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death_n	dead_a	law_n	life_n	4,062	5	5.0545	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52705	Milk for babes: and meat for strong men A feast of fat things; wine well refined on the lees. O come young men and maidens, old men and babes, and drink abundantly of the streams that run from the fountain, that you may feel a well-spring of living water in yourselves, springing up to eternal life; that as he lives (even Christ Jesus) from whence all the springs do come, so you may live also, and partake of his glory that is ascended at the right hand of the Father, far above principalities and powers. Being the breathings of the Spirit through his servant James Naylor, written by him in the time of the confinement of his outward man in prison, but not published till now.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.; Booth, Mary, 17th cent.	1661 (1661)	Wing N299; ESTC R202065	26,742	32

hunt about for freedom yet if any Carnal Way be opened it will form a fair pretence as though it were of God which is not of God and this seeks to betray the just faithful one from you would part you from your chast waiting upon him whom you love taking his advantage by your hast weariness weakness in the journey But that which only minds to be obedient to God in suffering and acting with faith and diligence nearkning with all Long-suffering what Meekness and Patience saith thinking it a greater thing to obtain Counsel from that then ease from another believing that no other thing can give an expected end but that to wit an inheritance in that you wait for and therefore count nothing dear that you may win him thinking no time long nor any thing hard to endure for the joy and beauty that is set before you This wil never deceive you of the Redemption of Truth your Love and Redeemer and Lord is One and you shal not be put to your sleighty shifts as they that go out from that Spirit are for you shal feel and see your Redeemer in the misst of you and with his body shal you rise and live and you shal not be ransomed with silver or gold from the hand of the Opressor but by the pretious blood of Christ as a Lamb without spot not with any corruptible thing but his Long-suffering Faith and Patience his Love and meek Spirit shal set you out of all darkness and above all fears and your freedom wil be perfect and inheritance large when all that would not stay upon him alone are consumedin the fiery tryals which haste ease and distrust wil never bring to an end til which you are not fit to be joined to him you love in everliving obedience and everlasting praises the portion of all who have waited on him and have found him faithful in the End And having Learned this mystery of Godliness and found the worth of it you having found his way perfect and pure and him faithful to such as walk therein you may be able to direct the simple and unlearned in their desirable way to rest and your words have in them a manifestation of life and quickning power is with you this shal be your everlasting strength that you are redeemed with that you so dearly loved And this you shal feel in the way that the more diligently you wait upon him in all Conditions you pass through even so the more do you receive of him by drinking in of that heavenly virtue that is in him who is the meek and patient one and by supping continually with him and he with you wil you come so to be filled with him that all haste and impatiency and distrust will be covered and overcome with him and so your Mortal be swallowed up of the Immortal till it become your whole Life and Being and all your Thoughts Words and Actions have their Rise and Being therein so that Self be seen no more nor that appear in which Death and Condemnation have any entrance or power And this shall you find to be the House from Above and Heavenly City in which the holy Spirits live and walk and have Communion as they come to be perfected of which the LAMB is the Light and Salvation into which none enter but who through his Meekness and Long-suffering are ransomed and by Faith therein redeemed Who being thus builded see no more sorrow nor fear of falling the Foundation being everlasting elect and precious and every Stone therein tryed in the fire and in faithfulness chosen for that end So with all diligence sink down to feel the Election not minding that which boasts in high words before it be tryed but when it comes into the fire will not stand patient in the Tryal but through that being given up to death seek for that which lies under in the sufferings which calls you down from every high thought To him come down into the pit who bears all things without complaining that with him you may suffer and with him you may obey and in all things he may be with you and you with him this is the Election make him sure to your selves in life and death so shall you be changed with him and though you go down into the lower parts of the Earth in the carnal body he shall raise you spiritual though sown weak yet raised in Power if you rise not but with him as he raises you if you cast not off the Yoak nor flye the Cross nor heal your own wound though your wound be mortal yet the cure is immortal though you go down in shame and reproach yet raised in glory and covered with immortal honour and eternal life