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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77973	A vvarning from the Lord to the inhabitants of Underbarrovv, and so to all the inhabitants in England, where it shall meet with them, who holds up the false teachers, and false worship, and who beats, stone, stock, and persecute, and hail out of their assemblies, those who are sent by the Lord, to speak his word freely; with an exhortation, that they hast to meet the Lord by true repentance, by putting off the works of darkness, lest the Lord cut them assunder, by his sword, which is already drawn and put into the hand of his servants. Also, a word to my brethren, and companions in tribulation in the kingdome and patience of Jesus Christ, who is by the world scornfully called Quakers. With the manner of my passage through the dark world, (wherein the simple ones may see the deceits of the man of sin in his actings like the true spirit) to warn all to follow the true light within, which leads unto God, & to beware of the voice, lo here & lo there, by one who is a labourer in the vineyard, who is not known to the world; (though named of the world) Edvvard Burrough.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1654 (1654)	Wing B6057; Thomason E733_5; ESTC R206899	28,263	40

A VVARNING FROM THE LORD TO THE INHABITANTS OF UNDERBARROVV and so to all the Inhabitants in ENGLAND Where it shall-meet with them who holds up the false Teachers and false worship and who beats stone stock and persecute and hail out of their Assemblies those who are sent by the Lord to speak his word freely with an exhortation that they hast to meet the Lord by true repentance by putting off the works of darkness lest the Lord cut them assunder by his sword which is already drawn and put into the hand of his servants Also a word to my Brethren and Companions in tribulation in the Kingdome and patience of Jesus Christ who is by the world scornfully called QUAKERS With the manner of my passage through the dark world wherein the simple ones may see the deceits of the man of sin in his actings like the true spirit to warn all to follow the true light within which leads unto God to beware of the voice lo here lo there By one who is a labourer in the Vineyard who is not known to the world though named of the world EDVVARD BURROUGH London Printed for Giles Calvert and are to be sold at the Black-spread-Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1654. A warning from the Lord to the Inhabitants of Vnderbarrow and so to all the Inhabitants in England TO all you the Inhabitants of Vnderbarrow profane ones and Professors you my neighbours and Country men according to the flesh but strangers as in the spirit to you all who are in the customary formal traditional worship of heathen and under the barren dry and empty ministry of man which stands in the will of man and have proceeded out of the carnall inventions and imaginations of fallen man and is not according to God nor to the practice of the Saints in former ages and generations To you all do I clear my conscience in the presence of God by declaring to you in writing being that I can not have freedome through the subtilty of the serpent who doth work alwayes to prevent the living truth to be declared and the deceits of himself to be discovered and made manifest to declare in word among you I have been sent by the Lord moved of him to come and to declare to you the word of the Lord to the directing of your minds where to wait to attain the true knowledge of the Lord and of that one thing needful the eternal welfare of your souls and to lay open the deceits of the serpent who doth work in the cursed deceitful Ministry which is uphold by you whereby your souls are kept in the death and only your dark minds fed and nourished by the painted and serpent-like expressions and declarations coming out of the carnal wisdome and brain-knowledge of your hireling who walks in the way of the false Prophets of Israel which the true Prophet called greedy dumb dogs four several times hath the Lord by his eternal spirit working in me moved me to come into the Congregation and Assembly he himself is the witness that I came not of man nor by the will of man but contrary to the will and desires of man wherein stands the true Ministry of God now as it was ever the true Prophets Ieremiah and Ionah witnessed the same and the Apostle Paul and as it is known to you unto whom I speak that I could not have liberty to declare to you the truth from God who came not to you with entising words neither what I had gathered out of the Scripture from without me neither to speak my own imaginations and conceivings as your false hireling doth but to declare the Word of the Lord to the convincing of your dark understandings that you might see the deceits by which you are and have been led that your souls might have been redeemed up to God out of the imagined worships of the world to worship in spirit and in truth hear ye the Word of the Lord ye people all your carnall traditional ordinances and observances is abomination to the Lord all your praying and praising is odious in his sight for all your worship is an imitation and an imagination of the dark mind of man and was never commanded by God therefore consider all ye people what you are doing and reject not the Lord nor his