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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30522	The everlasting gospel of repentance and remission of sins ... by ... Edward Burrough.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1660 (1660)	Wing B6001; ESTC R14681	25,766	33

and all flesh must be silent from speaking of the things of Gods Kingdom which they have not seen handled tasted and felt by the working of the Spirit of God in their Consciences and this is to witness the Scriptures fulfilled when you have experience of the same conditions and of the same operations and manifestations which the Servants of the Lord passed through and had experience of and so that you may speak what you have heard and seen and handled and tasted of the Word of Life All that will be saved must come to this and witness it IX Again Whosoever will be saved must believe in Jesus Christ and receive him and they must take up his daily cross and follow him and must know him to mortifie and crucifie them to the world and he must work the same things in you by his Spirit spiritually as he wrought without you in his Person or else you have no part in him nor salvation by him For it is not enough unto eternal life only to believe that there was such a one as a Christ and that he did and spoke such and such things at a distance without you for many may make a belief and a profession of this and yet perish but Him that was of whom you read without you must you receive and witness within you and you must know Him as he was before Abraham was and before the world was and He himself by his Spirit in you must give you the knowledge of Himself what He was before the beginning what he is now and what he shall for ever be X. Again Every one that will be saved must come up out of the Apostacy into which all Christendom hath been fallen and must come into the same Spirit Life and Power as the Apostles were in from which Life spirit and Power all Christendom have been Apostates and they have held the words and practices of the Apostles without the same Life and Power and made Sects Churches and Ministers but out of the same Life and Spirit as the holy men of God were in and all that will be saved must be restored and recovered into the same Spirit and Life in their Churches Ministry and Ordinances as the Apostles of Christ Jesus were in and this is Restoration when People come again into the same Life and Spirit of God which the Apostate Christians have all wanted and been in the Form of Ministry Churches Religion and Godliness without the Power And unto this is the Lord God restoring People his Day is dawned and his everlasting Light is risen and his Name will be known in the Earth And none can be saved with the salvation of God but who believe receive and understand these things A general Objection answered Object 1. And whereas there is a great cry by some people of late That there must be no more Private Meetings but all People must come to Church as they say and that there must be no more Conventicles c. Answ. As for Conventicles I understand you mean Meetings out of Publick Steeple-houses and that there must be no private Meetings for Preaching and Prayer but all People must be forced to come to Publick Places of Worship Now I say if the Authority that is now set up and hath the Power doth exercise it self in this way then the God of Heaven will be provoked against it to overthrow it and confound it if it proceed contrary to the End of just Rule and Authority ordained of God which is for the punishment of them that do evil in things between man and man but not to impose upon mens Consciences in things relating to the Worship and Service of God But the Lord God is wholly Judge in such matters and not any man and if any men should erre in their minds concerning Faith and Doctrine and the Worship of God that belongs to the Lord to punish and not to any Earthly Authority And what must not the People of God come together to worship the Lord in Spirit and Truth Must not People conveen together in this Age as the People of God did in Ages past Did not Christ many times preach in the Desert and sometimes in a ship by the Sea-side and sometimes on a Mountain as you may read in the Scriptures And did not he often preach unto the Pharisees and sometimes to his Disciples out of the publick Synagogues And might not the Iews have called those Meetings Conventicles because they were not in their Publick Synagogues And also did not the Apostles and Saints after the Resurrection of Christ when they returned from Ierusalem meet together privately for they went into an Upper Room and waited upon the Lord and continued with one accord in Prayer and Supplication And again at another time they were about an hundred and twenty in number that were in one place to wait upon the Lord and Peter preached unto them and were these Meetings Conventicles because they were not in a publick Synagogue but in an Upper Chamber and in a private place And thus the Saints of old met together as ye may read Act. 1. and worshipped God in Spirit and in Truth and preached and prayed and must not the People of God now meet together to pray and wait upon the Lord but they must be reproached with the name of Conventiclers and threatned and punished for so doing Oh how blind is this Generation and how contrary to the true Christian Spirit in their practices And did not Philip preach Jesus unto the Eunuch in a Chariot as they went on the way and this was not in a publick Synagogue as in Act. 8. And did not Peter preach to Cornelius with many others in Cornelius his house and this was a Meeting and not in a Synagogue Acts. 10. And did not the Apostles and Saints meet together in an Upper Chamber where Paul preached until midnight amongst the Saints Act. 20. and was this a Conventicle and an unlawfull Meeting Might not the Iews have said this was an Unlawful Assembly being in a Chamber and not in a Publick Synagogue And again Did not Paul preach in his own Hired House for two whole years together and received all that came in unto him Act. 28. And here were Private Meetings out of Publick Synagogues But did the Iews threaten them and inflict sufferings upon them because they met in private houses and would not come to their Synagogues and Publick Worship or did they reproach them with the name of Sectaries and Conventiclers when they met together to wait upon the Lord sometime in praying and sometime in preaching And thus you may see by many Examples that the Saints and true Christian Churches in the dayes of old met together sometime on Mountains and sometime in Deserts and sometime in Upper Chambers and sometime in their own hired houses and not in the publick Synagogues but they were gathered from the Temple and first Priesthood and from the Worship which God had

