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A96396	Jacob found in a desert land: or, A recovery of the lost out of the loss (truly manifested;) wherein is discovered the work of the Lord in the creature, and how I travelled through the night of thick darkness, which hath over spread the whole world; and of my deliverance out of darkness into the true Light and truth: wherein is witness my heavenly call into the ministry of the everlasting truth. / Given forth for the everlasting name of the Lord sake, and for their sakes, who desire to know the truth, and how I came into the truth; that they that can believe it may receive some satisfaction, (out of which all despisers and unbelievers are excluded.) By a witness of the same in life and testimony, who am a sufferer for the pure seed sake, who am known to the sons of men by the name of George Whitehead; in contempt, by the generation of despisers, called, a Quaker. With a few words to them who have any desires left in them to know the truth, whether they be in forms of profession, or out of forms, that they may see themselves, and return from their evil. Also a voyce of the thunder of the Lord from his holy temple, uttered forth to the inhabitants of the earth, who are in the Army of the Dragon (whether rulers, teachers or people.).	Whitehead, George, 1636?-1723.	1656 (1656)	Wing W1936; Thomason E889_1; ESTC R204021	15,111	22

Children up in whom I taught and with diligence then I did labour in that calling till I was called from it And in the time when I was led away captive to fulfil the will of the wicked one I went much after the worlds Teachers and heard them and had got a part in their profession and spended many times in hearing them day after day till I was often weary with following and hearing them teach their own traditions and much what they had gotten out of other mens writings and added their carnal Inventions to the Saints words and raised their Uses and Applications and Doctrines and Arguments and Propositions and Motives as he did whom for several times I usually heard in the Steeple-house at Orton in Westmerland who had deceived me and others under his Ministry though he be of great estimation in the world and other Priests in the same nature with him I heard several times But something in me was not satisfied with their Ministry for I was alwayes learning there and could not know the Truth as many others under their Ministry are and often while I was in the hearing of some of the worlds Teachers my spirit was troubled and when they gave people some of Davids Conditions to sing I could not sometime joyn with them in singing knowing I was short of what they sung in meeter concerning David what he passed thorow and how it was with him when he was in sorrow and affliction and joy and in his deliverance from corruption which the Priests caused people to sing who both themselves and their hearers are short of when in their singing they told God it was so with them as it was with David which often I durst not least I should have told God lies And when I grew something weary with those Priests and that profession which I had gotten under their Ministry did wax old then I began to see them to be gross and wicked in their practises and lives and I saw that the Scriptures witnessed against them in many things they practised who themselves spake against pride and covetousness and yet lived in them as their practises and lives made and makes them manifest And then I went to hear some who were separated from them who was gotten into higher forms than the Priests and were got above the traditions and carnal Ordinances which the Priests do practise and had a more true form of words than they and yet it was but a little time that I followed such for my soul was not satisfied there and that of God in me was then in prison and not ministred unto by them who were in their notional knowlede above the Light and Life of Christ and what they ministred to was but death and the carnal mind by that ministry was fed and that spoak and got the Saints words to speak off which had no right to them and still the Witness of God in my Conscience pursued me that in my mind I could not be quiet and it often ministred condemnation to that nature in me which they who did run before they were sent did promise life and speak peace unto but here I had no peace and thus in the unstable mind I was tossed too and fro with windy doctrines which for a time was pleasant to that mind which fed in them but that pleasure did wither and they were as a tinkling Cimbal or sounding Brass which passed away and that profession which in the forms I had gotten did wax old And when I was near about the age of sixteen years being in the year as accounted 1652 it pleased the Lord God to send some of his Messengers called Quakers through his own free Love to me wards which in me was and is witnessed and received by his own Seed whom he hath gathered unto himself in the North Country where it was scattered Jer. 23.8 which is reproached by the world and called Quakers But when I first went to hear these Messengers of the Lord being then led to hear them by a principle of God which I knew not then but through them the Word of the Lord was ministred unto me and the Witness of God in me did witness and answer to the same which I did really believe and my understanding was opened by