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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

A Visitation VVarning PROCLAMED AND An Alarm Sounded in the Popes Borders in the Name and Authority of the Lord Almighty and the Lamb BEING The Account of a Journey to Dunkirk and the Proceedings there among the Jesuites and Friars and Papists with some particular Quaeries and also some propositions sent unto them Which may be satisfaction to many who may behold the difference in part between the 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 LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1659. The particulars and the Heads laid down 1 The Account of the Journey 2 A Letter to the Deputy Governour and the Officers of the English Army 3 Quaeries to the Friars first in Latine secondly in English 4 Propositions as a Charge against the Romish Church first in Latine secondly in English With a Letter to the chief Jesuite Rector in Dunkirk 5 A Warning to the Officers and Souldiers of the English Army 6 Some Propositions to the English Priests in Dunkirk with some other things ACcording to the will of the Lord and being moved of him in spirit and as it lay upon me many dayes I passed to Dunkirk And that which I found upon me chiefly was to visit and warn the Papists the Iesuites and Friars and that company of Idolaters and to sound the mighty day of the Lord among them and to proclaim it in the Popes borders and to warn them all of the day that is at hand upon them by the word of the Lord and to sound forth among them the everlasting Gospel of Truth and against all their Idolatrous ways worships and Practises which I have often felt the weight and burthen of before ever I saw outwardly what their wayes or practises are which when I saw their Idolatrous practises and worships and heard their doctrines and what they professe I found it to be according to what I had seen and felt in the light that trieth all things And about the sixth day of the third moneth 1659. I with Samuel Fisher who was moved to go with we shipped from Dover and came into Dunkirk the next day and being strangers upon earth as the generation of the righteous seed ever was we waited in the will of the Lord to be guided by his wisdom what to do and how to be guided to act and speak to his glory So the next morning the Town Mayor came to us in the street and required an account of our coming and our names and from whence we came to which we gave him sober answers and a reasonable account And that day it much spread over the Town of our being come thither which wrought no small cogitations in the hearts of many as what our business was and wherefore we were come so that the Deputy Governour Colonel Alsop with the Counsel of Officers sent for us that night the chief Governour not being in Town So we went to them who did kindly intreat us and examine us concerning our coming thither and what our businesse was there and such like to which we gave them answers and staid with them in discourse some hours And the Deputy Governour much pleaded to us the danger of our staying in the Town and feared the devision that might grow among them through us and withall much desired us to depart the Town supposing as he said the great danger that might incur unto the Garrison through our stay But our answer was in much plainnesse if he desired us we could not receive any such desire and if he commanded us we could not obey his command in that case neither could we depart the Town but in the will of God according to which will we came thither and having many words and much reasoning with them that night we parted from them And the next morning I was moved to write this letter following and to give them all a sober account of our coming and what our work is in this World wheresoever we come which letter was delivered to them and read by many of them But to it we received no Answer according as the latter part did require as may be seen Dunkirk the eleventh of the third moneth 1659. English account To the Deputy Governour and the Officers of the English Army in Dunkirk these FRiends We the Servants of the Lord are lovers of all your souls and wisheth well unto you in the Lord that truth and peace and righteousnesse may be among you and in your hearts and we are travellers in the labour of the Gospel of Christ Jesus for the elect Seeds sake having received the glad tidings of life and eternal salvation into our hearts through the revelation of Christ in us who is our hope of glory and the Lord hath manifested greatly his power amongst us and revealed the riches of his grace in our souls to our own everlasting satisfaction peace with God and also he hath made us Ministers of his grace and of his word to many others to the turning of many from darknesse to light and from Satans power to God and of him we are called and ordained by his spirit into this his work to preach the everlasting Gospel to the Nations and to war against Anti-Christ the Whore and false Prophets come up since the days of the Apostles have reigned over the World for many generations and this is our work in the World to fight the Lambs battel with his spiritual weapons and armour and to follow him whithersoever he goeth and to give up our selves in his service to do or suffer for him whatsoever he calleth us unto and in this hitherto hath the pure and mighty presence of the Lord God been with us and is with us unto this day and great is his Name amongst us his people and to be praised for ever more and of this hath God given us the sure witnesse in our selves even the testimony of his good spirit which bears us witnesse in our own consciences that these things are true whether men believe or re●ect our testimony for we are not Ministers of man nor by mans will neither do we stand to mans judgement to be approved or disproved thereby But to the witnesse and testimony of Gods spirit in every conscience we do commend our selves where ever any of us do come in the simplicity of truth in the demonstration of the spirit and not by words of mans wisdom and in the day of the Lord shall we be justified herein by him and by his witnesse in all mens consciences in the mean time we do suffer all things patiently and in the meek quiet Spirit of the Lord and as for us two in particular who are now come into the Town of Dunkirk as we have in some part declared unto you already and so I here again say unto you

