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A30510	The memorable works of a son of thunder and consolation namely that true prophet and faithful servant of God and sufferer for the testimony of Jesus, Edward Burroughs, who dyed a prisoner for the word of God in the city of London, the fourteenth of the twelfth moneth, 1662.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.; Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1672 (1672)	Wing B5980; ESTC R31282	1,280,745	962

more you strive the more you are entangled and the deeper your pit is digged for another the greater is your own fall into it for the purpose of your hearts and the intent of your wicked minds doth the Lord make void and turneth them upon your own head and strongly are you bound in your own snare which you secretly lay for the foot of the Innocent to make the Upright a prey How long ye men of the Earth will ye 〈◊〉 counsel together against the Lord How long shall the Righteous be a prey to your teeth to shoot your Arrows of Cruelty and Reproach against When will you give over your Oppression and Violence wherewith you think to spoil the tender Grape of the Lords Vintage and to devour the Seed of Iacob from off the Earth that you may rule in the kingdom in peace When will you be weary 〈◊〉 your wickedness and cease from your deceivings seeing the Lord makes you a Curse in whatsoever you take in hand You travel in wrath and bring forth nothing you strive all the day long and gather nothing but stubble and the fire kindles upon it and makes it a heap of Confusion in a moment When will you learn wisdom and refrain your selves from vanity Do you think to persist in the way wherein you walk can you overcome the Lamb or can you bring to nought the purpose of the Most High Will you make your selves equal with him and will ye gainsay the working of his Power Nay you shall fall into everlasting confusion and the remembrance of your destruction shall not suddenly pass away for the purpose of the Lord shall surely stand and his Counsel shall 〈◊〉 be made void for you are but suffered for a moment till your measure be ●ull and your transgression be finished that you may be cut off for ever and ●●id waste as the Wilderness Long hath been the night of Darkness over all Nations wherein you have played and sported your selves as though no eye had seen you and your works of cruelty had laid hid in your bosomes but now they do appear and the day hath made you manifest and the Light hath discovered you and now ye are tryed and weighted and searched and the Fire of the Lord is kindled upon all your works and the end o● them is confusion and misery and in sorrow shall ye lie down and no eye shall comfort you nor no Physitian shall heal your bruise for with a grievous blow will the Hand of the Lord be upon you all you who pervert his Way who have joyned your selves in battel against the Lamb and his Followers some of you smiting the Innocent with your hands and some with your tongues and in your envy deal cruelty with the Lord 's Chosen who are become a Proverb and Prey to the wicked and as a Butt to shoot at against whom you bend your Tongues and speak bitter things even from the head to the tayl the whole body of Darkness is prepared to war and every member of the great Image is stirred up in its strength thinking to prevail through subtilty against the innocency of the Simple and Lyes are become o●● Enemies refuge and their trust is in a broken Reed which fails their confidence and hope and we are preserved under the shaddow of the Almighty and we are delivered out of the snare of our Enemies and through suffering for a moment shall reign for ever and ever over the Beast and his Image And unto thee Giles Firmin I do write a few words in answer to thy Book caled Stablishing against Quaking who hast helped up the measure to fulfil the wickedness of the wicked in adding thy Lyes and Slanders and Reproaches unto thy Brethren and hast cast in thy Mite into the heap of Babylons Confusion and ●ast set thy seal against the Lord's People and hast put to thy hand in the record of Sions Enemies Whom do you thus strive against And against whom is your ●ury thus kindled What are you doing in your drunken fits of fury wherein you stagger with the wine of Envy Surely when you are sober you will consider ●nd when you are come to your selves you will be ashamed and will not open any more your malice and wrath which hath drownded your honesty and civility and ●n your knowledge you are as bruit Beasts which are to be destroyed you do but ga●her your selves together that you may be scattered and broken to peices you are ●uffered to heap up your confusion in Lyes and Reproaches that the Lord may make you ashamed and judge you out of your own mouths And Friend what hast thou done and who hast thou established the wicked ●n his wickedness and the unclean in his filthiness and hast hardened the hearts of the ungodly by thy Lyes and Slanders least they should turn from their ungod●iness and be saved from their sins and so against quaking for transgression