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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52687	A door opened to the imprisoned seed in the vvorld, and the way of freedom by the spirit of truth, sent out into the world in love to the sheep that have long been lost, which may serve any who simply seek the life of what they possess, and may shew the feigned & false in heart, the cause why they are shut out of truths power : wherein the elect way is opened to the blind, with encouragements to enter and walk therein : also the fruits of the free-born cleared from legal performances, and the children of bondage shewed the nature of their own works : Christ Jesus known to be king in his temples, through the power of the Holy Ghost, and sword of the spirit lifted up against the man of sin in true judgment / by J.N.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1667 (1667)	Wing N277; ESTC R23128	41,513	48

is a Condemner in some a Leader and Teacher towards God in some a perfect Justifier in the sight of God presenting them who also gives several gifts and power to such as receive this Testimony of Jesus Christ yet is he but one in all unchangeably Just Equal and Holy who by the Power of his Word changeth all things that are changeable and bringeth all things to the beginning before People Nations and Tongues were divided where man lives by the Spirit of a pure life Now all that desire to be set free from this Bondage fore-mentioned and from that Law of Sin and Death that hath its strength in the fleshly part diligently mind to feel in your selves as followeth THE Spirit of Life which is in Christ Jesus by whom the World was made in the beginning hath a Law that is Spiritual proceeding from himself which Law gives light in spirit to good and bad testifying against the power of sin and death which Light as many as receive by faith and obedience are brought thereby under the Law of Life which whoever is faithful in are led in such wayes whereby that part in man in which the Law of sin hath its power is crucified and slain and the Seed of the Covenant thereby comes to its right freedom which by the man of sin is kept in bondage while the strong man keeps the house whose strength is in such things as the carnal mind takes pleasure in which things the Law of the Spirit calls them from who mind it in the Light thereof and leads to exercise the mind in spiritual things and to feed on the Word of Life whereby the inward man is strengthened and made to grow up into the stature of a spiritual man filled thereby with spiritual power life and vertue to bring forth unto God and to live to him as the other lived to the flesh and brought forth unto death Thus the Spirit of Life draws with the Light and saith Come to all that mind its Voice and to as many as obey he changeth and feedeth with the New whereby they become New Creatures born of Freedom And the fleshly spirit it draws and saith Come holding forth visible Idols to take the carnal affections and to captivate the mind from the Spirit of Life into carnal objects who promise much to the eye of earthly wisdom and have a likeness of a substance in them but the end is death and the whole life is captivity to vanity and eternal separation from God And here are the Children of Freedom which are in Christ Jesus made manifest to the world by their coming out of it and the children of bondage manifest who cannot deny to serve it and betwixt these two is no agreement for he that is a servant of sin is free from Righteousness the Servant of Righteousness is free from sin and as he that is in the flesh cannot please God neither can he that is in the Spirit please the world these are children of several Kingdoms and several Natures And he that 's born after the flesh hath that spirit which lusteth enviously and seeks to devour the Creation and he that 's born again after the Spirit of Life is brought into the restoration as in the beginning and bringeth forth to God the Fruits of eternal Life and Salvation in the Creation And as by the Creatures yeelding and consenting to the subtile one the life is lost and the evil seed gets strength in man to rule and bring forth after the power of darkness So by the Creatures believing in the Light and by yeelding to the motions of the Life of Holiness and the Law thereof comes the evil seed to lose its strength and feeding which is upon carnal things and that Life which is by Faith hearing comes again to be renewed in the Vessel and arises through the Spirit and reigns above death and the Righteousness and Virtue of that Life is not of the nature of flesh and blood but of God and is made manifest in the earthen Vessel by the Life and Power of the Spirit against the will of the flesh and the lusts thereof And thus comes man again into the Restoration and Redemption of the body into the free service of that Spirit and Life of whom it is the off-spring and for which and by which it came into the world and here is true reconciliation and peace with God and no condemnation but unity in Spirit and Life as the Father and Son are one the lust being slain the enticer denyed and the accuser cast out and all things become new and all things of God here is no more the house of bondage to sin but the glorious liberty of the Sons of God that Nature being quickned that is Spiritual it doth not feed on carnal pleasures but upon God so the inward man becomes a natural Branch of the holy Root and a Plant of the living God bringing out freely what the Root sends forth in which God is glorified and the Vessel made Honourable and the Soul filled with Peace and fatness and hath no more sorrow and death to oppress it And the Light and Life which is in Christ Jesus manifest in the Spirit of Truth is the first and last in this work and here is seen how unnatural man driven from God is become to that pure Life which gives him breath and being and would preserve him from destruction who is so wholly fallen from it and become contrary to it in nature and judgment that of all things in the world it s the