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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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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