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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27130	Iacob is become a flame and the house of Esav stubble, or, The battail betwixt Michael and the dragon in which the seed of the woman is bruising the serpents head, and Cain the first birth ... is found the vagabond, and Abel and Abraham ... the friends of God : being a true discovery of the two seeds or births between which the enmity is put, the time and day being come in which the elder must serve the younger : with a few words to the priests, Bishops, Episcopal-men, and professors of this last age, and a short warning to the rulars and inhabitants of the earth.	Bayly, William, d. 1675.	1662 (1662)	Wing B1530; ESTC R27128	18,671	21

and of his Apostles and Prophets in the days past who wandered in Sheep-skins and Goat-skins being destitute and afflicted having no certain dwelling place But if you say nay these are no Vagabonds though Christ had not a place to lay his head on nor Abraham a foot of ground and wandered into a strange Country not knowing whether he went and the Apostles and Patriarks wandered and were in Dens and Caves of the Earth being destitute afflicted and tormented by the wicked men of the World who was not worthy of them having no certaine dwelling place yet these were no Vagabonds but good men Righteous men sincere and holy men of God 4. Qu. Then what is the absolute ground of being a Vagabond seeing these men are no Vagabonds though they have no certaine dwelling place but wandred up and down in the earth and that Cain is a Vagabond though a rich man and builded a Citty 5. Qu. Whether the word Vagabond doth not signifie a seperation or wandring from God who is truth and love or a being banished from his presence by reason of envy murther and rage which seperates from the pure just God For Cain said when he had been wrath and had slain his brother now shall I bee a Vagabond and a fugitive in the Earth and from thy presence shall I be hid mark that and behold every one that findeth me will s ay me so he fled from the presence of the Lord and dwelt in the Land of Nod on the East of Eden where this Murderer built a City a strong hold being afraid every one that found him would kill him mark here the first builder in the Earth was a Vagabond a rich man a persecutor and a Murderer about Sacrifice Gen. 45. 6. Qu. Now whether envy wrath persecution murder cruelty oppression and imprisoning about Sacrifice and Worship be not the very ground and cause of being a Vagabond or seperated from God and not the want of a certaine dwelling place in the Earth Seeing Cain is a Vagabond though he builded a City and Abraham and the Apostles and Prophets and many other holy men of God and Christ are no Vagabonds though they wandred and had no City house or dwelling place in the Earth or so much ground as to set their foot or to lay their head on 7. Qu. Whether God hath not chosen the poor of this world rich in faith and heires of his everlasting Kingdome and whether the rich men that did oppress them and draw them before Iudgements seats were not the blasphemers and such as tormented and afflicted them in envy ambition and wrath were not the Vagabonds seeing such things seperates from God and hides his presence from them 8. Qu. Whether Lazarus was a Vagabond who was very poor and lay begging at the rich mans Gate where the Dogs came in more love then their owner ticking his sores or whether this hard hearted Rich man was not the Vagabond seeing he was cast into Hell torments where he was seperated with a great Gulf from the presence and Glory of Gods love for ever and Lazarus the begger carried into Abrahams bosome the friend of God by an Angel being comforted and the other who lived in pleasures unrighteousness and deliciousness every day in his life time tormented Luke 16. He that hath an ear to hear let him hear Now seeing Cain is a Vagabond being in the wrath envy transgression the ground of it Let us search the line of true Iudgement yet further and see if we can finde more rich men to be Vagabonds and Blasphemers though they have Citys like Cain or habitations in the Earth 9. Qu. Whether Ishmael the wild man the mocke and scoffer was not cast out of Abrahams house the freind of God into whose bosom the poor man Lazarus was carried and whether he was not seperated by his wildness mocking and enmity whose hand was against every man and every mans hand against him from the presence of God and was a Vagabond seeing the word Vagabond signifies a seperation or being driven from or cast out of Gods presence 10. Qu. Whether Esau the cunning Hunter the prophane person was not a Vagabond seeing he sould his Birth-right for a mess of Pottage and lost the blessing and afterwards sought a place of Repentance but could not finde it but was rejected though he sought it carefully with tears consider this ye prophane and ungodly ones whose pleasures and treasures are in this life out of whose Loyns came the Dukes of Edom and twelve Princes from the Loynes of Ishmael the wild man the mocker and scoffer who was cast out of Abrahams house and these had