with power and strength to fulfil the will of God and the answer of a good Conscience through this Baptism and Resurraction you shall attain and so become one Spirit with him that dwells in the light in death in sufferings in patience in faith and in obedience which otherwise no mortal man can approach to there being that to be fulfilled which the Light requires which the first man born hath not in power so by that Law his life he must lose which hath power over the Transgressor as long as he lives and joined to Christ cannot be till to that Law he be dead So the first which is earthly the Law kills because of sin and want of obedience but he that is born again is of the Spirit and lives because of righteousness and obedience so the boaster is excluded being concluded under sin that the mercy may arise in the meek principle over all to fulfil all The Light saith Love thy Neighbour as thy self This the first born cannot do so the boaster is excluded and the Law lays hold on that life which wants this love and the Creature must give up that to death that he may come to the meek Spirit for the power of that life and obedience that hath righteousness in it and the Creature drawing his mind and affections and faith ●rom the first who hath words without power and giving these to the second the first falls withers and dies in that vessel and as the mind is diligent in the second he rises in the Faith and raiseth the power of obedience in that vessel and so as he rises through the Law he brings forth fruits above the Law against which there is no Law so he in whom the Covenant is and hath the power of obedience to righteousness puts an end to the Law So he being denied dead and buried whose life arose through disobedience who is the Transgressor and because of whom the Law was added that Law becomes dead also he that fulfils the Law is he that gave it forth and is the end thereof in whom by Faith you live and inherit this right eousness as you put him on through death who is this life So being faithful in the Light shal

your fleshly part for that is the Sons way to perfection and the wondrous works of the Father are learned in the deep for by the hand of God upon you being faithful in suffering to the end shal you see the old Foundation of the World the root and off-spring of all Wickedness how it came to be laid and how the Lamb is slain and what he is and the Foundation of God shall you see and feel upon which the Saints were raised up and built in the Spirit and how all the Chaff Hay and Stubble comes to be cleansed off for his fan is in his hand and the words of his mouth are a consuming fire to that Nature who refineth the Gold and quickeneth the Soul and divideth the clean from the unclean And the nearer you draw to God the nearer will he draw to you in Righteousness and Judgement and Truth to make an end of sin and bring in everlasting Righteousness and to establish you in his inheritance who appear in his Temple through the Refiners fire and Fullers Sope the end of all sufferings and entrance into everlasting joy purity and peace and weight of Eternal glory to which there is no other way but through affliction But as you come down to the Foundation of God watch with all fear and diligence that nothing exalt you or lift you up in mind conceit or comprehension faster then with that Foundation you are builded for many temptations of haste will present themselves with fears and distrust to get you from off the Foundation of Life but if you keep lowly steadfast and faithful thereto with it you shall be raised out of the Pit and set above the Earth And for that end is it laid within you that in Spirit you may be built thereon in order like the Corner-stone a new man not the same that goes down and none knoweth the way of his rising but as he keepeth to the foundation and mindeth the head of the Corner which as you diligently mind you shall know the sure Foundations of the holy City even from the Word of the beginning of Christ as you grow to his fulness the Foundations of Repentance of Faith of Doctrines of Baptisms of the Resurrection of the dead and of eternal Judgement And as with the Foundation of Life and Power you come to be edified you will be led thorow the dominions of Death where you shall learn wherein it hath its power and by what it reigns and how it captivates the Seed and how its Bouds are broken and with what he is taken and chained who hath the power of death and so come to see what binds and what looses kills and makes alive the Life of the Lavv the Life of the Prophets and the Life of the Apostles as they passed before you vvill you come to knovv their in heritance therein to possess and vvith them in Spirit have fellovvship as they passed the time of their Pilgrimage here that to the Life of Christ you may come for the fulfilling of the Word of God vvhich endureth from Generation to Generation This being the end of all the travels of the souls of righteous men and women here belovv vvhich that they might attain the fulfilling thereof and so return in peace to him from vvhence they came cloathed on vvith their heavenly House for which prize they counted all things loss here below casting off the Earthly pleasures and killing every affection thereto estranged therefrom in all their vvalking vvhile they are here knovving that the