THE CAUSE WHY Adam Eve Were driven out of PARADICE AND THE JEWS Out of their own Land of Canaan By GEORGE FOX LONDON Printed for Benjamin Clark in George-Yard in Lombard-street 1683. The cause why Adam and Eve were driven out of Paradice and the Jews out of their own Land of Canaan 1. Here you may see the Cause of Adam and Eve being drove out of Paradise 2. And the Cause of the destruction of the Old World 3. And the Cause of confounding Nimrod and his Company 4. And the Cause of the Jews going so often into Captivity And the destructions that came so often upon them And the confusion that is and hath been among the Christians where all may Read Hear and Fear that they take warning and turn from such evils lest the Judgments of God come upon you that came upon Adam and Eve and the Old World and the Jews and their Forefathers that disobeyed God and Christ and the good Spirit that he gave them for no unclean thing shall enter into the Paradice and Kingdom of God not into the holy City new Jerusalem though the unclean do enter into the great City of the Whore of Babylon Adam and Eve were driven out of Paradice for their disobedience And for disobedience Cains stock and the Old World were destroyed For disobedience Nimrod and his Company were confounded and Scattered And for disobedience the Jews were drove and carried Captive out of their own Land of Canaan And for disobedience to the same Light Power and Holy Ghost that the Apostles and the Church were in in the Apostles daies the Christians in name and not in power and nature are without the heavenly holy City New Jerusalem An unjust man is an abomination to the Just and he that is upright in the way is an abomination to the wicked Prov. 29.27 In God I will praise his Word in God will I put my trust I will not fear what flesh can do unto me Psal 56.4 Thus saith the Lord I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh and they shall be drunk with their own blood as with sweet Wine and all shall know that I am the Lord Isa 49.26 THe Lord God is holy and pure therefore he would have all his people to be holy and pure and therefore consider what the Lord in the Old and New Testament Commands you to forsake and commanded that you shall not do In Exodus the Lord saith Thou shalt not Kill Thou shalt not Steal Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy Neighbour Thou shalt not commit Adultery Thou shalt not covet thy Neighbours House thou shalt not covet thy Neighbours Wife nor his Man-servant nor his Maid servant nor his Ox nor his Ass nor any thing that is thy Neighbours these things are forbidden in Exod. 20. in the Old Testament and much more in the New for Christ saith You have heard that it hath been said of old time to wit in the Old Testament Thou shalt not commit Adultery but I say whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed Adultery with her already in his heart and here you may see the Law took hold of the outward act and the Gospel took hold of the inward act For out of the heart proceeds the Evil thoughts Murders Adulteries Fornications Thefts false Witnesses Blasphemies these are the things which defile a man Mat. 5. Mat. 15. And these evil things are in Man and woman yea done or committed before they be acted outwardly And therefore the Apostle saith in 2 Cor. 5. Every one shall give an account of things done in the body for saith he we must all appear before the Judgment Seat of Christ that every one may receive the things done in his body according to that he hath done whether it be good or bad Knowing therefore the Terrour of the Lord we perswade men c. To shun that which is bad and evil and cleave to that which is good and lust not after Beauty in thy Heart but keep thee from the evil woman from the flattery of the Tongue of a stranger neither let her take thee with her Eye-lids For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of Bread and the Adulteress will hunt for thy precious life But whoso committeth Adultery with a woman lacketh understanding he that doth it destroyeth his own soul and a wound and dishonour shall he get and his reproach shall not be wiped away Prov. 6. and you may see in Prov. 2. This strange woman which flatters with her words who forsaketh the guide of her youth the Spirit of God and forgetteth the Covenant of her God For her house enclineth to death and her paths unto the dead None that goeth unto her returneth again neither take they hold of the paths of life And therefore that thou maist walk in the way of good men and keep in the paths of life Prov. 2. This is the Exhortation of the wisdom of God to follow For the mouth of the strange woman is a deep pit and he that is abhorred of the Lord shall fall therein Prov. 22. And you may see in Prov. 5. how Solomon exhorts to the study of Wisdom and sheweth the mischief of Riot and Whoredom and Prov. 7. how the filly young man void of understanding in the twilight in the evening in the black and dark night how he was deceived by the speeches and attire of the Harlot whose House is the way to Hell going down to the Chambers of Death And this well-favoured Harlot deceived the young man under pretence of Religion for she pretended she had Peace Offerings and she had paid her Vows and the good man was gone from