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A30309	A call to back-sliding Israel and may be as a necessary word of caution and admonition to the inhabitants of East and West-Jarsey, Pennsilvania, &c. as a remembrancer to them to call to mind their former state, and whence they are fallen. With some short account of my leaving a second time that party of them called Quakers, which have condemned G. Keith, and all that own him, or his testimony for the crucified Jesus, our alone advocate in heaven. By Elias Burling.	Burling, Elias.	1694 (1694)	Wing B5740A; ESTC R214912	9,170	22

Dividing one from another in the Church of Christ and amongst Brethren that it ought not to be but in that other sence as I have told you if the Lord doth it for 〈◊〉 good end and purpose to make manifest Hypocrites and evil Workers who live in Error and to search out the hidden Workers of Darkness and the Hypocrites in Zion and who pro ess themselves to be Jews and are not but do lye and for the laying open H●●esie and Error that hath long lain undiscovered that so those that are approved of him may be made manifest and if he will raise up some from amongst our selves to do this Work which you account so ill a Work yet in this sence as the Lord doth it in order to effect and bring to pass his own Purpose I may not condemn it it being the Day that I have much wished for that those that are approved might be manifest and no place found where the Worker of Iniquity might hide his head and the Day is come a●d coming that wi●● find them out of all the dark Places and lurking Holes So with little more I shall conclude desiring the Lord if it be his Will to turn your hearts to him and to work a true Reformation and change in your Minds that so the thick Vail of Darkness and Error that is over many of your ●earts may be effectually rent off a●d taken away and that you may come to know the holy Covering of God and to put on the Lord Jesus ●hrist and to be covered with his Righteous Power and Spirit and then I know you will not be found naked but might be able to stand before the Son of Man Now as to any amongst you who m●y be conscientiously conc●rred as to me if any such there be I am able to give a further or more full and satisfactory Account of my leaving you again if desired and as to my going to and f●o for my own satisfaction which ye ●ender so ill and as being now worse than before and that it ●espeak● me and us of an unstable Mind and wavering too and again for my late condescention in coming so near you as I was willing to come as ne● to you as the Truth would possibly admit and that in love for the Bodies s●ke the ●hurch but how I am the worse for so doing I m●y t●ll you and what my Experience hath been since I c●me last amongst you or rather that you came to us in your appointed time for I n●ver did ●●e my way clear to come to you indeed I can own in one sence I am not the better for my being last with you and though it was not long that I was with you yet I now think it was long enough and shall truly and honestly declare my experience and how I found it in that tim● which thi●g I kept secret to my self but I minded it well and how the Lord was to me in that time and whether I enjoyed him ●●w amo●gst you so as I did before when in the S●peration as knowing what he h●d been unto me then and this Experience I have and am now free to tell it That the nearer I came to you the Lord he with-drew himsel● th● further from me and I wanted those Soul refreshing Comforts that I had from him before and as I with-drew my self ag●in from ●ou the Lord immediately drew near to me ag●in and then my Love and Zeal began to s e ● en increase more to him which w I le near to ●●u began to ●●●tten and decl ne because I w●s not to sit down with you in an evil secu●e state nor could I sit down with you in the state I saw you in nor was it ever in my heart so to do as knowing certainly if I did the Lord would wholly with-draw himself from me and shut up and with-hold his wonted goodness from me and whom my Soul was still concerned for that I might not loose him ●or do that which might give him cause ag●in to hide his face These things I made Observation of betwixt the Lord and my own Soul Also a a little before I left you the Lord set it clearly before me your unpro●●table state and where you are and what your lot and po●tion will be and mine also if I continued with you so as to sit down and have fellowship with you in that dark evil corrupt state which the Lord knows and my Soul knows you are now sitten down in and he hastened me much before I left you as Lot out of Sodom To haste and flee as for my Life and to save my sel from such a Generation as are out of the Faith of the L●rd Jesus Christ which I can now with greater boldness affirm than I could before having had the advantage to hear and se● the second time again for my self and which was the main great cause of my being amongst you the second time that so I might have a more perfect kn●wledge of these things and like the Noble B●raeans desired to find and se●rch out whether th●se thing● were alt●gether so as the Cry and Report hath been And why should any blame me for this or resent so ill my coming and going to and fro as being under a Soul concern I wish that many amongst you that are settled on their Lees were in like manner so concerned and that I could see many going to and fro for it said In the latter days they shall ran to and fro and Knowl●dge shall increase A●d seeing I came to seek th● good amongst you had it been to be found and not to spy out your liberty in Christ and bring you into Bondage yet was willing to spy out whether ye h●ve indeed the Faith of our Lord Jesus