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A30520	A discovery of some part of the war between the kingdom of the Lamb and the kingdom of Anti-Christ held forth in this account of several disputes and queries between a Minister of Christ (really so) and one that hath the name of a Minister, but is proved to be a Minister and member of Anti-Christ by evident testimonies : and is a short account of the covetousnesse, ignorance, envy, and the fruits of darkness brought forth by C. Fowler ... / by Edw. Burrough.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1659 (1659)	Wing B5999A; ESTC R27139	22,780	34

of sprinkling Infants and administring of Bread and Wine among unconverted people was never ordained of God nor practised amongst the Apostles if thou sayest it was prove it out of the Scriptures or else stop thy mouth and to deny such Ordinances and Practises which God never commanded nor the Saints of former ages ever practised is not Antichristian nor Heresie but thus do the Quakers and therefore they are not Antichristian nor Hereticks upon this accompt And thus thy Proposition is not worth any thing for the end proposed by thee but thy weakness and folly is made manifest and thy Idolatrous practises so much pleaded for by thee are denied and opposed by the Spirit of the Lord Answer to the sixth As for the sin of Infants we do say that Infants in general that is to say every particular Infant that is or hath been born into the world hath sin for some were filled with the Holy Ghost and some were sanctified from their Mothers womb and what sin had such And the Scripture speaks that the unbelieving Wife is sanctified by the believing Husband else were your children unclean but now are they holy And what sin had these So that thy major is proved defective and so thy minor and thy conclusion is worth nothing though as to the general part we do believe there is a nature whereby all are children of wrath in degeneration Answer to the seventh This is a false accusation thy minor Proposition and is a lye and so thy conclusion is utterly false Answer to the eighth As for the Christian Sabbath we do not deny that for Christ is the Saints Rest and the seventh day of the week is the Jewes Sabbath and not the Christian Sabbath and so this is but a false accusation as the rest And as for the first day of the week which you observe for Sabbath you have neither binding example nor express command in Scripture for that practice Answer to the ninth As for the singing of Davids Psalms in Rhime and Meeter and in the custome as practised amongst you we do utterly deny to be any Ordinance of God or any part of his Worship though you say it is yet we never had other proof of you than tradition of time and long custome and by this you would seem to plead the practice to be a duty But this satisfies not us though we do not quarrel nor deride at your practice in this particular as thou grounds thy argument but this we do we freely give our testimony against your practice from time to time in the fear and Power of the Lord yet not as quarrelling and deriding after the 〈◊〉 Though we do say they were composed in Rhime and Metter by Sternhold and Hopkins and others which 〈◊〉 Musitioners to the Queen and in this we say true and are neither ignorant foolish nor prophane as thou sayest ● and we give witness against such your practise to be Antichristian and you Deceivers of the people thereby so hereby is thy conclusion made void and a place is brought in for another they that act such things and observe such practises in pretence of Honour and Worship to God which is not commanded nor instituted of God nor which his Spirit leads unto They are idolaters and their worship and their practise is abomination unto the Lord But thus do the Ministers and people of the Church of England and therefore the Ministers and people of the Church of England are Idolaters and their practises abomination unto the Lord Answer to the tenth Thy minor Proposition I do deny for we do not charge the Office and Call of the Ministers of the Church of England with lies and calumnies but this we say their Office and their Call is not from the Lord nor by the authority of his Spirit neither is their Office and Call according to the Scriptures but it is different and contrary both to the Spirit of God and the Scriptures and is not from heaven but rather from the Whore of Rome And though we do affirm these things concerning the Ministry of England yet we do not charge it with lyes and calumnies but we speak the truth in righteousness And what would C. Fowler and his Brethren have said of the true Prophets that called the Priests and Watchmen of Israel that were made by Divine Institution which the Office and Call of Englands Ministry never was that called them blind Watchmen and greedy dumb dogs and devourers of Souls Might not they have said to the true Prophets you charge the Office and Call of the Priests of the Lord with lyes and slanders And this is like the case between us and the Priests of England And did not Christ call the Chief-Priests Serpents Vipers and hipocrites and those Priests were in their office and call of Gods institution but might not they have said that he charged the office and call of the Priest-hood with calumines c. and the case is the same with us and it is accounted no sin by the Lord for us to give our witnesse against the wayes and practices of the Priests of England and utterly to deny both its office and call for they that do professe their office and call to be of God and from him and yet can give no true testimony thereof by the Spirit of God and according to the Scriptures such are deceived and deceivers of others but such are the Priests of England and therefore c. And thus I have returned Answer to his tenn propositions and laid down some others in their place His being confounded and I must leave it to be judged of by the witnesse in every mans Conscience whether he hath not shewed his madnesse and folly in his matter and in the way of his proceedings as for the matter he charges us withall it s wholely invalid as for the end proposed by him and we account of his worke as but the malice of an Anti-christan spirit and as for his proceedings they are inconsistant with a Minister of Christ for him and his brethren to fly from me at his dispute at East Ham●teed before mentioned as being not able to defend their cause this he and they did as many in that country knows and then for him the next morning when I did invite him to meet again upon sober reasons which he also denied and refused to meet me any more and yet afterwards when I was gone out of the country to go and hatch such mischief in his mind as to invent tenn such vain arguments and cause them to set up on the Steeple-house-door on purpose to villify and reproach the Innocent people of God this was his wickednesse as all upright men may see and further for him to challenge to dispute these particulars and leave time and place to our appointing which when time and place was appointed sutable and equitable on all parts and yet for him to refuse to meet at that time and place this was his

