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A77973	A vvarning from the Lord to the inhabitants of Underbarrovv, and so to all the inhabitants in England, where it shall meet with them, who holds up the false teachers, and false worship, and who beats, stone, stock, and persecute, and hail out of their assemblies, those who are sent by the Lord, to speak his word freely; with an exhortation, that they hast to meet the Lord by true repentance, by putting off the works of darkness, lest the Lord cut them assunder, by his sword, which is already drawn and put into the hand of his servants. Also, a word to my brethren, and companions in tribulation in the kingdome and patience of Jesus Christ, who is by the world scornfully called Quakers. With the manner of my passage through the dark world, (wherein the simple ones may see the deceits of the man of sin in his actings like the true spirit) to warn all to follow the true light within, which leads unto God, & to beware of the voice, lo here & lo there, by one who is a labourer in the vineyard, who is not known to the world; (though named of the world) Edvvard Burrough.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1654 (1654)	Wing B6057; Thomason E733_5; ESTC R206899	28,263	40

of Faith which is nigh thee in thy mouth and in thy heart that Preaching we do own for Faith comes by the hearing of this Word Preached and the Prayer with the Spirit of truth we do own for that is not in word to be seen of men but led to that not by Custom Form and Tradition but by the eternal Spirit which proceeds from God which hath free recourse to God which God heareth and doth accept for there iniquity is purged out of the heart and is not regarded for he that regards iniquity in his heart God will not hear his Prayer but the Preaching and Praying of your Hireling I do deny for they are abomination to the Lord for his Preaching leads from God stands in his own Will in his own Time in Form Custom and Tradition and your Souls are not refreshed by it neither is true Faith known among you for how can he being evil speak good things A corrupt Tree cannot bring forth good fruit said he Who cried Wo unto them that said and did not in which generation he is how can he teach and direct toward true Religion being he denies the Corner stone the first Principle of Religion which is the foundation which no other can any lay the Light of God which hath enlightened every one that comes into the world which he denies to have enlightened every one poor people I do pitty your souls God is my witness to see you lie in darkness in ignorance and blindness and in deadness under your dead Hireling and under his dead traditional Preaching your wisdom reason and dark minds is only fed and strengthned by his preaching and you all are but building upon the sand hearing but not doing and we who have suffered the loss and have witnessed the destruction of that building do now Declare freely against it where it is standing for we know the depth height and breadth of all your Profession and of all your carnal Worship and Observances and the Word of God is as a fire which will burn up and as a hammer which will beat down all your imagined Worships and carnal Ordinances And his Praying is abomination to the Lord for it is as theirs was which the Son of God cryed Wo against which stood Praying in the Synagogues and which made long Prayers and the Praying of all such we do Deny for their Prayers is as the Scribes and Pharisees was who were called of men Masters as they are now and who were sayers and not doers as your Hireling is therefore all you people consider and diligently weigh these things If I Declare to you the Truth own it without respect of persons if I speak a lye let me be accounted as accursed for ever and all you simple ones who are seeking the living among the dead who are in the simplicity seeking after the truth and yet are bewitched to observe that which God never commanded and to seek God in that way which he was never found in for Christ alone is the way to the Father and he is but one from generation to generation in all generations for your sakes do I lay open the deceits of your Hireling and chief Priest who is in the way of Balaam following the wages of unrighteousness and do advise you as from the mouth of the Lord to cease from man whose breath is in his nostrils and to cease from all your customary carnal Observances which God never commanded but is only an imitation and an imagination your souls are kept in death under the power of Corruption Pride Drunkenness Covetousness Oppression and Earthly-mindedness Wantonness and the lustful Nature ruling is head in you and among you are that generation that draws neer God with their mouths but your hearts goes after Covetousness and are far from the Lord ye Worship an unknown god and are persecuters of the true God and of his Servants as ever it was in all generations by Priest and People as it is now with you and your Priest they that professed truth in word persecuted them that witnessed the Power the horrible filthy thing is committed among you and