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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

veni●tis unquam est pars ista in vobis subacta necne ab qu●m addite fuit lex Dei venistis ad Christum ad ipsum cognoscitis sicut fuit ante Abrahamum ante Mariam Et quammodo fuit Davidis Dominus Et quammodo ejusdem filius utrum natus est Christus in vobis vobis Revelatus per quam mundus fuit factus expectatis necne perfecte liberari a paccato adeo ut in hac vita terrestri non amplius illud committetis 5. Quid est anima quinam fuit status conditio ejus ante transgressionem quaenam in transgressione potestne aliquis per Adamum secundum restitui manens adhuc in terra in statum eundem quem amisit in primo etiam vel non Amici in nomine potentia Domini Dei a vobis requiro ut per atramentū calamum de hisce mihi respondeat aliquis vestrum subscribantur nomina vestra ut reddam itidem vobis responsum ulterius queramus de vobis a Domino enim missi sumus ad visitandū explorandum vos si in perfecta veritate sitis alios ad religionem vestram covertere desideretis tum candide nobiscum agite in zelo vestro optimis utamini armis vestris spiritualibus ad defendendum causam vestram contra nos pro Deo ve●tro appareatis sine vero de vestris ipsorum viis observationibus dubitatis nec ad Religionem vestram defendendam sufficientes sitis tum obtaretur os vestrum divertite ab idololatria nunc enim orbus est Dominus ad judicandum vos juste etiam ac universum orbem Sum animarium vestrarium amator sed testis contra quascunque falsas vias Antichristi ac meretricis qui diu valde in mundo regnavere quin etiam sum Servus Domini Edvardus Burrough per derisores mundi vocatus Aglice A Quaker The English of these Queries followeth The English is this To all ye that Professe your selves devoted to the service of God and separation from the world and mortification in your lives who are called by the name of Fryars and Nunns in and about Dunkirk THe mighty day of the Lord God is come and coming upon you and all the world Awake awake ye that sleep in in the earth for the dreadful God is arising to plead with you and to give unto all the world the cup of his fierce indignation because of your idolatries and hypocrisies and abominations which hath corrupted the earth is come up before him and hath provoked him and the cry of the just who hath been smitten and laid slain is entred into the ears of the most high and his sword which is the words of his mouth is awakened to wound and slay all his enemies and the day of your visitation is now come wherein the Lord is searching you and trying you that he may recompence you and this is the word of the Lord to you Wherefore I am moved of the Lord to propound some few Q●eries to you for the tryal of your spirits and wayes to which I demand your answer that all things may be brought to light and true judgement and that you may be Judged justly and by the spirit of the Lord cleared or condemned according to your deeds 1. Whether there was such orders of men and women in the true Church of Christ in the Apostles dayes and where did Christ give Institution for such worships practices and manner of life and slothful idleness and unprofitableness to God and men as ye hold forth And whether any are bound to believe you and follow your Religion and practices except you can prove by the Scriptures the words of Christ or example of his Saints and Apostles your Religion and lives and practices and worships and whether you do admit of tryal in all your whole Religion by and according to the Scriptures and writings of the Apostles yea or nay 2. Whether the world in your hearts and the worlds nature even the root of lust the root of pride covetousness and the love of this world and its vanities and the root of Idolatry is subdued in you to the light in your consciences I do speak and what is the root of all these things and what is it that subdues it is it an outward abstinence by the force of locks and doors and bolts or self-separation and secret places that subdues the worlds nature in men and women and is i● by such means that Christ gives victory over sin and overcomes it in his people or is it not by the power of God in the heart onely And whether is it not damnable hypocrisie in you to appear outwardly holy and free from these things while yet the nature and root of all these things are alive in you and boiling up in the motions of them and is any outward thing the Crosse of Christ and Christ crucified which mortifies to the world which the Apostles Preached and rejoyced in 3. Whether is it a true denial of the world in you to deny it in one manner and place and to run into it and imbrace it in another way and place it doth not appear to me that you have denyed the world as the Apostles did for answer me where had they any such ●eats in the finest and fattest places of the Cities and Towns as ye have such great fine houses and Gardens and such revenues by the year as ye have staying all their dayes in a great house and spending their time in sloth and idleness as ye do they went up and down the world Preaching the Gospel and had no certain dwelling place but followes the Lamb of God in the spirit and did not settle themselves in fat places of the earth continuing all their dayes as ye do therefore we judge that you are out of the life and not in the spirit as the Apostles were in but are in the form of righteousness and holiness without the power So I demand an answer to clear your selves if you can and to prove that you are of the true Church and t●at your w●yes and practices are in and by the spirit of God and according to the Scriptures 4. What is that death that hath passed over all and reigned from Adam to Moses and whether it doth not reign yet in and over you and what is Moses Ministration and whi●her ever through it you yet truly came and whether that part be subdu●d in you which the Law of God was added upon and whether are you come to Christ and knowes him as he was before Abraham and before Mary and how was he Davids Lord and how his Son and is Christ within you born and reve●led to you by whom the world was made and do you expect to be perfectly freed from sin that ye shall not commit sin in this life upon earth

