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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

peace in this world and pleasure in the vanities thereof the Lord is coming to make war against you his trumpet hath sounded and his Sons and Daughters is gone forth to bear witnesse of his Majesty and Power and Dominion and the Lord hath spoken who can but prophesie he hath given the word and many are they that publish it Let your eares be open to instruction and kicke not against the Lord neither harden your hearts against him but make way for him and prepare his path for he cometh to judge the world in righteousnesse and the people with equity and the testimony of the light of Jesus in you all shall witnesse for him your Princely powers must become subject to the power of the Kingdome of the most high and your glory must be vailed and darkned before the glory which the Lord is causeing to shine forth and we the servants of the most high doe give you warning of the day of your visitation which is upon you and all the world for the Lord is now risen who hath long winked at the time of great ignorance but now he warnes you all to repent therefore bow down ye stiffe-necked and tremble ye stout-hearted and be abased ye lofty-looks our King is above you all our dominion is over you all and the line of true judgement are you all measured with and your wayes are not found perfect in the sight of the Lord nor your hearts right before him his Kingdome hath not been known in your dominions neither hath his Law and his Judgements borne rule but you have every one bin doing that which is right in the sight of your own eyes and the counsells of your heart hath been nought but vanity before the Lord vain glory hath abounded among you which the Lords soul hath been burthened by the honours and pleasures of the flesh hath been your delight and strife and enmity hath been among you and warres and quarrelling and fighting one against another and you have rejoyced in the over-throw one of another and in destroying one another and you have taken pleasure in gaining one anothers dominions you have striven who should have been the greatest and greatly opressed the poor you have exalted your selves one against another and drawn up your Armies one in defiance of another and the Bloud of thousands hath been shed to satisfie the humors of your proud hearts all this hath been evill in the sight of the Lord and his Spirit hath been grieved and his soul vexed by all this and he hath forborne till he hath been weary for he hath been dishonoured by all this and his Law hath not borne rule and his judgements hath had no place you have been cruell hearted one towards another and mercilesse and without pitty and you have not done to others as you would be done unto but you have rendred evill for evill and sought occasions of evill one against another and vexed one another through the pride of your hearts Therefore now is the Lord risen to make warre against you all and to dash you to peices the feller comes up amongst you he that will not spare to ssay and to devoure who will not be affraid of your lofty lookes he will spoile you of your treasures and lay waste your strength all ye kingdomes of the earth and your gathering together against him is but as briers and thornes for he will exalt his owne Kingdome over you all and all yee Kings of the earth shall know that that the Kingdome of the most high must rule in your Kingdomes and your lawes shall be changed and the poor shall no more be opressed for he is come that proclaimes liberty unto the Captives who will remove opression far away who will change times and worships and ordinances and there shall be no Law but the Law of God nor no light but of the Lamb nor no worship but the worship in the spirit and in the truth for all your worships which the nations are full of is nought but vanity and a lye immitations and superstitions brought forth in hypocrisie and not in an upright heart vanity of vanities hath abounded both in civill and spirituall affairs The root in which you stand is wholy corrupted and no good fruit springs from it but cursed fruites which must be hewen downe and cast into the fire ye have been evill and could not bring forth any good you are corrupted and your fruit is of a bitter taste a day of sorrow of lamentation and misery is coming upon you all ye that have been high and lofty and stout hearted fearfulnesse shall surprize you and the terror of the Lord of Hosts shall compasse you about I am moved to salute you all with this as a warning and when it comes to passe remember you have been told ye that know not the kingdome of the most high ruling men but are saying in your hearts this hath my hand done in a moment shall you be smitten and know there is one above you which must rule for it his right to rule over all nations and there shall be no King but Jesus the anointed of God nor no government but the government of the Lambe there shall be no more warres but war against the Dragon who hath stood to devour the man-child which is now bringing forth and he must rule with his iron rod and shall subdue all under his feet We whom God hath warned cannot but warn you of these things whith are to come to passe he is coming to seperate betwixt the just and the unjust he will gather from among you that the wicked may be consumed from off the face of the earth All you Rulers in the world I warne you all take heed how you persecute such as comes to warne you who brings this message to you least you add sin to sin till there be no place found for repentance for ye shall all know our God is the true God that made heaven and earth before whose presence all flesh must come to judgement By a Friend unto the Creation E. B. FINIS