you love to have it so but what will you do in the end thereof you are in the generation of your forefathers who spoke good of the false Prophets but persecuted the true Prophets so it is now among you he that hath the Word of the Lord from the mouth of the Lord to declare unto you him you revile and mock and scorn and persecute but he that speaks the imagination of his own heart from the Saints conditions him you own and hear and here you shew your selves to be them which Christ spoke of which would receive them that come in their own name but will not receive him that cometh in the name of his Father Repent and turn to the Lord lest his judgments come upon you and destroy you with an utter destruction the day of the Lord is terrible and dreadful which will come upon the wicked and upon all the workers of iniquity Be ashamed ye Heathens you maintainers of the greedy dumb dogs and upholders of the horrible filthy thing the persecuters of the righteous seed the contemners of the Just the generations of Serpents who cries Let Barrabas go free ye generation of Hypocrites who professes God but persecutes the Son of God where he is made manifest of this Generation in which you are Shall all the righteous blood-shed be required even from Abel Repent and cease from all your former waies and doings from Pride Drunkenness Covetousness and Oppression from Lying Swearing from Mirth and Wantonness and vain Pleasures for the day of the Lord cometh that shal burn as an Oven and the Proud and all that do wickedly shall be as stubble fully dry for the Lord will be avenged of his enemies and render vengeance in flames of fire upon all that know not God and that obeys not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ Who can stand when he appears Who can dwell with everlasting burnings Even he that doth righteously and that is purged from iniquity But then wo unto you all Hypocrits and Professers and to the wicked and profane ones ye shall all partake of the righteous Judgment and drink of the Cup of the Lords Fury and Indignation for your iniquities are seen and your transgressions are not covered from the Lord all your Profession will not hide you from the presence of the Lamb for in your Sacrifices are found deceit and in your Offerings lodges iniquity the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it therefore be ashamed of all your Profession and of all your Glorious Carnal Ordinances for the Lord is coming to uncover you and to make you and your profane Hireling manifest for God is pure and holy and no iniquity dwels with him nor none that

A VVARNING FROM THE LORD TO THE INHABITANTS OF UNDERBARROVV and so to all the Inhabitants in ENGLAND Where it shall-meet with them who holds up the false Teachers and false worship and who beats stone stock and persecute and hail out of their Assemblies those who are sent by the Lord to speak his word freely with an exhortation that they hast to meet the Lord by true repentance by putting off the works of darkness lest the Lord cut them assunder by his sword which is already drawn and put into the hand of his servants Also a word to my Brethren and Companions in tribulation in the Kingdome and patience of Jesus Christ who is by the world scornfully called QUAKERS With the manner of my passage through the dark world wherein the simple ones may see the deceits of the man of sin in his actings like the true spirit to warn all to follow the true light within which leads unto God to beware of the voice lo here lo there By one who is a labourer in the Vineyard who is not known to the world though named of the world EDVVARD BURROUGH London Printed for Giles Calvert and are to be sold at the Black-spread-Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1654. A warning from the Lord to the Inhabitants of Vnderbarrow and so to all the Inhabitants in England TO all you the Inhabitants of Vnderbarrow profane ones and Professors you my neighbours and Country men according to the flesh but strangers as in the spirit to you all who are in the customary formal traditional worship of heathen and under the barren dry and empty ministry of man which stands in the will of man and have proceeded out of the carnall inventions and imaginations of fallen man and is not according to God nor to the practice of the Saints in former ages and generations To you all do I clear my conscience in the presence of God by declaring to you in writing being that I can not have freedome through the subtilty of the serpent who doth work alwayes to prevent the living truth to be declared and the deceits of himself to be discovered and made manifest to declare in word among you I have been sent by the Lord moved of him to come and to declare to you the word of the Lord to the directing of your minds where to wait to attain the true knowledge of the Lord and of that one thing needful the eternal welfare of your souls and to lay open the deceits of the serpent who doth work in the cursed deceitful Ministry which is uphold by you whereby your souls are kept in the death and only your dark minds fed and nourished by the painted