everlasting truth but prize your time and now seek the Lord while he may be found and call upon his name while he is near your souls are kept in the death under your dead Minister and under his dead doctrines dead reasons points and uses which he speaks from the Saints conditions and experiences but is an enemy to the substance and to them in whom the same conditions are made manifest in the power of truth and he doth make manifest himself to be in the same generation of them who had the form of Godliness but denies the power having the Letter as the Pharisees had but persecuting the substance as they did All people consider whether he be not in the generation professing God and Truth in Word as the Scribes and Pharisees were but persecuting the Son of God who is the substance of Truth where he is born and made manifest he is in the generation of them who professed Abrahams freedom and that God was their Father but were of their father the Devil for his works they did they said and did not as he doth as it is made manifest he is a whited Wall a painted Sepulcher which Christ the Son of God cryed wo against who was and is the Light by which all Deceivers Hirelings and false Teachers are discovered cryed out against The Light which is Christ do I witness to be made manifest in me from God the Father of Light daily leading me up to him to live in purity and uprightness praises be to him for ever in which Light I see your Teacher to be a hireling a greedy dumb dog seeking for his gain from his Quarter one that God never sent but hath run and was not sent therefore doth he not profit you at all and from this Light which is Christ do I declare against him as knowing him that he hath not the Word of the Lord but the Letter Freely do I Declare against him as knowing him to be a Deceiver and an Antichrist being once I was deceived by him but now through the rich Love of my Father who hath made himself known to me and hath shined by his eternal Light in my heart do I see him and all such to be Antichrist and no Minister of Christ From the mouth of the Lord I do Declare it That you are led blindly by him your blind guide and you are ever learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the living Truth by his Ministery he layes heavie Burdens upon you he is in the generation of them who had the Law and the Prophets

but persecuted him who came to fulfil the Law and who hath the substance of the Prophets he hath the Saints Conditions and Experierces in the Letter but who are brought to witness the same Conditions and the same strait way in which they walked He is an enemy to all people to you from God I do Declare it he is one that God never sent to speak his Word to you he calls good evil and evil good and puts light for darkness and darkness for light and therefore Wo is his Portion and Wo is the Portion of all that upholds him What will ye do in the end thereof He doth bewitch you to observe That Calling is an Ordinance of God which he never commanded Poor people your souls lies in the death under the power of darkness and corruption under your dead Minister and under his dead carnal Observances and your dark Minds your Wit and Reason is only fed and so the enemies of the Lord are strengthned by him and you remain in ignorance and in blindness and cannot attain the true Riches for Christ only is the Way to the Father the Light in every man which leads to the Father but this Light he denies as having enlightned every one that comes into world as several times he hath done to me in Argument Here he makes Christ a lyar and doth not know the first Principle of Religion nor the Light which leads unto God but is a Heathen and knows not God for this is the Light which all the Servants of God in all generations witnessed and which Light we do now witness praised be the Lord for evermore who hath in his Light led us to himself and hath shewed the Deceits of him to us and of all such as he is he is in the generation shutting the kingdom of Heaven against men neither entering h●mself nor suffers others to enter that are entering Through the power of the Lord made manifest am I bold to Declare against him who walks not in the Doctrine of Christ and therefore is an Antichrist and doth deceive you professing himself to be sent of God and walking contrary to the Truth of God a Hypocrite saying and not doing Ye my Country-men be not deceived by him try him by the Scriptures and see how he walks according to the Declaration as they did who were Ministers of Christ not by the Will of man but his Ministery is by man and according to man and had his Call from man as it is known to you all but they who were true Ministers witnessed the contrary neither received they their Gospel from man but by the Revelation of Jesus The true Ministers of Christ sent forth by Christ witnesses now the same thing for Christ the same that ever he was which is now made manifest in the Saints and his Ministery is the same which is not by man but contrary to man be not deceived God will not be mocked for he is terrible and his day is powerful and dreadful that shall come upon the Heathen and upon the workers of iniquity and upon all D●ssemblers and Hypocrites all your carnal Worship and Ordinances and Observances is but mocking of God and dissembling with him and is but an imitation and an imagination of the Mind