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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91924	The righteousnes of God to man, wherein he was created; with a discovery of the fall, by the strength and subtilty of the serpent: and of the recovery of man, by the seed of the woman, which bruises the serpents head. Also, a declaration against the beast and his followers, who act by his power; and a warning to the people not to joyn with the beast, nor to uphold the harlot, least you be taken with the beast and the false prophet, and cast into the lake together alive, and there be none to deliver you. A few words to O. C. and to the officiers and souldiers of the army in general. With, a true declaration how I lived before I knew the truth, and how I came to know the truth, and overcame deceit. Given forth for the simples sake, that they may learn righteousness; ... / By a sufferer for the righteous seed sake, in the common goal of Edmonds Bury in Suffolk, who is called George Rofe.	Rofe, George, d. 1664.	1656 (1656)	Wing R1788; Thomason E885_3; ESTC R200681	15,447	19

by it you may learn what repentance is and what the fear of the Lord is and come out of Babylon from amongst the wicked that you may be recived of the Lord and joyn not with the Beast nor hold not up the Harlot any longer lest you perish If you joyn with such as call themselves Ministers who have learned at Cambridge or Oxford and call them the well-heads of Divinity you uphold the Harlot for in them places she hath her seat and by her power are they Priests come forth and are of her and taught by her and have learned of her the Harlot Mystery Babylon which sits upon the waters which rides upon the Beast who lodgeth in the waters you people are the waters and in you the Beast lodges which is one with the Harlot which makes war against the light of the Lamb in you and with you do her Merchants trade and to you doe her Merchants sell their ware and of you do they take money and therewith maintain themselves and wives and children in pride and idleness and none live higher in lust and pride and fulness of bread than they and hence you may see them to be an ill example to all that follow them and by their lies and lightness do they make the people light and vain and all that ever they doe or speak of the name of the Lord it is in vain and by it none learns righteousness but the image of the Beast is upheld by them and in them hath a mouth speakes great swelling words of vanity by which the people are deceived none by them is turned from comitting all evill but have been a long time learning not yet come to the knowledge of the pure truth which is but one wherein wayfaring men may walk not err And against you O ye priests is the strong arm of the Almighty stretched forth which wil rout you out root and branch and you shall have your portion with your King the Angel of the bottomless pit who leads you now in your cursed practices to preach for gifts and rewards for which you have sold your selves to your King who hath long led you after the reward of unrighteousness and for it sets you on work to uphold his kingdom and you by his power strive to the utmost so to doe and go to your brethren who have received the same power and they joyned with you and persecute and imprison them who freely are sent of the Lord to declare against such ungodly practices But the Lord God is bringing forth his Northern Army against you who are fierce and terrible and shall spread over the whole earth and their Instruments are new and have teeth and shall dash down you and your King and your kingdome and the breath of the living God shall consume you root and branch this Army is strengthened by the Almighty God and he is with them and they fear not the Nations for no sword can enter them nor no weapon formed against them can prosper nor the mighty men cannot hinder them for the conquest is theirs and all the Nations of the earth is but as a Potters vessell before them for their leader is just holy and true and they are called and Chosen and Faithful and are resolved to make an utter desolation of Antichrist and his kingdome of whom you Priests are and he you seek to uphold and are against Christ in the wayes of Cain and Balaam and your way is to perdition Judas sold the Lamb of God to your Fathers who slew him and bought a field with the reward of iniquity and you sell the words that proceeded from the Lamb and therein are swallowed up in iniquity and have purchased many fields with the mony you have had for his words whom your fathers slew and your transgression is exceeding much greater than Judasses with the reward of whose iniquity there was one field bought but you have bought many fields besides what you have spent upon your lusts in maintaining your selves and wives and children in pride and idleness fulness of bread the sins of Sodom by whom the Lord of life is crucified and the plagues of God will be heavier upon you than upon Judas who is gone before you to his and your home and God hath already cursed your blessings and your preaching is noysome in his sight and your singing is loathsome to be heard which stands all in unrighteousness for which the wrath of God for ever is turned against you and your seed which will be swept away with the besome of destruction yea already the whirlwind of the Lord is gone forth against you and you all from the least to the greatest cannot escape it and the fire which will devour you for your iniquities sake and the blood of thousands who have perished under your Ministry who were ever learning of you and knew not the truth is upon you and at your hands God will require it and all that trust to your teaching are like to be lost for want of knowledge and in this I am a witness for God And this I am ready to seal with my blood if I be called to it A few words to O. C. and to the Officers and Souldiers of the Army in general TO thee Oliver Crumwell thus saith the Lord I had chosen thee amongst the thousands in the Nations to execute my wrath upon my enemies and gave them to thy sword with which I fought for the zeal of my own name gave thee the enemies of my own seed to be a curse and a reproach for ever and made thee an instrument against them and drove many of them out before thee and thou hast taken the spoyl of them and many have I cut down by my sword in thy hand that my wrath might be executed against them to the utmost and therein for a time thou was zealous and then I was with thee for my seeds sake but thou art fallen from thy first integrity and in the spoyl of my enemies art exalted and art set up in the glory of the world which is not pleasant in my sight for therefore drove I my enemies out and ruined them before thee that my seed might be set at liberty and have its freedom in the Nations to worship me But now thou rewardest me not with good for the good I have done to thee but in thy name and by thy power doe my pure seed suffer and tyrants rule over my people and by thy power and in thy name doe they persecute them and imprison them unto the death and have spilled the blood of my innocent people to satisfie their corrupt desires But surely I will visit for these things and much doe they lie upon thee and if thou lettest tyrants get rule in thy name and by thy power on thee and thy seed will I require the blood of the innocent that hath been shed in these late dayes under thy government and will deliver

