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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A77972	The vvalls of Ierico razed down to the ground. Or, An answer to a lying book, called the Quaking principles dashed in peices [sic]: wherein one called Henoch Howett, which goes under the name of an Anabahtist [sic], doth falsely accuse, and maliciously belye us; his seven principles which he calls ours, I shall lay down, and what we own is vindicated, and what he hath belyed the truth in, is turned upon his own head. / By one who is zealous for the name of the Lord of Hostes, called Edward Burrough.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1654 (1654)	Wing B6056A; ESTC R170173	16,554	17

THE VVALLS OF IERICO Razed down to the GROUND OR An Answer to a lying Book called the Quaking principles dashed in peices Wherein one called Henoch Howet which goes under the name of an ANABAHTIST doth falsely accuse and maliciously belye us his seven principles which he calls ours I shall lay down and what we own is vindicated and what he hath belyed the truth in is turned upon his own head By one who is zealous for the name of the Lord of hostes called Edward Burrough London Printed for Giles Calvert and art to be sold at the Black-spread-Eagle at the West-end of Pauls THE VValls of Jerico Razed down to the GROUND NOw is the time wherein the Lord God of heaven and earth is setting up a kingdome and exalting his name in the earth and is exalting his own Son upon the holy hill of Sion and is discovering the mother of harlots who hath made all Nations drunk with her fornication and Iesabel shall be cast into a bed of torment and the fire of the Lord God is come down from heaven and is kindled in the earth to burn up and destroy and to consume to ashes even all those that have worshipped the Beast and hath his Image and the false Prophets that hath deceived the Nations and they both shall be taken alive and cast into the pit for the Lord is grieved and wearied with this adulteress and viperous generation who are offering up that which stinks in his nostriles and strange fire and are professing him and his resurrection who crucifie him and put him to open shame and they deny the end of his coming and are offering in Cains nature while they slay the Iust and are in the gainsaying of Corah who perished in it and so shall all those that gainsay the Lord in his way and now the Lord of heaven and earth is proclaiming war with the Dragon and his Angels and they shall be cast out and whosoever doth resist him in his way shall be broken to pleces as a potters vessel and thou Henoch Howet who would limit the holy one of Israel and bind him up in thy carnal reason and stint him in his way and form up things in thy imagination from the Scripture and walks by tradition thou art accusing us among the Papists but let it stand for thy self and to that in thy conscience I speak and it will let thee see that all thy worship is taken on in thy will and in that nature in which the enmity stands and so hath taken on things and up things by tradition from others and that which was commands to others who followed the Lamb whithersoever he went and no commands to thee neither doth God require those things of that nature neither doth he accept it while the bands of wickedness is not loosed and the oppressed is not set free and therefore let all flesh and carnal reason be silent for God will confound the wisdome of the wise and they that have divined in their reasons which is in the curse and under the curse shall be mad now in the day when God is raising up his own Image and bringing back that which hath long been held in captivity and now the men of the earth Pharao and all the Inchanters of Egypt and the Sooth-sayers and the Diviners and Gog and Magog among which thou Howet art found one and they compass the Camp of the Saints about but fire shall come down from heaven that shall destroy all the adversaries of the Lord and Israel shall go free 1. That which thou cals our first principle And first thou saith they oppose the word Christ to the written word and will a word that is a discovery spiritual to be the word but whatsoever it is they call the word it is perfectly false and not the truth Answ Oh thou lyar and slanderer the Lord will plead with thee for addars poyson is under thy tongue and thou hast a whores forehead that art not ashamed of thy self accusing let hundreds in the City of London who hath heard us be witness against thee and thy lies that thou hast Printed and suffers them to be cryed up and down the streets as thy filthy songs and ballads and runs to disgrace the truth but to the Lord who is righteous shall thou give an account and thou art Ianes and Iambres that withstood Moses and for all thy hard speeches and filthy lyes shall thou give an account for to him who is the searcher of hearts and that in thy conscience shall bear witness against thee and that we oppose the word Christ to the written word