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A30559	Two general epistles, or, The breathings of love uttered from the pure life, to the wholeflock of God in England, Scotland, and Ireland, and all other places whersoever this shall come, greeting : being a wholesome exhortation ... / given forth by by that faithful servant of God, who, though he hath lately laid down the earthly body, yet he lives with his Maker forever, Edvvard Burrough.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1663 (1663)	Wing B6052; ESTC R6045	15,871	24

openly reviling the Ministers of Righteousness which God hath blessed and doth daily bless with his Eternal Power to the turning many unto God and to the strengthening of the weak and feeble which we with many do witness to be the Ministers of Life and Reconciliation and there is no other and are established in it and cannot be moved by the temptations of the Devil though the Wicked-one may revile for a moment to winnow some and to try them and to draw the hearts and minds of others into a snare out from the obedience to Christ Jesus which do become mockers and despisers and subverters of the simplicity of the Gospel of Peace and of the Ministers and Ministry thereof which is the Power of God unto Salvation and there is no other though some harden their hearts through unbelief and blind the eye till they be past feeling through rebellion against the Truth which they hold in unrighteousness and not in the Power of God having made the offence of the Cross to cease yet boasting in the liberty of Christ while they are unmortified having run from the Judgment and not truly come thorow it in the finishing of Condemnation and that spirit that goes out of the Cross is subverted and seeks to subvert others from the Truth as it is in Iesus and that spirit is denied fellowship with though it have conformity in the hypocrisie Wherefore this is the Word of the Lord God unto you that erre after that spirit Be awakened be awakened remember and repent and come to your first work to that which condemns you lest the Lord by his Hand of Wrath and Judgement upon you make you an example of Misery and Destruction to all that shall hereafter deny the Lord and his Truth Hear and consider to the Light in you all I speak have you another Truth than that which hath been known and declared from the beginning is there any other way to Life than which we have been Witnesses of who have not handled the Word of God deceitfully among you nor sought yours but you nor preached our selves but Iesus Christ and hereof we have the Witness in our Consciences in the holy Ghost And is there any other Salvation than that which God hath manifested which is Christ Iesus the Light of the World Be awakened and consider Wherefore then do you separate your selves disorderly and resist the Word of Life which once begot you towards the Lord Consider what you are doing and whither you are walking the end of your way is perdition and that is accursed which preacheth another Gospel how do you dishonour the Lord in the sight of the Heathen before whom you discover your nakedness and your shame doth appear having put off and cast aside your armour and weapon of Truth whereby you might have been defended but scorners and fools take occasion through your disorders and confusions to blaspheme the Name of the Lord and it is through you Oh be stirred up and consider and search your hearts and come to the tryal ye that vex the Lord's Soul and grieve his Spirit lest it cease to strive with you and you be wholly given up to fulfill wickedness till there be no place nor time of repentance found And this is a Warning to you all in the presence of the living God that you may return to your first love to fear before the Lord and to walk in his Truth if there may be mercy and to fulfill his Will which is the Light which you are lighted withall by Christ Iesus who is the Lamb of God the Way the Truth and the Life the author and finisher of Faith and there is not another and know this you that deny Him who is given yea unto you all he will deny you before his Father and of all your blood I am clear thus far whether you resist or receive who am the lover of your souls sometimes loved of you while you were lovers of the Truth and am now a Witness for the Lord and his Truth and against that spirit which leads you in the rebellion against the Government of Christ which is Order and Peace out of which you have erred to the piercing of your own souls and though you now exalt your selves against me and the Truth and boast your selves as though you reigned yet in the Day of the Lord shall the Light in you all which now is darkened bear witness to me and of my faithfullness in reproving you and the Truth is for ever dear to me and my soul delights no less in it though you rebel against it in the heady exalted presumptuous high wilful spirit which is not subject to the Government nor Authority of the Ministry of Christ but Truth is over you all and the Mountain of the Lord is established above you all and all your words and works and boastings and feignedness and disorder are denied and in them we have not fellowship but the contrary and do in the Authority of the Lord even by the same Authority which hath