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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 wrath Fear ye the Lord and doe not offend him in any thing stand in awe and transgresse not love righteousnes and truth touch no unclean thing and the Lord will receive you meddle not with their worships nor bow not to their Images nor sacrifice not to their Idoll gods have no fellowship with them in their prophanesse nor yet in their hypocrisie but hearken ye to the voyce of the Lord that you may know his judgements in your hearts and his Law and Covenant established with you depart from all iniquity and cast away all your Idolls and forsake all your lovers Give not your selves to the wayes and pleasures of this world but give your selves to chastity to sobernesse and meeknesse and above all things be upright in heart towards God and towards man speak the truth one to another and let no guile dwell in your lips nor a deceitfull tongue in your mouth And cease from all vaine glory and vaine customes and fashions of the world which are evill And cease from all Men-teachers which deceives the People by flattering words who cries peace when the Lord hath not spoken peace and daubes with untempered Morter such hath not profited you at all but your soules are starved under your Ministry and leannesse is upon you though you ever learne of them yet you cannot come to the knowledge of the truth by them Cease from them all and from all your gathered and selfe-separate Congregations and waite upon the Lord that you may know him to be your Teacher who is the Teacher of all his people and he teacheth in the perfect way of peace and truth and gives peace unto all that waite upon him and causeth the heart of the upright to rejoyce he taketh away sin and removes it from his people and he forgiveth all their iniquities and healeth all their back-slidings and blessed are all they that put their trust in him for he is a God near at hand for he dwells in his people and he is worshipped onely in the Spirit and in the truth He dwells not in Temples made with hands neither is he worshipped in outward observations his soule hath no pleasure among any selfe-separate People who cryes I am holier then another neither is he well pleased with a Sacrafice of the proud all their Baptismes and Fellowships and Meetings is but a wearinesse to the Lords soule and he hath no pleasure in any of their works who follows their own spirit and are not led with the pure Spirit of God alone but unto every one of such will he look who is poor in spirit and of a contrite heart and of a single and upright mind he gives regard unto every one that feares his Name who thirsts and hungers after him in truth and righteousnesse and this is of exceeding great prize in the sight of the Lord yea more then all offerings and oblations whatsoever even more then thousands of rames and ten thousands of river of Oyle Therefore hearken diligently to the voyce of the Lord and seek him with an upright heart and thirst for him as for your daily food I ose not your precious time but call upon his name while he is near for he is come near unto many he stands at the door if any will open he will come in and will dwell with them for evermore All sorts of People be awakened be awakened how doth the Lord wait to be gracious unto you he even tarries for you till you returne to him that his soule may have pleasure in you who hath long been grieved by you Therefore search your own hearts and see how you stand prepared to meet the Lord by following of his Counsell who hath so loved you and all man kind that he hath given his Son into the world to be a light unto you all and every one of you is lightned by him and with the light you will know your evill deeds and are convinced of them and reproved for them and with this Light Jesus Christ calls you sinners to Repentance to turne from your evills that you may be restored If you love this Light you love Christ who will save you from all your sins and from condemnation If you hate this Light you hate Christ and you remaine in your sins to be everlastingly condemned And thus is the way of life and the way of death set before you all if you follow the light of Christ Jesus it will teach you to deny this world and all the vanities of it it will teach you to deny your own wills and the counsells of your own hearts and whatsoever is contrary to God in thought word or action and in all things it will teach to follow Jesus Christ that you may be justified by him But if you follow not the light then you chuse your own wayes to follow your own wills and your own lusts and all temptations and you deny Christ and the way of truth and so the wrath of God abides upon you for you continue in unbeliefe and in hardnesse of heart and are the servants of sin unto death if you follow not the light which Christ hath enlightned you withall who lighteth every man that comes into the world that they may believe and be saved Therefore take heed to the light if you be guided by it you shall not transgresse against God but you will receive the power of God to overcome all evill all sin and iniquity will be condemned in you and your hearts will be made clean for the Lord to dwell in whose dwelling is in his people and you must all cease from professing of what you doe not posesse and from talking of what you doe not enjoy for that is hypocrisie and to be judged So all ye Professours be awakened Christ without you will not justifie you except yee know Christ within you the Profession of him will not take away sin nor justifie in the sight of God except you come to witnesse the operation of his Spirit in you and to teach you from all evill and into all good Therefore come to the feeling of the Spirit of Jesus in you and the working of it which changeth reneweth and sanctifieth and brings to witnesse the same truth to be manifest in the heart which the Scripture speaks of without and as you receive the same Spirit which gave forth the Scriptures so you will understand the Scriptures and by no other means For all your Preaching and talking of the Scriptures without the Spirit is but vaine babling and that mouth is to be stopt for God is not known where the operation of his Spirit is not felt in the heart nor he cannot be worshipped in truth but where his Spirit leads and guides Much vaine Profession ther 's in thee O City in which the Lord hath no delight And this is the Testimony of the Lord which I give concerning thee and doe yet once more call unto thee as often I have done and doe

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

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