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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A35836	The discovery of the great enmity of the serpent against the seed of the woman, which witnesseth against him where he rules, both in rulers, priests, and people whose hearts are now made manifest in this great day of the Lords power, wherein he is sending his sons and daughters in the power of his spirit to run to and fro to declare his word ... / a true testimony of him the world knows by name, William Deusbery, and in scorn calls a Quaker ... ; also his call to the ministry of the everlasting Gospel by the still voyce of the spirit of God ... ; the word of the Lord to all in England whom the Lord hath betrusted with power ... ; vvith a lamentation over all in England who oppose Christ in his spiritual appearance ... ; from the common goal in Northampton the 25 day of the 4 month, 1655.	Dewsbury, William, 1621-1688.	1655 (1655)	Wing D1265; ESTC R207336	26,718	32

observations so in all these my turnings in my carnall wisdom seeking the Kingdom of God in observations without thither the flaming sword turned which kept the way of the tree of life and fenced me from it and cut me down and rent all my fig-leave coverings and neuroyed that minde that looked out to seek the Kingdom of Heaven in observations or to hearken any more to hear the word of the Lord from man then my mind was turned within by the power of the Lord to wait in his counsel the light in my conscience to hear what the Lord would say And the word of the Lord came unto me and said put up thy sword into thy scabard if my Kingdom were of this world then would my children fight knowes● thou not that if I need I could have twelve legions of Angels from my Father which word enlightned my heart and discovered the mystery of iniquity and that the Kingdom of Christ was within and the enemies was within and was spiritual and my weapons against them must be spirituall the power of God Then I could no longer fight with a carnall weapon against a carnall man for the dead letter which man in his carnall wisdom called the Gospel had deceived me but then the Lord discovered to me the deceits of all these men in England that were seeking the Kingdom of Heaven in outward observations And the messenger of the Covenant forth of his mouth proceeded the two edged sword with which he slayes his enemies cut me down and caused me to yeeld in obedience to put up my carnall sword into the seabbard 〈◊〉 leave ●●e Army Then I returned to my outward habitation and calling I had in the world and there laboured with my hands my mind being turned within to wait upon the Lord in the way of his judgements and this I witnesse the administration of Moses in which Cain is banished Es●u rep obated Phar●oh plagued the first born of Egyp● slain and my wi●l brought in subjection for the Lord to do with me what his will was if he condemned he might and if he saved me it were his free love and in this condemned estate I lay crying in the depth of misery without any hopes of deliverance by any thing I could do to pacifie the wrath of God till the administration of the Prophets that witnessed to my soul therewhere free redemption laid up for me in the Lord Jesus and by the power of the word of their testimony there was a secret hope raised up in me to wait for his coming there I waited till the administration of 〈◊〉 and I witnesse that of all that is born of a woman there is 〈◊〉 ●●reater then Iohn for he is a burning and a shining light who discovered more of the mystery of iniquity in me in his administration and the sence of my condition was more manifest the cry of my condemned soul was great and could not be satisfied I breathed and thirsted after Christ to save me freely through his blood or I perished for ever and in this condemned estate I lay waiting for the coming of Christ Jesus who in the appointed time of the father appeared to my soul as the lightnings from the E●st to the West and my dead soul heard his voyce and by his voyce was made to live who created me to a lively hope and sealed me up in the everlasting Covenant of life with his blood then I witnessed the wages of sin and death and the gift of God eternal life through Jesus Christ my Lord and I witnessed according to testimony of Scripture death reigns over all from Adam to Moses and Moses untill the Prophets and the Prophets untill Iohn and from this day the Kingdom of Heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force there is no rest to the soul till Christ bee manifest and this the Scripture witnesseth and I witnesse these Scriptures fulfilled in mee in the year according to the account 1645. The witnesses that stood before the God of the earth and had power to plague the earth having finished their testimony the 〈◊〉 ascends out of the bottomlesse pit and makes war against 〈◊〉 and kill them and their dead bodies lay in the stree● of the great Citty spirituall Sodom and Aegypt where our Lord was crucified and this Scripture was fulfilled in me in