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A35833	The discovery of mans return to his first estate by the operation of the power of God in the great work of regeneration with a word to all saints who set their faces towards Sion to seek the Lord their God ... : a word to the back-slider who hath tasted of the good word of God ... : with a discovery of mystery-Babylon and her merchants .... / written by one whom the people of this world calls a Quaker, whose name in the flesh is William Deusbury, but hath a new name the world knows not written in the book of life.	Dewsbury, William, 1621-1688.	1655 (1655)	Wing D1260; ESTC R27296	24,653	32

for these observations they call the Ordinances of God as they are practised by them There is no Scripture that Christ or any that he sent forth did take a child and sprinkled water on its face and said in so doing they baptized it into the Church of Christ Suffer little children to come unto me saith Christ a●…d forbid them not for of such is the Kingdome of God for whosoever shall not receive the Kingdom of God as a little child shall not enter therein he sets the child as a type and a figure to shew forth to every one that they must become as a little child depending upon the will of God before they enter into the Kingdome of God he took them up in his arms and put his hands on them and blessed them but that he sprinkled water on their faces and said Hee baptized them into his Church there is no such Scripture An other observation your Teachers tel you you mu observe is hearing these stndied Sermons in taking a part of Scripture and adding to it their wisdom calls it the word of God which is contrary to the Scripture but they say they have Christ for an example There was delivered unto him the book of the Prophet Isaiah and when he had opened the book he found where it was written The spirit of the Lord is upon me because he hath anointed me to preach the Gospel unto the poor he hath sent me to heal the broken hearted to preach deliverance to the Captives recovering the sight of the blind and to set at liberty them that are bruised to preach the acceptable year of the Lord and he closed the book and sate down and he began to say unto them This day is this Scripture fulfilled in your ears and all bare him witness and wondered at the gracious words that proceeded out of his mouth he was the substance of the prophecy which was then fulfilled in him This is no ground for any to take the Saints words and add to it their wisdom and call that the word of God The Prophet that hath a dream let him tell a dream he that hath my Word let him speak my Word faithfully What is the chaff to the Wheat saith the Lord Is not my word like a fire and like a hammer saith the Lord that breaks the rocks in pieces All to whom the word of the Lord is committed can witness it to be as a fire within them and as a hammer that breaks rocks in pieces in subjecting all in the heart under the power of it self so it alone rules and guides him that he is what he speaks that if he had never seen any thing that the Saints hath declared without him he had known what is manifest in him and he to whom the word is thus made manifest is a true Minister of Christ who is called to speak the Word faithfully But these that call themselves your Teachers and makes bargaains with you for so much in the year they never witnessed the word of the Lord in them as a fire like a hammer that breaks the rocks in pieces so they never had any thing to have spoken of the Lord but as they have stoln it from the testimony of the Saints so they speak a divination of their own brain a riddle to their own-hearts and whilest they speak to others themselves are cast away And the Lord testifies against them Behold I am against the Prophets saith the Lord that steals my word every one from his neighbour Behold I am a ainst the Prophets saith the Lord that use their tongue and say H●… sai●…h Behold I am against them that prophesie false dreams saith the Lord and do tell them and cause my people to erre by their lies and by their lightness yet I sent them not nor commanded them therefore they shal not profit the people at all saith the Lord and this fruit is made manifest of the ministry that hath been in England Another observation your Teachers tell you to observe which is contrary to the Sci●…ture at it is practised by them in singing of David's Psal. in Metre taking David's word●… who was a man after Gods own heart and putting words into the mouths of poor ignorant people to sing that which they never knew and so causes them to blaspheme the name of God saying Let us sing to the praise and glory of God as O Lord I am not puft in mind I have no scornful eye I do not exercise my self in things that be too high for me when they never knew any change wrought in their minds and so causeth the people to lie And causing them to sing David's prayers as O Lord rebuke me not in thy wrath neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure for thine arrows stick ●…ast in me thy hand presseth me sore for my iniquities are gone over my head as a heavy burthen they are too heavy for me to bear my wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness I am troubled I am bowed down greatly I go mourning all th●… day long and may be none of you in al that place can witness the condition and so blasphemes the name of God who wil be worshipped in spirit in truth and this is the rule given out from him If any be afflicted let him pray if any be merry let him sing Psalms and there is none merry but the ransomed of the Lord who returns to Sion with joy and singing and ●…verlasting j●…y shal be upon their heads and they shal obtain gladness and joy and sorrow and sighing flies away All people may search the Scriptures and see how you have been deceived by your Teachers who have caused you to seek your lost God in carnal dead observations which they have not any Scripture for all cease from them for the Lord complains of them The leaders of my people causeth them to erre saith the Lord of Hosts and now are these Scriptures fulfilled in these men which the Apostle prophesied ●…f This know also that in the last daies perillous times shal come for men shal be lovers of their own selves covetous boasters proud blasphemous disobedient to Parent●… unthankful unholy all people see are not your Teachers 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 before they come at you they must know what they must have covetous griping for much and if you wil not give them so much as they can have in another place they wil not come at you here is self-love and covetousness manifested without natural affection truce-breakers false accusers traytors heady high-minded lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God having ●… form of godliness but denying the power thereof from such the Apostle exhorts to turn away All people behold and see all these Scriptures are fulfilled in your Teachers they speak against pride and live in it against covetousness and live in it they teach by their wor●…s

