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A89850	Satans design discovered: vvho under a pretence of worshipping Christs person in heaven, would exclude God and Christ, the spirit and light, out of the world: and that he should no more dwell in his people as he hath done, till Doomsday, that so he might rule in the hearts of men and women, unrevealed, while the world endures, onely under the name of God and Christ, talked of at a distance, that he may rule in the creation, exalted above God. Clearly laid open in an answer to Thomas Moor, who calls his book an Antidote against the spreading infections, &c. Wherein is discovered the crooked ways the winding Serpent takes to save his head, and reproach the truth with lies, that by any means he might make people believe that a lying spirit is among the Quakers, but is found within him. With 48. lies, taken out from three times as many, and sent back to be proved by the founder of them, T.M. Also some particulars, what the Quakers holds ... / By a servant to truth, called James Nayler.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1655 (1655)	Wing N313; Thomason E857_6; ESTC R202989	34,304	48

of Christ with that he would be brought to deny you all who are out of his way and have not his Word abiding in you To the Eleventh Query which asketh What that way in the Wilderness is which is called the way of Holiness and whether any may expect to finde it in these dayes To this thou saist Christ Jesus is the way the Truth and the Rom. 8. 10. Life and none can come to the Father but by him I say that these are true words but thou that makest it thy work to preach him out of the World till Doomes-day and confine him in the Heavens alone hast excluded him for being away to those now in the world to lead them out of the World which cannot ascend up into Heaven there to walk in him as a way so thou hast shut up the Kingdome against men as thy Fathers ever did And an Answer to the latter part of the Query which thou hast left unanswered must needs follow that none can expect to find such a way in these dayes nor till after they be dead where the Serpent perswades all his Hearers of their Righteousness And so of their Way also and so keeps his Way in the World In answer to the 12 Querie What that manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withall and whether there be any profiting but by it To the first part of this Querie thou saist it is that one Spirit which is in that one person of the Son of God and this person thou hast limited from the earth till domes day and doth not confesse to the Spirit manifest within the creature but tells of a distinct understanding of that Spirit and his testimony concerning Christ which is no more from thee but an imagination as all that knowes the Spirit may judge for there is no manifestation of the Spirit of God upon earth but what is within and those that it witnessed it manifested witnessed it dwelling in them but thy testimony is as far different as the Heavens is from the earth And for the two latter parts of the Querie whether it be not of it selfe an infallible guide and whether there be any profiting but by it least they should fal on thy head having named them thou tellest a lie and therewith makest an escape saying they are sufficiently answered before 1 Cor. 6. 19. To the 13 Querie what and where that worship of God in Spirit is and whether any can worship in Spirit but those that are borne of the Spirit and whether they so borne need any other guide in his spirituall worship but that Spirit of which they are borne and whether such worshippers have not been are now different from all other worshippers in the world And to the forepart of this thou addest some words as touching the Samaritans worship and Jews worship not to the purpose but as concerning whether any can worship in Spirit but such as are borne in Spirit and whether they need any other guide but that Spirit and all the rest of the Querie which is the most materiall to shew thy deceipts from these thou stealest away without any answer at all as though the naming them over againe was sufficient Art thou not ashamed to call these answers dost thinke all are as blind as thy selfe and those thy companions whom thou hast blinded This day is the Lord through the pride of thy heart covering thee with thy own shame and is discovering the skirts of the whore and her nakednesse appeares and shall more appeare that the fire may be kindled wherein to burne her and all her Merchants that have beene made rich through the abundance of her delicacy begin to bewaile and stand aftre of for feare of her torments crying for helpe yet shall the Nations which have beene deceived see her lewdnesse and be set free from her witchcrafts then shall the Lord be knowne present and praised To the 14 Querie which is about the light thou confessest it to be Jesus Christ which lighteth every man which cometh into the world but perceiving it against thy selfe doctrine and trading in the conclusion thou would bind it only to the enlightening of them who are beleivers and would deny the light to be the condemnation of the unbelievers saying it is not the coming Job 3. 