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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

God 1 Thes 1. 1. Such onely are out of Babylon who are gathered out of the world by the spiritual light of Christ and there hath it been ever since his Passion and he hath never been without though but in a small number which he hath saved which the world hated and scornfully miscalled and into prisons and corners have they been driven all this time of the man of Sin and his Papal Priesthood but now he is come who is spreading his truth and multiplying his seed as a cloud to the Egyptians wherefore the Heathen rage exceedingly But it seems by thy Quere that thou ownest the Church all along since the Apostles to have been in the multitude of the Popish Priests rather then in the Martyrs seeing thou speakest so scornfully of a small number to be the Church of Christ who are so contemptible which the Church ever was and so it is at this day Luk. 12. 32. Mat. 7. 14. Mat. 20. 16. Reply answered In this you say you believe I speak truth and that I tell you here nothing but what you knew before and yet you murmure at it and cast your lyes upon it saying that we grant our selves to be none of Christs Church which who reads my answer may read what you have there to ground that lye on so though I speak what you know is truth and confess too yet it must not pass without lying and reproach but you shew your nature and for that you would go under the name of what they was that suffered I say the name will not cover you when you are as far from their nature as the sufferer from the persecuter and your Priests are Lords over us now as your fathers the Bishops was over them and whatever the dispensation is the persecuter is ever in the error though the sufferer bear the reproach and sufferings also and so it is now though the persecuter hath changed his name and form yet the same malice and work you are in Quer. 11. Whether you own the Resurrection of the body after death If not of what doth and shall Christs Kingdom consist for he can be no King without his Subjects Answ I say yea the Resurrection I own according to the Scriptures Reply answered In this you are not satisfied with a Scripture answer much less would you with mine and so puts it off with laying a slander on some namelesse man Quer. 12. Whether you acknowledge the Trinity of the Persons in the Godhead the Father the Son and the holy Ghost oue substance but three in subsistence or manner of beings Answ For the word Trinity thou mayst send it to Rome from whence it came but God the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost and that these three are one I know and acknowledge according to the Scriptures 1 Joh. 5. 7. Reply answered Your Reply to this is O subtile Deceiver c. And what is the fault because I will not own your word Trinity though I own the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost yet if I do not decline the Scripture phrase and take up the Romish I am a Deceiver and Etymologer and my pen stinks c. Well be it so such a Deceiver I shall be to own the Scripture and the sound words therein against all your Popish inventions And when you have thus railed against me because I will not own it then you accuse me for bringing it from Rome So that its a thing impossible to escape your tongues who are bent for mischief every way but it matters not seeing the reproach of the wicked is not onely safe but great riches Much more such smoak foames out at the pits mouth but not worth heeding such a Reply you may return to any Answer which is nought but bitterness and cursing and reviling so that you forget to speak to the Answer Quer. 13. Whether Jesus the Son of Mary incarnated in the flesh God-man in one person who died at Jerusalem upon the Cross rose from the death to life the third day and ascended on high into the highest heavens and sitteth on the right hand of God be the true Messiah as that you own and say is within you Answ Jesus the Son of God and Eternal Word which came down from God became flesh born of the Virgin God and Man who died at Jerusalem rose again ascended and sitteth at the right hand of the Father the true Messias which Christ we own to be within us which no carnal minde which denies his light can comprehend and Christ in you except ye be reprobates 1 Cor. 10. 4. Reply answered This you say is in some sort satisfactory but yet you say you have no faith to believe Christ within us I say I know you have not for did you believe Christ within there could not issue out all this mud and confusion uncondemned but though you cannot believe yet you can sl●nder that we are deluded but I look on it as the fruits of your unbeliefe and so pass it as not worth heeding being but a slander unproved Quer. 14. Whether the soul of man be mortal or immortal if mortal for what then did Christ Jesus suffer to purchase eternal glory and what profiteth holiness in life if immortal where then shall it abide after death since you say there is no heaven nor hell but in a mans conscience Answ The first part of this Quere I answer the soule is immortal but the latter part being made up of a lye I return it back into thy Fathers Bottle from whence it came till thou hast prov'd that ever I said there is no heaven nor hell but in a mans conscience Reply answered In this reply you call me Secret Deceipt and Lyar because I tell you of a lye you cast upon me in your Quere to wit that I say there is no heaven nor hell but in a mans conscience and because I will not bear it in silence but layes it open to be a lye therefore I am called Secret Deceipt for laying open your Secret Deceipt and now another must bear it who is not hear to answer for himselfe and so to excuse the lye you have discovered the backbiter who is shut out of the kingdom with the lyar And now Rich. Hubberthorn is named but you dare not say he ever said it least he should be neerer then you are aware to disprove you but least you should faile now you slander all our fraternity as you call it therewith which in truth is as much as to say no body for I am one but you clear me saying you cannot prove it against me so not all our fraternity so take the lye back til● you find a Father for it for with us it rests not Also take the other with it which sayes that it is usual with me to speak that in one breath which I will deny with another which when you prove I shall receive the lye till then let it rest upon the Founder For your scoffing

