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A30558	Truth defended, or, Certain accusations answered cast upon us who are called Quakers by the teachers of the world, and the people of this generation with a clear discovery who are the false prophets and when they came in, and how they may bee known, and who they are that deny Christ and that preach another gospel ... / by one who is a labourer in the vineyard ... Edward Burrough.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.; Mowgill, Edward.	1656 (1656)	Wing B6050; ESTC R23840	18,605	24

Isai●h Ezekiel and Micah to be true Prophets for i● you did believe that 〈◊〉 spoke from the mouth of the Lord the word of the Lord and understood 〈◊〉 they spoke then would you not uphold them which act those things which 〈◊〉 declared against for that which was abomination to the Lord then is abo●●tion to him now and that spirit which declared against these things then 〈◊〉 uphold them now And here the Teachers and people are tryed not to have the same spi●i● 〈◊〉 was in the holy Prophets of the Lord but the spirit of the false Prophets 〈◊〉 by it that which they acted which the true Prophets cryed against and 〈◊〉 by upholding that which the Lord sent his servants to declare against you 〈◊〉 against the Lord ye Magistrates and People And you are not ashamed to 〈◊〉 such Ministers of Christ which walke in the same steps and act those things 〈◊〉 they did which Christ cryed woe against are called of men Masters and 〈◊〉 the chiefe places in the Assemblies and stand praying in the Synagogues and 〈◊〉 in long robes and love greetings in the Markets as they did here you 〈◊〉 such as Christ cryed wo against and deny that Christ spoke the truth what 〈◊〉 the minde of his Father or understood it not for if you did believe that he 〈◊〉 the will of his Father then would ye not uphold these tha● act the same 〈…〉 which he cryed wo against And he charges not that which he once cryed 〈◊〉 the same spirit where it is witnessed cries against the same things And here 〈◊〉 the Teachers of the world are tryed not to have the spirit of Christ but the 〈◊〉 of the Scribes and Pharisees who act that which they acted which he cryed 〈◊〉 ●●gainst And herein Magistrates and People strive against the Lord God by ●●●holding that which Christ cryed wo against and such who are Ministers 〈◊〉 Christ and walk in his Doctrine and in the same steps which he and his Apostles walked in witnessing for that which they witnessed for and against that which they witnessed against them you call deceivers and false Prophets and 〈◊〉 them for vagabonds and wandering beggars and idle and careless persons and that they have left their families and carelesly wander up and down And herein you Magistrates and people strive against the Lord by persecuting and slandering and falsly accusing and condemning such as the Scripture justifies and the servants of the Lord which spoke forth the Scripture do witness of to be true What would you have called Christ who had no where to lay his head he was no vagabond nor idle nor careless Person And what would you have called the Apostles and Ministers of Christ who had left their Families and Callings and went up and down and had no certain dwelling place but went from City to City and cared not for the world not what to eat nor what to drink nor wherewith to be cloathed this they did and yet were no vagabonds nor idle nor careless persons but abode in the Doctrine of Christ they were hated by your generation as we are now by you And they were called pestilent fellows and movers of sedition and hereticks and men of ●●●nious judgements And they said They were troublers of their Cities as you do ●o● 〈◊〉 false Prophets and Decivers I do declare this generation to be the same 〈◊〉 persecuted the Prophets Christ and his Apostles as it doth persecute us 〈◊〉 the same power we stand as they did and by the same power we are 〈◊〉 and acted as they were And to the power by which we stand and are 〈◊〉 shall all the powers of men and of the earth bow and be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all you Magistrates and people consider of your blindness and ignorance 〈…〉 absolutely justifie and uphold such as the Scripture declares and witnesses 〈◊〉 and do condemn and persecute such as the Scripture justifies and witnesses and do put them out of your synagogues and villages search the Prophets 〈◊〉 Christs and the Apostles writings in them you may read your example and example In Jer. ●0 You may read how Pashur the chief Governor when he had heard what 〈◊〉 ●ad said smote him and put him in the Prison and in the stocks and dealt 〈◊〉 with him Now Jeremiah is our example who had the word of the Lo●d and 〈◊〉 sometime in the streets and in the gate of the Lords house and feared no 〈◊〉 but Prophesied against the Priests and false