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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96396	Jacob found in a desert land: or, A recovery of the lost out of the loss (truly manifested;) wherein is discovered the work of the Lord in the creature, and how I travelled through the night of thick darkness, which hath over spread the whole world; and of my deliverance out of darkness into the true Light and truth: wherein is witness my heavenly call into the ministry of the everlasting truth. / Given forth for the everlasting name of the Lord sake, and for their sakes, who desire to know the truth, and how I came into the truth; that they that can believe it may receive some satisfaction, (out of which all despisers and unbelievers are excluded.) By a witness of the same in life and testimony, who am a sufferer for the pure seed sake, who am known to the sons of men by the name of George Whitehead; in contempt, by the generation of despisers, called, a Quaker. With a few words to them who have any desires left in them to know the truth, whether they be in forms of profession, or out of forms, that they may see themselves, and return from their evil. Also a voyce of the thunder of the Lord from his holy temple, uttered forth to the inhabitants of the earth, who are in the Army of the Dragon (whether rulers, teachers or people.).	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1656 (1656)	Wing W1936; Thomason E889_1; ESTC R204021	15,111	22

IACOB found in a desert Land OR A RECOVERY Of the Lost out of the Loss truly manifested Wherein is discovered the work of the Lord in the Creature and how I travelled through the night of thick darkness which hath over spread the whole world and of my deliverance out of darkness into the true Light and Truth Wherein is witness my heavenly Call into the Ministry of the everlasting Truth Given forth for the everlasting Name of the Lord sake and for their sakes who desire to know the Truth and how I came into the Truth that they that can believe it may receive some satisfaction out of which all despisers and unbelievers are excluded By a witness of the same in Life and Testimony who am a sufferer for the pure Seed sake who am known to the sons of men by the name of George Whitehead in contempt by the generation of despisers called a QUAKER With a few words to them who have any desires left in them to know the Truth whether they be in forms of profession or out of forms that they may see themselves and return from their evil Also a Voyce of the Thunder of the Lord from his holy Temple uttered forth to the Inhabitants of the Earth who are in the Army of the Dragon whether Rulers Teachers or People LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert and are to be sold at the Black Spread-Eagle at the West-End of Pauls 1656. IACOB found in a desert Land Or a Recovery of the Lost out of the Loss Deut. 32.10 11 12. truly manifested wherein is discovered the work of the Lord in the Creature and how I travelled through the night of thick darkness which hath over spread the whole world and of my deliverance out of darkness into the true Light and Truth wherein is witnessed my heavenly Call into the Ministry of the everlasting Truth BEhold the wonderous work of the Lord God what he hath done for me according to his own purpose through his eternal love and free-grace to me ward in bringing his Seed to Immortality and my soul from under the powers of death hell and the grave and restoring the Creature into the Covenant of his seed and bringing it from under the bondage of corruption which for several years together I was under and subject to vanity and my heart was led astray from the living God and I lived without the fear of God according to the course of the world as the Children of disobedience do in whom the Prince of the Air rules among whom I was a stranger to the Life of God and under the wrath of God a Child of disobedience who knew not whither I went for I was a Child of darkness and could not comprehend the Light nor follow the Light though in darkness it shined and did often reprove me for sin and disobedience and condemned me for having followship with the unfruitful works of darkness yet the Creature being over-ruled and subjected to vanity by the power of the Serpent and the affections and desires led away from the Light of Christ with him who led into wickedness and there was no power sought truly after nor received whereby to resist the wicked one but still he prevailed against me while I was in the corrupt nature where the Curse had power and I was brought up according to the manner of the world in the traditions and rudiments of the world partly in natural learning and to that for a time I applied my mind according to my parents and kinreds desire so that for a time I grew and increased in that learning though many vain traditions I learned and in vain books and foolish clauses and verses as others did I learned and did please my Tutors and in that learning exceeded many others who learned with me and got the praise and estimation of many people of the world for that natural knowledge I grew into through learning whereby for a time the flesh did glory and pride got up and deceit over-ruled and that was