A trumpet of the Lord sounded out of Sion which gives a certaine sound in the eares of all nations and is a true noyse of a fearfull earthquake at hand which shall shake the whole fabrick of the earth ... with a salutation to the seed who are gathered into the fold and with the children of the king ... / by one whose name is truly known by the children of the same birth ... Edward Burrough.

To all you that are called Anaba∣ptists.

VVIth you also is the controversie of the Lord, for you are children of the same seed, more purged in the fire of blind zeal, and begotten in the transforming of the Serpent, into more secret hypocrisie, and deeper subtilty, your covering being larger, the greater deceit and abomination lodges under, Death reigns among you, and your Kingdom is scituate in the mountains of exalta∣tion, and you feed abundantly in the Vallies of Pride and Vain-glory, and are nourished with the bread of prospe∣rity, you are grown high and great in your number, and have joyned your selves for advantage, and glories in your strength, having through Policy and Craft, and bowing to the Beastly power, highly exalted your own Horn, and and by Flattery have gained much of your Dominion, which you hold in possession by the Law of guil, many

simple ones hath by your curious colour, and bed of fair pretenses been deceived to commit Adultery with your Image brought forth in the likeness of the Saints God: By Imagination from the Saints words you worship the practise and exercise of the Saints, with the same mind that the Papists do worship their Names and Days; You allow not Idols without, nor a vain conversation in the world, but you are strict in observation in your outward conformity, in your self-righteousness, which is your greatest sin; you are clothed with the Saints words and practises, which you have climed up in your own wills to obtain, not having entred in by the door, and while you say you eat and drink the Flesh and Blood of Christ in the Saints manner, shewing forth his death till he come to salvation, you kill him as the Heathens do, till he appear unto condemnation, and you shew forth daylie that you crucifie him in the world, eating and drinking to your selves condemnation; you say Christ died only for you as elect, but your works makes manifest, that he dies by you as Reprobate; you take up a command from the Letter, and imitates the Apostles (some of you in a low∣er, and some of you in a higher degree) in that mind and nature which in the Apostles was crucified; and you say Christ commands it, when the Letter doth but declare it. and you are not led with the same light, which gave forth the commands declared to observe them, but saith in such a verse of such a chapter such a command is, not having received the command by the same Spitit. Here you are proved to be them which use your Tongue, and saith, he saith it, when God hath not spoken unto you, but as you read it without you, as the false Prophets might do the words of the true Prophets; and thus you are in the Witchcraft as they were, Gal. 3. who takes on things in your own wills, and observe commands without from the Letter, thereby drawing from the teachings of God within by the Spirit, you are zealous as they were for the Traditions and Figures, and cannot see him, which

is the end of all that which perisheth with the using, so you are not dead with Christ from the world, who are yet subject to Ordinances which is of the world; They that obeyed Christ and followed him, was led by the Spirit, and not by the Letter; for they were not Mini∣sters of the Letter, but of the Spirit; and such were judged to be in errour; and this is your condition, who saith such are breakers of Christ's commands and makers vold of the Scripture, and destroyers of the Ordinances, who witnesseth Christ the substance, and him to be King, and Judge, and Law-giver, and in whom, and upon whom the Scripture is fulfilled, and so it established, and the commands of Christ kept, which are in Spirit, and his Law daylie walked in, which condemneth sin. And this is not contrary to the Scripture, but a fulfilling of it in Principles, in Doctrines, and in Practise and Conver∣sation: The Apostles was sent to preach the Gospel to every creature, and they were all led by the same Spirit, and did not go before it in their own wills▪ as you do, neither did one go from the command which had been given to another, using anothers words, and exercising themselves in anothers practises, when the Lord had not commanded; But such they bare witness against which did use their Tongue and transform themselves into the likeness of true Prophets, and Apostles, as you have done, and are in the love of the world, and only sepa∣rated in the appearance, and not in the ground: You stumble at the light, and therefore knows not the door of entrance, nor where the commands of Christ is to be received, and the Will of God to you is to be known; and so your obedience is the conformity in your own wills, to that which was the Will of God to another: This Sacrifice is also lame and blind, and God saith to you, Who hath required this at your hand? For 〈◊〉〈◊〉 you have observed and done all those things which the Declaration of the Law and Gospel

doth require, you are unprofitable servants; and yet one thing do you lack, the Dying with Christ, and the Sufferings and Cross of Christ is not known, but in the liberty of the flesh you are, and not in the condition of the Promise to Life eternal. Friends, You have run into the Form of Godliness without the Power; into a Church which is not in God, but of the World; into a Baptism which doth not wash away sin; for you live in sin, and pleads for it, while you live upon Earth; into a Communion which is not with God, which no unclean can enter into: for the Proud and Covetous partakes with you, and while some of you have said that they that preached for hire, have been Antichristian, you your selves are fallen into the same abomination, taking gifts and rewards, and large sums of money, and upholding such who doth it; Here you are unjust to your own Principle, and are for condemnation with the light in your Conscience. Let shame cover your heads, ye Hypocrites; your covering will not hide you, nor your high talking of Christ without you, so long pro∣fessed by you, will not justifie you, while you are found disobeying this Light in your Consciences; which light is one with God, with Christ, and with the Spirit in its measure, and it doth convince you of sin, and is a command to you, and would lead you (if you walked in it) from all Iniquity, which is the will of God to you; and to that mind which is carnal, which ruleth in you, the commands of Christ which are spiritual, is nor given, nor can be received; bye saith. Lo here, and lo there Christ is to be found 〈…〉〈…〉 the Light you are comprehended, which if the least measure of it you did own, it would lead you to the Baptism inward of the heart, and to the Church which is in God, whereof Christ is Head in every 〈…〉〈…〉 and into the Communion with God▪ and to follow

the Lamb of God wheresoever he goeth, and out of your imitations, and likenesses, and strife, and conten∣tion about the words given forth from the Spirit, who are in your own Unity, in Division, and several mean∣ings, and divers constructions, and Judgements, and several ways of Obedience, and Worships, and Be∣lief, which by your Imaginations you draw from the Scripture, which is the Declaration but of one God, and one Truth, of one Obedience, and of one Faith, and thus you exalt the great Image of many mixtures: your selves being a chief member of his Body: You say the Scripture is your Rule, but are divided into Opinions and Conceits, contrary to the Scripture, every one worshipping that which you Imagine from the Scripture, not being in the unity of the Spirit, which gave forth the Scripture, which is one, and not divided in Obedience, Worship, or Faith; and while you say the Scripture is your Rule, your lives are squared by the Spirit of the Divel, and hewen out into Pride and Hypocrisie, and love of the world: