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A89850	Satans design discovered: vvho under a pretence of worshipping Christs person in heaven, would exclude God and Christ, the spirit and light, out of the world: and that he should no more dwell in his people as he hath done, till Doomsday, that so he might rule in the hearts of men and women, unrevealed, while the world endures, onely under the name of God and Christ, talked of at a distance, that he may rule in the creation, exalted above God. Clearly laid open in an answer to Thomas Moor, who calls his book an Antidote against the spreading infections, &c. Wherein is discovered the crooked ways the winding Serpent takes to save his head, and reproach the truth with lies, that by any means he might make people believe that a lying spirit is among the Quakers, but is found within him. With 48. lies, taken out from three times as many, and sent back to be proved by the founder of them, T.M. Also some particulars, what the Quakers holds ... / By a servant to truth, called James Nayler.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1655 (1655)	Wing N313; Thomason E857_6; ESTC R202989	34,304	48

finde it by asking questions he had need of a better resolver then thee that had answered these Queries or any who deny the infallible spirit of God within them And thou tells of a new birth and the forming of Christ in men but what birth is that thou intends and what Christ must be formed within seeing thou hast in thy judgement and Doctrine confined the Son of God in Heaven while this World lasts art not thou preaching another Christ and birth let all who have the Son of God judge The last Query which askes what the grace of God is that brings salvation and hath appeared to all men this thou answerest with a slander saying that indeed we believe no such thing as the grace of God appearing to all men but put a fancy in the room of it c. Shewing thy heart void of grace and so more ready to slander then answer having more experience of the one then the other and no wonder though it be so when thou deniest the spirit of Light within to be the true Teacher and thou sayst that which is alwayes within cannot be properly said to be brought to a man wherein thou shewest thy sottishness Is not the life of man brought to him freely given of God and yet alwayes in him while he lives so natural reason may judge thee and he that gives the life gives the light thereby to keep the life unspotted though such as thou turn it into darknesse and hide it under the Bushel else would it reprove thy lying spirit who would make people believe that I deny the Scriptures because I bid blinde guides search the Scriptures and reprove you who cannot believe what the Scripture saith conderning the flesh of Christ and thou sayst the Ranters principles and ours are one and the greatest ground thon brings to prove it is by Richard Farnsworth writing a Book against them O thou dissembler art thou not ashamed to accuse us to be one with them and yet takes offence that we should write against them Indeed they are true friends to the Kingdom thou art pleading for in thy Book to wit sin for terme of life and strong props in that Kingdom so you can ill spare them and their faith and thine suits well for pleasure here and hereafter yet be ashamed of thy acculation and the ground of it for of above 40 Books written against the truth within this three or foure years I never see one written against the Ranters by your Parish-Teachers yet will you murmur at others which shews no little of your friendship and thou murmurest at Rich Earnsworth because he only blameth them for turning to a loose and prophane life and saist that once the pure law was set up in them to have freed them from Sin and thou saist if he know any thing that their principle led naturally to it but is this no blasphemy to charge the pure law and Judgment naturally to lead to sin for this is the principle that he knowes and speaks of and thou saist he ownes their principales and yet cries out against their grosse prophanes and Atheism so that to own the pure law and Judgment seemes to thee an offence and matter of accusation But saist thou this he doth because that is grosly scandalous and hinders others from harkning to their imaginations O thou devourer how dost thou cast out thy envie are these words becoming Christians thus wickedly to slander and is the pure law and judgment and the light within imaginations with thee thou art afraid this should be harkened to and therefore calls it the roote of all Atheisme and propanesse which the Apostles saith want of the light within and because of the blindnesse of the heart is people given over unto lasciviousnesse to worke all uncleanness with greedinesse Eph. 4. 