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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30562	A visitation & vvarning proclamed and an alarm sounded in the popes borders ... being the account of a journey to Dunkirk, and the proceedings there among the Jesuites, and friars and papists, with some particular quæries, and also some propositions sent unto them : which may be satisfaction to many who may behold the difference in part between th papists and the people of God, and between the idolaters and the true worshippers / by one that travells in the labour of the Gospel of Christ for the elect seeds sake, Edw. Burrough.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1659 (1659)	Wing B6055; ESTC R36306	27,470	36

Doctrines and in her worships and ordinances in her orders discipline and government from what the true Church of Christ was in the Apostles dayes before the Apostacy 2. That the constitution of your Church and the chief part of your worship and ordinances and the way and maner of your discipline and Government are of man and set up and standeth by the will of man and are not after God nor according to him but are after the traditions of man learned and practised therein which is Idolatry and are not in the commandements of Christ nor in the example of his Apostles nor according to the Scriptures but without the spirit of God being set up since the dayes of the Apostles and since the Apostacy came in which hath over-shadowed the whole world 3 That there hath been over the world for generations and many ages since the dayes of the Apostles and true Churches a generall declination and falling away from the true faith and doctrines and from the worship and ordinances and from the discipline and Government that was amongst the Apostles and practised in the true Churches of Christ in their dayes and your Church is in that declination and falling away 4. That Ant●christ the Beast and the whore and false prophets have reigned over the world for generations the Antichrist that hath opposed Christ and been exalted in the Temple of God and been worshipped as God The Beast that hath killed the Saints and warred against them and had power over Kindreds and tongues and the world hath wondred after him The Whore whom the Beast hath carried she hath sat upon peoples multitudes and Nations and drunk the blood of the Saints and of the Martyrs and she hath corrupted the earth and caused all to drink her cup of fornications And the false Prophets have overspred the Nations and deceived them and you and your Church are of the peoples the multitudes and the kindred that the Beast hath received power over and the Whore hath sat upon and the false Prophets deceived 5 That the true Church of Christ the Lambs wife the ele●●ed spouse and the beloved City who brought forth him that was to rule the ●ations hath been fled into the Wildernes been fled into the place of mourning dissolation for a thousand two hundred 60 dayes the Gentiles feet have troden down the holy City the Lambs wife and had power over her for forty and two moneths and though she hath not been prevailed against nor overcome so as to be extinguished from having a being yet her being hath been the Wilderness in mourning and disolation and she hath not appeared in the glory and excellency which once she had but hath lost her garments and her attire and her heir and husband separated from her and caught up to God and to his Throne and in this time of the disolation and treading down of the holy City the Lambs wife and the reigning of the Beast and the Whore hath your Church been extant in her glory and power which hath been of the false woman and not of the ele●t spouse that is married to the Lamb 6. That forcing and compelling of persons by any outward Law and Authority to be of such or such a Religion and to conforme to such a way of worship is the worship of the Beast and of the Whore and not the worship of God and to kill and persecute persons for the exercise of conscience and because they will not be of such a Religion and cannot conform to such worship is of the Divill and the Dragon and not of God nor according to him and that your Church herein is not successor of the Apostles and the true Church of Christ but is of the Beast and the Whore which Iohn saw was to come in his time and which we see are come in our dayes and have ruled for generations and I affirme that persons so made conformable by force and violent Laws to such a Religion and worship are but two fold more the Children of the Divill and are not at all converted to God thereby but becomes Idolaters whom God will Judge 7. That none upon earth are true members of the true Church of Christ having a portion in the inheritance of eternal life but such who are gathered out of the world by the preaching of the Gospel and are changed and renewed by the power of the Lord God in the heart and are led by his spirit within them into all truth and are joyned unto Christ the head and gathered into the eternall unity of the infinite body by the same spirit and anointing dwelling in them and of such onely doth the true Church of Christ consist now in this present time as it did in the Apostles dayes but of such members doth not your Church consist in this present age neither is it in the order and Government of the spirit of truth but in the forme without the Power therein was its beginning and is its standing at this day 8. That the time is at hand and the day of the Lord draws near and the fulness of time is approaching wherein great Babylon shal be thrown down and fall to