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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77950	A measure of the times: and a full & clear description of the signes of the times, and of the changing of the times; and of the reign of Antichrist, who hath long reigned, and of his down-fall, which is at hand; and of the kingdom of Christ which is now setting up in the earth. Shewing unto all people in all nations, what the state of things hath been in ages past, and what the state of things are at this present day. ... And also, here it is manifest, concerning the teachers of this age, and the root from whence they sprang, who are manifest to be of that stock of false prophets, which Christ prophesied of should come, and which the Apostles saw was coming in their dayes, and how that the night of darknesse hath been upon all, for many generations: ... And also, the restauration is described, which shortly cometh, wherein Christ shall reign, whose right it is, and shall change laws and decrees, and the lamb shall be the light of all nations, ... and their King shall possesse the uttermost parts of the earth. By one who hath measured the times, who is come to the day that hath made all things manifest. Edw: Burrough.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1657 (1657)	Wing B6012; Thomason E919_6; ESTC R207505	31,897	44

Jesus but all was subverted into dead formes and shaddowes and likenesses without life and the Lord left the earth as it were and covered himselfe in the darknesse and became a stranger in the world and did scarce openly speake by vision nor dream nor Prophet but all were left in the darke and ignorance abounded and superstition was exalted the Saints spirit and ●se which they were in and guided by was lost and then they began to worship the Saints names and dayes and words without the life and power and that nature and that same seed which had persecuted the Saints to death and gainsayed the pover and lost the holy ghost turned it selfe into the professi●n of the Saints words which were left upon record and confirmed it selfe into the Saints practises without the life power and holy ghost And having lost the power from which the Sripture was given forth and not being guided in the life whic● they were in which spoke it forth then from the Scripture 〈◊〉 mens own conceptions and thoughts and by their reason w●●hout Gods Spirit they set up likenesses and images and sects and formes and many heads and many hornes grew upon the beast which all the world worshiped and went after for they had lost Christ the one head wherein the union stood and grew into Idollitry under the many heads which was upon the Beast who had many hornes which pushed one against another as it is witnessed unto this day doe not the Papists and Protestants so called and other sects risen out of them push one at another to break and teare one another and these have many heads The Pope he is a head and the others they have a head which every one bowes down under his own head the Pope will not bow to the Protestants head nor will the Protestants bow to the Papists head the Presbiterians and Independants and Anibaptists and the rest every one of them bowes to their own head and will not bow to anothers head and all these with their hornes pushes one against another to rend one another and all these are from Christ and knowes not him the one head of the whole body and the one horn of Gods salvation unto all people for Christ which is but one is the head and the horne which all the Saints who are now gathered out of this apostacie and dark night unto whom the Light againe is risen worships Christ the one head and knowes him the one horn which pushes against the Devils Kingdome which hath long been set up and ruled in the earth among all these who have many heads and many hornes who are all of them the very chiefest but in the night fallen in the apostacie and darknesse since the beginning of the reigne of the Beast and the comi●g in of the false Prophet which came in as I have said when the churches backslided with the whore also who have mad● all Nations and people drunk with the wine of her fornic●tion and the Beast hath reigned over all Nations in his dominion and authority and the false Prophet hath prophesied through all nations And all these came in since the dayes of Christ or he prophesied that it should be so as it is come to passe and they were coming in in the dayes of the Apostles as you may read Paul saw them coming and largely describes ●heir character in severall epistles And Peter he saw them coming in and described them what such they were and should be and Jude he saw them also and John more fully then any both in his epistles and revelations as I have hinted at And when the Apostles were taken of the earth some by cruell death and others was banished then they sprung in more fully and grew through all Nations and to this day hath the Beast with his many heads and hornes ruled in Nations and been worshiped and his false prophet hath ever since been defended and riden on the Beast through Nations and hath deceived the Nations with vanity and errour and at this very day the Nations and people are deceived and lies under darknesse in the slavery and bondage under the authority of the Beast and subject to the doctrine of his false Prophets And as I have said darknesse hath