18. and 19. So thou art an enemy to the Apostles testimony light and Spirit Law and Judgments and so art Antichrist out of thy own mouth and let the Apostles words judge thee without wresting And thy envie hath got an object of one about Norwich that pretended perfection whom thou saist yet lived secretly in uncleanesse along time if not in murther too for hiding it I say the woe is to him who hath given thee cause to blaspheme by departing our of the way of God which is perfect but let every sober Christian judge thee with Spirit thou art of what takest that advantage against the truth considering the wickednesse committed in your Parishes where you are Masters and from whom you have your hire which might stop your mouthes frō this glorying were it not that the Devill must rejoyce in his own work who could never get such an advantage against the truth since it begun to spread in the Nation So now he plies it with reproaches from all parts of the Nation which is no little sorrow to them that feare God nor will it be joy to you one day who aggravate it as thou dost adding murther to it which if thou know such a thing and conceale it the blood be upon thy head but it thou know not such a thing then a murderous slanderer thou art and thy own works shall judge thee in every honest heart who reades what thou hast published to all the world And for thy accusing us at our meeting for incivilities as for calling you liars Serpents Sots and such like I say if any did call you that you are not you are more innocent then they I justify no such thing but this I know and many other that was there that one of thy companions had his staffe up to have knock't me down in the yard gnashing at me with his teeth and narrowly I escaped that it was not so had you had any such carriage from us reason might have judged it uncivill but a Word from us is counted In offence when Actions from the world is counted none And thou would 't charge James Parnell with blasphemy who speaking of corrupt reason saith before that was I am I say thou here shewest what thou knowest of the inward man or being in the life of Christ Is not he that is born again of the immortal seed borne of that which before corrupt reason is art thou a teacher and calls this blasphemy Nay it is the blasphemer in thee that cannot own the voyce of Christ for if any thing of Christ speak in man it was before corrupt reason was and every one in their measures of Christ as they have received And for the name of Manifesterians which thou wouldest cast upon us for a slander and saist thou know'st not any called Manifesterians nor what manner of persons they apply that name to and said it thou never heard of any such thing that John Wray called you so in some letters I say then thou should have beene sent and not have Judged that thou heard not for the letter is yet a witnesse for us which came to mee above 60 miles from John

SATANS Design discovered VVho under a pretence of worshipping Christs Person in Heaven would exclude God and Christ the Spirit and Light out of the world And that he should no more dwell in his people as he hath done till Dooms-day that so he might rule in the hearts of Men and Women unrevealed while the World endures onely under the name of God and Christ talked of at a distance that he may rule in the Creation exalted above God Clearly laid open in an Answer to Thomas Moor who calls his Book an Antidote against the spreading Infections c. Wherein is discovered the crooked ways the winding Serpent takes to save his head and reproach the truth with Lies That by any means he might make people believe that a lying Spirit is among the Quakers but is found within him With 48. Lies taken out from three times as many and sent back to be proved by the Founder of them T. M. Also some Particulars what the Quakers holds concerning the presence of God Christ Spirit Light Scripture and what alone makes it profitable True Ministery perfection who can and who cannot receive the things of Gods Spirit with the Ground and cause of all Errors and Sects laid down in plain short words but received and maintained in the everlasting truth who is now manifest to withstand all opposers By a Servant to Truth called James Nayler Let the lying lips be put to silence who speaks things proudly and contemptuously against the righteous for judgement is laid to the line and righteousness to the plummet and the hail shall sweep away thy refuge of lies He that is first in his own cause seemeth Just but his neighbor cometh after and findeth him out London Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black Spread-Eagle near the West end of Pauls 1655. Satans Design discovered THo Moor Thou call thy book a discovery of a lying Antichristian Spirit in some of those called Quakers which thou hast set forth to blind the world from seeing thy own Antichristian lying doctrine thou was found in when we was with thee and whereof thou was reproved by the Spirit of truth and thou confounded which is the cause of all this fome mire and dirt which like the Sea thy rage casts up in which thou hast more fully laid open to all that are in the Spirit of Christ that thou art that Antichrist and lyer and false-accuser which thou would accuse us with and so the more the Serpent sties in the leaves the more discovered blessed be our light for ever dost thou thinke to hide thy selfe by accusing thy damnable doctrine upon us or to broach thy denialls of Christ the more hiddenly by accusing us to deny Christ which is the thing for which we declare against thee and hast made it thy great work in thy booke to deny the Father and the Son in the Saints and ever amongst to blind people that they should not see thy ends thou falsly accuses us to deny them suudry times in thy booke possessing people that we deny and Preach down the person of Jesus of Nazareth of the seed of David the worke of redemption wrought for us in his own person as tipes shadows or figures of the true Christ which is to befound in some other thing that we preach this down as the Apostles preached down circumcision temple sacrifies this thou gathers