mouth And when singing in the Spirit and with understanding was ceased and not knowne then began people to get the forme of singing of Davids experiences in rime and meeter and when the pure power of godlinesse was lost which was in the dayes of the Apostles manifested and known then in the Apostacie the deceit grew into the forme of every thing which the Saints had enjoyed in the power and so was shaddowes set up instead of substance and death instead of life and the forme without the power which in many branches sprang forth some into one appearance and some into another but all under the power of the Beast with his many heads and hornes defended and untill this day since the dayes of the Apostles thus it hath been and those very teachers and supposed ministers which now are in this and other Nations are of that very root which sprang forth in the dayes of the Apostles and they are under the dominion of the Beast and moveable like unto the great whore and this may easily be proved that they are of that generation of teachers and false Prophets which Christ prophesied of should come and which the Apostles saw was coming in their dayes and of those which John saw the world to run after for Christ said by their fruites they should be known and the Apostles they described their fruits and them by their fruites And so we seeing their fruit to be the very same now which the Apostles described was the fruit of them that then was come and coming from whence we doe conclude according to sound judgment that these very teachers are of the same generation and branches of the same root which sprang forth then And in Pauls writeings you may read such they were whom he saw of whom he bad people to beware and said perilous times would come and men should be lovers of themselves covetous proud blasphemers disobedient to parents unthankfull unholy without naturall affection false accusers fierce dispisers of those that are good heady high minded lovers of pleasures more then lovers of God having a forme of godlinesse but denying the power and such of whom people were ever learning but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth for people were laden with sins and led away with divers lusts and these did resist the truth as Jannes and Jambres who withstood Moses by making likenesses without life and they were men of corrupt minds and reprobate concerning the faith Now it is plaine that these teachers in this generation are of that very stock which Paul describes such he saw would come and such we see are come and by their fruits we know them as Christ said and Pauls words are fullfilled for these teachers are lovers of themselves and covetous and proud this is plaine to all people and blasphemers who denyes Christ to have lighted every man that comes into the world and therefore they deny Scripture and so are disobedient and unholy men and without naturall affection who many of them have caused the innocent to be imprisoned and some have dyed in Prison and they the chiefe cause of this and this is without naturall affection to the creatures and they are false accusers and liers and fierce in their books and preaching as is manifest through all this Nation and they greatly despise those that are good and prepares war against such as doth not put into their mouthes and they are heady and high minded and lovers of vanities and pleasures this is evident without proofe and they have a forme of godlinesse they say all should be taught of God but when any comes to witnesse it and denyes their teaching they cry against such as Heriticks and thus they have the words and the forme but denyes the power and they are ever teaching twenty and fourty yeares and more but none able ever to come to the knowledge of the truth by them but ●●il in blindnesse and darknesse still and people cryes out who have been learning many yeares from them that they doe not know the truth and its plaine that these teachers are of that sort that Paul spoke of who brings none to the knowledge of the truth for people that followes them are laden with sins and led away with divers lusts and these have and doe resist the truth every where they deny that Christ hath lighted every man that comes into the world and so resists truth and denyes Scripture and the truth as you may read John 1. 9. And they are corrupt minded even wicked persecutors and suers at Law and earthly minded and covetous and oppressors and are wholly reprobate concerning the faith and thus it is plaine that the root of these teachers was springing in the Apostles dayes and hath growen ever since in this darke night of Apostacie and hath filled the Nations Againe the Apostle saw that many should depart from the faith giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of Devils speaking lies in hypocrisie having their consciences seared as with a hot Iron Now these teachers are of that stock which is departed from the true faith for they are without true faith and reprobate concerning it who are in iniquity and sin and the workes of the world which are evill now faith purifies the heart from all this but their hearts are not purified but poluted with covetousnesse and preaching for hire and persecuting and envy and therefore they have not faith and so are of that generation which departed from the faith after the Apostles times which they saw would come and these doth seduce and their doctrines are of the Devill who denyes the truth which the Scripture beares witnesse of and saith sprinkling infants with water when they are two or three days old is Baptisme into the faith of Christ this is the doctrine of the Devill and lies they speak in great numbers and in hypocrisie and writes them forth to the world in great hypocrisie with feignednesse and pretence of holinesse and its plaine many of their consciences are seared how doe many of them cause the poore people to suffer grievous imprisonment

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

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