at the plow I am not ashamed of it knowing it to be a lawful employment much better then the hireling that works not at all but lives on other mens labours taking by violence what 's other mens labours but seeing the plow is a reproach with you why should not the tythes be so also which are a fruit of the plow but it seems there is a generation to whom the plow is a reproach but the sheaves gentile but the scorners will do scornfully Quer. 15. If you are perfectly f●ee from sin as you assert you are what then is the sting of death or are you in the flesh immortal on earth Answ 15. The former part of this Quere I return thee back wi●h the latter part of thy foregoing being both of one root but to the latter part I answer where the new birth is witnessed which is not of corruptible seed but incorruptible partakers of the Divine Nature the life of Christ made manifest in mortal flesh and where life and immortality is brought to light there the sting of death is seen to be abolisht on earth but this Cains generation knows not where death reigns and therefore would murther such as are translated from death to life Reply answered In this after your old manner your Reply is O incomparable hypocritical lyar And forthwith a challenge is made to try the contest whether you or I be the lyar And you say my own writings must decide the Controversie And the charge is that I have said expresly them who say they have faith and yet their life is not the life of Christ and say they cannot be saved from their sins in this world but in part them and their faith we deny So if I have not denied this in my Answer to this Query then you are the lyars but if I have then I must be he but have you not here with your hasty railing lost your senses to put your case to tryal in so plain a thing where there is not the least shew of a word seeming to deny this in the whole Answer neither is there one word here wherein perfection is asserted so stay till I assert it in my own behalfe till then your consequence from what another said will not clear your quere of a lye cast upon me but afterward you are made to confess your lyes in both queries in these words say you for charity take this that the former part of my last query and the latter part of this are both of one root to wit the false doctrine of your spirit which is a lying one so you confess to what I told you they was so the Controversie is decided in this business and the incomperable hypocritical lyar hath confessed to the lye and what spirit it is of Que. 16. And if you have no sin to what end is Christ beneficial as an Advocate Intercessor and Mediator or is he no such Answ 16. Christ that gives a man a light to see his sin who redeems and cleanseth him from sin is of use to us and all that knows him as the Mediator and of use to keep his from the wicked one and that he toucheth them not 1 John 5. 18. And the same who sets from sin is he that keeps free from sin and this benefit we have by him as Advocate Intercessor and Mediator Ephes 16. 17. Reply answered In this the pit mouth opens againe and outcomes O Secret Deceiver with a lye at the end of it and that is that I grant what I lately denied and that must be that I asserted that I am perfectly free from sin With another lye on the Apostle John the end of which is to deny Christ to be an Advocate for the righteous where sin is not committed your words are these But if any man sin not else we have an Advocate with the Father And then you conclude if you have no sin then is Christ useless So by your Doctrine to obtain the end of Christs comming which is to set free from sin is to make Christ useless when the same Apostle saith He that abides in Christ sins not doth he make Christ useless or is it not he alone that can keep that the evil one touch not in whom he is and they in him But the lyars never knew what it was to be in him nor kept by him further then to ●nbolden your selves in the worlds wickedness by talking of him you know not And it is no strange thing to see you pervert my words all into a lye when you date turn the Scriptures into a lye to deny Christ to be an Advocate unless men sin saying not else which the Scripture saith not so he is no Advocate in prayer with you and spiritual worship so you have said enough to shew your knowledge in Christ as he is Advocate Intercestor and Mediator Quere 17. And if you be perfect in purity what is the cause you are not also perfect in glory Answ 17. Perfect glory is perfect purity and every one according to their measures are glorified therewith but this world knows not whose glory fadeth neither can they judge of it with their impure spirit 2 Cor. 3. 18. And of this glory all the Saints have a measure in this life but the world hates it Reply answered What you say in this is suitable to the former and one answer is to both Quer. 18. And if you disown method in teaching I Quere whether you have any command against it and whether you esteem better then uniformity Answ 18. That method and teaching which is out of the Doctrine of Christ which is in the wisedom of man and in the wisdom of words of mans wisedom out of the unity of the light of Christ and his Spirit this we see to be confusion and not uniformity and against it we have a command which was judged with the spirit of the Apostles so do we 1 Cor. 2. Reply answered In this Answer I am rendred as a fool though before a subtile Sophister and you say rather deserve to be laughed at then in the least to be replied to I say had you said as little to all the rest you had shewed more wisdom and less lying though your scornful laughter I justifie not Quer. 19. Whether ever intentively the Gospel was promised to be made known or practically that it was made known without the means to wit the Ministration of man if not why then do you resist it Answ 19. The Gospel was made known and promised intnetively and practically to the servants and children of God without the Ministration of man as to Adam Enoch Noah Abraham Isaiah and all the Propets John Baptist Simeon the Shepherds Paul and divers others and the same he doth at this day and none can limit him nor do I resist what meanes he uses but such as resist his works deny his light and would limit him Gen. 3. 15. Gen. 9 9. Gen. 17. 7. Luk. 3. 20. Luk. 2. 10.