home and this Whore abides not in her house but is without in the streets and lyeth in wait at every corner she is out of her house from the spirit of God whored from that and so Christ the good man is not within and so that whorish spirits habitation is in the twilight and darkness and would beget others either to spiritual Adultery or carnal Adultery one while this whorish spirit is loud and stubborn and another while with flattering Speeches all that keeps with the spirit of God and the light of Christ in their Hearts will keep out of her way that leads to Hell and the Chambers of death In Jer. 3. how Jeremiah complains against Judahs vile whoredom and committing Adultery and Judah was worse than backsliding Israel who said She is gone upon every high Mountain and under every green tree and there hath played the Harlot And thou hast polluted the Land with thy whoredoms and thy wickedness and thou hast a wheres forehead thou refusest to be ashamed Here you may see what a sad condition the Jews came into when they forsook the Lord and therefore let Christians beware that they be not found in the same practice and so come under the same Judgment as you may read
in Jer. 3. and 5. you may see the Judgments of God upon the Jews for perverseness and Adultery for the Lord saith How shall I pardon for this my Children have forsaken me and sworn by them that are no Gods for when I had fed them to the full then they committed Adultery and assembled themselves by Troops into the Harlots Houses They were as fed Horses in the morning every one neighing after his Neighbours Wife Shall not I visit for these things saith the Lord Shall not my soul be avenged on such a Nation as this and the Prophets shall become wind and the Word is not in them Now let them that are called Christians in Christendom look to themselves and see if they be not found in this spiritual and natural whoredom that the Jews were found in though they made a profession of the Scriptures of the Old Testament and they that go under the name of Christians may make a profession of the New Testament in words but Jeremiah saith the Word was not in those Jews that run into these wickednesses neither is it in those called Christians that runs into spiritual or carnal whoredom For the Word of God is a fire and hammer and a Sword to beat and cut down and burn up the evil matter and its fruits And in Jer. 29.23 speaking to the Jews Because they have committed Villany in Israel and have committed Adultery with their Neighbours Wives and have spoken lying words in my Name which I have not commanded them even I know and am a witness saith the lord therefore is their destruction foretold And Jeremiah saith in Chap. 9. O that I had in the Wilderness a lodging place of away faring men that I might leave my people and go from them for they be all Adulterers an assembly of treacherous men Their tongue is as an arrow shot out it speaketh deceit one speaketh peaceably to his Neighbour with his mouth but in his heart he layeth wait for him Shall not I visit for these things saith the Lord. And therefore saith the Lord I will make Jerusalem heaps a den of Dragons which was the chief City of worship amongst the Jews and did not the Lord bring his Judgments upon it And Jeremiah saith My heart is broken because of the Prophets and all my bones shake and I am like a drunkenman and like a man whom wine hath overcome because of the Lord and because of the Word of his holiness for the land is full of Adulteries for because of Swearing the land mourns c. Their course is evil and their forces not right I have seen also in the Prophets of Jerusalem a horrible thing they commit Adultery and walk in lies they strengthen also the hands of evil doers that none doth return from their wickedness they are all of them unto me as Sodom to wit the Lord and the Inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah Jer. 23. And Jeremiah saith I have seen thine Adulteries and thy neighings the lewdeness of thy Whoredoms and thine abominations on the hills in the fields Wo be unto thee O Jerusalem wilt not thou be made clean Jer. 13. And again he saith Thou hast polluted the Land with thy Whoredoms and with thy wickedness and through the lightness of her whoredoms to wit the Jews and committest Adultery with Stocks and Stones Here you may see the carnal and spiritual Whoredom among the Jews who were the greatest Professors of the Old Testament in their day and yet the greatest disobeyers of God let them that calls themselves Christians be warned of their sins and of their Judgments And the Lord saith Will you steal and murder and commit Adultery c. and come and stand before me in this horse which is called by my name and saying The Temple of the Lord the Temple of the Lord and say we are delivered to do all these abominations this House which is called by my name is become a den of Robbers so God rejected the vain confidence of the Jews and the sacrifice of the disobedient Jer. 7.9 And Job speaks against the Murderers and Adulterers he saith They are of those that rebel against the light they know not the waies thereof nor abide in the paths thereof the murderer rises with the light killeth the poor and needy and in the night is as a Thief The eyes of the Adulterer