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A94717	The foot out of the snare. Or, A restoration of the inhabitants of Zion into their place, after their bewildered and lost estate by the operation of a violent power, and authority, wrought in the author by the Prince of Darkness, under an appearance of the brightest light. Being a brief declaration of his entrance into that sect, called (by the name of) Quakers. With a short discourse relating what judgment he was learned in, by the ministry of those people. Together with the revelation of a spirit in himself. Also, what desperate delusions he was led into by yielding a subjection to the teachings of a seducing spirit in him under a shadow of the true light; and how this body of deceipt came to be destroyed. With the manner of his separation from them. / By me John Toldervy, then servant to Col. Webb.	Toldervy, John.	1655 (1655)	Wing T1767; Thomason E861_13; ESTC R206654	40,712	60

in the way the Instruments by whom this Redemption was to be wrought how it was to be done and where which was in the man c. Also that the Scripture was not the Word of God but it was what was spoken from the Word by the Word was meant Life and the Scriptures were a Declaration from this Word of Life the Word was the substance from whence it was spoken and this substance the Word of Life was the measure of God manifested in man the gift of the Holy Spirit manifested in flesh made known in all that thereby they might be guided to profit in that obedience required of God also by which all the disorder in the Creation of man made by the flouds poured forth in man in that time of God's displeasure occasioned by his fall from God into the Lust was to be put into the same order they were at the first which was good by which Word the mountains were to be leveled all hills were to be cast down and the valleys were to be exalted crooked places were to be made strait and rough wayes to be made smooth every thing was to stand in awe before him the lofty minde was to be pulled down and all high thoughts and imaginations were to be burned up and these things being not done by the Word in you the pure Witnesses of God lie slain in your streets the house of darkness the house of bondage those Cities which spiritually have a relation to Sodom and Egypt and I was sent by God to declare against that in you by which you are blinded and so the Witnesses kept slain expressing with a firm confidence that searching of the Scripture was not the way to finde out the knowledge of Christ but the turning the minde to within there to be taught by the measure of God the Law written in the heart and so standing in obedience to it in time death being passed over all that sinned Christ would be brought forth which sin reigned from Adam till Moses even over all that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam's transgression Adam the earthly nature in man which prevailed with him to be earthly minded to love the Mammon of unrighteousness which death reigned over the whole man till Moses the servant of God which gave the Law to the children of Israel the seed of the Faithful by which they were to be guided to the Angel of the Covenant Christ and so witness the perfection which to know saith God is life vvhich life was manifested in him and he savv it the onely Begotten of God and from vvhat he had seen felt heard and understood in himself that vve also might have fellovvship did he declare these things concluding with a strict Charge in the Name of the living God that we turn to him the Rock whence we were hewn as we respected our eternal peace bearing record that he the God of life stood waiting ready to receive all that turn to him and having your faces Sion-ward go on bearing your Crosses joyfully for his reward is with him and his work before him So after about an hours discourse in things of this nature all spoken with a firm confidence mighty powerfully declared with so much scriousness that possible could be supposed to be far beyond whatever I saw by any man and using those words Thee and Thou barren of any Complement or whatever might be taken in them to please man they departed Now upon the consideration of divers things also the strong Ingagement laid upon us as we tendered our eternal happiness together with that bold undaunted confidence he had in the Truth of what was spoken all my former Knowledge my former Belief my former Hope being struck with a great Fear was immediately dashed in pieces they being taken to be earthen Vessels made by the Wisdom which was begotten of the * Self for the justifying of Self earthly Man and then coming to understand that they were of those People called by the name of Quakers together with what formerly I knew of them I became strongly affected with them divers also of the same Meeting at the same time being possess'd with the like perswasions Whereupon much love acted me to follow them very zealously but in order to a more perfect clearing of my understanding I remained a time before I complied with them or made my self known to any one of them in which time meeting with one whom I formerly knew to be a very serious true-hearted Man who was converted to their Belief and also subjected to their Obedience who gave me to understand that they were sent forth to preach the Gospel by the same Christ that the Apostles were and that the Person that Son of God which died at Ierusalem was not the Redeemer of Man