of fallen man imitated by you and your Minister droven by the imaginations from the true Worship of God which the Saints in former generations was exercised in who was led not by imagination as you are but by the Spirit of God as all the Servants of God are Now as ever was true Baptism ●own which is by the holy Ghost and with Fire and the Baptism with one Spirit into one Body do we witness but that which your Chief Priest and false Hireling hold up I Deny it it is not of God but is an imitation and is abomination in the sight of God and therefore from God do I Declare against it and against your Hireling that upholds it among you True Communion of Saints I own for we have Union and the Bread which we break is the Body of Christ and the Cup which we drink is the Blood of Christ by which we are nourished and fed up to eternal life for he that eats not Christs Flesh and drinks his Blood he hath no life in him he among you that can receive it let him but your Communion I Deny for it is Heathenish and no more but an imitation having proceeded out of the imagination of the Proud Your breaking of Bread and drinking of the Cup is abomination and God never commanded it and this doth your Pharisee uphold sitting in the Seat of Christ and of the Saints as the Pharisees did in Moses seat saying and not doing True singing I own with the Spirit and with understanding singing in the Spirit making melody in the heart to the Lord this singing was and is among the Saints in the Church of Christ this is well pleasing to God for it is not an imitation nor by tradition as your singing is but it is true Sacrifice the Song of the Redeemed ones which none can learn but the Redeemed ones of the Lord who is come and coming to Zion with songs and everlasting Joy upon their heads but your singing is Carnal Traditional and Heathenish and is an imitation and is not with the spirit of Jesus but with the spirit of the World with the spirit of Drunkards Swearers Lyars Mockers Scornners Covetous ones with the spirit of Wrath Envie Malice with the spirit of Cain with the spirit of the Scribes and Pharisees and chief Priests who persecuted the Saints which sang in truth in former generations and now the deceit is turned into the form of singing and they that live there persecutes them that sings in the power for thus it was ever They that lived in Profession in the Word Outwardly persecuted them that lived in the power of which was Professed and there you and your Hireling is but know that the Lord will take an account of you and give unto every man his reward according to his deeds You and your Priest have got the Form of Baptism of the Communion of Singing and of a Church but the power and substance of these Ordinances you know not for they are hid from all vulturouus eies and from the generation of the Pharisees and Serpents who are called of men Master and which have the chief place in the Assemblies as your Hireling hath and who is called of men Master as they were which Christ cryed Wo against true Preaching of Jesus Christ Crucified we own and do witness for the Preaching is out of the Will of man out of Form and Custom and is foolishness to the wisdom of the World now as it was ever this is not with the inticing words of mans wisdom but in the demonstration of the Spirit and of Power and the Preaching of the Word

that the Saints had unitie this Light will lead you out of your Hypocritical and deceitful carnal Worships to Worship in spirit and truth this Light will lead you to the true Baptism out of your deceitful imitation of a Baptism which your Hireling upholds among you this Light will lead you to the true Church in God out of your formal imagined Church and to the true Communion of Saints and true singing to God out of your heathenish Communion and Singing Therefore all ye people mind the Light for the Light hath enlightened everie one which is the Savior and Redeemer of him that loveth it and bringeth his deeds to it but is the Condemnation of him that hateth it and walks not in it therefore all people mind this Light which is of God this will lead you up to God this is the way to the Father and none comes to the Father but by me said he who was and is the Light this Light loving it and walking in it will free you from all the burdens which the Pharisee lies upon you and from all the taxes of Pharaoh's Tax-masters and will lead you into the mysteries of the Kingdom of God to know him who is invisible and is present everie where yet hidden from all dark minds who lives in the imaginations and imitations as you and your Hireling doth If you love this Light and walk in this Light it will bring you to be witnesses of the Scripture and of the Saints Conditions which you are but talkers of this is the ●ight from which they spoke that spoke the truth of God and from this Light did Isa. cry who lived in the obedience of it against the greedie dumb dogs that sought for their gain from their Quarter and did Jeremiah Ezekiel Micha and Malachy cry against Hirelings and against those that said The Lord saith it and he never spoke to them and against them that Preached for hire and that Divined for money and that taught for the fleece and yet leaned upon the Lord as your Pharisee doth saying Is not the Lord among us And from this same Light do we Declare against all such and seeth them to be abomination to