waiteth for the twilight saying no eye shall see me and disguises his face in the dark They dig through houses which they had marked for themselves in the day time they know not the light for the morning is to them as a shadow of death then here was some terrour upon the Adulterers if they were known but as drought and heat consumeth the Snow waters so doth the Grave those that have sinned c. The womb forgets him the worms shall sweetly feed upon him he shall be no more remembred and wickedness shall be broaken as a tree Job 24.15 c. See how loathsom wickedness and adultery was in days past And Solomon saith in Prov. 23. For an Whore is a deep ditch she layeth in wait as for a prey and increaseth the transgressors among men and this by experience is seen And Hosea shews Gods Judgments upon the Jews for their spiritual and carnal whoredom in the first Chapter and further saith By swearing and lying and killing and stealing and committing adultery they break out and blood touches blood therefore shall the Land mourn for wheredoms have caused them to err they have gone a whoring from under their God they have committed whoredom continually read the Chapter throughout and there you may see the abominations and wickedness of the Jews and of their spiritual and carnal whoredom whom God threatens with his Judgments and in Hosea 2. he saith Let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight and her Adulteries between her breasts lest I strip her naked and set her as in the day she was born and make her as a wilderness and set her like a dry Land and slay her with thirst for the Lord saith I will not have mercy upon her Children for they be the Children of whoredoms They are all Adulterers as an Oven heated by the Baker who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneded the dough until it be leavened c. Hos 7. where you may see Gods reproof and wrath against the manifold sins of the Jews throughout the whole Book and therefore let all that goes under the name of Christians beware of these sins of the Jews lest the wrath of God comes upon you And the Lord sent Isaiah to reproove and declare against the Jews and their whorish Idolatry and saith The righteous perisheth and no man layeth it to heart and merciful men are taken away none considering that the righteous are taken away from the evil to come But draw near hither ye Sons of the Sorceress the seed of the Adulterer and the Whore against whom do ye sport your selves
against whom make ye a wide mouth and draw out the tongue are ye not Children of transgression a seed of Falshood Isa 5.7 And David saith Seeing thou hatest instruction and casts my words behind thee When thou sawest a thief then thou consentest with him and hast been partaker with Adulterers thou givest thy mouth to evil and thy tongue foameth deceit Unto such wicked ones God saith What hast thou to do to declare my Statutes or that thou shouldest take my Covenant in thy mouth c Psal 50. so every one that names God and Christ must depart from iniquity And in Mal. 3. the Lord saith I will come near to you to Judgment and I will be a swift witness against the Sorcerer and against the Adulterer and false Swearer and against those that oppress the Hireling in his wages and the Widow and the Fatherless and that turn aside a stranger from his right and fear not me saith the Lord of Host Here you may see God is both Witness against Wickedness and the Judge of it And Ezekiel the Lord sent to pour out Judgments upon the Jews for their Adultery and said That they were old in Adulteries and they went a whoring after the Heathen and were polluted with their Idols and had forgotten the Lord and cast him behind their backs Through their lewdness and whoredoms they have committed Adultery and blood is in their hands And you may see the 23 Chapter throughout They have committed whoredoms in Egypt they have committed whoredoms in their youth there were their breasts pressed and there they bruised the teats of their Virginity O let all that are called by the name of Christians have a care of this spiritual and carnal whoredom and Ezek. 6. I am broken saith the Lord with their whorish heart which hath departed from me therefore the Lord threatens his Judgments upon them And again the Lord declareth against the Jews monstrous whoredom and adultery as you may see in the 16 Chapter throughout they are compared through their lewdness and whoredom and wickedness to Sodom And in Ezek. 43. they are exhorted to put away their whoredoms and abominations which had defiled God's holy Name so ought all that are called Christians to put away such things that defile God's Name You may see how the Lord forbids Adultery in Levit. 