Prophets which used their tongue 〈◊〉 had not the word from the Lord but was given to lightness and covetuousness And 〈◊〉 who smote him and put him in the Prison is your example whose measure of 〈◊〉 you fulfil in doing as he did and by your oppressions is the sufferings and 〈◊〉 of Ieremiah fulfilled in us who is made a derision daily and a scorn to the 〈◊〉 since we spake in the name of the Lord as Ieremiah was in that generation of 〈◊〉 who is your example Also in Amos 7 you may read how Amaziah the Kings 〈◊〉 sent to the King of Israel and they conspired against him and Amazia●forbad 〈◊〉 to prophesie any more at Bethel for it is the Kings Chappel and the Kings Court 〈◊〉 said he the land is not able to bear his words Now herein Amaziah the Priest and 〈◊〉 in the King who were both Persecutors is your example who takes counsel 〈◊〉 the innocent and thrusts out of your Countries and Cities and Towns and makes 〈◊〉 against the servants of the Lord and forbids us to speak any more in your Courts or 〈◊〉 and beats and persecutes us and doth say The Land is not able to bare such 〈◊〉 as are spoken and written by us And Amos who was no Prophet nor Prophets 〈◊〉 but a poor laboring man is our example who was innocent and spake the word of the Lord against the Songs of the Temples in the Chappel and in the Kings Court and 〈◊〉 example doth witness to our practice as the example of the wicked in their wicked●●●● do witness your practice whom you succeed in oppression And also you may read through the Scriptures how the children of God who were called of him were hated and persecuted by the seed of evil doers They slew the Prophets and persecuted them that were sent unto them David was a scorn and a reproach and a ●issing to his enemies and Iob was mocked of his friends and counted a mad 〈◊〉 and many of the servants of the Lord suffered cruel deaths under the hands of the Oppressor and they that were sufferers and were mocked and scorned and persecuted o● our example and the mockers and persecutors are your example Christ and the Apostles in their time were sufferers and you may read how Herod and Pilate and the Officers and chief Priests caused Christ to suffer unjustly by Imprisonments and Scoargings and ●uffe●ings and Revilings though no evil could be justly laid to his charge and be is our example in the like things and as they did unto him so you do unto us a● being of the same seed and this he said and Herod and the cruel Officers 〈◊〉 Priests are your example of whose ●eed you are brought forth fulfilling their 〈◊〉 of wickedness and cruelty in this your day and time and oppressing the just with 〈◊〉 bonds of iniquity And you may read how the Apostles was persecuted through whole Book of Acts and put out of their Towns and stoned some unto death and 〈◊〉 forbid to speak any more in the name of Iesus and was thought to be men not 〈◊〉 live upon the ●arth was called pestilent fellows movers of Sedition and 〈…〉 world upside down and these was our example who had left their Callings Countries 〈◊〉 Relations and gave themselves to be spent for the Lords sake and declared against 〈◊〉 false Ministery which preached for hire and gifts and rewards and against 〈◊〉 had the form of godliness but not the power and went into the Idol Temples and 〈◊〉 against them and against their outward traditional worships In these things 〈◊〉 many more we follow them as an example even as you follow the wicked in their 〈◊〉 and oppression Nero and Festus and Caesar and such like who were 〈◊〉 God as you are and brought forth the same works as you do being of the same 〈◊〉 and following their example so that now as ever He who is born of the 〈…〉 him that is born after the Spirit And the wisdom of this world is enmit● 〈◊〉 God and cannot receive the things of Gods Kingdom therefore repent when 〈◊〉 read your example of wickedness then read your example in the cursed end of wrath 〈◊〉 the Lord God which came upon the persecuters of old as it will upon you The vengeance of God you cannot flie his fierce wrath will come upon you and 〈◊〉 and howling and lamentation and misery will be your portion O tremble to think 〈◊〉 your ignorance to what purpose have you made a profession of the Scriptures whos● 〈◊〉 those things and those men which it plainly declares against and condemns these 〈◊〉 and those men which it plainly witnesseth of Repent and take warning 〈◊〉 before the Decree of the Lord of Hosts be sealed against you for I have 〈…〉 conscience in letting you see your own ignorance and blindness ye Magistrates and 〈◊〉 And thus you are left without excuse whether you will hear or forbear FINIS

