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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77959	The testimony of the Lord concerning London. Witnessed in truth and faithfulnesse, to the consciences of all people in it, that they may returne to the Lord, and repent. Also, the great abominations discovered of this people, who draws near God with their mouths, and professes self-separation, when as their hearts be far from the Lord. With a warning to all sorts of people in it, what the Lord requires of them. By a lover of all your soules, E.B.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1657 (1657)	Wing B6033; Thomason E925_9; ESTC R207563	12,904	19

THE TESTIMONY OF THE LORD CONCERNING LONDON WITNESSED In truth and faithfulnesse to the consciences of all People in it that they may returne to the Lord and repent ALSO The great Abominations discovered of this People who draws near God with their mouths and professes self-separation when as their hearts be far from the Lord WITH A WARNING to all sorts of People in it what the Lord requires of them By a Lover of all your soules E. B. LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black-spread-Eagle near the West end of Pauls 1657. THE Testimony of the Lord concerning LONDON Witnessed forth in truth and faithfulnesse to the Consciences of all people in it that they may returne to the Lord and repent OLONDON thou art weighed in an even ballance and found too light thou art measured by an equall line and found too short and too narrow and thy People cannot stand in Judgement for aboundance of iniquity lodgeth within thee and thou abounds in all unrighteousnesse thy sins are grown over thy head and with transgression thou art covered as with a garment from the head to the foot thou art corrupted and there is much unsoundnesse in thee O how doth pride abound lightnesse and wantonnesse and the lust of the eye and all the works of the flesh is increased to a large sum Aboundance of Idolatry and vanity springs out of thee vaine fashions foolish customes and all manner of evill hath its abiding in thee yea the very Seat of Satan is established within thy walls and works of unrighteousnesse doth proceed out of thee into other Nations Aboundance of deceitfull Merchandize and of oppressing Merchants who grind the face of the poor doth inhabit thy borders thy wayes are evill in the sight of the Lord and his spirit is grieved and his soule is vexed from day to day every moment of time Aboundance of treachery flattery and hypocrisie dissimulation and double heartednesse posesseth thine Inhabitants from Teachers to People high and low rich and poor you are fulfilling your own wills and seeking your own pleasures and following the Counsells of your own hearts and doing that which is right in the sight of your own eyes and your hearts are corrupted before the Lord and the very best of your works are evill and the purest of your wayes are filthy And all your Observations your dayes of Humiliation and Thanksgivings and all your worships and sacrafices are abomination in the sight of the Lord For no good fruit can spring forth for your root is not the vine Christ Jesus who cannot own the light with which you are enlightned and that makes all your Profession vile and not accepted but it is wholly unfruitfull in the sight of the Lord Much Profession there is in thee of righteousnesse and Religion and many formes and gatherings of people which are but as so many images and likenesses of divers sorts which must be overturned and overthrown by the roots You are all measured with the line of true judgement and your buildings cannot stand when the Lord comes to try you and search and try you for your life for though you professe much yet you performe little your knowledge puffs you up and you are not sincere hearted but loose and unsavoury are you in your wayes and words There 's much wisdome in thee and many wise men whose wisdome is devi●lish and it doth not lead to God it must be confounded and trodden down for it profits you not in the sight of the Lord but in it you are wise to doe evill but to doe good you have no knowledge And the Lord God is forgotten and his judgements are not known vanity vanity hath so stollen away your hearts and after Idolls are you run worshipping strange Gods and following strange lovers Aboundance of subtilty and craft lodges in thee vaine glory excells above measure pride idlenesse and fulnesse of bread abounds in thee even as in Sodom unto whom thou art become equall in transgression Whoredome drunkennesse wrath and envy gluttony and excesse spending the creation upon the lust and all the works of the flesh which are evill hath their full grouth in thee and in evill art thou fully ripe O London Consider and be awakened ye Inhabitants thereof for the Lord is grieved day by day and his soule is vexed every moment the weight of thy transgression is upon him thou even makest him to serve with thy sins hath there been any evill committed by any Nation which is not in thee hath there been any abomination brought forth which is not in this day to be