as thou cals it I charge it upon thee that we do not oppose Christ to the Scripture for Christ is the word Iohn 1. and this the Scripture doth not oppose but bears witness to him who is the word and his name is called the Word of God and this word became flesh and dwelt among us as the Scripture witness and the Word of the Lord endures for ever but he doth not say the Letter endures for ever but thou that art accusing that we do not own a form of sound words here thou shalt be judged out of thy own mouth where reads thou of a written word in the Scripture and here thou shalt be tryed by the Scripture and judged by it that thou art a perverter of the Scripture thou would have more words then one the word is but one the word sanctifies sanctifie them through thy word but he doth not say the Letter sanctifies and the Word of the Lord is from everlasting to everlasting but the Letter is not from everlasting and the Scripture had a beginning and was declared in time and prophesie shall cease but the Word is from everlasting to everlasting and the Word of the Lord is as a hammar and as a fire but the Scripture doth not say that it is as a hammar and a fire and yet the word that he spoke was spirit and life yet the Scripture is not spirit and iife and thou that would set up the letter in the place of God to try all things and search all hearts thou makes an Idol of it and so opposes God with it and so would bring that to contend against the Lord the which they witness through suffering and I tell thee and all the world the word is but one and all who knows God hears that word and it is a light and a Lanthhorn unto their pathes but that is invisible and eternal and what the Saints were witness of this word they declared 1. Iohn and the Scripture is true and bears true record and testimony of the word and they were true witnesses of the word of life that wrote it and it is a true declaration or testimony of those things that are certainly beli●ved Luk 1. of the which they saw and heard and tasted and all who come to know the Word of the Lord reads it again and sees it as it is

written and further thy envy and shame is made manifest that thou would accuse and yet thou saith whatsoever they call the word it is perfectly false and not truth here thou would judge and yet thou cannot tell what we call the Word but at last concludes its false whatever it be and here thou blasphemes and cals Christ Jesus in whom is all truth false for no other word I own but Christ and the Scripture speaks of no word of God but one and thou that would make the Letter the Word it self shall judge thee and thou makes much mincing and arguments in thy carnal reason and saith the ground of error is ignorance of the Scripture and thou brings Mark and Matthew alas I know what Mark and Matthew wrote is true if thou had an ear to hear the ground of all error is because he is not known nor his voice whom the Scripture bear record of and thou saith we drive men into darkness that works upon people to disesteem the Scripture and perswades people to an uslessness of the Scriptures let all that have heard us in the City of London or elsewhere speak if they heard us say the Scriture was usless or did disesteem it but on the contrary we exhorted them to search if the Scripture did not bear witness to those things we declared and so let shame cover thy face thou falfe accuser and thou brings 2 Tim. 3.17 that it is for the perfecting the man of God and that its profitable to correct and instruct this is owned but it s not the man of God thou would have perfected by it but such hirelings as thy self hath been and false accusers as thou art and I say it is profitable to us to reprove thee and correct thee and read thy portion a lyars portion is in the lake and as Rom. 15.4 it s not denyed but as Christ Iesus is witnessed who is the Comforter whlch the Scripture bears witness of there is comfort and hope and thou saith the Scripture proves the New birth and teacheth perseverance to the end it bears testimony of some that did witness the New birth and that persevered unto the end but what is this to thee that never came one step in th● way and as for promises there is no promise but condemnation in the Scripture in such as thee and read it the lyar and false accuser and the envious shall not inhererit the Kingdom of God and their own thy promise and thy portion 2. Particular which thou cals a mistake that is speaking to a thing within thee I would fain know what can be meant of the thing within men for there is nothing to be spoken to in man but man Answ Here thy igno●ance shame and envy is made manifest that thou that hath pretended to be a Minister and a Pastor of a Church and cannot tell what thou hath spoke to what hath thou ministered to the wind or hast thou ministered to the devil and preached glad tidings to him who is in the transgression and free grace to him that hath walked contrary to God it is so and therefore thou and al● who are in that