the year according to account 1648. Then Kindreds tongues and the Nations of the earth made merry over the witnesses and I see the abomination that maketh desolate which is spoken of by Daniel the Prophet standing in the holy place where it ought not and then was I led by the Spirit into the wildernesse and tempted of the Devill that the Scripture might be fulfilled Luke 4.1 In that day and hour of temptation which was in the time as the lines following giveth testimony I witnessed these Scriptures fulfilled in me of Pauls condition wherein he complained as I then did who found a law in my members warring against the Law of my mind that when I would do good evil was present with m● the sence of which caused me to cry Oh wretched man that 〈◊〉 who shall deliver me from the body of this death And as 〈◊〉 crying to the Lord to free me from the burthen I groaned under the word of the Lord came unto me saying My grace is sufficient for thee I will deliver thee and by the power of his word I was armed with patience to wait in his counsel groaning under the body of sin in the day and hour of temptation untill it pleased the Lord to manifest his power to free me which was in the year according to the account 1651. The spirit of life from God entred into the witnesses and they stood upon their feet then great fear fell upon all that saw them and the Temple of God was opened in Heaven and I saw in his Temple the Ark of his Testament and there were lightnings voyces thunder earth-q●akes and great hail then mystery Babylon the great the mother of harlots and the abomination of the earth which made all Nations drunk with the wine of the wrath of her fornication she was discovered in me and God remembred her when the mighty day of the Lords power was manifest upon her Jesus Christ was revealed from Heaven in flaming fire pouring vials of wrath upon her and rendring vengeance upon all in me that knew him no● and disobeyed his Gospel and purged away the filthy nature that did me imbondage with the spirit of judgement and with the spirit of burning so through the righteous law of life in Christ Jesus I was made free and am from the body of sin and death and through these great tribulations my garment is washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb who

you will eternally answer before the pure powerful dreadfull God take heed of abusing your power he hath betrusted you with in establishing any Law which is contrary to Scripture and the righteous Law of God in the conscience as those did whom the Lord drave out and destroyed before you in his wra●●nd overturnd in his fierce displeasure which if you uphold those Lawes they made in their wills or any other which is contrary to the righteous Law of God in the conscience and rule according to them Lawes and exercise the power committed to you to bind the Lawes upon the consciences of the children of the Lord whom he hath chosen out of the world and made his jewels to fear an oath in obedience to the righteous Law which sayeth swear not at all which if you by these unrighteous Lawes take advantage against the righteous seed concerning the Law of their God them to ensnare under your power that you on them may satisfie your wills This I declare to you from the eternall God of Heaven and Earth It is hard for you to kick against the pricks for what is done to his people he takes it as done to himself and better a Milstone were hanged about your neck and you cast into the Sea saith Christ then to offend one of these little ones that beleeveth in his name and obeyes his command who saith swear not at all and now is manifesting his power in his people that all them may know between those that swear and them that fear an oath which if you them that fear an oath oppress this know the Lord God will plead their cause as he did the cause of all his people in all ages and destroyed those that oppressed them as in the time of Pharaoh and in the time of Nebuchadnezzar and in the time of Hamon in the reigne of King Ahasuerus and in the time of King Herod whom he smotein his righteous judgements and consumed him with worms Acts 12.23 for persecuting his people and robbing him of his glory the righteous justice of God he manifested upon the enemies of his people is left upon record you to fo●ewarn that you touch not his chosen anointed people nor do his Prophets no harm for whose sakes the Kings rebukes and all that oppresse them as is recorded in Scripture of truth and hath been witnessed before your eyes in destroying the Bishops and the King that oppressed the people of God by their power in binding Lawes upon them contrary to the righteous Law of God in their consciences and you Rulers of England who promised to the Lord God if he would deliver those that oppressed his people into your hands and give you power over them you would take away all Laws that burthe●ed the consciences of his people and they should have free liberty to worship him in spirit and in truth according to his Law written in their own hearts and according to your