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life_n	believe_v	jesus_n	lord_n	8,211	5	3.8236	3	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96396	Jacob found in a desert land: or, A recovery of the lost out of the loss (truly manifested;) wherein is discovered the work of the Lord in the creature, and how I travelled through the night of thick darkness, which hath over spread the whole world; and of my deliverance out of darkness into the true Light and truth: wherein is witness my heavenly call into the ministry of the everlasting truth. / Given forth for the everlasting name of the Lord sake, and for their sakes, who desire to know the truth, and how I came into the truth; that they that can believe it may receive some satisfaction, (out of which all despisers and unbelievers are excluded.) By a witness of the same in life and testimony, who am a sufferer for the pure seed sake, who am known to the sons of men by the name of George Whitehead; in contempt, by the generation of despisers, called, a Quaker. With a few words to them who have any desires left in them to know the truth, whether they be in forms of profession, or out of forms, that they may see themselves, and return from their evil. Also a voyce of the thunder of the Lord from his holy temple, uttered forth to the inhabitants of the earth, who are in the Army of the Dragon (whether rulers, teachers or people.).	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1656 (1656)	Wing W1936; Thomason E889_1; ESTC R204021	15,111	22

than the form of godliness in words and many of you scarce to the true form you are in the many opinions and sects and vain contendings and with that spirit you contend which is out of the truth and which is ignorant of the Life that gave forth the Scriptures and here there are so many opinions and differences that poor ignorant people knows not what way to chuse nor which is the truth you are the unstable minded and you are in your own wils which are contrary to the Light and to the Saints conditions you are strangers and have nothing to do to talk or dispute about the Saints 2 Pet. 1 21. and what they spoak as they were moved by the Spirit of Truth and were in the Life of what they spoak and knew him 1 Cor. 14.33 who is not the Author of confusion and contention nor strife but of peace and they knew him to be the life and substance of all figures and types and he hath abolished in the flesh Eph. 2.15 the Law contained in Ordinances for to make in himself of twain one new man so making peace Gal. 4. but you that are turned from the light and do live in your carnal imaginations and conceivings and rudiments and beggerly elements of the world Col. 2.20 and carnally have been imagining to find or meet with Christ there you are strangers to the knowledge of God and his Law within you you disobey and reject so all your profession and all your duties and will-worships the Lords denies and the light condemns them and there you find no peace for that light which condemns you for your erring from the pure Law of God it pursues you and brings trouble upon you and shews you darkness and that you are short in life of what you profess in words and though you profess that Christ died for you and that he hath born your iniquities yet the Light will let you see that you are not dead with Christ as he was to the flesh the world and the devil who entered not into temptation and so you are alive in your sins and the bloud of Christ you trample in Phil. 3.10 and are enemies to his cross whose minds are earthly and so your iniquities are upon your selves and Christ is not guilty of them nor of your bloud but his death and suffering witnesseth against you and whose sins Christ hath nailed to his cross they are crucified and blotted out and neither the action nor the guilt of sin remains in such and whose sins Christ takes upon him and nails to his Cross Rom. 6.2 1 Pet. 2.24 it is that they being dead unto sin may live no longer therein and it is such that have right in the death of Christ and suffer with him and take up the Cross and deny themselves and follow him But thou who in words professes Christ and his death for thee examine thy self and see how far thou obeys his doctrine and takes up the Cross He commanded to love thy neighbour as thy self Math. 5. and to his he said do good to them that hate you and he said swear not at all and in all your communications let your yea be yea and your nay be nay see how far thou canst own this in life and practises and if a man smite thee on the one cheek turn to him the other also and if a man sue thee at Law and take away thy coat let him have thy cloak also and he that taketh away thy goods Luke 6.30 ask them not again and be ye perfect as your Father which is in heaven is perfect But there is much reasonings against these things by the Children of disobedience who disobey Christ and walk contrary to his doctrine for self and for self-ends though in words they may profess Christ and say they desire to follow him but all such are shut out of the Scripture and Life of Christ and condemned with the righteous Law which was added because of transgression Gal. 3.19 which Christ came to fulfil and not to destroy and he that transgresseth any of the least of his Commandements is guilty of all