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A89830	The boaster bared, and his armour put off, without a conquest, by the quaking principle. In an answer to Enoch Hovvets, called Quaking principles dasht in pieces. / Written by James Nayler.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1655 (1655)	Wing N266; Thomason E835_12; ESTC R202980	14,097	15

THE Boaster bared AND HIS ARMOUR Put off without a Conquest by the QUAKING PRINCIPLE IN AN ANSWER TO ENOCH HOWETS CALLED Quaking Principles dasht in pieces Written by James Nayler LONDON Printed for G. Calvert and are to be sold at his shop at the Black Spread Eagle neer the West end of Pauls 1655. THE Boaster bared And his Armor put off without a Conquest by the quaking Principle IN An Answer to ENOCH HOWETS called Quaking Principles dasht in pieces THat Principle which caused Moses David Daniel the prophets holy men of God to quake tremble hath been often struck at by a Principle of Darkness which knows not the Word at which the Saints Trembled Isa 66.5 and this alwayes under a pretence of Truth saying let God be Glorified but it never could be dashed in pieces though many weapons have been formed against it which are carnall and out of the truth And it is the same now as wil appear by this which thou Enoch Howet hast written wherein thou wilt be found in the same ground of opposition gathering up false accusations to cast on the the truth where it is manifested and being blind thou thinks thou dost God service therein that the Scripture may be fulfilled upon this Generation who are gathered as the sand of the Sea for multitude Mat. 24.6 against the despised people of God And the seven-Heads thou hast lifted up against the Truth with the many horns arising from thence pushing at the Saints with many lies which heads thou callest our mistakes but six of them as thou hast discribed them are thy own mistakes if not thy malitious slanders as wil appear upon tryall when with truth they come to be weighed to which thou adds many lyes to make up thy number Before thou comes to the seven heads thou begins an oration The God of the whole earth is now about to declare his glory to the Gentiles and the Kindoms of this World are about to become the lords and his Christs I Answer Many such as thou in a vain minde have long fed your selves with what wil be but for the present lives in your own wils and pleasures and are not subject to the Kingdom of Christ Luke 17.21 nor that way in which he raigned when he was upon earth which the litterall knowledg could never owne and whilest we fed with you upon these vain words without knowledg and life we were beloved of you being of this world with you but now being come to the knowledg of the Lord by the name of I am and seeing his glory having denyed the glory of the world in our selves and others to own Christs Kingdom wherein he reigned above the worlds pleasures now you hate us and out of all forms are you gathered against us 2 Cor. 4.8 c and on every side are we beset but not destroyed neither can thy boasting words dash in pieces that principle wherein we stand and when thou hast made way with thy fair speeches then thou begins to push with thy horns wherein is the names of Blasphemy casting out thy lyes saying that we call the God of this world that blinds the eyes a God of light and all this darkness spiritualness and that we can hardly endure what is written but run to unwritten notions c. whenas we own no Light but that which God hath made to shine out of darkness wherein he hath shined in our hearts to give the knowledg of himself 2 Cor. 4.6 which is the light of Christ and thou that calls this the God of this world or an unwritten notion makes it appear thou hast not the light in thee nor the Testimony of Jesus And thus being not born of the truth thou serves the Land of thy Nativity as thou sayest with false accusations and calling Christ thy Master wil not hide thee for such works he never owned Now thy first head thou sets up to oppose us with is that we slight the Written Word To which I answer If thou means the Scriptures I say thy accusation is false for the Scripture we own which testifies of the Word which Word was in Spirit and spiritually discovered in them that spake forth the Scripture before they spake it or writ it in Letters which Word we witness in spirit according to Scripture Gal. 1.11 12.15 16 17. 2 Cor. 3.6 discovered in us spiritually which thou denies to set up a litterall discovery 2 Cor. 13.15 to the 7. verse of the 4. chap. And the Vaile being untaken away by turning to the Lord which is that spirit thou canst not see the Gospell Light nor the end of the Scriptures which were given to lead to the spiritual light and Word that gave them forth where the life eternall is which they who think it to be in the letter without deny it in spirit as the Jews did and thou dost and thou that denies this end of the Scriptures art he that denies the Word to set up the Letter in his place and calls it by his Name who is the word before the Letter was which we dare not do which the Letter doth not Now if thou calls this slighting of the Word then did not the Saints also slight it before us who called what they writ a