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woman_n	eat_v	fruit_n	serpent_n	1,943	5	9.6634	5	true

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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

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 and to know him whom God hath given to be a Covenant to the People and a light to the Gentiles and his salvation to Redeem his seed from the ends of the earth and all that come unto God by him shall in no wise perish but have eternal life But he is a stumbling-block and a Rock of offence to the Nations and blessed are they who are not offended in him By a sufferer for the righteous seed sake in the common Goal of Edmonds Bury in Suffolk who is called GEORGE ROFE LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black-spread-Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1656. The Righteousness 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 IN the Beginning God Created every Creature and saw that the work of his hands was good God is good and all Creatures in Heaven and Earth and the Seas and all them and all that in them was was made in the beginning by the Word of God and all proceeded from God and was good and God created man in his own Image and made him good and of him who was good he made the Woman and she was one with the Man and they were good and God placed them in the Garden wherein he lived and walked and Adam was the Son of God and lived and walked with God in the habitation of God and God made him Lord over all the works of his hands and gave him dominion over every Creature that they might serve him and in the wisdome of God while he walked with God he ruled over the Creatures of God and in the Garden God gave him every Beast and Fowl and Fish and out of the earth he caused every Hearb and every Tree to grow and there was no barrenness among them for their Seed was in themselves and the Tree of Knowledge he also made which was good but not for food and therefore God forbad Man to eat of it and made a Law with Man that in the day he eat thereof he should die and God gave Man of every Tree that was good for food to be his food and Man had power to rule and ruled over every Creature and walked with God in the place of his dwelling where there was no iniquity nor evil and the Serpent was more subtil than any Beast of the field and fell from God and became a lyar Gods enemie and he knew that God had said to Man that he should not eat of the Tree in the midst of the Garden the Tree of Knowledge of good and evill and he talked with the Woman concerning it and what God had said unto them of it and she knew the Command of God that they were not to eat of it nor to touch it and in the day they eat thereof God promised they should die and the Serpent who was a Lyar said they should not die and of the fruit which was not good for food gave the Woman to eat and was conceaved in the Woman and got power over the Woman and she did eat and entered into him who was the power of death and acted by his power and deceaved the Man so they both fell from God first the Woman was deceaved then the Man and here the Serpent got power and slew the Lambe and the World was set in Mans heart and here Man lost his power and purity from being the Son of God and was as God but not of God but had entered into the knowledge and taste of evill and fell from God and became a likeness as God and here was the founder of Images and the ground of Imaginations and death and hell and the grave had power over Man and shame came upon Man and their garment was taken away and nakedness appeared and fear entered and Man became fearfull to see God but God fulfilled his promise which was righteous and death came upon them and in the Curse were they driven out from God to till the earth which was accursed for their transgression sake and labour and pain were they cursed to be in and God cursed the Serpent above every Beast of the field and drove the cursed out of the Garden and set a flaming Sword which turned every way to keep the way of the Tree of Life and that the cursed should not enter the Garden and promised the seed of the Woman to bruise the Serpents head which was known in Abell whom Cain who was brought forth in the Curse slew him who was not in the Curse but knew the seed of the Woman which God had promised to bruise the Serpents head and knew God and walked righteously with God and was accepted above Cain who was in the Curse unto whose Sacrifice God had no respect through he offered that which was good but not in the good so out of the faith so to him it was sin and he did not well and sin laid at his door and God gave another seed in Abells stead Seth in whom the seed of the Woman was known and the Serpents head bruised and the World destroyed and the Lambe raised to Life which in him and his seed took away the sins of the World and Enoch walked with God and God took him and Noah and his Sons walked in the faith of the seed of the Woman and they and their Wives were saved with the Male and with the Female of the Creatures which were not destroyed with the old World who lived in the delight of beauty and pride and lust and were builded upon the Serpent and therein all flesh was corrupted and they run a whoring after the thoughts of the immaginations of their own hearts which was evill continually for which the wrath of God was kindled against them and in his fury he swept them away in the flood of his Indignation but God respected the seed which walked in truth and saved them from the destruction which he brought upon the wicked and made a Covenant with Noah not to drown the earth any more nor to cut off

