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A77973	A vvarning from the Lord to the inhabitants of Underbarrovv, and so to all the inhabitants in England, where it shall meet with them, who holds up the false teachers, and false worship, and who beats, stone, stock, and persecute, and hail out of their assemblies, those who are sent by the Lord, to speak his word freely; with an exhortation, that they hast to meet the Lord by true repentance, by putting off the works of darkness, lest the Lord cut them assunder, by his sword, which is already drawn and put into the hand of his servants. Also, a word to my brethren, and companions in tribulation in the kingdome and patience of Jesus Christ, who is by the world scornfully called Quakers. With the manner of my passage through the dark world, (wherein the simple ones may see the deceits of the man of sin in his actings like the true spirit) to warn all to follow the true light within, which leads unto God, & to beware of the voice, lo here & lo there, by one who is a labourer in the vineyard, who is not known to the world; (though named of the world) Edvvard Burrough.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1654 (1654)	Wing B6057; Thomason E733_5; ESTC R206899	28,263	40

works wickedness therefore stop thy mouth thou Hireling who Preaches for hire Devines for money and leans upon the Lord and useth thy tongue and saith he saith it when the Lord never spoke to thee Thou art in the Generation of the Scribes and Pharisees and be ashamed ye upholders of him for now every tree that brings not forth good fruit must be hewen down the Lord hath said it his word is as a fire which will burn up all the wicked his Word is sharper than a two edged sword which will cut down and wound the head of the wicked ye Mockers Scorners ye Swearers and Liars ye Proud Covetous ones ye Merry-hearted and Wanton ones dreadful is the day that shall come upon you the Lord will make his power known and glorifie himself in your destruction except you repent and turn to the Lord Ye hard hearted ones and rebellious ones the Plagues of God is to rest upon you therefore prise your time and repent and fear the Lord God Almightie and lay aside your vain wicked waies and confess your sins and forsake them for such shall find mercy All ye People mind the Light of God within you and hearken to that which shews you what is sin and evil which shews you your proud minds your carnal coveteous desires and affections which checks and reproves you for your ungodlie deeds this Light shines in darkness but the darkness cannot comprehend it this is the Light which hath enlightened every one that cometh into the World which Light is Christ he that follows this Light walks not in darkness but hath the Light of life he that hates this Light stumbles and walks in darkness ignorance and blindness as you do turning the grace of God into wantonness which same grace is the Saints Teacher this is the free Grace of God which hath appeared to all men which in all Generations taught the Saints to denie ungodliness and wordlie lusts and led them into puritie and holiness This Grace do we witness praised praised be the Lord to be led by it which ever was the Saints leader and through the teaching of this Grace do we denie your Hireling and all such Pharisees and Hipocrites who makes a prey upon the poor people and if you stop not into their mouths they even prepare War against you as the false Prophets of Israel did and dailie are we taught by it in the waies of God to do his service praised be the onlie Lord of glorie for evermore who hath gathered us up to himself to be taught alone by his grace out of the mouth of your Hireling who once made a prey upon us but eternal praise and glorie to our God who in his Light hath discovered unto us his nakedness and his shame his hypocrisie and deceit in the eternal Light of God do we see him and all such to be blind guides and leads the poor blind people in darkness and in ignorance and none is able to come to the true knowledge of the eternal Truth in his Ministerie for he is no Minister of God but an Anti-Christ denying Christ to be come in the flesh denying the Light to have enlightened everie one as several times he hath done to me but my Father who is Light and Glorie hath now made him manifest and in that Light Christ Jesus do I see him to be one whom hath run whom God hath not sent therefore doth he not profit you at all nor puts no difference from the precious and the vile in you nor leads you to discern the clean from the unclean the pure from the impure in you but speaks the Divination of his own brain feeding your dark minds and from the eternal Light made manifest in me from God the Father who is over all and above all do I Declare against him and against all Hirelings and greedie dumb Dogs that seeks for their gain from their Quarter as he doth freelie do I declare as knowing them to be deceivers and blind guides For the simple ones sake among you who are insnared and kept in ignorance by him under his dead drie barren sloathful Ministerie Repent ye people who lies in the Captivitie of Babylon under your Babylonish Merchant now is the Lord leading his Sons and Daughters out of Egypt out of bondage and now he that hath led Captive is led into Captivitie praised and honored be the God of Saints for evermore who hath