been over all and fancies and liknesses without life have been bowed under and the power being lost the forme hath been set up one after this sort and another after that according to mens vaine conceits and apprehensions upon the Scriptures and not according to the manifestation of the Spirit of God which fulfills the Scriptures and brings to live the life of them So in divers colours and in divers appearances and Robes in severall formes and shapes of garments hath the great whore been decked who hath sit upon the Beast haveing the false Prophet serving as a boy or servant to doe whatsoever the whore listeth And the false Prophet this servant to the whore under the power of the Beast hath moved and turned as the Beast would And according as the whore hath changed her selfe into other garments and colours even so hath the false Prophet changed his doctrine and prayers to please the whore and to keepe people under the goverment of the Beast It 's knowne in this our day that some who preached and prayed for the King and Bishops doe now preach and pray for others even for them who destroyed King and Bishops so the false Prophet with all his children is but the whores servant who hath made drunk Kings and Princes and great men and people and Nations with the cup of fornication and abomination in the severall sects and formes of worships which hath been set up without the power of godlinesse for the Babtisme of the Spirit being lost and not known then from the letter by imaginations were severall sorts of Baptisme brought forth as sprinkling of infants that darke folly and vaine vanity which all these Nations have been deceived withall by the exercise of the false Prophet And when the gift of the ministery through the holy ghost which the ministers of Christ had was lost and not any more received Then began men to make Ministers by naturall learning and artes and languages and humane pollicie and when the gift of preaching by the eternall Spirit was lost through the coming in of the Apostacie then began men to study from Books and writings what to preach and say not having the holy ghost received in them which none is a minister of Christ without marke that and when men had lost through ignorance the knowledge of God dwelling in them and that their bodyes was his temple and that he dwelled and walked in his people then began they againe to build Temples without and to set up their false worships in them for having lost the sense of Gods true worship which the Saints worshiped in in the Spirit and in the truth Then they began to worship in set dayes and set times and set places

and outward observances which is not the worship of God in the Spirit and in the truth but superstitious and Idolatrous and when the word of God was not received immediately from his mouth nor the Gospel by the revelation of Jesus Christ as it was in the dayes of the Apostles then darknesse being come in they used their tongues when the Lord had not spoken to them as the false Prophets did before Christs time and long have they said the letter is the word and that the letter is the Gospel and that it must be received by the Scriptures and by naturall learning and artes and that none can be ministers of Christ but such who are learned in the languages and knowes the originall of Scriptures Latine and Greek and Hebrew not any of these have received the Gospel by revelation or the word of God from his mouth And when singing in the Spirit and with understanding was ceased and not knowne then began people to get the forme of singing of Davids experiences in rime and meeter and when the pure power of godlinesse was lost which was in the dayes of the Apostles manifested and known then in the Apostacie the deceit grew into the forme of every thing which the Saints had enjoyed in the power and so was shaddowes set up instead of substance and death instead of life and the forme without the power which in many branches sprang forth some into one appearance and some into another but all under the power of the Beast with his many heads and hornes defended and untill this day since the dayes of the Apostles thus it hath been and those very teachers and supposed ministers which now are in this and other Nations are of that very root which sprang forth in the dayes of the Apostles and they are under the dominion of the Beast and moveable like unto the great whore and this may easily be proved that they are of that generation of teachers and false Prophets which Christ prophesied of should come and which the Apostles saw was coming in their dayes and of those which John saw the world to run after for Christ said by their fruites they should be known and the Apostles they described their fruits and them by their fruites And so we seeing their fruit to be the very same now which the Apostles described was the fruit of them that then was come and coming from whence we doe conclude according to sound judgment that these very teachers are of the same generation and branches of the same root which sprang forth then And in Pauls writeings you may read such they were whom he saw of whom he bad people to beware and said perilous times would come and men should be lovers of themselves covetous proud blasphemers disobedient to parents unthankfull unholy without naturall affection false accusers fierce dispisers of those that are good heady