found in thee Oh what haughtinesse and stretched out necks oh what pride and vaine glory appears in thee even thy Infants are nourished up in vanity and thy old men are over-grown with craft and deceit Thy young men gives their strength to folly and thy Maidens are trimd in wantonnesse all sorts of People are prophane in their way old and young rich and poor are abounding in evill all seeking their own things and few the things of Gods Kingdome the way of truth is even despised and they that depart from iniquity are become a prey to the mouths of the ungodly who are grievously prophane as though the Lord took no notice or as though no day of account were to come so great is the iniquity committed in thee words reaches not to manifest it what lying what swearing what vaine talking and what scorning and what double dealing appears in thee at every corner what pride what wantonnesse and wickednesse is manifest in all thy streets Teachers and People are out of the way given to deceit and to deceiving oppressors and oppressing one another such is the Devills power amongst you ruling it cannot easily be overcome and so deep is wickednesse seated in thee that it cannot easily be plucked up so strong is the lust of the flesh grown in thee that it cannot easily be removed How is the glorious name of the Lord continually dishonoured and polluted through thy wickednesse which is grown into a numberlesse sum But the Lord will be avenged on all you his enemies and will meet you with judgements plagues and vengeance and the wicked shall not escape And as concerning all thy profession of God and the Scriptures in a blind zeale it is but abomination to the Lord and all thy severall Sects and gatherings of people and separate Congregations who is not separated by the Spirit of the Lord they are but like so many molten and carved Images which the Lord will overthrow All thy offerings and oblations preaching praying and performances Gods soule hath no pleasure in them but they are a burden and wearinesse to him and though thou wash thee never so clean and make thy selfe never so faire through thine own labour yet cannot thy iniquities be washed away nor thy sin covered for thy iniquities are marked before the Lord and thy sin is written as with a pen of iron and as with the point

seale the Lords Testimony against thee even against all thy righteousnesse and against all thy sin which are both alike unto God and both to be condemned Thou hast been warned and thy people and the day of a glorious Visitation hath passed over thee the Lord hath reached unto many and striked many who have not grieved but carelesly walked and slighted the day of their visitation and have not hearkned to the Lords call unto thousands hath the word of the Lord been declared and the Kingdome of God preached nigh at hand and the very way of life and death hath been set before you for the Lord hath sent unto thee to warne thee and to shew unto thee what the Counsell of the Lord is and thousands have been reached with the power of God and convinced of the way of life peace who yet continues in hardnes of heart and disobedience following the counsell of their own heart and the desire of their own minds which are wholly evil continually and the condemnation of such will be just in the day of the Lord and greater then theirs to whom the way of the Lord hath not been known And yet amongst thy thousands who are in the way to destruction the Lord hath a remnant a few among so many which are precious unto him and whom his soule delighteth in who are despised in thee and set at nought and cast out of the favour of all men yet is the Lords presence amongst them and his fear in their hearts and his encrease is unto them and his power with them till all their enemies be vanished as a cloud for they are of the true seed and of the true birth which the Lord will blesse though they be accounted as thy slaves and bondmen yet are they free in the Lord and this is the very fulfilling of thy wickednesse and the height of the transgression of thy Rulers Teachers and People in that some of them that feares the Lord and walks with him are persecuted in thee even they are made a prey unto the wicked to the slanderers to the drunkards to the scorners to unjust and cruell men the people of the Lord are become a very prey in thee even as meat for the devourers Oh what wilt thou do in the day of thy visitation when the righteous Judge numbers up these things against thee thystaffe shall faile thee thy Physitians shall be of no value and all thy comforters shall be miserable at that day I have truly considered thy condition and measured thy state and I have often seriously weighed thy wickednesse and pondered what would be the end thereof and there is no vision of peace unto thee but even the day of desperate sorrow a recompence for all thy works from the hand of the Lord I have often truly lamented thee and seriously hath thy condition entred into my heart thy iniquities have often pressed my soule and my Spirit hath been grieved within me when I have viewed thy great abominations and how thousands in