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truth_n	hear_v	lord_n	speak_v	3,923	5	4.6598	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27130	Iacob is become a flame and the house of Esav stubble, or, The battail betwixt Michael and the dragon in which the seed of the woman is bruising the serpents head, and Cain the first birth ... is found the vagabond, and Abel and Abraham ... the friends of God : being a true discovery of the two seeds or births between which the enmity is put, the time and day being come in which the elder must serve the younger : with a few words to the priests, Bishops, Episcopal-men, and professors of this last age, and a short warning to the rulars and inhabitants of the earth.	Bayly, William, d. 1675.	1662 (1662)	Wing B1530; ESTC R27128	18,671	21

worship and practises life and conversation of his servants and Children from the beginning to this day First consider there are but two seeds in the whole Creation between which emnity is put and are obsolute contrary in Nature fruits and effects that is the seed of the Serpent And the seed of the Woman which is Christ in his people the same to day yesterday and for ever the Imanuel who is now coming in ten thousands of thousands of his Saints called Quakers who tremble at his word for they are the people that shall spring up and spread from the Root of Iesse over the face of the whole Earth through the vertue and power of this seed Christ Jesus whose fruits and effects is Love meekness patience temperance mercy fulness justness soberness righteousness holiness peace and joy in the eternal power and spirit of the pure God doing to all men as they would they should do to them these and such like are the fruits of the tree of this seed of the Woman Christ which must bruise the head of the Serpent whose seed brings forth contrary fruits and effects in every particular though in some things it might imitate the Righteous seed as Cain did in matter of sacrifice or worship or the like but still it s from another seed root and ground which is acursed for said God cursed is the ground for thy sake mark that the ground not the simple earth which is good but the ground of envy murder and wickedness that had opened his mouth in him to swallow up his brothers blood from which it cryes against him and his generation of murderers about sacrifice and worship at this day and for ever so this is the other seed whose fruits and effects are manifest as saith the Scriptures even the seed of the fleshly Birth which persecutes the birth born of the Spirit of the living God which are these envy pride wrath malice striffe anger highmindedness frowardness bitterness uncleaness laciviousness covetousness drunkeness wantoness revellings rioting emulations witchcraft hatred heresies Idolatry injustice partiallity and hipocrisy these and such like are the fruits and effects of the Serpents seed which hath spread as a great tree of wickedness over the whole earth and is that cursed one that hath so long cumbred the ground And these are also the Children of Babylon the great Whore which hath Reigned over the Nations and Kings of the Earth happy is the man that dasheth these against the stone Christ Jesus the light that discovers them and these are those wares costliness pretious things of Babylon even the fruits and pleasures of sin the glory riches worships and beloved practises of iniquity which proceeds from this seed of falsehood satisfying a ground that is accursed for ever Therefore saith God come out of Babylon my people pertake not of her sins or fruits that ye be not pertakers of her plagues And now is the day come in which Babylon shall receive at the hand of the Almighty the Cup of the wine of his fury and indignation without mixture and shall drink the dregs thereof and wring them out and all her Marchants that have lived deliciously and delighted in her wares and costliness and traded with her shall houl wail and lament beholding the smoak of her torments which ascends up for ever and ever Hear this you superstitious and Idolatrous Priests Bishops and Hirelings for the foolish woman whose feet are not in her house but is without loud stubborn and clamourous is now pulling down her own house with her hands mark that by her own ungodly actions wicked words and practises slanders persecutions and greivous abominations even pulling or drawing down the just judgements plagues and eternal vengeance of the righteous God upon her own head he that reads let him understand for the time is at hand therefore consider all ye that live in enmity against the harmless seed and people this day are not you in pride which is abomination to God and Ambition and Covetousness which is Idolatry and love pleasures and vanities lusts of uncleanness deceit and flattery more then the pure living God of truth and righteousness and are not you in the stoutheartedness disdainfulness feignedness and Hypocrisy dissimulation and all manner of wickedness and are not you become the hold of every foul spirit and cage of unclean and hateful birds read your state and do not strive against that that lets you see it nor say no by any pretence or covering for the dreadful God hath found you out and his judgements and vengeance is your portion and the great day of the Lamb is come in which you are not able to stand This is the ground of your rage seeing you have but a short time as it is written the wicked cannot stand in the judgement nor sinners in the Congregation of the Righteous Therefore hearken all ye who are in the Babilonish Garments the night attire of the great Whore the Almighty strong and powerful God of Heaven and Earth is stripping and making her bare and naked as in the day in which she was borne to the the view of all Nations Men and Angels for the hour of her judgements is come her sins have reached to heaven and are come into the remembrance before God even her envy and rage scorning and disdaining persecuting and cruelty lusts and pleasures and vanities and all manner of Injustice iniquity and ungodliness flattering and deceitful titles ambition dissimulation Hypocrisy and Idolatry and the like abominations this is also the tongue of the Egyptian Sea which God Almighty of Heaven will shortly dry up that people may goe over dry-shod he that hath an ear let him hear and understand the day hastens yea it cometh swiftly in which righteous just sober and godly men and people shall walk with boldness with comfort and courage in the waies of holiness uprightness and truth in all the Nations of the earth or else the Lord God hath never spoken by me which I know he hath and will perform it Therefore tremble ye careless daughters that are at ease walking haughtily with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes howl howl and weep bitterly ye light puft up and vainglorious men and women the day of your calamity cometh on like an armed man and you shall not escape and upon all you that cry out against the children and servants of the most high God saying they will not obey Magistrates nor reverence such as are in Authority nor respect and honour Superiors nor be subject to the Kings Laws but are proud and wilful stubborn and disobedient and will not worship as we worship nor admire mens persons though they might have advantage by it Hear now my answer ye people whose portion is in this life who are of the houshould and stock of Esau the prophane person whose house is now as Stubble The God of heaven by his dreadful and Almighty power and Judgements hath broken in upon us

