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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89849	A salutation to the seed of God. And a call out of Babylon, and Egypt, from amongst the magitians, where the house of bondage is, and the imaginations rules above the seed of God, the cause of all blindnes, and condemnation. Also that which is perfect made manifest, even everlasting righteousnesse, which endures for all generations, ... With the way to him, set forth most for such as groan for freedome from the power of sin; but may be serviceable to all who loves his appearance. Also a testimony from Christ what he is in this world, and where he is; ... Also a suite to such rulers, magistrates, and governours, as have not wholly hardened their hearts, and stopt the eare against the voyce of the spirit, that they may hear and their soules may live, and be established a blessing to the nations. With some things more added to this second impression. / Written in love to all your soules, by him who is called James Naylor.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1655 (1655)	Wing N310; Thomason E852_25	31,397	40

and your own wills standing Are you a willing people for God when you see with the light of Christ in your hearts what you ought to doe and what you ought to forbear but your own wills withstands it and leads you into coveteousnes pleasures and wantonnes and selfishnes contrary to it And what power is this which acts you in these ways of unrighteousness for which your hearts condemns you This is the power of darknes which the light of Christ in your consciences bears witnes against And thus you have got words instead of power and life and you think salvation is in them crying the Ordinances of God But did God ever ordaine a talke without power and life Is not Christ the Ordinance and the end of all Ordinances who is the way the truth and the life Is there any Ordinances without him in the Gospel Or will he accept your taken on performances from imitation of others which he leads not to in spirit Is not he that commands and he that gives power one who in spirit gives out his will to every generation which they who followed imitations could never own nor could he ever own their service whose fear and worship is taught by the precepts of men and not by his spirit within Is not he the Sabboth Circumcision Baptisme the Supper c. are not all these in him and doth not he minister all these in spirit to every one that comes to him and so the shaddow is come into the substance the end of all shaddows which is life indeed but the figures are not the life nor can any have the life but who comes to the end of them for the outward makes nothing pefect but the inward doth all that come unto it and abide in him When will you be weary of your vaine imaginations of a Day to come wherein you must have power How long have you been deceived with these vaine thoughts Was not this it you talked on twenty thirty forty or fifty years since yet now further off from it then ever And are not these vaine words though you cannot bear it to have them so called When will you be ashamed of your vaine profession you that run to seek God in the high-places amongst the hirelings running from God to seek him vvhere he is not And is not this vaine profession when nothing is brought forth but winde nor is he found by you wherein your fruit is Those who had the forme and not the power could never finde him then how should you speed any better that joyne with them who have neither for in such a forme you worship as in which God never appeared but Christ and his ever witnessed against and doth to this day yet will not you be instructed but in your own wills and ways you will stand though you finde nothing but emptines in it and yet you talke of being a willing people in the day of his power but when will you have it present who abide in that way where both will and power is wanting Free-will you have not but to follow Satan who hath begot a will in you that God never created contrary to God in all things and where that will rules it will not own his power therefore is that a day a far off you but the will of the Devil and his power is persent and acts you at his pleasure and you are offended that any should vvitnesse being set free from it Thus you are suffered to please your vaine minds the day to talke on but the night and deeds of darknesse you must walke in else your old master is highly d●spleased and if any call you to the Light he sayes its Delusion and as for freedome from sin or the way to perfection that 's most dangerous Heresie and Delusion And thus he makes you most afraid of freedome least any of you should believe in the Son which leads to it for the Devil knows if he can but keep you from believing it you are sure for ever comming to it for as is every mans faith so shall be his freedome Thus you stand afar off and cry take heed of Delusion and deceiving when you have nought but your sins to be deceived on nor can you say you have ought in you that 's pure but that which you deny in your conscience which is a witnes against you and this is the cry of all who are deceived already in all formes in the world But who have the Spirit that can try all things is bold as a Lyon and will not receive nor hold fast any thing but that which is good that none can take from him The Heathen were ever afraid to be spoyled of their Idols and so are you of your Images you have set up and formed from others every one according to your owne wills If shaddowes and likenesses could save then would it be found in these Nations who have of all sorts and statures tall and with heads of Gold some of them which you zealously worship and compell others also who know no better And this is that they serve for for they cannot save you onely they serve you to contend about and keep you doing least you should waite upon God alone and be saved from your sinnes and then the Devils Kingdome were broken wherefore he feeds you with a profession and form without power And of likenesses you may choose from one to another yet all in his Kingdome of sin and imperfection as long as you live that 's his limit and for no lesse time will he have his Covenent and you are willing to enter into it with him and plead for it exceedingly mad against any that break it or believe in him that redeems from it nay so blinde and deafe are you that if any have found freedome you cannot abide to hear them declare it and the end of Christs comming must not be preached nor his Covenant that is pure and without sin as he is that made it and so each Covenant is like its Master And this we doe witnesse and see now at present which you know not who look not for it till after death therefore sin must stand in that Covenant because you have not our keeper for God hath so concluded it And the Light is in the world where all are sinners but none have the life but who receive the Light and joyne to it and are led out of the world by it to such sheep Christ is keeper who follow him out of uncleannes and for such he is become an undertaker the strong man to binde and cast out who believe that he will doe it for them but the swine he keeps not the shepheard they will not follow there the Devil must enter and have power and into the Sea must they headlong Take heed carnall professors whose Religion lookes downward into the earth the Sea is next and the place is steepe And you have nought to keepe who deny the life of