from Sin but the Redeemer was in every particular Man that Light by which he was given to see Sin and enabled by it if obeyed to be redeemed from Sin which Christ had redeemed them perfect and now lived in them Lord of all things by which they were made the Sons of God and so what was manifested unto them by that substance from that substance were they moved to speak which was the same Holy Ghost by which the Apostles were endued sent forth enabled to preach the Gospel and declaring of them much to admiration how that sometimes in the night they were immediately commanded by the eternal Spirit to go forth and preach the Gospel also by the like command some of them were limited to fast from Food as I remember about twenty or more dayes together * And afterwards I knew some who fasted 30 or 40 days which was intended to make them willing and pliable to the will of God in the travel of their Spirit before they came to the Land of Canaan the rest of the new created Being or Work of God in them So he gave me to understand the next day of their meeting and the place where with earnest invitation to be there Now that I might have the Counsel of God in what I did as touching my uniting with them when I came home I went to Prayers and being mightily carried forth in that Duty very often before the time of their meeting I looked upon it as a sign which did make manifest the good pleasure of God in my closing with them so at that meeting three of the chiefest of them being Speakers whose matter and manner of preaching was more taking unto me than all the former but especially the powerful operation of their Prayer all which effectually wrought upon me whereupon my minde being established I was moved to make a confession of my self concluding with the owning of them in the presence of all the people upon which I became subject to the teachings of a Spirit in my self the which being believed to be the Christ of God the Redeemer from sin I was fully perswaded that if denying any thing in the least

that it required I could not be redeemed and since that the Truth was made manifest if disobeyed no remedy I should be eternally damned Wherefore as I respected my Salvation this Redeemer was to work me and to dispose of me according to his will and whatever I willed was not to be done but to be crossed by my being subject to this Redeemer Upon which there arose a great Controversie in my Spirit of what stood in the will of man and what did not said one Spirit This is in the will when it was not on the contrary said another Spirit as to the same thing this is not in the will and so through fear I should always yield a subjection unto that Spirit by which I was limited and brought under bondage to do many things in my will against my will whereupon I became a destroyer of the will of God as touching that Liberty which was allowed me in the use of my Members either to speak or to act also in the use of those Creatures made for the service of Man and so as those former weaknesses which reigned in me through the darkness of my understanding came to be destroyed my understanding being not then well enlighened greater weaknesses as to the not enjoyment of my self did arise also as one imaginary being in me came to be overthrown there was begotten the like Being in another shape and by it was I wrought upon to believe many things by me undeniable and also led forth and acted from one thing unto another according to what followeth So believing that what was manifested of God in man was the Light of Life which was one with himself as it is written I and my Father are one by which was given unto Man a savory discerning of what was Good and what was Evil what was darknesse which darknesse was to be expelled by this light there remained therefore nothing for the Man to do but to stand in the Will of that which was pure in him and so by it he became a Judge of what impurity or the Law of Sin would act him in which sin the occasion of Death was to be swallowed up in victory that so only the light of life which is innocent might live there being nothing in Man for Death even as a King over-ruling all in subjection unto himself Whereupon was concluded that Man was the Cause of all this distraction and confusion in himself and so abstracted from this confusion was that being which made an appearance of holinesse in the minds of all professed religious People subjected under divers Forms Ordinances and Ceremonies which is a vapour it self and must die as the Ordinances were shaddows and are ceased but Man having lost the kernel the substance which giveth nourishment and satisfies he feedeth upon the dry husk and being not refreshed with the true Bread and Water of Life he remaineth alwaies seeking and never comes to know what is true alwaies feeding and never satisfied until he comes to understand where the Bread of Life is to be found which is in himself according as it is written I in them and thou in me that they may be made perfect in one and so eternal life living in us there needs no more thirst there needs no more hunger after Knowledge this is eternal life to know God and Jesus Christ whom thou hast sent But since there is much Mysterie recorded in Scripture it is concluded that the knowledge of those Mysteries is to know the Will of Christ and so the way to salvation yea it is believed that the knowledge of the Scriptures is to know God and Christ though it is spoken concerning Christ I am the