Christ and finding that you have it not am wa●ned to with-draw and have no fellowship with such as cannot bear to have the Lord Jesus Christ preached amongst you the which advantage I have had by my being last with you seeing plainly that it s not as you have endeavoured to make People believe viz. ●hat it s not for the Testimonies sake that ye deny these in the Seperation but for this dividing Spirit and for reviling and exposing But this ●over is now stripping off and will not longer hide you but you must now appear as yeare and that ye are of those that love not the Lord Jesus Christ as your doings have and do manifestly declare Elias Burling Postscript AN● whereas it was questioned by some in the time of my being last amongst you Whether I did really intend and desire to come into Vnity with you again To which I can say I did innocently and truly desire it could I have so done and not have joyned with men of evil and corrupt Principles and Practices who I see had and have free liberty to preach and pray in your Meetings without let or interruption but such as bring the Doctrine of

A CALL TO Back-sliding Israel And may be as a Necessary Word of Caution and Admonition to the Inhabitants of East and West-Jarsey Pennsilvania c. as a Remembrancer to them to call to mind their former state and whence they are fallen With some short Account of my leaving a second time that Party of them called Quakers which have Condemned G. Keith and all that own him or his Testimony for the crucified Jesus our alone Advocate in Heaven By Elias Burling Printed and Sold by William Bradford at the Sign of the Bible in New-York 1694. A Call to Back-sliding Israel and may be as a necessary Word of Caution to many of the Inhabitants of Burlington c. HEar O Israel This short Message and Testimony is to you who have long made Profession of the holy Truth yet have not known or witnessed the pure purging Power of it throughly to cleanse wash and sanctifie and to set you free from sin and the power and servitude of it but have taken up a false Rest and are sate down at ease in Zion in a Profession of Truth with a Name to live whilst dead dead as ●o Holiness dead as to the Life Power of Truth and divine Knowledge of the Mystery of Christ Enemies to the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ that should throughly crucifie you to the World and the World to you which raiseth up the Soul into the Life of Holiness this you are Enemies unto in your Minds by reason of wicked Works so hold the Truth in Unrighteousness and are crucifying that afresh to your selves which should slay and crucifie you to the World and the Evils of it but what will ye do in the end thereof Though now for a Time you may live over trample upon th●● innocent Life yet in the end it will be too h●avy for you if ye will not bow and bend to it and be willing to fall upon it and be b●oken by it it will at last fall heavy upon you and will grind you to Powder and this I have long seen and fore-seen in the Lig●t of the Lord to be your state many of you the efore hear and fear all ye Disobedient Rebellious Ones who have long professed me in words saith the Lord yet in wo●ks have denyed me who honour me not nor is my N●m● feared sanctified in the mid●t of you but my holy Spirit is hath been long grieved by you for you are a Rebellious House sa●th the Lo●d the●efo●e I delight not in you nor are your Offerings pleasant or acceptable in my sight as in days and years past when they were as a sweet smell unto me whilst you retained your love and sincerity to my Name T●uth and held fast your Integrity and my holy fear was before you and whilst yet kept and abode in it it kept and preserved you out of many of the Evils of the World which you a●e since again run unto and into this must you c●me again even to your first Love and ●o Repent and do your first Works if ever ye come into my favour again and be owned and received of me and that I again receive an Offering at your hands with Acceptance Hear therefore O Israel what the Lord by his Spirit may signifie unto you Though very long hath the Lord bo●n with a people in this day even as he bore long with Israel of Old forty Years was he grieved tempted with that Generation who after that He by a mighty hand and an out stretched Arm had saved them out of the Land of Aegypt and had led them through the Red Sea and brought them safe upon the Banks of Deliverance where they sang his Praise yet he afterwards destroyed them that believed not whi●h things are written for our Admonition that we grieve not the Lord in rebelling against his good Spirit as they did of which we had need to take heed least we also come to fall in this Wilderness through the same Example of Unbelief for the Lord hath born long with a People and Generation in this our Day and for whom he hath also done much who have long p●ofessed him in words some of them forty or near fifty years but what Fruit is there brought forth by too to many of them though he hath waited long year after year seeking and expecting Fruit of whom he now grows weary and the Day of his long-suffering and forbearance is come near unto an end and that he will say Cut it down why cumbereth it the Ground And this will be the lot portion of many unless they speedily Repent Its Fruit that he expects and looks for and he will not be longer put off or satisfied without Fruits that may honour him for barely a Profession of t●e holy Truth without a holy Life will stand no Soul of us in any stead at all in the great Day of Account but he will have an Improvement made by us of his own and what he hath committed to our Trust and he that hath not improved his Gift but hath been idle