from my letter I wrot to thee which thou hast printed because I said the flesh of Christ is the food of my inward man To which accusation I say the Lord be Judge betweene me and that lying murtherous Spirit whether I own any other righteousnesse than that everlasting righteousnesse of God wrought in the person of Jesus Christ of Nazereth his suffering resurrection and ascention according to the Scriptures and that endures from generation to generation and all inherits that same righteousnesse as by faith they receive the same Jesus and further I say let all modest Christians who reads that letter Judge what ground thou hast to conclude any such thing against me and so be thou Judged with all honest hearts as thou hast dealt therein and all the rest of thy lies and slanders cast upon us in thy book And for their sakes who else might have beene led to speake evill of that they know not I rejoyce that letter is come to light And thou thy lies and confusions art revealing from thy own pen which many would scare have believed from another so that if any who know any thing of Christ within read thy book they may throughout thy book see thy worke who having denied the Father and Son in thy selfe what crooked waies thou takes to thrust him out of the world a so which was ever Satans worke who can never be quiet in his Kingdom so long as Christ appeares in any of his Saints on earth to witnesse against him but could he limit him only into Heaven and perswade people never to waite sor his appearance in their hearts then might he rule the creature without controule let and set at his pleasure for he knows none can reveale him though in the Temple of God he sit in the hearts of people but the brightnesse of Christs coming in his light into the hearts where he is so he sets his Ministers to Preach Christ without in literall tradition that so he may keepe his house in peace within and so keepe God out of his Temple and dwelling place which is the bodies of his Saints but now the Lord is comming and taking people to himself whom he is clensing and some he hath clensed and is in his dwelling place praised for ever and in whom he beares witnesse against the Devill and his doctrine in the great assemblies and many are inclining to the voice of the Shepheard of their souls and the day is come that the Prince of this world must be judged and all his shews and likenesses wherein he hath shewed himselfe to be as God exalted in the Temple of God above all that is called God and the mystery of iniquity is revealed and revealing on the Head of all ungodliness and deceiveableness which he hath wrought in men all this time of the mystery of iniquity since men have denied the Spirit of truth and by it to be guided and have chused their imaginations instead thereof And now his Ministers of all sorts is hard put to it and he hath put into their hands all the old armour wherewithall he used in former ages to fight against the appearance of Christ and all his Kingdom is up in armes with such weapons as they have bestirring themselves against the Lambe in whomever he appeares the grosser sort with stones and clubs the greater sort with whips and prisons and cruell bonds another sort swearing and for swearing against the innocent that they might roote him out of the earth and the Head of the Serpent is making refuge of lies and slanders thereby to

fright the rest whom he cannot get to joyne with him in this wickednesse seeking to perswade them that to waite for the appearance of Christ in them with his light and Spirit to guide them out of all this confusion is the most dangerous errour in the world and of all other to be avoided when as indeed all that are from that Spirits guiding are in errour and can be no other wise untill to that Spirit they turne therewith to be led out of errour and being more subtile then all the rest brings in Lies and false Accusations against others as though they was out of the truth but he a friend unto it when as all the friendship he intends when truly weighed is to make an eternal separation betwixt the Creature and the Creator and to keep God out of his dwelling place yea and as far distant as the Heaven is from the Earth as thou dost in thy Book who denies the possession of God in his Saints as thou dost in thy 32 page and in many other places in thy Book In thy 25 page confesses the Body to be the Temple of the Lord in which God primely and chiefly dwelleth and manifesteth himself in through the testimony of Jesus there received and thus with confusion saying and unsaying hast thou made up thy Book to the end that thou might keep people from the light of Christ perverting the Scriptures to wrong ends and making them speak quite contrary to the Spirit as that of Amos 2. 