the word of power which through them was ministred and I then saw that they were Witnesses of the pure Truth of God and saw that the Scriptures did witness for them and for the Truth which they held forth and ministred which long before I had sought after but could not find it while I was led from the Light of Christ in me by blind Guides and Hirelings who had made a prey upon me so that what the Messengers of Christ did minister was effectual in me whereby I was turned from darkness to light and this I received as the Word of the Lord Rom. 10.8 and not as the word of man for it was the Word of Faith and it was nigh me even in my heart which in the love of Christ wherein it was ministred I received and it through Love did work in me and was effectual for by it the vails was rent and at the appearance thereof light was divided from darkness in me and then I knew where my Guide and Teacher was which comprehended darkness by which Light my mind was informed and I brought to wait on the teaching of God within which in the light I received and through faith was subject to and here I saw the war which I had to pass through and the strength of the Serpent and his wisdom wherein I had been acted and seeding upon the Tree of Knowledge where I was separated from the Life of God and had no right to the Tree of Life while I fed there but when the vails was rent and I saw the strength of the Enemy of my soul then I saw the Judgment of God upon the Prince of the World and upon those imaginations and that wiseom wherein I had been lead from the simplicity and light of the Gospel to obey the Serpent and to hearken to the voyce of strangers but the Seed of God took root and was treasured up in me and in the power of the Lord it arose in me and wrought effectually and here I received the teaching of God and heard his voyce and by his power the earth was shaken and the foundation of that wisdom wherein I had been and to that I became a fool that I might be wise in the living Knowledge of God whose thunders in heaven and voyces which did run through the earth I heard and saw famine and barrenness in the earth as a barren wilderness and in simplicity I was made willing to wait upon God and to endure the Cross of Christ though for a time and times the enmity of the wicked one was strong against me within and without seeking to devour that Seed which through the Word of the Lord was begotten in

ever Allelujah and Glory to the most high for evermore Thus was I moved by the Spirit of the living God to give forth for the simple ones sake who are groping in the dark whether in forms or out of forms who are not satisfied but yet have some desires to know the Truth as it is in Christ Jesus who is the Way the Truth and the Life which whosoever follows shall not abide in darkness but shall have the Light of Life and there shall be no occasion of stumbling but by the Builders and by such as live in the wisdom of the flesh and are wise in their own eyes he is rejected and to them become a Rock of offence but to them that believe in him and follow him he is a Rock of defence and become the head of the Corner the chief Corner-stone and true foundation and the Author of salvation From me whose desire is for the good of souls who would not the death of finners but rather that they should turn from their wickedness and obtain remission of sins I am a sufferer for the everlasting Truth sake and for the good Seed sake by which I am witnessed in my suffering and for whose sake it is effectual and through my suffering the Truth of God is exalted Rev. 2.10 though it be contrary to the envy of the wicked one who cast me into prison where I have been a sufferer above a year and have endured exceeding much abuse by Tyrants and am not convinced of the breach of any known Law that ever could be laid to my charge either at my Imprisonment or since But the Lord is my Refuge though I have no helper in the earth The ninth day of the sixt moneth in the year as accounted 1656. The earthly name by which the world knows me is George Whitehead Prisoner of the Lord in Edmonds-Bury common Goale in the County of Suffolk who a name hath written in heaven which none knows but they that are redeemed from the earth A few words to them who have any desires left in them to know the Truth whether they be in forms of profession or out of forms that they may see themselves and return from their evil TO you that live without the knowledge of the true God and know not his power neither are come into the life of the Saints in light you who are groping in the dark you go you know not whither and have long been seeking and have not found satisfaction nor rest to your souls for whose good my desire is my message I declared unto you That God is light John 1.5 and in him is no darkness and he hath sent his Son into the world a light to bring out of darkness Iohn 1.9 and out of the deeds of darkness he is the true light wherewith he lighteth every man that cometh into the world and he is the power of God to salvation to them that follow him and believe in him therefore every one of you return to the true Light and with it search your selves and try your wayes for now is the Lord visiting you and now is he calling you out of darkness and to cast off the unfruitful works of darkness and to break off your iniquities by true repentance that therein you may not perish but have life in the true Light and this is the love of God to the world which they that refuse and chuse to go on in stubbornness and enmity against the light which reproves them for their wickedness it is their condemnation Iohn 3.19 for they hate the light because their deeds are evill and they will not bring their deeds to the light least it should reprove them and these want power to overcome sin and to slay the enmity and they go on in darkness they know not whither and they are in unbelief there they are excluded from the Life of God let them profess what they will of the Prophets or of Christ or his Saints or their words here the light hath no fellowship with darkness nor with them who hate it and love darkness better than light and such find no power over their wils nor over their lusts nor vile affections because they deny him who is the Power of God and among such the powers of darkness have dominion and destruction is in their wayes and the curse and wrath of God abides upon them John 3.36 Isai 42.6 and 49 6. who hate the Light they despise the Covenant of God which Christ the Light is given for and such are seduced and kept from the knowledge of the pure God and these are without God in the world which lives in wickedness therefore all you in whom there is any desires remaining after the living God and to know his power return to the Light of Christ within you and it will let you see Eph. 4.17 how you have spent your time and where your hearts are and how you have been tossed to and fro in the dark and your minds have been exercised in vanity and by the subtilty of the Serpent for his kindom of sin you have been reasoning and could not find a way out of it Rom. 8 20. and yet the Serpent hath put you in hope of mercy and forgiveness of sins though you go on in sin in your life time and do not find the nature of sin subdued this is he who beguiled Eve Gen 3.4 and said ye shall not surely die though they eat of that which God had forbidden but take heed how you hearken to his voyce either within you or in his Messengers without you least you be beguiled with his subtilty and left to the eternal wrath of God in the guilt of your sins which guilt remains so long as sin remains and so here the Covenant of God you reject and puts of redemption and despises the day of healing and here is presumption and self-willedness and conceitedness and pride and covetousness and perverseness lived in and here the grace of God is turned into wantonness Jude 4. and the lust of the flesh rules and the members are subject to vanity and the fear of God you are out of 2 Tim. 3.13 and you going on in that nature contrary to the Light you wax worse and worse and here the will of the Devil you fulfil who is the Author of sin and so you deny Christ and his coming who is made manifest to destroy the works of the Devil and to take away the sins of the world 1 John 3.5.8 though you may profess Christ and his doctrine in words yet your profession will not hide you John 1.29 1 Pet. 2.9 1 Tim. 6.3 4 5. nor save you from his judgment and wrath which upon the ungodly must come and you that apply your minds to disputings and vain janglings about the Saints conditions and what they practised who you your selves are out of the Saints life and can get no further

than the form of godliness in words and many of you scarce to the true form you are in the many opinions and sects and vain contendings and with that spirit you contend which is out of the truth and which is ignorant of the Life that gave forth the Scriptures and here there are so many opinions and differences that poor ignorant people knows not what way to chuse nor which is the truth you are the unstable minded and you are in your own wils which are contrary to the Light and to the Saints conditions you are strangers and have nothing to do to talk or dispute about the Saints 2 Pet. 1 21. and what they spoak as they were moved by the Spirit of Truth and were in the Life of what they spoak and knew him 1 Cor. 14.33 who is not the Author of confusion and contention nor strife but of peace and they knew him to be the life and substance of all figures and types and he hath abolished in the flesh Eph. 2.15 the Law contained in Ordinances for to make in himself of twain one new man so making peace Gal. 4. but you that are turned from the light and do live in your carnal imaginations and conceivings and rudiments and beggerly elements of the world Col. 2.20 and carnally have been imagining to find or meet with Christ there you are strangers to the knowledge of God and his Law within you you disobey and reject so all your profession and all your duties and will-worships the Lords denies and the light condemns them and there you find no peace for that light which condemns you for your erring from the pure Law of God it pursues you and brings trouble upon you and shews you darkness and that you are short in life of what you profess in words and though you profess that Christ died for you and that he hath born your iniquities yet the Light will let you see that you are not dead with Christ as he was to the flesh the world and the devil who entered not into temptation and so you are alive in your sins and the bloud of Christ you trample in Phil. 3.10 and are enemies to his cross whose minds are earthly and so your iniquities are upon your selves and Christ is not guilty of them nor of your bloud but his death and suffering witnesseth against you and whose sins Christ hath nailed to his cross they are crucified and blotted out and neither the action nor the guilt of sin remains in such and whose sins Christ takes upon him and nails to his Cross Rom. 6.2 1 Pet. 2.24 it is that they being dead unto sin may live no longer therein and it is such that have right in the death of Christ and suffer with him and take up the Cross and deny themselves and follow him But thou who in words professes Christ and his death for thee examine thy self and see how far thou obeys his doctrine and takes up the Cross He commanded to love thy neighbour as thy self Math. 5. and to his he said do good to them that hate you and he said swear not at all and in all your communications let your yea be yea and your nay be nay see how far thou canst own this in life and practises and if a man smite thee on the one cheek turn to him the other also and if a man sue thee at Law and take away thy coat let him have thy cloak also and he that taketh away thy goods Luke 6.30 ask them not again and be ye perfect as your Father which is in heaven is perfect But there is much reasonings against these things by the Children of disobedience who disobey Christ and walk contrary to his doctrine for self and for self-ends though in words they may profess Christ and say they desire to follow him but all such are shut out of the Scripture and Life of Christ and condemned with the righteous Law which was added because of transgression Gal. 3.19 which Christ came to fulfil and not to destroy and he that transgresseth any of the least of his Commandements is guilty of all and he that transgresseth and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ hath not God and he that saith he loveth him 1 John 9. and keepeth not his Commandements is a liar and he that saith he abideth in Christ ought also to walk as he walked so with the Light all the world and its profession is seen and judged and condemned therefore all you in whom there is any desires after the living God come out of the world to the true Light wherewith you are enlightened and profess nothing but what you live the life of least you be found in hypocrisie and with the hypocrites and dissemblers you be rewarded in the fierceness of the wrath of God Now you are warned repent and bring forth fruits meet for repentance and amendment of light for you all have a light from Christ wherein if you believe and love it and as it arises wait in it and here you will know the way to life and know your Teacher to be the Lord who hath given you a light to guide your feet into the path of life and rest for your souls and to know your Redeemer living Christ Jesus and to deny the worlds Teachers and worships and profession which are all witnessed against by Christ Jesus Mat. 25.30 Rom. 2.5 6. and by them whom he hath chosen out of the world which light if you hate it and love darkness better it will be your condemnation from God and from his knowledge and from his Children and Saints in Light and utter darkness will be upon you who go on in hatred against the Light and there your torment and misery will be exceeding great and you will know that God is clear when he Judges you and executes his fierce wrath upon you which the wicked cannot escape G. W. A Voyce of the Thunder of the Lord from his holy Temple uttered forth to the Inhabitants of the Earth who are in the Army of the Dragon whether Rulers Teachers or People O All ye Inhabitants of the Earth high and low rich and poor great and small who lives without the fear of God in the fall and take pleasure in your unrighteousness and will not submit your selves unto the Scepter of Righteousness nor come under Christs government but set your selves against the way of Righteousness in the enmity of the Dragon that old Serpent and with the Beast who hath his power and seat from the Dragon sets your selves to make war against the Lamb of God and his elect the terrible day of the Lord is proclaimed against you a day of the Trumpet of the Lord which is sounding forth against you a day of war and controversie with you Inhabitants of the Earth who live in carelesness and prophaness who sport your selves in the day time you heady high minded

IACOB found in a desert Land OR A RECOVERY Of the Lost out of the Loss truly manifested Wherein is discovered the work of the Lord in the Creature and how I travelled through the night of thick darkness which hath over spread the whole world and of my deliverance out of darkness into the true Light and Truth Wherein is witness my heavenly Call into the Ministry of the everlasting Truth Given forth for the everlasting Name of the Lord sake and for their sakes who desire to know the Truth and how I came into the Truth that they that can believe it may receive some satisfaction out of which all despisers and unbelievers are excluded By a witness of the same in Life and Testimony who am a sufferer for the pure Seed sake who am known to the sons of men by the name of George Whitehead in contempt by the generation of despisers called a QUAKER With a few words to them who have any desires left in them to know the Truth whether they be in forms of profession or out of forms that they may see themselves and return from their evil Also a Voyce of the Thunder of the Lord from his holy Temple uttered forth to