Jerusalem and rose againe and from thence conclude that all shall be saved and are believes that profess this Faith though they come not to the Fellowship of his sufferings and of his resurrection in themselves and so come to witness his death and life manifest in their mortall flesh and so the body of sin put off by the body and washed with the blood of Christ and so be baptized into his death dead with him to sin and alive with him to righteousness and true obedience to the Father in their measures I say you that say that a bare perswasion or outward Confession is that faith that justifies the ungodly without Christ in them Then what are you doing when you say Stand off me for I am more holy then thou and are gathering from them who all beleeve with this faith as well as you onely they differ from you in other practises as some open sinnes and the like and why have not the greatest drunkards and swearers or who remongers as good right to Christ Church-fellowship as you have or why doe you hinder them from that which you call the Seales or Sacraments seeing that faith in Christ is the ground of interest to all that belongs to Christ Doe not you according to your own principle exclude beleevers even of the same faith with you and who are those unbelievers you tell on who are condemned and to whom doe you preach faith in these Nations seeing you can finde none in them who are come to understanding Papist nor Protestant but they beleeve this with you That Christ dyed at Jerusalem If hereby they be justified before God how dare you charge any thing upon them or separate from them if God have owned them Also many hundred thousand pounds a yeare may be spared which are spent under this pretence as to make people beleevers when all they preach to are beleevers already and have that faith that justifies the ungodly And whose is the righteousness people are exhorted to bring forth if the Righteousness of Christ that 's necessary to salvation be onely without them then whose is that you call for within them But if you say they must have some of the righteousness of Christ within them and the rest without them then why doe not you describe a measure that people may know how much to look for and when they come to an end of their labours and how much they must doe before Christ will undertake to doe the rest Or if Christ have done all how much of it must they doe over againe before they come to their rest and to be accepted and differ what it is that must be brought forth from within and what must be beleeved without but not enjoyed within that so people may come to see what is Christ and what is selfe righteousnes and where they are that they may avoide the one and receive the other But thus you lye in confusion from which by that faith which stands in Jesus wee are freed and have received his righteousness to which wee are obedient by which wee are purified by bringing forth that which hee begetteth as formerly we were defiled by bringing forth that which was begotten by the Devill and so through obedience of the Spirit our souls are purified and we become conformable to him that 's gone before us who received light and obedience and power from the Father and so became the first fruits unto perfection and holiness through whom we receive power for obedience grace for grace by which wee are saved and our life is in him and our obedience and hee is all in us which we receive of the Father who hath wrought all our workes in us and so ordaines peace for us yea beyond all that you know or can beleeve who know not Christ in you So you have set up a reprobate faith that you cannot but be servants of sin while you live in this world so are to every good work reprobate But you use to say You have that which Christ did in his owne person evidenced to you that hee did it for you particularly which drunkards swearers and the like have not I say your Evidence is but in words and conceipt who have not Christ in you no more then theirs is You are perswaded and hope it is so and so are they also but neither of you bring forth the fruits that are his But you say you bring forth better fruits then drunkards and swearers I say the best fruite that 's brought forth in either which is not the worke of God by Christ in you is but selfe-righteousnesse and all your selfe taken on performances in your owne wills is no better But you say you doe what you can and God accepts the will for the deed but so doe not those who are openly wicked I say God accepts no will but his owne and this hee begets by his Spirit in all that waite upon him in the light of Jesus and with such hee that begets the will begets the deed also and it is no more what we can but what hee will with whom all things are possible and wee can doe nothing neither doe we desire to doe any thing yet can wee doe all things that hee wills through him that in us so the will of God is done in us by his power in our measures as it is in Heaven and this is perfect righteousnesse where Christ is all and the Creature nothing And as for your doing and others not doing I say every one hath that opinion of himselfe that hee is not so bad as others and with this the Devill deceives you to keep all in his kingdom And by this opinion of yours none is to be condemned who hath any worse then himselfe in his doings for this must needs follow from the best to the worst unlesse you describe how farre it must goe and no further and then must you needes shut out some who have endeavoured as much against sin in their owne strength as ever you did in yours I have knowne a drunkard shed more teares set stronger resolutions and make more vowes against that filthy sin of Drunkennesse then ever I knew the greatest professor doe against his secret covetousnesse which is Idolatry Nay the highest professions can plead for it though not under that name and make a trade on it which the other is ashamed to doe for his drunkennesse Now if God had placed righteousnesse and acceptance in doing what one can then why should not the first of these be accepted as well as the latter seeing hee prays and weeps and doth what he can to overcome it And thus all sorts of people in the world who know not Christ and his strength in them which alone is appointed by God to overcome sin for all that receive him I say you are all in confusion labouring to no purpose one condemning another thereby to get peace to your selves but all under the curse and so is

