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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

light pure openings and Prophesies to come a belief that I should see the day and should bear witnesse to his name and so when things opened so fast the wisdome of the flesh catched them and so I went up and down preaching against all the Ministry and also run out with that which was revealed to my selfe and preached up and down the country of the fulnesse that was in the old bottle and so was wondred after and admired by many who had waded up and down as my selfe had and we fed one another with words and healed up one another in deceit and all laid down in sorrow when the day of the Lord was made manifest for I was overthrown and the foundation swept away and all my righteousnesse and unrighteousnesse was all judged and weighed and all was found too light And immediately assoon as I heard one declare whose name is not known to the world but written in the Lambs book of life for ever in eternall record for ever assoon as I heard him declare that the light of Christ in man was the way to Christ I believed the eternall word of truth and that of God in my conscience sealed to it and so not onely I but many hundreds more who thirsted after the Lord but was betrayed by the wisdome of the Serpent we were all seen to be of the foundation and all mouths was stopped in the dust and so we stood all as condemned in our selves and all saw our nakednesse and were all ashamed though our glory was great in the worlds eye but all was vanity And then after all this I was ignorant what the first principle of true Religion was but as I turned my mind within to the light of Jesus Christ wherewith I was enlightned which formerly had reproved me for all vanity and also as I did own it it led me into righteousnesse and when I turned to it I saw it was the true and faithfull witnesse of Christ Jesus and then my eyes vvas opened and all things vvas brought to remembrance that ever I had done and the Ark of the Testament was opened and there was thunder and lightning and great haile and then the trumpet of the Lord was sounded and then nothing but war and rumour of war and the dreadful power of the Lord fell upon me plague and and pestilerce and famine and earthquake and fear and terror for the sights that I saw with my eyes and that which I heard with my eares sorrow and paine and in the morning I wished it had been evening and in the evening I wished it had been morning and I had no rest but trouble on every side and all that ever I had done was judged and condemned and all things was accursed whether I did eate or drink or restraine I was accursed and then the Lyon suffered hunger and the Seals were opened and seven thunders uttered their voyces mine eyes were dim with crying my flesh did faile of fatnesse my bones were dryed and my sinnews shrunk I became a proverb to all yea to them who had been mine acquaintance they stood afar off me the pillars of Heaven was shaken and the earth reeled as a cottage one woe poured out after another And I sought death in that day and could not find it it fled from me and I sought to cover my selfe any way or with any thing but nothing could for the indignation of the Lord was upon the Beast and the false Prophet and Babylon came into remembrance in that day the mother of harlots and the Sea dryed up and all the Merchants that had traded with her stood asar off for the cup of fury was poured forth and Cain was seen and Judas that had betrayed the Lord of life and I would have run any way to have hid my selfe but nothing but weeping and gnashing of teeth and sorrow and terror and I roared out for the disquietnesse of my heart and the kingdome was full of darknesse I knew not the right hand from the left I became a perfect fool and knew nothing and as a man distracted all was overturned and I suffered losse of all in all that ever I did I saw it was in the accursed nature and then somthing in me cryed Just and true is his judgment my mouth was stopped I durst not make mention of his name I knew not God and as I bore the indignation of the Lord somthing rejoyced the Serpents head began to be bruised and the Witnesses which were slain were raised and stopped Heave● that it rained not in the dayes of their Prophesie and a great samine there was and the Sun was darkned and the Moon turned into blood and the Stars did fall and all the grasse of the earth withered and every green tree and all the springs were dryed up and a great and a noysome smell and a plague fell upon the earth and the waters became as the blood of a dead man and the Heavens passed away with a noyse and the Elements melted and the earth was scorched with the flame which proceeded from the Throne of God and the Judgement Seat of Christ was seen and an account was to be given and then Esau was cursed and Cain and Judas and Ishmael and all the Cananites and the Egyptians went to the left hand and as the Judgement was pronounced something cryed Just art thou oh Lord in all thy judgements and as I did give up all to the Judgement the captive came forth out of prison and rejoyced and my heart was filled with joy and I came to see whom I had pierced and my heart was broken and the blood of the Prophets I saw slaine and a great lamentation and then I saw the Crosse of Christ and stood in it and the enmity slaine upon it and the new man was made and so peace came to be made and so eternall life was brought in through death and judgement and then the perfect gift I received which was given from God and the holy Law of God was revealed unto me and was written in my heart and his feare and his word which did kill now makes alive and so it pleased the Father to reveal his son in me through death and so I came to witnesse cleansing by his blood which is eternall Glory unto him for ever and am a Minister of that word of eternall life which endures for ever Glory unto his name for ever and have rest and peace in doing the will of God and am entred into the true rest and lie down in the fold with the lambs of God where the Sons rejoyce together and the Saints keep holy-day Glory unto him for ever And these few things have I written for your sakes who walk in darknesse that you may see where you are and also ye high Cedars who trust in the arme of flesh that you may cease your boasting and com● down from off the pinacle where you are exalted for the same must come upon you

