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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A86650	The inheritance of Jacob discovered. After his return out of Ægypt: and the leading of the Lord to the land of promise, declared, and some information of the way thither. Or a word of exhortation to all professors in England, Scotland and Ireland, and to all the world where this shall come, wherein the common salvation is declared, in which the saints believed; and deceit discovered and made manifest. Published in love to all the honest hearted in the nations, in love and bowels of compassion to your soules. Also a few words of exhortation to the rulers of England, and Ireland. / By a servant of Jesus Christ who delighteth in his masters worke. Francis Howgill.	Howgill, Francis, 1618-1669.	1656 (1656)	Wing H3168; Thomason E869_3; ESTC R208464	31,316	40

the root of iniquity stood and the body of sin whole notwithstanding I was kept by a secret power from grosse evills but still sorrow compassed me about and I questioned all that ever I had which they said was grace and repentance and faith And then I told them there was guilt in me And they said sin was taken away by Christ but the guilt should still remaine while I lived and so brought me the Saints condititions who were in the warfare to confirme it and so I said in my selfe this was a miserable salvation that the guilt of sin and condemnation still in me should stand and so I was tossed from mountaine to hill And I heard them preach confusion and so I matterd not for them and said sure this is not the Ministry of Christ and so I ceased long by fits and did not mind them but kept still at home and in desart places sollitary in weeping and every thing that I had done was laid before me insomuch that every thought was judged and I was tender and my heart broken and when I could sorrow most I had most peace for something spoke within me from the Lord but I knew him not then And they said that it was heresie to look for the word of the Lord to be spoken now in these dayes but onely the letter and so I regarded it not much yet often I was made to doe many righteous things by the immediate power and word of God and then peace and joy sprung up in me and promises was spoken that he would teach me himselfe and be my God and often I did obey contrary to my will and denyed my will but they told me this was legall to obey out of fear and that was slavery but there was an Evangelicall obedience as they called it so I got above the fear and yet acted the former things which they called Ordinances and they said that was son-like obedience and Christ had done all Then there appeared more beauty in them called Independants and I loved them and so joyned my selfe to them and all the money that I could get I purchased books with and walked with and owned them as more separate from the world and they prest separation but at last I saw it was but in words that they would doe things and chuse officers and members of themselves and so made themselves an Image and fell down to it yet there was some tendernesse in them at the first but the doctrine was the same with the worlds words without of others conditions Then they whom they called Anabaptists appeared to have more glory and walked more according to the Scripture observing things written without and I went among them and there was something I loved among them but after they denyed all but such that came into their way as out of the fellowship of the Saints and Doctrine of Christ I saw the ground was the same and their Doctrine out of the life with the rest of the Teachers of the world and had separated themselves and made another likenesse but still all said the letter was the word and rule and Christ at a distance without had done all and some of them holding freewill others opposing and all in the will But still I loved them that walked honestly amongst all these but though I had seen and owned all that I had heard except the figure which I saw was outward and that was their greatest glory and I saw they would have all fall down to it else no communion in the midst of all these and much more which is death to speak on but onely that all honest hearted may see themselves where they have rested and also may not trust any more to a reed of Egypt after all this no peace nor no guide I found And then the Doctrine of free-grace as they called it some preach't that all sin was done away past present and to come and so preached salvation to the first nature and to the Serpent that bore rule onely believing this and all was finished to this I hearkned a little and so lost my condition within But still whither ever I went this was spoken in me His servant thou art to whom thou obeyes and so I being overcome by sin I had no justification witnessed in me but condemnation Then some preached Christ within but they themselves were without had but words and yet they said all must be within unto which my heart did cleave and spoke of redemption and justification and all within and of God appearing in man and overcoming the power of the Devils and then that in my conscience bore witnesse it must be so and I was exceedingly pressed to wait to find it so and something breathed after the living God and a true love I had to all that walked honestly in what profession soever and I hated reviling one another and that they should smite one another and persecute one another and with the sufferer I alwayes took part But still I saw though they spoke of all things within and of a power to come that they enjoyed not what they spoke for the same fruits was brought forth till at last I saw none walked as the Ministers of Christ nor none that pretended to the Ministry had any such gift neither Pastour nor Teacher nor any such Members as was in the Apostles time So at last having passed up and down hurried here and there I saw all the Teachers of the world that they sought themselves and fed poor people with dead names and deceit and that they were not the Ministry of Christ and so I saw them all in deceit who did not abide in Christs Doctrine and so I got my selfe quit of most of them for ever as I dissented from their judgement they hated me and persecuted me So at last there was something revealed in me that the Lord would teach his people himselfe and so I waited and many things opened in me of a time at hand And sometime I would have heard a Priest but when I heard him I was moved by the Lord and his word in me spoke to oppose and often as a fire I burned and a trembling fell upon me yet I feared reproach and so denyed the Lords motion and it was revealed in me to waite and I should know his counsell and the word of the Lord was in me the time was at hand when the dead should hear the voyce of the Son of God and it burned in me as fire that the day was near when it should not be Loe here nor there but all his people should be taught of the Lord But still my mind ran out and out of the fear into carelesnesse for the Crosse of Christ I knew not And yet this I say I was wiser then my Teachers I met with in that Generation I doe not glory in it for condemnation is past on it all for ever yet still I had ever as my mind was turned to the