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A77950	A measure of the times: and a full & clear description of the signes of the times, and of the changing of the times; and of the reign of Antichrist, who hath long reigned, and of his down-fall, which is at hand; and of the kingdom of Christ which is now setting up in the earth. Shewing unto all people in all nations, what the state of things hath been in ages past, and what the state of things are at this present day. ... And also, here it is manifest, concerning the teachers of this age, and the root from whence they sprang, who are manifest to be of that stock of false prophets, which Christ prophesied of should come, and which the Apostles saw was coming in their dayes, and how that the night of darknesse hath been upon all, for many generations: ... And also, the restauration is described, which shortly cometh, wherein Christ shall reign, whose right it is, and shall change laws and decrees, and the lamb shall be the light of all nations, ... and their King shall possesse the uttermost parts of the earth. By one who hath measured the times, who is come to the day that hath made all things manifest. Edw: Burrough.	Burrough, Edward, 1634-1662.	1657 (1657)	Wing B6012; Thomason E919_6; ESTC R207505	31,897	44

and outward observances which is not the worship of God in the Spirit and in the truth but superstitious and Idolatrous and when the word of God was not received immediately from his mouth nor the Gospel by the revelation of Jesus Christ as it was in the dayes of the Apostles then darknesse being come in they used their tongues when the Lord had not spoken to them as the false Prophets did before Christs time and long have they said the letter is the word and that the letter is the Gospel and that it must be received by the Scriptures and by naturall learning and artes and that none can be ministers of Christ but such who are learned in the languages and knowes the originall of Scriptures Latine and Greek and Hebrew not any of these have received the Gospel by revelation or the word of God from his mouth And when singing in the Spirit and with understanding was ceased and not knowne then began people to get the forme of singing of Davids experiences in rime and meeter and when the pure power of godlinesse was lost which was in the dayes of the Apostles manifested and known then in the Apostacie the deceit grew into the forme of every thing which the Saints had enjoyed in the power and so was shaddowes set up instead of substance and death instead of life and the forme without the power which in many branches sprang forth some into one appearance and some into another but all under the power of the Beast with his many heads and hornes defended and untill this day since the dayes of the Apostles thus it hath been and those very teachers and supposed ministers which now are in this and other Nations are of that very root which sprang forth in the dayes of the Apostles and they are under the dominion of the Beast and moveable like unto the great whore and this may easily be proved that they are of that generation of teachers and false Prophets which Christ prophesied of should come and which the Apostles saw was coming in their dayes and of those which John saw the world to run after for Christ said by their fruites they should be known and the Apostles they described their fruits and them by their fruites And so we seeing their fruit to be the very same now which the Apostles described was the fruit of them that then was come and coming from whence we doe conclude according to sound judgment that these very teachers are of the same generation and branches of the same root which sprang forth then And in Pauls writeings you may read such they were whom he saw of whom he bad people to beware and said perilous times would come and men should be lovers of themselves covetous proud blasphemers disobedient to parents unthankfull unholy without naturall affection false accusers fierce dispisers of those that are good heady high minded lovers of pleasures more then lovers of God having a forme of godlinesse but denying the power and such of whom people were ever learning but never able to come to the knowledge of the truth for people were laden with sins and led away with divers lusts and these did resist the truth as Jannes and Jambres who withstood Moses by making likenesses without life and they were men of corrupt minds and reprobate concerning the faith Now it is plaine that these teachers in this generation are of that very stock which Paul describes such he saw would come and such we see are come and by their fruits we know them as Christ said and Pauls words are fullfilled for these teachers are lovers of themselves and covetous and proud this is plaine to all people and blasphemers who denyes Christ to have lighted every man that comes into the world and therefore they deny Scripture and so are disobedient and unholy men and without naturall affection who many of them have caused the innocent to be imprisoned and some have dyed in Prison and they the chiefe cause of this and this is without naturall affection to the creatures and they are false accusers and liers and fierce in their books and preaching as is manifest through all this Nation and they greatly despise those that are good and prepares war against such as doth not put into their mouthes and they are heady and high minded and lovers of vanities and pleasures this is evident without proofe and they have a forme of godlinesse they say all