though he might rage storme and persecute or promise all the Glory Kingdoms and pleasures of this world to be bowed unto or worshiped yet the Royal seed cannot give glory to another therefore would the Devil like his son Haman have him destroyed out of the world in which he himself hath been worshiped as God blinding and vailing the minde of mankind from the true knowledge and understanding of the noble seed the heir whose right it is alone to Reigne and he must Reigne now till all his enemies are trampled under his feet the Lord hath spoken it to whom be all Honour Worship Glory Dominion Praise Thanks-giving and Eternal songs of deliverance and Redemptions over all Heaven and Earth Halelujah Amen ALL you Bishops Prelates Preists Episcopal men or any other that are professing God Christ and Scriptures and are offering Sacrifice in your own wills and time and places out of the fear and counsel and wisdome of God This is the word of the Lord God you and your Sacrifices are not accepted in his sight but are Abomination unto him even iniquity and Idolatry and all your prayers singings preachings fastings feastings and roarings enters not into the ears of the Lord God of Sabboths but is a smoak in his nostrils all the day long and all your Sacrifices and Sacraments as you call them are not better in the sight of the pure living God of Heaven then if you cut off a Dogs neck or offered Swines blood for it is so you offer Swines blood and not the blood of the Lamb without spot the acceptable seed and the broth of Abominable things which the Lord abhors is in your Vessels if you have ears to hear hear you offer Swines blood the life of the Swine the greedy devourer that lives in your dwellings in which the Devils is entered and you are running violently down the steep place and you will perish among the waters if you Repent not and turn speedily the Lord hath spoken it Therefore hear hear you that are offering Sacrifice and prayers called Common and are in your will Worships and feigned humility never commanded of God though you make a great noyse with your Organs and Sacraments and Surplices and Tippits and Girdles and tables and fingings and pipings and ringings and the like it s all but as the hidious howling of a Dog at midnight whilst you live in lusts envy pride coveteousness coveteousness and unrighteousness and no more accepted of the Righteous holy just God then Cains was the Vagabond who slew his brother being in the same nature and ground of malice and wickedness and God hath set a mark upon you as upon Cain which shall never be blotted out unless you turn and be converted from that root and sink down in your minds to the righteous suffering seed in you which never had fellowship in these things in which you are thus excercised but reproves you in secret for sin and lets you see the evil and vanity of your ways For while you do evil sin lyeth at your door and your prayers and Sacrifices do not enter into the acceptance of the holy God for God heareth not sinners but if any man be a Worshiper of God and doth his will him he heareth but none worships God but them 〈◊〉 worship him in spirit and in truth even in that spirit which you dayly greive and provoke with your abominations and Sacrifices and Oblations sinning and superstitions which he is weary to bear of which he will shortly ease himself and of you also if you proceed in these things which never came into his mind to commend or require at your hands Therefore hear and consider and fear and tremble before the just God of power who is arisen to plead with you about these things and will reprove you for your words worships and Sacrifices feigned imitations which are without the true knowledge darkening the Counsel of God in your own selves and others whereby his pure way of life and truth is not heeded but evil spoken of and his Eternal Counsel by you is not understood which is to stand still in the Light of Christ Jesus the Saviour and not will nor run but as led and guided by it which leads out of all unrighteousness into soberness goodness equity all truth it will let you see if you are quiet in your minds that the jealous God of holiness hath no fellowship nor delight in your ways of superstition and wickedness but secretly saith Returne returne this is not your rest for it is poluted but and if you will not hear and come into the still waters of Shiloah which run saftly but will still ride upon Horses even go on in the strength of your wills in your great noyse of false worships ways Sacrifices and ungodliness then they that persue you even the Judgements of God shall be very swift against you faith the Lord God of Hosts This is your warning and visitation as shall be witnessed whether you hear or forbear Some occasional Queries concerning a Vagabond 1. Qu. VVHether the ground of being a Vagabond be the want of an outward Inheritance Habitation or earthly riches or certain dwelling place in the Earth as some have said yea or nay if yea then how was Cain as a Vagabond seeing he was a Rich man and had an Inheritance and certain dwelling place in the Earth who builded a City and called it after the name of his son Gen. 4. 2. Qu. And if the want of an outward Inheritance or certain dwelling place in the Earth be the only ground of being a Vagabond then whether Abraham was a Vagabond when he went out of his own Country not knowing whether he went having not so much ground as to set his foot on of whom it is written he is called the freind of God Acts 7. Heb. 11. For there hath been a great noise in the World amongst the Rich and great men and professors thereof in these latter days saying if you cannot give an account of your certain dwelling place habitation or place of aboad in the earth we account you as Vagabonds and wanderers and Rogues and you must be prosecuted against as such by our Law Ordinace or Act of Parliament or the like which if they have such a Law that doth Iudge conclude such to be Vagabonds as have no certain dwelling place in the earth that this in their account is the ground of being a Vagabond then marke how far this Law will reach 3. Qu. Whether it will not reach as far in this case as did the Scribs and Pharisees the Jews Law to the son of God who said we have a Law and by our Law he ought to dye for said Christ the Foxes have holes such as Herod and the fowles of the Aire have nests of whome the Devil is Ruler but the son of man hath no where to lay his head Now this Law taks hold of him and of Abraham his freind