nourished in me which was for death and destruction and oftentimes when I was among other Children who minded sporting and gaming and playing who would have enticed me to the same and sometimes did fall into playing with them yet oftentimes I was troubled in mind and I was not satisfied for often I was reproved by the true Light in me which I then knew not and thereby I was restrained somtime from conforming with other Children in their ludeness for which I became sometime a reproach and an object of hatred to some of them and I was then made to believe that God would bring me to judgment for the wickedness and vanity I had been in and sometime I was smitten with fear and terror when I was but a few years of age when my wickedness was laid before me and brought into my remembrance by that Light which I knew not which condemned for sin unto which Light my Conscience also did bear witness and my thoughts did accuse me when I thought of what I had done in unrighteousness But when I forgat reproof and hearkened to the wicked who did alwayes strive to make me enter into their wickedness then I suddenly was led into vanities and practised vain mirth and sportings and so was one with them who made merry over the Witness of God when his grace was turned into wantonness But as for many gross and common pollutions of the world which many others was and are guilty of I was kept from acting in and did strive to keep out of so that then I was scoffed at by some of the heathen who lived in drunkenness and excess and great prophaness when I could not joyn with them in their excess of riot but the same ground of rebellion was in me then though not so far got out into the actions and oftentimes from my childhood I was afflicted with sickness and the hand of the Lord was upon me whereby I was plagued and smitten inwardly and saw then that it was what I deserved for the sin that I had been acted in and I desired often that I might come to true Repentance for my sin and have endeavoured much to find it yea with tears but could not while my heart was led away to obey the will of the Devil and so the desires in me which was after Repentance and amendment of Life they were often quenched through the deceitfulness of sin and the subtilty of my souls enemy and thus was the Creature and the soul held under the power of darkness And near about the the age of fourteen years I was put to teaching of Chidren in natural learning and taught Children till after I knew the Truth knowing it to be serviceable in its place for Children as there was a necessity for it so as that Children be brought up in good nurture and in the fear of the Lord which in his fear when I came into the Truth I did strive to bring those

ever Allelujah and Glory to the most high for evermore Thus was I moved by the Spirit of the living God to give forth for the simple ones sake who are groping in the dark whether in forms or out of forms who are not satisfied but yet have some desires to know the Truth as it is in Christ Jesus who is the Way the Truth and the Life which whosoever follows shall not abide in darkness but shall have the Light of Life and there shall be no occasion of stumbling but by the Builders and by such as live in the wisdom of the flesh and are wise in their own eyes he is rejected and to them become a Rock of offence but to them that believe in him and follow him he is a Rock of defence and become the head of the Corner the chief Corner-stone and true foundation and the Author of salvation From me whose desire is for the good of souls who would not the death of finners but rather that they should turn from their wickedness and obtain remission of sins I am a sufferer for the everlasting Truth sake and for the good Seed sake by which I am witnessed in my suffering and for whose sake it is effectual and through my suffering the Truth of God is exalted Rev. 2.10 though it be contrary to the envy of the wicked one who cast me into prison where I have been a sufferer above a year and have endured exceeding much abuse by Tyrants and am not convinced of the breach of any known Law that ever could be laid to my charge either at my Imprisonment or since But the Lord is my Refuge though I have no helper in the earth The ninth day of the sixt moneth in the year as accounted 1656. The earthly name by which the world knows me is George Whitehead Prisoner of the Lord in Edmonds-Bury common Goale in the County of Suffolk who a name hath written in heaven which none knows but they that are redeemed from the earth A few words to them who have any desires left in them to know the Truth whether they be in forms of profession or out of forms that they may see themselves and return from their evil TO you that live without the knowledge of the true God and know not his power neither are come into the life of the Saints in light you who are groping in the dark you go you know not whither and have long been seeking and have not found satisfaction nor rest to your souls for whose good my desire is my message I declared unto you That God is light John 1.5 and in him is no darkness and he hath sent his Son into the world a light to bring out of darkness Iohn 1.9 and out of the deeds of darkness he is the true light wherewith he lighteth