and he that transgresseth and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ hath not God and he that saith he loveth him 1 John 9. and keepeth not his Commandements is a liar and he that saith he abideth in Christ ought also to walk as he walked so with the Light all the world and its profession is seen and judged and condemned therefore all you in whom there is any desires after the living God come out of the world to the true Light wherewith you are enlightened and profess nothing but what you live the life of least you be found in hypocrisie and with the hypocrites and dissemblers you be rewarded in the fierceness of the wrath of God Now you are warned repent and bring forth fruits meet for repentance and amendment of light for you all have a light from Christ wherein if you believe and love it and as it arises wait in it and here you will know the way to life and know your Teacher to be the Lord who hath given you a light to guide your feet into the path of life and rest for your souls and to know your Redeemer living Christ Jesus and to deny the worlds Teachers and worships and profession which are all witnessed against by Christ Jesus Mat. 25.30 Rom. 2.5 6. and by them whom he hath chosen out of the world which light if you hate it and love darkness better it will be your condemnation from God and from his knowledge and from his Children and Saints in Light and utter darkness will be upon you who go on in hatred against the Light and there your torment and misery will be exceeding great and you will know that God is clear when he Judges you and executes his fierce wrath upon you which the wicked cannot escape G. W. A Voyce of the Thunder of the Lord from his holy Temple uttered forth to the Inhabitants of the Earth who are in the Army of the Dragon whether Rulers Teachers or People O All ye Inhabitants of the Earth high and low rich and poor great and small who lives without the fear of God in the fall and take pleasure in your unrighteousness and will not submit your selves unto the Scepter of Righteousness nor come under Christs government but set your selves against the way of Righteousness in the enmity of the Dragon that old Serpent and with the Beast who hath his power and seat from the Dragon sets your selves to make war against the Lamb of God and his elect the terrible day of the Lord is proclaimed against you a day of the Trumpet of the Lord which is sounding forth against you a day of war and controversie with you Inhabitants of the Earth who live in carelesness and prophaness who sport your selves in the day time you heady high minded

IACOB found in a desert Land OR A RECOVERY Of the Lost out of the Loss truly manifested Wherein is discovered the work of the Lord in the Creature and how I travelled through the night of thick darkness which hath over spread the whole world and of my deliverance out of darkness into the true Light and Truth Wherein is witness my heavenly Call into the Ministry of the everlasting Truth Given forth for the everlasting Name of the Lord sake and for their sakes who desire to know the Truth and how I came into the Truth that they that can believe it may receive some satisfaction out of which all despisers and unbelievers are excluded By a witness of the same in Life and Testimony who am a sufferer for the pure Seed sake who am known to the sons of men by the name of George Whitehead in contempt by the generation of despisers called a QUAKER With a few words to them who have any desires left in them to know the Truth whether they be in forms of profession or out of forms that they may see themselves and return from their evil Also a Voyce of the Thunder of the Lord from his holy Temple uttered forth to the Inhabitants of the Earth who are in the Army of the Dragon whether Rulers Teachers or People LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert and are to be sold at the Black Spread-Eagle at the West-End of Pauls 1656. IACOB found in a desert Land Or a Recovery of the Lost out of the Loss Deut. 32.10 11 12. truly manifested wherein is discovered the work of the Lord in the Creature and how I travelled through the night of thick darkness which hath over spread the whole world and of my deliverance out of darkness into the true Light and Truth wherein is witnessed my heavenly Call into the Ministry of the everlasting Truth BEhold the wonderous work of the Lord God what he hath done for me according to his own purpose through his eternal love and free-grace to me ward in bringing his Seed to Immortality and my soul from under the powers of death hell and the grave and restoring the Creature into the Covenant of his seed and bringing it from under the bondage of corruption which for several years together I was under and subject to vanity and my heart was led astray from the living God and I lived without the fear of God according to the course of the world as the Children of disobedience do in whom the Prince of the Air rules among whom I was a stranger to the Life of God and under the wrath of God a Child of disobedience who knew not whither I went for I was a Child of darkness and could not comprehend the Light nor follow the Light though in darkness it shined and did often reprove me for sin and disobedience and condemned me for having followship