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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30523	A faithful testimony concerning the true worship of God what it is in it self, and who are the true vvorshippers : in opposition to all the false worship in this nation, which is idolatry, which is discovered in its foundation, and in its manifestation, not to be ever commanded of God, or practised by his apostles and saints, but it is declared to consist chiefly of such things and practises as had their first beginning and ordination in the Church of Rome ... and this is written for a general good to all such as are worshipping in temples made with hands / by E.B.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1659 (1659)	Wing B6002; ESTC R36302	11,877	16

if they had not that yet did they not cast men into prison and spoyle their goods that would not give it them as this generation of Teachers do and the Lord God is risen to confound this Worship and this Ministry which is Idolatry and this Church which is but a false feigned imitation and he will establish his true Worship that is in spirit and in truth and his true Ministry that is by the gift of the Holy Ghost and his true Church and this shall be brought to pass in his day But again there is another practise which you have which the Church of Rome and the Prelates had your predecessors if any come in the Name of the Lord to declare against you and against your abominations to cry against your sin and cry repentance among you that you may be converted to God this you account a great Transgression and persecutes them that doth it by imprisoning and whipping and stocking and by imposing great fines upon them and causing them to suffer cruel things and this did the Papists and Prelates in like manner as you do if any was moved to cry against them they indeed rewarded them even as you do at this day the same thing you do against such as are moved of the Lord to come among you and herein you succeed them and brings forth the same persecution in your Churches as they did in their Churches and this is the defence of your Church and of your Ministry Carnal Weapons Imprisonment and Whipping and Stocking and causing the bodyes of people to suffer through cruelty and injustice and by this means is your Church Ministry defended preserved or otherwise it would presently fall as not being able to continue nor resist nor gain-say the spirit power of God which now is risen to oppose them if they had not carnal Laws and Earthly Powers and Gaols and Houses of Correction to defend themselves by And is this the Church of Christ And is this Christs Ministry that have need of such weapons as these The Apostles nor true Churches never did thus neither sent people to prison that opposed them nor had such cruelty to execute upon the bodyes of people though many did oppose them out of wickednesse but the Spirit and Authority of the Lord did defend them from all their Enemies But your Church and Ministry is manifest to be another then that was and to be defended by another means even by the same means that the Papists and Prelates of old were of a long time defended by but when the measure of these things are fulfilled they will come to an end as the measure of that generations iniquity was fulfilled which went before you so in the Lords season will your measure be fulfilled and the Lords people shall be free and all bonds of iniquity broken And thus it is manifest that this Church and Ministry succeeds the Church of Rome and her Ministers far more then the Church of Christ and its true Ministers to that it is not equal in any thing but to the Church of Rome it is comparable in many things so that it is manifest that this Church and Ministry are not quite another then the Church and Ministry of Rome but such as hath dissented from them and are truly sprung out of that root and is the same still in substance though differing in some practises having cast out some old inventions and brought in some new but as I have said remains still the same in nature and substance though dissented in some particulars yet succeedeth in many particulars as I may shew more fully hereafter And though you bare the Name and stile your selves The reformed Churches you mean reformed from the Church of Rome but how are you reformed but by some visible appearances and not in the ground having put off but some of her garments and remains the same body for substance in nature and matter though differing onely in appearances For the Church which is the true Church of Christ is not thus reformed onely changed in part and altered in degrees but the true Church denies the Church of Rome in her very being and ground and in all her practises whatsoever for though many Sects have risen one from another yet all the same for substance onely differing in particulars But as for you to whom this particular is written that worship God in Steeplehouses you are not so much differing from the Church of Rome as many others are which are not true Churches neither but the Lord God is now gathering his people wherefore come out of your Idol-worship and Idol-Temples for God dwells not in them nor is not worshipped there but he dwells and walks in his Saints and is worshipped in spirit and in truth and his day is dawned and his glory is risen and he will confound this Church and Ministry which bears the marks of the Romish Whore hath her symptoms and characters remaining upon them unto this day as it is manifest And though some may object and say That God commanded a Temple to be builded for the worship of his Name and Ordinances to be practised in the time of the old Covenant To which I do say Yea it was so a Temple was builded by Solomon for the seed of the Iews to worship in and to come to sacrifice to the Lord in and there was an outward worship and ordinances But it is many hundred years since this Temple was destroyed and worship and ordinances thrown down which God once commanded and his people once practised and Christ the life the power and wisdom of God was the substance thereof and unto whom he was made manifest and in whom he was revealed in the spirit they utterly renounced and denyed the Temple and the Worship therein though God once had commanded it and the Saints after the manifesting of Christ to them in spirit and after that the Holy Ghost was given we do not find through all the Churches of the Saints that they worshipped in the Temple of the Iews but witnessed against it and said that God dwelt not in Temples made with hands neither was he worshipped in Temples made with hands but in the spirit and in the truth their worship consisted therefore were persecuted but they bare witnesse against the Temple the worship those Ordinances which God once had commanded which once his people practised though it was to the peril of their lives but as for these Temples and these Ordinances and this worship which are now on foot they were never brought forth by any Ordination or Commandment of God but the foundation of them was the inventions of men and mens traditions taught them and not the spirit of the Lord and therefore against those things those Temples and those Ordinances and VVorships much reason have we to cry against them all as being neither sign nor substance of good but wholly inventions of men The Jews Temple