every man that cometh into the world and he is the power of God to salvation to them that follow him and believe in him therefore every one of you return to the true Light and with it search your selves and try your wayes for now is the Lord visiting you and now is he calling you out of darkness and to cast off the unfruitful works of darkness and to break off your iniquities by true repentance that therein you may not perish but have life in the true Light and this is the love of God to the world which they that refuse and chuse to go on in stubbornness and enmity against the light which reproves them for their wickedness it is their condemnation Iohn 3.19 for they hate the light because their deeds are evill and they will not bring their deeds to the light least it should reprove them and these want power to overcome sin and to slay the enmity and they go on in darkness they know not whither and they are in unbelief there they are excluded from the Life of God let them profess what they will of the Prophets or of Christ or his Saints or their words here the light hath no fellowship with darkness nor with them who hate it and love darkness better than light and such find no power over their wils nor over their lusts nor vile affections because they deny him who is the Power of God and among such the powers of darkness have dominion and destruction is in their wayes and the curse and wrath of God abides upon them John 3.36 Isai 42.6 and 49 6. who hate the Light they despise the Covenant of God which Christ the Light is given for and such are seduced and kept from the knowledge of the pure God and these are without God in the world which lives in wickedness therefore all you in whom there is any desires remaining after the living God and to know his power return to the Light of Christ within you and it will let you see Eph. 4.17 how you have spent your time and where your hearts are and how you have been tossed to and fro in the dark and your minds have been exercised in vanity and by the subtilty of the Serpent for his kindom of sin you have been reasoning and could not find a way out of it Rom. 8 20. and yet the Serpent hath put you in hope of mercy and forgiveness of sins though you go on in sin in your life time and do not find the nature of sin subdued this is he who beguiled Eve Gen 3.4 and said ye shall not surely die though they eat of that which God had forbidden but take heed how you hearken to his voyce either within you or in his Messengers without you least you be beguiled with his subtilty and left to the eternal wrath of God in the guilt of your sins which guilt remains so long as sin remains and so here the Covenant of God you reject and puts of redemption and despises the day of healing and here is presumption and self-willedness and conceitedness and pride and covetousness and perverseness lived in and here the grace of God is turned into wantonness Jude 4. and the lust of the flesh rules and the members are subject to vanity and the fear of God you are out of 2 Tim. 3.13 and you going on in that nature contrary to the Light you wax worse and worse and here the will of the Devil you fulfil who is the Author of sin and so you deny Christ and his coming who is made manifest to destroy the works of the Devil and to take away the sins of the world 1 John 3.5.8 though you may profess Christ and his doctrine in words yet your profession will not hide you John 1.29 1 Pet. 2.9 1 Tim. 6.3 4 5. nor save you from his judgment and wrath which upon the ungodly must come and you that apply your minds to disputings and vain janglings about the Saints conditions and what they practised who you your selves are out of the Saints life and can get no further

ones who live in pleasure and riotousness who are in the pride of life and exaltation and heady high mindedness who despise the Truth and hate reproof and will not be reformed of your evil wayes but hates him that rebukes in the gate and abhors him that speaks uprightly and perverts true judgment and would not be judged for your wickedness but rather chuses to go on in the servitude of him who is your Captain and Leader in unrighteousness in hatred against the Truth and the setvants of it to mock and reproach and despise them and to persecute the truth and the servants of it some in in slandering it and backbiting the servants of it and some in persecuting and despitefully using and imprisoning the Saints of the most high God who witness forth his Name among the Children of men you are all in the Army of the Dragon and are fighting again the Lamb and striving to suppress his Truth that you might go on at ease in your wickedness But though the Servants of the Lord suffer and Christ be imprisoned and suffer as a Lamb among you for a time through his long forbearance towards you yet will he arise like a Lion and avenge his quarrel upon you and he will tear and devour the wicked and overthrow the Dragon and destroy all his off-spring who are resolved to make war against him in Righteousness will he make war and in wisdom will he plead his cause and ease him of his enemies Behold the day of his war and contraversie is begun already and his hand will not spare nor his eye pitty nor his sword return till he hath