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A82017	An exact history of the life of James Naylor with his parents, birth, education, profession, actions, & blaspheemies [sic]. Also how he came first to be a Quaker, and received his commission from heaven (as he saith) when he was in the field at plow. Taken from his own mouth. With the doctrines, tenets and practises of some other of the same sect. / By John Deacon.	Deacon, John, 17th cent.	1657 (1657)	Wing D482; Thomason E903_2; ESTC R207417	25,672	56

of truth or of lies the actistrates on demon witnesse Mr. George Emot in his Northern blast about p. 6. At Whyton a place also in Yorkshire a woman of this quaking sect came naked from her own bed to another womans husband a companion of her own sect and bid him open his bed for the Father* had sent her unto him See the queriers and Quakers case at the second hearing is no lie p. the man had at that time another man in bed with him he rose to give place to this woman and left this serious couple to lie together according to the womans revelations A most Remarkable Story yet very true of that mad blind and presumptuous spirit in them ONe Mistris Williamson at Appleby most senslesly affirmed in the hearing of divers that she was the eternal Son of God to which some presently Replyed that she was a woman and therefore could not be the eternal Son of God to which she boldly replyed no you are all women but I am a man By this may easily resolved how absurd non-sensical and arogant that spirit in them is that transports them so far as to impossibilities As peremptory a passage almost is that if not as blasphemous of Edward Burrows in a Letter of his from Waterford in Ireland in which are these words I live saith he in a Land where the Divel rules Lords and Kings but I am reserved in eternal power and glory and righteousness over all to reign for ever And to reigne over all in that sense can be none under Christ for of him the Apostle saith that when he is said to have all things made subject unto him yet God that subjecteth all is excepted and if we favour him so much in construction as to exempt the Father its evident he assumes the place of the Son which to doe is blasphemy And little less is that boldness of the same Seducer when he setteth this expression to his Pamphlet Sealed by the eternal spirit of God which expression of his if seriously considered little cause had some persons not now mean in Authority so much to justifie that grand seducer James Naylor as to say though unjustly his accusations were rather of malice then matter of fact If he or they that so said would but weigh what back-friends not onely Naylor but all their Sect are in general to them because they deny authority but in particular in that here Borowes saith he lives in a Land where the Divel not God rules Lords and Kings when questionless by the latter is meant his Highnesse but that he dares not speak out as more plainly appears by that of Francis Howgal in the North who told one Mr. Burton a Magistrate there that the Law said Howgal by which thou actest is Tyranny and Oppression And if the Law be Tyranny What then by his account is the Law-maker maintainer but a Tyrant I hope the supreme Authority will take their own honour and safety into serious consideration with the glory of Christ and his Gospel which is deeply interested in this business And a strong witnesse of the unsanctity of their spirit is their unstability for God is unchangeable for he changes not and as is he so is his spirit and that theirs is no stable but mutable one is evident in that a man in the North in a town called Kerbylansdale that had been of their society a good while falling sick of an Ague of which being kept in a moneth being recovered went to their meeting again he professed he found them so much altered in their Judgements and Principles in that time that he could onely by their faces but not by their Principles know them to be the same men And one Mr. Geor. Emot in his Northern blast p. 6. ingeniously confesseth that since he left them and returned to his right senses he testifyeth who had tried the experience that though whilst he was a Quaker he thought himself to be all light he knew nothing really but imaginary but what he knew before and had learned of the Ministers And as stability is an evidence of the spirit of godlyness as witnesseth that of Jude concerning Michael's Disputation with the Divel about the body of Moses he durst offer neither violence of words or deeds further then the Lord reward thee and this I have heard them preach if their confused nonsensical prating may be so tearmed but I never knew them practice it and therefore to me their unbridled and libertaine-like words and actions is an evidence that if their spirit be infallible as they pretend it s not impiety but inquity and since God and Christ and their spirit is meeknesse joy peace and love what is contrary as violent discourse but turbulent and malicious is not of God but in opposition to him and since the spirit in Naylor and the other of his Fraternity is such a spirit its cleer they are