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A89839	Foot yet in the snare: though the beast hath healed his wound, and now pretends liberty, but is fallen into the trap of the priests, receiving their testimony to beare it up, who are in the pit themselves, thereby giving them occasion to insult against the truth, as the beast and the false prophet hath alwaies joyned against the lamb. Discovered in an answer to Iohn Toldervy, Matthew Pool, VVilliam Jenkin, John Tombs, John Goodwin, VVilliam Adderley, George Cockain, Thomas Jacomb, and Thomas Brooks, who under a pretence of love to the truth, have gone about to devour it, and cover it with reproach. Wherein their crooked wayes, their confusions and contradictions is traced and laid open, and their spirit tryed to bee the same which joyned Judas and the chief priests, and their false witnesses against the heir at his appearance; so those have joyned testimony to the truth, of a lying book, which by their own confession they never read over. With something of their false testimony is short laid open, lest simple minds should bee led with a lye through the fame of the forgers. / By one who loves the soul, but hates the sin, called, James Naylor.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1656 (1656)	Wing N281; Thomason E863_1; ESTC R12925	23,636	36

against As to the particular actings of that deluded spirit with whom you are joyned witnesses in your book and so are of those who have abused the truth thereby more bitterlie to incense the generations of men beyond measure against us through your misguided spirit yea so much I may say the devill had never yet such a design on foot for the incensing people against those you call Quakers as this Book of yours which you have fill'd with the devils works and lying wonders wrought and witnessed amongst your selves whereof we are clear from the first to the last having been witnesses against it and yet you are not ashamed to say the subiect matter doth relate principallie to the persons of the Quakers which was acted and witnessed among your own persons which are joyned one in it against that spirit of God in the Quakers by which it was denyed in the persons of them both root and branch thereof as is confessed and witnessed by you So let all judge who have the spirit of truth if you be not those misguided spirits you tell on beyond measure who are casting upon us the deceits acted amongst your selves and yet confess the spirit of God in us witnessing against deceit so out of your own mouths be you judged to be those who take part with the deceit acted among your selves against the spirit of God vvho have cast upon us the works that are done amongst your selves of which we are clear in the presence of God Yea Iudas and the chief Priests might as trulie charge what they did in combining to gether against Christ upon the other eleven Disciples as you charge this your act and combination upon the persons of the Quakers or the spirit of God in them the case being the same both in respect of matter and near as near as possibly may be and how guiltie the Disciples were of that or we of this let the light of Christ in all consciences be Judge til he appear to reward you according to your work Further in your Epistle you tel of expressing tenderness to wards your brethren and companions who by their misguided spirit are subject to Laws and Ordinances Ceremonies and Traditions of their own inventing denying themselves their Just and Lawfull Liberty out of a slavish fear to which I say as for Ordinances Ceremonies and Traditions and Inventions they are your own and so is that misguided spirit which led in the inventions to what was acted as is declared in this book as also that misguided spirit by which you are led in your worships you Parish Masters and separated-Masters who have lost the form of the Saints worship and with your misguided Spirit are run into the inventions in everie particular of your worship which you perform in your Idols Temples so that the Scripture wil not warrant your practise in anie particular without wresting to sute your inventions so it nearlie concerns you to plead for tenderness towards your brethren who are companions with you in this misguided spirit and subiect to those Ordinances and Inventions into which you are run that you may also partake of that compassion who never loved to be plainlie dealt withall nor reproved for your errors But as for them who are come from under that misguided Spirit with its Ordinances and Inventions it may be long ere you be heard pleading for compassion to such nay against such is all your misguided Ordinances and misguided spirits with all their inventions combined together as appears in your book who have joyned testimonie to the works of the devill against the spirit of God under a pretence of love to the truth as you would plead for your misguided spirit Ordinances and Inventions under a pretence of compassion and so you shew to all then are wise hearted what your compassion is to But as for denying your selves of libertie lawful or unlawful you are little guiltie of that crime but would accuse others for doing it because we cannot run with you into your excess of pride drunkenness and gluttonie and all manner of lasciviousness and shelter it with you under the name of Christian libertie therefore you speak evill of us who see your wickedness and cannot joine with you therein who under the name of Christian libertie have opened a dore to your