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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

AN EXACT HISTORY of the life of JAMES NAYLOR WITH HIS PARENTS BIRTH EDUCATION PROFESSION ACTIONS BLASPHEEMIES 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 Deut. 13.1 2 3. If there arise among you a Prophet or a dreamer of dreams and giveth thee a sign or wonder and the sign come to passe c. Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that Prophet for the Lord proveth you to know whether you love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul Isaiah 14.12 13 14 15. How art thou fallen from Heaven O Lucifer c. For thou hast said in thine heart I will ascend into Heaven I will ascend above the heights of the clouds I will be like unto the most high Yet thou shalt be brought down to Hell to the sides of the pit 2 Thes 2.3 Let no man deceive you by any means for that day shall not come except there come a falling away first and that man of sin be revealed the son of perdition London Printed for Edward Thomas and are to be sold at his house in Green Arbor 1657. To the Reader Courteous Reader I suppose thee sensible of that which I may well call a sound principle as that the supreme and best end of all things is Gods glory first and next our own happinesse into which ocean we ought to empty and pour forth all our desires actions and abilities that so we may injoy Gods most comfortable blessing here with the fruition thereof eternal life hereafter and therefore in every undertaking with Moses I esteeme it a signall evidence not only of reall wit but a step hire of true wisedome seriously to weigh and consider what the end may produce which Courteous Reader hath not been the least of my care in this present undertaking for truth being an atribute of God and love the like I think to defend the first and demonstrate the other cannot but tend to what hath been said and I dare presume that in this one undertaking if you read with a single eye you will find them both performed truth defended by preventing falshoods and untrue reports and love demonstrated by perverting those that would deceive the inquisitive which it's probable the covetous may attempt not with an intent to satisfie the Reader but his own unsatisfied purse I must needs confesse the trouble in collecting this relation hath been great and the paines no lesse which I might have avoided but then have left thee perhaps either misinformed or else not at all acquainted with those unheard of misdemeanors And if any shall suppose that because I have heretofore had controversie both by dispute and in Print with the said James Naylor and that therefore what I have written may be rather out of envy to the man then love to the truth I assure him to the contrary for what I have done was and is only in discharge of that duty I suppose lies on every Christian to communicate that which may be beneficial to others which he knows himself as this must needs be which also will evidently witness what with some cautions I have heretofore said in their Society that I feared and now am sure of it that if all the errors and blasphemies that have been either forged or upheld by any or all the archest Hereticks since the death of our Saviour were buried in irreviveable oblivion they might be equalled if not exuperated in them and their opinions as the insuing discourse will demonstrate I have been plain because I would be brief and brief because the occasion required it and have said nothing but for what I have an evidence either one way or other so that you need not mistrust the certainty but rather admire the absurdity of his actions of whom thou hast here First a true Relation of his birth education next the manner how he was seduced after that a true Narrative of what hath been remarkable since that time either for action or opinion with an exact relation of their Principles and Tenets and then lastly some very choice stories of many of their Sect All which may serve to witnesse with the truth that they are erronious which that we may all see so as to avoid and in avoiding them imbrace that truth and possesse that grace which will assuredly conduct us safely to an eternall habitation is and shall be the desires and most affectionate wishes of From my lodging at Bun-hill London Decemb. the 30th 1656. Your assured Friend in what he can JOHN DEACON An exact History of the Life and Actions of James Naylor since he became a Quaker IEsus Christ the only reall and eternal Son of the Almighty Father that out of a fore-seeing and fore knowing sense of the state of all things in himself fore-saw and understood that the instable and mutable mind of miserable man would be always busied and imployed upon one subject or another esteemed it a part of that true wisedome inherent in himself prescribed such a matter for it to work on as might tend principally to their own perpetual good and his eternal glory Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and then that they might reap no discouragement by the want of meaner injoyments as riches and honour he promiseth a taste of that here his blessings which in a higher sense shall be wholy injoyed hereafter and all these things shall be added unto you And to attain any happinesse or precious injoyment which is to be purchased by the overcomming of withholding difficulties we must first indeavour to remove all defects and impediments as evill which is contrary and opposite to good and the readiest way so to do is to understand and know the cause that may either withhold us from the omission of duty or incourage us to the commission of disobedience that so that being known we may be the better fortified to withstand any temptation from them proceeding that providence should suffer to assault us which is the intent and substance of this precedent discourse Sad it is to consider that as the world draws neer to a period the wickednesse of men innumerates and that every day Which sets them a step neerer to death should throw them a stride further from a better life as if every Age were only an addition of impiety and a new torrent of iniquity which added a stream more to the compleating the fulnesse of such sins as might extract an immediate destruction as not only bare reports but to sad experience verifies in every Age but more especially in this wherein we live not only Satan indeavouring to transfigure himself into an Angel of light but man attempts to transform himself into an impe and angel of darknesse in that a wretched and sinful man shall