15 of the light to them is the condemnation when Christ saith this is the condemnation that light is come into the world and men loved darknesse rather then light and If I had not come they had not had sin But thy testimony is contrary so they that beleive thee 2 Cor. 4. 6. make Christ a liar and they that beleives Christ makes thee a liar and thou would'st limit this light to be personall which all the Children of the light have know ne shining in their hearts which is the condemnation of them that know it not nor can the Children of darknesse judge of the light what it is who puts it afarre off yet thou that hates it hast it against thee though thou have it not with thee not being guided by it To the 15 Querie what the law of the Spirit of life is which made Paul free from the law of sin and death c. And instead of answering this thou fallest a wrangling with it and thou would make people believe that Pauls freedom he speaks of Rom. 8. 2. from the law of sin and death was not from that law that led him into captivity to sin which he complaines on and so thy first thing is to prove the Apostle a lyar who saies the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the law oi sin and death for what the law could not do in that it was weake thorough the flesh the Son of God condemning the sin in the flesh that the righteousnesse of the law might be fulfilled in the creature by Christ Another thing where thou would prove him a liar is in that he saith he is made free from the law of sin and death and this thou also wholly denies as though thou knew his condition better then he did himselfe And thou callest the body of sin a law and the law of sin another law and such mangled stuffe not worth mentioning and for which thou hast no proof but thy blind Imaginations who would have 3 or 4 Lawes but not one of them in the Heart onely the Law of sinne and thou concludest that the Proposer of the Queries cannot make out what God hath revealed to him and thy ground is because he hath propounded these Queries as much as to say He that asked Questions of the Scribes and Pharisees could not make out his Revelations and this is thy reasoning whereby thou wouldst shew another mans folly Indeed to the blind guides he could never make out his Revelations nor can he now where he is but who wants abilities to make out any thing of the spirit of God and thinkes to

own ignorance but thou canst not Judge our knowledge he is above thy wrath though Babell thou be building but you that deny Gods being manifest or working in you now whose is those works you are performing and that righteousnesse you are calling for from others Is it not plaine that you are with the Jews stablishing your own works which God works not in you tho you be hurried headlong so as this you wil not consider for that which is not Gods work is your owne and God will be served with his own but this the world knows not who serves their belly And thou tellest the Father hath put all things under his feete I say he that spoke those words could witnesse it but if thou mind thou maist see the liar false accuser and envious blasphemer yet raigning as thy booke may make manifest and thy confusion who saith page 24 that it cannot be perfectly said that God in an absolute sence was or is manifested in the flesh of any Son of Adam and in thy next page thou faist the body is the Temple of the Lord in which God primely and chiefly dwelleth and manifesteth himselfe the thing which thou hast so often before denied and thou goest about to deny the manifestation of the Sons of God untill the end of the world I say the world will not have an end with thy generation while there is ought to be got by favour or force but the Sons of God was manifest with the Saints while they lived in this world 1 John 3. 1 2. and therein was their boldnesse that as he is so was they in this world 1 Iohn 4. 17. and thou heapest up a great deale of confusion to deny the life of Christ to be made manifest in any till after death shewing thy selfe to be one of those spoken on Eph. 4. 18. 19. who is alienated from the life of God because of the blindnesse of the heart who hath not learned Christ and so given over for he that hath not the Spirit of Christ is none of his and he that hath the Spirit hath the life which destroyes death and reveales darknesse which thou calls an imagination and how unwilling is the Devill that the life of Christ should be received it is death to him and his Ministers so they all oppose it what paines hast thou taken in thy booke for thy Master and thy greatest businesse is to darken the appearance of Christ in Spirit that none may looke for it nor beleive it for the Devill knows that faith breaks his covenant and the incomming of Christ is his outcasting so thy worke is to keepe Christ out untill people be dead so the Devill may keepe his seate while they live yet though they be found in this Work withstanding the knowledge of Christ in the Creature and his appearance yet thou canst not bear it to be called a Minister of Antichrist Also thou pleadest hard for Sin and Self while all men lives accusing Richard Farnsworth for witnessing Moitification and death of Sin and would bring Paul against him who once was in the Warfare and then wretched but afterward more then a Conquerour and could do all things through the life of Christ in him which thou deniest but that thou mindest not to Gal. 2. 