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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 Inheritance OF JACOB Discovered AFTER HIS RETURN OUT OF AEGYPT 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 LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black spread Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1656. THE INHERITANCE OF JACOB Discovered After his returne out of Egypt and the leading of the Lord of the Land of promise declared and some information of the way thither AWAKE Oh Sion who hath long sitten in the dust in sorrow and bitternesse and hath been covered with ashes and none hath had compassion upon thee but all the Kings and mighty men of the earth who have worshipped the beast and received his marke and committed fornication with the whore which sitts upon many waters which is full of abomination and the Cup in her hand have all the men of the earth drunken off and are made drunke and staggers and now glories in their abominations and Oh Sion dispises thy virginity and thy scituation and hath pulled downe thy Towers and made thee as a desolate widow and hath gone over thee and trampled upon thy glory and hath made merry over thee and hath slaine thy Sons and Daughters in the streetes even in Babylon where the whore sits as a Queene and in Sodome and Aegypt with whom they are joyned where the witnesses lieth slaine But the time of thy deliverance is come and the yeares of thy Captivity is up Arise Oh Virgin who art not defiled who could not joyne with the Daughter of Babylon in her whoredomes Therefore they have mocked thee and wagged their heads at thee and hath said in their hearts who shall deliver thee Arise shine forth put on thy beautifull garments behold thy King cometh in his glory who will adorne thee and crowne thee with a royall Diadem in the sight of thine enemies who have reproached thee and thy reproach shall be taken away for thy Seed shall be as the starres in multitude yea they that have spoiled thee shall be spoiled and they that have destroyed thee shall be destroyed for the King is coming out of his Tent yea he hath lifted up his Standard against all that have spoiled thee yea the destroyer is come up against Babylon and Aegypt shall tremble and the Philistines hearts shall faile for feare and all the Canaanites shall be cast out and this shall be performed by the Lord of Hosts the God of Jacob who is now arisen in his Jealousie and it burnes as fire against all the Inhabitants of the earth and the Sea who hath joyned their strength together against the inheritance of the Lord rejoyce for evermore all that love his appearance and who have waited for him he is come and coming to take vengeance upon his and you adversaries for he hath a sacrifice in Babylon to performe even to cut off all her Children who hath despised thee Oh Sion Arm your selves oh yee high Cedars and mighty men put on your strength and gather together all your forces which you have trusted in call upon your gods and all your Soothsayers and Diviners together for now he is come and the Daughter of Sion now laughes you to scorne and Jerusalem the free Citizens doth wagg their heads at you for he will now plead the cause of the poore against you who have been too strong for them and now all that heareth this shall tremble For he will make Jerusalem a praise in the earth and from it doth the Law and the Prophets come forth Awake Oh Arme of the Lord and put one strength as in the dayes of old to redeeme thine own inheritance which hath long been by the heathen laid wast and hath been trampled upon by the uncircumcised art not thou he which was and is and is to come who wilt not give the glory to another arise and shine forth in thy brightnesse thou Starr of Jacob and Sun of Righteousnesse and let the earth be filled with thy Light and glory that Generations to come may call thee blessed Dry up the tongue of the Aegyptian Sea confound the wisdome of this world which never knew thee neither would owne nor receive thee make the Diviners and Sorcerers mad who have scattered thy sheep from the everlasting fold and have healed the hurts of thy people deceitfully and have caused them to erre in telling them thy power nor thy Arme was not to be looked for now as in the dayes of old nor thy immediate voyce nor word was to be looked or waited for now in the earth and so have deceived the people with their lying divinations which they have spoken from the imaginations of their owne hearts and have laid a stumbling block in the way as the Sonne of Nebat did who made Israel to sin But Oh Lord thou seest how thy owne Seed lyeth scattered and the ravenous beasts make a prey upon it and the devourers swallow it up therefore hast thou appeared in thy love and power for thine owne names sake and will not suffer thy Seed to be trodden upon any longer by the Prince of darknesse nor his Children whom he hath begotten in his own Image Arise shine forth thou everlasting Covenant of light and peace by which and in which all our Fathers believed and so obtained a good Report and were redeemed out of Captivity to serve the Lord for ever with one heart and minde and worshipped in one Spirit in which Faith they laid hold upon the perfect Righteousnesse of Christ made manifest in them and were justified but hath been hid for many Generations in the time of Antichrists Reigne and all the world hath wondered after the be●st and hath received his marke but now is the night farre spent and the day is at hand wherein all that hath been hid shall be made manifest and the Number of the beast is read and knowne by all that are redeemed from under his power and now the beast and the false Prophet is seene and the man of sin is made manifest in this the day of his everlasting power and the brightnesse of the Sun of Righteousnesse who is the light of the word hath made him manifest who is come and coming Glory unto him for evermore who alone is worthy to take the Kingdome Wherefore all honest hearted in and underall formes of professions who have travelled and are weary and all you that have kindled a fire and have warmed your selves at the sparkes thereof and yet still you lye