once commanded which stood in outward things and Ordinances and when they had received the substance they denyed the shadows types and figures and did not uphold them any longer And they were gathered by the preaching of the Gospel into the second and new Covenant and they met together in private Houses and upper Chambers and by the Sea-side to preach and pray and to worship the Lord and we do not read that the Iews persecuted them for so doing And will you that have the name of Christians persecute the People of God though they meet together in private houses and their own hired houses and cannot come to your Temples and Steeple-houses And will not you suffer such to meet together out of your Publick Places but you will persecute them and call them Hereticks and such like Is not this worse than ever the Iews did to the Apostles And so you are out of the Example of the true Christians who met together and preached and prayed often and not in a Synagogue or Publick Place but you cry against them that do so and threaten to persecute for it and thus you shew your selves out of the true Christan Example and in this you are worse than the Iews and more cruel if you should persecute People for meeting together to wait upon the Lord in their own houses or in what place or time as the Lord should move their hearts but if you proceed in this way and will not permit the People of God to meet together in their own houses and not in your Idol-Temples then the Power of the Lord will confound you and God will break you to pieces and you will feel his heavy Wrath upon your Consciences and God will smite you with his Judgments inwardly and outwardly Now for your restraining of people from one way of Worship and forcing them to another and compelling them about Religion by cruel Laws and Commandments of men this is of Antichrist for you to do and of the Devil for all forcing of People to this kind of Worship and from another and imposing upon their Consciences in matters of Gods Kingdom this is also of Antichrist and contrary to Christ and his VVay for he won People by sound Doctrine and by Love and by a good Conversation and so did his Disciples for they never forced any by outward violence to their Worship nor to their Church-government and Ordinances but it was the practice of the Beast and the Dragon that first forced People and compelled them to worship since the dayes of the Apostles Rev. 13. It was Antichrist that first imposed upon People in the Ignorance of their Consciences and contrary to their Consciences by the Commandments of men false Faith false Worship false Ministry false Doctrine and false Religions so that now if you should force any contrary to their Consciences to your Steeple-houses to hear and say your Form of Prayers we shall say then you are Antichrist and of the Devil if so be you should endeavour to compel any either against their Consciences or in the Ignorance of their Consciences to your way of Worship or Religion Therefore take heed how you meddle in these things lest God confound you and as for us we are the People of God we fear his Name and worship him and cannot bow to the Devil and we need not be forced to worship the Lord for his Spirit leads us into all Truth and we need none of your outward Prescriptions or Form of Prayers for the Spirit of God teacheth us in all these things when and where and how we should worship the Lord God who is a Spirit and will be worshipped in Spirit and in Truth which is free and not by outward force and all the Worship that is otherwise and not in the free Spirit of Christ is of Great Babylon whom the Lord will confound and destroy Another general Objection answered Object 2. Again Whereas it is said by some Now there must be no more private Preachers Unlearned men and men not Ordained must not now preach any more Lay-persons must not be Preachers that are not so qualified nor so and so ordained and this is the present talk among some people Answ. To this I also answer and say VVo to them that would stop or quench or limit the Spirit of God in Sons or Daughters for such are denyers of the Scriptures and the Power of God and such bring guilt upon their own Consciences and work fearful Abomination against God And what must not the Spirit of the Lord speak now where it is in this Age as it did in the dayes of old as you may read in the Scriptures for was not Elisha a Plow-man and was not he called from the Plough 1 King 19. and became a Prophet of the Lord unto the House of Israel and had the Spirit of Elijah poured upon him and would not you have said he was a Lay-man a Plow-man unordained not fitting to preach if you had lived in his dayes And was not Amos called from following the Flock who had been no Prophet nor no Prophets son but an Herds-man Amos 7 14 15. and it was lawful for him to preach the Word of the Lord though he was but an Herds-man and had been no Prophet nor Prophets son which if he had lived in your dayes you would have called him a Lay-man an unfit person unlearned and one not ordained for the Ministry and you like Amaziah the wicked Priest of Bethel would now quench the Spirit as he would have done in Amos who was a Trades-man and such an one as you now call Lay-men who are not as you say fitting to preach And did not Christ Jesus himself chuse Fisher-men and sent them forth to preach the Gospel and such as were men of Trades and unlearned in Books as it is written Act. 4. 13. When the Rulers saw the boldness of Peter and John and perceived they were Unlearned they marvelled and these were Ministers of Christ and preached the Everlasting Gospel whom you would have called Lay-men and men unfit to preach had you lived in their dayes And Paul himself by occupation was a Tent-maker it is said and he laboured with his hands and yet was a Preacher of the Gospel and there are multitudes of Witnesses in the Scriptures of these things how that men of Trades and unlearned in Letters and Books and never were brought up at Schools and Colledges but followed the Plough and were keepers of Cattel and some followed fishing such as these in old time had the Spirit of God given them and they preached the Gospel And what if the Lord at this day give his Spirit to such as these and send them forth to preach the Gospel even to such as were brought up and educated it may be at Handy-craft Trades and are labouring-men and are not learned at Schools and Colledges will you limit the Lord and quench his Spirit and reproach his Wayes and Servants and