the further manifestation of truth that truth and righteousness may clearely appear and be imbraced and all deceit and false wayes of Antichrist may be confounded and denied and who are in the truth shall be confirmed and who are in the error may have warning now in the day of the worlds visitation The Lord is coming to Judgment who will Judge the Secrets of all hearts and the whole world in equity Dunkirk 20. of 3. moneth 1659. English account By a friend unto righteousness and a lover of all souls Edward Burrough This was sent to the chief Rector of the Iesuites Colledge in Dunkirk in Latine FRiend thy wisdom and thy knowledge is earthly and sensuall and thereby canst thou not know the things of the Kingdom of God thou canst neither learn them thy self nor teach them to others for thou art but a blind leader of the blind and thus saith the Lord God unto thee the fruitles tree is standing in thee that brings forth no fruit unto God the head of the Serpent is not broken in thee that deceives the soul nor the body of sin put off that burdens the just and the Sword shall cut thee to pieces even the sword of the Lord it shall slay thee and friend the time is at hand that the Lord will make thee know that thou art and hast been in thy life time a dishonour to him and that thou hast not serv'd him but thy self and the Divil and thy heart is not right in his sight but is corrupt and deceitfull for thou art tryed and measured and thou art found wanting in all things and God will Judge thee and the witness in thy conscience shall answer his Judgments and all thy Idolatrous practises and profession of Religion and Church and Ministry thy many Prayers and thy works of Righteousness all this shall not hide thee from thee wrath of the Lamb though now thou art hardened and utterly insensible yet the stone shall fall upon thee that will grind thee to Powder and thou shalt not escape but the burden of thine own iniquities shall weigh thee down into perdition except thou speedily Repent Therefore fear and tremble before the Lord God and remember thou art warned by one that seeks the peace of souls but makes War by the sword of the spirit against the kingdom of the Divil and Antichrist in whom soever it stands And friend answer me this one Querie What is that Whore that hath sat upon multitudes and peoples and what is that Golden Cup in her hand and what are the Abominations and Fornications of which her Cup is full which she hath caused the Kings and people to drink and with which she hath deceived the world Answer me this and subscribe thy name E. B. And now this I have to say concerning the Church of Rome to them to all the world as having been in a measure an eye and eare witnesse of their idolatrous and false waies practices and doctrines never having in all my daies till this time and at this opportunity of going to Dunkirk not having any knowledge outwardly what their waies and practices were not having any knowledge I say by my sigh● and particular hearing concerning them without me otherwise then what the spirit of the Lord within me did make manifest Though from a child the spirit of the Lord in me hath abhorred popery and all that which savours of i● But now having been an eye and eare witnesse in a little measure of their practices and doctrines this I have to say to them and all men blindnesse and ignorance covers them as with a mantle and they are wrapped up in the body of darknesse and grosse darknesse they do dwel in and all their waies and worships are but the works of darknesse which they are led on in by the false feigned spirit of imitation from one generation to another being exercised therein And the sense of the spirit of life they have not but have wholy lost it and they know nothing at all of the leading of it nor of its teaching This they hisse at as a thing of nought when it is spoken of to them They have even sold themselves into the land of ignorance and blindnesse and they hate to be reformed they are setled upon a false foundation even the traditions of men which the Lord will break down and their whole building will fall And when I consider how thousands and ten thousands lies in the captivity of blindnesse and darknesse under them my heart is rent for them upon the consideration how they are led in darknesse and blindnesse and how they rest in a false confidence which will destroy their Souls and the blood of many rests upon the heads of them that leadeth them for they that lead them cause them to erre and the blood of souls will be required at their hands And as for the poor and the common sort of them there is a pity in me for them because they are led by the blind and are out of the way but as for the Priests and Jesuites and Clergy men they are to be cut off with the edge of the sword of the Lord God and the woe is unto them and no pitty because they cause the people to erre and keeps the people in ignorance and blindnesse under their false and unrighteous waies and worships And this I know the word of the Lord is gone forth against the whole body of the Romish-Church from the head to the tail of them will God plead with them the time is at hand and his eye shall no● pitty neither shall his hand spare to punish them The decree of the Lord is Sealed and he will take vengeance upon their unrighteous lawes which binds the consciences of people and limits the spirit of the holy one their unrighteous Ecclesiastical Lawes I meane under which is defended all manner of Idolatry and they compel people to be Idolaters by a Law and whereby they drink the blood of the Saints and of the Martyrs but the Lord will take vengeance upon them and disannul their covenants and decrees and his spirit shall not be limited but shall rend them to pieces even their Laws and cruelties and Inquisions by which they are defended and their Religion upheld in the world and whereby they kill the j●st and murders the innocent that are better then they for the fulnesse of time is come and all these shall be tumbled down for their unjust Lawes and Inquisi●ions are the main strength and pillars of their Church whereby their Church and worishp doth stand and if they had not these cruel Lawes and Inquisitions to defend themselves by in their Religion they would be soon prevailed against for they have nothing of the spirit and authority of God to stand in nor to fight with against such as do oppose them but their weapons are carn●l and devilish and by murders oppressions and tyrannies they do defend themselves and when these