20. Rom. 8. 37 38. preach the life of Christ for that is to preach the death of sinne which is not thy work who art preaching it up for term of life not onely in thy self but in all other as far as it lies in thy power calling Perfection a devillish Doctrine pleading against it and for sinne with all thy power such a work as never a Minister of Christ was ever found in as all that search the Scriptures may witness against thee All that ever preached Christ preached perfection and pressed after it and believed it to which thy Faith is reprobare with which thou doest accuse us and the Faith of all that believe you you have overthrown so that none that believe you can believe freedome and yet to blind people withall faist Let all them that name the Name of the Lord depart from iniquity when thou hast preached up no putting off the body of sinne till after death and thou goest on as thy main business still preaching Christ out of his People saying not one in the Heavens and another dwelling in us clearly shewing thou knowest not him that filleth Heaven and Earth and knowest not him that is over all and in all and so judges him like thy self who can but be in one place And thou saist that Paul was the last Act. 9. 10 11. Act. 13. 2 that was immediatly called which is no truer then the rest for immediatly was Ananias Barnabas and others called since But it is as hard for thy Spirit to speak truth as for the Leopard to change his spots yet full of slanders and would judge my Faith concerning Christ by thy Doubtings thereby to cast a Mist and make the truth odious What would'st thou do had'st thou any ground for thy wickedness who chargest such Blasphemies against me upon no other grounds but thy doubting it to be so Hast thou done herein as thou would'st be done by May not all that reade thee see thy venome cast upon me which shall return on thy self and for it thou shalt answer And when thou hast raised these abominable Lies as I deny the Person of Christ or his being in Heaven from thy own doubts then thou would'st make a do to prove him in Heaven and that he hath a Body when all is but to disprove thy own Lye and not my judgment yet it is thy intent to cast it upon me but the righteous Judge shall return the wickedness of the Wicked upon his own Pate and in thy busie mind thou art telling of the place where the Majesty of God dwells a place thou never saw and thou sayst no meer man as from Adam can approach or see the Lords Throne in Heaven I say thou bablest thou knowest not what Who must appear before his Throne if none as from Adam must He that over comes saith Christ will I give Re v. 3. to sit with me upon my Throne even as I have overcome and am sit down with my Father in his Throne Did not John see the Throne and him that sate thereon and Stephen also and was not they from Adam Do'st not thou here deny the Resurrection of the body Thy Generation knowes too much of the glory of the World to know what the Throne of God is And thou make'st an Objection Can flesh and bloud enter into the Kingdome of Heaven and thou answerest no Yet saist thou the same flesh and bones shall the bloud being poured out and gone as it was in the person of Christ I say what confused stuff is this that proceeds from thy Imaginations Is Christ ascended without bloud or is it onely the bloud of People that keepes them from ascending which they

must leave behind them taking the same flesh and bones but not the same bloud But such confused work makes the Serpent when he would be preaching things which are hid from him It were bettet for thee and many such like to come down out of the Chambers of your Imaginations and sit at the seet of Christ and own the teaching of his Spirit and his Light that so thou may know what the bloud of Christ is from him by its effects then to stand teaching others thou knowest not what Come down into the dust and stop thy mouth thou vain Babler and exercise not thy self in things too high for thee and if ever thou come to know any thing of the Kingdome thou wilt see thy self shut out among the Pharisees and Sadduces who was jangling about the Resurrection with the Spirit of the Devil in them denying his Testimony Light and Spirit who is the Resurrection and lived out of his Doctrine as thou may read Mat. 23. And read thy self therein with the Light thou opposest only this difference they looked for him to come and thou sayst he is gone and not come again but neither of you own him present to judge rule and guide you So thy wayes is as far from his Doctrine and Practice as theirs was if not further though thou have got more words so greater condemnation And thou tellest much what need we have of Christ in the Heavens but