redeemed us out of the mouth of your Idol shepheard who feeds himself with the fat and who hath enlightened our dead Consciences and hath shined in our hearts in his eternal Light and of this have I received freelie and from this do I let forth freelie to the laying open the deceits of your Hireling Now is the day of your Visitation wherein the Savior of the World stands at the door and knocketh if anie open to him he will come in therefore prise your time and hear the Word of the Lord and lay aside the works of darkness Lying and Swearing Mocking and Scorning and beating of your fellow Servants Wo unto you ye Strikers who hardens your hearts against the Lord and against those who declare to you the wickedness of your waies the Lord will come when you are not aware and give you your Portion with Hypocrites and Unbeleevers and cast you into utter darkness Repent and turn to the Lord your God with mourning and lamentation and cease from all your former waies and doings cease from Covetousness and Oppression ye aged people and cease from Lightness Vanitie and Pride ye yong People and from all your Priests and Steeple-houses for there your Lightness Pride and vain minds are fed and nourished and the enemies of the Lord are strengthned Dear people there had I once fellowship with you in your Pride Lightness and Vanitie and there was once my joy and delight but now am I chosen by the Lord out of all these things praised be him for ever to serve the Lord in declaring against all these abominations in whom they are standing For Wo unto the proud and light vain minds who are tripping upon the mountains and whose hearts are not subject to the Lord against all these abominations do I Declare as from the Lord and do advise you as from him to depart out of these abominations for the day is coming when you must be separated from all your lovers a day of darkness and miserie therefore prise your time and hearken unto the Light of God within you which reproves you for your filthie and ungodlie deeds and words this Light will lead you to God out of all filthiness obeying it this will separate the clean from the unclean in you and will lead you to be taught of God and to have unitie with God and with the Saints for it was in the Light

but persecuted him who came to fulfil the Law and who hath the substance of the Prophets he hath the Saints Conditions and Experierces in the Letter but who are brought to witness the same Conditions and the same strait way in which they walked He is an enemy to all people to you from God I do Declare it he is one that God never sent to speak his Word to you he calls good evil and evil good and puts light for darkness and darkness for light and therefore Wo is his Portion and Wo is the Portion of all that upholds him What will ye do in the end thereof He doth bewitch you to observe That Calling is an Ordinance of God which he never commanded Poor people your souls lies in the death under the power of darkness and corruption under your dead Minister and under his dead carnal Observances and your dark Minds your Wit and Reason is only fed and so the enemies of the Lord are strengthned by him and you remain in ignorance and in blindness and cannot attain the true Riches for Christ only is the Way to the Father the Light in every man which leads to the Father but this Light he denies as having enlightned every one that comes into world as several times he hath done to me in Argument Here he makes Christ a lyar and doth not know the first Principle of Religion nor the Light which leads unto God but is a Heathen and knows not God for this is the Light which all the Servants of God in all generations witnessed and which Light we do now witness praised be the Lord for evermore who hath in his Light led us to himself and hath shewed the Deceits of him to us and of all such as he is he is in the generation shutting the kingdom of Heaven against men neither entering h●mself nor suffers others to enter that are entering Through the power of the Lord made manifest am I bold to Declare against him who walks not in the Doctrine of Christ and therefore is an Antichrist and doth deceive you professing himself to be sent of God and walking contrary to the Truth of God a Hypocrite saying and not doing Ye my Country-men be not deceived by him try him by the Scriptures and see how he walks according to the Declaration as they did who were Ministers of Christ not by the Will of man but his Ministery is by man and according to man and had his Call from man as it is known to you all but they who were true Ministers witnessed the contrary neither received they their Gospel from man but by the Revelation of Jesus The true Ministers of Christ sent forth by Christ witnesses now the same thing for Christ the same that ever he was which is now made manifest in the Saints and his Ministery is the same which is not by man but contrary to man be not deceived God will not be mocked for he is terrible and his day is powerful and dreadful that shall come upon the Heathen and upon the workers of iniquity and upon all D●ssemblers and Hypocrites all your carnal Worship and Ordinances and Observances is but mocking of God and dissembling with him and is but an imitation and an imagination of the Mind of fallen man imitated by you and your Minister droven by the imaginations from the true Worship of