purity and perfection which we have in the holy God as all ever had who lived in him And in him is truth and freedome but a lie there is in all your likenesses and you are blinde and will not see it all you who have a God and Christ and a worship which doth not make the commers thereto perfect nor set you above the Devill nor overcome his temptations Your God and King we know which keepes you in the earth which you will curse if ever you looke upward your peace we know and the end of it your Kingdome with all its glory when from this world you are taken there is your parting when he shall breake your Covenant whose Covenant you have broken and would not heare him though you pretended still to seeke him That 's his call which in your consciences lets you see you have lost him which did you wait in it would lead you to him but erring from it you are out of his way and counsell and all other wayes is to no purpose his Light is that which searcheth your hearts in secret nor can any other judge you in private yet from that you will be running to aske counsell at them who know not your condition so instead of God you consesse to men that cannot judge you nor help you while you go to the naturall you leave the spirituall and so with naturall words you seed the naturall comprehensions but the spirituall man seeds not at that fountaine for its the spirituall that thirsts which not minded the naturall runs and seeds above it and this being above you cannot receive the food of the Spirit therewith to God to be reconciled and quickned nor is that fed that death hath passed over nor out of death is it raised but that which lives in you is for death and by feeding on that wisdome the vaile is thickned and the eternall is out of your knowledge yet you say God is a Spirit and teaches in Spirit and will be worshipped in Spirit but cannot endure to hearken to any thing within you nor turne to that Spirit How blinde are you led with your blinde guides Is not that which is spirituall within or can it be knowne any where else Is God known by hearsay then who is it that knows him not Can the carnall eye see the spirituall God or the carnall eare hear him then should not his ministry be to the spirits in prison to open the blinde eyes and to unstop the dease eares yea where the carnall is open But this you know not who have eyes and see not eares and hear not and hands which never handled the word of life yet would you be teaching others that which you never saw nor heard and to this teaching you would limit others Paul was sent to open the blinde eyes yet was he sent to those who had eyes as you have with which they could see to stone him and whip him and eares to hear him and call what he said heresie and blasphemie as you doe and as ever the carnal judged of the spirituall who hath not an eare to hear what the Spirit saith Oh unwise people you have but one thing that lets you see your evill yet will you not turn to that for teaching nor that eye you love not which lets you see your darknesse You cry you have nothing that 's good in you yet will you not own that which lets you see it is so and thus you keep Covenant with darknesse though death and destruction be the end of it but the Covenant of Light which shines in darknesse you regard not that 's far below your comprehensions nay it s the least seed in you which we know is the seed of the kingdome troden under foot by the kingdome of the world therefore nothing else leads out of the world but that whose kingdome is not in it and with this seede is the Covenant which seed you know not who take pleasure in the flesh that 's of another kingdome to which is no Covenant but Death and Hell Yet you talk of Abraham his Covenant and Promise but that in Abraham in which the Covenant was established was that which led him out out of the world wherein he became a stranger and wanderer as that seede ever is which you call vagabonds persecute and imprison you that have rule in this world shewing that you are not of that seed that entertaines strangers nor in that Covenant where all are strangers and Pilgrims in this world nor doe you own that which divides you from this world being uncircumcised in heart which to be is the seal of Abrahams faith and so you whose life is in the earth are far off from Abrahams bosome Faith and Covenant which is onely to his seede not to the seede of evill doers not to seeds which is many but to one which is Christ So in the world out of Christ and out of Christ out of Gods Covenant for his Promises are all yea and amen to them that are in Christ Jesus but not to them that abide in the world Who owns him as King cannot want the Promise neither can you have it who abide in the world therefore you apply the words but want the life which is the power nor can your literall Promises sute your condition nor save you from Satans power but as all others who think salvation to be in the letter so doe you denie leading and guiding of the Spirit in which the power is placed therefore the Light you will not follow neither can you believe it to be sufficient And he that denies the Light cannot own the Lord of life So you are ignorant of God and his way in which he makes himselfe krovvne to his people and so takes up your rest in outward observations set up and upholden in the wills of men and for such traditions you are zealous and strongly contend for them but the Lavv of God written in your own hearts you make of none effect while you denie to be ruled according to it yet you say We are in the new Covenant when you are in the old traditions and what you know is from others But the least in that Covenant knows him and his preferce and witness him true according to his promise ever manifesting his power to undertake for us against all our enemies a present help in time of trouble and we know him in whom we have believed where he is and the way to him have seen the glory of his kingdom and the powers of the eternall World the house wherein are many Mansions yet the lowest place is pure for which the Lord alone prepares his people and their way which the creature cannot doe of himself onely Christ doth it where selfe is denied and selfe-will for by the will of man comes no promise nor obtains that will any performance So he begets both the will and the deed which you know not where your wills is standing by