greatest cross to be guided by that Light which arises in him from that holy Life and daily calls him in Spirit thereinto being degenerated into a contrary nature more subtile and selfish is willing to joyn with the enemy thereof in any way against the pure Light that 's in himself it to revile reproach murther and turn into darkness by covering it with deceit though man in this state hath nothing in him but it that is of the Nature of God Holy and Just or that will call him from the paths of the destroyer into the way of Life or bring forth through him any Fruits of obedience or spiritual Worship that God will own nor hath he any other thing in this world that is alwayes present with him to give him to see when he is inticed with his lusts and tempted to sin nor the way how to escape the temptation yet is man so exalted in the contrary nature that he hath forgotten his Creator and lifts up the heel against the reproof of his Spirit trampling upon the lowly motions of the Holy One and the Law which out of his mouth proceeds counting the Light and virtue of his Life to be a low and contemptible thing not able to save Thus doth lost man daily despise the Spirit of Grace and Truth in the inward parts and rejects the Holy Ghost against their own souls and denies his pure and single eye and

eternal and to the strengthening the holy Seed in man quickening the Soul which by sin hath suffered and this it doth by condemning sin in every motion that it may never arise against the holy Seed and also by ministring comforts and promises and power in spirit to the soul in the way of its arising above the power of the son of wickedness still ministring light and understanding in the hidden part to the holy Seed that hates sin opening that eye daily through the obedience of Truth which the god of this world hath blinded and purifying the Soul by putting off the body of corruption and blinding him that saith he sees but knows not the way out of sin ministring the Law upon him And this is the ministration of free Grace to every Soul that receives it and this it worketh powerfully in all that abide in it through the Spirit of Christ Jesus and this Grace as saith the Scripture hath appeared to all men yea and doth daily appear in all who truly wait in Spirit for its appearance and gives to all such a sight of Truth in themselves testifying with or against every motion in their hearts according as it stands in the sight of God whether it be good or evil whereby the Conscience doth accuse or excuse even as God shall judge them by Christ Jesus So that there is no cause in this Grace why any are not saved thereby from sin and condemnation but being rejected of some it becomes their condemnation and the same thing which saves him that receives it in faith and obedience condemns him that rejects it in his disobedience And this is the Grace of God that changeth not which appears to all men but only reigns to Salvation through righteousness wherein it is believed to be sufficient and obeyed in the Truth therewith made manifest So that is the Grace of God which is of God in man ministring in Spirit light to the Soul in the midst of darkness ministring life to that which is dead in sin leading that through the vail of death up to God from whom the Grace hath appeared and of whom it is and the Light thereof is Judgement and discerning in every one that receives it to be led with it in Judgment and Condemnation to such as turn it into lasciviousness denying the life thereof and the truth that leads thereto and so cannot be saved through it but he that receives it and joyns to it in Spirit becomes one with it and by his daily sinking into it in counsel it grows in him and he in it until it becomes a habitation and cover for him against all evil and so he becomes gracious in words and works daily receiving Grace for Grace of his fulness And he that hath received of this Grace and is faithful therein must not minister of it to strengthen the transgressor who loves his sin and so is under the Law for that is to cast the pearls to swine but to such as are heavy laden and weary of sin to encourage against sin and temptations which all that turn from the Devil must be sure to meet with and Judgement it ministers to the wicked that therewith he may know his condemnation with the light of Truth in whom Grace is denied to reign it is their condemnation that he is come into the world who is full of Grace and Truth but the Kingdom of Grace is Salvation in whom it reigns through righteousness unto eternal Life by Jesus Christ the Lord. So he that receives the teaching of Grace comes therein to the leading of the Spirit and so becomes free from sin is no more under the Law but under Grace but the Law hath power over him that walks after the flesh and every appearance of Grace is witness against him by declaring him to be under the law of sin and death and not in Covenant with him that appears against sin in the power of Grace and Truth which is Christ Jesus the Lord. THE END

wholly to the power of darkness who will then keep you seeking Salvation without whilest he is heaping up evil within For that which seeks to devour your Souls is within you whilst he is leading you out to seek Salvation and nought can damn you but what is in you sin is within before it be acted so must Salvation be within before you be cleansed though the old deceiver hath taught people to think they are saved by believing God at a distance who neither know nor worship him in the Spirit and Truth nor are their bodies his Temples nor can the Holy One dwell or walk in them because of uncleanness but their Vessels being filled with all the powers of darkness and the heavenly Place with Spiritual wickedness hath caused God to depart from the children of men for this uncleanness and yet a Lyar speaks Peace and preaches Salvation and the Creature believes so being filled with darkness But the Children of Light receive not this Doctrine who see and feel and cannot be content with words but with power A talk of God satisfies not the Soul