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The cause why Adam & Eve were driven out of paradice and the Jews out of their own land of Canaan by George Fox.
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Fox, George, 1624-1691.
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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