hast ●hou stablished them herein and this will be laid to thy charge in the Day of ●he Lord who healest up the Wound slightly and criest Peace Peace to the wick●d unto whom the Lord hath not spoken Peace And Friend thou art the man ●n whom the Prince of Darkness is discovered which now works in thee and ●rom him hast thou sent forth thy pack of Reproaches against the Innocent and ●leadest thy own cause and judgest hereof in the sight of men and hast sought ●he praise of men and not the Praise of God and so seek to obtain a good re●ort by flattery and not by faith and this sufficiently appears in thy first E●istle wherein thou hast given flattering Titles unto man and in vain hypocri●ie hast fought a proof to the authority of thy Book thinking thereby the more ●o make it of force to do the work which thou intendest by it even to ●oyson the simplicity of the Upright and to devour the woman which brings ●orth the Man-Child by casting floods of evil Speeches and Lyes after her but ●hy flatteries are of no worth to thee nor thy subtil words of guile availeth thee ●ot herein for in the Light thou art seen and by it tried and thy snare which ●hou hast laid will fetter thy own foot and the mischief thou intendest is fallen ●pon thy own head and whilst thou hast thought to discover the Prince of Darkness in another thou hast covered and cloaked him in thy self under thy feigned words of flattery but through that vail he is seen and unto all men shall be made manifest and the Spirit of the Lord doth judge him and thy Rock of flattery shall not cover thee from the Wrath of him whom thou hast set thy self to oppose And in thy second Epistle thou sayest Thou madest one Sermon to discover this Generation meaning the Quakers and thou sayst thou found good success of it Friend thou hast more fully discovered thy self and that abommation which lodged in thy heart secretly which thou hast not let out into

wouldst teach People to apply the Promises unto Salvation while they are in a condition of damnation condemned in the sight of God by the Light in their own Consciences nor will not own that which discovers sin and how then can they own him that takes it away and purges from it by his Blood which thou sayest is done but hast no more witness of it by the fruit of ceasing to commit sin then the Pope hath who lives in your sin then how is it taken away Then thou sayest with an impudent Tongue It s not of works least any man should boast as these fond Hypocrites called Quakers would do Answ. Thou Slanderer When didst thou hear any of the Quakers boast or see them live in Hypocrisie God shall judge thee thou deceitful heart but further I answer by a Query Will that faith which is without works justifie And must not every one receive according to their deeds he that doth good Life he that doth evil Condemnation but such is thy faigned fancy of Faith who seekest to be justified by it whilst thou bringest forth the fruits of unbelief Then thou speakest of living by Faith which as thou sayest Is to apply the Lord Iesus Christ his Benefits as Birth c. I say if to talk of him was Faith in him and to live by his Faith then few would want him for many have gotten the words which are without the Life of Righteousness through Faith and to live by Faith says not who shall ascend or descend to fetch Christ for Salvation neither doth it say When shall he come from afar ot save his People but Faith speaks thus What saith the word of the Gospel which is within the heart as thou mayst read in the Scripture of Truth hadst thou but an ear to hear but thou sayest Lo here and Lo there false Prophet like Then thou sayst further How are they deceived who own Christ no otherwise then as he was before the World began c Answ. Here thou hast discovered thy self more plainly Did not the Saints own Christ Jesus the same yesterday to day and for ever for Salvation and is there any other Christ then he who was before Abraham was and is he not now glorified with the same glory mind the same Glory which he had with the Father before the World was according as he prayed is this deceit or is it thy grievous ignorance to call it so to own him as he was before the World was for Salvation thou ignorant man that was the very Christ the Son of God who was equal with the Father which was in the beginning and in time was manifest in Bethelem and calls himself the Light of the World thou hadst better have said nothing then by multitude of words to lay open thy shame Friend that spiritual Rock whcih the Fathers did eat and drink of which followed them that Rock was Christ the Salvation The next thing that I take notice of is thy exposition upon that Scripture Iob. 4. 