desires the Lord appeared while you in his counsell stood and gave all into your power according to the desires ofyour own hearts and now is the time of your t●y all wherein the Lord is trying all you this day whom he hath put power into your hands which if you now forget the Lord God who appeared to you when you were little in your own eyes in the day of your distresse and deny to perform your promises you made to the Lord when he delivered you out of the hands of those that sought your lifes but contrary to all your promises abuse your power you are betrusted with to build up again you seemed to destroy which cost the price of so much blood in establishing Lawes which are contrary to Scripture and the righteous Law of God in the conscience and by them think to scatter the power of the holy people and to weary out the Saints of the most high God in turning judgement backward and keeping justice a far off that truth falleth in the streets and ●quity cannot enter so he that departeth from evill maketh himself a prey to your wills and the Lord God seeth it and is displeased with you that there is no judg●ment for his people therefore to you this is the word of the Lord that abuse your power you are betrusted with in perverting judgement as before written thus saith the Lord God The pit you dig for my people you shall fall into it your selves and my people I will deliver by the arm of my mighty power and according to your deeds I will to you repay and recompence fury and vengeance to you my adversaries and will you sweep away with the beesome of my wrath except you repent and your blood shall be upon your own heads and you shall not escape but come to your end and none shall help you He that hath an ear to hear let him hear And be forewarned now in this day of your visitation wherein the Lord hath to you sent you to forewarn of the evill that is coming upon you that you may speedily to him return and lay your Crowns in the dust at the feet of Jesus Syons King and in his counsel stand which is the light in the conscience that in you witnesseth against every vain thought and wicked imagination and in the light wait his power you to guide to perform your promises and to take away all Lawes contrary to Scripture and the righteous Law of God in the conscience that the righteous Law of God may be your guide which is the guide of all the children of God then will the Lord God of Heaven and Earth be with you and with the arm of his mighty power destroy all that plot or rise up against you before whom he will make the unrighteous powers of the earth to shake if you abide faithful in his counsel and wil make you a terrour to the evil doers and a p●aise to them that do well and will bring you into the eternall peace and rest he hath prepared for his people but if you reject his counsell and cast his righteous Law behind your backs as you have done and follow the counsel of your own hearts all that have an eye to see read and understand Prov. 29.1 He that hath been often reproved and hardeneth his neck shall suddenly be destroyed and that without remedy and in that day I shall be clear of your blood who in love to your soules hath not hid the counsel of God from you which he hath made known to me that you may be left without excuse in the da● of the Lords anger when hee doth perform what he hath spoken Then shall I be remembred whom the world knows by name William Dousbery and by some of you that professes to minister justice cast into prison and there kept in the common Goal in Northampton for the word of God and Testimony of Jesus Christ From the Goal in Northampton the 25 day of the 4 month 1655. O England England over all in

thee I lament who persecutes the Sons and Daughters of the most high God he hath to thee sent thee to forewarn of the evill day that is coming upon thee O That thou in this day of thy visitation did know the things belonging to thy peace which the living God tenders to thee in this day of his mercy wherein he waites on thee to be gracious unto thee and to make thee the glory of all the Nations of the world and in all thy straits for thee appeared and in his mighty power hath destroyed all that did secretly plot and rise up against thee to establish unrighteous Lawes and them bind upon the consciences of those that fea●ed the Lord in thee and walked humbly before him according to the measure of light received and now hath he appeared in the day of his mighty power in thee O England to exalt the Kingdom of Christ in the hearts of his Saints and hath sent them to preach his everlasting Gospel in thee to turn the mindes of the people from darknesse to light which comes from Christ in it to waite for his power to guide out of all sin and uncleannesse into union and fellowship with the Father of light which many of you people in England seemed to desire above all things and content to give up your lives to withstand them that did appear to bind any unrighteous law upon you and by it to take advantage against you concerning the Law of God which you professed