sloathful and negligent in his Lords business in his Day and Time this Gift or Talent will at last be call'd for by the Give● of it and taken from him and the Portion of that Servant will be in utter Darkness forever He that hath an Ear to hear let him hear this Word The Lord is taking away thy Diadem the Crown is falling from thy head thy flourishing Beauty is passing away quickl the heavenly Sun which thou rejoyced in for a time now with-draws its shining the Da●kness is now thickening upon thee in stead of spiritual Mirth and Gladness a Day of Sorrow Mourning and Lamentation in st●ad of a Girdle a Rent instead of well set Hair Baldness and instead of a sweet Smell behold a stink and thy Name shall be for a perpetual Shame and Reproach amongst the H athen be●ause ye have not sanctified the N●me of the holy One but have greatly polluted it in this Land therefore I will make ye a Scorn a By-word a Hissing to Nations and Women shall rule over thee strangers shall come up and eat your Bread and shall possess your Habitations and the Lord will call in others to the heavenly Banquet the Supper of the Lamb and who are more worthy than ye they shall enter into the Ma●riage Chamber pertake of the heavenly Dainties and they shall come from the East and from the West and shall enter in shall sit down with Abraham Isaac Jacob in the Kingdom of God and Ye who have accounted your selves the Children of it shall be th●ust out for your Disobedience for there are fl●st at shall be last and last that shall be first and as ye were in times past when little in your own Eyes and in a bowed sence befo●e the Lo●d you were th●n reproach d sco●ned mocked and derided of the World and such as knew not God for your

Christ and set him before you as the Object of your Faith cannot have the like liberty but their Doctrine and Testimony opposed and contradicted time after time Also whereas it may look strange that I lay so deep a Charge upon some as their Denying our only Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ I say I know none that have done it in express words for in pretence they own him largely but by necessary and undeniable Consequences they have done it as can well be made appear not only by what mine Ears have heard but by many more Ear Witnesses with me which these Instances following are Evidences viz. 1st Their Preaching publickly That the Jews did not see the Worlds Saviour which naturally is to deny Jesus of Nazareth the Son of Mary Abraham and David to be he and contrary to his own words John 6. and this received by the said publick Meeting and at th same time ●he contrary plain Scripture Doctrine and Testimony denyed and opposed as also at the next Monethly Meeting 2dly The Testimony of G. Hutcheson That Christ is now in Heaven glorified in the true Nature o● Man was opposed by several Persons in the publick Meeting and said Meeting owned them therein 3dly In that G. H. hath been publickly opposed in testifying T●at the great Mystery of Godliness 1 Tim. 3.16 was God manifest in the Flesh of Christ f●e one had applyed it wholly to God being mani●est in our Flesh to destroy sin and by one called a Novelty and said G. H's Interpretation of said Scripture was a Perversion and gi●ing his own and a wro●g Construction upon it and an adding thereunto and with hands stretched out Threa●ened him with the Plagues in Rev. 22.18 and this in a publick Meeting and no one that I heard reproved him for it but rather justified him therein These with divers other Instances that might be given a●● Proof sufficient that you are greatly ignorant of Jesus Christ whom God raised ●●ain from the Dead and hath set him at his own Right Hand of Power having also appointed a Day in which he will judge the Wo●ld even by the Man Christ Jesus of which he hath given ass●rance to all men in that he raised him from the Dead and whomsoever have the true Faith believe that God raised from the dead and that he was received up into Glory That he that was dead is still in being and th●t he ever lives and shall come again in the Day appointed to judge all Mankind but this is denyed by them whom we are seperated from witness H. W. lately wh●● G H. was saying That it was his Beli●f Th●● that same Jesus that ascended out of the ●●ght of his Disciples into Heaven should ou●w●rdly appear again and that he should se● him with the Eyes of his Resurrect●o Body which H. Willis wondered at an with Hands lifted up said He never expected any such thing Now I have this advantage by my being last with you That whereas you have endeavoured to make me and others believe That it s not for the Doctrine or Testimony 's sake that you have denyed us but for Reviling Printing and Exposing the Faults and Weaknesses of Brethren which I also am against as well as you and ●ave and can condemn it so far That it ought not to be done against the true Breth●en and Israel of God but Anti-christs and all Anti-christian Practices and Principles are and ought to be born witness and testified against in the Zeal of the Lord so that this false Cover and Pretence will not longer do it being already seen through by many of the honest hea●ted whose Eyes are so far opened that they begin now to see you and there is no hiding of your Iniquities and Hypocrisie with this or the other pretence for the Lord is about thorowly to search his Camp and to rip off every false Cover till he ha●h said all open naked and bare and there shall be nothing able to hide any from the face of the Lamb but the pure Power and heavenly divine Covering of the holy Spirit of the Lord therefore it concerns us all and every particular to see to it whether vve have got this Covering on yea or nay E. B. THE END