13. where God saith I am pressed under you as a cart is pressed that is full of sheaves This thou would have people to believe that God said I will pross you as the cart is pressed with sheaves which is quite contrary and where the Spirit saith Christ in you speaking of the Saints in whom Christ dwelt thou turnedst it to Christ among you as he was among the Pharisees and where Christ saith The kingdom of God is within you that thou pervertest also to among you and this thou printest to all the world with many more such like of thy deceitful workings and pervertings too many to mention which all that read thy Book may see scarce one Scripture thou hast medled with which thou hast not sought to wrest and art not ashamed to accuse me for abusing the Scriptures who have but quoted the plain words without meanings at all nay so shameless is thy work in thy book that were it not for the simplicities sake which in many is deceived by such as thee I should leave it to discover it self as sufficiently it will do in the fight of the wise who compare but one part of it with another and not have written any thing unto it As also thy shameless denying what thou spoke before hundreds of Witnesses before whom thou denyed God to be manifest in the Creature then and that none had immediate call but the Apostles who was called by Christ personally before his Ascention And when I instanced Paul and Ananias Thou said Paul was in Heaven and saw him personally Thou said further that thou had not the same Testimony as the Apostles had which thou now turnedst to Timothy Further thou said also That the Scriptures are the absolute Rule and Medium of Faith and when I asked thee if God could give faith without them thou saidst Yea then I said They was not the absolute Rule and Medium then John Wray said I catcht at Words to which I answered If thou didst confess thy mistake I did not desire to make thee an Offender for a word and upon thy confession thereupon that thing ceased and I spake no more of it at that time which otherwise had not so passed Thou saidst further That Paul saw Christ personally with his bodily eyes after his Ascension Thou al so said I was a false witness in saying that I had seen Christ and said thou had never seen him as Paul did to which I said I believed thou had not Further thou said The benefit the drunkards have by Christ is that they enjoy that drink wherewith they are drunken Thou said also That there is something which is not of God which teacheth the Creature to deny sin with divers other such like things which then I reproved thee for and withstood thee to thy face before the people where thou couldest not deny it and writ to thee of it in faithfulness that thou mightest have considered thereof and have seen thy folly and not have envyed me for speaking the truth which thou could not then deny before the people neither then nor the next day But now the envious one being got up for these things thou art not ashamed to account me a Lyar which thou couldst not do to my face before the people here shewing thy self to be a Backbiter and false Accuser of the truth and the lye returned into thy own bosom where the Lyar dwells seeking to hide himself by accusing others In thy Epistle thou tellest of some abatement of bloody persecution in these times but whosoever sees the emnity of these days and your combining together against the innocent with your actings imprisonings whippings mockings stockings reproachings and false accusings with all the multitude of your invented Envies of which thy Book is not the least they may see such a Generation of persecuters gathered from all Quarters against a poor despised People and persecuting for such things as never was since the World was created as witness all the Goals in the Nation and this mischievous lying Book of thine whereby thou would adde affliction unto those Bonds accusing us of denying Christ and preaching another Christ and another Gospel and another Spirit and many such blasphemous things from which we are clcar hast thou added unto the envy that is against us for all which thou must give an account amongst the rest when thou hast filled up thy measure And thou that callest it a Spirit of Antichrist to witness Christ bearing sin now in the body art one of those who never saw him whom thou hast pierced But did not he bear sin in thee though thou know him not thou had been in hell ere now and that thou shall know when his spirit leaves striving and his long-suffering is turned into Judgement which should lead thee to repentance And Christ appearing without sin to salvation is witnessed with all who have seen his appearance and that is the spirit of Antichrist which cannot confess him who goeth on in blindness and confusion as thou dost who faist there is not in man any light knowledge or understanding to make them sensible of their Idolatry and wickedness And in the next page faist Although the word be nigh them in their hearts What is not the word light and understanding where it is if it be minded it was so to the people of God who knew it in their hearts and by it was kept out of sin But thy testimony is contrary whose eyes are abroad

Priests and hirelings and persecuters did not worship the same God Christ and the Saints did though they said God was their Father and though they prayed to him yet not knowing him in them they worshiped they know not what for saith the Spirit that which may be known of God is manifest in men Rom. 1. 19. And they that had not God abiding in them they thought to have eternall life in the Scripture and from the letter they crucified God This was all the life they found in the Scriptures who had not the word abiding in them John 5. 38 39 John 19. 7. And saith Christ ye have not known him but I know him and if I should say I know him not I should be a liar like you John 8. 