hearers of all liscentiousness as wofull experience may witness throughout the Nations what pride and oppression what excess and lasciviousness drunkenness and gluttonnie gaming sporting and wantonness what changeable fashions and foolish childish toyes in your habits which you are pleading for in your book which sober minded heathen would be ashamed of what Idolatrous worships speaking high words through the lusts of the flesh beguiling the souls that are unstablished what Idolatrous daies and feasts what imprisonment persecution and bloodshed what swearing and whoring foolish jesting and filthie communication idle talking and all manner of abomination is lived in amongst you and your hearers and all covered with the name of Christian Libertie And if anie make conscience of these things they are presentlie condemned by you for denying themselves their Just and Lawful Libertie accused of whi●sies and voluntary humiliation and of works and so the devill hath got Scriptures and the Saints words to plead for his lusts and condemn the Saints practise And how much you parish masters value the just libertie of such as witness against your unjust dealings the most of the Goals in the nation may testifie So the libertie of Barrabas bespeaks the death of Jesus and his imprisonment Do not ye remember your fathers the Bishops who under pretence of Christian Libertie set out their Play books giving them names of lawfull recreations which indeed were the devills practises and are not you got upon the same beast yet as blinde as they and as full of rage had you the same power against them that reprove you thereof But as for anie libertie we denie which is according to God charge us with it in particular and let truth make its defence You tell again of giving account of John Toldervy his separation from the people called Quakers I say that is but the former lie told over again for the people called Quakers did separate from him when he was separated from the light and acted by a spirit of darkness and would not be reclaimed In your cautions to the Reader you confess that his errors from what was written in the Scripture and ●in himself was that by which he dearlie suffered having before cast it upon the persons of the Quakers and this is the truth which you are satisfied of as you have signified with your hands but are found with deceit in your mouths If it was his departing from the Scriptures and what was written in him that was his error and cause of his sufferings then it was not the persons of the Quakers which before you said was the subject matter of your discourse and that which did relate principallie to

took it falslie So all may see who love truth and honestie what Spirit and waie you are engaged against for that spirit which took the money before was not that which forced the restoration neither was that which pull'd off the pride the same that put it on again and pleads for it these two are contrary as much as between the just and the unjust a true man and a thief God and the Devill and you being forced to confess this thing to his praise by whose spirit he was moved thereunto you have thrust it in amongst his deceits to render it odious as a work of the spirit of the devill but that is your deceit who would blind the works of God by mixing them among the works of the Devill The children of Light see you for that spirit we own which caused him to make restitution which caused him to cast awaie his pride and heathenish customes creature-worships and respect of persons and brought him into the form of sound words but that spirit we condemn which took the money hath put on the pride denied the faith and run into respect of persons and we see that to be it which led him into the Witchcrafts for Thieving Witchcraft Pride and Idolatrie are all of one Spirit and that spirit was condemned by those who believed the Apostses Doctrine who confessed their sins burned their books and made restitution And here are the two spirits you tell on which were in him the one contrarie to the other but when he denyed the Spirit of meekness which condemns the thief and the pride then the other Spirit exalted and led him to follow his damn'd imaginations having denied the Light and Spirit of Peace joyned to the proud exalted and deceitfull Spirit God in judgement gave him up to the Spirit of Delusion which being seen he was by us denied and his spirit also as is very well known both to himself and divers more And all you who have joyned with him in this spirit to denie that spirit which caused the restitution are seen in the eternal Light to be in the same state with the chief priests and rulers who joined with Iudas who bare the bag in combination to betray Christ this you wil find when the day of account comes when each Spirit will be seen as they are and they that joyn with them then shal not you be hid who have set this work on foot raised out of the depth of Satan till then we are not ashamed of that spirit which caused restitution condemned his pride and bare witness in him if he had minded it against all his lying wonders divinations and Sorceries And in that Spirit are we willing to suffer all the reproach of the Heathen in love to justice and meekness so take your own with which you are joyned and think not to be hid under a pretence of clearing the truth no more than Judas could be hid with a kisse and you will see at that day that what you have done is but to dig the pit deeper into which you must fall for from the Lord your counsels are not hid And before all the world do we own that Spirit which leads to truth and meekness and humility and do declare that the denying of that spirit was the cause of all his delusions and he shall know that that was his day of visitation And you that have taken part against that Spirit at that day shall know your blasphemy and your condition you may read Mark 3. 