nature knows not what you speak and therefore none hath been at all profited by your Ministery and blessed be the Lord that its hid from the eyes of the wise and revealed to babes and thy envious spirit is seen that it is of thy father the Devil who is the accuser of the Brethren that would lay a thing down as an error and tels of dashing in peices our principles and yet knows not what it is nor what we speak dost thou accuse and knows not for what let shame cover thy face that ever thou should put pen to paper or speak of God or Christ and speaks thou knows not what and th●n thou hath hatched a thing and concludes there is nothing in man to be spoken to but man and before thou knew not and so art in confusion for Christ and his Apostles always spoke to man thou saith the Apostle saith he went and ministered to the Spirits in prison and to open the blind eye and to raise the dead and the dead should hear the voice of the Son of God and live and he preached liberty to the captive and is given for a covenant to open the blind eyes and unstop the deaf ears and make the lame to walk if thou hast an ear thou may hear but not to feed thy serpents wisdom do I speak I will shut thee out for into it thou cannot enter but through death and death wrote the book and the Apostles were made manifest to every mans conscience in the sight of God and the slothful servant had a talent given to improve which was anothers and not his own and that was required of him and that will God require of man and unto that we speak which hears us and shall witness us eternally even that which is not in the transgression neither is of man but is given to man to improve and ye● is not far from man but this is a mysterie and it shall be sealed for without a parable spoke he not to such as thou art and I know this is a parable but in the end thou saith thou knows not how they can speak to any light in man distinct from him unless they speak unto Satan or some of his legions here again thy shame and ignorance is made manifest we speak to the ear and the eye in man which the God of the world hath blinded and this is not of man and yet is not far from man but distinct that is thy own word I do not own it bring forth the blind that hath eyes and the deaf that hath ears did the Prophets speak to the devil in man we speak to the witness of God in man and according to this shall all be judged if thou hast an ear thou may hear oh thou blasphemer dost thou call that which may be known of God which is manifest on Rom. 2. dost thou call this a Legion of Devils even that which declares the eternal power and Godhead but thou art he that calls the Master of the house Beelsibub and in that nature thou art and the Lord will rebuke 3. Principle That thou cals a mistake that is the denying the use of reason in the matters of God calling it serpentine Answ The world by wisdome knowes not God and all the disputing and twining and lavishing of the wisdome of man and that which thou cals reason it is corrupted and is shut out and who lives in that nature are the unreasonable men that hath not faith now he that hath not faith hath not reason and he that hath faith hath the witness in himself but I see thee thy witness is without thee and so thou speaks unreasonably and all that would understand the mysteries of the Kingdome must come through death for light shines in darkness but darkness cannot comprehend it and therefore one

cryes loe here and loe there and with that which thou cals reason is Scripture torn asunder and strife and contention and endless disputes and striving for Mastery which is carnal and all this we deny And thou saith upon this ground they will not do as the Apostles and Christ himself who disputed with the gainsayers Ioh. 6. and Stephen Acts 6. and thou brings in some of the Synagogue of Libertines and Syrenians and Alexandrians and the rest and disputed with Stephen and they were not able to resist him let many hundreds of this City of London both in publike and in private bear witness against if we have not disputed and hath not been ready to give an answer to the gainsayers though not such a one as they desired even as Christ our Master did not answer the Iews in their subtil tempting of him and of those Sects that encountred both Stephen and Paul truly I must needs say unto thee we have met with the same generation in this City whereof thou art one and truly more subtil then they were but in the eternal light you are all seen and many though they could not gainsay yet have resisted us and after a little thou saith thou pleads not for carnal reason for this will not suffer any to follow Christ further then they can carry their own things their honours pleasures ease and lusts to that in thy conscience I speak whether this doth not rule thee and guide thee it will let thee see thou art pleading for honour and respecting mens persons and hath them in admiration because of advantage and brings the example of others to prove and uphold