thee wholly perish for lack of knowledge and even resists and will not be instructed despightfully using such as doth warne them even loving and delighting in their abominations These things have often made my heart sad who have walked in thee as a stranger and measured thee with the line of true judgement and this is thy height and length and depth Iniquity lodgeth in thee and Iniquity covers thee and Iniquity compasseth thee about And this is a Warning to thee from the Lord in faithfulnesse declared unto thee whether thou resist or receive and thus far I am clear of the Blood of all men in thee who seeketh not any thing in thee for my selfe but seeketh and hath often to the Lord for thee that thy people might know him and worship him alone who gives unto them all good things and hath caused the fulnesse of all good Creatures to abound and hath given plenty of all things abundance of which is spent vainly upon the lust to the dishonour of God who gives it how much is vainly spent upon vanity in meats and drinks and apparell It s hard to be declared what abundance of the good creatures of God is vainely destroyed in thee upon the lust in the excesse more then what satisfies pure nature your gluttony and high minds devoureth in abundance the good creatures which God gives and he is thereby grieved with you who hath taken notice of this your sin which is not the least of your transgressions and he will plead with you for it even in all things great is your wickednesse and the Lord hath numbred it And above all things that is done in thee thy deceitfull profession and pretence of worship of God is the Lord most grieved with who hates all your Meetings of gathered assemblies which is not gathered by his Spirit he will confound your wisdome and overthrow all your buildings Wherefore repent ye and cease from Idolls and all Idolatry and cease for ever to warme your selves at your own sparks for this shall you have at the Lords hands Ye shall lie down in sorrow A WARNING to you all sorts of People YE Merchants and traders and trafiquers and all ye that buy and sell be plaine and upright hearted and lie not swear not dissemble not for gaine unto your selves for that is cursed of the Lord and the gaine that is thereby received but speak the truth every man to his neighbour flatter not such with whom you deale by feigned words of guile whilst secret over-reaching lodgeth in your hearts to make a prey upon your neighbour or brother for this is evill in the sight of the Lord but speak the truth in all things and let your yea be yea and your nay nay in all your common occasions for whatsoever is more is evill and what is advantaged unto you through deceit or lying or multitude of vaine words it shall be a curse unto you and not a blessing unto you or to your children let the truth guide you in all your dealings one with another and let the fear of God be in your hearts in all your enterprizes at Sea and Land I warne you all seek not by any evill means to enrich your selves neither oppresse one another in any thing wherein you deale for you know not how long your time shall be upon earth nor how soon the day of account will come wherein every word and every work shall be brought to Judgement yea for every idle word shall ye give an account and all those words are idle which are not spoken in the fear of the Lord therefore live and act in the fear of God that you may be blessed in all that you doe And all ye whom the Lord hath blessed with riches and increase see that you abuse not that which God hath blessed you withall but in all things that it be used to the glory of the Lord and not wasted in excesse upon the lust of your own

of a Diamond all thy Steeple-house worship is nought but vanity before the Lord all thy publick exercises all thy Sabboath keeping all thy set dayes of humiliation and all thy private duties and all that ever thou performest unto God is not regarded of him while the hearts of thy people is not aright in his sight and upright before him So the best of thy Sacrafices are but as the cutting off of a dogs neck and the offering of Swines blood for in thee is found the great abomination open prophanesse abounds and secret hypocrisie super-abounds and thou art as abominable in the eyes of the Lord in thy hypocriticall profession of righteousnesse as thou art in thy open sins In thee is found the abomination of Israel mercy and truth justice and true judgement is neglected Doe not thy Heads judge for reward and doe not thy Priests preach for hire and doe not thy Prophets prophesie falsly and doe not they divine for money and doe not thy People love to have these things so Oh how art thou deceived by thy Teachers and led blind by the blind leaders even they that lead thee cause thee to erre and they that should instruct thee teaches thee vaine things Woe unto them the Lords wrath is against them how doe they make a prey upon the people how doe they feed themselves and cloath themselves each one of them having a quarter from which they seek their gaine and through covetousnesse making Merchandize of soules the false Prophets