high minded lovers of pleasures more then lovers of God having a forme of godlinesse but denying the power and such of whom people were ever learning but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth for people were laden with sins and led away with divers lusts and these did resist the truth as Jannes and Jambres who withstood Moses by making likenesses without life and they were men of corrupt minds and reprobate concerning the faith Now it is plaine that these teachers in this generation are of that very stock which Paul describes such he saw would come and such we see are come and by their fruits we know them as Christ said and Pauls words are fullfilled for these teachers are lovers of themselves and covetous and proud this is plaine to all people and blasphemers who denyes Christ to have lighted every man that comes into the world and therefore they deny Scripture and so are disobedient and unholy men and without naturall affection who many of them have caused the innocent to be imprisoned and some have dyed in Prison and they the chiefe cause of this and this is without naturall affection to the creatures and they are false accusers and liers and fierce in their books and preaching as is manifest through all this Nation and they greatly despise those that are good and prepares war against such as doth not put into their mouthes and they are heady and high minded and lovers of vanities and pleasures this is evident without proofe and they have a forme of godlinesse they say all should be taught of God but when any comes to witnesse it and denyes their teaching they cry against such as Heriticks and thus they have the words and the forme but denyes the power and they are ever teaching twenty and fourty yeares and more but none able ever to come to the knowledge of the truth by them but ●●il in blindnesse and darknesse still and people cryes out who have been learning many yeares from them that they doe not know the truth and its plaine that these teachers are of that sort that Paul spoke of who brings none to the knowledge of the truth for people that followes them are laden with sins and led away with divers lusts and these have and doe resist the truth every where they deny that Christ hath lighted every man that comes into the world and so resists truth and denyes Scripture and the truth as you may read John 1. 9. And they are corrupt minded even wicked persecutors and suers at Law and earthly minded and covetous and oppressors and are wholly reprobate concerning the faith and thus it is plaine that the root of these teachers was springing in the Apostles dayes and hath growen ever since in this darke night of Apostacie and hath filled the Nations Againe the Apostle saw that many should depart from the faith giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of Devils speaking lies in hypocrisie having their consciences seared as with a hot Iron Now these teachers are of that stock which is departed from the true faith for they are without true faith and reprobate concerning it who are in iniquity and sin and the workes of the world which are evill now faith purifies the heart from all this but their hearts are not purified but poluted with covetousnesse and preaching for hire and persecuting and envy and therefore they have not faith and so are of that generation which departed from the faith after the Apostles times which they saw would come and these doth seduce and their doctrines are of the Devill who denyes the truth which the Scripture beares witnesse of and saith sprinkling infants with water when they are two or three days old is Baptisme into the faith of Christ this is the doctrine of the Devill and lies they speak in great numbers and in hypocrisie and writes them forth to the world in great hypocrisie with feignednesse and pretence of holinesse and its plaine many of their consciences are seared how doe many of them cause the poore people to suffer grievous imprisonment

and spoyling of their goods to the ruine of families almost for their maintenance as tythes and such like which if their consciences were not seared they could not doe also some of them cryed to the rude wicked people in their Idoll Temples fight lads for the Gospel and many who have borne witnesse to the truth and against their deceits have been beat and abused and knocked downe as for dead in their presence and their consciences are absolute seared else they would tremble at these things Also the Apostle Peter he saw false Prophets would come in 2 Pet. 2. And false teachers who would bring in damnable heresies even denying the Lord that bought them and many should follow their pernicious wayes and through covetousnesse with feigned words they would make merchandize of people and they would walke after the flesh in the lust of uncleanesse and despise government and be presumptuous and selfe willed and not afraid to speak evill of dignities and they would speak evill of things they understand not and their hearts are exercised with covetous practises and were cursed children and they sport themselves with their own deceivings and these had forsaken the right way and are gone astray following the way of Balaam who loved the wayes of unrighteousnesse and these are clouds that are carryed with a Tempest and they speak great swelling words of vanity and while they promise to others liberty