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Two epistles of James Naylor's
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Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.
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Wing N325; ESTC R32300
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TWO EPISTLES OF JAMES NAYLOR's An Epistle to several Friends about Wakefield JAMES a Prisoner of Jesus Christ unto all that love the Appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ every where Grace and Peace be multiplied from God the Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ My dear Hearts you whom the Lord hath manifested so much Love unto as to call you out of Sin and Death and the World all the Delights and Pleasures of the World which Fades away up to himself where is Joy unspeakable Pleasures and Riches that endure for Evermore Dear Friends Watch and be Sober that you may hear the voice of your Beloved when he calleth and let not the precious profers of the Love of God be tendred in vain while you have an Ear open to the World you cannot hear the Voice of God so that you have been made to groan under it How long have you been deceived by it all your time promising Peace Fulness and Satisfaction but have been brought to cry out of Oppression and Deceit and your Cries are come before the Lord of Sabbaths who is your Rest and he is now appeared to Deliver you and set you free from Bondage that you may serve him alone And now take heed of consulting with your Old Master hath the Lord been so Merciful unto you as that he hath set your Faces out of Sodom and Egypt towards the promised Land Oh take heed of looking back lest you be taken Captive and led back again and so you come short of Redemption and your Faith fail you and so you come short of the Promise for Unbelief cannot enter into the Rest but you Dear Friends put on Resolution put on Strength be Valiant for your Freedom cast off every Weight follow your Captain the Lord Jesus Christ who for the joy set before him endured the Cross despised the Shame and so enter'd into Rest and Glory Take heed of halting between God and the World what agreement can there be or what Peace while you are Married to the World Your thoughts turn in thither and your are Adulterated from God who gives you all good things as so many tokens of his Love hereby is the broken Language brought forth and you cannot speak the pure Language of the Land of Rest And while you give way to that in you which leads you to look back to what is behind you you keep your selves in the Wilderness and Darkness and lose your way and know not where you are Grieving the Holy Spirit of the Lord which hath appeared unto you to Guide you But Oh Friends mind your Guide and follow him Arise Shine your Light is come and the Glory of the Lord is risen upon you the Night is far spent the Day is at hand even the Day of Sion's Deliverance Arise come away all you that love her come off from the World and Worldly things come into the Life lie no longer in Death and Dead things Awake thou that Sleepest and stand up from the Dead that Christ may give thee Light Come forth come forth of all Created things witness your Redemption from the World that you are Redeemed from the Earth up to God out of all Kindreds Tongues People and Nations to Reign as Kings and Priests for Ever above the World Sin and Death Triumphing and Treading upon all that would take you Captive This is the Day of your Deliverance own it with the Loss of all Fading Pleasures make it appear to all the World this is the Day you waited for even the Day of your Joy but of the Worlds Sorrow A Day of Blackness and Gloominess a Day of Fear and Trouble to them that Oppress you a Day wherein the Kingdom of Jesus Christ shall be Exalted and all the Kingdoms and Powers of the Earth Shaken a Day wherein the Lord will Avenge the Power of him that is too strong for you Rejoice Rejoice ye Meek of the Earth Shout for Joy ye poor Despised ones whom your Brethren have troden upon and have cast you out and you have been made their Mocking-stock for the Truths sake Sing and Rejoice the Voice of a King is amongst you and he will Marry you to himself in Righteousness Purity and Holiness and will Rejoice over you as a Bridegroom over the Bride and you shall be for a Crown of Glory in the hand of the Lord and a Royal Diadem in the hand of your God O my dear Hearts my desire to God for you all is that you might come to see what unspeakable Riches is laid up for you in Jesus Christ which is hid from all Flesh neither can they see it who live after the Flesh and while they continue their Love to the World and Worldly things they keep out the Manifestation of the Father's Love for their Hearts cannot receive both Now shew your selves Wise Men choose that which is Eternal here is Light and Life tendred you in Jesus Christ freely out of the Father's Love freely receive Life and Love and shew forth Life and Love to God again by giving up to him all you have and all you are for Christ's sake that so you may come to receive all again with Christ who is the fulness of the Father's Love and in him are all good things needful for this Life and that which is to come even the earnest of your Inheritance which none can take from you which being received you shall never hunger more having a Well-spring within even the Witness of Eternal Life and Love and as Christ Appears who is our Life and Love so shall Life and Love Appear Spring Blossom and bring forth Fruit towards God and Man that so being raised with him from Death and Dead Works you may henceforth Live unto God and being brought into Oneness with him and Purity and Holiness you may be one amongst your selves of one Heart and one Mind speaking one and the self same thing and having the same care one for another as for your selves And take heed that there be not in any of you a Principle of Self-love which will lead to Separation and Division casting a stumbling block in the way of the Simple and so they that are Weak may be Defiled and turned back into the World And I beseech you Brethren that you mark them that once set their Faces towards Sion but not being willing to deny the World and take up the Cross have consulted with Flesh and Blood and turned back into Egypt again of such take heed knowing that the same Spirit that hath wrought in them Deceitfully will not cease to work by them to Deceive others to maintain its own Kingdom but you standing fast in the pure Light of Christ shall see whither those Return and the cause of their Returnings and that the end of such is worse than the beginning but there will be such that they who are approved may be made manifest But you my Brethren be ye so far from following such that their falling