should be taught of God but when any comes to witnesse it and denyes their teaching they cry against such as Heriticks and thus they have the words and the forme but denyes the power and they are ever teaching twenty and fourty yeares and more but none able ever to come to the knowledge of the truth by them but ●●il in blindnesse and darknesse still and people cryes out who have been learning many yeares from them that they doe not know the truth and its plaine that these teachers are of that sort that Paul spoke of who brings none to the knowledge of the truth for people that followes them are laden with sins and led away with divers lusts and these have and doe resist the truth every where they deny that Christ hath lighted every man that comes into the world and so resists truth and denyes Scripture and the truth as you may read John 1. 9. And they are corrupt minded even wicked persecutors and suers at Law and earthly minded and covetous and oppressors and are wholly reprobate concerning the faith and thus it is plaine that the root of these teachers was springing in the Apostles dayes and hath growen ever since in this darke night of Apostacie and hath filled the Nations Againe the Apostle saw that many should depart from the faith giving heed to seducing spirits and doctrines of Devils speaking lies in hypocrisie having their consciences seared as with a hot Iron Now these teachers are of that stock which is departed from the true faith for they are without true faith and reprobate concerning it who are in iniquity and sin and the workes of the world which are evill now faith purifies the heart from all this but their hearts are not purified but poluted with covetousnesse and preaching for hire and persecuting and envy and therefore they have not faith and so are of that generation which departed from the faith after the Apostles times which they saw would come and these doth seduce and their doctrines are of the Devill who denyes the truth which the Scripture beares witnesse of and saith sprinkling infants with water when they are two or three days old is Baptisme into the faith of Christ this is the doctrine of the Devill and lies they speak in great numbers and in hypocrisie and writes them forth to the world in great hypocrisie with feignednesse and pretence of holinesse and its plaine many of their consciences are seared how doe many of them cause the poore people to suffer grievous imprisonment

mouth and the church of Thyatira suffered that woman Jezabell to prophesie and to teach and seduced the servants of the Lord to commit fornication and to eat things sacrificed unto Idolls and she and her lovers was to be cast into a bed of torment and her children should be killed with death and all the churches should know that God searched the reines and the hearts and every one should receive according to their deeds and the church of Sardis had only a name to live but was dead and her work was not perfect before God and upon them would the Lord come as a thiefe and they should be in darknesse and not know what houre he would come And the church of the Laodiceans were luke warme and neither hot nor cold and the Lord would spew her out of his mouth for she was wretched and miserable and poore and blinde and naked and the shame of her nakednesse did appeare and if any had an eare to heare they might heare these things were spoken by him that lives for ever the first and the last the beginning and the Amen so that hereby the Lords soul was vexed and his spirit grieved and his wrath was suddenly kindled against them who were revolters and backsliders from his way of salvation which he had made manifest to them through the mouth of his servants so that his fury went out against them to overthrow them and to break them to pieces and they being turned from his Law and from his statutes he gave them up unto their own hearts desire and brought in the heathen upon them to confound them who broke them asunder and trod down many of their Cities and gained great Ports of their dominions and made them slaves by multitudes and overthrew their worship and subjected their power even the Turks and base uncircumcised people made a prey upon them and possessed their habitations and set up abominable Idolatries in the place where Gods honour had dwelt and their dominions and treasures without became spoyle to the teeth of devourers for they having lost the terrour of the Lord he brought up the heathen to be a terrour unto them whose power was mightier then they and overcame them they being without the power of God and this justly came upon them according to the purpose of the Lord because of their backslidings And others of them who was not so given up to the will of an outward enemy yet were they given up to strange Idolatries and subversion and setting up images and worshiped that which is not God but abomination to him to this day so that the holy City which had been full of glory was given to the Gentiles to be troden downe and under their poluted feet hath it been stamped and to their mouth hath it been a prey for such a time even since these things came to passe unto this day as you may read and the Beast and false Prophet hath ruled in oppression and the great whore hath made all Nations drunke with the wine of her fornication All the great men and Princes and nobles and all the people upon earth have been made drunke by her and touched her uncleannesse and ever since the day wherein the backsliding entered she hath fit upon nations and kindreds and tongues and people