Towns and Castles like their brother Cain and great possessions in the Earth Gen. 21.9 25.16 36.40 H●b 12.16 11. Qu. Whether such as are in the envious wrathful wild mocking and scoffing nature Now and are prophane persons cunningly hunting Now and persecuting and afflicting about Sacrifice Now and drawing the poor of this world wh are chosen rich in faith and heirs of Gods Kingdome before the Iudgement seats Now Whether these are not the Blasphemers Vagabonds and seperated from Gods presence Now in this state though they may be great and rich in this world as the Princes of Ishmael Cain and the Dukes of Edom seeing God hath chosen the poor of this world rich in fai h and heirs of his Kingdom without end from which Cain was a Vagabond though he builded a City and called it after the name of his son Gen. 4.17 THerefore hearken all you Kings Rulers Governours and people upon earth and take heed you do not persecute and imprison or abuse the servants and Children of the most high God wherever they come in your Dominions or Countrys under the name of Vagabonds wanderers or Idle persons or the like who come in love to your souls And be you warned that you hurt not them who do no evil I charge you in the name of the dreadful God that made heaven and earth least you bring Innocent blood upon your own heads and as you will answer it in the terrible day at hand for the Almighty God is no respecter of persons who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords neither doth poverty or riches in this world make a Vagabond or keep from being a Vagabond for they were no Vagabonds who had here no continuing City but sought one to come whose builder maker is God though they wandered about in sheep skins Goat skins in Dens Caves of the earth yet these were no Vagabonds but had a habitation in God of whom they obtained a good report through faith and were blessed of whom the world was not worthy And if any of us who are of the same seed and generation and built upon the same foundation Christ Jesus the Light that lighteth every man who was hated scorned derided and drawn from prison to Judgement I say if any of us who declare his Generation now by afflictions

worship and practises life and conversation of his servants and Children from the beginning to this day First consider there are but two seeds in the whole Creation between which emnity is put and are obsolute contrary in Nature fruits and effects that is the seed of the Serpent And the seed of the Woman which is Christ in his people the same to day yesterday and for ever the Imanuel who is now coming in ten thousands of thousands of his Saints called Quakers who tremble at his word for they are the people that shall spring up and spread from the Root of Iesse over the face of the whole Earth through the vertue and power of this seed Christ Jesus whose fruits and effects is Love meekness patience temperance mercy fulness justness soberness righteousness holiness peace and joy in the eternal power and spirit of the pure God doing to all men as they would they should do to them these and such like are the fruits of the tree of this seed of the Woman Christ which must bruise the head of the Serpent whose seed brings forth contrary fruits and effects in every particular though in some things it might imitate the Righteous seed as Cain did in matter of sacrifice or worship or the like but still it s from another seed root and ground which is acursed for said God cursed is the ground for thy sake mark that the ground not the simple earth which is good but the ground of envy murder and wickedness that had opened his mouth in him to swallow up his brothers blood from which it cryes against him and his generation of murderers about sacrifice and worship at this day and for ever so this is the other seed whose fruits and effects are manifest as saith the Scriptures even the seed of the fleshly Birth which persecutes the birth born of the Spirit of the living God which are these envy pride wrath malice striffe anger highmindedness frowardness bitterness uncleaness laciviousness covetousness drunkeness wantoness revellings rioting emulations witchcraft hatred heresies Idolatry injustice partiallity and hipocrisy these and such like are the fruits and effects of the Serpents seed which hath spread as a great tree of wickedness over the whole earth and is that cursed one that hath so long cumbred the ground And these are also the Children of Babylon the great Whore which hath Reigned over the Nations and Kings of the Earth happy is the man that dasheth these against the stone Christ Jesus the light that discovers them and these are those wares costliness pretious things of Babylon even the fruits and pleasures of sin the glory riches worships and beloved practises of iniquity which proceeds from this seed of falsehood satisfying a ground that is accursed for ever Therefore saith God come out of Babylon my people pertake not of her sins or fruits that ye be not pertakers of her plagues And now is the day come in which Babylon shall receive at the hand of the Almighty the Cup of the wine of his fury and indignation