not of God or goodnesse And to demonstrate this is so easie that superfluities of matter for proof makes mee pause which to insert and which to omit therefore I shall only make use of what hath passed between them and me or but little else One time being at the Bull and Mouth and having by chance the day before seen a sheet of printed paper containing there informations given in upon oath proving that one Borows Howgall and chiefly one Hoberthorn had bewitched or inchanted Mary White to death which having about me at that time after some discourse had with him that then and at that time there spoke who before I never saw I produced this sheet and standing on a place with my feet about a story from the ground I went to read and in some places to comment upon it the Quakers by violence pluckt me down by the legs when had not Gods preservance been stronger then the Divell and their malice I might have been in danger of death but God in mercy preserved me that I had no hurt The party then speaking was Richard Hobberthorn who though he heard himselfe so much in question and I often asked him his name yet hee would neither confess nor deny it or say any thing to the clearing the matter of fact They call'd me then dog serpent and divel c. An other time one of their mankind women puld a lock of hair from off my head in their society in a great quantity with several blows and thrusts with cursings and judgements I thinke innumerable But I wonder the lesse at this in respect Mr. Bourn in his Defence of the Scriptures in the Epistle Dedicatory he testifies that a Quaker told him that his house was formerly plunder'd but ere long should be pulled down about his ears And in Glocestershire the Quakers making a disturbance at the burial of an Inhabitant of Paneswick in the said County and going to offer violence or at least uncivilities to the Minister at the grave and one Mr. R. P. a known honest Christian then high Constable doing his duty to keep the pence a Quaker then presently strikes the said Officer over the side of the head so violently that he received much dammage This I am sure is a truth Much more I might speake and have truth my protector but I had rather be sparing then to abound A very evidential passage of that lunatick and unparaleld spirit that ruleth in them as how like men distracted they run along the Streets in a strange manner ON Sunday last being December the 28th about two or three of the clock in the afternoon some Quakers being met together at the sign of the Rose in the new market-place Westminster where Martha Symons and the other two Sisters in iniquity are in custody of a suddain that spirit in them moved them to fall a singing their titular songs of Sion as they call them and dauncing a while till on the suddain they ran down stairs and forth of doors and so down the Strand and Fleetstreet to the Royal Exchange London crying and proclaiming fire and vengeance against Jerusalem and the sword of the Lords wrath was drawn against this great and wicked City where one I. B. a now professed Quaker meeting with them asked them the matter who replied the word of the Lord was gone forth I said he I know that long since it went forth but what was the cause they run in that unwonted manner or words to this effect they said that the vengeance and fire of the Lords wrath was poured forth against this City and Jerusalem must come to judgement who being since asked seriously what he thought of them saith he really believes they are either mad or bewitched some of them ran without hats some without clokes some without either What to term this strange and unheard of sort of men is such a mystery to me as I know better how to admire at then expresse and therefore leave it to the ingenuous Reader to determine FINIS

he would not be uncovered though he were in the Parliament house Yet let him know that he that resisteth or contemneth the Powers resisteth the Ordinances of God and he that resists See Mr. Bourn p. 41. receiveth unto himself damnation And it is a most sad thing indeed with Korah Dathan and Abiram to play with and contemn the wrath of God-lest the bowels of the earth chastise their presumption Rom. 13.2 3. I both would and shall endeavour brevity in what convenience may require yet for the good of those that stand between two not knowing whether they were better to backslide or stand fast where they are I shall endeavour in a few words to shew you what I apprehend to be the cause of the Lords for saking him and giving him over tp his own lust and as I often told him and George Fox Borows and Hoberthorn c. I observed a Learned Author laid this down as maxim in Divinity that when a man ceases with this quaking Sect to be guided by Gods Laws God gives him over to be ruled by his own lusts and therefore I wished them not to whet and provoke the anger of the Lord which is a consuming fire And in a word I am cleerly of this opinion that had he had true faith he could never have finally fallen to reprobation and blasphemie It is probable he might have faith but not true faith for as saith Dr. Holmes there is a faith of adherance