love to the earthly things is the enemy to their spiritual ascending and that the Earthly Adulterous Spirit daily hunts to devour the precious Life and to keep the soul in things below presenting daily its delights carnal and opening the pathes of the destroyer with pleasures to the carnal eye which whosoever joins to cannot ascend into the heavenly Inheritance but with the dark World daily go downward who are degenerated from the Life of God and estranged from it even from the Womb so that they are never able to attain the knowledge of God nor in truth and righteousness to call him Father nor to say they came out from him nor ever to him can return This they being willingly ignorant of that no man hath ascended up to heaven but he that came down from heaven who is born not of the corruptible Seed nor begotten but by the Word of God which liveth and abideth for ever But with you it is not so neither are you going that way who feel the heavenly motion drawing your minds out of all earthly delights the taste of the Heavenly Life overcoming the Earthly in your affections so that to the World you dye daily and you feel something quickned in you that cannot feed on earthly pleasures but hunger after righteousness and see a beauty in holiness and thirst daily after the Heavenly Virtue So to that sink down into its likeness which is yet in the bonds of death and hunger with it and suffer with it and join to it in all its counsel so that with it you may be raised for that is it which is on the foundation of God and coming to him as a living stone you will be built on the same Foundation the same Spirit being your Head by whose Resurrection all the Vails will be done away the Vail of Death the Vail of the Law the Vail of the Prophets and the whole mystery of godliness will be unsealed and the way to Heaven opened by him even the slain Lamb who hath his power from the midst of the Throne of God even for you if you join to him in his sufferings and ascendings who maketh the way betwixt Heaven and Earth and keepeth it open in all them who mind him therewith to possess the Vessel in holness and fear towards God so that nothing shall hinder your prayers from coming to the Throne of God nor the dew and blessing of Heaven from falling upon the Seed and here is Heaven opened and the way of grace and salvation for the wayfaring man here on Earth to walk in in which if you wholly exercise your minds you shal not err nor shall any thing be able to hinder you from receiving Gifts from the Father so long as nothing of a contrary Nature stops his own from arising to him in praises and you with it So let nothing cut off your Communion with God in that measure you already have received but let the breathings of your souls and your hearts be continually open towards him and therein you shall not onely receive but become faithful improvers of what you have by the blessing that is the Covenant that is with all that love him that dwells in the Light for where the conversation is in Heaven there the Earth becoms fruitful Wherefore give all diligence that nothing have your affections here below or stop your heavenly mind from its constant ascending for that is the spirit of Bondage which hath

you learn him that kills and makes alive that casts down and raises up that condemns and justifies and so shal know the way of death and the way of life and who that is that is hardned by the Law and who fulfills it and the life and end of both and you wil see the cause and end of all the tribulations earthquakes and thunders and several voices clouds smoak and darkness and great temptations and the trial of your faith herein wil be as that of gold and will bring to inherit the knowledge of God and eternal life and power to judge the Prince of the Air and over the mystery of iniquity and to deny the God of this world with all his snares and traps wherein the unlearned Professors are caught and held captive at his wil though some of them have a knowledg and form of the Truth taught from what others have thus learned all which you shal judg and have power over and all ministration under the Son shal with this be comprehended whether Angels or Spirit Even he that is faithful and diligent unto the end of this great tribulation shal be made white and have judgment committed to him and the Key of Davids house to bind and lose and shal sit in the Lambs Throne of Judgment and Righteousness in heaven and the Grave nor Hel shal have no more power nor shal his old iniquities have any more power over him the strength of sin being dead Wherefore Brethren in the Light be faithful when you come into this condition take heed of Unbelief and hast not out of it least you tempt the Lord of your Life and grieve his meek Spirit and provoke him to leave chastening and so your spot remain and you prove but Bastards and not free-born Children of this Kingdom Power and Glory and so in time your old Iniquities overtake you again For whatever of the old man comes out of the fire unconsumed dead and buried in this Baptism wil be a continual Canker seeking to eat and an Enemy daily waiting his opportunity upon all occasions to get up and overspread the pure Plant of Innocency and so spoil you of your Beloved and so make void all your sufferings past and bring in the old Evils like a Flood upon you as it hath befallen