themselves are the servants of corruption And such were scoffers and mockers which would come after the Apostles dayes and they would walke after their own lusts And now according to this prophesie of Peter who saw false teachers coming in he gave these characters of them whereby it doth plainly appeare that this generation of teachers are they and of that stock which then came in for these brings forth the very same fruits which they did which he spoke of and we knowe them by their fruits as Christ hath said for these have filled the world with damnable heresies as holding forth that sprinkling infants with water is baptisme into the faith of Christ and that a sleeple-house is the church and that singing Davids experiences in the world among wicked people in rime and meeter is singing to the praise of God and these are damnable heresies even to the denying the Lord that bought them for they deny the light of the Lord Jesus Christ given to every man to be the only teacher and the only guide of man and they that doe deny the light of Christ with which every man that comes into the world is lighted to be sufficient to lead to Christ and to the Kingdome of God as these teachers in this age doe they deny the Lord that bought them and many even whole Nations all the world as John saw in the revelations have followed their pernicious wayes and run after their Idolatry and pernicious wayes of superstitions and they doe make merchandize of soules through covetousnesse with their feigned words for where they can make their bargaine to have the most money there they will preach and no where else and if any will give them more the next yeare they will sell that people and goe to another for very covetousnesse by feigned words and they doe walke after the flesh in the lust of pride and covetousnesse which is uncleanesse of the flesh and they despise the Saints government and order for they will not suffer the Saints to prophesie one by one in their assemblies according to the Saints government but doth despise that and persecute it by the government of the Beast unto whose government they are subject and not to the government of Christ and the Saints and thus they are presumptuous and selfe-willed presuming to afflict and cause the children of God to be cast into prison and suffering them to be beat and abused by their flock out of their wicked selfe wills and they are not afraid to speak evill of dignities and doth speak evill of the wayes of God and of his truth which they understand not and their hearts are exercised with covetous practises and are cursed children for they make poor people that hath but ten eggs give them one and that hardly can get any fewell for the fire pay them a penny for the smoake with such many other exceeding covetous practises as suing men two hundred mile to answer for three shillings claimed by them for tithes And these sport themselves in their vanities in their own deceiving and when they have oppressed people for their wages and makes people pay them for whom they doe no work and forces wages from them that never hired them which is unheard of covetous practises they sport themselves in their pride and lustfullnesse and they are out of the right way and gone astray from the wayes of God which are holy and are in the way of Balaam who went after unrighteous wages who sought for enchantment against Jsrael as these doe and these loves unrighteous wages by taking maintenance from people by force unto whom is nothing oweing by them and these are carried with a Tempest of every wind according as the powers of the earth blowes these are carried sometime under such a government and sometime against it and so are clouds carried about and are unsetled on the foundation and they speak great words of Christ and God and the Scriptures which are but words stolen by them because they are not spoken by the Spirit of God but by a lying Spirit and they promise to others liberty that they shall receive the Kingdome of God after death and that Christ hath taken away their sins with such like promises of liberty but themselves are the servants of corruption living in pride and hatred and covetousnesse and these serve sin and are servants of corruption and they are scoffers and mockers and walkers after their own lusts as it is evident in all mens sight So that according to the judgment of truth we judge these teachers of this generation to be of the same root which then sprang forth for these brings forth the same fruites as they in that time did and in the apostacy they have over-spread the whole world and also the Apostle Jude gave a description of them according as Peter had done he saw certaine men creeping in who turned the grace of God into wantonnesse and they were filthy dreamers and knowes nothing but what they know naturally as bruit Beasts and in that they corrupt themselves and they have gone in the way of Caine and run greedrly after the errour of Balaam and they are trees whose fruit withereth rageing waves of the Sea foaming out their own shame wandering Starres they are murmurers and complainers walking after their own lusts having mens persons in admiration because of advantage and these seperate themselves sensuall having not the Spirit and of this sort which Jude describeth are these teachers in this generation whose fore fathers crept in in the Apostles dayes and