and there is a faith of assurance c. The true faith must be exercised in true worship the end whereof is true happiness and all worship not agreeing with Gods revealed will is prophaness and irreligion the end whereof is not happy but wretched For this is life eternal to know God and whom he hath sent Jesus Christ and not James Naylor And he that expects to reign with nim must believe that he is able to save to the uttermost Heb. 11.6 John 1.11 2 Cor. 5.7 John 20 29. Heb. 11.1 Ephes 2.8 and all other that pretend so to doe besides him are seducers and let him pretend what revelations he will this a true believer must know and relye on That no man hath seen Gods essence that is greater then any finite apprehension so that let Quakers and their seducing teachers say what they please this is truth and no lie we walk by faith the eye of the soul and not by sight and therefore Christ when he had assumed a visible nature in his incarnation for that work of our Redemption would not be long conversant on earth in his publique Ministry that our salvations might not be in sense but believing blessed are they that have not seen yet have believed The necessity of faith appears in that the just shall live by it by faith we are justified without it we cannot please God Habakkuk 2.4 and what is not of faith is sin the excellency of it in that it apprehendeth the riches of Christ and in him the unspeakable treasure of Gods mercy peace of conscience reconcilation with God remission of sin indemptnity from the guilt and punishment c. In fine all things which concur to the compleating true happiness It stiled Abraham Gods friend and us his sons it is the sanctuary of a troubled spirit the first fruits of the heavenly Paradise In a word precious is that faith which believeth all the word of God is true and to be obeyed and saith that Jesus and not James is the true Christ and that there is Salvation in no other name under Heaven They best know how sweet a Jewel faith is that can value the enjoyment by the want of it but to such as Naylor and his sect who are deluded with false light and temptations of security there appeareth no want of it in themselves because they are secure but I heartily wish they knew and would believe there is a common faith which reprobates may have and that is either historical such at the Divels have Jam. 2.19 or temporal as Mat. 13.20 Acts 8.13 and this is either a faith of miracles or a delusion of security There be many degrees but one onely object of true and saving faith and that is Jesus Christ and not James Naylor and that which we are to believe and obey is the infallible truth of God the first God the second his Oracles and his Will concerning our Salvation revealed in his Word The word and testimony of man may be the ground of opinion which is of things probable but true faith can stand on no other basis but the Word of God which is infallible certain and can have no falshood in it and he that goeth without this guide runneth like those Israelites to the mountains of the Cananites Numb 14 40. to their own destruction as this Sect and particularly him of whom we now speak gives too sad a testimony of this truth I desire thy excuse Courteous Reader if I have been transported too far on this Subject be thou pleased to read it but with as much patience as I writ it and 't will extenuate the Teadiousnesse of it I shall rest no longer here but presse onward to what I intend and that leads me to the second ground which argues the spirit by which he is acted to be not divine but diabolical Which is this Secondly By his actions in general but chiefly by reason that the first step he took after his apostacy gives strong suspicion nay plain assurance that he is guilty of inconstancy and adultery to the clearing of which I shall proceed and in so doing it will be requisite to trace him along from the beginning when he first left that Church whereof he was a member and in so doing observe what is worth the noting as shall seem most convenient Naylor being a member of a Congregation at Wool-Church in Yorkeshire he was there excommunicated for his blasphemous Tenets as Mr. Christopher Marshall Pastor of that Church whereof he was a member confessed 〈…〉 who is also well known to be an able godly and sincere Minister of the Word of God who also in a Letter to a friend a Copy whereof I read is related this story that James Naylor since he was a Quaker having gotten into the acquaintance of a woman named Mistris Roper and her husband being gone away from her on some occasion a long voyage he the said James Naylor used greatly to frequent her company being more then ordinarily and to be plain more then civily familiar with her using frequently to dandle her on his knee imbracing and kissing her more then was either fitting or beseeming civility and in the time of her busbands absence either by some other or as is most likely and is supposed by James Naylor she was gotten with child and when her husband had been absent from her and Naylor acquainted with her seven and forty weeks she was brought to bed of a Bastard-child and this was