begotten us unto God and called us and carried us in his Work unto this day deny you all in that ground and state wherein you stand till repentance and returning from whence you are fallen to the Light which Christ hath lighted you withal And all faithful Friends this is the Word of the Lord God to you Hear and fear walk in the Truth which ye have heard and learned and received of the Father in it dwell and live and know there is no other than that which is made manifest which is sure to you all and cannot deceive nor be deceived and be not shaken in mind nor troubled though some deny the Lord but let their fall be a warning to you to be more watchful to be kept to the Lord lest you be tempted and dwell in the Mountain of Holiness which no Beast can touch where is a hiding-place to preserve you in the time of tryal and I charge you all in the presence of the living God of Life let your minds be setled and hearts stayed in the Truth which is the Foundation of God and know the Armour of God to gird you up to God where no offence is taken against Christ nor against the way of Truth but the Power of God doth remove that which would be offended and tramples upon that which gives the offence and in this you will be preserved until the day of Salvation and be aware of that spirit which boasts above the measure and of that which makes the offence of the Cross to cease for there hardness of heart and unbelief enters and so another is followed than the Light and another joyned to than Christ Jesus and there is the way to perdition who go from the Light within them they deny God and his Truth and follow the imaginations of the foolish heart and run in rashness and in the frowardness and that ground receives the unclean spirit in again with seven

lives not in the Power of what it ministers forth in words nor is not what it declares but is in the outward shews in the hypocrisie and feignedness and reacheth not the Life of God but vails and covers it and that spirit is not of the Father but is to be denied and judged and not received nor believed Again Believe not that spirit neither follow it which is at liberty in the flesh and makes the Offence of the Cross to cease which is exalted out of the Fear of the Lord in the liberty of the earthly which crucifies the Life and darkens the eye and that spirit will boast of Joy and Peace and experience and knowledge and speak high words in the airy mind and that would lead you out of your conditions to glory above the Cross till you be past feeling of the Life and that spirit begets into feignedness and hypocrisie and into the love of the world which passes away and beware of that spirit for it is not of the Father but to be condemned Again Believe not that spirit neither follow it which is hasty and forward and rash for that goeth out of God's Counsel and betrayes the Just and strives to be greatest and to be above the weak and despiseth him and would be Master and not a servant and would rule and not be ruled in the meek and lowly Government of Christ and that spirit will judge out of thoughts rashly and unsavourily and condemn another in secret in what it self is guilty of beware of that spirit for it is not of God but to be judged with the Life of God Again Believe not that spirit neither follow it which seeks it self to have praise of men and to be accounted and would beget into divisions and would have parties to it self and respects persons and glories in gifts and knowledge and parts more than in the Giver and admires men more than He that gives the encrease and feeds of the knowledge in that nature which is to be famished and glorieth in what hath been done by it as though it had not received power from the Lord and is exalted as though it bare the root not knowing that it is born of the root and that spirit spends its treasure which it received in the Father's house amongst harlots and despiseth the poor and seeks occasion to glory over the weak that it may be renowned beware of that spirit I charge you all for it is not of the Father nor to be followed but to be condemned and resisted unto death Again Believe not that spirit neither follow it which preacheth not from the measure of God received and to be manifest to it in you and approved by it only but speaks above the measure and reaches not to the measure of the Grace of God that spirit leads after words and outward shews and cryes Peace to the Rich and Judgment to the Poor and the Word of God is not divided aright but heals up falsly and daubs with untempered mortar and cryes Peace where God speaks War and cryes War where God speaks Peace and that spirit is a deceiver and a betrayer and feeds but the ear and not the Life and darkens the Counsel of God by words without knowledge and is not of the Father but of the world and to be denyed and condemned Again Believe not that spirit neither follow it which is not subject to rule and order and is not meek and diligent and long-suffering but heady high and untoward seeking occasions against the Just and watcheth for evil that spirit will not bear reproof but is idle sloathful and careless surmising evil and backbiting and conforms in appearance making a fair shew but it is not unto God as appearing unto man and that would go