TO YOU THAT ARE CALLED ANABAPTISTS IN THE NATION OF IRELAND Teachers and People, who profess yourselves to be the Church of Christ; This is the word of the Lord God unto You.  
YOu are gathered and not in the Spirit of Jesus, nor in the Light of Christ, nor in the power of God; you are separated but not in the truth, nor in the ground, for the defiled and uncircumcised nature of the world stands alive in you, & you are in the uncrucified estate, in the dominion of death, & under the power of sin: pride, covetousness, hypocrisy, vainglory, and the works of the flesh abound among you; to the Light in you which Christ hath lightened you with all, I do speak, which shall bear witness for me herein; and against you in the day of the Lord which suddenly comes upon you and all the world, who are not in the Light and power of God: you are bowing down to the image in the feigned hypocrisy, of what the Saints enjoyed and witnessed in the life & power of God: you never came truly through the ministration of Moses which reveals wrath upon the uncircumcised, nor you never came to the ministration of John, who is a burning Light and brings down the mountains, and prepares the way of the Lord before his face, but you are in your taken out observances from the Letter, as the Jews were, but gainsays and opposes the life of God as they did, and in that nature you stand which put Christ to death, who doth not own the Light whereby he lighteth every man that comes into the world, though him & his words and Ordinances you profess, and performs your own imitations, in your fleshly wills, and not the worship of God in the Spirit, and in the truth, for the truth you are strangers too: which the devil nor the wicked abides not in, and are alienated in your minds from the way and council of the living God, and hath but the name that you live; and are dead in trespasses & in sins, and the image of God doth not live in you, and you have but the form of godliness in your sensual understandings, in that wisdom which is devilish; & your dead minds are exercised in the form without the power, in vain shows in set days and in set observances, glorying in the flesh, seeking and receiving praise of men, and is but as the Jew, outward whose house of worship and sacrifice is left desolate and you know not the pure movings and leadings of the pure spirit of the Lord God to rule you, and to teach you in the way of peace, because you do not believe in the Light which Christ Jesus hath lightened you and every man in the world withal, but doth gainsay it, and strive against it, in your high thoughts, and Imaginations to your own condemnation in the sight of God: who are wise in your own conceits, and Righteous in your own Eye, and measures yourselves and not with the rule of Judgement. But this is the condemnation of you, & all the world that light is come & hath shined in your dark hearts, but darkness and the works thereof is loved rather than the light, you say you are not of the world; but what do you differ from it, in Doctrine, or in Worship, or in Conversation: doth not pride and vanity, and self seeking, rule in many of you? yea, to your shame might I mention the abominations which I have seen among you; who often beheld your devotions, to the unknown God, and was an Eye witness of your Idolitries, and even while you professed to be gathered out of the world, you are wallowing in its filthiness, and drinking deeply of its pollutions, in envy, in wrath, and in bitterness, and in all evil, not like members of the body of Christ; but may justly be Judged many of you to be the synagogues of Satan; who say you are members of Christ and are not, for you are tried and are found wanting before the Lord, and your Pastors & Teachers, they go before you and are examples in Iniquity, unto you, and are guilty of your transgression, and you of theirs, for you hold them up, and loves to have these things so; and they through lies, and lightness causes you to err.  
And so the blind leads the blind till you both fall into the ditch of perdition: and they may be ashamed, of you who are in ignorance, and blindness of heart, w●o have not learned the way of truth and righteousness, nor come to the knowledge of God; nor denied yourselves and sins, and you may be ashamed of them, who are as they that feed themselves with the fat, and not the flock, & that through Covetousness by feigned words, makes merchandise of souls: and goes for gifts, and rewards, as Balaam, and while they condemn others for hirelings, are manifold guilty themselves therein, & to be Condemned & Judged, with the Light of Christ Jesus; witness some of your chiefest Pastors and Teachers, at Dublin, at Limbricke, and at Cork, and at many places else where in Ireland; some having a hundred pounds a year, & others more or less, to their shame let this be told, and to their Condemnation in the Light of God, & all that know him who are hypocritical in crying against others for that whereof themselves are guilty, and are an ill savour and a reproach to some of their own Brethren; and a shame to Religion and to all that profess faith in the gospel of Christ; and are out of the example, of all the apostles and Ministers of Christ: who freely received and freely gave, and did not seek and receive maintenance from the powers of the Earth, but Preached the gospel, and lived of the gospel, & eat of the fruit of the vineyard which they had planted. But your Pastors are in the example of the false Brethren, who taught for filthy Lucar and with feigned words beguiled the simple, and while you have been zealous to pull drown the episcopal Priests; you have exalted yourselves in their seats, some of you in the same Temples; with Large additions (by oppressions) to their maintenances, and hath the wages of unrighteousness as Balaam, and goes for gifts & rewards; and is not this a shame to you to be laid to your charge, appearing more vile in deep hypocrisy than your predecessors, in public profaneness; to the Light in your Consciences I speak, which shall witness this to be true in the presence of God, who Condemns all your works and worships in that nature acted: who worships in your carnal minds, in the Idols temples, some of you as the Priests of the world do, upholding the worship of the beast, under another name, & you are as bitter and envious, in blind zeal as the profane world: against any that differs from you in judgement, or that comes among you to declare the word of the Lord; witness at Dublin, Kilkenny, Cork, and else where, where the Servants of the Lord were halled out of your Assemblies and evil entreated, with