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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

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.

worse and the laiter end is worse than the beginning and this Truth doth not change which is the begotten of the Father but is the same for ever So in it all be faithful and fruitful to the Father in your places and callings shewing forth in all wisdom and pure conversation among your enemies to the putting them to silence when they speak evil of you and be Examples of Holiness one to another that the Lord God may dwell among you and may never have cause to withhold his Presence from you which is Life and Peace and Rest for ever and believe not every spirit but dwell in that which discerns spirits and if any say Lo here or Lo there is Christ go not after them without you for you have not been so taught but know the Christ of God the Lamb of God within you and follow him and obey his Voice and be established all of you on this sure Foundation whom God hath laid no man can lay any other and if you build thereon and thereby you shall never suffer loss but your work shall abide the fire and in the Father's house your bread you shall receive and never shall hunger nor thirst but the Life will be refreshed and encreased daily and your Lamp will alwayes shine and you shall never be darkned nor stumble for that which stumbles is out of the Truth and the ground stands to receive the seed of Satan who is a devourer of the simplicity and the betrayer from the Truth Therefore I charge you all in the presence of the living God that you hold fast the Faith and Hope which you have received through the Gospel that you may never be moved from the Grace of God and from the Love that hath abounded in you but may be found watching in the door with your Light shining when the Bridegroom cometh and behold he cometh quickly and his Reward is with him blessed are they that tarry for him This is the Testimony of my Love unto all the Seed of God who am as a deceiver and yet true as not known and yet well known unto the Lord. E. B. THE Second GENERAL EPISTLE to all the SAINTS whom God hath called TO all the Children of Light every-where who fear and love the Lord who are begotten of God and unto whom he is known in the Spirit and in the Truth this is a Testimony of the Father's Love unto you Grace Mercy and Peace from him that liveth for ever The God of Light and Life be multiplied in you all that you may daily be renewed in strength and girded with Truth and armed with the whole Armour of God and may be kept by his Power until the day of Salvation to walk in the Government and subjection to Jesus Christ witnessing the Power and Presence of God in you and amongst you giving you power to fulfil his Will in all things and that in all Righteousness and out of all Evil you may be led and preserved unto the end and in the end to shew forth the praises of God in this Generation as a People called of him and redeemed by him for his Glories sake even so Amen and Amen Dearly Beloved be not ignorant but this know This is the Message which came unto you which is true and faithful and everlasting That the true God is Light and in him is no darkness at all and this is the Message of Peace and Reconciliation and of Glad-tydings unto all that have sought the Lord which we received of him and you have heard and there is not another to be declared and all that have received it are gathered up to God and are in Covenant with him and one with another and are in that which reconcileth and joyneth unto Christ Jesus the Husband and second Adam who is the Lord from Heaven the Prince of Peace the Saviour and the Deliverer who is made manifest in Power and condemneth the Transgressor and slaveth the Enmity and raiseth the Life out of Death and this is he who kills and makes alive even the God who is Light who brings down one and sets up another who makes War against the Mighty and gives Peace to the Poor and besides him there is none he searcheth mans heart and tryeth the reins and knoweth the thoughts and every creature is manifest in his sight who gives to every one according to his doings and this is he who standeth in the Congregation of the Righteous even in the midst of us and sitteth Judge among the gods unto him must all the gods of the Earth bow and the inhabitants of the Earth must tremble before him and unto him every tongue shall confess and the light in every man shall answer when he ariseth to Judgement who is a swift Witness to condemn or justifie all the children of men upon the face of the Earth This is the God of Truth whom we worship and who will be worshipped in spirit and in truth who is the God of Abraham and his seed for ever and with him there is no change nor shadow of turning and he hath made known his Name and his Power and his wonderful works in this his day and hath caused his Voice to be heard in the Earth and the dead have heard and now live And his Name is exalted on high amongst all that fear him and obey his Voice and he hath given his Son a Covenant of Light who lighteth every man that cometh into the world with the true Light of Life or Condemnation that all who receive him may come to the knowledge of the Father whom to know is life eternal And this is the Christ the Saviour in whom we have believed and which we preach who is the Way the Truth and the Life the Foundation of God which cannot be moved The Word of God is his Name and there is no other Name given for Salvation This is she that was dead and is aliue and lives for evermore and there is no other to be looked for if any preach any other let him be accursed and if any bring any other Message let them not be received And all you who have believed in this Christ Jesus who is the Light of the World and who have received the knowledge of this God who is Light himself and that searcheth your hearts I exhort you and warn you all in his presence that lives for ever to wait upon him and to fear before him and to walk with him for ever in uprightness of heart which is of great price in his sight and forget not his righteous Judgements which he hath made known lest you wax fat through mercies and rebel against him and become disobedient and gainsaying and so be destroyed from being a People but be stayed upon the Lord and let your hearts be established with Grace and be not tossed nor shaken with any wind of the Doctrines of men which is not from the Life of God nor reaches to the life in

you but begets into Idolatry to worship other gods than he who is Light and be not troubled at temptations nor sufferings nor at reproaches nor any other thing but stand in the Counsel of God and in his long-suffering and wait patiently upon him in your own measure of the Grace of God received which is sufficient to preserve you that Victory over Death and over him that hath the power over it you may receive to trample upon all that which is contrary to the Life of God within you and without you neither be you troubled nor offended in Christ if any among you deny the Lord and backslide from his pure Way through an evil heart of unbelief and so become disobedient children and vex the righteous Soul such shall bear their own burden and condemnation in the day of the Lord and know that Truth changeth not but is the same for ever though the deceitful hearted through unbelief depart from it and choose their own wayes and despise the Counsel of the Lord to their own destruction but be ye more watchful faithful and valiant for the Truth upon Earth unto the end that you may be found faithful Witnesses unto the Name of the Lord in this crooked Generation and may receive the fulfilling of the Promise of God and may witness God with you the Emmanuel the Saviour God with us and this is the whole Salvation and there is no other to be expected or witnessed than this That God dwells in us and walks in us according to his Promise and all that know this need not go forth to the right hand or to the left but Salvation is come unto us he that takes away sin and saves from it and from condemnation and they who witness this are begotten by the Word of God and born of the immortal Seed and are new Creatures and there is now no Condemnation but the reward of Righteousness and Peace unto us who are not in the flesh but in the Spirit and here we witness the Lord is our God and we are his People and he sees no sin in us who are born of him nor remembers iniquity but his Covenant is with us and the Kingdom is become the Lords and his dominion is set up where God is all in all where the Prince of darkness is cast out and this is the end and substance of all Ministrations which we bear witness of And I do exhort all you who are called of God every where patiently to wait in the Way of the Lord and in his Judgments to receive this and to possess it within you that you may be worshippers of God and doers of his Will and may have the Witness that you are accepted of him and may know your Calling and Election sure where nothing that defileth can enter but that may be taken away and removed and Him you may feel and witness which Satan hath nothing in who is the second Adam and cannot be overcome but is greater than the first Adam who was overcome though innocent and is lost from the presence of God but he in whom there is no sin and who cannot transgress comes to seek and to save that which was lost in sin and to bring back that which was driven away by sin and He is greater than Innocency and overcometh the Devil and is called the Son of God and to him that overcometh who is the Light of the World is all Power given of the Father And know Him in you all to be the greatest who is not of the world nor cannot bow to the Devil to give you dominion and authority over all the World and the powers of Hell and Death even He who sealeth up the old Dragon in perdition never more to deceive And they w●● witness this know the Election which it is not possible to ●●ceive or be deceived and as every one of you have received Him who is the Lord from Heaven so let your Faith stand in Him and walk in Him and let all your conversations be ordered by Him in all pure and blameless walking in the sight of your Enemies that it may be manifest that you are branches in Him and that you have received power to become the Sons of God and that you are Heirs of the Inheritance which shall not fade away And all you that witness this your eye is opened to see God and you are cleansed from sin by the Word of God and you have received the Peace with God and glad-tydings from him in your own souls and this is Salvation by the second Adam herein be established and setled and look not for another for there is not any besides this Saviour and this Salvation but if any preach another believe them not and if any cry Lo here and Lo there is Christ without you go not after them nor follow them but know him within you which is greater than all yea if we our selves or an Angel from Heaven preach any other Iesus than he which lighteth every man that cometh into the world or any other Salvation than God with us let us be accursed for this is the Gospel of our Salvation Christ Iesus within us the hope of Glory the Power and Wisdom of God to rule and reign in us by which we are changed from Death to Life and translated from the power of Darkness into the Kingdom of his dear Son And now all Friends and Elect of God who are called and faithfull you that have received this Testimony which God hath given of the Son and which the Son hath given of the Father which in faithfulness hath been testified in this generation I exhort you all in the fear and counsel of the Lord take heed to that which you have believed and heard and learned of the Father which is the Truth as it is in Jesus and shall abide forever and be not removed from your hope nor given to change but mind the Life of God in you all which is immortal and is but one and it answereth to the Lord in Judgments and in Mercies one to another in that which is righteous and just and witnesseth against all the works of the world which are evil and not wrought in God Ye that know this which is of the Father in you dwell in it and walk in it and be not shaken out of it nor removed from it for it is the Way of Peace unto Everlasting Rest where there is no sorrow but Righteousness Peace and Joy in the holy Ghost and every one in particular have Salt in your selves to savour withal that you may resist the wicked-one in all his temptations and may not joyn to any thing which is out of Union and contrary to the Life of God and to the Truth which you have received that you may never be betrayed of your hope nor of the simplicity which is in Christ Jesus in which the Father is well-pleased and let the Light of the World guide you in all things

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