God which the Saints in former generations was exercised in who was led not by imagination as you are but by the Spirit of God as all the Servants of God are Now as ever was true Baptism ●own which is by the holy Ghost and with Fire and the Baptism with one Spirit into one Body do we witness but that which your Chief Priest and false Hireling hold up I Deny it it is not of God but is an imitation and is abomination in the sight of God and therefore from God do I Declare against it and against your Hireling that upholds it among you True Communion of Saints I own for we have Union and the Bread which we break is the Body of Christ and the Cup which we drink is the Blood of Christ by which we are nourished and fed up to eternal life for he that eats not Christs Flesh and drinks his Blood he hath no life in him he among you that can receive it let him but your Communion I Deny for it is Heathenish and no more but an imitation having proceeded out of the imagination of the Proud Your breaking of Bread and drinking of the Cup is abomination and God never commanded it and this doth your Pharisee uphold sitting in the Seat of Christ and of the Saints as the Pharisees did in Moses seat saying and not doing True singing I own with the Spirit and with understanding singing in the Spirit making melody in the heart to the Lord this singing was and is among the Saints in the Church of Christ this is well pleasing to God for it is not an imitation nor by tradition as your singing is but it is true Sacrifice the Song of the Redeemed ones which none can learn but the Redeemed ones of the Lord who is come and coming to Zion with songs and everlasting Joy upon their heads but your singing is Carnal Traditional and Heathenish and is an imitation and is not with the spirit of Jesus but with the spirit of the World with the spirit of Drunkards Swearers Lyars Mockers Scornners Covetous ones with the spirit of Wrath Envie Malice with the spirit of Cain with the spirit of the Scribes and Pharisees and chief Priests who persecuted the Saints which sang in truth in former generations and now the deceit is turned into the form of singing and they that live there persecutes them that sings in the power for thus it was ever They that lived in Profession in the Word Outwardly persecuted them that lived in the power of which was Professed and there you and your Hireling is but know that the Lord will take an account of you and give unto every man his reward according to his deeds You and your Priest have got the Form of Baptism of the Communion of Singing and of a Church but the power and substance of these Ordinances you know not for they are hid from all vulturouus eies and from the generation of the Pharisees and Serpents who are called of men Master and which have the chief place in the Assemblies as your Hireling hath and who is called of men Master as they were which Christ cryed Wo against true Preaching of Jesus Christ Crucified we own and do witness for the Preaching is out of the Will of man out of Form and Custom and is foolishness to the wisdom of the World now as it was ever this is not with the inticing words of mans wisdom but in the demonstration of the Spirit and of Power and the Preaching of the Word

of Faith which is nigh thee in thy mouth and in thy heart that Preaching we do own for Faith comes by the hearing of this Word Preached and the Prayer with the Spirit of truth we do own for that is not in word to be seen of men but led to that not by Custom Form and Tradition but by the eternal Spirit which proceeds from God which hath free recourse to God which God heareth and doth accept for there iniquity is purged out of the heart and is not regarded for he that regards iniquity in his heart God will not hear his Prayer but the Preaching and Praying of your Hireling I do deny for they are abomination to the Lord for his Preaching leads from God stands in his own Will in his own Time in Form Custom and Tradition and your Souls are not refreshed by it neither is true Faith known among you for how can he being evil speak good things A corrupt Tree cannot bring forth good fruit said he Who cried Wo unto them that said and did not in which generation he is how can he teach and direct toward true Religion being he denies the Corner stone the first Principle of Religion which is the foundation which no other can any lay the Light of God which hath enlightened every one that comes into the world which he denies to have enlightened every one poor people I do pitty your souls God is my witness to see you lie in darkness in ignorance and blindness and in deadness under your dead Hireling and under his dead traditional Preaching your wisdom reason and dark minds is only fed and strengthned by his preaching and you all are but building upon the sand hearing but not doing and we who have suffered the loss and have witnessed the destruction of that building do now Declare freely against it where it is standing for we know the depth height and breadth of all your Profession and of all your carnal Worship and Observances and the Word of God is as a fire which will burn up and as a hammer which will beat down all your imagined Worships and carnal Ordinances And his Praying is abomination to the Lord for it is as theirs was which the Son of God cryed Wo against which stood Praying in the Synagogues and