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woman_n	enmity_n	seed_n	serpent_n	8,737	5	10.2957	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66765	Paralellogrammation an epistle to the three nations of England, Scotland, and Ireland, whereby their sins being parallel'd with those of Judah and Israel, they are forewarned, and exhorted to a timely repentance, lest they incur the like condempation : to render it the more effectual, some considerable notions are therein expressed touching ceremonies, and things indifferent, the Lords supper, the civil government, the taking of oaths, the mark of the beast, the library of conscience, the great Sabbath, and the two witnesses, with other particulars of concernment interwoven / written by Geo. Wither.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1662 (1662)	Wing W3176; ESTC R11575	78,735	140

and of the Land of Israel They shall eat their bread with carefulness and drink their water with astonishment that their Land may be desolate of all that is therein because of the violence of them who dwell in it Let this be well considered and whether our Quakers may not be a sign of the like Judgement upon our chief City and all these three Nations yea and to all those Nations whither they have been dispersed if they speedily repent not for their Actings and Sufferings are not in vain I have observed one occasion of hardning the hearts of many in this Generation which was not ripened until these latter Ages of the world and though little notice be taken thereof it makes many defer their Repentance and hardens the greatest number into a resolute perseverance in their wicked courses by a mis-apprehending of GOD's Wayes a mis-belief of his Word ignorant of his Justice and a false Conclusion drawn from an antient and true Prophecy by reason of the long continuance and prevalency of Sin Oppression and Tyranny in those courses and Postures wherein they have been acted Men have walked so far after the Counsels of the Ungodly and stood so long in the way of Sinners that they are now seated in the Chair of the Scornful and make a mock at Reproofs and Instructions according to this Prophecy of the Apostle Peter In the latter dayes there shall be said he Scoffers walking after their own Lusts and saying Where is the Promise of his coming for since the Fathers fell asleep all things continue as they were from the beginning of the Creation 2 Pet. 3. 4. Into these latter dayes we are fallen and by not heeding not believing or by not rightly understanding the ground of this Prophecy touching the revealed things of GOD the Scorners of good Counsel have now fulfilled that Prophecy to their own disadvantage For to put the fear of GOD's Judgments out of their own and other mens hearts they scoffingly and prophanely conclude from the long continuance and prevalency as aforesaid that Sin and Oppression have had in the world from the Creation until this day that so it will be until the end of time and deride those who expect the coming of Christ the King of Righteousness Tush say they thus it ever was and thus it will be for ever GOD either heeds it not or regards it not and the Caveats Counsels Threatnings Promises and Premonitions of those who pretend to be Ministers and Messengers from GOD are but politick Devices of their own brain forged out of Envy and Malice to disturb us in our Pleasures diminish our Profit and weaken our Power for after above sixteen hundred years preaching of their Imaginary Kingdom to come we see as little or less likelihood thereof than was at the birth of that King whom they expect To this effect are their Scoffs and thereby they encourage each other in their Wickedness and Oppressions But they and all whom they shall delude will find themselves to have been much deceived Therefore in hope it may awaken some out of their dreams before it be too late I will declare unto you a Mystery by few yet heeded which GOD hath revealed unto me in this my Confinement to strengthen my Faith when it was exercised and tried by that and such like Atheistical Arguments and Objections of carnal men who presume on the perpetuity of their Kingdom and I will illustrate as plainly as I can that which I have apprehended by looking back as far as the Creation All things that GOD created were exceeding good even Mankind which is now depraved was made good and innocent though of a constitution possibly mutable That possible mutability GOD proved by an easie Law given in Paradise without compulsatively necessitating or byassing our first Parents to the right-hand or to the left but evenly ballancing them with a Free-will yea and without debarring them until their Delinquency from the Tree of Life in the midst of the Garden or from any other means whereby they might have been preserved and confirmed in their Integrity so far forth as was pertinent to a Creature left free and under no restraint In this happy estate they continued until the Devil who had corrupted himself without a Tempter being moved thereto through envy seduced our said first Parents through subtilty For he perceiving them to rest satisfied with the knowledge of Good only without desiring cognizance of Evil first by lying prepossessed them with an injurious misbelief of GOD and then with a false and vain opinion that they should become like GOD by knowing both Good and Evil if they did eat of the Tree by Him forbidden That Suggestion being entertained begat in them a desire of an unprofitable knowledge and that Desire being conceived corrupted into an actual disobedience of GOD's Command whereupon they quickly found themselves to be guilty naked and miserable Their former free liberty of access to the Tree of Life was obstructed as also the influence of many Graces formerly vouchsafed and they were turned out of Eden into the World to get their living by the sweat of their brows in painful tilling the accursed Earth liable both to a corporeal and spiritual death And since it was their own choice and desire to know both Good and Evil GOD determined they should experimentally know them and that Priviledge be derived to all the Posterity of Adam to satisfie their curiosity and make them really and throughly sensible thereby of their neglecting his Goodness of the Devil's malice whom they believed and of their own unfaithfulness ingratitude and folly untill the time were accomplished wherein the Seed of the Woman should break the Serpent's head Divine Justice did so decree also that after their exclusion out of Eden for disobedience there should be Enmity between the Seed of the Woman and of the Serpent for ever and a certain space of time allowed wherein both righteous and wicked men should have an actual as well as a contemplative experience of Good and Evil by permitting Men Good and evil Angels to make tryal what their own power wisdom folly righteousness or wickedness could produce whilst GOD stood as it were indifferently looking on as a Superintendent to prevent as occasions would be offered what might else by their misactings be destructive to the whole humane Nature to the residue of his Creatures or to his Eternal Decrees Ignorance of this Mystery and not being acquainted with the concurrant Justice and Mercy of GOD revealed in his Word inclines depraved Men to think and say all things continue as they were since the Creation and that so they shall continue for ever which evidently appears to my understanding to be otherwise determined and how that long toleration of Wickedness from which they extract their false Conclusion shall ripen it unto the destruction of it self But because this Mystery hath been long vailed and is yet beclouded I will express the same as it