of a good man till he feel his Presence and Power God without and the Devil within is not the Saints Faith nor Salvation but God in them and the Devil cast out is their glory and strength and they are bold through the might of his Spirit in them to war daily against the Prince of this world because they know him who is greater in them and more holy than he that is in the world And this is the Faith-that overcomes the world and he that 's born of the Spirit hath the Father and the Son and he that hath the Devil is his Enemy and knows him not whence he is but judgeth him after the flesh and outward appearance but the Child of Light wars not after the flesh but after God that he alone may have the glory who is all in them that they have to glory in who gives their souls the holy victory And now were not you wholly blind in your minds and past feeling you could never sit down so besotted as to believe you are saved while you are daily captivated in sin and forced many times to do that which you know you should not and this by the power of lust in you entising and leading you into every temptation and causing to fall into many hurtful evils which gathers strength and rooting daily in you heaping wrath and vengeance by adding sin unto sin which must all be accounted for in the end thereof when you have filled your vessels to a full measure And can you say you are redeemed from the Devil while he hath this power in you that you are not able to resist him but are led captive at his will contrary to all fear of God or power of Righteousness Are your Bodies redeemed to God and are you Members of Christ whilest you yeeld your members unto unrighteousness or are you saved who are servants of sin In what stands the life and power of your Redemption of your Faith and of your Salvation seeing nought can stand in God but that which brings forth to him Is not he in the bonds of iniquity who is bound to bring forth iniquity Is not he a servant of sin in whom it reigns Is not he the child of bondage who is bound to bring forth what the evil-one begets in him and to serve him in what he moves him unto Mind this you who are born after the fleshly spirit who act according to his will who worketh in your flesh to bring forth unto death Doth your profession save you who are not turned from dead works The foundation of Repentance is not yet laid in you and therefore death reigns above the Life that should bring forth to God and this is the servant of sin's state and spirit of bondage and not the Heirs state who inherits God's Righteousness and brings forth thereof unto that Spirit which pleaseth God as you bring forth to the flesh and please the world And these two seeds are within and are at enmity and disagreement and there can be no concord betwixt them no more than light and darkness and their several fruits are made manifest with the Light which condemns the one and confesseth the other to be of God and wrought in God And as many as are quickned with the Spirit of Life have the feeling of this before they bring forth the fruits thereof into the world and are come to the discerning of things that differ in nature and effect by the tasting and handling of the Word of Life and knowledge of that Election which is before the World was by which they are made able to judge the ground and end of every motion in them or to them which abiding in they need not man to teach them neither can they be deceived which makes them with boldness bring forth openly such words and works as are begotten in them by the Word of Life which shews the whole World to lie in wickedness and makes it manifest in the Light of Life by whom the Prince of this World is judged and condemned and the secrets of hearts made manifest according to the nature of every several spirit which comes up to the day of the Lord's appearance And to this Spirit of Truth must an account be given by all flesh living for this is he that lives to all generations and is unchangable in his witness against the evil seed into whatever form he transforms himself in words and profession yet is there no agreement betwixt their several natures be they in one person or be they in a family or be it in a Nation there is not agreement nor can any one person Family or Nation serve them both but whoever serves the one hates the other and condemns him so he that serves Deceit condemns the Just and so condemns that which should save him and must judge him in the end And here is the cause of that fleshly liberty which some have got for the present where the Witness is slain and also of the horrour of Conscience where the Just appears towards Judgment the unstable estate of such who are faithful to neither the everlasting Peace and Power in such where the Just hath dominion and the present sorrows of such who are diligent in waiting and wrestling to the end of the World and the beginning of Christ Jesus through Faith and Patience And all these are comprehended with him who hath learned Christ by being faithful to that Spirit of Truth sent in his Name to testifie what is of him in every vessel and what is of the spirit that lusteth against him and keeps the Creation in bondage And this is that one way to Life and Salvation holden forth freely by the Spirit of Truth sent forth by the Father in the Name of Christ Jesus who hath its several operations in several vessels according as he finds them towards God in some he