Way the Truth and the Life And again it is written the Word is nigh you in the mouth and in the heart so that the Way the Truth and the Life is in us that which giveth Salvation But saith * Judas 's love being removed from Christ by the seducements of the Deceiver his understanding became lost and so his minde was driven out from God into the Earth Judas How is it that thou wilt manifest thy self unto us and not unto the World But this Conclusion also proceeds from the evil one transformed in Man he being scattered very confused and darkned in his understanding covered as with a vail and so Satan as an Angel of Light moveth and leadeth forth to divers Duties which are his own for the upholding of his Reign in Man Also feeds Man with Wisdom and variety of pleasant Language called Gifts in performances for the upholding of his Duties by which sin being shaded over he is justified many being called failings but perfection is not to be attained in this life but in another life hereafter though it is written Except Christ be in you ye are Reprobates having rent the garments of righteousness ye are acursed being hipped up above the Truth and trampling the Blood of the Covenant the life of the Innocent in the dust so that if the Author and Finisher of our Faith be living in us there is perfection but if not perfection is not faithfulness being ceased Now the World was understood to be the Garden of Eden in which Man was placed at the first and still is and the Trees of this Garden all living beings proceeding out of the Earth living in and upon the Earth all which having their being of God the life of all things by somwhat of himself that proceedeth forth of the Earth God the Life who created all the Life from whence is received the increase of all It was also understood that Paradise was in Man where his delight should be where his minde should be stayed at unity with God who made choice to take up his Habitation and abode there himself with his increase the Family of Love and beloved Ones who were to be kept nourished and refreshed by Man 's living obedient unto the will of God in the same simplicity of Love and so at unity with this Family of Love the Seed of Israel Then was this understood to be the state in which all men were created and is now also the cause of his fall All men were made of nothing and still are as one Generation passeth away another Generation succeedeth by God the Author of all and so as one increase by him was brought to their end another increase was produced forth of himself according as it is written I kill and I make alive Therefore in the first Creation of Men they were made pure and holy without sin in the likeness of that God who was their Maker perfect for where no sin was there was perfection But Man when he came into a growth in the World he saw the excellency of that Provision of that Fruit prepared of God to be a nourishment or refreshment for him he began of himself by hearkening to the weaker being in him the fleshly minde to be discontented with that allowance which was sufficient

The Foot out of the Snare OR A Restoration of the inhabitants of Zion into their Place after their bewildered and lost Estate by the Operation of a violent Power and Authority wrought in the Author by the Prince of Darkess under an Appearance of the brightest Light BEING A Brief Declaration of his entrance into that Sect Called by the Name of QUAKERS With a short Discourse relating what Judgment he was learned in by the Ministry of those People Together with the Revelation of a Spirit in himself Also what Desperate Delusions he was led into by yieldding a subjection to the Teachings of a Seducing Spirit in him under a shadow of the true Light and how this Body of Deceipt came to be destroyed With the manner of his Separation from them By me John Toldervy then Servant to Col. Webb Thus saith the Lord-God Behold I lay in Zion for a Foundation a Stone a tryed Stone a precious Corner-stone a sure Foundation he that believeth shall not make haste Wherefore hear the word of the Lord ye scornful men that Rule this People which is in Jerusalem This thy Brother was dead and is alive was lost and is found London Printed by J.C. for Tho. Brewster at the Three Bibles neer the West-end of Pauls 1656. TO THE READER FRIEND UPon a Presumption that thou art One whose Minde is in some measure fitted for Information and not of those who are Resolved into Self and Hardened against any Discovery which might effect to the enlightning of their Understanding where their own Weakness Fancy and Imagination hath formed it self in them which depraved Condition I sadly witnessed somtime to have been mine own At which time though any Person whatsoever yea were it possible to have been an Angel from Heaven that should have attempted me with any Information contrary to my Espoused and Indulged Fancy and Imagination I should have concluded such a Messenger and Message unresistably Accursed And through the depravedness of my Understanding adjudged it to have been the Spirit of God in me which had so concluded If this Discourse should come into the hands of any such Person or Persons as such there are too many I expect but little Fruit upon their accompt but they are by me pitied for as much as their Bondage and Captivity is Great and much to be lamented though the God of Truth can restore a sound Minde and a cleer Understanding unto such who by their own Righteousness under a seeming