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cause_n	death_n	know_v	life_n	2,879	5	4.5653	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89845	A publike discovery, of the open blindness of Babels builders, and their confused language, who have been building without, till they deny faith, knowledge and the Gospel light within, the law of the new covenant, and matter of the new creature. Plainly laid open in an answer to a book intituled A publike discovery of a secret deceipt, subscribed John Deacon, in behalf of some who pretend a call to the ministry. Wherein their first queries their replyes; their answers to my queries, and their last queries is answered, and their whole work laid open, and the end thereof with queries sent back, by them to be answered, that their boasting spirit may be farther revealed, & its blindness. Here is also some of their confusions taken out of the heap, and set by themselves to be seen, how they will stand in the eye of truth, where but the least measure of God is known. / By an enemy to deceit, but a friend to the creation, called James Naylor.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1656 (1656)	Wing N305; Thomason E870_2; ESTC R204793	29,385	50

in you blind busie minds vvill be babbling you knovv not as the least Child of light shall judge yon And seeing you are telling of Paradise of the fall of man and the Law written in his heart and many such things your curious mind runs into give an Answer in plainness to these Queries so shall we make farther publique proof of what you have learned and of whom whether of Christ or of the Serpent which you call Christ 1. WHither and from what did man fall seeing God spake to him in the Garden after his fa● And whether the Resurrection must be to that from whence he fell or no 2. What death that was Adam died that day he eat the forbidden seeing Adam lived many hundred years after 3. What was the ground of Adams obedience before the fall and what is the ground of mans obedience in Christ and wherein do they differ and in what particulars 4. Is it possible that any Believer can bring forth the same fruits in Christ that was in man before the fall or fruits better or fruits not so good or in what particular shall they differ as to the ground and rise thereof And also as to the acceptance with God 5. What the seed of the Serpent is and what the seed of the Woman is and whether they be within people or no and whether they can both rule in one person at once and whether the seed of the Woman must not be where the Serpent is when he br●●es his head and what is it that can let every particular man see this done if he mind it 6. Whether that law of the new Covenant spoken on Heb. 8. which is by the Lord written in the heart be the same in every particular with that which you say was writ in Adams heart before the fall or wherein does it differ and how may the difference be known 7. Where is that City the Saints were fellow Citizens of what it is and how may one know when they are in it and whether any that commits sin is in that City yea or no 8. What is that beast that rose up out of the Sea and what that beast that came up out of the Earth wherein do they differ how may they be known that men may not worship neither of them 9. What is that which is dead in trespasses and sins in an unbeliever and whether the reading of the Letter can quicken it or can any understand the Letter while they are so dead 10 What that mystery of faith is that is held in a pure Conscience since you say the faith and knowledge of the Disciples was not within and whether that faith and knowledge that is from without not within can save and bring to know God 11. What faith and knowledge that is which you say is without a man and how may any know when they have it 12. How must the Gospel be made known to the soul seeing you say it is not made known by seeing within 13. The Word of God at the first being the Matter wheron the Image of God was made in man how comes it now to be changed seeing you now say the mind and will of man is the Matter and then the M●nistry of man as the Matter and is not this blasphemous confusion 14. Seeing you 〈…〉 Letter of the Law was given nor was they imputed what was the cause of the Old World drowning and Sodom and Gomorrahs burning with fire and whether was not their sins imputed to them 15. What the soul of man is and how a creature may know when it is in death and when it is raised to life eternal 16. What that grace of God is that brings salvation and hath appeared to all men and how it hath appeared to all men and how it brings salvation 17. What that inward man is that is renewed dayly though the outward man perish seeing you say the new birth is nothing else but a sanctified mind and whether the new birth be a substance yea or no 18. Whether such as have changed their manner of worship from that manner which the Saints worshipped in and then wrest the Scriptures to uphold it be true worshippers or can be truely said to take the Scriptures for their rule 19. Whether ever any Minister of Christ did go into the Idols Temple to pray and worship in that manner you do in any one particular or did they sue people for Tythes or Money for so doing did they or their Hearers bear in their Synagogues or hale before Rulers such as opposed them or did they ever make use of an outward Law to inflict upon any mans person or to spoyle their goods or was they who did so any Christians 20. What is the Cross of Christ and how doth the Creature take it up and how is it preached and what is the offence of it and how is it the power of God to salvation and how doth it become a stumbling block and how doth the offence of it cease 21. How is Christ the light of the world and how is it he lighteth every man that cometh into the world 〈…〉 and how are all things that are made manifest upon us by the light and what is the cause that so many remain in darkness 22. What that tongue of the Egyptian Sea is and how must it be smitten in the seven streams that men may go over dryshoed 23. Whether the new birth be not Christ formed in the Creature and whether that be not a substance and are not you utterly blind who sayes its nothing else but a sanctified mind and the will of man and his Ministry is the matter of it Answer plainly and do not send a deal of railing and mis-calling and bitterness lying and false accusing in stead of Answers as you have hitherto done Also view my former Queries over again and your pretences and for shame never call those for Answers which scarcely answer to the true end of any one particular FINIS