on them you live and know not the Altar and your preaching is not the Gospel if it were then you would live of the Gspel and not of the world But the ground and effect of your preaching stands in the love of mony and to tell that people cannot be freed from sin in this life and so preach that which the Apostles preached not and sow that which is accursed and the love of mony is the root of all evill and you live of the world and not of the Gospel and you are chargeable to the world and oppress the people who are not of the Gospel and are out of the life of the Ministers that the Gospel sent forth who freely received and freely gave But your preaching is not free but for gifts and rewards the wages of unrighteousness as the false Prophets ever was and herein you are to perish as they did who are out of the life of the seed as you are who are their off-spring which is accursed for ever And all people that desire to know the truth of God and that your souls should be redeemed from under the power of the Divel return to the light of Christ which shews the seed of the Serpent and the works of the Divell and the wickedness that is acted by his power in you that with the light you may be brought to know a difference between the seed of the Serpent and the seed of the Woman which is promised to bruise the Serpents head and search and examine with the light of Christ in you with it to see were you are and how fat you are redemed out of the curse and out of that nature wherein the evill doer lodges over which the curse hath power the fruits that is brought forth by the seed of the Serpent are cursed fruits and proceed from a cursed ground and are brought forth in the curse and the actors of them are to perish under the curse and wrath of God the lust of the flesh the lust of the eye and pride and covetousness and swearing and drunkenness and all manner of uncleanness and sporting and gaming and fighting and quarrelling and mocking and scoffing and scorning and all manner of prophaness are the fruits of the Serpent and are brought forth by his seed which is in the curse alienated from God in the kingdome of darkness over which the seed of the woman hath power it to destroy And this seed is known by them who are guided by the light of truth which leads into all truth and to deny the Serpent who is deceit and the leader of the wicked in deceit and the children of light doe by the power of Christ the light follow the seed of the woman and doe receive the light of life and know the enmity put between the seed of the serpent and the seed of the woman and know the living God and obey him in his light and by his power deny the Divell the Prince of death and differ from him and his fruits and are acquainted with his wiles and know his motions to evill and deny them and know a difference with God from him who is Gods enemy and know the worship of God in spirit and truth and differ from them who pretend to worship him in their wills by traditions of men and imaginations from the Scriptures and not in spirit and truth which worship God doth not accept A Declaration against the Beast and his followers who are by his power and a warning to the people not to joyn with the Beast nor to uphold the Harlot lest you be taken with the Beast and the false Prophet and cast all into the lake together alive and there be none to deliver you VVO unto them that are carried upon the Beast and decree unrighteous Decrees and by his power accomplish them such hasten down to the pit in the way of perdition by the strength of the Dragon the Divell and Satan that old Serpent who goeth about as a roaring Lion and deceiveth the Nations who by his strength and subtilty deceiveth the whole earth and all that worship him they receive his mark in their foreheads or in their right hands and by his power make war with the remnant of the seed of the woman who cannot worship nor bow down to the Beast nor his image and seekes their lives to swallow them up quick if by their power it might be and to the uttermost of their power they proceed against the Lamb and his chosen who follow him whithersoever he goeth and by the power of the Beast who hath received his power and seat from the Dragon doe they who worship the Beast persecute the Saints the tribe of the Lamb and overcome them and cast them into prisons and dungeons and holes till they die and some they scourge and stock and stone and beat and buffet and spit upon and hale out of the Synagogues to before Rulers who have imprisoned them till their lives have been a ransome to have set them at liberty with the Lamb and this Beast reignes over the whole earth and gives power to the inhabitants of the earth for to accomplish his will to the utmost that he might reign over all and that the Lamb should not take away their sins but that they should take and drink of the cup of abomination and filthinesse of his fornication to the bottome But the Lamb will arise as a fierce Lion and rule over the Nations with a rod of Iron and dash all the inhabitants of the earth to pieces who worship the Beast and give them the cup of the fiercenesse of his wrath to drink without mixture and will reward the Harlot double according to her abominations and fornications wherewith she makes all nations of the earth drunk for her pleasure and they fared delitiously with her but her kingdom shall become a desolation for ever The Lamb of God which takes away the sins of the world he is the light of the world and lightneth every man that cometh into the world by which light all nations and tongues and people may see the Beast which makes war against the Lamb the light of the Lamb Christ Jesus shews every one that they should not live in wickedness and reproves every one that do commit evill and the Beast lodges in man and leads in evill and warres in man against the light of the Lamb and they who joyn with the Beast they joyn with the father of all mischief who leads in the way that is broad which leadeth to destruction wherein all the world walks and wonders after the Beast and worships him and know not whither they goe who if they goe on in wickedness are to have their reward with the Beast and the false Prophet who are to be cast into the lake alive and there to be tormented day and night for ever and ever And all people as you tender the good of your souls return to the light of Christ in you that