which made long Prayers and the Praying of all such we do Deny for their Prayers is as the Scribes and Pharisees was who were called of men Masters as they are now and who were sayers and not doers as your Hireling is therefore all you people consider and diligently weigh these things If I Declare to you the Truth own it without respect of persons if I speak a lye let me be accounted as accursed for ever and all you simple ones who are seeking the living among the dead who are in the simplicity seeking after the truth and yet are bewitched to observe that which God never commanded and to seek God in that way which he was never found in for Christ alone is the way to the Father and he is but one from generation to generation in all generations for your sakes do I lay open the deceits of your Hireling and chief Priest who is in the way of Balaam following the wages of unrighteousness and do advise you as from the mouth of the Lord to cease from man whose breath is in his nostrils and to cease from all your customary carnal Observances which God never commanded but is only an imitation and an imagination your souls are kept in death under the power of Corruption Pride Drunkenness Covetousness Oppression and Earthly-mindedness Wantonness and the lustful Nature ruling is head in you and among you are that generation that draws neer God with their mouths but your hearts goes after Covetousness and are far from the Lord ye Worship an unknown god and are persecuters of the true God and of his Servants as ever it was in all generations by Priest and People as it is now with you and your Priest they that professed truth in word persecuted them that witnessed the Power the horrible filthy thing is committed among you and you love to have it so but what will you do in the end thereof you are in the generation of your forefathers who spoke good of the false Prophets but persecuted the true Prophets so it is now among you he that hath the Word of the Lord from the mouth of the Lord to declare unto you him you revile and mock and scorn and persecute but he that speaks the imagination of his own heart from the Saints conditions him you own and hear and here you shew your selves to be them which Christ spoke of which would receive them that come in their own name but will not receive him that cometh in the name of his Father Repent and turn to the Lord lest his judgments come upon you and destroy you with an utter destruction the day of the Lord is terrible and dreadful which will come upon the wicked and upon all the workers of iniquity Be ashamed ye Heathens you maintainers of the greedy dumb dogs and upholders of the horrible filthy thing the persecuters of the righteous seed the contemners of the Just the generations of Serpents who cries Let Barrabas go free ye generation of Hypocrites who professes God but persecutes the Son of God where he is made manifest of this Generation in which you are Shall all the righteous blood-shed be required even from Abel Repent and cease from all your former waies and doings from Pride Drunkenness Covetousness and Oppression from Lying Swearing from Mirth and Wantonness and vain Pleasures for the day of the Lord cometh that shal burn as an Oven and the Proud and all that do wickedly shall be as stubble fully dry for the Lord will be avenged of his enemies and render vengeance in flames of fire upon all that know not God and that obeys not the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ Who can stand when he appears Who can dwell with everlasting burnings Even he that doth righteously and that is purged from iniquity But then wo unto you all Hypocrits and Professers and to the wicked and profane ones ye shall all partake of the righteous Judgment and drink of the Cup of the Lords Fury and Indignation for your iniquities are seen and your transgressions are not covered from the Lord all your Profession will not hide you from the presence of the Lamb for in your Sacrifices are found deceit and in your Offerings lodges iniquity the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it therefore be ashamed of all your Profession and of all your Glorious Carnal Ordinances for the Lord is coming to uncover you and to make you and your profane Hireling manifest for God is pure and holy and no iniquity dwels with him nor none that

which Light shall be your Condemnation because you love darkness rather than Light ye are returned with the Dog to his vomit and with the Sow to the wallowing in the mire your latter end is worse than your beginning and the Parable is fulfilled upon you for lying against the Truth will the Lord plead with you and wo will be your Portion for ever for the liars shall not enter into the Kingdom of God therefore all people fear the living God and prise your time and see where you are his servants you are unto whom you do obey all must give an account to the living God and must receive according to what is done in the Bodie in such an hour will the Master come which you are not aware of and will take account of your stewardship for God hath given unto everie one a Talent therefore spend not awaie your time in wickedness and in a deceitful Profession of God feeding your dark minds with the dead formal Preaching of your dead carnal blind Pharisee but hearken to the Light of God within you and improve everie one his Talent the good