accused falsly and to be slandered by being called deceivers and seducers by the generation of chief Priests and Pharisees in which generation are the teachers and professors of this age who have a form of godliness but deny the power Christ was called a deceiver and a blasphemer and the Apostles were called Movers of sedition hereticks and turners of the world up-side down by them who professed in word what Christ was in substance what the Apostles witnessed and so it is now We who are scornfully called Quakers do live in and declare forth no o●her thing but the substance of what the Priests have preached upon and the professors have talked upon in their carnal mindes by their imaginations He is a false prophet and a deceiver which hath not the word from the mouth of the Lord but takes that which the Lord spoke to another and calls it his and useth his tongue and saith the Lord saith it when the Lord never spake to him and here are the teachers of the world themselves guilty of that whereof they falsly accuse us for they take the Prophets words Christs and the Apostles words to talk upon but have not received the word from the mouth of the Lord and their prophesie and preaching would soon be ended if they had not the Scripture which is other mens words and that which was spoken to others to speak their imaginations from and these are the false Prophets and Deceivers which run and are not sent which speak to others pretending to be sent of God but walking contrary to all that ever God sent to declare his Name in former generations and so are known to us by their fruits having no example from the Prophets Christ nor his Apostles for their practice but do walk in the example of the false prophets of Israel of the scribes and pharisees and of the false brethren O foolish people which have eyes and see not which have hearts and do not understand Is the Lord changed from what he was Were they false prophets and deceivers in Isaiahs time which he was sent to cry out against which sought for their gain from their Quarter and are not your teachers false prophets now which act the same things were they false prophets deceivers in Ezekiels time which he was sent to cry against that fed themselves with the fat and clothed themselves with the wool and made a prey upon the people and are not your teachers false prophets and deceivers now which act the same thing Were they false prophets in Micahs time which he was sent to cry out against which preached for hire and divined for money and cryed peace to them that put into their mouths but prepared war against them that did not and are not your priests false priests and prophets which act the same things VVere they deceivers of the people in Christs time which he cryed woe against which were called of men Masters and which had the chief place in the assemblies and which stood praying in the synagogues and which went in long robes and which loved greetings in the markets and are not your teachers deceivers of the people now which are found acting the same things VVere they false teachers and false brethren in the apostles time which they declared against which through covetousness with feigned words made merchandise of the people and went in the way of Balaam for gif●s and rewards and preached for filthy lucre and which Paul saw come and coming in his dayes which were proud men covetous men self-willed and fierce men heady high minded men having a form of godliness but denying the power which alwayes taught people but none were able to come to the knowledge of the truth under their teaching and are not your teachers false teachers now who walk in the same steps To the light in all consciences I do speak which wil witness the truth a sottish and ignorant people which cannot discern who the false prophets and deceivers and false teachers are the Lord is the same as ever he was and his spirit is no whit changed VVas it once an abomination to the Lord in the false pries●● and prophets of Israel to seek for their gain from their quarter and to feed themselves with the fat and clothe themselves with the wool and make a prey upon the people to preach for hire and to divine for money and are not these things and they that uphold them abomination to him now Did the spirit of the Lord in his servants declare against these things then and against them that upheld them then and must not the same spirit where it is made manifest declare against these things and against them that uphold them now VVas it once an abomination in the sight of Christ in them to be called of men master and to have the chief places in the assemblies and to stand praying in the Synagues c. and are not these things an abomination to him now in whom they are upheld Did Christ cry vvoe against such things and against them that upheld them then and must not the spirit of Christ where it is made manifest cry wo against such things and against them that uphold them now were these marks of false teachers then to make merchandise of the people and to go in