and serpent-like expressions and declarations coming out of the carnal wisdome and brain-knowledge of your hireling who walks in the way of the false Prophets of Israel which the true Prophet called greedy dumb dogs four several times hath the Lord by his eternal spirit working in me moved me to come into the Congregation and Assembly he himself is the witness that I came not of man nor by the will of man but contrary to the will and desires of man wherein stands the true Ministry of God now as it was ever the true Prophets Ieremiah and Ionah witnessed the same and the Apostle Paul and as it is known to you unto whom I speak that I could not have liberty to declare to you the truth from God who came not to you with entising words neither what I had gathered out of the Scripture from without me neither to speak my own imaginations and conceivings as your false hireling doth but to declare the Word of the Lord to the convincing of your dark understandings that you might see the deceits by which you are and have been led that your souls might have been redeemed up to God out of the imagined worships of the world to worship in spirit and in truth hear ye the Word of the Lord ye people all your carnall traditional ordinances and observances is abomination to the Lord all your praying and praising is odious in his sight for all your worship is an imitation and an imagination of the dark mind of man and was never commanded by God therefore consider all ye people what you are doing and reject not the Lord nor his everlasting truth but prize your time and now seek the Lord while he may be found and call upon his name while he is near your souls are kept in the death under your dead Minister and under his dead doctrines dead reasons points and uses which he speaks from the Saints conditions and experiences but is an enemy to the substance and to them in whom the same conditions are made manifest in the power of truth and he doth make manifest himself to be in the same generation of them who had the form of Godliness but denies the power having the Letter as the Pharisees had but persecuting the substance as they did All people consider whether he be not in the generation professing God and Truth in Word as the Scribes and Pharisees were but persecuting the Son of God who is the substance of Truth where he is born and made manifest he is in the generation of them who professed Abrahams freedom and that God was their Father but were of their father the Devil for his works they did they said and did not as he doth as it is made manifest he is a whited Wall a painted Sepulcher which Christ the Son of God cryed wo against who was and is the Light by which all Deceivers Hirelings and false Teachers are discovered cryed out against The Light which is Christ do I witness to be made manifest in me from God the Father of Light daily leading me up to him to live in purity and uprightness praises be to him for ever in which Light I see your Teacher to be a hireling a greedy dumb dog seeking for his gain from his Quarter one that God never sent but hath run and was not sent therefore doth he not profit you at all and from this Light which is Christ do I declare against him as knowing him that he hath not the Word of the Lord but the Letter Freely do I Declare against him as knowing him to be a Deceiver and an Antichrist being once I was deceived by him but now through the rich Love of my Father who hath made himself known to me and hath shined by his eternal Light in my heart do I see him and all such to be Antichrist and no Minister of Christ From the mouth of the Lord I do Declare it That you are led blindly by him your blind guide and you are ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the living Truth by his Ministery he layes heavie Burdens upon you he is in the generation of them who had the Law and the Prophets

but persecuted him who came to fulfil the Law and who hath the substance of the Prophets he hath the Saints Conditions and Experierces in the Letter but who are brought to witness the same Conditions and the same strait way in which they walked He is an enemy to all people to you from God I do Declare it he is one that God never sent to speak his Word to you he calls good evil and evil good and puts light for darkness and darkness for light and therefore Wo is his Portion and Wo is the Portion of all that upholds him What will ye do in the end thereof He doth bewitch you to observe That Calling is an Ordinance of God which he never commanded Poor people your souls lies in the death under the power of darkness and corruption under your dead Minister and under his dead carnal Observances and your dark Minds your Wit and Reason is only fed and so the enemies of the Lord are strengthned by him and you remain in ignorance and in blindness and cannot attain the true Riches for Christ only is the Way to the Father the Light in every man which leads to the Father but this Light he denies as having enlightned every one that comes into world as several times he hath done to me in Argument Here he makes Christ a lyar and doth not