3. And thou sayest this is the meaning Every Spirit that doth not confess that th● Christ that was with the Father before the World was did in the appointed time of the Father come into the World took upon him a Body and was very Man as well as very God c. Answ. If every spirit be of God which doth in words confess this then is not the Pope himself antichrist seeing he confesses as much of this it may be more then thou dost neither canst thou justly condemn us for denying this for we do confess it with our hearts and not only with our mouthes as thou and the Pope doth But Friend Is every one saved that saith Lord Lord nay it is only he that doth the will of the Father and who in many Nations do not confess this to be true and yet there are but few in all Nations in the Way to Life that shall be saved by Christ Jesus and it is not much better nor more accepted to confess Christ in words to be come and yet in works to deny him then it is both in words and in works to deny him the one is wicked in Prophaness the other is wicked in Hypocrisie the one is a Lyar the other is a false Witness and whether of these are most vile let them who are spiritual judge Then thou exhortest To receive no Christ except God's Christ c. To this I say The Christ of God is a Mystery not known to the World and this is he which was in the beginning whom God gave into the World to be the Light and Saviour thereof even he is God's Salvation unto the ends of the Earth and unto him he is Light and shall be Salvation and Redmeption where his Person never came and yet it cannot be said Here is the Place where the Son of God is not Let him that reads understand Then thy next thing is proving many things concerning Christ which I pass by as not having any thing therein against the Quakers only in one particular where thou numbers again them with the Ranters so that I pass by also lest thou should say I justifie the Ranters and do rather choose to let the Innocent lie under the suffering of thy reproach whose innocency will appear when thy black vail of Lyes is taken away Then the next thing I mind is where thou seems to reprove the Quakers for wresting the Scripture Iohn 1. 9. whereby thou sayest They split themselves and endeavour to split others c. Answ. Wresting is thy own and not ours for we take the Scripture in plain words without adding or diminishing as our enemies shall witness for us Then how wickedly dost thou say we wrest it when we neither add nor diminish But thy folly must appear by thy much meddling And then thou takest in hand to speak to the thing and thus thou sayst Every man as he comes into the World receives a light from Christ as he is God c. Answ. What less hast thou said then we except thou wilt say he hath not lighted man as he is Christ and so divide the Father and the Son which is error for what the Father doth the Son doth also and they are equal in power and operation and cannot be divided Then thou sayst This Light is Conscience that some call Christ though falsly Answ. Them I leave for thee to reprove and do deny them and thee together if thou hast not falsly made a Lye of some Body and told thy own Lye through the wresting of their words let the Light in thy Conscience judge Then thou sayest This Light will shew a man there is a God and will discover the eternal God by his works and it will reprove of sin and make sin manifest and by it the unregenerate man is able to know the sins against the Law are sins against God c. Answ. Also this will the Light of Christ do wherewith he hath enlightened every man

the Scripture something 〈◊〉 con●…ce 〈◊〉 and besides or contrary to the Spirit of God wh●…●…ou 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 do for though thou sayst as none aff●… the Light in every 〈◊〉 ●…ience is not the Spirit of God yet ho●… do●… thou proye 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…ontrary to the Spirit of God which in my last a put 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 leave it with thee and then thou wouldst ex●…se t●y 〈◊〉 ●…ds 〈◊〉 ●…on called the Quakers fond Hypocrites but hast ●…ot yet pro●…ed 〈◊〉 live in Hypocrisie and so art a Lyar still and ●y 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a perverter of the right Way of God thou a●● and in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…f 〈◊〉 it shall be proved by thy recompence Then tho●●…est 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That a natural man may have power over sin a●d 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Law and for thy proof thou inst●… in p●●l 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Phil. 3. Now this was before the Commandment ca●● 〈◊〉 God 〈◊〉 which let him see the Law was spiritual and this doth 〈◊〉 p●●ve that 〈◊〉 power over sin for he was an Envy and so a 〈◊〉 and had 〈◊〉 over sin according as I asked thee if thou ●…yst he had power over 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…st to do before he was convicted while he was a ●…al 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 no si●… to persecute Jesus and this would ●e blasphemy the p●… 〈◊〉 ●…t this thou hast c●●●ingly slipped ●…e I ●…ed th●… get 〈◊〉 sin and to abstain from those things ●…idden in the Law 〈◊〉 not 〈◊〉 thou ever came and because thou wilt not answer I do and say 〈◊〉 concludes that Iohn 〈◊〉 sta●… i● not so good 〈◊〉 P●●le while he was ●…er according to his own Doctrine and thou sayst the Gentiles did by