the Lord now as they did then praised praised be the Lord for ever for now the abominations of the whore is made manifest that sitteth upon manie waters that hath made all Nations drunk with the Wine of her Fornication and now is the Judgment of the Whore come and the day wherein she must reckon to drink the wine of the Wrath of God and he who was and is this Light cried Wo against then that said and did not and against them that had the chiefest place in the Assemblies and that were called of men Masters this same light do I witness to be made manifest from God the Father of Light and am not ashamed to declare it before men for he that denies Christ before men he must be denied by Christ before the Father and this Light lived the Saints in and spoke from who were called Mad-men and Deceivers of them that professed truth in word but persecuted them in whom the Son was born and made manifest in which generation you and your Priest dailie makes manifest your selves to be therefore repent and come down ye high minds and lifted up spirits for the Lord is against you and hearken to the Light of God in you and wait in it according to measure and cease from all your formal customarie traditional worshipping and from all your dumb Teachers who are Antichrists and denies the Light as having enlightened everie one this Light is the onlie way to the Father which all must who comes to God follow and walk in for he that walks not in this Light walks in darkness and stumbles and knows not whither he goes and there are all Priests and people in darkness and ignorance who walks not in this Light therefore love the Light and obey it it will separate you from all filthiness and corruption and lead you into puritie and holiness without which none shall see God and here is your Teacher alwaies present with you which teaches to denie ungodliness and the wicked waies of this world he who walked in this Light by this Light saw all the world to lie in wickedness but said they were of God and all that were of God heard them who dwelt in the Light but he who disobeyes this Light follows the blind guids of the world as you do and sets up Teachers to themselves having itching ears and that Ministerie is of man and by man called to the Ministerie by the earthlie powers by earthlie Magistrates or at Oxford Cambridge or Newcastle all this Ministerie who is here called is by man and their Gospel is of man which the true Gospel is not and he that hath the Word of God to declare from God his Call is not by man neither doth he go to man to be approved for he that Preached the true Gospel consulted not with flesh and blood and so it is now the same thing do we witness and to be Ministers of the everlasting Gospel called not by man but by God praised be the Lord for ever from generation to generation who hath revealed himself unto Babes and hath hid himself from the Wise and Prudent of this World stop your mouths ye Ministers which is by man which Gospel is according to man for now the Lord is arising whose Angel is gone forth Preaching the everlasting Gospel Sing praises to the Lord for ever ye Redeemed ones who are brought from under the emptie dead deceitful Ministerie which is by man to be true witnesses of the true Ministerie which is of God therefore be ashamed ye upholders of the deceitful Ministerie which is but the Ministerie of witchcraft by which your eies are darkned and under which your souls lieth in blindness and ignorance under the power of witchcraft and sorcerie Be confounded ye Back-sliders who once heard the Word with joy and received it who were once among us yet not of us who hath chosen the glorie of this world rather than the everlasting Truth and hath sold your birth-right of the everlasting inheritance for the satisfying of your earthlie minds with the earthlie treasures Hear the Word of the Lord ye sloathful Servants who not abiding waiting upon God eats and drinks with the Drunkards and beats your fellow servants and are now become haters mockers and revilers suddenlie will the Lord come and cut you all asunder and give you your Portion in the Lake that burns with fire except you repent Repent you Back-sliders and consider ye that forgot God now while you have time before the Lord swear in his wrath that ye shall not enter hearken to that which convinceth you of your filthiness the Light of God within you which shall eternallie witness us to be true

generalitie of this Nation going one day in seven to hear a man Preach the Word as they said to me and to be exercised in the formal worship wch was then upheld to reade and sing and to rabble over a Praier but I was wanton and light and lived in pleasure without the fear of God not knowing of God but by hear-say and tradition but when I grew up toward twelve years of age somthing stirred in me and shewed me that there was a higher religion than that I was exercised in and then I inquired where the chiefest of the Presbyterian Priests Preached and would have gone some miles of a first day to have heard one of the best of them which seemed liker truth than the other and so I got up to be a Presbyterian and followed the highest of the Priests and Professors of that form and grew in favor with them then some small of my vanity and lightness I left and Pride grew up in me for wisdom grew up in me then some of my former acquaintance began