yea or nay 5. What is the soul and what was its state and condition before transgression and what is its state and condition in trnasgression and whether may man come to be restored by the second Adam into the same estate while upon earth as he lost in the first Adam yea or nay Friends I demand of you in the name and power of the Lord God to answer me these things in writing some of you and to subscribe your names that I may return you an answer and query further of you for we are sent of God to visit you and to try you And if ye be in the perfect truth and would convert others to your Religion be plain with us and use your best spiritual weapons in your zeal towards us and defend your cause and appear for your God and If you doubt of your own wayes and practices and be not able to defend your Religion then let your mouthes be stopped then turn from idolatry for now is the Lord God arisen that will judge ye and all the earth righteously I am a lover of souls but a witness against all false Idolatrous wayes of Antichrist and the Whore that hath reigned in the world and I am the Lords Servant Edward Burrough By the scorners of the world called a Quaker ANd we were with them again at other times in discourse with the chief of all the Fryars of the company called Recolects also and did in the power of the Lord declare truth unto them and ●gainst their Idolatry until such time as some of them were so offended with us not having much wherewith to answer in truth to defend themselves they of the company called Capuchins grew light and scornful and very wicked and did in a manner deny us the liberty any more to come unto them and we were with each company of Fryars two several times And as for the Iesuites we had much upon us to visit them in their Colledges but we perceived that the chief Rector of the Colledge of Iesuites had heard of our being in the town he did refuse to discourse with us and we went once into the Colledge and could not be admitted to speak with him And about a week after we came into the town the chief Governor Lockhart coming home he sent as he said to the Iesuites Colledge that they should admit us to come to speak with then as we found it from the Lord upon us at a convenient season we went again to the Colledge a●d were for some hours in discourse with the chief Rector of the Colledge who appeared at the first very high and subtle and crafty and did in his heart reject us and the simplicity of the Gospel but truth and the word of the Lord had dominion over him and before the truth he and they all are as weak as water many things were disputed upon which the particulars cannot now be related but in about three hours time he grew weary pretendding other business and would stay no longer with us and so we parted demanding of him whether he would admit some more discourse at some other time which he did refuse so we were not admited to come to him any more whereupon these following propositions I was moved to give forth and send among them as a charge upon them in the Name and power of the Lord and they were given and delivered in Latine up and down among the Iesuites and Fryars in the Town unto which to this day I never could receive an answer therefore my charge lies upon them to this day as a testimony from the mouth of the Lord against them of which they can never clear themselves And we were moved to visit the Nunns and went to their place and before many words were spoken to them through a grate for we might not see them and to speak to them both at once they a●ked if we were of the order of those called Quakers and they perceiving that we were such said they might not hear us because we were such and presently passed away and refused to suffer us to speak to them and therefore we had very small time with them onely gave our witness against them and passed away Vobis omnibus Jesuitis Sacerdotibus Fratribus vobis etiam omnibus cujuscunque generis de Ecclesia Romanensi in prope Dunkirkum AMici in Charissimo amore erga vestras omnium Immortales animas haec vobis motus sum exhibere ut legatis consideretis ea in timore domini Dei Siquidem per aliquot dies in hoc oppido jam moratus sum secundum Dei ipsius beneplacitum bene observans Religionem vestram in principiis in statu presenti in exercitiis ejus vere etiam animadvertens partem aliqualem fidei vestrae doctrinae modum etiam cultuum vestrorum nec non Traditiones ordines disciplinam rigimen Totius Ecclesiae vestrae in spiritu Domini ponens aeque mensurans omnia ad lineam recti Iudicii a Domino per spiritum ejus haec ideo vobis propono affirmo viz. 1 Quod Ecclesia vestra non est vera Christi Ecclesia uxor Agni Electa Sponsa sed in ejus fide doctrinis Cultibus ordinationibus in ordinibus disciplina Regimine degenerata est ab illo statu in quo stetit Ecclesia Christi in diebus Apostolorum ante Apostasiam 2 Quod Constitutio Ecclesiae vestrae etiam Cultus ordinationes vestrae plerunque via modus diciplinae Regiminis vestri sunt ab homine eriguntur sistunt ad arbitrium hominis nec sunt secundum Deum nec a Deo s●cundum vero traditiones humanas qui docti versati sunt in ipsis quod idolatria est nec sunt secundum mandata ipsius Christi nec exemplum Apostolorum ejus nec Scripturas sed penitus absque spiritu Dei erecti omnes post dies Apostolicos ingressum Apostasiae quae totum mundum adumbravit 3 Quod per varias generationes multa secula ab Apostolorum vestrarum ecclesia temporibus in mundum supervenit universalis defectio Apostasia a vera fide doctrina Cultu ordinationibus disciplina Regimine quae fuere inter Apostolos in diebus eorum apud veras Ecclesias exercebantur etiam vestra Ecclesia nunc temporis est in defectione ista Apostasia 4 Quod Antichristus Bestia meretrix pseudoprophetae per aetates multas in mundum Regnavere Antichristus ille sese opposuit Christo elatus fuit in Templo Dei ut numen adoratus Bestia trucidavit sanctos eisque oppugnavit potestatem adepta est in tribus linquas post eam admiratus est universus orbis M●retrix quam portavit Bestia insedet populis turbis

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