marvelous light to spring forth and his day to dawn and the day was manifest that many Prophets and wise men had desired to see but was not in their time seen by them and his power was made known and his arme was made bare in the sight of many Nations and in that day his glory was spread abroad and his truth and way was exalted and his glorious Gospell was declared through the earth and the sound of his marvelous works went forth into all the world judgement and mercy was known and righteousnesse and peace was witnessed among men and life and immortallity was brought to light through the Gospel and the word of life by which all things was created and by which they stand was handled seen felt and tasted and the Lord God in that age was known to dwell with his people and to walk in them and his Covenant was established with many and his promises was fulfilled redemption deliverance and salvation was revealed even Christ Jesus the Son of God the Prince of peace And righteousnesse was made manifest in the sons of men and revealed in many who saw Gods glory and was witnesses of his majesty and dominion and were gathered unto him in the bond of peace and were his sons and daughters and were led by his Spirit in all his wayes of truth and righteousnesse And many went forth into the world and declared through Nations the things of Gods kingdome which was come to them and was discovered within them and the Lord God spake from Heaven by his Son unto them and they were filled with the holy Ghost and with power And the Lord was with them whom he called and made them wise and their word powerfull and their message effectuall and their weapons were mighty through God and strong holds were subdued and the powers of death and darkness were subjected and the hearts of thousands were turned to God and the Gospell was preached in power through the world and many were brought to God out of darknesse into light and from Satans power unto God And the earth was filled with Light and the mighty and the wise were confounded and the bonds of cruel oppressions were broken and they that set themselves against the Lord and his way were confounded and scattered and brought to naught though they were many in that generation How did all the chief Priests and Scribes and Pharises Elders of the People and Rulers and Governors lift up themselves in the Pride of their hearts and took Counsel together and persecuted the innocent and put to death and imprisoned the children of the most high How did they in the dayes of Christ persecute and seek for his life till they had taken it from the earth by their subtilty and wickednesse The Apostles and Ministers of Christ were persecuted some was put to death and others suffered grievous things for the Name of Christ and were made a prey and a spoyle unto destroyers whose wickednesse increased against the way of God till it was fulfilled in its measure and the wicked with their works were dashed to pieces and the Lord gave his way and truth and servants dominion and power over all his enemies and whole Nations were brought to the knowledge of God and his ways and his name was glorious and his kingdome was exalted in the earth and many were his people who were gathered by him and his powerfull word through the mouth of his ministers whom he ordained and called who were fishermen and such like who were chosen to fullfill his will and to doe his worke and not many wise men of the world were called but God chose the foolish things to confound the wise then as he doth now and such were honoured by the Lord and bearers of his name and of his message and glad tideings though they were contemned of men yet unto such he gave the authority to overturne the wise and to outreach the wisedome of this world for they were learned of the father and had the knowledge of his wayes though they were unlearned in the arts and crafts of men which stands more in pollicy and subtilty then in the feare and wisdome of God and in that day the Lord was with his people while his people was with him and he loved them while they stood in his counsell and he gave them dominion over all their enemies and they were a terrour to the whole world while the churches stood in the dread and terrour of the Lord of hoasts yea all bowed under them and their feet trod upon the high places of the earth and they were blessed of the Lord above all people even till they waxed fat and were increased in treasures and thought they had need of nothing and then they forgat God and rebelled against him and became perverse in their wayes and grew into strange Idolatries and errors and left the way of truth and cast Gods Law behinde them and the power of godlinesse ceased and the forme grew and it was exalted more then power and love waxed cold when iniquity abounded and men became lovers of themselves more then of the Lord and the Lord and his marvellous workes which had been brought to passe were forgotten and hardnesse of heart and unbeliefe entered and then the false prophets and antichrists came in which Christ had prophesied of and established the forme of godlinesse without the power and subverted many even whole houses and Countries from the simplicity of Christ Jesus so that many became insensible and grew past feeling of the power and operation of God and their minds became blinded and their eares stopped and God was grieved who had brought up children and they forgat him and rebelled against him for the Churches became corrupted and lost the life and power of God and the holy ghost and became Idolaters and worshipers of Idolls and as you may read Paul prophesied that many should depart from the faith and give heed to seducing spirits and to the doctrine of Devills and grievous wolves should enter not sparing the flock but seeking to devoure it and would make havock and merchandise of soules through coveteousnesse and filthy lucre and perilous times would come wherein their should be a forme of godlinesse and not the power and in that generation before and soone after his decease this came to passe and was fullfilled and as you may read in the revelations the churches grew into superstitions and Idolatries the church of Ephesus had lost her first love and her candlestick was to be removed and so it came to passe and some in the church of Smyrna were in the blasphemy saying they were Jewes and were not but were the sinagogues of Satan and the church of Pergamos some among them held the doctrine of Balaam and to eat things sacrificed to Idolls and to commit fornication and some held the doctrine of the Nicolaitans which God hated and against them would the Lord fight with the sword of his

