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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

that they understand no● they have eye● 〈◊〉 adultery and that cannot cease from sin beguiling unstable souls an heart 〈◊〉 have exercised with covetous practises cursed children which have forsaken 〈◊〉 right way and are gone astray following the way of Balaam who loved the 〈◊〉 of unrighteousness they themselves are the servants of corruption ungodly ●●●turning the grace of God into lasciviousness and defile the flesh these are 〈◊〉 complainers walking after their own lusts and their mouths speaking 〈◊〉 swelling words having mens persons in admiration because of advantage there 〈◊〉 they who separate themselves sensual having not the Spirit And here agai● charge it upon the Teachers of this age that they are of that generation 〈◊〉 came into the world then for they have brought in and do uphold damnable 〈◊〉 telling people that sprinckling infants with water is the baptism into the 〈◊〉 and that singing Davids Experiences in Rime and Meeter is singing to the glory 〈◊〉 God and that a house of stone is the Temple and Church of God these are 〈◊〉 heresies and they do through covetousness make merchandise of the people if they can get money at another place thither they will go and thus people 〈◊〉 their merchandise they walk after the Flesh in the lusts of uncleanness 〈…〉 in pride and in lust and some of them will be drunk and lye and swear and 〈◊〉 uncleanly and they despise the Saints Government and Dominion for they 〈◊〉 in the wayes of the world in the customs and traditions of men and follow their own wills and whom the spirit of God governs and hath dominion over 〈◊〉 Christ for their example whose Government and Dominion they are under 〈◊〉 they live in pride lust and vanity and according to the flesh and herein they d●●spise Government and Dominion and speak evill of this Dignity and of the ●●●teries of God revealed in his Saints which they know not nor understand not calling it Error they are presumptuous and self-willed they have presumed to 〈◊〉 themselves Ministers of Christ and all the Towns where they live must serve 〈◊〉 be subject to their wills and they are adulterated from God after honor and riches and the vanities of the world and they cannot cease from sin themselves 〈◊〉 they say None must cease from it while they are on the earth and herein they beguile many souls for till sin be ceased from the soul it is beguiled they 〈◊〉 heart exercised with covetous practises and they follow the way of Balaam and 〈◊〉 for gifts and rewards and love the wages of unrighteousness they take money 〈◊〉 poor people for sprinkling Infants and for burying the dead which are cove●●● practises they take money for Hens and Eggs and for smoak passing up the chimney which are unrighteous wages and thus they have forsaken the right way the way of God and of all the Saints which spoke forth the Scripture and in the●● things they are servants of corruption and are ungodly men and turn the grace of God which shines in their consciences which shews them their ungodly wayes laciviousness and through their lust they defile the flesh and many of them murmure and complain for want of wages even to spend upon their lusts and speak great swelling words speaking of the fame of Christ of his life and 〈◊〉 and resurrection but cannot witness by the spirit of Christ within them what 〈◊〉 speak of him and they have mens persons in admiration because of 〈◊〉 some of them had the Bishops in admiration and some the King in 〈◊〉 and now they have others who bear rule in admiration and thus they 〈◊〉 have twined to admire mens persons onely because of adventage many 〈◊〉 them have separated themselves none who are not of their judgement must joyn 〈◊〉 them in their worship but neither they nor their separates have the Spirit of 〈◊〉 living God but do deny an infallible Spirit they are sensual in their wisdom ●●ways and practices and these have deceived many even whole Nations And here you see plainly when the deceivers and false Prophets came in they 〈◊〉 come and coming in in the Apostles days and then was the Prophesie of 〈◊〉 fulfilling and fulfilled and the Apostles suffered under Tyrants and were 〈◊〉 to cruel deaths and then they came in more fully for since the Apostles days 〈◊〉 been a great Apostacy and many forms of Worship and ways of Religion 〈◊〉 been imitated from the letter through imaginations and but one generation 〈◊〉 Teachers though one above another in the comprehension and sensual wis●●● and at enmity one against another though all in one birth and nature But 〈◊〉 are all discovered by the light Praises from all that know God to him for 〈◊〉 Since the Apostles days hath darkness been spread over all though the Lord 〈◊〉 some which he preserved for himself in the midst of Apostacy and darkness ●ho the false Prophets are which Christ prophesied of to every honest heart and 〈◊〉 eye may be known Christ said By their fruits should they be known And 〈◊〉 fruits of the Teachers of the world are plainly made appear to be the fruits 〈◊〉 deceivers and not of the Minister of Christ none have gathered Grapes nor 〈◊〉 from them And thus I have cleared my conscience in the presence of God concerning the false slander and accusation which the Teachers and people of the world do cast upon us and to that in every ones conscience it is made appear who they are to whom this accusation justly belongs Woe unto all you who strive against the Lord and justifie that which the holy men of God which spoke forth the Scripture in the Scripture declared against and which condemn that which the holy men of God in the Scripture justified and witnessed for You who live in pride in covetousness in double-dealing and in hypocrisie and in the lusts of the flesh you strive against the Lord God and against the light of God which is in your consciences which shews you these things to be sin you resist the drawings of the Father which would draw you by the light to follow the Son Wo and desolation is to come upon all you who will not be ●aught by the light of Christ which he hath lightned you withal which light all the holymen of God were taught by who gave forth the Scriptures but do set ●p Teachers without you such as all the holy men of God the Prophets Christ and his Apostles declared against Oh blinded stiff-necked people which are not ashamed to call such Ministers of Christ and of the Gospel and by your corrupt wills and Laws to defend 〈◊〉 which seek for their gain from their Quarter and which feed themselves 〈◊〉 Fat and clothe themselves with the Wool and which pre●ch for hire and 〈◊〉 for money and prepare War against them that put net into their mouths 〈◊〉 you justifie such as the Prophets of the Lord were sent to cry against and 〈◊〉

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

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