all flesh by the floods of water and set his bow in the clouds for a sign unto generations perpetually and Noah and his Sons was blessed and had power over all Beasts and creeping things and the Fishes in the Sea and all that moved upon the earth was given into their hands but Ham in whom the Serpent had his seat did that which was evill and upon his Son Canaan the Curse entered and against his off-spring the Curse prevailed and they were not accepted among the seed but were driven out before the seed which was blessed Exod. 34.11 and Lot who was of the seed was saved from being destroyed with Sodome and his Daughters who were in the faith of the seed were saved from being destroyed yet they did evill they consulted with the Serpent and fed upon the Tree of Knowledge and brought forth a seed in the Curse which was accursed whose off-spring is accursed unto this day Gen. 19.34 Numb 24 17. Exod. 34.11 And Abraham who was the Father of the faithful receaved the promises of God unto the seed and that in Isaac all kindreds of the earth should be blessed and with Jacob did God establish his Covenant that he made with Abraham and blessed him and gave his Brethren to be his servants and sustained him with all that was good in the earth and he was of the seed and was Ruler over all his Brethern as of Ishmael and Esau and their off-springs but lives and raigns with God for ever and to his seed is the blessing for ever and God promised that his seed should multiply and be a great people and reach to the ends of the earth And Moses was of the seed who chose rather to suffer affliction with the People of God than to enjoy the pleasure of sin for a season by whose hand God wrought wonderfully and delivered his seed out of the house of Bondage and out of the Land of Egypt and caused the waters to stand on heapes till the seed went over and was preserved and delivered out of the hands of their oppressors and overthrew Pharoah and his Host in their sight and them who were delivered out of Egypt who were not faithful to the seed God cut off in the wilderness and brought plagues upon them that murmured and thus God wrought wonderfully by the hand of his Servant Moses whom he spake unto face to face and promised that he would raise up a Prophet of his Brethren like unto him and him the People should hear and them that will not hearken to the words of this Prophet which God commands to speak God will require it at their hands and unto David who was of the seed a man who walked in righteousness according to Gods own heart God promised that out of his Loyns and of his seed he would raise up a Saviour of the People which was fulfilled in the daies of Herod the King and in Bethalem in Judea the Citie of David was the Saviour born according to the promise and there was the seed born Jesus a Saviour of his People from their sins who is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel and for a signe to be gainesaid who was and is a gin and a snare and a stumbling block and a rock of offence to the Nations and blessed are them who are not offended in him in whom is the promise to Isaac fulfilled and in him is all the Nations and kindreds of the earth called and blessed and before him went the voyce of one crying in the wildernesse Prepare yee the way of the Lord and make his paths straight which was prophesied of by Isaiah and he was the voyce of the living God sent to prepare the way of his Son and John witnessed that he himself was not the light but that Christ Jesus was the true light which lighteth every man that cometh into the world and there was the fulfilling of the promises spoken by Isaiah 42.6 7. and 49.6.9 And in those dayes God gave his Son to be his salvation to redeem his seed from the ends of the earth and this Son of God is to be heard and submitted to and every one that will not submit to his government which is to eternity shall be cut off and perish for ever And now all people return to the Lord God and listen to the light of his onely Son in your consciences which shews you sin and evil which God hath given to redeem all that believe in it and all that receive the light Christ Jesus the onely begotten Son of God they receive power to become the sons of God He came unto his own and his own received him not to them he was a stumbling-block because they believed not in him but all that believed in him or that do believe in him to them he is the great power of God unto salvation The Lord God loved the world and gave his onely begotten Son a light to open the blind eyes to bring the prisoners out of the prison-house and is the gift of God and leads captivity captive that as many as believe in him should not perish but have eternall life and this life is in himself who is the seed of God who redeems all them that believe in the light and walk in the light which is of himself into himselfe out of the curse out of the world out of the fall into Paradise from whence man fell and from under his power who is the strength of the fall to serve him to follow him to walk in his light to receive the light of life and makes them of the seed which hath power to come through the Cherubims and the flaming sword into the Garden unto the Tree of Life and to eat of it and live for ever But all you that live in pride and idlenesse and lust and uncleannesse the light in your consciences shewes you that you are not of the seed for the seed of the woman keeps the commands of God Rev. 12 17. and all that is not of the seed shall not enter into the Garden nor cannot come neer the tree of life nor have no right to it so you are in the enmity of the wicked one and shall never enter into the inheritance of the righteous And all you hireling teachers you that preach for hire and divine for money and live in ungodly covetousness which is Idolatry and tell people that they that minister at the Altar should live of the Altar and that they that preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel the light in your consciences also lets you see that you are not of the seed nor know not the seed but are in the enmity of the wicked one against the seed and are not sent by Christ the seed to minister to the seed nor do not minister at the Altar nor live of the Altar but your ministery is to them who are proud and covetous wicked ones like your selves who are not the Altar and