A DISCOVERY Of some part of the War between the Kingdom of the LAMB And the Kingdom of ANTI-CHRIST Held forth in this account of several Disputes and Queries between a Minister of Christ really so and one that hath the name of a Minister but is proved to be a Minister and Member of Anti-christ by evident Testimonies And is a short account of the Covetousnesse Ignorance Envy and the fruits of darkness brought forth by C. Fowler a professed Minister in Reading And here all may see in some measure the differenc●●●tween Christ and Anti-christ and their Authority and Weapons and also the Fruits and 〈◊〉 of each of them are made manifest By one that makes war in Righteousnesse with the sword of the Spirit against Anti-christ and all the parts of his Kingdom Edw. Burrough LONDON Printed for Robert Wilson at the Black-spread-Eagle and Winde-mill in Martins near Aldersgate 1659. To the Reader Friend THe chief occasion of this being sent abroad to publique view is to the People of Reading most particularly but yet more general unto all and though that it be chiefly unto a particular place and against a particular person to witt Christopher Fowler one that hath the name of a Minister of Christ in Reading whose Folly and Weaknesse and Ignorance is herein discovered yet it hath partly relation to the whole Ministry of the Nation and all men that do not shutt their eyes may see and behold something of that great opposition that is at this day between the Kingdom of Christ and the Kindgdome of Antichrist and I have no other end in publishing of this but for the satisfaction of them that desires it and for the general good of all and if Christopher Fowler shall see himself justly reproved and repent it may prove good to him also and I am not a man of strife for if he and his brethren had not first challenged us to disputes I had not had this occasion thus to proceed now and in what I have done I referr it to the just witnesse of God in the honest People of Redding and to all else where E. B. A discovery of some part of the Warr between the Kingdom of Anti-Christ and the Kingdom of the Lamb c. FOrasmuch as great hath been the debate for these diverse years of late between the Lamb and his followers and Antichrist and his followers and the one of them hath been opposing the other in their owne Power and Authority and great is the debate at this day between these two Kingdomes which is endeavouring the overthrow one of the other and all the strength and power of Antichrist is put forth in defence of his kingdome by Persecution Injustice false Imprisonments Beatings and Whipings and Spoyling of goods and Persons and Railings Accusings Slandrings Reproachings by these wayes and proceedings doth Anti-christ stri●e at this day for the upholding and maintaining his owne Cause and Kingdome and by this means and these weapons mentioned doth he seek to defend himself his Church and Ministry and Ordinances these are his Weapons and Armour by which he Opposes and fights against the Lamb and his followers whom the Lord hath raised up for this end and they have within these few years more then ever for many Generations made an invasion and inroad upon Antichrist his Kingdome and Government and the great City Babylon and the Seige is raised that hath long been laid against the Holy Seed and the great City Babylon is taken her Walls are scaled and her Gates broken and her strength defeated and her Merchants spoyled of their goodly Treasure for the day of the Lord is come and the Holy Seed is he leading out of the spiritual Sodom and Egypt and Mistery Babilon the Great hath God remembred for her Iniquities and Her crueltyes and Mercilessnes and all Her Abominations will God avenge upon Her Head and this doth come to passe and not by the multitude of an host of men nor yet by Humaine Pollicy and Wisdom nor yet by Carnal Weapons not by Goales nor Prisons nor Persecutions these are not the Lambs Weapons but these are Antichrists and the Dragons Armour and Weapons which he makes warr by against the Lamb and his followers even at this day in every Nation But the Lambs Weapons are Truth Patience long Suffering meeknesse and downe right Sincerity of Heart and Tongue and by these things shall Antichrist be Slaine and these Weapons shall Conquer his Kingdom Love shall overcome Hatred Meeknesse shall overcome Wrath Truth shall overcome Decit and Falsehood and God shall overcome the Divel But more perticularly great hath been the Opposition and Debate made one against the other and the Battel between Christ and Antichrist hath principally been held forth between the Ministers of the Church of England on Antichrists parte and the People called Quakers on the other part no man in the Nation can be Ignorant how the controversy hath depended betwixt these two and what weapons they have used the one against the other and also it is in part known the successe of them both and how the one of them to witt the Ministers so called have had on their part the strength of Men the Magistrates power the rude Multitude and Humane Craft and the Serpents Policy not any of these things have been wanting to them but yet a little seed hath sprung up in the Nation on the other part unexspected by many w●●ch hath had sincerity and truth in it and the Lord hath been with it and he hath blessed it though but little and very small in its beginning yet it is prospered into a kingdome for Gods Might and his Authority dwelleth in it before whom all Nations of the Earth must Feare and Tremble But yet more particularly my present occasion of demonstrating these things are as followeth and the engagement that lyes upon me hereunto is not out of any personal enmity that I have against any but my intent is for the discovery of the Truth that men may imbrace it and for the laying open the decits of Antichrist and his Kingdome that men may come out of Babylon and may not partake of Her Sinns nor of Her Plagues and this matter now in hand cheifly concernes the People of the Town of Reading for their Satisfaction concerning the Wayes Practices Doctrines and Proceedings of Christopher Fowler one of their Ministers with whom I have been joyned in opposition two severall times in dispute with him and the third time was appoynted for our meeting upon discourse as hereafter is related but he not appearing at the time and place according to appointment and he notwithstanding yet continues in opposition too and reproachings of the Truth of the Gospel which I professe and contend for therefore upon this account do I thus engage with him and not for Contention sake but for the open vindication of Truth and Righteousnesse and sound Faith and Doctrine held forth by us and opposed and gain-said by him