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death_n	bear_v	sin_n	world_n	4,338	5	4.9247	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89842	The light of Christ, and the word of life. Cleared from the deceipts of the Deceiver, and his litterall weapons turned upon his owne head. Also the man of sin found out, who is hiding himselfe in a heape of confusion, pretending Antichrist is not yet come. Occasioned by laying open some deceipts in a booke titled, The deceiv'd and deceiving Quakers discovered; subscribed Mathew Caffin and William Jeffery, brethren in iniquitie, who are joyned to deny God, Christ, the light, and spirit, in his saints, and calls it teaching Christs spirit apart from his body, and an evill spirit, to witnesse the spirit of Christ in the saints. Set forth that the simple may see the wiles the devill hath to keepe them from the word of life, the soules salvation. / By a lover of Israels seede, called James Nayler.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1656 (1656)	Wing N293; Thomason E877_1; ESTC R206580	19,351	24

life 1 Joh. 5. 12. And he that abideth in the Doctrine of Christ hath both the Father and the Son If any come and bring not that Doctrine receive them not nor bid them God speed 2 John 10 11. And was this an evill Spirit in all these and many more too much to set down here Or did they preach Christ apart from his body as thou chargest us for the same testimony we bear now Or were this good in them and is it an error in us to witnesse the same O how is the hidden things of Esau found out are they not blind indeed who cannot see Antichrist now revealing and who he is that denies the Father and the Son thy work and thy brothers in this book and many such Antichrists there are in the world that deny Christ come in the flesh and now the light reveals you what Spirits you are of Is all your talking of Christ come to this that if any confesse him it is called an evil Spirit and an error and out of your Synagogues must be cast Was there ever such a blind generation who have denyed the light the Spirit the Father and the Son and now deny the letter also that any should own what is in it declared further then to talk on Is it not time for all you that loves your souls to come out from amongst these blind men who thus resist the Spirit and thus blaspheme God in his Temple even in the bodies of his Saints calling him an evill Spirit 1 Cor. 3. 16 17. This blind doctrine may serve to keep your selves in your imaginations but amongst the children of light it can doe no hurt with the light are you comprehended and all your dark airy Spirits the Shepheard is in his flock it s too late to tell us its a delusion neither can you hide Antichrist nor the man of sin any longer you are seen many Antichrists who denies Christ but who hath received the Christ the anoynted and have the ●●ction in them knows all things and neither you nor your mother can be hid no● he that hath begot you thus to p●ead ag●inst Christ in his Th●on● b●ush and be ashamed you b●ood● of Babell a●d see you● confusion and stop your 〈◊〉 dost not thou in thy 69 p●ge after thou have c●lled it an evill spirit a●d an error to wi●nesse Christ within and said it was to p●each him apart from his body ●ye the● sayest thou Christ doth dwell in their hearts by faith but note sayest thou that faith is the substance of the thing hoped for a●d so being by faith thou wouldst make people believe its not ●eally so but some imagination or thought of a thing to come and yet sayes faith is the substance of the thing hoped for Also p 78. where thou art pleading for the Whore of Babylon not to be the Antichrist thy argument i● that the Whore of Babylon confesseth Christ come in the flesh so thou hast proved the Whore of Babylon to be of God for saith John expresly Every spirit that confesseth Christ is come in the flesh is of God 1 John 4 2. so thou hast w●l● proved for thy mother if any b● so blind as to believe thee but where Christ is appeared her confession is seen to be like her children who say he came 16 hundred years since but if any confesse him come now in them she and her brood would mu●●her them but but if all be of God who thus confesse him then who is not for I never yet met with any that did not Thi● confession little hurts the man of sin or his kingdome in your hearts one that confesseth the life of Christ made manifest in mortall flesh doth more trouble the Devil's kingdome then all the Whores confession and his children ever since the mystery of in●qui●y came in and therefore it is that this confession is death to her and her children and the man of sin hath all h●s up against it where it is and this is the cause why all this venome is cast upon us in your book but the knowledge of Christ in our hearts bears all without trouble yet such a body of confusion death and darknesse is amongst you since the light of Christ appeared and you resisted it as the like hath not been seen since the world was especial●y among you who once had some tendernesse in you what a wo●k is this of yours after all your venome to undertake to clear Babylon of the man of sin and of the Antichrist nay to clear all the world of him and sayes he is not risen and sayes in your 37 page you think the sixt head of the Roman Monarchy did hinder the coming of the man of sin in Pauls time and something else hath hindered him since for he is not risen yet by your doctrine but being blinded by him cannot see that it s he in you that is now uttering all this confusion to hide himself in your hearts in others also by denying Christ within and setting you to look for the man of sin yet to come which must be one man when he comes but were you not blind indeed you might look in and see from whom it is that all this lying slandering and confusion and wickednesse comes that is sent out into the world this comes not from God but from the Devil and man of sin which did you see shame would stop your mouth from being so busie in that you know not on FINIS