appearance of Self-Denial have made themselves Servants to other gods And when this power of God is made known that they might be Guided in one Worship of one God living in them indeed they shall admire and magnifie that gracious Arm by which they were made Free as I do this day and then this Discourse will not be unsutable or unpleasing unto them In the mean time to such whose Minds are Free and not Entangled I would give an Accompt briefly of the Matter but chiefly the Occasion of this ensuing Discourse together with my Intent and Scope therein though the subject Matter doth relate principally to the Persons who go under the Name of Quakers as being so distinguished amongst men and of the Effects which were wrought in and by me through the Guidance and Teachings of a Seducing Spirit in me under a pretence of Light yet is not my Scope to traduce the Persons nor to incense the Powers or Authorities Ministers or People against them For I know many of whom they are not known have abused the Truth by seeking to Defend themselves in that deceipt which that Spirit that is of God in them hath witnessed against by which the generality of men are through their misguided Spirits are already beyond measure bitterly incensed against them Touching the Occasion It is not unknown to many yea I say to many in and about this City of London That I was in an eminent way as a first Fruits of those who gave up themselves to those Wayes and Teachings wherein I profited not a little nor went I on with a slow pace But I confess such was the fire of zeal which burned within me that by it I was over-powered and hastily Acted forth without Knowledge I mean such Knowledge as was according to God but such as my Teachers held forth in some measure I abounded in as the Discourse it self will witness but the tendency thereof in the General was to Folly and Madness as I by sad Experience witness in my measure But God who is rich in Mercy through his great Love wherewith he hath loved me hath magnified the same in opening mine eyes and turned me from the Darkness wherewith I was bewildered and benighted even to Astonishment and Admiration Having opened my Mouth and put a new Song into it of Praises to his Name in despight of all those cruel denountiations of Woe and Plagues which have been pronounced against me even to Eternity since my departure and Separation from them by some of those who could once have put me into their Bosomes whom I nevertheless patiently bear within Love having better Perswasions towards them It having therefore pleased the Father to Rescue and Deliver my Soul out of this deep Pit and raised me up and set me as a living Monument of his Praise beyond expectation I durst not shut up in Silence the marvelous Wiles and deep Deceipts and Devices which the Enemy had upon me through which I have been carried and from whence through Mercy Redeemed that I might tell to Others how bountifully God hath dealt with me remembring me in my low Estate for his Mercy endureth for ever 1. To which end therefore that I might make known my Duty of Praise and Thanks to God for the Riches of his Love towards me as also to express my tenderness towards my Brethren my Companions in the Bond of Love who are environed in the same Circle and Maze kept in Bondage by their own misguided Spirits subjected to Lawes and Ordinances Ceremonies and Traditions of their own Inventing to which they are nevertheless in so great Subjection as amounts to Eternal Death and Wrath and Firy Indignation upon the Breath thereof Of which may be said Who hath required these things at your hands May not this be a Word in season to some by which they might be perswaded at least to Debate the Matter with their own Souls and to Consider where they are and who requires these things wherein they are so prepostrously Zealous denying themselves their Just and Lawful Liberty out of a slavish Fear but there is such a Resolvedness that I can scarce conceive that this might be successful to many yet the power of Truth can overturn all things which exalteth it self under a shadow of Good as being maintained by a Lye 2. That the Example of my Zeal and Forwardness of Minde without serious Consideration and Examination taking all for Truth affecting those Notinal Apprehensions which in that Way I was then

for his use and please the Creature himself rather than God that made him and by whom he lived which Nature respected himself beyond that pure Nature which is of God given in to him by which the Creation of God was to be preserved in its order according as it is written in the Church of God The head of the woman is the man the head of the man is Christ the head of Christ is God Which Church is in Man as it is written Ye are the Temples of the living God Now the woman being the silliest and weakest part also that which desireth most to be dallying with such things in which it might take delight lest she should defile her self and dishonour her head the man by alluring of him to commit Fornication with her she is to be kept in subjection by him as he is taught by the Word which Word Christ the Light of Life is given to declare what the will of God is but man having given way to the weaker being she is become the Head and Ruler of all it was pleasant and she desired and that caused the Man to taste for he willed and that caused the Sun to be darkned his light which was given to discover the will of God to be clouded by the begotten will of