nature the things containted in the Law true but that state was not co●… 〈◊〉 ●…stined before the Circumcision and I ask thee Is any condem●… 〈◊〉 who are ex●…sed in his light or is any justified who is accused 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 ●…d which thou ignorantly comments upon where I 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 chose to be of that profession which abstains from those things 〈◊〉 in the Law and to have power over sin then to live in the transg●… the 〈◊〉 and under the power over sin yet talking of belief in the Son o● 〈◊〉 Let the Reader 〈◊〉 whether of these Religions is more accep●… s●●hn of God thy Religion is proved to be talking of belief in th● 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 in the tra●sg ●ession of the Law a Lyar a false Witnese 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and Backbiting and such like thy false belief will not save thee in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Lord. Then further thou still confessest that as he is God Christ lighteth ever●… 〈◊〉 come into the Wo●… then wherefore dost thou make all this ado in 〈◊〉 us in this particular yet let 's try thy Doctrine whether it be sound 〈◊〉 sayst This Light wherewith Christ as God hath lighted every man is C●… and yet sometimes saith This Conscience is seared and hardned and evil 〈◊〉 is the Light of Christ as God seared heardened and evil Iohn B●… it forth this is thy great Ignorance and Blasphemy and sometimes 〈◊〉 This Light is Nature and Nature is corrupted and sinfull and in it 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 dren of ●…th What is the Light of Christ as God corrupted and sinful●… 〈◊〉 are a●● by i● Children of Wrath Iohn Bunions Doctrine holds it forth 〈◊〉 blindness possessed thee when thou writst this yet mayst thou blush at the 〈◊〉 hereof Then thou goest to give a meaning upon my words in that I said t●… is Light and Light is the Law which is truth but I spoke them not 〈◊〉 to Interpret with thy lying spirit but let spirituall men judge of them 〈◊〉 much ado thou makes in answering my question to thee but hits not my 〈◊〉 at all I asked thee and bid thee shew if thou canst any sin which 〈◊〉 against the Law but this thou canst not do though thou wouldst pro●… thou couldst that imbelief is not a sin against the Law of God then thou 〈◊〉 of the obedience of the Son of Mary imputed to us c. But I say 〈◊〉 obedience of him without doth not justifie any who are in the Na●… c●…ty against him who is not a new creature nor condemned in t●… 〈◊〉 and whereas thou secretly chargest us with mingling Law and Gospel to 〈◊〉 I tell thee we know the operation of each and doth witnes● the Minist●… each and they are not divided nor oppsite one against the other but 〈◊〉 the ●…ing of the other and though thou saidst you leap over the 〈◊〉 Iustification yet it is too high for thee to leap over for Condemnation 〈◊〉 member this and all thy feign'd saith while in that Nature thou st●… condemned is but as the stubble for the fire Then whereas I charged t●… preaching another Gospel then the Apostle preached and my charge●… upon thy head and my proof is found against thee he directed to the 〈◊〉 withing in the heart Rom. 10. what saith it the Word is in the heart 〈◊〉 he turned to the Light from Darkness but thou sayst who shall ascend 〈◊〉 hi●● ●…en ●…st follow him to the Cross without and to Heaven without c. 〈◊〉 art one that faith ●o here and lo there but these things thou hast pa●… with thy lying excuse of quarreling a many p●… shirts thou art ●…ain to 〈◊〉 and in that I said thou wast a Lyar in saying the Light vit of Chr●… God doth not shew the soul a Saviour or Deliv●… my charge 〈◊〉 is true and stands unremoved and I asked thee if the Light of Ch●… not shew Christ to 〈◊〉 will in the Light then what c●● but thi●… hast passed also most ●…fully which stands upon thee to answer or 〈◊〉 thy mouth then thou wouldst excuse thy contradictions charged upon 〈◊〉 that thou saydst they are wickedly del●●ed who own Christ no otherwise 〈◊〉 as he was before the World and yet saying God onely is the Saviour and 〈◊〉 is none besides him and all thou sayst clears not thy self from contradiction herein let honest men be judge betwixt us both for thou judgest falsely me to be ●aught and I am sure thou art naught and thou wilt not take my judgement I may not take thine let impartiallity judge betwixt us then thou wouldst excuse thy slanders charged justly upon thee in saying that Quakers make light of the Resurrection and to prove thy wickedness thou askest us whether so it be 〈◊〉 ●…e enough for us to answer when thou hast brought evidence of the first a●…sation what poor proof is this for to cover thy self though to add to thy wickedness Thou sayst thou knowst we deny it I ask thee when it was or where it was O thou Enemy of Righteousness yea thou shalt arise in the day of Judgement to shame and contempt and this I affirm except thou repent of this thy wickedness Then whereas thou urgest me that I should have answered the Query raised from Eph. 4. 10. better or