sin in the word of the Lord and presently the Serpent gets a Scripture to plead for it and so to give God the lye which was his work before the letter was to wit to oppose the word in open lying but now hath got the letter to hide him and can now come as boldly with it is written Luke 4. 10. to uphold his sin and imperfection as ever he did with his lye to Eve to set up his kingdome of sin and imperfection at the first which then he got in by subtilty without Scripture but now by the letter would maintaine it by force and if any believe to attaine that estate againe before he entred with boldnesse from the letter he will prove him an heretick and find Scripture to murther him for it also he having but power to doe it and this is the use the Scriptures are of when such give meanings of them and preach them whose eye he hath blinded and have not the word in them from which the Scriptures came and without which none know them nor understand them And thus the Jewish Rabbies put Christ to death by the letter John 19. 7. And so doth he suffer to this day in whom ever he is by the worlds Teachers wresting the letter therefore saith Peter such wrest all Scriptures to their own distruction 2 Pet. 3. 16. And this is the ground of the Devills envy against the children of light at this day because we exhort people to the Spirit of Christ and to his light to enlighten their mindes that they may not read without understanding and so wrest the Scriptures to their own destruction which things we our selves did while we was in our fallen wisdome for while man is in darknesse the best of Gods gifts are perverted to a wrong end but being enlightned from the word the gift is seen and sanctified to its right end without which it cannot for God hath placed the blessing and right use of all his mercies in his Son who is the light of the world the word by which all was made and is upholden therefore is he first to be preached who is first and last to enlighten people that sit in darknesse death and delusion which light being first received all the gifts of God are yea and amen therein to his praise and the creatures good for without faith all is lost and it is not faith in the gift that saves but faith in the giver for many did believe in the Scripture and thought to have eternall life therein but could not believe in the light of the vvorld and so denyed the giver and the Scriptures could not save these but in their thoughts thereof deceived themselves who had not the word in them and so stuck in the letter but would not come to the light of life for it is he that hath the Son hath life and not every one that hath the letter and such alone have the word of life which such as stick in the letter knows not nor can hear John 8. 47. Nay there was many that heard Christ speak but did not nor could they hear the word John 8. 43. And this was much more then the letter yet such blind and deaf creatures being blinded by the God of this world they thought to have eternall life in the Scripture Saith Christ v. 47. He that is of God heareth Gods words ye therefore hear them not because ye are not of God yet did Christ speak the words of God and they did hear him carnally as carnall men doe the letter and could make him answer to his speech but could not hear the words of God as Christ plainly saith and here thou maist read thy blindnesse Also that place Acts 17. which you think makes so much for you to prove the letter the word it doth but fall on your own heads as all other Scriptures doe for them of Berea was not called more noble then them of Thessalonica because they had the Scriptures read for the Jews of Thessalonica had the Scriptures read every Sabbath day but this was their nobility in that they received the word gladly with all readinesse of mind and then searched the Scriptures dayly first they received the word to enlighten and then searched the Scriptures in the light so this doth plainly prove that they had not the word before though they had Scripture before so that here you doe but prove that the letter is not the word Also this place clearly proves that one may have the Scriptures all their lives and read them in way of worship constantly for so did both these sorts of Jewes and yet neither know word nor Scriptures untill they received the word of light but when the word is received or not received that makes the difference of believers and unbelievers the one owns the other envies and persecute though both have the Scriptures this Scripture proves this in the Jewes and your practice proves the same in you Gentiles who call your selves Christians who are found joyning with the lewd people as they did and stirring up their minds to persecu●e through your lyes which otherwise might be silent so your worke is seene and makes it manifest what word you know as all thy yes and slanders in thy booke may test●fie thee to be one of that envious broode which is the most they serve for for us they touch not yet is thy reward no lesse yet this all may note that the searching of the Scriptures without the word first received cannot find the way to faith as this scripture doth plainly prove for till the eye be opened with the light of the word of life The Scriptures are a mystery to the Carnall understanding and all that man can doe with them in that state is to wrest them to his own destruction 2 Pet. 3. 16. And you who are Judging of Scriptures and setting others so to doe without the light of Christ are they who lead the blind and resist the holy Spirit as did your fathers so doe you resist the Spirit with your Imaginations from the letter Be ashamed of your doctrine hath the Spirit given out the letter to testifie of the light of the world and its suffic●e●cy and that there is no other way out of the world but Christ the light of the world and that the light the way are one And doe you pervert this against the light to prove it not sufficient Hath God given his Word to his seede in every generation and hath promised that it shall never depart out of the mouth of that seede for ever Isa 59. 21. By which Word all was made and all his are to be guided and sanctified and because the testimony of some few of those who had this Word is in writing to witnesse that Christ is this Word and that all are to waite for him And will you take this letter and pervert it against this Word to set it in its stead to keepe from this Word and call