to scorn me calling me a Round-head and the like and by my laboring here I gathered knowledge in things without but yet was ignorant of the living truth Then when I was about seventeen years of age it pleased God to shew himself a little to me and somthing struck me with terror and when I had been praying I heard the voice often Thou art ignorant of God thou knowest not where he is nor what he is to what purpose is thy Prayer And so much fear and dread came upon me and broke me off from praying manie times and trouble came thick into my mind and fearfulness fell many times upon me and I was struck off my delights that I formerly loved and what I had gathered in as of a god died and I left off reading in the Scripture for somthing shewed me that I was very ignorant and knew not the true God and the beauty of all things vanished And I went to some asking What God was which was professed for I said I knew him not but got no satisfaction from any And I was much separated from the vain waies of the world and from vain worldlie people and was made to reprove manie often for wickedness in words and actions and was much derided and looked upon scornfully by manie and then the Preaching of them whom I had formerly much delighted in was as withered and decayed yet then it pleased the Lord to snew himself a little in love to me and I had sweet refreshments coming in from him to my soul and had joy and peace in abundance and openings of the living truth in me which the world knew not of and the mysterie of the Scripture was somthing opened which before I knew nothing of and I saw manie glorious things in it which lie hid under the letter and I was in much rejoycing manie times and sang praise for I was brought out of the land of darkness could say I was in the Light I grew up to know high things but not knowing the Cross of Christ I ran forth in my wisdom comprehending the mysteries of God having a Light shined in me and I grew up into Notion to talk of high things for it was my delight to comprehend in my busie mind thus being ignorant of the Cross to keep low in it I ran before my guide up into comprehension and then was I above manie of the Priests and Professors and followed only to hear the highest Notionists that Preached high things but the fleshlie man was at libertie and so I became one of them in their discoursings and was looked upon by them to know much the former terror was gone and I had got up from under the judgement and now pride grew more than ever and self-conceitedness and presumption and fleshly liberty to the carnal mind and my delight was much in discoursing where I played the harlot and the prodigal and gave holy things unto dogs and cast pearls before swine for wisdom was hid from me and here I lived pleasantlie for I had the true God and the true Truth in my comprehension which by my wisdom in the light I had comprehended and I had the world in my heart Pride Coverousness and the earthly spirit ruled and my delight was grown up to that which once I had no delight in and the beauty of things grew up which seemed to be vanished here I was run from my Husband after other Lovers and had left the Lord my maker who had so graciously made manifest himself unto me and had spended my portion among harlots but I became to be darkned and had lost that which once I had and had but in memory that which before I had injoyed could tell of Experiences but they were dead to me and somthing within me began to question how it was with me for I saw my self to be ignorant more than formerly and I saw I knew nothing somthing desiring in me to be from whence I was come but I grew to be much given to the world to seek after riches and glorie in it and fed my self with what I had formerlie enjoyed and said Whom God loves once he loves for ever but that was then head and ruled in me which he loved never I was wanton and lived in the lustful nature among heathens crucifying the Lord of Life but the blood of that which I had slain cried continually and the witness which laid slain would give me no rest which the earthly made merrie over and I grew to be weary of hearing any of the Priests though never so high for somthing which shined deep in me shewed me ignorance in all profession and I was put to a stand many times in my self at those things which were come to pass then it pleased the Lord to send his true and faithful Servant and Messenger who is called according to the flesh Geo. Fax be spoke the language which I knew not notwithstanding all my high talking for it was higher and yet lower And it pleased the Lord to speak to me by him that I was in the prodigal state and above the Cross of Christ and not in the pure fear of the Lord but full of corruption and the old nature though I had professed freedom yet it was but such as the Jewes professed for I saw my self to be in bondage to my own Will and to my own Lust and through the word of the Lord spoken to me by him I began to see my self the witness being raised where I was and what I had been doing and saw I had been making an image to the first Beast which had the Wound by a Sword and did live whose deadly Wound was healed and was full of Airie Notions and imaginations and was worshipping the image which I had made and then I saw my self to be a Child of Wrath and that the Son of the Bond-Woman lived and that harlots had been my