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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30559	Two general epistles, or, The breathings of love uttered from the pure life, to the wholeflock of God in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and all other places whersoever this shall come, greeting : being a wholesome exhortation ... / given forth by by that faithful servant of God, who, though he hath lately laid down the earthly body, yet he lives with his Maker forever, Edvvard Burrough.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1663 (1663)	Wing B6052; ESTC R6045	15,871	24

that your works may be wrought in God never to be condemned nor you to suffer loss knowing this first That none are justified by him but them that are led and guided by him and to whom he is a Saviour he is also a Teacher and he is given to teach in all the wayes of Truth And now let your fellowship be in the Power and Life of God and know not one another in words onely and in shews and in outward appearance but witness one another in the Spirit and in the Truth and have communion there in breaking the Bread of Life that Christ Iesus may be seen to be the Head in you and you Members to serve him and one another all receiving Wisdom from the Head and Vertue from the Vine Christ Iesus that you may abound in Love Mercy and Peace and all the fruits of Righteousness unto the Father and dwell in the Fear and Counsel of God and be subject to his Will not despising the Cross which is the Power of God which slayes the birth that is born of the flesh which is not heir of the Promise but walk in the Cross daily that your understanding may be kept open to try and discern all spirits whether they be of God and believe not every spirit for lying spirits may arise among your selves and go forth from the Light who are not in the Truth but in the feignedness and hypocrisie with false visions and lying imaginations handling the Word of God deceitfully corrupting and perverting the pure Way of God having the Form but not the Power having left the Power and gone from the Light and such utter the words of Truth without the Life and is but as the Chaff to the Wheat and they are to be denyed and resisted and not joyned to lest Innocency and Simplicity be betrayed and your Faith made void and so you be destroyed from the Life of God and Death surprize you and Darkness enter into your dwellings and so Unbelief Doubtings Murmurings and Lustings after Evil arise in you and you be perverted from the Worship of the true God and grieve his righteous Spirit by bowing to Idols and following of other Lovers and so the true God which hath brought you out of Egypt and made manifest his Power in you be forgotten and the Faith of his Son made shipwrack of and your latter end be worse than the beginning and the Name of the Lord be dishonoured by you and then wo be unto you his Wrath shall suddenly break out against you Wherefore hear and fear and hearken unto the Word of the Lord He hath caused his Light to shine forth and his Voice to be heard He hath proclaimed his Name among you and hath caused his marvellous Light to approach when you sate in darkness in the Land of the shadow of death when you were lost he sought you and when you were driven away and scattered he found you and brought you home when you were in your blood and no eye pittyed you he had mercy upon you and bound you up and healed you when you were dead he said unto you Live and it was so when you were led captive by the Devil under the power of Death he brake the Chains and set you free and when there was none to help and to save his own Arm brought Deliverance and Salvation and the Way of Life and Peace he set before you And now all this hath his own Arm accomplished that you should be a praise unto him for evermore and if you walk in the way which he hath set before you and keep his Covenant which he hath made with you and fulfill his Will and walk in Righteousness in Love and Unity in Meekness Lowliness Humbleness and in Soberness and Watchfulness and in Fear of his Name then shall his Presence never forsake you nor his out-stretched Arm cease to defend and preserve you but he shall go before you and be your reward and he shall be your God and you shall be his People and you shall dwell in him and he shall be your hiding-place and he will be to you a Father and you shall be his Children and his Blessing and Peace shall remain in your habitations for ever and ever but if any of you turn aside for a thing of nought after vanity and deny the Way of Righteousness and forget the Lord and kick against him and follow the way and counsels of your own hearts and worship other gods and joyn your selves to strangers and commit Adultery with other Lovers and make the Cross of Christ of none-effect and turn from the Light of Christ within you and fulfill your own wills and the desire of your own minds and go out of the Fear of the Lord into the liberty of the flesh which is not the Liberty in Christ Jesus and so seek your selves and strive for mastery to be one above another and so surmise evil one against another and the bond of Peace be broken and vain contention and strife appear then shall the Rod of God smite you and