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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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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
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