and faithful servant improves his to the honor and riches of his Master but the sloathful servant hides his in the earth living in the filthiness saying he hath no power now see which servant you are and read your selves within how you stood covered in the presence of the living God for wo unto him that is covered but not with the Spirit of the Lord the servants of God brings forth fruit unto God bears the image of their Father and the servants of the Devil brings forth fruits of darkness and bears the image of the Devil which is glorious to the carnal eie and feeds the carnal mind The Seed of the Woman is but one in all generations and the Seed of the Serpent is but one which ever was is ruling and reigning in the Children of Disobedience who are disobedient to the Light of God within them and betwixt these two Seeds is Enmitie the one against the other each Seed is known by its fruit the old bottle pours out old Wine the new bottle new Wine therefore all people sink down to within and call in all your wandring thoughts imaginations and affections and desires and see which seed is head in you and see what your desires and affections goes out after for where your hearts are there is your treasure see what you do possess of God in your Souls and what you are made witnesses of for he that believeth hath the witness in himself and Faith is the Victorie over the world he that can receive it let him Dear people I have freelie Declared to you the Truth and from the love of God shed abroad in my heart to your Souls and for the Seed sake in you which lieth in death captivated under your Wisdom and Reason have I spoken the Word of the Lord which if you own it and abide in it shall be the savor of Life and in eternal joy shall you witness me to be true in what I have Declared but if you harden your hearts and kick against the Truth and against what I have Declared shall be the savor of death unto Death and in eternal torment and miserie shall ye witness me in what I say for to that which should exercise the Conscience do I speak in everie one of you and to that in you have I cleared my Conscience and have freed my Spirit this is the day of your Visitation the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it Remember that you have been shewed the Deceits which you live in and have been warned of the miserie and desolation that shall come upon you except you lay these things to heart and turn to the Lord Farewel By him who is dispised and had in derision among you who is not greater than his Lord and therefore is contented to be called a Blasphemer and a Seducer as he whom I serve was by them of your generation E. B. TO all you my Countrie people of everie degree who are Inhabitants in Vnder-barrow have I cleared my Conscience and have freelie Declared to you the Word of the Lord and have laid open the Deceits of your Deceitful Ministerie and Minister and have directed you to that in everie one of you which leads unto God and which is the way to the Father which is the true Light which hath enlightned everie one that comes into the World which light all who loves and follows walks not in darkness but walks up to God out of the Fall from under the Curse into the Being but all who hates this Light and follows the imagination of their own brains and of the divination of their Hirelings and Pharisees this Light shall be their condemnation because they walk not in it even this Light which is come into the World in everie man even the witness in the Conscience which is placed by God shall for ever witness against you and against all your false worships and Hirelings and shall bear testimonie to what I have in this little Volume declared to be true when the Book of Conscience shall be laid open for to everie mans Conscience am I made manifest in what I have to you declared as concerning your Hireling whom God hath never sent but is in the way of the false Prophets and Pharisees for he that abides not in the Doctrine of Christ hath not God 2 John 1. 9. but is an Antichrist and of the Devil And as concerning the Light within you that Light will bear witness to it self that everie one of you to whom I speak hath this Light which shews you sin your lying swearing pride and wikced waies covetousness and wantonness to be sin this is the true Light which is as ever was foolishness and a stumbling block to the wise ones This is the Light which your Pharisee denies to have lightned everie one and this Light shall for ever witness me to be true and shall witness this poor people among you who is despised contemned by you scornfully called Quakers to be the servants of God whom I do own as my Brethren in the sufferings of Jesus who are my joy in the Lord Now all people everie where to you all a word from the Lord though I have spoken in this small Volume as moved by the Lord of Heaven and Earth to the Inhabitants of Vnderbarrow as declaring against their false Teacher and false Worships which they uphold now freelie and plainlie do I declare against all thy Teachers O England who are one in the same generation with him in the Seat of Christ and of his Apostles professing themselves to be sent of God but walking contrarie to his commands in the same footsteps which the Scribes and Pharisees walked in which were persecutors of the Son of God and which he cried wo against they who said and did not