and hath been decked in divers colours to deceive the hearts of all people and all Nations have been deceived by her and the beast and his power whose dominion hath been great hath upheld wickednesse by a Law and established Idolatry by decrees and all have been out of the way and wandring in blindnesse and darknesse even the whole world have worshiped the Beast and gone after the false Prophet which sits upon the Beast and his power protects him till they be both overthrowne into perdition and cast alive into the Lake which now the Lord is comeing to doe in power and dominion and great Babylon is coming into remembrance before the Lord and as she hath done so shall it be done to her her children is dashing against the stones and her offspring is withering away and the darknesse is vanishing and the Sun is appearing and the beastly power shall be subdued and the false Prophet confounded even the old Dragon shall be bound and chained never more to deceive for the Beast hath had a long reigne with his false Prophet who have prophesied lies and false divinations and led away the minds of all people For marke and consider Christ Jesus who came into the world with glad tidings of good things even with peace and salvation he said the glorious day was come and even that day which many Prophets and wise men had desired to see but had not seen the earth was filled with light as I have said yet he farther prophesied and said that the night would come when no man could work and that in the last dayes false Prophets should arise and deceive many and should come into the world and should cry loe here and loe there is Christ and and if it were possible should deceive the very elect and the Apostle John in his time who had been an eye-witnesse of Jesus and had handled and tasted and felt the word of life and had been with Jesus and bore a true testimony unto him in that very age and generation he saw the false Prophets and antichrists come and coming in and aluded to the very sayings of Christ by this we know said he that it is now the last time for there are now many false Prophets and antichrists gone out into the world they were not of the true Apostles but went out from among them being gone out from the light in their own particulars and beguiled the hearts of the simple by good words and faire speeches and went in Balaams way for gifts and rewards and in Caines way to envy and murder as you may read in the Scripture so that in Johns time the false Prophets which Christ foretold off were come and they did deceive many according as Christ had said and they drew many from the wayes of God and subverted many from the truth and made havocke of the flock and were grievous wolves according as Paul had said and truth began to perrish from among men and the power thereof ceased and the apostacy came in and the forme was set up for a season so that John farther saw and said the whole world went after the Beast and false Prophet whom he saw before was come and worshiped the Beast and his image But a few whose names were written in the book of life and as I have said the holy City with the outward Court was troden down by the Gentiles foot and darknesse surprized all and wickednesse abounded more and more and the night came upon all as Christ had prophesied and the Beast grew in his dominion till there was hardly any man left to beare witnesse in the truth and in the power of God unto the name of

Jesus but all was subverted into dead formes and shaddowes and likenesses without life and the Lord left the earth as it were and covered himselfe in the darknesse and became a stranger in the world and did scarce openly speake by vision nor dream nor Prophet but all were left in the darke and ignorance abounded and superstition was exalted the Saints spirit and ●se which they were in and guided by was lost and then they began to worship the Saints names and dayes and words without the life and power and that nature and that same seed which had persecuted the Saints to death and gainsayed the pover and lost the holy ghost turned it selfe into the professi●n of the Saints words which were left upon record and confirmed it selfe into the Saints practises without the life power and holy ghost And having lost the power from which the Sripture was given forth and not being guided in the life whic● they were in which spoke it forth then from the Scripture 〈◊〉 mens own conceptions and thoughts and by their reason w●●hout Gods Spirit they set up likenesses and images and sects and formes and many heads and many hornes grew upon the beast which all the world worshiped and went after for they had lost Christ the one head wherein the union stood and grew into Idollitry under the many heads which was upon the Beast who had many hornes which pushed one against another as it is witnessed unto this day doe not the Papists and Protestants so called and other sects risen out of them push one at another to break and teare one another and these have many heads The Pope he is a head and the others they have a head which every one bowes down under his own head the Pope will not bow to the Protestants head nor will the Protestants bow to the Papists head the Presbiterians and Independants and Anibaptists and the rest every one of them bowes to their own head and will not bow to anothers head and all these with their hornes pushes one against another to rend one another and all these are from Christ and knowes not him the one head of the whole body and the one horn of Gods salvation unto all people for Christ which is but one is the head and the horne which all the Saints who are now gathered out of this apostacie and dark night unto whom the Light againe is risen worships Christ the one head and knowes him the one horn which pushes against the Devils Kingdome which hath long been set up and ruled in the earth among all these who have many heads and many hornes who are all of them the very chiefest but in the night fallen in the apostacie and darknesse since the beginning of the reigne of the Beast and the comi●g in of the false Prophet which came in as I have said when the churches backslided with the whore also who have mad● all Nations and people drunk with the wine of her fornic●tion and the Beast hath reigned over all Nations in his dominion and authority and the false Prophet hath prophesied through all nations And all these came in since the dayes of Christ or he prophesied that it should be so as it is come to passe and they were coming in in the dayes of the Apostles as you may read Paul saw them coming and largely describes ●heir character in severall epistles And Peter he saw them coming in and described them what such they were and should be and Jude he saw them also and John more fully then any both in his epistles and revelations as I have hinted at And when the Apostles were taken of the earth some by cruell death and others was banished then they sprung in more fully and grew through all Nations and to this day hath the Beast with his many heads and hornes ruled in Nations and been worshiped and his false prophet hath ever since been defended and riden on the Beast through Nations and hath deceived the Nations with vanity and errour and at this very day the Nations and people are deceived and lies under darknesse in the slavery and bondage under the authority of the Beast and subject to the doctrine of his false Prophets And as I have said darknesse hath been over all and fancies and liknesses without life have been bowed under and the power being lost the forme hath been set up one after this sort and another after that according to mens vaine conceits and apprehensions upon the Scriptures and not according to the manifestation of the Spirit of God which fulfills the Scriptures and brings to live the life of them So in divers colours and in divers appearances and Robes in severall formes and shapes of garments hath the great whore been decked who hath sit upon the Beast haveing the false Prophet serving as a boy or servant to doe whatsoever the whore listeth And the false Prophet this servant to the whore under the power of the Beast hath moved and turned as the Beast would And according as the whore hath changed her selfe into other garments and colours even so hath the false Prophet changed his doctrine and prayers to please the whore and to keepe people under the goverment of the Beast It 's knowne in this our day that some who preached and prayed for the King and Bishops doe now preach and pray for others even for them who destroyed King and Bishops so the false Prophet with all his children is but the whores servant who hath made drunk Kings and Princes and great men and people and Nations with the cup of fornication and abomination in the severall sects and formes of worships which hath been set up without the power of godlinesse for the Babtisme of the Spirit being lost and not known then from the letter by imaginations were severall sorts of Baptisme brought forth as sprinkling of infants that darke folly and vaine vanity which all these Nations have been deceived withall by the exercise of the false Prophet And when the gift of the ministery through the holy ghost which the ministers of Christ had was lost and not any more received Then began men to make Ministers by naturall learning and artes and languages and humane pollicie and when the gift of preaching by the eternall Spirit was lost through the coming in of the Apostacie then began men to study from Books and writings what to preach and say not having the holy ghost received in them which none is a minister of Christ without marke that and when men had lost through ignorance the knowledge of God dwelling in them and that their bodyes was his temple and that he dwelled and walked in his people then began they againe to build Temples without and to set up their false worships in them for having lost the sense of Gods true worship which the Saints worshiped in in the Spirit and in the truth Then they began to worship in set dayes and set times and set places

these are their cursed children which now abounds in these Nations at this day and they are filthy dreamers studying for what they speak and dreaming without the Spirit of God an houre in a Pulpit and what they know it is naturally by naturall learning and naturall arts and in that knowledge they are also corrupted in pride and vaine glory and vanities like bruit Beasts in their apparrell and practises and not like ministers of the Gospel nor Saints and they are in Caines way in envy and murder and wrath abounding no people like them and they doe run greedily after Balaams errour for gifts and rewards and unrighteous wages which they run after greedily and they are trees who brings forth these cursed fruits which will wither and fade away and they are like raging proud waves of the Sea foaming out their shame in lies and slanders and cursed speaking in publick and private and they have no habitation in the firmament of God but are wandering Starres and sometime in one opinion and sometime in another but the blacknesse of darknesse is