20. and you may see what Judgments came upon Israel who committed Adultery with the Children of Moab and how the Lord brought his Judgments upon Israel and them that they committed Adultery withal as in Numb 25. for the Lord said and commanded That there should be no whore of the daughters of Israel nor a Sodomite of the Sons of Israel Deut. 23. Then surely there ought not to be a whore nor a Sodomite amongst them that are called Christians but when either Jews Christians or others rebels against God's good Spirit he hath given to instruct them then they run into whoredoms and adultery and are as bad as the Sodomites and profane the Name of God and his Son Christ Jesus And what became of Jezabel and all her Priests who was called The Mother of Whoredoms and Witchcraft as in 2 Kings 9.22 Did not her whoredoms and her bloody Spirit act together in wickedness and blood-shedding And the Lord sent Nahum to declare against Nineveh and the misery and ruin thereof and saith Wo to the bloody City it is full of lies and Robbery and therefore because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the well-favoured Harlot the Mistress of Witchcraft that selleth Nations through her whoredom and Families through her Witchcraft Behold I am against thee saith the Lord of Host and I will discover thy Skirts upon thy face I will shew the Nations thy nakedness and the Kingdoms thy shame and I will cast abominable filth upon thee and make thee vile and will set thee as a gazing stock and all they that look upon thee shall fly from thee and say Nineveh is laid waste Nahum 3. Now Nineveh had repented at Jonahs Preaching but see what whoredoms and wickedness she was run into which brought her destruction and therefore let all that go undâ—r the name of Christians take heed of such evils lest they bring Judgments and destruction and ruin upon themselves And Jacob's sons were not able to bear nor endure that Shechem should ravish or defile their sister Dinah Gen. 34 that they should deal with their Sister as with a Harlot and it grived them and they were wroth because he had wrought folly in Israel and therefore that folly is to be kept out of Christendom And Joseph who was tempted by his Mistress the Egyptian Woman though he was her bought Slave and her Captive yet Joseph said unto her How then can I do this great wickedness and sin against my God Gen. 39. But as David said God ordained in Joseph a Testimony against such wicked things when Joseph was in Egypt and God established a Testimony in Jacob and Joseph succeeded him in the Testimony of God Psal 78. 5.81 5. for David saith He established a Testimony in Jacob and appointed a Law in Israel Mark In which he commanded their Fathers that they should make them known to their Children that the Generation to come might know them even the Children which should be born who should rise and declare them to their Children that they might set their hopes upon God and not forget the works of God but keep his Commandments so all that keeps this Law and Testimony of God in their hearts will testifie against all such evils before mentioned and judge them And the Scribes and Pharisees said unto Christ in Mat. 12. We would see a sign of thee and Christ said unto them An evil and adulterous Generation seeks after a Sign but thereshall be no Sign given to it but the sign of the Prophet Jonas For as Jonas was three daies and three nights in the Whales belly so shall the son of man be three daies and three nights in the heart of the Earth Here is a sign for the evil and adulterons Generation who rebels against the good Spirit that God hath given to instruct them that with his Spirit they might see Christ the substance of all Signs and Christ said Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me and of my words in this adulterous and sinful Generation of him also shall the Son of man be ashamed when he cometh in the Glory of his Father with his holy Angels Mark 8. 38. So we must not be ashamed to confess the truth before an adulterous Generation that are adulterated from the Truth Know ye not saith the Apostle That the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God Be not deceived neither Fornicators nor Idolaters nor Adulterers nor abusers of themselves with mankind nor Thieves nor Covetous nor Drunkards nor Revilers nor Extortioners shall inherit the Kingdom of God 1 Cor. 6. Now they that do think that such as lives in these
Evils shall inherit the Kingdom of God they are deceived And again the Apostle saith to the Galatians Now saith he the works of the flesh are manifest which are these Adultery Fornication Vncleanness Lasciviousness Idolatry Witchcraft Hatred Variance Wrath Strife Sedition Heresie Envyings Murders Drunkenness Revilings c. of which I tell you before as I have also told you in times past that they which do such things shall not inherit the Kingdom of God Gal. 5. Therefore they are deceived that live in such things and thinks they shall inherit the Kingdom of God and the Apostle saith Your bodies are the members of Christ speaking to the Corinthians and he bids them Fly Fornication Every sin that a man doth is without the body but he that commits Fornication sins against his own body as well as against the Lord's Law and Gospel and therefore ye are bought with a price glorifie God in your bodies and in your Spirits which are Gods 1 Cor. 6. And the Apostle tells the Ephesians in the 5.3 But Fornication and all uncleannoss or coveteousness let it not be named amongst you as becometh Saints neither filthiness nor foolish talking nor jesting which are not convenient but rather giving of thanks For this ye know that no whoremonger nor unclean person nor coveteous man who is an Idolater hath any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and of God Let no man deceive you with vain