market-place at the best not yet come into the Vineyard of God till you be set on work against sin to pluck up and cut down every evil thing that offends in the Kingdom of God with his spiritual Light and Power which Kingdom is within you and that which offends is within you and that which is offended is within and that which is lost and fallen is within and there to be sought and the Pearl and the Seed and the Word and the Law of the Spirit of Life and the Covenant is within and this is not seen nor believed nor can it shine till the House of God be swept and the fruit of darkness denyed and the Light of Christ turned to and the Just obeyed which gives to see the unjust and power against him when the ground of darkness is removed by the working of Faith And as many as be called to this work and entred into it in truth and faith must not be idle but obey the Spirit of Life till the house be cleansed and the unclean wrought out and the pure exalted and then is the rest holy and then you will find your rest within you and your God near you and your souls to dwell at ease with God in your own habitation whose Temples you are if this you obtain by faith in him that calleth and quickeneth you to Holiness and the fruit is the Lords and so is the Seed and the safety for ever to all and in all that abide therein And this is not self-works nor self-will but pure faith and obedience to the Seed of God which in you wars against the world and every selfish fleshly lust and delight which is the Seed of the holy Covenant which Seed is Christ the holy and just One if you can receive it This is he that makes clean and keeps you so as many as obey and walk in him and from his Spirit receives your Law which Spirit giveth you his life to inherit here on earth if you walk in the Spirit you shall not live to the flesh And in this life and knowledge truly learned is answered that common objection which the spirit of the world makes against the holy Life and Kingdom saying If it were possible that we could live without sin then we need no Saviour yea the same that cleanses the house must keep it so and he that 's the death of sin is the life of righteousness and the same light and fear of God which leads to the putting off the old man with his affections and evil works leads to put on the new man which is Christ and so to walk in him which is renewed after the image of him that created him where Christ is all in life and guiding and the good man keeps the house not the strong man and how can that man say he needs no Saviour who can do nought without him whose righteous life is both food and rayment and his light their armor daily against the evil in this world in every thought word and work and in whom this is not so Christ is not all and in whom it is so they are compleat in him and do not say they have no need of him but consess him in them their head and glory and this is the Kingdom of God upon earth and the King in his Kingdom which you that resist in your faith and practice deny the Lord and his Power and his Faith and his Prayer which is Thy Kingdom come thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven where no sin is And this further to all you that in words professe Jesus Christ to be your Lord and Master let it be in Truth and Righteousnesse that you may have his witnesse thereto who is pure and clean and cannot join to evil but is an open witnesse against every appearance of it and so are all his Servants whom he hath hired and sent into the world in what place or imployment so ever you are in if you be his servants you are chiefly about his work and not your own Now his work is manifest in every appearance of his in this world it is against sin and to destroy the works of the Devil out of this world mind this To destroy the works of the Devil out of this world that so the Kingdoms of this world may become the Kingdoms of Christ Jesus and the most Holy One may rule and bring forth fruits therein Now his Servants are known by this that they stand for the Kingdom of Christ in this world and his works and against all the works of the Devil in this world to destroy and bring down and make an end of sin in this world and the servants of the Devil are known in the contrary by being in his work which is to keep sin in this world while people live and this is the strength of his kingdom take away sin and take away his kingdom here and his power here and his place here for where he is resisted he flies but where he is received he sets up his throne and takes pleasure in his servants and they in his works which is to encrease deceit and vanity in them and to fill their hearts with every lust and so strongly carrying out their hearts thereunto that they have no delight in that which is contrary nor can believe that ever any can receive power in the Spirit of Christ against him or such redemption as to overcome him and be freed from him in all his works in this world And here is an agreement with death in your faith and a covenant confessed with unrighteousness And you that are in this mind and belief you are not hired of Christ Jesus the Righteous nor have you received his Faith which is pure as he is pure and believes unto Righteousness and unto Victory and not unto sin and that 's his faith which overcomes the world and the prince of it and resists him stedfast in the faith in hope of victory in the end and this faith his servants confess openly which faith the world cannot receive but confess the contrary openly and so you are kept captive at his will and you believe you must be his servants while you live here in this world And this faith you confess openly against the victory of Christ and herein you are faithful to your own Master whose works you do and plead for and confess his faith which none of the Servants of Christ ever confessed such a faith that they must needs serve sin as long as they live for the youngest and the weakest servant of Jesus Christ that know themselves hired of him they know his work is to destroy sin out of the world and to subdue the Devil and to this work they are set in themselves by faith and power which is in Christ Jesus the Lord and they labour in hope having their hearts turned in them and their faces set towards holiness and from the world and are set