his Wrath be suddenly kindled against you and you shall not prosper but his Countenance shall be hid and the Terrors of the Lord and Lamentations shall possess you and Peace shall flee far from you and such shall be cast out of the Camp of the Lord and shall have no part in the Inheritance but the Blessing shall depart and the Curse shall enter till utter destruction yea and if any of you deny the Lord unto whom his Way is made manifest he will deny you and you shall have no part in him but Vengeance in flames of fire will he render upon the disobedient manifold more than if his Love and way of Peace had not been made manifest to you and the Light of the World is your Condemnation for evermore if you turn from it And in the presence of the living God I warn you all Believe not that spirit neither follow it which brings any other Message than what hath been declared from the beginning believe not him which cryes Lo here or Lo there is Christ without you or that draweth from the measure of Christ within you to hearken to or to be taught by any other thing for that spirit is not of the Father which preacheth any other Christ than he that is the Light of the World and lighteth every man that cometh into the World and which bringeth any other Message than that God is light in himself and hath given his Son a Light into the World And this is the true Testimony of the Father and of the Son and he that testifieth any other Message is to be judged and denyed he is not a Worshipper of the true God but out of the Truth and in the Errour and a Deceiver and being deceived Again Believe not that spirit neither follow it which ministers to others that which it hath not learned of the Father but hath the words without the Power and

lives not in the Power of what it ministers forth in words nor is not what it declares but is in the outward shews in the hypocrisie and feignedness and reacheth not the Life of God but vails and covers it and that spirit is not of the Father but is to be denied and judged and not received nor believed Again Believe not that spirit neither follow it which is at liberty in the flesh and makes the Offence of the Cross to cease which is exalted out of the Fear of the Lord in the liberty of the earthly which crucifies the Life and darkens the eye and that spirit will boast of Joy and Peace and experience and knowledge and speak high words in the airy mind and that would lead you out of your conditions to glory above the Cross till you be past feeling of the Life and that spirit begets into feignedness and hypocrisie and into the love of the world which passes away and beware of that spirit for it is not of the Father but to be condemned Again Believe not that spirit neither follow it which is hasty and forward and rash for that goeth out of God's Counsel and betrayes the Just and strives to be greatest and to be above the weak and despiseth him and would be Master and not a servant and would rule and not be ruled in the meek and lowly Government of Christ and that spirit will judge out of thoughts rashly and unsavourily and condemn another in secret in what it self is guilty of beware of that spirit for it is not of God but to be judged with the Life of God Again Believe not that spirit neither follow it which seeks it self to have praise of men and to be accounted and would beget into divisions and would have parties to it self and respects persons and glories in gifts and knowledge and parts more than in the Giver and admires men more than He that gives the encrease and feeds of the knowledge in that nature which is to be famished and glorieth in what hath been done by it as though it had not received power from the Lord and is exalted as though it bare the root not knowing that it is born of the root and that spirit spends its treasure which it received in the Father's house amongst harlots and despiseth the poor and seeks occasion to glory over the weak that it may be renowned beware of that spirit I charge you all for it is not of the Father nor to be followed but to be condemned and resisted unto death Again Believe not that spirit neither follow it which preacheth not from the measure of God received and to be manifest to it in you and approved by it only but speaks above the measure and reaches not to the measure of the Grace of God that spirit leads after words and outward shews and cryes Peace to the Rich and Judgment to the Poor and the Word of God is not divided aright but heals up falsly and daubs with untempered mortar and cryes Peace where God speaks War and cryes War where God speaks Peace and that spirit is a deceiver and a betrayer and feeds but the ear and not the Life and darkens the Counsel of God by words without knowledge and is not of the Father but of the world and to be denyed and condemned Again Believe not that spirit neither follow it which is not subject to rule and order and is not meek and diligent and long-suffering but heady high and untoward seeking occasions against the Just and watcheth for evil that spirit will not bear reproof but is idle sloathful and careless surmising evil and backbiting and conforms in appearance making a fair shew but it is not unto God as appearing unto man and that would go and is not