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The cause why Adam & Eve were driven out of paradice and the Jews out of their own land of Canaan by George Fox.
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Fox, George, 1624-1691.
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THE CAUSE WHY Adam Eve Were driven out of PARADICE AND THE JEWS Out of their own Land of Canaan By GEORGE FOX LONDON Printed for Benjamin Clark in George-Yard in Lombard-street 1683. The cause why Adam and Eve were driven out of Paradice and the Jews out of their own Land of Canaan 1. Here you may see the Cause of Adam and Eve being drove out of Paradise 2. And the Cause of the destruction of the Old World 3. And the Cause of confounding Nimrod and his Company 4. And the Cause of the Jews going so often into Captivity And the destructions that came so often upon them And the confusion that is and hath been among the Christians where all may Read Hear and Fear that they take warning and turn from such evils lest the Judgments of God come upon you that came upon Adam and Eve and the Old World and the Jews and their Forefathers that disobeyed God and Christ and the good Spirit that he gave them for no unclean thing shall enter into the Paradice and Kingdom of God not into the holy City new Jerusalem though the unclean do enter into the great City of the Whore of Babylon Adam and Eve were driven out of Paradice for their disobedience And for disobedience Cains stock and the Old World were destroyed For disobedience Nimrod and his Company were confounded and Scattered And for disobedience the Jews were drove and carried Captive out of their own Land of Canaan And for disobedience to the same Light Power and Holy Ghost that the Apostles and the Church were in in the Apostles daies the Christians in name and not in power and nature are without the heavenly holy City New Jerusalem An unjust man is an abomination to the Just and he that is upright in the way is an abomination to the wicked Prov. 29.27 In God I will praise his Word in God will I put my trust I will not fear what flesh can do unto me Psal 56.4 Thus saith the Lord I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh and they shall be drunk with their own blood as with sweet Wine and all shall know that I am the Lord Isa 49.26 THe Lord God is holy and pure therefore he would have all his people to be holy and pure and therefore consider what the Lord in the Old and New Testament Commands you to forsake and commanded that you shall not do In Exodus the Lord saith Thou shalt not Kill Thou shalt not Steal Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy Neighbour Thou shalt not commit Adultery Thou shalt not covet thy Neighbours House thou shalt not covet thy Neighbours Wife nor his Man-servant nor his Maid servant nor his Ox nor his Ass nor any thing that is thy Neighbours these things are forbidden in Exod. 20. in the Old Testament and much more in the New for Christ saith You have heard that it hath been said of old time to wit in the Old Testament Thou shalt not commit Adultery but I say whosoever looketh on a woman to lust after her hath committed Adultery with her already in his heart and here you may see the Law took hold of the outward act and the Gospel took hold of the inward act For out of the heart proceeds the Evil thoughts Murders Adulteries Fornications Thefts false Witnesses Blasphemies these are the things which defile a man Mat. 5. Mat. 15. And these evil things are in Man and woman yea done or committed before they be acted outwardly And therefore the Apostle saith in 2 Cor. 5. Every one shall give an account of things done in the body for saith he we must all appear before the Judgment Seat of Christ that every one may receive the things done in his body according to that he hath done whether it be good or bad Knowing therefore the Terrour of the Lord we perswade men c. To shun that which is bad and evil and cleave to that which is good and lust not after Beauty in thy Heart but keep thee from the evil woman from the flattery of the Tongue of a stranger neither let her take thee with her Eye-lids For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of Bread and the Adulteress will hunt for thy precious life But whoso committeth Adultery with a woman lacketh understanding he that doth it destroyeth his own soul and a wound and dishonour shall he get and his reproach shall not be wiped away Prov. 6. and you may see in Prov. 2. This strange woman which flatters with her words who forsaketh the guide of her youth the Spirit of God and forgetteth the Covenant of her God For her house enclineth to death and her paths unto the dead None that goeth unto her returneth again neither take they hold of the paths of life And therefore that thou maist walk in the way of good men and keep in the paths of life Prov. 2. This is the Exhortation of the wisdom of God to follow For the mouth of the strange woman is a deep pit and he that is abhorred of the Lord shall fall therein Prov. 22. And you may see in Prov. 5. how Solomon exhorts to the study of Wisdom and sheweth the mischief of Riot and Whoredom and Prov. 7. how the filly young man void of understanding in the twilight in the evening in the black and dark night how he was deceived by the speeches and attire of the Harlot whose House is the way to Hell going down to the Chambers of Death And this well-favoured Harlot deceived the young man under pretence of Religion for she pretended she had Peace Offerings and she had paid her Vows and the good man was gone from home and this Whore abides not in her house but is without in the streets and lyeth in wait at every corner she is out of her house from the spirit of God whored from that and so Christ the good man is not within and so that whorish spirits habitation is in the twilight and darkness and would beget others either to spiritual Adultery or carnal Adultery one while this whorish spirit is loud and stubborn and another while with flattering Speeches all that keeps with the spirit of God and the light of Christ in their Hearts will keep out of her way that leads to Hell and the Chambers of death In Jer. 3. how Jeremiah complains against Judahs vile whoredom and committing Adultery and Judah was worse than backsliding Israel who said She is gone upon every high Mountain and under every green tree and there hath played the Harlot And thou hast polluted the Land with thy whoredoms and thy wickedness and thou hast a wheres forehead thou refusest to be ashamed Here you may see what a sad condition the Jews came into when they forsook the Lord and therefore let Christians beware that they be not found in the same practice and so come under the same Judgment as you may read