of Israel was their example and they follow in the path of unrighteōusnesse having run and was never sent of God and therefore the people are not profited at all nor turned to God but from year to year and time to time ever learning but cannot come to the knowledge of the truth Ignorance abounds in thy old men and rudenesse and wildnesse in thy youths and thy people are without the knowledge of God and perishes for lack of knowledge thou art even as a wild untilled garden which bringeth forth no pleasant fruit thy vines are as the vines of Sodem and thy fruit is loathsome to the Lords tast wild grapes and soure grapes is brought forth in thee which the Lord hath no pleasure in ye bring forth fruit unto your selves and not unto the Lord ye kindle a fire and warmes your selves with your own sparks ye sacrafice to your own net and ye think to be heard for your much babling and your many performances Abundance of the first mans wisdome is among you it leads you and guides you and not the Spirit of God and through your own wisdome which is devillish you conforme to the Saints words and to their practises in outward appearance and makes your selves like the Saints and bowes unto your own Images and likenesses which ye make and are grown wise and full of knowledge but it is not the wisdome of God nor the knowledge that will endure for ever For you neglect the one thing which onely needfull to eternall life Your buildings are high but they are not upon the true foundation for many of you stumbles at the corner stone your sprinkling of Infants is a very cheat and all that believe therein are deceived and your singing of Davids experiences in rime and meeter is a very lie unto you your worship is but Idolatry and it will not cover you in the day of the Lord though none be like unto thee O London in profession nor any City hardly can compare with thee in respect of the Multitude of thy gathered assemblies and self-separates yet all this will not availe thee when the Lord searcheth thy heart which is found not perfect before the Lord but full of vaine glory and lust and pleasures of the flesh and dissimulation and guile with the wrath of God will be revealed against a single and an upright heart is of greater price with the Lord then all the performances of selfe-righteousnesse that is done in thee while your hearts are given to vanity and continue therein Wherefore O London this is a Warning to thee Let thy Inhabitants repent the dreadfull day of the Lord is coming I have heard the voyce of war against thee and not of peace the cry of howling and bitter Lamentation and not of gladnes nor joy of heart what wilt thou doe in the day of thy visitation when the the Lord stretcheth forth his hand to smite thee to whom wilt thou flee and where wilt thou be hid when the Lord shewes himselfe thy Enemy and appears to take an account of thee what will become of all thy treasures how will thy vaine glory become a stink how will the dayes of thy mirth be turned into grievous sorrow in stead of thy pleasures and delicacies and mirth and wantonnesse shall be sighing and mourning and wofull Lamentation all thy Gods shall not be able to deliver thee nor all thy profession shall not justifie thee nor all thy selfe-separating people shall not be able to stand in the gap to stay the hand of the destroyer none of thy carved Images shall stay his fury nor none of thy severall Sects shall be a Mountaine to hide thee when the Lord strips thee naked and layes thee bare and gives thee to know what is in thy heart which will come upon thee in a day not looked for Wherefore repent all sorts of people and turne to the Lord if there may be mercy found Cease your wickednesse ye wicked and learne to live righteously Woe unto you drunkards Woe unto you whoremongers Woe unto you coveteous Woe unto you Lyars Swearers and Scorners Woe unto you dissemblers and deceitfull dealers Woe unto you proud and vaine glorious Woe unto you lustfull people The Lord will plead with you all and give unto you the fruit of doings and reward according to your works his hand shall not spare nor his eye shall not pity in the day that he comes to Judgement when he takes vengeance upon all the seed of evill doers and to pluck up the wild branches and to cast them into the fire Sackcloath shall be put on instead of gay Apparell and all thy Idolls shall vanish away as for all thy profession where is it all thy many Sermons and long Prayers what is become of them and all thy publique and private duties where are they shall it be said Ye shall all know that there is a God that will execute judgement and justice and that will plead with all flesh and in his sight shall no flesh be justified And all ye who thirsteth for the Lord and desireth after the knowledge of his wayes unto whom iniquity is a burden by you desired to be freed from who have long sought the Lord and have not yet found him who have prayed and had no answer and have been weary and heavy laden and found no rest I say unto you Save your selves from this untoward generation come ye out of these abominations that you may be delivered from