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The everlasting gospel of repentance and remission of sins ... by ... Edward Burrough.
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Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.
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hard dealing to your Tenants and Servants and have laid heavy Yoaks upon such with whom you have dealt and that have made your selves great and rich in the Earth by such means Wo unto you Misery is coming upon you weep and howl ye earthly greedy covetous Wretches of this World who have sought Riches more than the Lord and gotten Gain by Oppression and Over-reaching your Neighbours your Riches so gotten shall never prosper nor be blessed to you but shall be a Curse to you and your Children and your Covetousness will God plague Ye that have gotten Goods and not by right shall leave them in the midst of your dayes Wo unto you Carnal minds all the treasures of them are corruptible your Lands Gold and Silver are fading treasures the day of the Lords Judgments are at hand upon you and the Rod of his Wrath will smite you and ye shall have Poverty and Want instead of Fulness and Excess and ye shall have Leanness and Barrenness and God will plead with you in the way of have sinned against him The time of your Visitation draws near Wo unto you Merchants Traders Buyers and Sellers that have been double-dealers and double-tongu'd and dealt deceitfully in your Commodities with your Neighbours VVo unto ye that have got Gain by double-dealing and by feigned and flattering speeches have beguiled one another and sought to out-reach in your barganing every man his Brother These things have ye done O ye Covetous men ye have even robbed the Poor by your craft and guileful dealing by your smooth and flattering tongues and if any amongst you could not use fraud and dissemble such have been your prey and scorn and it 's your use to discommend a Commodity when you buy it and to praise it when you sell it and ye make a fair outside to please the eye and ye use multitude of words and fair speeches and deceive the Simple and get Gain by Oppression Craft and Deceit Wo unto you Repent of this your sin Cleanse your hearts ye Sinners and purifie your hearts ye Double-minded I charge you by the Lord give over your double-dealing and deceitfull merchandize cease to lye and defraud cease your flattery and feigned words and speak the truth every one to his Neighbour and come out of your Iniquities use not a bad conscience any longer for it 's a fearfull Abomination against the Lord but minde the Light of Christ in you which will convince you in your Consciences of your naughty and sinful wayes and that Light will exercise your Consciences to do the Truth and speak the Truth to your Neighbour in all things and this is blessed and the Gain that is thereby gotten is not a Curse for ye ought in all your wayes to reverence the Lord and respect him that he should lead you and guide you in your exercise of all earthly things For the Earth is the Lords and the Fulness thereof and it ought to be exercised to his Glory and there is sufficient in this Creation for all People And therefore covet not earthly things one from another neither oppress nor over-reach one another about them neither treasure up earthly things while the Poor want for if ye do ye hide your selves from your own slesh laying field to field till there is no place for the Poor and wo unto such the Day of the Lord will be upon you but learn the Wisdom of God how to be ordered and how to order all things of this Creation and be in unity and good agreement amongst your selves and do not fall out nor strive not contend nor envy one another about earthly things but if ye have much or if ye have little be contented with what you have and do not grind the hearts and consciences one of another to get earthly things for they will fade and perish away and seek not after that which perisheth but after that which is unto eternal life for the Day of the Lord is at hand and his Judgments upon all Oppressors Double-dealers and false hearted Flatterers that are covetous of earthly things Wo unto all ye Drunkards and Swearers Whoremongers and Prophane Persons the Judgments of the Lord are upon you unawares ye that destroy the Creation upon your Lusts that are run into the Excess of Wine and Beer and that cover it excessively and that drink till ye inflame your selves and spend your time in it ye are like the Beasts of the field and like the Swine that wallows in filthiness ye pervert the right use and end of the good Creatures of God and spend them upon your lusts and have not regard unto the living God and one sin even begets another Drunkenness begets Swearing and Prophane words and VVhoredom and beastly Affections and thus you adde sin to sin and heap up one sin upon another contrary to the Light in your own Consciences and thus ye serve the Devil and Satan committing Iniquity with both hands as it were by Drunkenness and Swearing and taking the Name of the Lord in vain and Cursed Speaches and falling out one with another and your minds are erred from the Lord and ye abuse your selves and your own bodies which were made for the Service of God and not for Whoredom and ye slay your own Souls by your own Iniquities and many times provoke the Lord to destroy both soul and body VVo unto you the Plagues of God are your portion and Misery your end here and hereafter Repent of your Iniquities and turn from them lest the Lord find you in your Iniquities when he comes to Judgement for if you continue in