the ground and the Lord will be avenged on her and will render Judgments unto her and the Beast and whore and false prophets un●o whom the Kingdoms of the world hath been subject shall be taken and cast alive into the lake and the devil and Satan shall deceive the Nations no more but the Kingdoms of this World shall be changed and become the Kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ whose Kingdom shall be revealed in power and great glory in the hearts of his chosen and the Church of Rome and all the false sects and Churches upon the earth will the Lord God overthrow and his true Church shall be gathered out of the Wilderness and the beauty of new Ierusalem of the holy Church the Lambs wife shall be as glorious as before she fled thither and before she was troden down of the Gentiles and the Lord God Almighty shall be known and his ●abernacle shall be with men These things I assert to you in the Name of the Lord and the truth thereof is certaine and should be ready to argue and dispute these things with any sober person amongst you upon equall tearmes and to prove the infalibility hereof by the spirit of the Lord and according to the Scriptures wherefore consider of them in patience and meekness and believe in the light of Christ which is in your consciences which Christ hath lightened every man that commeth into the world withall that you may come to the knowledge of the truth and out of all false wayes and if any of you will returne an answer hereunto in behalfe of your whole body and can be able to clear your selves in writing from what is charged upon you it shall be gladly received by me and a reply in meekness returned to you for

all to be thrown down and the worship that is in Spirit and truth to be set up by the Lord and he is gathering people into that worship but if you be out of the fear of God in the rudenesse and wickednesse of the world and seeks your selves and not the freedom of the nations onely then the Lord will lay you aside as a broken potsherd and raise up unto himselfe a people that shall fulfill his work and do it for he hath much work to do in the nations to accomplish in a few years time for he is gathering his elect seed and changing the kingdomes of the world and making them become the kingdomes of Christ and so be low in your own eyes and do not seek your selves but seek one anothers good and seek the glory of the Lord and the freedome of the oppressed and in that you will be blessed and prosper till you have set up your standard at the gates of Rome I am a lover of all your souls and a sufferer in patience under the cruelties of men E. B. ANd some small discourse we had with our English Priests that supplies the place of Chaplains to the Army and in particular one of them which had spoken something behind our backs against us and we did proffer to have some discourse with him but he refused it only to evade the matter at that present he bid us state some of our principles in writing and he would answer them in dispute in some publike place being he was not willing to engage to dispute otherwise we were free to write this following Paper but we had no answer in agreement to dispute with us but shifted the thing from himself by telling us the Governor was not willing but t● is was not the same Priest before mentioned that we had discourse with at our first coming into the Town Friend For the manifestation of truth and that the perfect difference between thee and us may be known and who are in the truth and who in the error and that truth from error may be clearly discerned therefore according to thy own proposals and expressed desires thereof before many we do here assert some particulars of that truth which we have received from God and do hold forth and maintain in the world in opposition to thee or any other that shall gainsay them viz. 1. That Christ hath lightened all men with a light sufficient in it self to bring them to salvation if they follow it 2. That God hath given Christ to be the Saviour of all men 3. That none are justified by Christ and his righteousnesse without them but as they have received Christ and his righteousness and witness them revealed in themselves 4. That the Saints of God may be perfectly freed from sin in this life so as no more to commit it 5. That the national Ministers and Churches not only of Papists but of the Protestants also as they now stand are not the true ministers and Churches of Christ 6. That the scriptures are a true declaration given forth from the spirit of God by holie men of God moved by it to write them and are profitable but are not the foundation nor the most perfect Rule of faith and life to the Saints These things we are freelie willing and desirous to discourse upon with thy selfe and anie others that shall join with thee in the presence of sober and wise men who may judge between us in anie publick place that may be procured by thee according to thy engagements in this particular provided it may be in the spirit of meeknesse and moderation and that all fair and sober dealing may be among us and the fear of God and to this we expect thy speedie answer concerning time and place E. Burrough S. Fisher The propositions were writ as short as could be for to stop all advantages against us that might be taken by our adversarie in case he had met us and agreed to dispute but upon enlargement in discourse we might have laid open the truth of everie one of these particulars at large to the satisfaction of sober minds that might have been doubtfull hereof and shewed by the Scriptures the truth of all of them THE END