may see what great lamentations are from the high and low to wit the harlots which see the down-fall of their Mother the whore who is whored and harloted from the Spirit of God what crying and saying Alas alas there is and what rejoycing of the Apostles and the Prophets yea the very Heaven rejoyceth at the down-fal of this whore yea whorish Spirit and false Church for in her was found the blood of the Prophets and Saints and all that were slain upon the earth hath been found in this whorish spirit who have whored from the Spirit of God and the Lamb. And in Rev. 21. he saith He that overcometh shall inherit all things and I will be his God and he shall be my son But the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murderers and whoremongers and sorcerers and Idolaters and all lyars shall have their part in the Lake which burns with fire and brimstone which is the second death Whosoever is not found written in the book of Life is to be cast into the Lake of Fire and therefore what good will all your profession do in Christendom if ye be found in these sins and evils before mentioned and your names not written in the Lambs Book of Life before the foundation of the World for they that have right to the tree of Life walk in the light of the Lamb and believe in it such are they that enters in through the Gate into the heavenly City New Jerusalem and have their fathers name written in their fore heads For without this holy City new Jerusalem are Dogs biters of the Lambs of Christ and Sorcerers and whoremongers and murderers idolaters and whosoever loveth and maketh a lye all such deceivers and defilers and corrupters of themselves and others are without the holy City of God new Jerusalem Rev. 22. For whoremongers and Idolaters God will judge Heb. 13 4. And therefore all that love God and his Son is to judge such evils and turn from them before mentioned if you will come into favour with God and here you may see what wickedness hath been all along and in all Ages since man and woman fell from the Image of God and amongst such that rebel against God's good Spirit which he hath given them in the time of the Law And God pours out of his Spirit upon all flesh in this Gospel-day and all such as rebel against this good Spirit of God what Idolatry and other evils whoredoms Adulteries and Fornications are amongst them who as I said before do rebel against God's good Spirit which grieves the Lord and his righteous People for which God will Judge And such as acts such things before mentioned and lives in them the Lord tells them They shall not enter into his Kingdom nor into his holy City New Jerusalem for no unclean thing comes into his holy City or holy Kingdom for they that come into this holy City or Kingdom must be made clean with the blood of the Lamb. And what became of Adam and Eve who disobeyed the Lord were they not turned out of Paradice the Garden of God the Garden of pleasures into the earth And what became of the Old World who disobeyed and grieved the Lord's Spirit did not the Lord bring a Flood upon them and destroy them all who saved righteous Noah and his Family And what became of Nimrod that mighty hunter before the Lord and them that followed him did not the Lord say Nothing will be restrained from them which they imagined to do and so the Lord confounded them and scattered them abroad from Babel upon the face of all the Earth Gen. 11. This was the fruits of them that followed their imaginations and not the Lord and his Spirit And what became of Sodom and Gemorrah for their wickedness and filthiness did not the Lord destroy them and their Cities by fire and saved just Lot Gen. 19. And what became of the Jews to wit the house of Israel and the House of Judah who rebelled against God's good Spirit who disobeyed the Lord and persecuted his Prophets who went early and late to warn them of the Judgments that would come upon them but they neither regarded the Lord nor his Prophets Did not the Lord bring the Heathen upon them which carried them out of their own Land which flowed with Milk and Honey into Captivity under the Heathen in which nature they were gone into who rebelled against God and his Spirit And what became of the Jews after they came again into their land who rebelled against Christ and cryed up Caesar and Crucified Christ and persecuted his Apostles and did not Christ say Tâ—at their Temple shâ—uld be thrown down and the City compassed about with Armies and the Jews scattered over all Nations And did not this come to pass after Christ was risen And did not the Jews also rebel against Titus when he came to besiege Jerusalem so they did not only rebel against Christ but rebelled against the Heathen at last and what became of them but destruction and calamity who under a pretence of worshipping God and crying up the Temple and outward Jerusalem and making an outward profession of the Old Testament but resisted the Holy Ghost and rebelled against God's good Spirit and his Son Christ Jesus in their deceitful hypocritical profession and living in Idolatry and Spiritual and carnal whoredom and Adultery And what becometh of the false Prophets and Beast of the Whore and all her Harlots that is whored and harloâ—ed from the Spirit of God must not they all have their end in the Lake of fire that burns with brimstone with the Devil the God of the world and the Prince of the Air who rules in the hearts of the Children of disobedience that disobeys God and his good Spirit And the Prince of the Air makes many Fowls of the Air with his soul airy spirit by his â—oul air in whom he rules and he is the Ruler in all the Children of the disobedient which disobey God's good Spirit he rules in them with his aâ—ry unclean spirit who blinds the disobedient with his dust and air for dust is his meat who is out of the Truth and abode not in it in whom there is no Truth and all that disobey the holy Spirit of the Lamb are his followers and subjects and he in whom there is no truth rules in them who is the author of all sin corruption and darkness whose end is in the Lake of fire that burns with Brimstone and his Followers but the chast Virgins follow the Lamb and they that are led by the Spirit of God are the sons of God and walk in the truth and worship God in Spirit and Truth his truth is over the head of the Devil and he is out of it and cannot get into it for there is no truth in him and therefore he and his Followers are not like to get into the Truth that Gods Children worship God in THE END