on their way out of the world which is Christ the life that 's holy and light that 's pure and to this the mind is kept in all their travels and tribulations and temptions which worketh in them by faith in Christ more hope and more strength daily and every thing that happens them in the way gives experience and renewed strength against their adversarie the Devil while they keep close to Christ in faith and love and though they feel the Devil in the sensual part to be strong and powerful and past their strength at present yet they yeeld him not the Kingdom for that but into the faith and hope and patience of Christ Jesus they sink down waiting for the resurrection of that Life which never sinned but died when sin took his kingdome and there wait for the appearance of Christ without sin to save them from that power of death which wars in their own members to bring forth sin in this world and this is to be true in their service and faithful who wait for the Kingdom of God within them and Righteousnesse thereof and the comming of their Lord with their minds girt up with holinesse and hearts stedfast not to consent to the least work of the Devil if it would gain the whole world in the aperition of the sensual reason and wisdom And if these be overtaken with a fault it is not willingly but as Servants of Christ they stand against it to the utmost they then see and sin being a work of the wrong master they abhor it and themselves for it and deny it and will not plead for it or seek to hide it in them but confesse it and cannot have peace till it be cleansed out and these are the little children who have an Advocate with the Father to whom sin is as death and dare not speak a word for it but against it in themselves and in others and these appear against sin openly and confess to him that is holy with all their hearts and words But what a difference is there betwixt one of these who when they either see it or are told of their offence against the Lord are broken before the least reproof into tears or sorrow condemning themselves for it and it in themselves openly and you who when you are reproved for sin which is both open and known you set your selves with all your strength and wisdom to plead for it and like the Devil bring the letter to strengthen your selves against just reproof and with hearts full of envie and mouths full of reproach you stand up seeking to ensuare them that reprove you in love to Christs Kingdom and your souls and to recover you out of the works of Satan that his kingdom might fall in you and so he have fewer subjects left in his power and you be added unto the Kingdom of Christ by being brought under his Commands through denying your old matter and confessing and condemning his evil works for a denying of the Devil and his works there must be ere Christ will receive you And thus it is that Christ hath ever taken his Kingdom out of the hand of his adversary in the world by sending his Servants into the high-wayes and hedges to gather his creatures out of the Devils works by true reproof and testifying against them where ever he led them for which they were torn and scratched and evil entreated by that evil spirit in whom it had power as you now do who rise up against reproof Christ Jesus known to be King in his Temples through the power of the Holy Ghost and sword of the Spirit lifted up against the man of sin in true Judgement You who look for the Kingdom of Christ Jesus it stands not in observations words and forms but in the power of the holy Ghost in judgment in truth and righteousness If you would know his appearance to salvation wait for it without sin in that Spirit and Power which is holy to judge and condemn sin this is his Kingdom with men if you can receive it that he be known in his spiritual power in the bodies of holy men and women to dwell and walk in a holy life a witness against all sin by the breath of his mouth and Sword of his Spirit and therein that he hath power and consent to judge all contrary spirits within and without and all contrary actions And what ever opposes him in this his Kingdom is Antichrist which denies Christ in his Temples and House whose House and Temple is the new Creation of holy men and women and in whom he speaks dwells and walks as saith the Scriptures in whom he judges the Prince of this world and all his out-goings in the children of darkness and in his own Temples shews forth his nature and virtue a witness against him and all his works and he that would let this is Antichrist who sits in the Temple of Christ to resist the Holy One and cannot receive the Judgements of Christ against sin in his Temples nor his witness against sin to Salvation but cries do not judge when Truth speaks and the Spirit of Christ testifies against sin in true Judgement and this is he that lets and withstands the coming of Christ without sin who withstands him in his Temple and denies his righteous Judgement against sin and blasphemes and sayes it is not he nor is he now on earth nor speaks in any body now against sin but saith Thou must not judge lest thou be judged and so through deceit would turn Christs words against his work who saith I will redeem Zion with Judgement and Christ did not speak those words to save sin from Judgement when he saith Judge not that ye be not judged not to stop the mouth of Truth and Righteousness for then had he contradicted himself who in another place commands them to judge righteous Judgement And he is manifest to destroy sin and not to save sin in whomsoever he is manifest and for this end he liveth in his people which Antichrist would make as though he lived not nor heard or spoke but as a dumb Idol would he make the living God for people to talk on or set up a form of him to make void his present life and spiritual power in his people that he should not shew forth his vertue and give forth his Laws and Judgements by the mouth of his Servants against the works of his adversary where ever they appear in his eye Therefore you professors of Christ in words and forms seek his Kingdom in you and take heed that your forms withstand not his powerful appearance in spirit His Kingly Authority stands in his heavenly holy Nature and Vertue in Spirit and not in perishing rudiments and shadows without Read in Scriptures how often Antichrist hath deceived people by turning these outward forms to let the spiritual power and so have kept people in words without life opposing Christ in his Kingdom So in the first