reserved for them and the judgment of the great day and they are murmurers and complainers and they can never have enough but seekes for their gaine from their quarter as the false Prophets did in Isaiahs time and they have mens persons in admiration because of advantage to themselves bowing and worshiping mens persons who will advantage them in their wages or hire and maintenance begging favour of the Magistrates and having their persons in admiration that they may have their advantage in oppressing poor people in tythes in this their wickednesse is hard to be expressed and these have seperated themselves into selfe seperation some into one forme gathered and some into another but all sensuall and in the wisdome which is from below and without the Spirit of God And thus it is proved that these teachers of this age are of the same ge●eration in their practises which Jude describeth to be creeping in in his time And farther the Apostle John 1. epistle 4. He saw that the false Prophets and Antichrists which Christ prophesied of to come was come in his dayes and said many false Prophets are gone out into the world which is the Spirit of Antichrist whereof you have heard said John and even now already is it in the world and they were of the world and the world heard them and so are this generation of teachers who succeeds them that went forth into the world then these are of the world in its wayes pride and wickednesse covetousnesse and envy and all evill and they that are in the evill of the world in wickednesse heareth them and maintaineth them so that according to Johns description these teachers of this age are of that same flock which came in then and John further saw that all the world was gone after them and worshiped the Beast which was then risen and run after the false Prophet which then came in and fat upon the Beast and its plaine that the world is all run after them untill this day which is a day of bringing back againe from the false Prophet and from under the power of the Beast and the Beast and his image and the false Prophet and his divinations must down to the ground and according as John further prophesied the holy Citywhich had been troden down under the Gentiles feet for such a time should againe be gained and the Saints should have the dominion and the old Dragon should be chained and Christ should reigne and his Kingdome should be set up in the earth and the Tabernacle of God should be with men and this is the day that the Lord is restoring againe the way of peace which long hath been lost and the power of God is againe witnessed which hath not been known for generations So that of things spoken this is the sum of truth and the word of the Lord God to all people on the earth that in the dayes of Christ and the Apostles it was a glorious day of light and life and power and the Lord gathered a people which honoured his name while they stood with him and in his counsell walked but since the dayes of the Apostles hath been an Apostacy and darknesse over all and a subversion upon all and night have been over all wherein no man could work as Christ said and formes without power have been established the pure way of God hath not been known in its purity so that this time wherein all are fallen is a time of ignorance of the reigne of the Beast which all the world hath wandred after and a time wherein the Gentiles feet hath troden down the holy City and a time wherein all the world runs after the false Prophet and are deceived and made drunk with the wine of the whores fornications I say this is the time wherein all the men of this generation are fallen and the Scripture is fulfilled the night wherein no man can work is upon the world and further this is the time of Antichrists dominion which hath exalted himselfe in the seat of God shewing himselfe to be God and long hath he reigned with the Beast and the false Prophet ever since the dayes of the Apostles and these same teachers of this generation which now are in the world are manifest by their fruit to be of that generation of that seed and flock of false Prophets which Christ prophesied of should come in the last time after his dayes and which most of the Apostles saw coming in in their dayes by their fruites I say they are known for these brings forth the same fruites and beares the same markes which they described those did in their time so we see Christs prophesie is fulfilled who said they should come for they are come and the Apostles descriptions are fullfilled on these for these teachers are such as beares the same characters as is proved as they said they should beare that would come and long hath the Nations been deceived and kept under the worship of the Beast running after the false Prophet and we see Johns prophesie is fulfilled who said that the holy City was given to be troden under the feet of the Gentiles for so we see it hath been for many generations and also we know the time is now approaching that the dominion of the Beast is near an end and the holy City shall the Saints possesse and the Gentiles shall be driven out of it according as John said who wrote the last of any of the Apostles and gave full testimony of these things which I have declared of viz. of an Apostacy and reigning of the Beast and false Prophet and a subversion from the wayes of God and this hath been and come to passe also he prophesied of the gaining of the holy City in again to the Saints and of a restoration wherein new Jerusalem should be made manifest from heaven and should againe be adorned as a bride