without mixture and shall drink the dregs thereof and wring them out and all her Marchants that have lived deliciously and delighted in her wares and costliness and traded with her shall houl wail and lament beholding the smoak of her torments which ascends up for ever and ever Hear this you superstitious and Idolatrous Priests Bishops and Hirelings for the foolish woman whose feet are not in her house but is without loud stubborn and clamourous is now pulling down her own house with her hands mark that by her own ungodly actions wicked words and practises slanders persecutions and greivous abominations even pulling or drawing down the just judgements plagues and eternal vengeance of the righteous God upon her own head he that reads let him understand for the time is at hand therefore consider all ye that live in enmity against the harmless seed and people this day are not you in pride which is abomination to God and Ambition and Covetousness which is Idolatry and love pleasures and vanities lusts of uncleanness deceit and flattery more then the pure living God of truth and righteousness and are not you in the stoutheartedness disdainfulness feignedness and Hypocrisy dissimulation and all manner of wickedness and are not you become the hold of every foul spirit and cage of unclean and hateful birds read your state and do not strive against that that lets you see it nor say no by any pretence or covering for the dreadful God hath found you out and his judgements and vengeance is your portion and the great day of the Lamb is come in which you are not able to stand This is the ground of your rage seeing you have but a short time as it is written the wicked cannot stand in the judgement nor sinners in the Congregation of the Righteous Therefore hearken all ye who are in the Babilonish Garments the night attire of the great Whore the Almighty strong and powerful God of Heaven and Earth is stripping and making her bare and naked as in the day in which she was borne to the the view of all Nations Men and Angels for the hour of her judgements is come her sins have reached to heaven and are come into the remembrance before God even her envy and rage scorning and disdaining persecuting and cruelty lusts and pleasures and vanities and all manner of Injustice iniquity and ungodliness flattering and deceitful titles ambition dissimulation Hypocrisy and Idolatry and the like abominations this is also the tongue of the Egyptian Sea which God Almighty of Heaven will shortly dry up that people may goe over dry-shod he that hath an ear let him hear and understand the day hastens yea it cometh swiftly in which righteous just sober and godly men and people shall walk with boldness with comfort and courage in the waies of holiness uprightness and truth in all the Nations of the earth or else the Lord God hath never spoken by me which I know he hath and will perform it Therefore tremble ye careless daughters that are at ease walking haughtily with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes howl howl and weep bitterly ye light puft up and vainglorious men and women the day of your calamity cometh on like an armed man and you shall not escape and upon all you that cry out against the children and servants of the most high God saying they will not obey Magistrates nor reverence such as are in Authority nor respect and honour Superiors nor be subject to the Kings Laws but are proud and wilful stubborn and disobedient and will not worship as we worship nor admire mens persons though they might have advantage by it Hear now my answer ye people whose portion is in this life who are of the houshould and stock of Esau the prophane person whose house is now as Stubble The God of heaven by his dreadful and Almighty power and Judgements hath broken in upon us

and laid low the haughtiness and hewed down the tree of wickedness and unrighteousness in us from whence these evil fruits before mentioned proceeded and hath redeemed us from our vain conversation in which we were as other Gentiles walking in the vanitys of our minds in the Lusts of Ignorance and hath raised up by the same power a seed of his own begetting in us having cast out the heathen in us that knew not God and prepared roome for his own Life and power and wisdome which is foolishness to the world to take possession of our hearts and consciences for ever to which our souls are subject knowing him to be the higher power who hath put down all Rule and all Authority in us which was contrary to him who is now become our King and our Law-giver Teacher and Saviour which no man can remove from us into a corner and we are led and guided by his spirit who is the wonderful Counsellour the mighty God the Prince of peace and are not Rebellious wilful or stubborn neither to God nor man in what is manifest to be his will concerning us And as for Magistrates and such as are in the Authority and power of God as was Moses and such men fearing God hating covetousness injustice and unrighteousness we dearly own and honour in the Lord even such as are punishers of evil doers favourers and encouragers of them that do well these are