29. 30. Read their work and who they were and read your own And in your 17 page you say A short time after his compliance vvith that spirit vvhich entred into him by the observation of our practises and in your second page you say This spirit vvas infused before he vvent amongst the Seekers or knevv the Quakers so it vvas farr unlike to enter by the observation of our practice And by the observation of our practice you say declared to be from the teachings of the Spirit he denied his master aftervvard denied all relations went sate down at the head-end of the table above his Master iustified the deed of it went into Cheapside to gather up cabage stalks colwort leavs which were cast away to eat was possest that Christ Jesus which died at Jerusalem was a figure of him and that he was the true Christ that the dissolution of all things would be at the end of 63. years and that there was a greater Revelation to be made manifest in him than was in Christ to believe in outward appearances and spirits in likeness of a mans shade to believe in lying Spirits and take them for Angels and that he should be made perfect in 25. daies and that he was to suffer waiting for and desiring apparitions which would come and go at his desire dancing and flying about the Room and he dancing himself with them chusing Apostles believing in spirits singing and hissing like Bees calling them the Angels of the living God kindling fire with dead coals and such lying wonders taking a Flie to be a Messenger of God and being guided by Flies gathering sticks leaves and small stones laying them by themselves casting some awaie and keeping others waiting for direction from the blaze of a candle burning his Flesh at the fire at the observation of a Flie wrastling with himself imitating the crucifying and burying of Christ and much such like bewitched imaginations which Spirit you affirm entred into him by the observation of our practises and by a spirit that entred in thereby O you shameless men are not you led by the same bewitched confused spirit with which you have taken part by which you are so blinded to vomit out your own shame and utter out your confusion before all the world have not you before confessed that this spirit was infused into him defore he came among the Seekers or ever knew the Quakers And have not you confessed in your 49. page That the cause of these distractions and confusions in his minde was having been zealously affected in divers wayes before there was begotten in him much fleshly wisdome in which his hope did rest believing it to be the Holy Spirit revealed in him and that he was covered with deceit and could glory in that condition and in your 50. page you confess the light of the Spirit which if followed would have guided out of the works of the flesh and led to the worship of God in spirit and truth but he being naturally of a very hastie forward minde and his resolutions being a covenant of his own he was hastily carried forth before the true light by which in a short time he became lost in his understanding and exal●ed mightily and the enemy which was for condemnation having thereby darkned the true light of the Sun formed it self in the shape of the true light and so deceit got the power whereby he became obedient to these things

would be done unto before God let him be witness whose Spirit you have blasphemed this daie between us and you Also let all the Judges in this Nation give their testimonie and all that understand Law between man and man if such a Witness deserve not the Pillory or punishment sutable to his slander who would dare to be a witness against another in things he never saw nor heard as you confess some of you have done though I am far from desiring that any of these things should befall you but that you might come to see your unjust dealing after the manner of men being that the things of God you understand not being heart-blind are become past feeling and so given up to shameless things to set to your hands as witnesses to such contradictions and confusions as is in this your Book yet to become as certain witnesses to that which you confess you have but seen part of and so set to your hand to you know not what Was ever such a thing done by any that feared God moderate Heathen would blush thereat Have not some of you been the wisdome of the Nation But how are you faln and how hath envie besotted you Is not the Word of the Lord concerning your fathers in fulfilling now upon you The dayes of your visitation is come the dayes of recompence are come Israel shall know it The Prophet is a fool the spiritual man Hosea 9. 7 8. is mad for the multitude of their iniquity and the great hatred The Prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his wayes and hatred in the house of his God Praises Praises to our Redeemer who frustrateth the tokens of the lyars and maketh Diviners mad that turneth wise men backward and maketh Isa 44. 25. 