Christ feed no longer upon imaginations nor vaine words cease from looking loe here and there for the kingdome of God will the Father reveal in you as you waite in the measure of the light in you by which he reveals himselfe in his sons and daughters and will bring them to his everlasting fold and true rest all who followes him through the denyall of all and to the loosing of all for him shall come to witnesse an incorruptible inheritance which never fades away And now a few words to you who would thrust your selves into the kingdome and would be called Christs Disciples and Church members who are gathered into confederacies and makes a likenesse unto your selves and are now professing the Saints conditions in words How come you hither to climb up so high in words when as you are what you were before if not worse Think it not a hard saying for it is so among many of you and in the light which is pure you are weighed and when one comes to try you your language bewrays you that you are not what you professe for when you are tryed by the Saints practises and life that was in them and the injoyment they had with God you are found so far from being any such that you even oppose the faith they believed in as some of your Pastors openly to my face in the hearing of two hundred people said all the Saints dyed sinners and so was so far from owning the perfect righteousnesse of Christ that he even denyed it and said it was heresie and others of you say you believe that all the graces the Saints enjoy are imperfect yea even faith is imperfect and others saying that all the righteousnesse that was wrought in them by faith was imperfect and others saying while the light of Christ Jesus condemned them yet Christ justified them and yet that which was wrought in them there was failings in it and so you have imagined a faith and righteousnesse of your own and such a Christ to talk on and a redemption as you may live in lusts and be men pleasers and in the customes and fashions of the world and coveteousnesse and pleads for sin and puts perfect righteousnesse to another world and thus the Devill hath deceived you and so you set up and makes covers but all will not hide you in the day of his appearance for God joynes not to that which is imperfect neither is that true faith which is imperfect and which layes hold upon an imperfect righteousnesse that is such a faith as never was professed by ony of the Saints whose words you professe for they had received faith the gift of God the least measure of which was perfect and as they stood in it though it was but as a graine of Mustard-seed they said to this mountaine be removed and it was so and that which was in them reveald by the Son led them that did believe in it to lay hold upon Christs righteousness which was and is perfect which had yea hath no spots nor wrinckles nor staine and this righteousnesse was made manifest in them by the faith of the Son by which they were justified in the sight of God and came with boldnesse before the throne of Christ for in them there was no condemnation neither guilt but became one with the Judge and reconciled unto him and his throne and to the Lamb by him who is the Midiator and hath made peace betwixt them and the Father and so were justified in the sight of God and this witnesse they had in them that they pleased God and were accepted of God and this righteousnesse was wrought in them and is now the same which is wrought in the Saints by him who is their light and life and this was the righteousnesse of faith and that which was wrought by Christ in the Saints as they believed in him and in the measure of grace received from him which saved them from sin which vvas not of themselves he perfected his ovvn vvork in them through and by faith and justified them and sanctified them and became their vvisdome by vvhich they vvere led into all truth out of failings and imperfection and vveaknesses and he became their strength and rock and they vvere builded upon him and as they stood upon him the rock they vvere preserved vvhen the vvaves did beat and vvhen temptations came and vvere sure and stedfast and immoveable and so overcame the Armies of Aliens and quenched the violence of fire and resisted the Devill and quenched his fiery darts and had victory over the Heathen and reigned as Kings over the Beasts of the field and over the deceit and by the receiving and believing of the word of him who was and is called Jesus by which faith came by the hearing of they overcame the enemies of their soules and him who hath the power of death and the strength of sin is the Law but by the blood of him who is eternall who is Jesus the Midiator of the new and living way they overcame the Dragon even by the word of his testimony which was revealed in them which word of faith Paul vvho vvas a Minister preached unto them even to them vvho had the vvord in them and turned them to it and as they believed in it they were sanctified by it and cleansed by it and made perfect and then they witnessed the bringing in of a better hope which perfects and makes perfect as pertaining to the conscience which while they stood without looking at Elementary things and divers washings and those things which were figures of the true Tabernacle made without hands which stood untill the time of Reformation and then done away to wit the hand writings and them that witnesses the new Covenant now they see them done away and the time of Reformation is come the same which they witnessed Glory for evermore And therefore all you professors who have builded high Towers and Castles in your imaginations and hath told of Reformation these many years but you have nothing but a hand-writing to establish your building upon and all your Reformation hath been but the washing of cups and pulling down one thing and set up another beggerly Elementary Images and doe not witnesse the better hope brought in nor the time of Reformation nor cannot abide that any should declare it unto you nor believe it nor hear it nor while your eyes are without and not in the head you cannot see when good comes but are as Heathens in the desart and although you are among the brambles and bryars yet you would be counted Kings and Heads over others and one making an Image in this manner and another in that of all sorts high and low but all stands in the earth and all in one ground and what doe they availe you for they cannot save for your highest enjoyment is imperfect you say what then serve these for onely for you to talk on and this is all they serve