words for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the disobedient be not ye therefore partakers to wit in such things before mentioned for they that live in and practice such abominable things before mentioned and to think to have an inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and of God where no unclean thing enters they deceive themselves Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness and put on the armour of light let us all walk honestly to wit true Christians as in the day not in rioting and drunkenness not in chambering and wantonness not in strife and envy but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ and make no provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof Rom. 13. James saith in Chap. 4. Ye lust and have not ye kill and desire to have and cannot obtain ye fight and war yet ye have not ye ask and receive not because ye ask amiss that ye may consume it upon your own Lusts Ye adulterers and adulteresses know ye not that the friendship of this world is enmity with God whosoever therefore will be a friend of this world is the enemy of God and therefore all you that go under the name of Christians consider to whom ye are enemies and with whom ye have friendship And in 2 Pet. 2. he shews how God spared not the Angels that sinned nor he spared not the old World that sinned but brought a flood upon the World of ungodly and saved Noah c. the Preacher of Righteousness and God turned the Cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes and condemned and overthrew them for their sin wickedness and ungodliness making them an example unto all those that after should live ungodly and delivered just Lot vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked for that righteous man dwelling amongst them in seeing and hearing vext his righteous soul from day to day with their unlawful deeds And now is not spiritual Sodom which makes a great profession of the Old and New Testament as great a grief to the righteous souls who hears and sees their unlawful deeds And the Apostle saw in this day such as had forsaken the right way which were as natural bruit Beasts and should perish in their own corruption and shall receive the reward of unrighteousness as they which count it pleasure to riot in the day time spots they are and blemishes sporting themselves with their own deceivings while they feast with you so the Apostle hath mark'd them to be known by their spots and blemishes having eyes full of adultery that cannot cease from sin beguiling unstable souls a heart they have exercised with coveteous practices Cursed Children so their hearts were not only full of Adultery but the Apostle could see that their very eyes were full of Adultery and so is it with the same spirit now Such who have forsaken Christ the right way these are Wells which have no water in them and Clouds which are carried about with a Tempest to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever so Clouds ye know are high and ye know what the Tempest is so they are known by the Tempest that is in their Spirit and their Clouds and their great swelling words of vanity c. These are they that promise liberty and themselves servants of corruption and they that are overcome by them are brought into bondage and it is better for such never to have known the way of righteousness then after they have known to turn from the holy Commandment but it is happened unto them the Dog is turned to his vomit and the Sow to the wallowing in the mire And are not the days of Scoffers come which walk after their own ungodly lusts and not after Christ You may see how the Apostles especially Paul Peter James John and Jude bore a Testimony against all manner of looseness and such who had known the Truth and run into evil that their latter end would be worse than their beginning And you may see in Rev. 17. the mother of all abomination A woman arrayed in purple and Scarlet with a golden Cup in her hand sitting upon the Beast which is great Babilon the mother of Harlots who harloted from God's good Spirit this mother of Harlots is the abomination of the Earth which is drunk with the blood of the Saints and Martyrs of Jesus This woman the false Church who is whored from the Spirit of God which is drunk with the blood of the Martyrs and Saints He doth say She is drunk with Wine only this drunken Whore is mad and in a rage and fury for the blood of the Saints But what becomes of her in the end is not she burnt in the fire and the Beast false Prophets and the Devil and the Lamb and the Saints will have the victory over them and this great Whore or false Church who is whored from the Spirit of God is the Spirit of all them that be harloted from the Spirit of God into the evil destroying And all those that are led by the Spirit of God they are of the woman the true Church that is in God and are of the Church of the First-born which are written in heaven and heavenly Jerusalem that is above is their mother and they sing Hallelujah and Glory and Honour and Praises to the Lord God for true righteousness are his Judgments for he Judgeth the great whore which corrupted the earth with her Fornication and hath avenged the blood of his Servants at her hand Hallelujah Rev. 19. And in Rev. 18. you