Magistrats in Gods behalfe bearing the Sword of Justice and true Judgement and not in vain being in the power and wisdome of God a terrour to evil doers and a praise to them that do well these are worthy of honour these rule well these answer the witness of God in all people these Judge Righteously equally and justly without partiallity in the fear and dread and domion of God having respect to him and his honour only in what they do not seeking their own honour which would perish but in meekness soberness and soundness of minde and Judgement without respect of persons judging between man and man being able to discerne the ground of all causes and controversies in the Light and Counsel of God whose servants they are mark that these are Magistrats not every one that beareth that name no more then all that profess Christ in words are Christians who can say Lord Lord and we are Christians and we love God when they hate the light his own witness in them and walk in darkness being Lyers and Hypocrits for none are Christians really and in Gods sight but they that follow Christ in the Regeneration being borne again through the strength and power and vertue of his own life and spirit being guided by it out of all unrighteousness into holiness righteousness and truth for they that say they are Christians and are not are Lyers and of the Synagoge of Satan whose will and works they do even they it is that bear the name of Magistrates and are not really so Now Magistrates are not a terrour to good works but to the evil mark that but such as have been and yet are so called in England New and Old have been and yet are a terrour to good works contrary to the end and will of God government on Earth and the very word Magistrate so that such are but like them that said they were Jews and were not but of the Synagogue and generation of him who hath been a lyer from the beginning for this I testifie in the Lord without respect of persons that such are not Magistrates ordained by him that are out of his fear and those good properties and qualities before mentioned though they may be rich and great men in the earth as Cain Esau and Haman were yet are like the Preists that bear rule by their means and not by the power wisdome and mercy of God who will rage and fume and storme like a wild Bull in a net before they have heard the causes and controversies of such as are brought before them because the spirit of Pride and Ambition which is of the Devil is not bowed unto and will imprison people right or wrong without breach of any just Law of God or man these are not Magistrates but evil doers and Magistrates are for the punishing of evil doers neither is that a just Law but an unrighteous decree which is made to be a terrour to good works and an encouragement to evil doers this is turning Judgment into Gall and Righteousness into Hemlock and the Sword backwards Consider these things for with them God is not pleased who beholds the prey that is made on them that depart from iniquity in the Land For such do well and are not evil doers who meet together in the fear of the true God to wait upon him in the light of his counsel by it to be guided into all truth through the knowledge of his will concerning them and their salvation that so they may serve God in his holy way acceptably all the daies of their life with reverence and godly fear for our God is a consuming fire and he or she that bears witness in the spirit of truth and power of righteousness against Pride Idolaty Popery or superstition or any other ungodly lusts deceit or hypocricy as preaching for money or Judging for rewards and such like Injustice Oppression and cruelty or any of the fruits of the corrupt tree which God is hewing down for the fire I say that man or woman boy or girle of the streets of Ierusalem that so doth as afore mentioned in the name of the Lord doth well and they that abuse them for so doing doth evil and God shall require it at their hands for he or she that stands a witness in the power and wisdome of God which is the higher power against the fleshly lusts which warr against the soul is in so doing the souls freind he that can hear let him him hear for to the higher power which was before the lusts and wills of men or the powers of darkness Death Hell and transgression the lower condemned power was are we subject and this seed or life which God hath raised in us who at this day are called Quakers cannot bow down to the Devil the lower power nor worship that spirit of Pride enmity ambition and wickedness which God hath determined to destroy root and branch and them that live in and worship it for it is the Image of the old Serpent the Devil and destroyer of mankind to which the pure Image or son of the living God could never bow but was always a sufferer for a season under its enmity and cruelty as may be seen throughout all ages to this day for it is no new thing to see him that is born after the flesh oppress and persecute him that is born after the spirit for it began at Abel even about sacrifice and is the same at this day for whatsoever you may say and profess in words Cain could also talk