and is not called and will not go when it is called and seeks for the praise of men more than God and that is fruitless ground and brings forth bryars and thorns in secret which choaks the Seed of God beware of that spirit it is a lover of this world have no fellowship with it for it is not of the Father but a deceiver and is to be denyed Again Believe not that spirit neither follow it which is tossed and unsetled and is given to change and is not established with Grace that is an Adulterer and hunts for the precious life and seeks by flattery to beguile the Innocent that spirit is zealous for a moment but is soon overcome and is stony ground and brings not forth fruit to perfection but withers and its latter end is worse than the beginning That spirit is exalted into presumption and in peace and cast into desperation and trouble and the double-mind lodgeth in it and it is unstable in all its wayes and is a ground for the seed of Satan and to it there is no peace from God and beware of that spirit for it is not of the Father but to be condemned Again Believe not that spirit neither follow it which is more zealous than knowing whose zeal is without true knowledge and stands in that which is corrupted that flourisheth for a moment but cannot endure for ever it hath no root in it self but is furious and passionate and not long-suffering that spirit knows not it self but would devour its adversary with bitterness and not gain'd by long-suffering that is not the Spirit of the Father but must be denied in all Again Believe not that spirit which draws back into the world into its lusts liberty and fashions which passe away that spirit forgets God and draws back for his soul hath no pleasure in it but is vexed with it where the Cross is made of none effect and the false liberty is walked in which murders the Life that spirit is of the Devil and is to be condemned And now all Friends of God every-where who know him and are known of him whom he hath gathered out of this untoward Generation be diligent in your Callings and keep your Meetings in faithfulness waiting upon the Lord that you all may receive of his Fulness to be filled with it and may be nourished up unto himself as Trees of Righteousness the planting of his own right-hand to spread forth his Name and Glory as a People saved by him and unto whom there is none like besides And this know and understand that spirit is not of the Father which confesseth not the Son to be come in the flesh who destroyes the works of the Devil and takes away sin and that Spirit believe and follow which condemns sin and destroyes it and takes it away and so gives Peace with God in your own Consciences and leads you into all Truth and keeps you from all Evil and you that witness this the Son you know and the Father you know to dwell with you and in you and this is the first and the last believe in him and follow him and look not for any other and in this the Father of Life and Glory whose Dominion is without beginning and end stablish you and preserve you Amen and Amen I a beloved Brother and a Companion unto all the Saints in suffering and in rejoycing who have received this Testimony from the Father do with it in this Epistle salute the whole Church in the Love of the Father as moved of Him by his Eternal Spirit who beareth witness to me that we are of God and the whole world lies in wickedness and that all that are of God heareth us And this Testimony I give of the Father and of the Son and of the Truth and of the Salvation of which I am made a Witness and against all that ever shall deny it or turn from it And this is thus far the words of my Testimony by the Spirit of the Father not knowing when the time comes it may be finished and the night may come when no man can work Edward Burrough THE END POST-SCRIPT FOrasmuch as many who are partakers of the Father's Love manifested in his Son in measure in whom these Epistles have found greeting With the same Love in the upright-hearted to which it is a sure Testimony of Love from Life it self to the quickning strengthning confirming and arming of all such as have in the Love Life and Power heard received and believed the Truth as it hath been declared and is in Iesus in whom our Faith is standing which Faith worketh by the Love shed abroad in our hearts wherein we are reaching after each other in the sameness of Love which is the bond of our Unity wherein we are called together to be joyned in the purity power and life of one Faith and Love therein to bear Testimony as we have in our measures received to and of the Everlasting Truth wherein finding these Epistles of such manifold service to the whole Body both for instruction exhortation strengthning and forewarning whereby there is or may be a safe arming against all deceit and deceivable spirits Hence it is from the earnest love and desire stirred up in many here among us that are faithful whereby this they put in print that thereby the service may reach unto all who are worthy thereof in these Nations for to them is it sent who are called of God Therefore in the Fear of the Lord let every one of us to whom this comes walk worthy of the Fathers Love Grace Mercy and Peace whereinto we are called in one Body of which Christ is Head A. D.

TWO General Epistles OR The BREATHINGS of LOVE uttered from the pure Life to the whole Flock of God in England Scotland and Ireland and all other places whersoever this shall come Greeting Being a Wholesome EXHORTATION tending to the Gathering Uniting and Establishing of all the Faithful every-where into that which is Eternal Given forth by that faithful Servant of God who though he hath lately laid down the Earthly Body yet he lives with his Maker for ever EDVVARD BURROUGH LONDON Printed for R. Wilson 1663. The first General Epistle c. FOrasmuch as in these our days the God of Truth hath made manifest his Name and Truth in the hearts of his People and hath gathered the minds of thousands into it to worship him in the Spirit and in the Truth in which he is accepted and of this Truth which is but one and there is not another are we made Witnesses and Ministers of and have the Testimony in our selves that we are of God and are a good savour unto him in them that believe and in them that perish and we have the Testimony That he that is of God heareth us and we know the whole world lies in wickedness and who are in the Truth in the Light and in the Life have fellowship one with another in Holiness and Righteousness in that which comprehends the world and condemns all the works thereof which are evil and this Truth Worship and Fellowship stands in Christ Jesus the second Adam whose Kingdom and Rule is not of this world but from Heaven who according to his Promise in his Counsel hath made known his Power to the raising up a Righteous Branch a Royal Priesthood and Peculiar People zealous of his Name to shew forth his Praise and Glory in Justness and Righteousness in Love Mercy and Peace and works of Purity having our Conversation in Heaven and since that day of the manifestation of this Truth of the Gospel of Peace and Salvation which is the same now as was in the beginning which is in Christ Jesus the Light of the world who is the same yesterday to day and for ever and changeth not I say since that very day hath the Lord prospered his Truth to the renewing of many into his Image and Likeness and to the turning of many from darkness to Light and from Satan's power to God by the mouth of his Ministers and through great sufferings and tribulations oppressions afflictions and labours hath the Lord honoured his Name and his Truth in Nations and given it a praise among all that fear him and hath honoured it and exalted it in the sight of the Heathen to the confounding of the wise and mighty and to the bringing out of the captivity of darkness sin and death wherein in times past all have walked while strangers from the Life of God so that thousands who have received the Truth are established in it and cannot be moved nor shaken but are built upon the sure Foundation their Faith standing in the Power of God with whom the Arm and Presence of the Lord God is defending and preserving continually and unto such the Truth is precious and the Way of the Lord his Name and Honour is dear yea more than life or liberty or any other thing which passeth away who for the Truths sake as it is in Christ Jesus do daily give up themselves to suffering and to reproach for well-doing and not for evil and love not life unto death that the Lord God and his Name and Truth may be honoured so that in that Truth which is received and learned of the Father daily do we walk in all purity and holiness of life answering the Mercy and Love of the Lord in the exercise of a pure Conscience both towards God and man in patience long-suffering and wisdom towards all to the putting to silence of gainsayers rendring love and mercy towards our Persecutors and are set in our hearts to fulfill the Will of God in all things And now whereas that the Scripture may be fulfilled some may and have denied the Truth which once was received and loved to the making shipwrack of Faith and of a good Conscience abusing the Mercy and Grace of God which to them appeared and follow the counsel of their own hearts and not of the Lord having lost the feeling of the Spirit of the Father and are and may be separated from us in the self-separation through an evil heart of unbelief that it may be made manifest they are not of us though they arise from among us and may by disorderly walking contrary to the Truth cause the Truth to be evil spoken of giving occasion thereby to the Enemies of God to blaspheme his Name and Truth in the Earth and may be a stumbling to the weak and an offence to the Way of the Lord before the simple thorow their Disorders and Confusions raising the rage of the Wicked against the Lambs of Christ being not led in the Wisdom of God but in Confusions taking liberty to their own hearts desire fulfilling the will thereof without the Fear of God above the Cross of Christ in the Nature uncrucified and speaking high words in the presumption and not in the Light and Power of God and acting in the vanity of the mind in the pretence of Truth and the moving of the Spirit such things as Truth and the Children of it who are guided with the Spirit cannot justifie but is judged and denied and cast out from among the Children of Light who walk in the Truth and do try the spirits whether they be of God Therefore in the Fear of the Lord God this is written to go abroad among Friends and others to inform and shew unto all that the Truth and we that are in it Ministers of it do stand clear from all such who act and speak out of the Truth and contrary to it in the disorder and confusion and not in the Fear and Counsel of God and with the Truth such are judged and denied and fellowship with them we have not nor their works do approve though such once owned us and were convinced of the Truth and received the Seed of the Kingdom into the unprofitable ground yet being separated from us and gone out from the Truth are not subject to it and its Government but are unruly and disorderly We and the Truth do such deny and the spirit that rules them being not the Spirit of Christ Jesus and such have done evil against their own souls and against God and are troublers of the righteous Seed and have and do dishonour the Lord and his Truth in the sight of the Heathen causing the right Way to be reviled and reproached and evil spoken of through the offence by them to the making sad the hearts of some whom God hath not made sad and even more especially in that they pretend to the Truth in their words and works and professes to be in it yet secretly condemning and