thy deceit which they were neither commanded nor commended for to oppose the commands of Christ and the express Scripture and thou goes on further and saith God is the author of memory and wisdome and reason but I tell thee there is a wisdom and a reason that God will confound for by faith we know the heavens were made and see them upholden and by faith all things is brought to our remembrance and it is the light that convinceth of sin even the light of Christ and so in the eternal light I see what thou pleads for for eating of the tree of knowledge and there thou art till thou art become a fool and die to that reason thou shalt never eat of the tree of life and therefore flesh be silent and thou saith thou doth not allow that reason that gets only a conclusion or an argument instead of Christ and after thou saith the day is yet to dawn and the day star to arise and thou pryes violently for it and here what hath thou more for an assurance of thy salvation then an argument and a conclusion instead of Christ for thou confesses the day is not dawned and then thou art yet in the night and in darkness for the day dawns and the day star arises before Christ be witnessed but thou knows no such thing as either Christ or the dawning if thou had not others testimony and that is without and thou art one Christ spoke of since Iohn the Kingdome suffers violence and many thrust into it and thou art striving and art violent but I say thou shalt not be able till thou lay down thy contending in thy carnal wisdom and striving and resisting but thou must become a fool and sit at Iesus feet but thou art full and rich and hole and need no Physitian and therefore thou must be sent empty away and when the book of conscience shall be opened thou shalt be judged for what thou hath done against the innocent Now something in Answer to the fourth particular Which thou sayest is a tenent held forth by the Northern people which is a denying of the assention and being of the body of Christ Answ O thou enemy of righteousness when wilt thou cease to pervert the right way of God who uttereth thy lies and slanders against the Innocent God shall judge thee and between thee and us whether thou hast not uttered lyes and false accusations in the name of the Lord and put forth in writing unto the world for truth that which is absolutely contrary unto the Truth God will reward thee thou full of subtilty according to thy deeds who takes part with the Dragon against the Lamb and goes about by thy lying slanders to rend the way of truth which thou canst not comprehend in thy serpents wisdome odious unto all men but God taketh our part against thee and will dash thy lyes and slanders and thy Impudent forehead in pieces even by that power which make the earth to quake and tremble which is become a reproach unto this generation many who have heard us since we came to this City though our enemies shall witness against thee and for us in this particular for we have oft witnessed forth and I do here again witness forth in the sight of God and men that Christ Iesus is risen and ascended far above all principalities and powers and the same which descended into the lower parts o●●he earth is also ascended and raigns over all subjecting all unto him●●lf that he may be Lord over all and in all and may be glorified by all and members of his body we are who thou enviously rails against ●nd wit●esses of the body we are whereof Christ Iesus is head and because ●f ●he resurrection of the dead body which is ascended we are call●d i● question and all Sects and opinions are troubled and on an uproar ●●●ce●●in● us and I tell thee plainly we are so far from denying the asc●nsion and being of the body of Christ that because of being called to ●●●●ess i● as being members of it we are persecuted and reviled by such 〈◊〉 thy self whose carnal conceptions and imaginations of truth we do deny and doth testifie unto you all that though death is the resurrection and ascension witnessed and every one that reads the Scripture is not witnesses of the resurrection of the body of Christ and all whose witness is onely without them other mens words which had the witnesse within them we deny to be true witnesses but are found false witnesses of the resurrection and of the ascension and knows not Christ nor his body but by hearsay and whereas thou brings many Scriptures to prove his resurrection and ascension I answer the Scriptures we own to be a true declaration of the witnesse which was in the Apostles of the resurrection and of the ascension of Christ but thee we deny who art found a lyar and a slanderer and thy resurrection will be unto condemnation and thy ascension will prove a descending into the bottomless pit for ever to be tormented except thou repent and from the life of the holy men of God thou art razed out who art found in the way of ungodliness and thou hast nothing to do to profess their words who art out of their life nor no inheritance in their words but as thou