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

the holy Law of God in which is power which is in the heart and it bears witnesse against you and in you and yet say you cannot believe that ever you shall be able to fullfill it if you fullfill it not you break it and then the wrath abides upon you But then you say if we must fulfill the Law what use is Christ of I say he who abides for ever fulfilled it and fulfills it in them who know him and his work and this the Scriptures bears witnesse of and herein man comes to be jufied in Gods sight by Christ who works all our works in us and for us and self becomes dead and because he lives we live also Glory unto him for ever And therefore we cannot but lay open the deceit of Satan and exhort all to come up to Christ out of the works of condemnation Oh foolish people and unwise when will ye seek after wisedome and hearken that your soules may live How long will yee trust to the imaginations of your own hearts Verily verily I say unto you The time is coming your building shall fall and there shall not one stone be left upon another that shall not be thrown down and the shame of Ethiopia and Aegypt shall come upon you and your old Garments shall be torn off you and you shall walk naked and bare and shall see your shame and the holy Nation of the Lamb shall rejoyce and your sorrow the Lord hastens upon you who will not own the Crosse of Christ nor the word of life which would turn you from unrighteousnesse and out of the world and its nature but you harden your hearts and bend your browes and shoot your Arrowes against the Lord and his Anointed ones and takes part with all the uncircumcised in the Nations in the confederacy in the Nation against the Lamb yea even with them against whom you your selves have declared and many of you who have been a reproach now reproach O tell it not in Gath never let it come to other Nations Shame shame and blush at this you who thus requite the Lord evill for good Hath the Lord broken the band of the oppressor without And have you not seen the hand of the Lord against them that were oppressors cut off in his wrath and overthrown And are not many of you the highest professors both in England and Ireland now acting in their footsteps Even you who professe separation from the world who hath been taken from the sheepfold and as you were seeking the Asses and raised from a low estate in the World now to places of dignity and honour and to bear Rule and to sit as Judges among the people and now have you forgotten that you were servants under Pharaoh but now hath taken up his power and have forgot the afflictions of Joseph and your fingers is becoming heavier then your fathers loines and now you are joyning your strength with the Canaanites and Aegyptians against the Lord Where is the liberty of tender consciences you have told of And what is become of your Reformation Is it ended in this like Absolom when you are come to be Judges in the Gate acts in open Rebellion against the Lord and now would be Judges of him every where and would limit him and set a bound unto him and would break his eternall Decree which stands for ever Oh if them who had professed no love to God had done thus it might have been born but ye treacherous hearts your ingratitude and hypocrisie cannot be born but the Lord God will visit for these things that you should now act by those Lawes which you cryed out of as oppressive and should deliver your brethren up to the devourer and spoyler who have born a part of the suffering in the Nations distresse and grief in the greatest calamity would you thus be done by would you bear it well I will not complain but I will shew you the ground and lay it before you that if it be possible you may be ashamed and repent lest the Lord also avenge himself upon you as he did upon the enemies before you Have not many of you in England been acting in the steps of the prophane when the Lord hath given you what you sought after liberty and freedome in those things and now you labour by all your strength and power to oppresse them who walk blamelesse before the Lord and men also Oh what is all your preaching and praying and fighting and warring come to this that none must declare the mind of the Lord except it be in your way or will or time under paine of bonds and banishment fines and imprisonment stocking whipping stoning and you that have been sufferers your selves now comes to be chief oppressors and opposers of the Lord in his way and all manner of lyes and reproaches you cast upon the truth and you take part with the rest of the Priests and deceivers in the Nation which take part against you when you was for the Lord and numbers us among transgressors of every hand to make the truth odious to all These things and much more are found among you from the least to the greatest and yet you would be accounted Christians and if you say you have thus learned Christ I say you know him not Can you limit the Ocean from flowing or can you command the wind that it blow not or can you stop the windowes of Heaven that it raine not upon the Earth if you cannot at all doe it all lye down he that reproves God let him answer it Have you given counsell to the Lord or have you been his Instructer or can you limit him in his way if you cannot no more shall you be able to stop his way who is riding on in his power and overturns all the worlds wisedome and power and strength and who is able to resist him who dryes up the face of the deep and saith to the Sea be still and to the mountaines be removed and they are so and he vvill advance his ovvn glory and povver against all mens vvills and Lavves vvhich stands in mans vvill and vvill break all your cords as a Bull-rush and overthrovv all your counsell and make it even vvith the earth and shame shall cover all his opposers and therefore learne wisdome Oh ye Potsheards of the earth and cease to strive against the Lord and his power which will be too strong for you and you shall not be able to limit him nor stop him in his way who runs his course as a Gyant and bruises all his enemies heads and cuts them in peece by the two edged sword of his mouth which he hath put into the bands of his Saints who follow him in the Warr and our conquest is through suffering Glory unto him for ever who hath counted us worthy to suffer for his names sake and to be brought before Rulers and Councels for his names sake that the Scripture might be fullfilled in us