worse and the laiter end is worse than the beginning and this Truth doth not change which is the begotten of the Father but is the same for ever So in it all be faithful and fruitful to the Father in your places and callings shewing forth in all wisdom and pure conversation among your enemies to the putting them to silence when they speak evil of you and be Examples of Holiness one to another that the Lord God may dwell among you and may never have cause to withhold his Presence from you which is Life and Peace and Rest for ever and believe not every spirit but dwell in that which discerns spirits and if any say Lo here or Lo there is Christ go not after them without you for you have not been so taught but know the Christ of God the Lamb of God within you and follow him and obey his Voice and be established all of you on this sure Foundation whom God hath laid no man can lay any other and if you build thereon and thereby you shall never suffer loss but your work shall abide the fire and in the Father's house your bread you shall receive and never shall hunger nor thirst but the Life will be refreshed and encreased daily and your Lamp will alwayes shine and you shall never be darkned nor stumble for that which stumbles is out of the Truth and the ground stands to receive the seed of Satan who is a devourer of the simplicity and the betrayer from the Truth Therefore I charge you all in the presence of the living God that you hold fast the Faith and Hope which you have received through the Gospel that you may never be moved from the Grace of God and from the Love that hath abounded in you but may be found watching in the door with your Light shining when the Bridegroom cometh and behold he cometh quickly and his Reward is with him blessed are they that tarry for him This is the Testimony of my Love unto all the Seed of God who am as a deceiver and yet true as not known and yet well known unto the Lord. E. B. THE Second GENERAL EPISTLE to all the SAINTS whom God hath called TO all the Children of Light every-where who fear and love the Lord who are begotten of God and unto whom he is known in the Spirit and in the Truth this is a Testimony of the Father's Love unto you Grace Mercy and Peace from him that liveth for ever The God of Light and Life be multiplied in you all that you may daily be renewed in strength and girded with Truth and armed with the whole Armour of God and may be kept by his Power until the day of Salvation to walk in the Government and subjection to Jesus Christ witnessing the Power and Presence of God in you and amongst you giving you power to fulfil his Will in all things and that in all Righteousness and out of all Evil you may be led and preserved unto the end and in the end to shew forth the praises of God in this Generation as a People called of him and redeemed by him for his Glories sake even so Amen and Amen Dearly Beloved be not ignorant but this know This is the Message which came unto you which is true and faithful and everlasting That the true God is Light and in him is no darkness at all and this is the Message of Peace and Reconciliation and of Glad-tydings unto all that have sought the Lord which we received of him and you have heard and there is not another to be declared and all that have received it are gathered up to God and are in Covenant with him and one with another and are in that which reconcileth and joyneth unto Christ Jesus the Husband and second Adam who is the Lord from Heaven the Prince of Peace the Saviour and the Deliverer who is made manifest in Power and condemneth the Transgressor and slaveth the Enmity and raiseth the Life out of Death and this is he who kills and makes alive even the God who is Light who brings down one and sets up another who makes War against the Mighty and gives Peace to the Poor and besides him there is none he searcheth mans heart and tryeth the reins and knoweth the thoughts and every creature is manifest in his sight who gives to every one according to his doings and this is he who standeth in the Congregation of the Righteous even in the midst of us and sitteth Judge among the gods unto him must all the gods of the Earth bow and the inhabitants of the Earth must tremble before him and unto him every tongue shall confess and the light in every man shall answer when he ariseth to Judgement who is a swift Witness to condemn or justifie all the children of men upon the face of the Earth This is the God of Truth whom we worship and who will be worshipped in spirit and in truth who is the God of Abraham and his seed for ever and with him there is no change nor shadow of turning and he hath made known his Name and his Power and his wonderful works in this his day and hath caused his Voice to be heard in the Earth and the dead have heard and now live And his Name is exalted on high amongst all that fear him and obey his Voice and he hath given his Son a Covenant of Light who lighteth every man that cometh into the world with the true Light of Life or Condemnation that all who receive him may come to the knowledge of the Father whom to know is life eternal And this is the Christ the Saviour in whom we have believed and which we preach who is the Way the Truth and the Life the Foundation of God which cannot be moved The Word of God is his Name and there is no other Name given for Salvation This is she that was dead and is aliue and lives for evermore and there is no other to be looked for if any preach any other let him be accursed and if any bring any other Message let them not be received And all you who have believed in this Christ Jesus who is the Light of the World and who have received the knowledge of this God who is Light himself and that searcheth your hearts I exhort you and warn you all in his presence that lives for ever to wait upon him and to fear before him and to walk with him for ever in uprightness of heart which is of great price in his sight and forget not his righteous Judgements which he hath made known lest you wax fat through mercies and rebel against him and become disobedient and gainsaying and so be destroyed from being a People but be stayed upon the Lord and let your hearts be established with Grace and be not tossed nor shaken with any wind of the Doctrines of men which is not from the Life of God nor reaches to the life in