called and will not go when it is called and seeks for the praise of men more than God and that is fruitless ground and brings forth bryars and thorns in secret which choaks the Seed of God beware of that spirit it is a lover of this world have no fellowship with it for it is not of the Father but a deceiver and is to be denyed Again Believe not that spirit neither follow it which is tossed and unsetled and is given to change and is not established with Grace that is an Adulterer and hunts for the precious life and seeks by flattery to beguile the Innocent that spirit is zealous for a moment but is soon overcome and is stony ground and brings not forth fruit to perfection but withers and its latter end is worse than the beginning That spirit is exalted into presumption and in peace and cast into desperation and trouble and the double-mind lodgeth in it and it is unstable in all its wayes and is a ground for the seed of Satan and to it there is no peace from God and beware of that spirit for it is not of the Father but to be condemned Again Believe not that spirit neither follow it which is more zealous than knowing whose zeal is without true knowledge and stands in that which is corrupted that flourisheth for a moment but cannot endure for ever it hath no root in it self but is furious and passionate and not long-suffering that spirit knows not it self but would devour its adversary with bitterness and not gain'd by long-suffering that is not the Spirit of the Father but must be denied in all Again Believe not that spirit which draws back into the world into its lusts liberty and fashions which passe away that spirit forgets God and draws back for his soul hath no pleasure in it but is vexed with it where the Cross is made of none effect and the false liberty is walked in which murders the Life that spirit is of the Devil and is to be condemned And now all Friends of God every-where who know him and are known of him whom he hath gathered out of this untoward Generation be diligent in your Callings and keep your Meetings in faithfulness waiting upon the Lord that you all may receive of his Fulness to be filled with it and may be nourished up unto himself as Trees of Righteousness the planting of his own right-hand to spread forth his Name and Glory as a People saved by him and unto whom there is none like besides And this know and understand that spirit is not of the Father which confesseth not the Son to be come in the flesh who destroyes the works of the Devil and takes away sin and that Spirit believe and follow which condemns sin and destroyes it and takes it away and so gives Peace with God in your own Consciences and leads you into all Truth and keeps you from all Evil and you that witness this the Son you know and the Father you know to dwell with you and in you and this is the first and the last believe in him and follow him and look not for any other and in this the Father of Life and Glory whose Dominion is without beginning and end stablish you and preserve you Amen and Amen I a beloved Brother and a Companion unto all the Saints in suffering and in rejoycing who have received this Testimony from the Father do with it in this Epistle salute the whole Church in the Love of the Father as moved of Him by his Eternal Spirit who beareth witness to me that we are of God and the whole world lies in wickedness and that all that are of God heareth us And this Testimony I give of the Father and of the Son and of the Truth and of the Salvation of which I am made a Witness and against all that ever shall deny it or turn from it And this is thus far the words of my Testimony by the Spirit of the Father not knowing when the time comes it may be finished and the night may come when no man can work Edward Burrough THE END POST-SCRIPT FOrasmuch as many who are partakers of the Father's Love manifested in his Son in measure in whom these Epistles have found greeting With the same Love in the upright-hearted to which it is a sure Testimony of Love from Life it self to the quickning strengthning confirming and arming of all such as have in the Love Life and Power heard received and believed the Truth as it hath been declared and is in Iesus in whom our Faith is standing which Faith worketh by the Love shed abroad in our hearts wherein we are reaching after each other in the sameness of Love which is the bond of our Unity wherein we are called together to be joyned in the purity power and life of one Faith and Love therein to bear Testimony as we have in our measures received to and of the Everlasting Truth wherein finding these Epistles of such manifold service to the whole Body both for instruction exhortation strengthning and forewarning whereby there is or may be a safe arming against all deceit and deceivable spirits Hence it is from the earnest love and desire stirred up in many here among us that are faithful whereby this they put in print that thereby the service may reach unto all who are worthy thereof in these Nations for to them is it sent who are called of God Therefore in the Fear of the Lord let every one of us to whom this comes walk worthy of the Fathers Love Grace Mercy and Peace whereinto we are called in one Body of which Christ is Head A. D.