the way of Balaam for gifts and rewards and for filthy lucre and to be proud covetous heady ●●gh-minded self-willed and fierce men and are not they 〈◊〉 teachers now which bear these marks Did the Apo●●les give warning to beware of such and to turn away from 〈◊〉 then and must not the same spirit where it is made ma●ifest give warning to beware of such and to turn away from 〈◊〉 now We witness to have received according to measure the spirit of the Prophets from which they spoke and the spirit of the Apostles from which they spoke which is Christ made manifest in us and happy are all they that receive our testimony For by the same Spirit of Christ do we declare against these abominations now as the holy men of God did then for God and his Spirit is the same as ever was and what he once hated he hates for ever and no other Christ do we declare forth which we witness to be made manifest within but that Christ which dyed at Jerusalem which suffered by the chief priests and Elders of the people he was and is the true Christ which said he was the light of the world and was the Light which had enlightned every one that comes into the world and which said Except a man would deny the world and take up his daily cross and follow him he could not be his disciple and which cried wo against them which were called of men masters and that had the chief places in the assemblies and that stood praying in the Synagogues c. and they who denyed him to be the light of the world and which took not up the cross and

Truth Defended OR CERTAIN ACCVSATIONS ANSWERED Cast upon us who are called Quakers By the Teachers of the World and the people of this GENERATION VVITH A clear DISCOVERY who are the false Prophets and when they came in and how they may bee known and who they are that deny Christ and that preach another Gospel And who deny the Scriptures Churches Ministers and Magistrates whereby the Magistrates and People of this Nation may see they justifie that vvhich the Scripture condemns and condemns that vvhich the holy men of God justified and may read their example and our example through the Scriptures By one who is a Labourer in the Vineyard who is not known to the world though named of the world Edward Burrough London Printed for Thomas Simmons at the sign of the Bull and Mouth neer Aldersgate 1656. The Epistle To all you who call your selves Ministers of the Gospel and all people in all Relations under what form of Worship soever in England or in all the world who profess your selves Christians THe mighty day of the Lord is come according as he promised of old and this day is witnessed wherein he is establishing his Mountain and exalting it above all Mountains and is gathering his people which have been scattered in the dark and long night of Apostacie which Christ and his Apostles saw coming into the churches then and hath had dominion long over the world and hath reigned till now and reignes now in all the Professors in all Forms everywhere But now the time is come wherein the kingdoms of the world are become the kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ and thousands witness it to the praise of his everlasting Name And therefore the Nations are angry and the Princes of the earth because Michael our Prince is arisen to plead with all who make war against him And now H●r●d and Pilate and all Jerusalem are in an uproar and Amnion and Amaleck and the Egyptians and the Philistines are joined now against him And all you who live in Forms and know not the Power do now persecute and joine your selves together being in the same nature as the Persecutors of old which were born after the flesh And now you Sons of Bondage and of Hagar are to be cast out and now you are all made manifest that you are in the flesh for all your bows are bent and all your arrows are shot at a people which are accounted by you as the filth of the world and as the off scouring of all things whom the world calls Quakers in whose fore-heads is written the Name of the living God and unto you I say that make war against them and now take part with the Dragon against the Lamb you shal all drink of the cup of fury and indignation of the Lord And unto the living God who is holy and jealous for his own glory and his name which hath manifested his minde and will by his Eternal Spirit unto us shall you all bow and stoop For now the Lord hath rent the vail of the covering which hath been spread over all the nations in all professions and you are all seen by the eternal eye which is opened in thousands even all from the highest to the lowest who have stollen and painted your selves with other mens words And all your Images which you have set up and all your traditions from men in which you have walked are all seen to be stubble and will not abide in the day of the Lord And all your Churches