man yielding subjection to weakness Now the Sun being darkned could not answer the end for which it was given so the will of God became lost by and unknown to man he having created to himself an Image falls down and worships it by a continual slavery to the things of this world serving divers Gods and divers Lords by which he hath brought himself under the curse of God having slain the witnesses that were given in him from God Wherefore at the Resurrection the Book of Conscience should be opened out of which the witnesses should be raised to life and so man by whom they were slain should by them receive condemnation but such who bare testimony of the first Resurrection which is man being subjected unto that which shewed him any sin the true and faithful witnesses would be raised to life by which he might see the least sin and they ruling in him here should be the justifier of him hereafter the second death having no power Again it was further understood that man in his own will by his own wisdom his minde being driven out into the Earth forth of Paradise into slavery by the flaming Swords of those Spirits sent from God seeking after Knowledge begets in himself Children of Fornication from whence proceedeth divers Languages Babylon being built up in him by which confusion he is acted to do those Services required by the Whorish Woman that well-favoured and beautified Harlot whose Ornaments appeared glorious and bespangled with those Jewels that had the greatest Glister whose brightness was transcendent for Purity by which they appeared excellent to all the spectators All which being but as a gilded Picture without substance even as Wind carrying the minds of men to and fro by their airy imagination giving them to believe that it is the Spirit of God though abstracted from the diversity of Languages proceeding from those Beings or Children of Fornication begotten in him by himself through the Allurements of the Whorish woman So man being thus darkned in his understanding what is fancied or supposed to be true by that which desireth Knowledge in him because he hath lost his savory discerning he buildeth upon it as confident and so the weakness in him and his own imagination is judged by him to be the Spirit of God Now man being exalted into such a high degree by the pride of his own heart and not resting contented in that place which he was Created in by God he thereby brought Condemnation upon himself and this was done by every particular man being acted by and made subject to those things which he was made by right of Creation Lord of Here man being led forth in a subjection to vanity his Food is a vapour or dust not able to keep life therefore no remedy having corrupted himself with an incurable Disease he must die he must die except by a subjection to the teachings of that Law written in the heart Christ be raised from the dead there to live and reign in Righteousness and true Judgement as at the beginning and so having purchased an everlasting inheritance through a perfect Obedience there is no death of that possession I Shall now declare divers of those effects which this Change wrought in and upon me At my first entrance into this way before I came to a right understanding of what was true Said they Having owned the Truth ye need not that Man teach you any more if you never see our faces again there is that in you by which you may be taught Which was taken to be the Life the holy Seed of God raised out of Death by that which was spoken from the Life in them So immediately in the Observation of them though confidently supposed it was by a Command from the Life in me I became subjected to divers Ceremonies As not to Master any man Not to pull off the Hat to any man Not to speak the word You but instead thereof Thee and Thou Not to use any Complements or Greetings to any believing That Bowing to a man was a Worshipping of him Not to direct my Minde in Drinking to any as familiarly is used amongst Friends c. Also by the same perswasion was I wrought upon to pull off those Points I wore at my Knees my Bandstrings Hatband Buttons that I judged were unnecessary on my Coat some of which I brake to pieces and threw away others I made a speedy disposal of with many other things burned divers Books that were Divinity judging that they were what was spoken from the teachings of the Devil in those that write them some made away others brake in pieces and threw away Having a business in my Charge the Redeeming part of an Estate for my Mother lately lost by the death of my Father which thing was very fairly proceeded in and very possibly in a short to have been effected amongst other of those seduced perswasions which subtilly under a pretence of self-denial accomplished its ends upon me I was engaged effectually prevailed upon utterly to withdraw from this business by which now my Mother and many little ones lieth much under the sufferings of my deserted obedience but the workings of this power was so predominant upon my Spirit that I refused the least acknowledgement much less performance of duty to any Now In my former prosecuting of this business having disposed of what Moneys I was provided with for the charges of my proceedings and being necessarily enforced I adventured though unwarrantably for my present supply without consent to take the sum of 40 s. about me in case I should have had occasion to make use thereof before I received any return from my Relations being