with the unfruitful works of darkness yet the Creature being over-ruled and subjected to vanity by the power of the Serpent and the affections and desires led away from the Light of Christ with him who led into wickedness and there was no power sought truly after nor received whereby to resist the wicked one but still he prevailed against me while I was in the corrupt nature where the Curse had power and I was brought up according to the manner of the world in the traditions and rudiments of the world partly in natural learning and to that for a time I applied my mind according to my parents and kinreds desire so that for a time I grew and increased in that learning though many vain traditions I learned and in vain books and foolish clauses and verses as others did I learned and did please my Tutors and in that learning exceeded many others who learned with me and got the praise and estimation of many people of the world for that natural knowledge I grew into through learning whereby for a time the flesh did glory and pride got up and deceit over-ruled and that was nourished in me which was for death and destruction and oftentimes when I was among other Children who minded sporting and gaming and playing who would have enticed me to the same and sometimes did fall into playing with them yet oftentimes I was troubled in mind and I was not satisfied for often I was reproved by the true Light in me which I then knew not and thereby I was restrained somtime from conforming with other Children in their ludeness for which I became sometime a reproach and an object of hatred to some of them and I was then made to believe that God would bring me to judgment for the wickedness and vanity I had been in and sometime I was smitten with fear and terror when I was but a few years of age when my wickedness was laid before me and brought into my remembrance by that Light which I knew not which condemned for sin unto which Light my Conscience also did bear witness and my thoughts did accuse me when I thought of what I had done in unrighteousness But when I forgat reproof and hearkened to the wicked who did alwayes strive to make me enter into their wickedness then I suddenly was led into vanities and practised vain mirth and sportings and so was one with them who made merry over the Witness of God when his grace was turned into wantonness But as for many gross and common pollutions of the world which many others was and are guilty of I was kept from acting in and did strive to keep out of so that then I was scoffed at by some of the heathen who lived in drunkenness and excess and great prophaness when I could not joyn with them in their excess of riot but the same ground of rebellion was in me then though not so far got out into the actions and oftentimes from my childhood I was afflicted with sickness and the hand of the Lord was upon me whereby I was plagued and smitten inwardly and saw then that it was what I deserved for the sin that I had been acted in and I desired often that I might come to true Repentance for my sin and have endeavoured much to find it yea with tears but could not while my heart was led away to obey the will of the Devil and so the desires in me which was after Repentance and amendment of Life they were often quenched through the deceitfulness of sin and the subtilty of my souls enemy and thus was the Creature and the soul held under the power of darkness And near about the the age of fourteen years I was put to teaching of Chidren in natural learning and taught Children till after I knew the Truth knowing it to be serviceable in its place for Children as there was a necessity for it so as that Children be brought up in good nurture and in the fear of the Lord which in his fear when I came into the Truth I did strive to bring those

ones who live in pleasure and riotousness who are in the pride of life and exaltation and heady high mindedness who despise the Truth and hate reproof and will not be reformed of your evil wayes but hates him that rebukes in the gate and abhors him that speaks uprightly and perverts true judgment and would not be judged for your wickedness but rather chuses to go on in the servitude of him who is your Captain and Leader in unrighteousness in hatred against the Truth and the setvants of it to mock and reproach and despise them and to persecute the truth and the servants of it some in in slandering it and backbiting the servants of it and some in persecuting and despitefully using and imprisoning the Saints of the most high God who witness forth his Name among the Children of men you are all in the Army of the Dragon and are fighting again the Lamb and striving to suppress his Truth that you might go on at ease in your wickedness But though the Servants of the Lord suffer and Christ be imprisoned and suffer as a Lamb among you for a time through his long forbearance towards you yet will he arise like a Lion and avenge his quarrel upon you and he will tear and devour the wicked and overthrow the Dragon and destroy all his off-spring who are resolved to make war against him in Righteousness will he make war and in wisdom will he plead his cause and ease him of his enemies Behold the day of his war and contraversie is begun already and his hand will not spare nor his eye pitty