didst thou know thy condition thou would'st see as much need of him here also to guide thee out of the World and these Pharisaical wayes For who hath him not with them to lead out of the World and give victory here will finde little benefit by his being in Heaven and this thou and many more will know when he comes to Judgment who little mind his fellowship here but joyn with the Enemy to preach him out of the World because he beareth Witness that the deeds thereof are evil so by this the Devil gets his work done in Earth preaching of a Christ in Heaven and the Creature knowes none to redeem from it no nearer then after death Thou sayst none yet hath ceased from their own workes I say none that are in thy workes have who is pleading for sinne and denying the Spirit of GOD to work in thee thou must needes be in thy own workes but what is that in thee that judgeth all other and yet denyest Christ in thee that is the Lyar from the beginning and by the Spirit of God which worketh in me in which is my Rest do I bear Witness against him so to be and a thousand in the Nation that can witness the same who are brought to Rest in his everlasting Work and will But this no Hireling knowes nor can judge of though you may read of that condition in the Letter Thou accusest me for belying the Apostle in saying he preached the Word Faith in the heart Rom. 10. I say let read any the 8. 9. Verses of that Chapter who knowes either Word or Faith or Words of the Letter and judge if the Apostle there did not preach both Word and Faith in the Heart and so let the Lye return into the bosome of the Lyar from whence it came Thou sayst God did not impute the Trespasses of the World to them but caused them to meet together on him I say if God impute not sinne to the World nothing else can condemn them this opens a large gap to the Workes thou art pleading for but were thou not blind thou mayst see the Apostle speakes of such as received the Word of Reconciliation but for the rest you shall know that sinne will be imputed where it is committed And thou makest much ado to prove that the Disciples of Christ nor any other should see him any more after his Ascention while they lived If any know no more but to believe thee and thy ground is because Christ said the dayes would come that they should desire to see one of the dayes of the Son of Man and shall not see it I say he told them also that they should mourn in the while of his absence but he would come again and their mourning should be turned into joy when the manchild should be born into the world and commanded them Act. 1. 4. 8. John 16. 19. 20 21 22. John 16. 16. they should not depart from Jerusalem but wait for that they had heard of him then should they be witnesses unto him to the utmost parts of the earth which was accomplished at his second comming in the spirit according to his promise which thou would deny his appearance unto which there was such gathering and is such gathering blessed be the Father who hath hid it from the Serpent who spends his time in jangling about it but never the wiser yet to the Babes it is revealed And thou sayst that our boasting of some inward ight or spirit to be listened to and received must needs be another spirit and bring in another Jesus a contrary anointing I say the Apostles preached the spirit and light within shining in their hearts to give the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus and this Treasure they had in the earthen vessels and 2 Cor. 4. 6 7. did they preach a false Christ or a contrary spirit or anointing though thou know not the Christ they preached nor that spirit blush for shame to utter thy blasphemy against the spirit of God and his light which none knows but within them and which all hearkens to in spirit and preacheth from but the Ministers of Antichrist whereof thou hast proved thy self one sufficiently who knowes not the Law written in the heart nor the testimony of Jesus which is the spirit of Prophesie because thou ownest no light in thee And thou sayst there is not another manner of preaching to be given then that of the Apostles to the end of the world I say then all Hirelings and Parish-masters stop our mouthes who are out of that manner yea and matter also for the Apostles was not Ministers of the Letter but of the spirit which thou hast sufficiently denied in thy Book and if there need no more preaching then what the Apostles preached you may spare your pains and the people their mony for that is preached and printed already and they have suffered for it so let it alone and take not mony for making it worse Thou pretendest to answer some Queries but first thou casts over them thy reproachful lying poysonous Tongue as thou hast done by my Letter as nothing that comes from the truth can escape thy envy and slander saying that they reproach the acknowledgement of one that died for all and all the way scoffe at the promise of his coming and many such like filthy lies whcih the least modesty that reades the Queries may see thy shameless impudency calling us unclean spirits when thy venom defiles all thou meddles with