things are broken down then their Church cannot stand long And as sure as the Lord lives so shall it come to passe a generation shall accomplish it and in the generation of the righteous seed it shall be finished their Lawes shall be broken down and murders avenged and their weaknesse shall then appear and their whoredomes and Idolatries and all their abomin●tions shall be made naked and uncovered and judged by the Lamb and them that follow him whom he will gather to fight his battle And if the people were but sensible hereof as in measure I am through the zeal of the Lord it would raise up the spirit of zeal in them all to seek vengeance and the overthrow of all their unrighteous Lawes and Inquisitions and murders which keeps people in darknesse and ignorance and kills the just that the creatures may be saved and tyranny condemned And when once the Lord doth but reach forth his arme then shall people be awakened to mind what I now say Who would spare their own lives for the accomplishing of such a work that the spirit of the Lord may have liberty and that which limits it may be dashed to pieces and that the earth may be set at liberty and all Europ made free from the cruel●ies and tyranies of Antichrist and of the whore And to all you Papists I say and to all the body of the Church of Rome prepare prepare for the Lord God is comming up against you in his dreadful power his word of eternal judgement is gone forth and his vials are full of wrath to be poured forth and he will be avenged upon your tyrannies and murthers and unequal Lawes and subdue them before him And his d●ead shall ●all upon your consciences ye that are Idolaters hypocrites ignorant wretches wilful persons and bondslaves of Satan The plagues of God and the wrath of the Lamb shall reach un●o yo●r high Throne Repent repent for the Lords wrath is kindled against you and if there be any among you that feareth the Lord let him deliver his own soul by turning from your abominations least the Lord come upon you and destroy you altogether Give up your Inquisitions give up your unjust Lawes and cease to murther the innocent and torment the righteous I demand this of you on the Lords behalfe vex not the Lord any longer for his patience is turned into anger against you and his long-suffering will become fury to devour you And no little service we had in Dunkirke among our English Army Divers meetings we had in the Town and declared the message of salvation And I must commend the spirit of our English men for moderation more then the men of any other nation And I did many times clear my conscience among them both as they were men Sons of Adam and in relation to an eternal state did direct them to the way of happinesse out of sin and wickednesse that they might come to God preaching the everlasting Gospel That as they were Sons of Adam in trangression they might come to be healed and come into Christ the power and wisdome of God and might be saved Again as they were soldiers and as they were an army I was moved to speak mcuh unto them that they might know what their service was there in that state some time saying unto them it was possible the Lord might have some good work to do by them if they were faithful and no● seek themselves but the glory of the Lord And at one time being sent for by Governor Lockhart where there were many officers with him we had much discourse with them and this lay upon me to declare in the Name of the Lord unto them that if they did enterprize any businesse as they were an army in a spirit in opposition unto us and in that spirit that did reject us and deny us and gain say us then should they never prosper in any enterprize whatsoever but if they went on in any degree in the fear of the Lord and in that spirit that was among us then should they overcome their enemies and none should have power over them nor overcome them And after I was parted from them this following paper was upon me to write unto the whole Army in general both to officers and soldiers To the English Army to Officers and Souldiers Friends I Am moved to clear my conscience unto you in the sight of the Lord to warn you that you may all learn wisdom and the fear of the Lord God and may stand in his Counsel alwayes for that will be a defence unto you at all times and therein will you prosper in the Lords work and chiefly unto you the small remnant of our English Army in and about Dunkirk I say unto you officers and Souldiers fear the Lord God and walk in his wisdom and every particular person amongst you Inquire of the Lord what he requires of you inquire of the Lord I say and know his will and be obedient unto it in all things and so shall you prosper in standing in Gods Counsel and in performing his will and so shall you be exalted and have victory over your enemies even as you seek the honour of the Lord and his glory for if you honour him and do that which is acceptable to him he will honour you and set you a top of all your enemies and he will make way through the mountains even by you for the further appearance of his glory and he will honour you as his workmen if you be faithful to him and walk in his Counsel and wisdom till he hath prepared his own way by you for assuredly it is not in vain but the Lord had some end in it to himself in bringing you to that place and what do you know but he may have some good work for you to do it is possible there is more in his heart and in his purpose concerning you then yet may be discovered to you wherefore it is good for you that you waite upon the Lord to know his will fully concerning you that you may do it and fulfill it and therein shall be your Crown but on the contrary dependeth your misery and destruction And this I do know that the Lord hath owned and honoured our English Army and done good things for them and by them in these Nations in our age and the Lord once armed them with the spirit of courage and zeal against many abominations and tyrannies and he was with them in many things which he called them to and gave them victory and Dominion over much injustice and oppression and over Tyrants and cruel Laws and he was with them till that a spirit of vain glory and Ambition and self-seeking and the honour of this world entered into some and defiled the whole body made it deformed void of its former beauty and of its valour and nobleness also at which the anger of the Lord was kindled and against 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