to love and to delight in your liberty in it more then in your nearest and dearest relation or life or any outward injoyment and all you in that day who were faithfull to the Lord according to the measure of light manifest in you the Lord God did appear for you and in his mighty power hath scattered those that stood up in enmity against you to bind Lawes upon your consciences which is contrary to Scripture and the righteous Law of God in the heart and the Lord hath given you power over all those your enemies and now have you free liberty which they cannot take from you to worship God in spirit and in truth according to the desires you seemed to manifest in the day you cryed to the Lord when you were in distresse and now is the Lord come to visite you in his tender mercy and hath sent his Ministers to preach his eternal word freely without money or price in season and out of season to reprove rebuke exhort with all long-suffering and doctrine which many of you people in England who promised the Lord to worship him in spirit and in truth now his counsell rejects and turns to the teachers you have heaped up to your selves according to your own lusts who cryes peace peace to you in what you do while you put into their mouths and now is the time come to the fulfilling the Scripture in you who have itching eares and cannot indure sound doctrine but turns from it to fables which if you continue in your carelesse mindes slighting this day of your visitation and not like to retain God in your knowledge God will give you up to reprobate mindes that professe you know God but in works deny him being abominable and disobedient and to every good work reprobate upon whom the Lord will get his glory in his righteous judgements and if the Lord in his everlasting love had not left a seed in thee O England thou with all thy teachers whom thou hast heaped up according to thy own lusts would have become as Sodom but for his own seed sake whom he hath blessed he will do good to the inhabitants of England who stands faithfully in his counsell to be guided by his power and will scatter all those that stand in opposition to his righteous seed Christ whom he is exalting in the hearts of his elect and chosen people in England to rule for ever over all that stand in enmity to him this is the day the mighty God is giving all power unto his son Jesus to whom every knee shall bow and all you proud stubborn self-willed lofty ones that hates the light of Christ in you that witnesses against sin in the secret of the heart and conscience and it rejects and denies to be guided by it but turns to the counsell of your own hearts and the Teachers you have heaped up according to your lusts and with them sits at ease in the flesh and turns the grace of God into wantonness and forgets the loving kindnesse of the Lord who delivered you by the arm of his mighty power when enemies compassed you on every side and gave your lives for a prey when they were nigh unto death and now you abuse your liberty to walk with your teachers according to your lusts and with them commit this filthy and abominable thing in the land the Priests to teach for hire and the Prophets that divine for money and you people love to have it so but what will you do in the end thereof which day you put afar off and do not regard but that you shall not be ignorant of the mind of the Lord and left without excuse in the mighty day of the Lords anger who hath sent his servants and children early and late to forewarn you of the evill day that is coming upon you if you doe not speedily repent and turn to the Lord but slight this day of your visitation then shall the things now belonging to your peace be hid from your eyes and your end shall be according to the word of the Lord I declare to you thus saith the Lo●d All these my enemies that will not that I shall rule over them bring them hither and slay them before me and this is your portion you enemies of Christ that hates his counsel as is before written he will you consume with the breath of his mouth and the brightnesse of his coming which will overtake you that sit at ease in the flesh as a theef in the night and in flames of fire will render vengeance on you that disobeys his Gospel and will give to every one of you according to the works done in the body and you shall not escape from Israels Judge Syons King who will all his people deliver and you proud lofty ones under bring by his mighty power to the praise and glory of his righteous justice who alone is worthy God over all blessed for ever Amen Remember you are warned in your life time and prize this day of your visitation while the Lord in patience and long-sufferance waites to be gracious and mercifull to you if you speedily return to his counsell which is the light of Christ in your consciences that shewes you sin and wait in it for his power to lead you to repentance and to cleanse you from sin and in the straight way of self-denyal and the daily crosse you to guide in obedience to the Father of light then will the Lord God