27 their knowledge foolish that saith to the Deep be dry and I will dry up the rivers that he may make way for his kingdom through the depth of the sorceries In his works we rejoice who hath given us an inheritance therein yet for you there is a lamentation knowing the shame that must cover you and the woful day that must come upon you which is near at hand You go on further in your deceit to make a cover for all this filthiness and when you have fathered all these lying wonders upon the persons of the Quakers then you go about to clear us of it again and in your 49 page you say he had a clear understanding of what our Ministry held forth and had a right knovvledge of our belief and practise before he did comply vvith us and here you add another lye to cover the former for he never had a right knovvledge of our belief or practise for all that are in a right knovvledge of our faith and practise deny all such things and by our faith and practise vvas he denyed vvho acted such things And then you go on to tell the occasion how he came to be lost in his understanding and so distracted and confused in minde and this you say you will do for the Truths sake Oh ye full of all subtilty Have you cast out all this venome upon the Truth in your Book and are you now about to clear it Is there not more of the Devill seen herein than in your former wickedness more Hypocrisie and Deceit Stop your mouths you Dissemblers the Truth will clear it self and in the end all shall witness it when the War is compleated and the Beast and the false Prophet is cast into the Lake And in the clearing of the Truth say you he being fully perswaded by what he learned from the Quakers of the Truth which was made known by the Light in us which Light is spirituall and guides out of the work of the flesh to Worship God in Spirit and Truth he was then to wait out of thoughts and imaginations c. and his Vnderstanding being now thus opened he was possessed with much joy in the sence of that love he had received whereupon he was resolved to give all diligence that his Calling and Election may be made sure but being naturally of a hastie and forward minde and his resolution in part being of a Covenant of his own there was speedily begot in him an extreame fiery Zeale so that in the generall he was hastily carryed forth before the true Light by which in a short time he became lost in his Vnderstanding and so the Disputer was raised to life and that which was for Condemnation having darkned the Light of the Sun formed it selfe in the shape of the true Light and so deceit got the Power and led one of the true Obedience in the things before related by which the Simple became exceedingly deceived but when he was restored by the cleare Light of Life being guided in that obedience which was professed by those people amongst whom he was being the Quakers and his witnesse you say herein is true To all which I say this being true then out of your own mouths be ye judged that what you witnessed to before was a lie For if it was the true Spirituall Light which first let him see his Darkness and would have guided him out of the works of the Flesh his own thoughts and imaginations and if the cause why he turned from that was his naturall hastie forward minde and resolution which carried him forth before the true Light being a Covenant of his own and thereby darkned the Light of the Sun and so formed up false Lights in shape of a true Light whereby deceit got power to do those filthie things before related and if he was restored again by the true Light being guided by that obedience which was professed by the Quakers and this you say his witness therein is true then let all wherein there is the least measure of honestie judge of your blasphemie lies and slanders and abominable confusions who all along in your Book have gone about to defile and slander the true Light of the Spirit of God with these filthie things which you now confess was acted in his hastie forward minde carryed forth before the true Light in a Covenant of his own whereby the true Light was darkned and the deceit got power to act those things by which the simplicity was deceived which you would cast upon the persons of the Quakers Can you behold your confusion and not be ashamed Is this your foot out of the Snare and do you not blush at your envie against the innocent and are you not afraid at your envie against the light can you say and unsay accuse and excuse and all in one thing and witness all for truth was there ever a generation of men thus brazened in iniquity and who could feede upon mischiefe like you Hovv long vvill you make lyes your refuge and smite the innocent in secret therevvith vvho are passing on their way peaceably Do you believe that all are so blinde as some who are led by you who believe all

to be truths you speak in your Pulpits without examination Or do you think that wisdom and light is wholly excluded from amongst men and true judgement wholly rejected then might you think that your lies and deceits might pass unreproved you cover your selves therewith as with a garment But the Lord is risen and rising the light is come the daie-spring from on high is visiting his people your works of darkness must come to judgement you must know against whom you builders are gathered though you think it is but against the despised people who have none to take their part in the earth But what is the work you have done herein further than manifesting Herod Pilate your selves who could never agree in yourworship nor opinions now joined together to set your hands to a lie against the Lamb and his Light which was ever refused by you builders and so no strange thing is hapned to the