55. and so saith all the Sons of God in their measure but thou saies thy God is not knowne as Christ did so not his God nor his knowledge our God is not the God of the lier so who reads thy booke may reade thy God and thy knowledge of the true God And whereas thou saies that which Richard Farnsworth required was contrary to what the Lord required I say the Priests of Baal who had their God to seeke without knew not the ground of Elias challenge yet was it not contrary to God but thy God thou tellest on who would not suffer thee to hold dispute an houre past dinner-time it is not like he should lead thee into this triall to serve the Lord with denying the belly which shamelesly thou wouldst cast upon us to be servers of our bellies when thou denied the worke of God for serving thy belly thou layest it down as a great temptation to require thee to trust thy God and evidence his power without carnall food or carnall books I say the Saints of God had the word of God in them and the man of God lives not by bread alone but by that word and of their God they have made proofe in fasting when there to they have beene moved and this was no temptation Isa 56. 10. 11. but take from the carnall minde bread and books and then the dead and dumbe appeares yea some eloquent teachers we should have as dumbe as those was in Esay's time yet in the time of fullnesse they will boast of their God but in the time of affliction their faith failes therefore such Ministers lay the foundation of their call upon a fat benefice no meanes no Ministers with the Parish Masters no cash no call Thou saist God hath spoken to you by his Son and yet denies immediate teaching I say the Son is a Spirit and if he speake it is immediately but it seemes thou meaneth by the letter which the Son spoke to them that heard him but what is that to thee more then to all the world who hast never heard his voyce but used thy tongue when God never spoke to thee and there with would limit the Lord saying His last dispensation is published and nothing more is to be added or altered who hast not instructed him neither will he take Counsell at thee But why have you so added to and altered his worship under the Gospell so that there is not one thing performed in your Idols Temples which is not altered from that manner in which he left the Apostles and how have you added your Titles and Hire your Mastershipt your Idlenesse your studdied houre glasse-Preaching singing Davids Psalmes in order of your Ballets sprinkling Infants with all your whole rabble of inventions there to so that nought is left unaded or unaltered yet would you limit God that he must not add nor alter what you have imagined but if any by the Spirit of God come forth in his Ministrie as he hath ever called them such you cannot receive but with the same measure as ever his Ministers was received amongst the literall Priest-hood And whereas thou tels of a letter that thou expected in answer to thy writing and would accuse me for not sending it I say hast thou not consealed it not finding it for thy purpose to print that in thy conscience will tell thee but if not by thee yet by some of thy partakers for to John Rays house was it sent that day and what way else it should come to thy hand I know not And for the denying thy false doctrines which thou then defended as long as thou couldest which it seemes thou art now ashamed of having had a little more time to search thy expositers thy wits being come to thee I say there is not one perticular that I in that letter charged upon thee but were it profitable to the truth they would be arested under the hands of a multitude of witnesses but for thy fifth perticular thou hast thrust in thy selfe instead of Timothy that thou mightest seeke occasion to slander but how art thou brazened to deny these things which thou so long contended for before 100 of witnesses and yet after thou hast denied them goes crookedly about to prove them in a cunning secret way as is seene in thy booke though thou darst not own them openly in the same words thou first gave them out yet now thou saies God was not God is manifested in flesh which is to mend the other with another Lie as thou may reade Rom. 1. 19. 21. and 28. Where thou maist read thy errour and that God was manifest in men and women since Christs ascention even in the wicked who not retaining his knowledge was given up to licentiousnesse and in the Saints also as John 14. 19 20 21. and 15. the 4. and 5. and 1 Epist John 4. and 4. v. 2 Cor. 6. 16. with too many now Scriptures more to mention al shewing thy Antichristian Doctrine who not knowing God manifest in thy selfe would perswade all others not to looke for it and herein thou denies the effects of Christs prayer and promise John 17. 21. 23. John 14. 20. but where he is manifest and the creature reconciled Isay 26. 12. Phil. 1. 13 Heb. 13. 21. Col. 1. 29 Math. 11 27. thou art judged and thy Doctrine to be from a contrary Spirit who denies God manifest in thee and yet in thy blind envie would accuse me for murthering him in me Thou blind sot can I murther him in me if he never was in none since the ascention and thy selfe who denies his working in the Saints now and his Revelations to be now in the same manner as to his Saints formerly I say what revelation canst thou Judge of who denies any light or understanding within men but they that know him witnesse him working all their works in them now and where he doth not there the Devill works and they that have not the knowledge of God after the same manner have it after another manner and here the Children of God is knowne and the Children of the Devill and their manner of working so with thy blind eye Judge thy selfe and what thou knowest of thy