and Ordinance was signs of good things to come and when the substance was come the Saints denyed the shadows and the figures but as for these they are denyed wholly as being Idolatry and Abomination from the beginning to the end of them for as I have shown these things which are the matter of which your Worship and Ordinance doth consist had their rise and beginning in the days of darknesse and ignorance since the Apostacy came in and so in the Name and Authority of the Lord we do declare against them even against your Temples and whole Worship to the intent to bring you to the true Worship that is in spirit and in truth and that you might know your bodyes the Temples of God and that he might dwell in you and walk in you according as he hath promised in the New Covenant Wherefore all people awake and come out of your Idolatry and Idolatrous Worships seperate your selves touch no more of it that the Lord may receive you and that you may come into his Covenant which is life and peace for your souls for in those Worships and Temples and all your practises therein you have not true peace with the Lord nor the refreshments from his pure presence but sin and death reigns amongst you and great ignorance is over your hearts and Idolatry corrupts your minds and the Lord hath been forgotten by you dayes without number God is not well-pleased neither hath any delight in your Worship for your worship of him and fear towards him is but taught by the precepts of men and by the traditions of the Fathers in the days of Popery and if ever he opens your eyes you will see it for it is with the humble and contrite in heart that the Lord dwels him that crembleth at the word of the Lord whose heart is right in his sight and hath learned his judgements and fear and such as are changed and renewed and born of the seed of God and begotten by his powerful Word such are the true worshippers whom the Lord is seeking and such will he find to worship him And whereas there is a great cry amongst you and among many people at this day about deceivers and being deceived and there are many deceivers you say and your cry is one to another Take heed you be not deceived by false Teachers and false Doctrine This is the cry of Parents to Children and of Children to Parents and of Masters to Servants and of Servants to Masters and chiefly it is the cry of your Priests to the people Take heed you be not deceived c. Now to all this I do say That there are many deceivers and many are deceived this is certainly true and plainly manifest but now to shew what a deceiver is and what it is to be deceived and who it is that are deceived First That is a deceiver that person that spirit or that thing that leadeth or inticeth the minds of people into something to do or practise or speak something which the Lord by his spirit doth not lead to I say That which leads the creature to take up a joy or a delight or a happiness in something of this world which is under the Sun to place confidence or felicity in such a thing that which thus leadeth or draweth the mind whether it be person or spirit it is a deceiver and deceiveth the soul and he or they that doth follow this and give up themselves into the obedience of it to do or speak something that is contrary to God or which his spirit doth not lead unto nor guide in this person is deceived of the presence of the Lord and of the comfort and joy and happiness that is in him and hath pleasure and joy in something of the Creation that is not of him but besides him and this person is deceived and in deceit who hath placed a joy and happinesse and confidence in some creature or thing that is not perfectly the Lord and another spirit besides the Spirit of the Lord hath seated its self in the heart and taken possession of the mind and the mind and heart is thereby captivated by that way in the works and pleasures of this world and this is a deceived estate and thus much of a deceiver and a deceiving in the ground in that declared But now you that are crying one to another Be not deceived Be not deceived And you not such as are deceived already and that lyes wallowing in the deceit and vanity and evil of this world For while sin hath power over you and that spirit that is not of God doth lead you you are deceived and thus it is with you being unchanged and unrenewed in mind and heart are not you deceived For you want the feeling of the presence and of the comfort of the Lord God and you are deceived of that for that you have not and another thing possesseth your mind the joy and pleasure of this world and in your exercise spiritual and temporal the spirit that is of this world doth lead you and guide you the spirit of unrighteousnesse that leadeth contrary to him and can you be otherwayes deceived or more deceived For you are without God a ready and wants his peace and the inheritance of life eternal that is in him you want the possession thereof and you are following dead Idols and vanities which steals away your mind whereby it is manifest that you are deceived For all people upon the Earth that are not led by the spirit into all truth that hath not received the promise of the Father they are all deceived and cannot be more deceived then they are and so is the cry in general among people if any one forsake and deny their way of Worship and Religion and Profession be it of what manner and nature soever presently there is a cry chiefly by the Priests Take heed you be not deceived and you are in heresie and error and such like Thus have the Papists cryed against them that have dissented from them and the Prelates cryed the same and now you cry the same to them that dissent from you but your zeal is not so much against Heresie and Error simply so as it is to have your own Sect and Worship upheld and against them that doth dissent from you and it hath been Antichrists way since the apostacy since the days of the Apostles to cry Heresie and Error and you are deceived to all that did decline and dissent from him for you may read in the Scriptures Power was given to the Beast to compell all to worship him and all that would not he made war against and had power to kill them And thus have the Papists done warred against them that denyed their Church and thus did the Prelates and thus do you your cry is Heresie and Error and they are deceived who do forsake your Church and your Ministry and this cry have you learned of your fore-fathers the