many at this day but be faithful to the end of all Iniquity the Root as wel as the Branch so shall your Righteousness arise clear and unspotted and your old sins shall therewith be buried and never arise again neither to accuse nor raign and this is your victory over death And this know whatever others imagine let none deceive you That though sin the evil Seed be sown when men sleep and take root with pleasure and spring up with ease and delight yet the end thereof is bitterness and great Tribulation but the precious Seed is sown with tears conceived in sorrow brought to light with sighing nights of watching dayes of mourning and with much labour of spirit and travel of Soul must you come to see your desire for though the World have conceived a Faith in the air and so bringeth forth nought but several sorts of Winds striving upon the Earth without Foundation and so builds nothing to perfection Yet with you it must not be so for to you the Light is sprung up which leads to the Foundation of God and you have received a Faith that gives you a sight of the Stone which the Builders see not and to you it is given not onely to believe in him but to suffer for his sake in the behalf of him and so to run as to win him so to strive as to obtain him his Name his Power his Nature for this is that your soul groans for to possess and inherit his Power his Love his Meekness his Patience in all Tribulations his Faith in all fears and to have the Power of all his Grace and Vertue living in you whereby you may be men of able Spirits rightly furnished to every good work and against all evil that in him you may overcome when you are tryed and be more then Conquerors and your Work is to war against whatever would keep you from coming to this Foundation and Corner-stone And it is not beating the air that will fight your Battel for it 's against all these deceits you are to fight and airy notions and all spirits that would possess you with words and forms without the Power of Righteousness and what ever lyes under the power of sin the true Light gives you to see the cursed deceipt that lyes in all this and that these are the subtile paths of the destroyer and nothing less then Victory over sin and subtilty will satisfie your souls so that it 's onely Life and Power that can give you peace and therefore yours is work and not vain words and that which strikes at the root of sin is your best Weapon So it is not Flesh that profits you it 's the spirit that must quicken through hardship that which ease hath slain ere you come to perfect peace For though the Letter tell of a Child that is heir of all things and gives this Inheritance to all in whom he is formed whose Name is Wonderful in Counsel and Strength yet is not this brought forth without hard labour and travel and the pangs of death gone thorow for when you come to the Lord for Counsel and feel that there is two manner of Seeds in the Womb then will you see that great Work is to be done ere you come to rest There is the strong man to be bound before the Babe can reign and strongly is he armed with all manner of Wiles to save himself and it 's not words and thoughts that will cast out the Mother her Son which must not inherit and this must be done or all is in vain He that is born of Flesh is in bondage to things here below this cannot inherit Immortality for sin hath power in him and dye he must that the Son of Righteousness may arise to life in you and bring your life to light with him as he appears and though the Light be above the Transgressor yet the Son is lowly that gives it So being faithful in the Light which from the Son cometh which condemneth all the lofty wayes of the first-born you will beled into ways lowly to cross your life in him through Watchings and Fastings and great Tribulations must he be famished into which the Spirit will lead you where there is nothing for the Lust to live on nor for that Wisdom to walk in that loves it self or seeks its ease and pleasure Then be faithful to your Guide however he storm that is to be destroyed And with all diligence press into that which calls in the wandering mind and give heed with watching and wrestling to get abiding therein which as you are faithful therein it will be enlarged till it become a habitation for your pure

got power by letting some carnal thing in upon you to press you down which Spirit waits upon you continually to ensnare the Heavenly Life and get above it in your minds and so as a weight beset you in your way lest that which comes from Heaven should have free passage through a clear Vessel to Heavenly Seed free from cares cumbrances and earthly pleasures and from Earth to the Heavens for it 's he that comes from above which declareth to man his way and his wants presents his prayers and receives the answer and by him alone doth God work all his Works in you for you in Heaven and in Earth Now if you join to another and give your strength of heart and mind to his Enemy then the Work of God ceases the way being stopt for the Adulterer the Covetous the Idolater the Wanton the Sloath or what ever of that Nature you join to your consent giveth him strength to stop the Way of Life And this is your condemnation witnessed with the Light and herein had Death its power at the first which can be no Head but where he is hearkned to let in or obeyed