accomplished his Decree and overthrown his enemies though he hath been slow to anger and great in suffering for his Seed sake which he is gathering out of the world yet now is his hand stretched out against Sions oppressors and he will punish the world for their sins and will utterly overthrow the Beast and the false Prophet and the conquest shall be his Fear fear and tremble O all ye Inhabitants of the earth who are at enmity against the pure God for your Leader will fail you and you will not be able to stand before the mighty God in his dreadful presence now is his Thunders uttering and his Trumpet a sounding and his Arrows are pollished and his Sword is furbished and his Arm is strong Psal 7.13 and his Wrath is waxing hot against the persecutors and his Host is mighty and Camp is very great and his Day is exceeding terrible who can abide it all the Powers of the earth will not be able to stand in the day of his Battel Jude 14 he is coming with ten thousand of his Saints to execute judgment upon the world and to quit himself and his elect of all their Adversaries and utterly to overthrow their oppressors though his elect and chosen and faithful ones endure great afflictions and long-suffering Luke 18.7 yet their prayers is heard and their cries is entered into the eares of the Lord of Hosts who will not at all acquit the wicked but will render his wrath with fury and his rebukes with flames of fire Wo wo to all you that are set against him behold his day cometh swiftly with wrath and fury as a destruction from on high upon the ungodly Now is his sanctified ones called and an ensign is lifted up to the Nations and the day of vengeance is proclaimed which hasteth greatly Let all Nations fear and dread before the Lord of Hosts for they are all as potters vessels before him who will dash them to pieces and rule them with a rod of Iron and he will have the uttermost parts of the earth for his possession Psal 2. and sweep away all evil doers and hew down all fruitless trees and bind the tares in bundels and burn them and there shall none be able to deliver from the power of the flame of his fiery indignation which is kindled against the rebellious and crooked uncircumcised generation Consider this all ye Inhabitants of the earth high and low great and small Rulers and Teachers and People who persecute the Innocent and hate the Truth and among whom many of the innocent Servants of the living God do suffer cruel usage and imprisonment some have suffered till death in prisons for witnessing forth the Truth and a good Conscience and many yet suffer in prisons and holes in this Nation where their lives are sought to be made a prey upon by Tyrants O how will you answer these things before the dreadful God who set your selves in the work of the Dragon to war against the Lambs of Christs fold and against Christ for the Beast and his Kingdom behold inquisition will the Lord make for the bloud of his Saints among the bloud-thirsty ones who hate persecute and imprison his dear Children who are as dear unto him as the apple of his eye who forgets not their sufferings who for his sake loves not their lives unto death who are counted as sheep for the slaughter and willingly bears the affliction and reproaches of Christ Col. 1.24 till his sufferings be fulfilled in their bodies though it be to death and perishing of the outward man 1 Pet. 5.13 unto whom this day of the Lords wrath and controversie which is coming upon the wicked will be a day of deliverance a day of gladness a day of joy and rejoycing for evermore but a day of blackness Mat. 5.10 11.12 and terror and pain and anguish to the oppressors of his Seed who war for the Beast and the false Prophet Rev. 14.9 10. Rev 20.10 who shall be cast into the Lake which burneth and there be tormented for ever and ever here is the patience and faith and innocency of the Saints who follow the Lamb whither ever he goeth through sufferings and tribulations blessed are they that are not offended in him Let all that follow him and suffer for his Name who are faithful through suffering whatsoever they endure for his sake stand in his power and might and zeal over all the powers of the earth and over the wrath of the Dragon and over the beast though for a time he hath power to wear out the Saints of the most high Dan. 7.25 and think to change times and laws until a time and times and the dividing of time But the Judgment shall sit and they shall take away his dominion to consume and destroy it unto the end and the kingdom and dominion and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole Heaven shall be given to the people of the Saints of the most high whose kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom and all Dominions shall serve and obey him Let all the Saints and faithful ones be valiant and of good chear whose travel and war is for the Lamb of God who shall overcome all the powers of the Earth and stand in his might and power and rejoyce for evermore in him who is getting himself the dominion whose right it is for he is worthy to raign and rule who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords Let all the powers of darkness fall before him and greatness be ascribed to his Name who is King over all the Earth G. W. FINIS