The discovery of mans return to his first estate by the operation of the power of God in the great work of regeneration with a word to all saints who set their faces towards Sion to seek the Lord their God ... : a word to the back-slider who hath tasted of the good word of God ... : with a discovery of mystery-Babylon and her merchants .... / written by one whom the people of this world calls a Quaker, whose name in the flesh is William Deusbury, but hath a new name the world knows not written in the book of life.

Title

The discovery of mans return to his first estate by the operation of the power of God in the great work of regeneration with a word to all saints who set their faces towards Sion to seek the Lord their God ... : a word to the back-slider who hath tasted of the good word of God ... : with a discovery of mystery-Babylon and her merchants .... / written by one whom the people of this world calls a Quaker, whose name in the flesh is William Deusbury, but hath a new name the world knows not written in the book of life.

Author

Dewsbury, William, 1621-1688.

Publication

London :: Printed for Giles Calvert,

1655.

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Subject terms

Society of Friends -- Apologetic works.

Regeneration (Theology)

Theology, Doctrinal.

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"The discovery of mans return to his first estate by the operation of the power of God in the great work of regeneration with a word to all saints who set their faces towards Sion to seek the Lord their God ... : a word to the back-slider who hath tasted of the good word of God ... : with a discovery of mystery-Babylon and her merchants .... / written by one whom the people of this world calls a Quaker, whose name in the flesh is William Deusbury, but hath a new name the world knows not written in the book of life." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A35833.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 4, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• All Men and Women, Behold, and see in what Estate you were created.
• A Word from the Lord to all that are waiting on the Lord in Sion: And to those that are weeping, and are seking the Lord their God, asking the way to Sion with their faces thitherwards.
• To all revolted souls who have depar∣ted from the Counsel of the Lord, and are made drunk with the Wine of the wrath of the fornication of the Whore, bewitched with the mo∣ther of Witch-craft, to return into spiritual Sodom and Egypt, where our Lord is Crucified.
• The Discovery of Mistery-Babylon.
• part