but being resisted flyes but being let in he seateth himself in the Heavenly way with much policy and power and is not easily got out nor seen to be what he is so when you feel your way darkned or affections grow cold towards Heaven then take heed with all diligence in the pure Light to search for your Enemy hath got some entrance which by faithful and patient waiting in the Light you will come to see and through the power of the Cross to kill that life and cast out that in which it was conceived for that must not abide in the House with him that is Heir of the Heavenly Inheritance but is an Enemy to his coming for it is he that letteth till he be taken out of the way which while he is in the way dulls the affections and clogs the Heavenly mind that it cannot ascend wherefore that which you have received of the Holy One his Unction hold fast till he come and with it stand armed against whatever would enter to lead out to any outward observations but with all diligence observe that which you have of his in Spirit which the adversary seeks so much to draw you forth from least you should encrease your Lords money and herein you maintain your daily watch and war with that you have of Life and Power and not with that you have not so are you faithful Stewards and are accepted in what you have and not in what you have not for the World is in darkness and so wait for they know not what and have no ground for their Faith nor power to prepare his way to his coming further then words of others or their own conceivings but are not in him who is true but you are in him who is true who have his Light received and are in it to observe hhis appearance in all things and the Messenger of his Covenant you know who goeth before his face to prepare his way turning your hearts from every evil way and out of the paths of the destroyer that you may be fruitful upon earth that so he may receive you into himself vvhen he cometh to smite the Earth vvith a Curse which that which brings forth Bryars and Thorns is nigh unto whose Seed is not of himself his root and off-spring at his coming which is begot in the Adulterous mind For the mind feeding from without upon any knowledge form or observation but what the life leads to in Spirit and power is the ground of the mystery of iniquity the woman of Witch craft which hunteth for the precious life of the holy Child seeking to draw your strength of affections from him after the harlot that so he may fall die daily in your hearts and affections while the Lust goes out to another covered with some fair pretence whereby the worldly Spirit gathers strength daily as you shal feel who are watchful and diligent in the Spiritual War so shal that Truth appear to you That as your love waxeth cold so wil iniquity abound with an unresistable power whatever you know to the contrary which is not in the life Or whatever you believe without that faith which works by love to the life of Truth more then to the knowledge of Truth So let your wrestling be into the power and life of God and thereon feed and your life shal indure for ever and your strength and virtue shal be daily renewed But you read of some who had the form of Knowledge and of the Truth but being out of the life of Truth held the Truth in Unrighteousness and such when they knew God did not glorifie him as God in life So he gave them up who became vain in their imaginations who retained not the life in the knowledge turned the Truth of God into a Lie So that knowledge could not keep them from being filled vvith unrighteousness which stood not in the life and povver of righteousness and who received not that Truth in that Faith which loves to live the life of it Wherefore let your food be in the life of what you know and in the power of Obedience rejoice and not in what you know but cannot live for the Life is the Bread of your souls which crucifies the flesh and confounds that which runs before the Cross So let your labour and diligence be in that which presseth into the Heavenly Being and seeketh a Conformity to Christ in obedience of what you believe and hearken in love to that not in that mind which would save your own lives nor feed you where you are but in love to that which seperateth you from self-life and changeth you into his life whom you wait for from above so in receiving his commands in that which loves to be like him in life your Faith works by love and his Commands are joyous through love That Faith worketh obedience quickness and willingness it worketh out the old and worketh into the new and so through the hope of that which you love and obedience of Faith the entrance is made with the Life into the holy Kingdom and the Immortal Glory is put on which in the Light is seen and in the Life obtained as with the Word of Faith the separation is made and the Life that 's Mortal put off whose Life is without the Vail and is for death with that Life who makes the entrance through his Blood and through his Flesh a living Way a Way of Life a new Way to all who are seeking the Door in old Ordinances and Traditions and outward Observations feeding their minds with thinking or talking of what others did long since or what may be done in times to come and so are in Times but out of that Life which endures for ever and onely hath the promise of the Father and Power to make the