which you have gathered together by imitation from the letter shall all be scattered and there you all are for you all deny Revelation and say it is ceased and so you call the Letter the Light and the Word but with that which was before the Scripture you are seen and judged even with that which shall endure for ever And seeing you have cast reproach upon the Name of the God of Heaven and Earth whom we worship and which you call delusion for the truths sake are we moved to lay open your nakedness that you may be judged by that which you say is your rule Here in this little book thou who hast any honesty in thee or any desire of truth and wilt search the Scripture thou wilt see that all the teachers of the world in all Forms and all Professors ever cryed out who had but the Form against them who had the life and power as you all do now against them who worship God in the Spirit and have no confidence in the flesh and therefore in this following Discourse which is written by the same spirit that gave forth the scripture thou shalt see who are the false Prophets and who they are that preach another Gospel and who they are that deny the Scriptures and thou may see when the false prophets came in and who they are clearly proved to be by their own rules And all you who call your selves Magistrates and Christians you may see your selves to hold up that which Christ the prophets and apostles cryed out against and persecute them who stand in the counsel of God and them that declare against all the deceit as the holy men of God did and so you are the beast which holds up the false prophets and those whom the Scripture declareth against God is arisen to dash to pieces al them vvho withstand him and therefore come out of Babylon and out of all your painted forms and come to own the first Principle which wil change your mindes even the Light of Christ which he hath enlightned every one withal and by it you shall see what you are doing Now if you deny this you deny the Corner-stone and you stumble and shall be broken and by that which you call natural shall all your Image of gold and silver and all your mixed invented worship be dashed to pieces and be for the Pit Therefore all be silent and speak not evil of those things you know not for now you are all seen you who say you are Jews and are not but are of the synagogue of Satan and your voice is known for none is turned from the evil of his way and therefore is wrath coming upon you to the utmost A lover of your Souls but am a Witness against all your deceit Francis Howgill WHereas we are accused by the teachers and people of this generation That we are false Prophets and Deceivers and that we deny the Christ which dyed at Jerusalem and that we preach another Gospel then the Apostles preached and that we deny the Scrip●ures and the Ordinances of Jesus Christ and that we hold Free-will and establish self-righteousness and teach people to act in their own strength to obtain life and that we deny Churches Ministers and Magistracie To these false Accusations I answer It is no new thing nor no strange thing to the children of Light who are seperated from the world and worldly-worships and from the works of darkness to be

life and power we witness these things in the eternal substance having Passed through the earthly figures which was but to stand for its time by the eternal have we been led by the command of it within us and not by tradition from the Scripture without us And we deny all such who have taken up these things in their own wills by conforming the outward man to the outward letter have not entered in at the door True preaching we own do witness it wch is the cross of Christ and the power of God unto salvation or condemnation it is foolishness to the world and its wisdom now as ever it was we deny all speaking of imiginations from the Scripture which is in the wisdom of the world and which stands in the will of man limited to a set-time or day or place Prayer by the spirit and in the spirit we own and witness which is not limited to a time and place And we deny all the worlds formal customary preaching and praying for a pretence Baptisme we own and witness which is with one spirit into one body into the death of Christ and we deny all baptisms which are imagined and imitated by conforming the outward man to the outward letter which is but a likeness of the true baptism communion we live in which is in the light by the spirit which will endure eternally and we deny the worlds imitation which is in word and declaration and visible carnal things which will pass away Singing which is with the spirit and with understanding of the redeemed of the Lord we own and witness but the worlds singing in rime and meeter proud men singing That they are not puft in minde and prophane men singing That the Law of