mockings and cruel words, to your shame for ever may this be rehearsed: who while you profess a separation from the world, are one with it in wickedness, as in lying, slandering, false accusing, reproaching and promise breaking, witness at Waterford and else where; whose lies and evil speeches, might evidently be declared, to your shame, and of those with many other of your Abominations, which I have seen in you, I am a witness against, and your Iniquities are not found upon secret search only: but openly in all those things, & hereby in the presents of the living God I do warn you, of the righteous Judgements of the Just God, who hath seen and taken notice of your hypocrisy & naughtyness, and desemulation with God and Men, and that uprightness which once was in you, have you betrayed for self ends and earthly interests, & have set up yourselves in places of honour, and are not in the light nor life of God, but enemies to the light of Jesus Christ; where with he lighteth every man that comes into the world; & you are out of Church order, in the confusion of your own hearts, in divers opinions, and not of one heart and mind, but stumbles at the light; and rejects the foundation, and hath hearts and cannot understand: your understandings being shut up from the knowledge of the truth, gainsaying the council of the Lord in your sensual wisdom, and opposing the way of truth to your own confounding, witness at Waterford, Cork, and other places, where some of you were taken in your own craftiness, to your shame, when you set yourselves against the Lord, and joined yourselves with the wicked, & be came one with the Priests, in opposing the life and power of truth, as Herod and Pilot, became friends in the persecuting of Jesus; where you uttered forth much blindness, and perverted the Scriptures to your own Confoundings, as many can witness, now these things I write, not altogether to shame you, but rather to reprove them in you; that you may read and Consider, and repent and may turn from your dead idol worship, and hypocritical Teachers and false ways, to serve and worship the Living God in the newness of the spirit, and in the power of truth in itself, and no more may seek the kingdom of God in observances, for it comes not with outward observances saith Christ: but the Kingdom of Heaven is within you, to be revealed in the light and truth in all that believe in the light of the world.  
Therefore be cause you are gathered together, and not by the spirit of the Lord, nor in the Light, you shall be broken and your altars of Immittations, and vain Traditions, shall be thrown down and you into Confusion shall be turned, for you have the Saints words, and practices, but the life you are without; and the spirit that gave forth the Scriptures you have not received, with which the Scripture is only understood: but you take on things in your own wills, and performs a sacrifice which is not regarded of the Lord.  
How proud are some of you, and how vain glorious, and how covetous and self seeking, of the glory of this world, giving and seeking honour of men, not like members of Christ's body, but of an harlot; not like them that take up the daily Cross of Christ, or that deny the world: but as them that seek after it; and lays up Treasure in it, who seeks the praises of men, as much as the praise of God; And gives and receives honour one of another; as the Gentiles, and seeks not the honour that comes from God only; and so are out of the Covenant of Life, and out of the bond of Peace, in strife & contention, and false opinions, and Judgements, and out of the power of God in the form and Likeness of things without Life, professing the Scriptures in the spirit of Error, and your Ministry be gets into the form and not into the power of Righteousness, and differs not from the ministry of the world in the ground, but is death and reaps not the Life, to bring any unto God.  
Woe unto you hippocrits, the mighty day of the Lord, is coming upon you, and your desolation comes as an armed man, the witness of God in your Consciences is mine, and to it I speak, it bears my voice and shall answer for me, and against you, in the day of recompense, therefore to the light of Christ Jesus, which he hath given you, turn in your minds, your works of darkness it will reprove and make manifest, and be not stout hearted neither count yourselves unworthy of eternal life: come down and sit in the dust, and cease from your Idols, and from your imitations, and lay down your crowns at the feet of Jesus; who is the Light of the world, and lighteth every man that comes into the World; if you love it▪ you will bring your deeds to it; it will let you see your own Conditions, into which you are fallen from the Life of God, through disobedience and are in the transgression and not reconciled to God; for that enmity stands in you against him, above the seed of God, & the daily Cross you do despise, and are in your pleasures and vanities, and knows not the Covenant of peace and rest, where the Saints dwell; wherefore bow down your uncircumsised ear, to the Light▪ and let the Lord God search your hearts with his Light, and it will discover to you the way in which you ought to walk; and that which you ought to deny: And this Light is your way to Christ and to the baptism of Christ, where the clean water is received, which washeth a way Sin, and the bread of Life is received which nurisheth up unto God, and unto eternal Life; & in the Light you will receive the true satisfaction to your souls, and of the Lord you will receive teaching, in the spirit from him; who is that Minister of the Covenant of Life, and here is your way out of the world; and into the pure separation from its ways, and works, and nature, into the fellowship of Christ Jesus: and one with another which is in the Light, and in the truth, which no unclean thing hath any part in; But the Liars, and the proud, and the Covetous, and the vain glorious, shall have their portion in the Lake, that burns in the Indignation of God▪  
Wherefore, awake awake, ye that sleep in the dark night of Ignorance; hear ye deaf, and look ye blind, the day of the Lord cometh upon you, and the precious from the Vile will he separate; by his everlasting word of Judgement, and in Love to all your souls; This is a warning from the Lord and is the word of the Lord God unto you, whether you will hear or forbear, and with the Light in all your Consciences, this shall be witnessed when your Judgement is read, and remember you are warned in your life time.  
By a friend and Lover of all your souls, but a witness against all your deceits. E: Burrough.