THE DISCOVERY OF MANS RETURN To his First Estate by the operation of the Power of GOD in the great Work of REGENERATION With a Word to all Saints who set their faces towards Sion to seek the Lord their God And to those that are waiting in Sion to worship Him in Spirit and Truth A Word to the Back-slider who hath tasted of the good Word of GOD and the powers of the World to come and hath turned the grace of God into wantonness and gone back into spiritual Sodom and Egypt where our Lord is Crucified With a Discovery of Mystery-Babylon and her Merchants With a Word to the hard-hearted unbelieving Jews who profess Christ in words and deny to be guided by his Counsel the light in their Conscience and stumble at him to their own Destruction From the Spirit of the Lord Written by one whom the people of this World calls a Quaker whose name in the flesh is William Deusbury but hath a New Name the world knows not written in the Book of Life London Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black-spread-Eagle at the West-end of Pauls 1655. All Men and Women Behold and see in what Estate you were created ANd God said let us make man in our Image God created man in his own Image and in the Image of God created he him male and female created he them And the Lord God took the man and put him in the Garden of Eden to dress it a●…d to keep it and the Lord God commanded the man saying Of every tree of the Garden thou mayst freely eat but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it for in the day thou earest thereof thou shalt surely dye the death The S●…rpent was more subtil than a●…y beast of the Field which the Lord God had made he said unto the Woman ye shall not surely die for God doth know that in the day you ●…at thereof your eyes shall be opened and ye shall be as God knowing good and evill And when the woman saw the tree was good ●…or food and that it was pleasant unto the eyes and a tree to be de●…red to make one wise she took the fruit thereof and did eat and gave also to her husband with her and he did eat And the eyes of them both were opened and they knew that they were naked and they sewed fig-leaves together and made them aprons And they heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day and Adam and his Wife ●…d themselves from the presence of the Lord among the trees of the garden and the Lord God called unto Adam and said unto him where art thou And he said I heard thy voice in the garden and was affraid and because I was naked I hid my self And he said who told thee that thou wast naked hast thou eaten of the tree where●…f I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat and the man said the woman who thou gavest to be with me she gave me of the tree and I did eat And the Lord God said unto t●…e woman what is this that thou hast done the woman said the serpent beguiled me and I did eat And the Lord God said unto the Serpent because thou hast done this thou art cursed above all cattel and above every Beast of the field upon thy belly shalt thou go and dust shalt thou eat all the daies of thy life And I will put enmity betwixt thee and the woman and between thy seed and her seed it shall bruise thy head and thou shalt bruise his he●…l And the Lord God said Behold this man is become as one of us to know Good and evil and now lest he put forth his hand and take also of the tree of life and eat and live for ever therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden to till the ground from whence he was taken and he drove out the man and placed at the East end of the garden of Eden Cherubims and a flaming sword which turned every way to keep the way of the tree of life Every Man and Woman behold and see how you are fallen from the estate and condition you were created in you were created in the image of God to delight alone in him but you are fallen in obeying the counsel of the Serpent and are driven out of the presence of God into the earth and there your minds are feeding upon the dust of the earth created objects which will perish some delight in father and mother some in wife and children some ●…n house and lands some in mony gold some in meats drinks some in raiment what they shall put on some in lusts and pleasures in wantonness vain idle communication foolish jesting and laughter which is madness and folly and some in honour and preferments in this world wherein their hearts are lifted up in pride and exaltation above others whom they have power over not considering how ye are dri●…en out from the presence of the Lord wherein you were placed in the beginning and some there are that feed upon the letter of the Scripture which is death comprehending God and Christ in their wisdome from what the Saints of the most high God spoke forth from the life they enjoyed in Christ Jesus which was in them the hope of their glory and man in his serpentine wisdome steals the Saints words into his understanding and never knew the life and power thereof in himself and so speakes a divination of his own brain a riddle to his own heart and while he speaks to others himself is a cast-away Every man and woman in particular deal justly with your hearts and see where your hearts are and what they delight in for in some of these created objects you delight in and feed upon if you cannot witness your change by the eternal and powerful Word of Truth for into the earth you are driven from the presence of God and these are the fruits which spring forth of the earth which is in your hearts self-love pride covetousness anger revenge hastiness frowardness back-biting hard-heartedness cruelty and oppression lust and uncleanness drunkenness impatiency and unbelief and you are fenced out from coming to the Tree of Life with Cherubims and the flaming Sword which turns every way to keep the Tree of Life So every one see what you can witness of your return again unto God from whence you are separated by the disobedience and evill of your hearts and see what is the ground of the hope of your callings and by what power you are acted in your obedience unto God whether by the power of the first Adam or by the power of the second for if thou upon the convincement of the evill of thy waies doe not wait in the light which is in thy conscience that convinceth thee of the evill of