for and to contend and strive about one with another and all in your wills while the will of God in you is not hearkned unto but cast behind your backs and so the way of true peace you never come to attaine unto Oh when will you be weary of feeding upon the wind and of husks among swine and upon that which dies of it selfe and when will you enquire after the living God who is power how long have you talked of his power to come many years and you are still as far off if not further than you were before and hath told of the glory of the Lord to be revealed and of his Law being written in the heart and of God teaching his people himselfe and of his Spirit being poured out upon his sons and daughters and you cannot see that you have obtained nothing and you have prayed and what have you obtained nothing for you have asked amisse and one comes hungry and is still complaining and then you that are full feeds them with the old dregs and lees which you are setled upon and the old leaven of aiery notions and conceptions and wine of the sowre grape which sets on edge the childrens teeth and fills them to full that when the living bread is broken they cannot eate nor relish it nor tast and so cannot enter your selves nor suffer others to enter and when these things are witnessed in the life which you have talked on so long you cannot own them that doth declare it and when the power of God is declared unto you what it is and where it is to be waited for you cannot own it this is too low for you and except the Lord will come in your way that you prescribe unto him you will not look upon him but as the Jewes did whose eyes were without and your fallen wisdome cannot receive him nor compasse his eternall wisdome And yet you will say the Jewes did require a signe and were in the adultery and the Greeks sought after wisdome and they stumbled and yet you cannot see your selves in the same state Did ever God reveal himselfe to the fallen wisdome which is learned from that principle which is erred and gone out from God or to the will of man which is at enmity against God Nay nay He never did nor will reveal his counsell but to that which is of himselfe which is the least of all seeds in the world and it is he that is borne of God that heareth Gods word and what is borne of the Spirit is Spirit and is nourished by the Spirit and led by it and so the spirituall God reveals his Law and his Statutes to him and his testimony which is sure How long have you talked of the Spirit and worshipping in Spirit and yet indeed denies its leading and teaching and lives in the oldnesse of the letter and crying up and setting up things that are carnal and visible and Elementary and washing is not known from sin nor cleansing and so you may see what operation your Spirit you have talked on hath when you are still what you were Now the Spirit of God is operative and works a change in the ground and translateth all that follow and hearken unto it into its own nature when all those things you so much strive about were but a shadow for the vvord vvas in the beginning and gave life and is spiritual and vvhen it s knovvn and vvitnessed vvithin in the heart it separates from death and gives life to all that hear it and believe in it What Christ is this you preach and what Gospel is this you preach vvhich saves you not from guilt and condemnation for the vvord of the true Christ vvhere it is ovvned cleanseth and takes avvay sin and condemns it and blots it out and destroys the root from vvhence it flovvs forth and vvorks a nevv creation in righteousnesse and the Lamb of God takes avvay sin in which the Churches of Christ believed and is glad tidings to all that doe receive it now none can witnes gladness of soul where there is guilt which you all affirm is in every Christian while in this world and so you might see that it s not the true Christ nor the everlasting Gospell you preach but this you cannot bear Yet you say he hath taken away your sin How much is sin taken away if you say all how comes the guilt and trouble that is in you for if it be taken away and his justice satisfied this were to make God unjust to charge it upon you againe But I tell you when his witnesse in your conscience convinceth you and manifests unto you that you commit it and reproves for it I say you cannot witnesse his justice satisfied for the light is just which is one with God and when this condemns you there is no God that will justifie you But you use to say It s all done in Christ I ask where if it be not taken away and unlesse you have the witnesse of it in you your faith is vain for he that believes hath the witness in himselfe which none hath who walks contrary unto the light the pure vvitnes of Christ for this convinceth you of sin and bears witness against you Now shew your witnesse within you and your assurance I say unto you while the testimony of Jesus bears testimonie against you it bears not witnesse unto you and so see your confusion But after you have believed in Christ as you say and have received all his Ordinances if any thing after did judge you and bring trouble upon you this you used to call a temptation and so put light for darknesse and darknes for light I say there is no guilt where sin is taken away and crucified but peace and rest in the holy God who is unchangeable and so is his witnesse unchangeable which judgeth and condemnes the changeable But you use to say His love is unchangeable and whom he loves once he loves to the end Yea but it is him who is begotten by the immortall word which was in the beginning and which word leads to the beginning again before the Hatred was the Promise is to this seed not seeds as to many but the seed of the Covenant there he loves from the womb yea the womb that bears the seed of Jacob and the paps that gives them suck and where this is known as to enjoyment Esau is cast out and Ishmael and the seed of Abraham inherits the Promise and Edom and Moab is laid wast and Amaleck is slain by the edge of the sword and the seed of evil doers cut off blessed are they that can witnesse this in truth and till this be known the everlasting love of God is not known which is stronger then death and sin is death and where it is acted conceived love is not witnessed nor its strength but wrath comes upon the Children of disobedience and are you not Children of disobedience while you break