children of Light and your works shall tend no further then to accomplish the will of God to keep them blinde who desire not the way of the light because they love their deeds of darkness and so the just Judgment of God is upon them and you who are given up to bear your testimony to the Lyar for truly the least of the children of Light who love their measure of God with it they see you and your gathering together and your ground with the root and branch from whence you spring you are comprehended with the Light your compass with the depth of your deceit and your end and the Arm of the Lord is seen gathering his sheep which by you have been scattered upon the barren mountains this cloudy dark day ever since the rise of the Pope and his Adherents the head and tail stalk and branch that from him spring And the Lord is uttering his voice even the Soul-shepheard calling by his light into his teaching and feeding who is the spiritual Pastor who is no hireling nor devourer of the sheep neither doth he make a prey upon them who seeks the lost which you have driven away and restores the lame strengthens the feeble and carries the lambs in his bosome because they are his own who doth not feed upon the fat nor make a prey upon the poor who doth not teach for the fleece nor seek for his gain from his quarter nor bear rule by his means with force and rigor who seeks them and not theirs who respects not the person but the purity Praises praises to him for ever who is now appaaring to call to an account those who have perverted his way And all you who have changed his worship into another thing then what he appointed as is plain amongst you who have not left one particular of his Worship which you have not added to and altered from what it was in himself and his Saints as is plain in Scripture which will not own any one thing you do in your high places to be so much as in the form of true worship but you have formed after the times changes of men some you have led with you into the new forms and some you have left in the old till you have scattered the Lords people from him and his way so that from the Pope to this day you are all gone out of the way nor is there any one form of worship in the Nations into which you have led them which is in that manner much less the matter in which it was before the Pope begun and because we tell you these things and call you to come to the foundation of truth we are accounted your enemies But behold the Lord is zealous for Zion and is rising to gather his outcasts and hath uttered his voice and lift up his Standart against the Idol-shepherds therefore are you gathered to gether against him to war even the heads of all colours and he will break you to pieces together and scatter you as you have scattered his Lambs and trampled upon the Simple and made a prey upon him whose heart hath been set to seek God such have you drawne into your net and led them into your forms there have set your selves over them serving your selves upon them these must be taken from between your teeth and gathered not by might nor by power but by mine arm saith the Lord. Howle you Vine-dressers the heir is come to call for fruit and you are gathering together against him that you may keep his Vineyard as an inheritance to your selves who have planted therein for your selves and not for him so that the Lord can have no fruit Your Vineyard brings forth pride vainglorie and respect of persons love of the world and conformity thereto creature-worships and honour which is not of God this fruit abounds and you like it well and plead for it lest it should be plucked up but the pure God disowns this fruit and therefore your plants he will pluck up which bring forth fruits to the times and not to him not the same that is and was in his Son And all your worships which follow the times and not him that which changes with the times must be plucked up also that he may plant that which is before time was which brings not forth to your times but unto God this he will accomplish though your rage be great Against whom are you gathered you scornfull proud ones against a people whom the Lord hath laid as the streets and as the ground to them that go over Thus hath the Lord made his people to prove you and you are found trampling upon them and they are esteemed in your eyes as not worthy to live Surelie had you risen up against an enemie you might have had honor but you are risen up against them that are laid much lower then the lowest of the people who have no kindred in the earth nor is there anie who will so far debase himself as to plead their cause they are sold for nothing nor doth any enquire after their blood Surely to thee O Lord do we look thou art our beloved on whom we lean at the end of the times thou hast revived us and in thy life we shall live Oh you Potsheards of the earth why will you be broken to pieces vvhy vvill not you look to the pit out of which you vvere digged before you be taken avvaie in his Wrath for your gathering together is the Iron Rod prepared and it is lifted up though you see it not And as for thee Iohn Toldervy who so often hath said to divers people that thou didst put forth this book to clear the truth professed by those called Quakers from manie slanders cast upon it through thy means now that truth by us professed is a witness against thee for ever that thou hast not sought to clear it but hast sought thine own and hast caused the truth to be blasphemed above all that ever was before thee in this