them you can never be pardoned but you sin unto death and the Lord will come upon you suddenly for ye that follow Drunkenness and Prophaness you live contrary to the Light in your own Consciences and you sin against your knowledge against that knowledge that God hath given you and this is your greatest sin even because ye do the things which ye know ye should not do and the Light in your Consciences doth shew you that these things are evil before you do them but ye doing the things contrary to the Light in your own Consciences this makes your crime heinous and your sin unpardonable if ye continue in Sin and Prophaness contrary to the reproof of Gods Spirit in your own Consciences VVherefore ye prophane persons cease to do evil lest the Lords Judgments come upon you suddenly to your destruction and the Lord smite you and you never be healed VVo unto all ye hypocritical and deceitful Professors of Religion that hold the Truth in Unrighteousness that have a talk and a shew of Religion and that have the name of Church-members and of Worshippers of God but are dead in sins and trespasses ye that are Christians by name but want the nature who are wolves in sheeps cloathing that have Christs words the the Prophets and Apostles words but want their Spirit and Life VVo unto you the Day of
cease and there appears to be at this day as great if not far more Dissatisfactions in the minds of some People than hath been heretofore and it appears to be as far from Settlement and true Peace in an happy Union in Government as for many years though it hath been expected by many that we should have Peace and Settlement in Government yet behold it cannot be for there are Discontents and Murmurings in the minds of men and Unsettlement in their spirits and the Foundation of a happy Government is not yet discovered unto many nor do the people walk in the way of Peace but Iniquity is abounding Oppression and Cruelty yet lives Hard-heartedness and Envy Pride and Ambition are not yet cut down neither in all the Governours nor in the Governed and this is not the way of Peace and true Settlement but it is the way of Troubles and Distractions and the very Foundation of greater Distractions and Wars rather than of Settlement and happy Government These things are so and therefore true Peace and Settlement in good Agreement who can expect because the ground of Distractions and Unsettlement is continued and increased rather than abated and removed amongst many and the true Foundation of Peace and Settlement in happy Government is not yet raised up amongst men but because Injustice and Oppression are continued therefore will God be provoked to bring Distractions Wars and Tribulations upon the Kingdoms of all the World and God will confound and dash in pieces Powers Authorities Rulers Nations and Peoples and He will break one Potsherd against another and overthrow one Mountain against another and the hands of cruel men will God suffer to devour one another and ambitious and malicious hearts shall be suffered to finish one anothers end because of their own wickedness and therefore be not deceived Blessedness in the Kingdoms of this World can never be except Iniquity and Transgression be departed from except Oppression and Hard-heartedness dye and except the Foundation of War and Strife be removed and the Foundation of Peace and happy Government be raised up amongst men Again True Peace and Settlement in good Government can never be except the Lord alone be owned as Judge and Law-giver and his righteous Laws to be executed in the Earth that Justice and true Judgment may flow down and all the contrary may be stopped and limitted by the just Laws of God and all unjust and unequal Laws made and established in the Ignorance of men which have not been justly according to the Law of God nor depended thereupon such Laws must also be made void judged and cast out and the Law of God must enter This must be accomplished if ever true Settlement in a happy Peace be amongst us the Laws must be changed the unjust and unequal cast out and just and equal Laws brought in for because hereof while unjust and unequal Laws have been executed in Judgment therefore have we wanted Settlement and Peace in a happy Government and the contrary hath been and will continue till all unjust unequal and oppressive Love be discontinued Again If ever true Peace and Settlement in a happy Government be amongst men Governours Rulers and Executors of the Law must be Iust persons and Righteous men Men that fear God and hate Covetousness and that depart from every evil way and all ambitious self-seeking and unjust men must be cast out even all they that have sought themselves and not the Lord in their places of Trust such as have perverted Justice and true Judgment for their own corrupted ends and such as have been cruel and hard-hearted Oppressors all such as these must be cast out and the Law must not be committed to such to execute neither must such sit in Judgement over the People for because hereof and while such men have ruled and governed and executed the Laws no true Settlement in a Just Government but the contrary hath been even Distractions and Tribulations and while such men do continue to rule and judge and execute the Laws in any part of the world we shall never have a happy Government nor Settlement in it in this world nor till Just men that have the Spirit of God and sound Judgment that are humble and meek patient and merciful and such as fear the Lord and walk in his wayes be called to rule and judge and execute the Laws and the Laws must be just and holy and