And one time I was smot with terror down to the earth so that I cryed out exceedingly for a long time together and lay with my face towards the earth and could not for a time be comforted terror was so great upon me And yet for all this the Beast got up in me and strongly acted me in the like wickedness for which the judgements of God had often been upon me and I could not see any way how to escape the wickednesse which the Divell daily led me into but gave my selfe to reading much in the Scriptures and yet the power of the wicked one prevailed against me so that I received no strength against him by the knowledge of the Scriptures though the Scriptures shewed me in part what I should doe yet the power against sin was not there to be found but sinne got the upper hand and ruled over me and therein I was led captive and made a prey upon by the Divell who deceived me through subtilty And when I had read and studied what I could in my own will for many yeares together I could not find out a way to know God nor satisfaction to my soul but judgement followed me and my thoughts accused me and the light witnessed against me so peace I had not found in all that ever I did seek out but fear pursued me and often in the night time teares run from my eyes and terror laid hold on me so that I have been made to pray exceedingly but I knew not to whom but according as I had heard or read but no answer I saw though I called out often yet I knew not that God whom I called to nor that Christ in whose name I thought I asked but into a profession of God and Christ and godliness I was led by the will of the flesh though I was a stranger to the life of God and godliness And in this profession not knowing the power of God I walked neer three yeares and wandred about therein to professors of the world like my self and went to Priests where they preached and heard them two or three times a week commonly and long together and yet fear pursued me and peace I could not find though I sought it with tears often yet the way of peace I knew not but dissention and misery was in my paths and the feare of God I lived out of though then I lived in a profession and was covered with much subtilty so that the world could not see but that I lived orderly and I was kept from many common pollutions of the world though the Beast acted me and often would have led me into greater abominations than he did had not the witness of God often brought judgement terror upon me and iudged deceit before it was acted And in this profession of words I was at times exalted and therein lived in pride and vainglory and was lifted up in that knowledge by which the witnesse of God was slain and I led in great darkness and when I was exalted most then greatest darkness entred in upon me in which profession I found no peace neither could I for wickedness was lined in and the profession was not of God though it was like what the Saints had professed and lived the life of as all the worlds profession is who follows the Beast who leads them in imitations of that which the Saints and servants of God did by command from God And when I was about the age of twenty years old when I was at the height of my profession in which my soul found no rest it happened that according to the will of God there came some of his messengers who were called Quakers to the town where I lived in my empty profession Halsteed in Essex wherein I was not satisfied but went into the Market to hear the people called Quakers speak who spoke there some few words which I did not then understand though I had heard something of them in writing and many slanderous reports yet I was convinced in my conscience that they were the people of God and the Scriptures witnessed that the people of God should be hated and persecuted and all manner of evill spoken of them So yet I was not at rest in my spirit but desired to know the truth and the life of it And soon after that time the Lord sent another of his Messengers who had a meeting in that town where I lived and in the forepart of the day came to the steeple-house where I was hearing one of the worlds Ministers who is cal'd William Sparrow who had long deceived me with good words and fair speeches and when he had ended his speaking the Messenger of God spoke and reached the witness of God in me so I was drawn in love towards him and the later part of the day went to hear him speak and his words reached the witness of God in me so that I was more exceedingly drawn out in love towards him and heard more to my souls satisfaction that day than ever before and that of God in me which often had iudged me and brought feares upon me owned his words and owned him to be of God and the seed of God in me was refreshed and grew and shewed me how I had spent my time and brought all the evil that ever I remember I acted and laid it before me and condemned me for it which condemnation I was made willing to own and therein did wait for the mercies of God the seed of God in me grew in strength and shewed me what I should doe and what I should leave undone and was my guide to guide me out of the former ignorance and wickedness I had lived in and was a Judge for God to condemn the ground of the most secret deceit in me and shewed me the most secret deceit of the Serpent and gave me power to withstand all wickedness which before I owned the light of Christ I had not power to withstand the strength of the enemy had such power over me And after that God had shewed me the way of truth and gave me power to withstand all evill the Divel was exceeding wroth against me and wrought exceeding subtilly to have destroyed that which was begotten of God in me but the gift of God was plenteous and grew and shaked terribly the earth and removed mountains ' and rewarded the transgressor with judgement and cast out the Prince of this world and reigneth for God going on conquering and to conquer and treads down all Gods enemies under his feet And this is the free mercy and love of God that he hath revealed himself to me by the light of his own Son and hath made known his everlasting Covenant of peace to me and hath redeemed my soul out of hell and from under the power of the Divell into the glory of his own Son to praise him in the beauty of holiness in mount Sion for ever who hath called me by his own Spirit and power to bear witness for his own name in righteousness and hath given me his word to declare to the inhabitants of the earth and his power to stop the mouthes of truths gain-sayers and to confound the false Prophets and make the Deviners mad and to judge all hirelings and false teachers out from amongst the Saints This is the work which the Lor hath done for his seeds sake which dwells in me which he hath raised to eternall life to live and reign with him for ever And it was his free love that he left a seed in me else I had been to him as the Cities of Sodom and as the inhabitants of Gomorrah The world calls me George Rofe but my name is written in heaven and therein do I rejoyce From the common Goal of Emonds Bury in Suffolk wherein I have suffered more than 40 weeks for the truth this last day of the 4th moneth 1656. FINIS