the Inhabitants of the Earth who are in the Army of the Dragon whether Rulers Teachers or People LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert and are to be sold at the Black Spread-Eagle at the West-End of Pauls 1656. IACOB found in a desert Land Or a Recovery of the Lost out of the Loss Deut. 32.10 11 12. truly manifested wherein is discovered the work of the Lord in the Creature and how I travelled through the night of thick darkness which hath over spread the whole world and of my deliverance out of darkness into the true Light and Truth wherein is witnessed my heavenly Call into the Ministry of the everlasting Truth BEhold the wonderous work of the Lord God what he hath done for me according to his own purpose through his eternal love and free-grace to me ward in bringing his Seed to Immortality and my soul from under the powers of death hell and the grave and restoring the Creature into the Covenant of his seed and bringing it from under the bondage of corruption which for several years together I was under and subject to vanity and my heart was led astray from the living God and I lived without the fear of God according to the course of the world as the Children of disobedience do in whom the Prince of the Air rules among whom I was a stranger to the Life of God and under the wrath of God a Child of disobedience who knew not whither I went for I was a Child of darkness and could not comprehend the Light nor follow the Light though in darkness it shined and did often reprove me for sin and disobedience and condemned me for having followship with the unfruitful works of darkness yet the Creature being over-ruled and subjected to vanity by the power of the Serpent and the affections and desires led away from the Light of Christ with him who led into wickedness and there was no power sought truly after nor received whereby to resist the wicked one but still he prevailed against me while I was in the corrupt nature where the Curse had power and I was brought up according to the manner of the world in the traditions and rudiments of the world partly in natural learning and to that for a time I applied my mind according to my parents and kinreds desire so that for a time I grew and increased in that learning though many vain traditions I learned and in vain books and foolish clauses and verses as others did I learned and did please my Tutors and in that learning exceeded many others who learned with me and got the praise and estimation of many people of the world for that natural knowledge I grew into through learning whereby for a time the flesh did glory and pride got up and deceit over-ruled and that was nourished in me which was for death and destruction and oftentimes when I was among other Children who minded sporting and gaming and playing who would have enticed me to the same and sometimes did fall into playing with them yet oftentimes I was troubled in mind and I was not satisfied for often I was reproved by the true Light in me which I then knew not and thereby I was restrained somtime from conforming with other Children in their ludeness for which I became sometime a reproach and an object of hatred to some of them and I was then made to believe that God would bring me to judgment for the wickedness and vanity I had been in and sometime I was smitten with fear and terror when I was but a few years of age when my wickedness was laid before me and brought into my remembrance by that Light which I knew not which condemned for sin unto which Light my Conscience also did bear witness and my thoughts did accuse me when I thought of what I had done in unrighteousness But when I forgat reproof and hearkened to the wicked who did alwayes strive to make me enter into their wickedness then I suddenly was led into vanities and practised vain mirth and sportings and so was one with them who made merry over the Witness of God when his grace was turned into wantonness But as for many gross and common pollutions of the world which many others was and are guilty of I was kept from acting in and did strive to keep out of so that then I was scoffed at by some of the heathen who lived in drunkenness and excess and great prophaness when I could not joyn with them in their excess of riot but the same ground of rebellion was in me then though not so far got out into the actions and oftentimes from my childhood I was afflicted with sickness and the hand of the Lord was upon me whereby I was plagued and smitten inwardly and saw then that it was what I deserved for the sin that I had been acted in and I desired often that I might come to true Repentance for my sin and have endeavoured much to find it yea with tears but could not while my heart was led away to obey the will of the Devil and so the desires in me which was after Repentance and amendment of Life they were often quenched through the deceitfulness of sin and the subtilty of my souls enemy and thus was the Creature and the soul held under the power of darkness And near about the the age of fourteen years I was put to teaching of Chidren in natural learning and taught Children till after I knew the Truth knowing it to be serviceable in its place for Children as there was a necessity for it so as that Children be brought up in good nurture and in the fear of the Lord which in his fear when I came into the Truth I did strive to bring those