know the first Principle of Religion nor the Light which leads unto God but is a Heathen and knows not God for this is the Light which all the Servants of God in all generations witnessed and which Light we do now witness praised be the Lord for evermore who hath in his Light led us to himself and hath shewed the Deceits of him to us and of all such as he is he is in the generation shutting the kingdom of Heaven against men neither entering h●mself nor suffers others to enter that are entering Through the power of the Lord made manifest am I bold to Declare against him who walks not in the Doctrine of Christ and therefore is an Antichrist and doth deceive you professing himself to be sent of God and walking contrary to the Truth of God a Hypocrite saying and not doing Ye my Country-men be not deceived by him try him by the Scriptures and see how he walks according to the Declaration as they did who were Ministers of Christ not by the Will of man but his Ministery is by man and according to man and had his Call from man as it is known to you all but they who were true Ministers witnessed the contrary neither received they their Gospel from man but by the Revelation of Jesus The true Ministers of Christ sent forth by Christ witnesses now the same thing for Christ the same that ever he was which is now made manifest in the Saints and his Ministery is the same which is not by man but contrary to man be not deceived God will not be mocked for he is terrible and his day is powerful and dreadful that shall come upon the Heathen and upon the workers of iniquity and upon all D●ssemblers and Hypocrites all your carnal Worship and Ordinances and Observances is but mocking of God and dissembling with him and is but an imitation and an imagination of the Mind of fallen man imitated by you and your Minister droven by the imaginations from the true Worship of God which the Saints in former generations was exercised in who was led not by imagination as you are but by the Spirit of God as all the Servants of God are Now as ever was true Baptism ●own which is by the holy Ghost and with Fire and the Baptism with one Spirit into one Body do we witness but that which your Chief Priest and false Hireling hold up I Deny it it is not of God but is an imitation and is abomination in the sight of God and therefore from God do I Declare against it and against your Hireling that upholds it among you True Communion of Saints I own for we have Union and the Bread which we break is the Body of Christ and the Cup which we drink is the Blood of Christ by which we are nourished and fed up to eternal life for he that eats not Christs Flesh and drinks his Blood he hath no life in him he among you that can receive it let him but your Communion I Deny for it is Heathenish and no more but an imitation having proceeded out of the imagination of the Proud Your breaking of Bread and drinking of the Cup is abomination and God never commanded it and this doth your Pharisee uphold sitting in the Seat of Christ and of the Saints as the Pharisees did in Moses seat saying and not doing True singing I own with the Spirit and with understanding singing in the Spirit making melody in the heart to the Lord this singing was and is among the Saints in the Church of Christ this is well pleasing to God for it is not an imitation nor by tradition as your singing is but it is true Sacrifice the Song of the Redeemed ones which none can learn but the Redeemed ones of the Lord who is come and coming to Zion with songs and everlasting Joy upon their heads but your singing is Carnal Traditional and Heathenish and is an imitation and is not with the spirit of Jesus but with the spirit of the World with the spirit of Drunkards Swearers Lyars Mockers Scornners Covetous ones with the spirit of Wrath Envie Malice with the spirit of Cain with the spirit of the Scribes and Pharisees and chief Priests who persecuted the Saints which sang in truth in former generations and now the deceit is turned into the form of singing and they that live there persecutes them that sings in the power for thus it was ever They that lived in Profession in the Word Outwardly persecuted them that lived in the power of which was Professed and there you and your Hireling is but know that the Lord will take an account of you and give unto every man his reward according to his deeds You and your Priest have got the Form of Baptism of the Communion of Singing and of a Church but the power and substance of these Ordinances you know not for they are hid from all vulturouus eies and from the generation of the Pharisees and Serpents who are called of men Master and which have the chief place in the Assemblies as your Hireling hath and who is called of men Master as they were which Christ cryed Wo against true Preaching of Jesus Christ Crucified we own and do witness for the Preaching is out of the Will of man out of Form and Custom and is foolishness to the wisdom of the World now as it was ever this is not with the inticing words of mans wisdom but in the demonstration of the Spirit and of Power and the Preaching of the Word