openly reviling the Ministers of Righteousness which God hath blessed and doth daily bless with his Eternal Power to the turning many unto God and to the strengthening of the weak and feeble which we with many do witness to be the Ministers of Life and Reconciliation and there is no other and are established in it and cannot be moved by the temptations of the Devil though the Wicked-one may revile for a moment to winnow some and to try them and to draw the hearts and minds of others into a snare out from the obedience to Christ Jesus which do become mockers and despisers and subverters of the simplicity of the Gospel of Peace and of the Ministers and Ministry thereof which is the Power of God unto Salvation and there is no other though some harden their hearts through unbelief and blind the eye till they be past feeling through rebellion against the Truth which they hold in unrighteousness and not in the Power of God having made the offence of the Cross to cease yet boasting in the liberty of Christ while they are unmortified having run from the Judgment and not truly come thorow it in the finishing of Condemnation and that spirit that goes out of the Cross is subverted and seeks to subvert others from the Truth as it is in Iesus and that spirit is denied fellowship with though it have conformity in the hypocrisie Wherefore this is the Word of the Lord God unto you that erre after that spirit Be awakened be awakened remember and repent and come to your first work to that which condemns you lest the Lord by his Hand of Wrath and Judgement upon you make you an example of Misery and Destruction to all that shall hereafter deny the Lord and his Truth Hear and consider to the Light in you all I speak have you another Truth than that which hath been known and declared from the beginning is there any other way to Life than which we have been Witnesses of who have not handled the Word of God deceitfully among you nor sought yours but you nor preached our selves but Iesus Christ and hereof we have the Witness in our Consciences in the holy Ghost And is there any other Salvation than that which God hath manifested which is Christ Iesus the Light of the World Be awakened and consider Wherefore then do you separate your selves disorderly and resist the Word of Life which once begot you towards the Lord Consider what you are doing and whither you are walking the end of your way is perdition and that is accursed which preacheth another Gospel how do you dishonour the Lord in the sight of the Heathen before whom you discover your nakedness and your shame doth appear having put off and cast aside your armour and weapon of Truth whereby you might have been defended but scorners and fools take occasion through your disorders and confusions to blaspheme the Name of the Lord and it is through you Oh be stirred up and consider and search your hearts and come to the tryal ye that vex the Lord's Soul and grieve his Spirit lest it cease to strive with you and you be wholly given up to fulfill wickedness till there be no place nor time of repentance found And this is a Warning to you all in the presence of the living God that you may return to your first love to fear before the Lord and to walk in his Truth if there may be mercy and to fulfill his Will which is the Light which you are lighted withall by Christ Iesus who is the Lamb of God the Way the Truth and the Life the author and finisher of Faith and there is not another and know this you that deny Him who is given yea unto you all he will deny you before his Father and of all your blood I am clear thus far whether you resist or receive who am the lover of your souls sometimes loved of you while you were lovers of the Truth and am now a Witness for the Lord and his Truth and against that spirit which leads you in the rebellion against the Government of Christ which is Order and Peace out of which you have erred to the piercing of your own souls and though you now exalt your selves against me and the Truth and boast your selves as though you reigned yet in the Day of the Lord shall the Light in you all which now is darkened bear witness to me and of my faithfullness in reproving you and the Truth is for ever dear to me and my soul delights no less in it though you rebel against it in the heady exalted presumptuous high wilful spirit which is not subject to the Government nor Authority of the Ministry of Christ but Truth is over you all and the Mountain of the Lord is established above you all and all your words and works and boastings and feignedness and disorder are denied and in them we have not fellowship but the contrary and do in the Authority of the Lord even by the same Authority which hath begotten us unto God and called us and carried us in his Work unto this day deny you all in that ground and state wherein you stand till repentance and returning from whence you are fallen to the Light which Christ hath lighted you withal And all faithful Friends this is the Word of the Lord God to you Hear and fear walk in the Truth which ye have heard and learned and received of the Father in it dwell and live and know there is no other than that which is made manifest which is sure to you all and cannot deceive nor be deceived and be not shaken in mind nor troubled though some deny the Lord but let their fall be a warning to you to be more watchful to be kept to the Lord lest you be tempted and dwell in the Mountain of Holiness which no Beast can touch where is a hiding-place to preserve you in the time of tryal and I charge you all in the presence of the living God of Life let your minds be setled and hearts stayed in the Truth which is the Foundation of God and know the Armour of God to gird you up to God where no offence is taken against Christ nor against the way of Truth but the Power of God doth remove that which would be offended and tramples upon that which gives the offence and in this you will be preserved until the day of Salvation and be aware of that spirit which boasts above the measure and of that which makes the offence of the Cross to cease for there hardness of heart and unbelief enters and so another is followed than the Light and another joyned to than Christ Jesus and there is the way to perdition who go from the Light within them they deny God and his Truth and follow the imaginations of the foolish heart and run in rashness and in the frowardness and that ground receives the unclean spirit in again with seven