the Executors of them equal and upright men Till these things be accomplished a happy Settlement in this Worlds Kingdoms can never be but God will dash one Mountain against another and throw one Hill upon another and he will give no Peace among the Kings of the Earth but stain the Glory of all the Worlds Governments till Truth and Righteousness come to reign and till Just Laws be executed by Just men and till Mercy and Justice Truth and Equity flow forth abundantly Therefore all Nations you have been deceived while you have turned up and down from one way and manner and kind of Government to another and from one sort of Governours to others sometimes you have been for a Parliament sometime for a Protector and sometime for neither from each of these to others you have changed thinking to have Peace and Settlement in a happy Government but it could not be for there are continual Distractions until this day in the minds of men and they are yet unsetled in their spirits and there are Heart-burnings and Envyings and seeking of Revenge and while these things are nothing but Distractions and Tribulations not Peace but Troubles even till these things be removed And till we have just and equal Laws according to the Law of God established over us and Just and Holy and Righteous men to execute them in Judgement upon us and till we have Truth and Righteousness sit on the Throne until this be no true Settlement in a happy Government but Distractions and Contentions and woful Tribulations in the Kingdoms of the World and amongst men and this is certain and according unto the Will of the Lord and in the justness of his Judgements these things come to passe for it is Injustice and Oppressions and want of Mercy and Truth which is the Foundation of Contentions and Distractions and it is Justice and Equity Truth and Righteousness that is the only Foundation of Peace and Settlement and a happy Government for a perpetual continuance To all False Christiaâ—â— THere are many false wayes in the world and many false kinds of Religions and people are in much disagreement about their Church Worship and Ministry Papists are opposing the Protestents and the Protestants the Papists and there is a great contention in the World But the Papists are in a wrong way and so are the Protestants too and their Religions are both false in many things for whilst they profess Christ and Christianity and make a shew of Righteousness in outward appearance yet many of them live in sinful wayes and bring forth the fruits of Iniquity against the living God and Pride Cheating and Double-dealing Covetousness and Envy Drunkenness and Whoredom and all Wickedness is abounding and brought forth both by the Apostate Christians though they cry up the Name of Christ and the Profession of Godliness yet are they wicked in the sight of God and they are not changed in heart and mind nor do they know the New Birth and all such are out of the right way in the way of Errour if they have the Form of Godliness but want the Power though they may have Masse or say Common-prayer once a week or oftner yet all this is but Abomination and Deceit whilst they practise Iniquity Hatred Back biting Lying Drunkenness and the like they that act these things the Plagues of God will be their portion and Misery their end and their Profession in Religion will not save them The Day of the Lord is at hand ye Hypocrites ye false Christians ye that profess God with your lips and your hearts are far away Therefore repent ye and tremble before the Lord lest he smite you with Vengeance and forsake your false Religions both your Masse and your Forms of Prayer and be not Idolaters in professing love in your mouthes and honour with your lips whilst your hearts are departed from the living God and now come to learn the true Religion Depart from all Iniquity and do not lye nor swear nor be drunk nor steal nor murder nor envy but love the Lord with all your hearts and your Neighbour as your selves And this is the true Religion in which man may be saved and live in Soberness Meekness and Honesty and speak every man Truth to his Neighbour and live in love one with another and be kind and gentle and bring forth the fruits of the Spirit of God Cease to do evil and learn to do well and depart from all Iniquity and follow after Righteousness This is true Religion and in it you may be saved this is the right way all that walk in it shall have Peace and Blessing from God and all that walk contrary Damnation is their portion Therefore you Papists and Protestants so called turn from your Hypocrisie and learn this way and cease from your false worships that are after the Forms and Traditions of men and not after the Spirit of God and learn to worship God in the Spirit that you may be saved You have a Light from Christ in your consciences which lets you see what sins ye are guilty of and it reproves you for your sin If you belieâ—e in the Light and walk in it that is the right way then you will deny what is evil and follow what is good in your Coversations but if you follow what is evil and act contrary to the Light in your Consciences and repent nor Vengeance in flames of fire will be your portion This is the day of your Visitation the Army of the Lamb is gone forth and the Sword of the Spirit is drawn amongst them that will wound your Consciences and God will smite you with the words of his mouth ye Rocks and Hils and Bryars and Thorns and fruitless Trees the God of Heaven will hew you to pieces and pluck you up and oast you into the fire to be consumed Repons for the Day of the Lord is at hand THE END