nor his sword return till he hath accomplished his Decree and overthrown his enemies though he hath been slow to anger and great in suffering for his Seed sake which he is gathering out of the world yet now is his hand stretched out against Sions oppressors and he will punish the world for their sins and will utterly overthrow the Beast and the false Prophet and the conquest shall be his Fear fear and tremble O all ye Inhabitants of the earth who are at enmity against the pure God for your Leader will fail you and you will not be able to stand before the mighty God in his dreadful presence now is his Thunders uttering and his Trumpet a sounding and his Arrows are pollished and his Sword is furbished and his Arm is strong Psal 7.13 and his Wrath is waxing hot against the persecutors and his Host is mighty and Camp is very great and his Day is exceeding terrible who can abide it all the Powers of the earth will not be able to stand in the day of his Battel Jude 14 he is coming with ten thousand of his Saints to execute judgment upon the world and to quit himself and his elect of all their Adversaries and utterly to overthrow their oppressors though his elect and chosen and faithful ones endure great afflictions and long-suffering Luke 18.7 yet their prayers is heard and their cries is entered into the eares of the Lord of Hosts who will not at all acquit the wicked but will render his wrath with fury and his rebukes with flames of fire Wo wo to all you that are set against him behold his day cometh swiftly with wrath and fury as a destruction from on high upon the ungodly Now is his sanctified ones called and an ensign is lifted up to the Nations and the day of vengeance is proclaimed which hasteth greatly Let all Nations fear and dread before the Lord of Hosts for they are all as potters vessels before him who will dash them to pieces and rule them with a rod of Iron and he will have the uttermost parts of the earth for his possession Psal 2. and sweep away all evil doers and hew down all fruitless trees and bind the tares in bundels and burn them and there shall none be able to deliver from the power of the flame of his fiery indignation which is kindled against the rebellious and crooked uncircumcised generation Consider this all ye Inhabitants of the earth high and low great and small Rulers and Teachers and People who persecute the Innocent and hate the Truth and among whom many of the innocent Servants of the living God do suffer cruel usage and imprisonment some have suffered till death in prisons for witnessing forth the Truth and a good Conscience and many yet suffer in prisons and holes in this Nation where their lives are sought to be made a prey upon by Tyrants O how will you answer these things before the dreadful God who set your selves in the work of the Dragon to war against the Lambs of Christs fold and against Christ for the Beast and his Kingdom behold inquisition will the Lord make for the bloud of his Saints among the bloud-thirsty ones who hate persecute and imprison his dear Children who are as dear unto him as the apple of his eye who forgets not their sufferings who for his sake loves not their lives unto death who are counted as sheep for the slaughter and willingly bears the affliction and reproaches of Christ Col. 1.24 till his sufferings be fulfilled in their bodies though it be to death and perishing of the outward man 1 Pet. 5.13 unto whom this day of the Lords wrath and controversie which is coming upon the wicked will be a day of deliverance a day of gladness a day of joy and rejoycing for evermore but a day of blackness Mat. 5.10 11.12 and terror and pain and anguish to the oppressors of his Seed who war for the Beast and the false Prophet Rev. 14.9 10. Rev 20.10 who shall be cast into the Lake which burneth and there be tormented for ever and ever here is the patience and faith and innocency of the Saints who follow the Lamb whither ever he goeth through sufferings and tribulations blessed are they that are not offended in him Let all that follow him and suffer for his Name who are faithful through suffering whatsoever they endure for his sake stand in his power and might and zeal over all the powers of the earth and over the wrath of the Dragon and over the beast though for a time he hath power to wear out the Saints of the most high Dan. 7.25 and think to change times and laws until a time and times and the dividing of time But the Judgment shall sit and they shall take away his dominion to consume and destroy it unto the end and the kingdom and dominion and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole Heaven shall be given to the people of the Saints of the most high whose kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom and all Dominions shall serve and obey him Let all the Saints and faithful ones be valiant and of good chear whose travel and war is for the Lamb of God who shall overcome all the powers of the Earth and stand in his might and power and rejoyce for evermore in him who is getting himself the dominion whose right it is for he is worthy to raign and rule who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords Let all the powers of darkness fall before him and greatness be ascribed to his Name who is King over all the Earth G. W. FINIS