Jesus but all was subverted into dead formes and shaddowes and likenesses without life and the Lord left the earth as it were and covered himselfe in the darknesse and became a stranger in the world and did scarce openly speake by vision nor dream nor Prophet but all were left in the darke and ignorance abounded and superstition was exalted the Saints spirit and ●se which they were in and guided by was lost and then they began to worship the Saints names and dayes and words without the life and power and that nature and that same seed which had persecuted the Saints to death and gainsayed the pover and lost the holy ghost turned it selfe into the professi●n of the Saints words which were left upon record and confirmed it selfe into the Saints practises without the life power and holy ghost And having lost the power from which the Sripture was given forth and not being guided in the life whic● they were in which spoke it forth then from the Scripture 〈◊〉 mens own conceptions and thoughts and by their reason w●●hout Gods Spirit they set up likenesses and images and sects and formes and many heads and many hornes grew upon the beast which all the world worshiped and went after for they had lost Christ the one head wherein the union stood and grew into Idollitry under the many heads which was upon the Beast who had many hornes which pushed one against another as it is witnessed unto this day doe not the Papists and Protestants so called and other sects risen out of them push one at another to break and teare one another and these have many heads The Pope he is a head and the others they have a head which every one bowes down under his own head the Pope will not bow to the Protestants head nor will the Protestants bow to the Papists head the Presbiterians and Independants and Anibaptists and the rest every one of them bowes to their own head and will not bow to anothers head and all these with their hornes pushes one against another to rend one another and all these are from Christ and knowes not him the one head of the whole body and the one horn of Gods salvation unto all people for Christ which is but one is the head and the horne which all the Saints who are now gathered out of this apostacie and dark night unto whom the Light againe is risen worships Christ the one head and knowes him the one horn which pushes against the Devils Kingdome which hath long been set up and ruled in the earth among all these who have many heads and many hornes who are all of them the very chiefest but in the night fallen in the apostacie and darknesse since the beginning of the reigne of the Beast and the comi●g in of the false Prophet which came in as I have said when the churches backslided with the whore also who have mad● all Nations and people drunk with the wine of her fornic●tion and the Beast hath reigned over all Nations in his dominion and authority and the false Prophet hath prophesied through all nations And all these came in since the dayes of Christ or he prophesied that it should be so as it is come to passe and they were coming in in the dayes of the Apostles as you may read Paul saw them coming and largely describes ●heir character in severall epistles And Peter he saw them coming in and described them what such they were and should be and Jude he saw them also and John more fully then any both in his epistles and revelations as I have hinted at And when the Apostles were taken of the earth some by cruell death and others was banished then they sprung in more fully and grew through all Nations and to this day hath the Beast with his many heads and hornes ruled in Nations and been worshiped and his false prophet hath ever since been defended and riden on the Beast through Nations and hath deceived the Nations with vanity and errour and at this very day the Nations and people are deceived and lies under darknesse in the slavery and bondage under the authority of the Beast and subject to the doctrine of his false Prophets And as I have said darknesse hath been over all and fancies and liknesses without life have been bowed under and the power being lost the forme hath been set up one after this sort and another after that according to mens vaine conceits and apprehensions upon the Scriptures and not according to the manifestation of the Spirit of God which fulfills the Scriptures and brings to live the life of them So in divers colours and in divers appearances and Robes in severall formes and shapes of garments hath the great whore been decked who hath sit upon the Beast haveing the false Prophet serving as a boy or servant to doe whatsoever the whore listeth And the false Prophet this servant to the whore under the power of the Beast hath moved and turned as the Beast would And according as the whore hath changed her selfe into other garments and colours even so hath the false Prophet changed his doctrine and prayers to please the whore and to keepe people under the goverment of the Beast It 's knowne in this our day that some who preached and prayed for the King and Bishops doe now preach and pray for others even for them who destroyed King and Bishops so the false Prophet with all his children is but the whores servant who hath made drunk Kings and Princes and great men and people and Nations with the cup of fornication and abomination in the severall sects and formes of worships which hath been set up without the power of godlinesse for the Babtisme of the Spirit being lost and not known then from the letter by imaginations were severall sorts of Baptisme brought forth as sprinkling of infants that darke folly and vaine vanity which all these Nations have been deceived withall by the exercise of the false Prophet And when the gift of the ministery through the holy ghost which the ministers of Christ had was lost and not any more received Then began men to make Ministers by naturall learning and artes and languages and humane pollicie and when the gift of preaching by the eternall Spirit was lost through the coming in of the Apostacie then began men to study from Books and writings what to preach and say not having the holy ghost received in them which none is a minister of Christ without marke that and when men had lost through ignorance the knowledge of God dwelling in them and that their bodyes was his temple and that he dwelled and walked in his people then began they againe to build Temples without and to set up their false worships in them for having lost the sense of Gods true worship which the Saints worshiped in in the Spirit and in the truth Then they began to worship in set dayes and set times and set places