not being ashamed nor unwilling to give you an account of our coming for we came to be made manifest openly in the sight of all men in our doctrines principles and practises which are of and from the Lord and fully agreeing in all things with the Scriptures of truth which were given forth by the spirit of truth as the holy men of God were moved and as we have said to you we still testifie we were moved of God and by his spirit to come unto this place in love to the souls of people and it is the Lord God that hath sent us and not man and whether you believe us herein or doth reject us the testimony of God is sure and remains with us and for the truth hereof we are not affraid to do and suffer but can do and suffer in the strength of Christ whatsoever is put upon us Though chiefly our coming was so far as the Lord shewed us in relation to these Popish Idolaters to discourse with their Iesuites Friars and Priests and to discover to them the errors of their wayes and the falsnesse of their worships and to testifie unto them in the fear and power of the Lord concerning their Church that it is not a true Church of Christ but a false Church come up in the Apostacy and these things we have to argue with them if the heads of them will admit dispute otherwise to charge these things upon them from the Lord and by his authority and if they do any of them receive our testimony and turn from their idols and be converted unto the truth they may be happy but if they shall reject our testimony and not believe the truth then shall they the more be fitted for destruction and the day of their destruction the sooner approach and the Lord shall be clear of their blood and our reward shall be with us from God for our testimony shall not returne to us in vaine but shall accomplish its end wherefore it is sent and the Word of the Lord by us shall either convert to God and to the truth that they may be saved or shall through rejecting of it harden the heart against God and against the truth that they may the more justly be condemned and the Lord and his servants be the more clear and no other thing saving this do we promise to our selves as the success of our endeavours And not so much in relation to the men of our English Nation are we come though the Gospel of Salvation is freely come to them also that they may be freed from the Captivity of sin and death and we may not work nor cause any disturbance or grief to any of them further then what they may take at us for the truth sake or for declaring it in the fear of God and without any just cause given by us to any of you or them though we dare not promise to you nor our selves what we will do nor what we will not do onely this we say if the transgression of any just Law can be charged upon us we refuse not to suffer what shall be imposed and this we do beleeve that the Lord will so keep us and order us by his spirit of truth and carry us in meekness and righteousness towards you while we stay amongst you be it weeks or moneths that you will have no just occasion against us by any offences justly Ministred by us and if you do take occasion against us without any just cause given be it upon your selves to your own shame and condemnation in the sight of God and men for we are cleare Onely this we do give unto the Lord and cannot unto men the exercise of our consciences and to be obedient unto the teachings of his spirit in all things as he shall guide and lead us and if he commands to do or not to do any thing and you the contrary we must obey him though we disobey you for its better to obey God then man and when he bids speak in what place or season soever we may not be silent for to keep our consciences cleare in the sight of God in all things by obedience to him is our care and study and that which we are given up to do and if you set your selves to gain-say this it will turne to your own destruction for no other promise then this can we make for our selves but to do and speak amongst you as the Lord our God shall move us and lead us and this Testemony we do bear for the Lord he doth not move us nor lead us to any thing saving to what is just and good and holy which may tend to the happiness and peace and welfare of your souls and bodies also and in the Fathers will we stand and as we came in his will so we cannot submit to stay or go at any mans will save the Lords alone And as concerning our coming and staying and work here this is a sober account to you which may satisfie you and any sober and reasonable men And as conscerning our being with you yesternight many things passed from some of you and your Minister chiefly to which I had a great desire to have answered and to have cleared the things objected against us but time and his patience afforded not the opportunity therefore now this I do propo●nd about the call to the Ministry which was the thing in dispute to which I then could freely have spoken whether he will give me and us a faire meeting in some publique place that is convenient for your selves to hear and be Judge between us to discourse this matter viz. what the true call to the Ministry is which is truly according to the Scripture and that to be laid down first and then to compare his call to his Ministry and also his call to Dunkirk with what the true call is which is allowed of and aproved in the Scriptures and also to compare our call to the Ministry and even our call to Dunkirk with what the true call of Christs Ministry was as declared in the Scriptures that it may be seen whether his call or our call is the more different from or agreeable to the Scriptures and even the light in your own consciences shall be Judge between us in this cause and upon such an Issue upon a just determination would we gladly joyne tryal and such a meeting upon such grounds and proceedings may tend to satisfie your selves and many more and such a meeting I do fully desire with your consent and concurrance who may preserve the people in peace and soberness that all may be edified in the things of so great moment as this is For if he can prove his call to the Ministry to be such as was the Apostles and Ministers in the true Christian Churches before the apostacy then shall we own him and not deny him but if he cannot do this and if we can do it on our own behalfe in the