Declaration of the Word 1 Ioh. 1.22.3 Luke 1.1 And it s called the words of Ieromiah to whom the word of the Lord came a cleare distinction between the invisible Word that came to him in spirit and the visible writings declared from that word for the words were many but the Word is but one from whom these words were spoken Ier. 1.1 2. And thou goes on in thy Book often repeating It is written it is written Iohn 1. i. Rev. 19 i3 now it is written that God is the Word and Christ his name is called the word of God but where is it written that the Letter is the Word or of a written word And now it wil appear who owns what is written and who adds to it or would take from it prove what thou sayest with plaine Scripture then thou maist boast of its written thou holds out ignorance of the Scriptures to be the ground of error which if thou meanest litterall knowledg I deny what thou sayest for many such as thou knows the history but ers from the life for it is the ignoronce of the Spirit and power that the Scriptures declare of that 's the ground of error without which knowledg puffs but up to oppose the life and power and for thy rancking us amongst the Papists and saying we perswade you to the uselesness of the Scriptures calling subtile devils and the like these are but lying slanders to make us odious and on thy head shal they fall for the Devil is known by his works a lyar and false accuser he was and so he is as it is written and his subtilty he uses to uphold his Kngdom of sin and not to pul it down

prove thee a lyar thou wilt hide it as wel as thou canst It seems thou owns not freedom from the pollutions of the World through lust to be the redemption of Christ unless they jump with thy fancie then to conclude thy lying slander and to make us odious indeed thou saist the Ranters were our forerunners when all that know us may witness against thee that no people in the Nation more differ both in judgment and in practise than they and we but were we one with the Ranters we should have more of thy favour and less opposition for thou and many of thy generation have writ many Books against us but I never heard none of you write a book to oppose them Thou tels of Franckling what he is I know not accuse us with what we own and not with what we deny who is gone out from us are not of us nor do we own their practise And least any should spie out thy envy in often repeating thy false Accusations thou saist it is for several purposes but all for good of souls but who sought the good of souls durst never lye slander nor speak evill of the things they knew not nor pleaded against perfection nor freedome from sin nor for respect of persons this was never for the good of souls nor did he ever love souls that set thee on this work but thou knows not of what spirit thou art of who knows nothing in thee contrary to thy own will to guide thee and to exercise thy conscience towards God and Man which is in God and in Man But when thou comes to an end of thy wickedness and shalt cease to deale treacherously then shall the witness arise and thou shalt see what thou hast done in pushing against the Lamb. Thy Heads and Horns with thy Names of Blasphemy must be dasht to pieces with that Principle at whose presence the Saints quake tremble which now thou scorns and them that own it till then I leave thee to run thy course yet in thy greatest zeale if thou minde thou maist sometimes find a check in thy Conscience that is not of thee nor of thy ways that is a witness against thee which sometimes wil hint to thee thy latter end and what then shall befall thee who now hates to hear it or be reformed by it at that day it will appear thou hadst better have been silent then out of a lofty proud zeale in thy blindness to have spoken against the things thou knowest not There is a bundle of lyes more in thy Book not worth answering all that know our practise shal witness against thee in them As that we work upon people to cause a disesteem of the Scriptures That we deny the Lord that bought us That the Papist is our Predecessor That we wil not have Christ to rule over us but deny both his Person and Word That we have not Faith but a bewitching Spirit That we use unseemly kissings in our meetings That we deny the way of righteousness That we deny the vertue of what is written That we fear not God nor care for man That being one time wrought upon we are perfect That we deny any man being under frailty That we leave Christ neither Body nor Laws extant and so no being no Son Divers more there is not worth the raking up These I return thee into thy bottle from whence they came there to rot Is this thy Religion What a spirit art thou guided by Hast thou done as thou wouldst be done unto But this is thy fruit who hast denyed any thing within thee to exercise thy conscience towards God and man O shame shame with thy guide and his fruits thy envy against the truth Did God create man in Sin Imperfection and respect of Persons c. Or is it in the Fall which if it be Then see whose work thou art doing that pleads for it and a continuance of it while man lives and against such as witness Redemption from it didst thou ever read any of Gods children in that faith or works IAMES NAYLER FINIS