God is dear to them this singing we deny for it must be turned into howling the Lord hath said it And here again I charge it upon the teachers of the world that they deny the substance and power of what Christ commands his saints to practice by upholding their own imitations and so deceiving the simple but where the substance is witnessed the figure is denyed and the false imitations are discovered and denyed and mans free-will we we do deny for the will of man shall never e●ter to God 〈◊〉 leads out from God into the lust and into the flesh and keeps in the power of the Devil and man hath free-will unto that which is evil but not to that which is good and all who follow Christ the light of the world must deny their ovvn vvil and take up the cross of Christ vvhich is to the Will and vvalk in the light contrary to the vvil in the strait vvay vvhich leads unto life vvhich is out of the vvill of man in the vvill of God vvhich the vvill of man doth resist and oppose And I charge it upon the teachers and professors vvho do not vvitness the daily cross of Christ that they live in their ovvn free-vvil and holds it up and are led by it into pride and covetousness and the lusts of the flesh vvhich stand in the vvill and here they are guilty of that themselves vvhereof they falsly accuse us living in their ovvn free-vvil and vvalks not in the daily cross of Christ And self-righteousness we have denied and have seen it in the same light vvhich Isaiah did to be as filthy rags and vve declare against it and against them vvhich live in it for self must not be saved it is accursed from God it is vvholly unrighteous and makes the best of actions so and is and must be cast out from God Christ Jesus made manifest and revealed in us is our righteousness and ●elf is judged and condemned by him vvho is made unto us righteousness neither do vve teach people to labour in their ovvn strength to obtain life but do direct people to the light of Christ vvithin them vvhich vvalking in vvill be strength to them to lead them to life the light vvhich is of Christ to vvhich vve direct all to vvait in to be taught by it vvil load out of self-righteousness and from under the povver of self to vvitness the povver of God to lead and to act to vvitness Christ Iesus revealed the righteousness of God and the church vvhich is in God vvhich is the body of Christ vvhereof Christ is head vve vvitness and are members of it gathered and joyned by the eternal spirit and not by tradition in the wisdome of man And we deny all the worlds Churches whereof they were made members by visible things without and gathered by traditions and not by the spirit whereof the Serpent is head and not Christ and which is the body of Antichrist some of whom commits Idolatry in an Idols-temple and the Ministry of this church we deny for it stands in the will of man and the Ministers of it are such as all the servants of the Lord witnessed against the churches the ministry and the ministers are contrary to God but the ministry which is to the seed which is out of the will of man we own and witness which ministers life unto life and death unto death and divides the word aright judgement to the fat and to the strong and feeds the hungry and looseth the bars of wickedness and breaks not the bruised reed nor quencheth the smoaking flax this Ministry we deny not but are friends unto it and who are ministers here we have union withal but proud men and such as are called of men master are cast out of this Ministry and are Ministers to the body of Antichrist and know not the mystery of the Ministry of Jesus Christ which is to the spirit in prison Magistrates and magistracie we deny not but do give respect unto for conscience sake for who bears the sword of justice who use their power to be a terror to the wicked and for the praise of them that do well are ministers of God and we desire that there were more magistracie here and that the magistrate would more use his power to be a terror to lyers to swearers to drunkards to railers to false accusers and to proud men and oppressors this we are friends unto but to such as act by their own wills in corrupt Laws and do thereby violence to the innocent and strengthens the hands of evil doers we cannot be subject but choose rather then to transgress the Law of God which is written in our hearts by submitting to such mens wills and Laws to suffer by the corrupt wills of men under corrupt Laws for a moment And thus I have answered those false accusations which are cast upon us and do declare it to be the same spirit in the Teachers and people of this generation which accuseth us a● it was in the Scribes and Pharisees which accused Christ and his disciples And this the Scripture witnesseth unto as they did unto him so would they do unto us A further Answer to that Accusation of