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A52695 How sin is strengthened and how it is overcome Naylor, James, 1617?-1660. 1660 (1660) Wing N287; ESTC R27518 10,266 17

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in the spirit and as he manifests every spirit with its workings motions and ends their ground and off-spring whence they come and whither they return that thereby the creature may know who it is that exercises his mind and members and to what spirit he yeelds himselfe in his obedience and service and so may come to know the use and end of all his works what to chuse and what to refuse what to justifie and what condemn in its first motion before it be brought forth or formed in the womb that judgement may be kept on the head of transgression and liberty proclaimed to the Just and for want of faith and feeling of this way of Christ it is that so many perish in sin and yet seem to strive against sin even because they cannot believe that to be sufficient to save from sin which manifests sin in the ground and condemns it in its first motion which if they did but in faith and diligence joyn with him to condemn sin in the ground temptation and motion it would dye and wither and not be able long to live or prevaile and if it for a time should live in the members yet not to condemnation for I have found a great difference between sin condemned in the creature though not yet wholly dead and sin lived in and pleaded for for if thy life and judgement be in that alone which condemns sin then art thou dead to sin and alive to Christ and it is no more thou that sins but sin that yet remains in thee to which thou art dead to which thou dost not consent like nor approve of nor any way add any strength thereto but thy faith and love delight and strength is in him which condemns it he that is truly in this faith and love by the working thereof shall all his enemies perish and by that faith and love shall the just live in that creature and he in him condemning and killing sin till it all be done away and the creature of God sound alive in him alone who without spot will present him to the Father for this I have found that that which manifests sin in its first motion judges it there and condemns it there hath the onely power to kill sin ere it be committed and so hath onely power to save from condemnation for this you shall find that as Christ doth not live to justification where he is not believed and justified loved followed and confessed though in such he move so sin doth not live to condemnation where it is hated condemned and denyed for where that spirit of wickednesse is seen in the light and separated from and judged apart from the creature the creature joyning in judgement with just there sin will wither and Satan flee for there he hath no kingdome nor a hiding Habitation for the light being minded and judgement having free passage and consent it searcheth out his hidden things and judgement passeth upon all his deceit root and ground with his fruits so is the strong man spoyled and his stuff by faith in Christ and not by strength of the creature by beleeving the just and denying the unjust For according to every mans Faith so shall he receive from God now he that beleeves salvation and that cleaves to and lives in some sin and pleads for it and beleeves he must do so his Faith stands in an uncleane thing and an unclean thing will live by that Faith and be justified by that Creature and in his justifying any thing that is uncleane therein is the just condemned and that Faith cannot be counted to that Creature for righteousnesse and the just being condemned which should give dominion over the unclean the wilde Plant hath its liberty to grow until it overspread the Plant of God and cover the man wholly stop the ear and blind the eye and hardens the heart against every motion to good or check for evil and let not this man look for good fruit but after his Faith who so believes Also on the contrary He that feels a strife in himselfe between the clean and the unclean and sees the one reproove for sin and the other plead for sin and believes in that which is pure clean and just which condemns the unjust and unclean that faith stands in that which is pure and the mystery and power of it is held in a pure conscience and that pure faith being followed will purifie the heart and cleanse the hands from unjust actions and by that faith the just lives and grows and springs and brings forth and the pure plant spreads and covers the earth with the knowledge of God his holinesse power and purity and all grace in the heart which becomes as a working leaven till it hath wrought out the unclean nature and conformed the whole man to himselfe And this is a work of the holy faith which none can receive but who believes in holinesse for none can bring clean fruit out of an unclean faith And this further for the incouragement of such as honestly indeed would be rid of their sin and set free to serve God in holinesse without deceit thou feeling in thee the moving of that which is holy bearing witnesse against that which is contrary to holinesse and condemning it and thee for joyning with it in all thy conversation I say in that beleeve for that is all thou knows of Christ in thee and believing and following it thou wilt feele it making a separation in thy inward man betwixt that which Christ comes to save and that which he comes to destroy for this is he that comes from above to set before thee life and death divided that thou joyning to the life and believing may be saved from death and as thou art faithful to this spirit which condemns sin in the flesh so thou wilt feel warring against and working out sin dayly to which if thou clearly joyne denying that which it condemns then art thou one spirit with him in his work and art no longer in the flesh nor to be condemned with that sin remaining in the flesh but art one in him that condemns sin and self in sinning till sin become exceeding sinful in thy eyes as it is in the eyes of God and as thou grows in love and liking with that pure spirit its Law and leadings so thou wilt become dead to the Law of sin and it will lose its power in thee not being minded loved and served thy mind love and fear being exercised in that which condemns it and here that faith that works by love takes the victory and not thy striving in thy own strength only from a sight of sin by the Law for by the works of the Law thou canst not be justified but by the working of Faith in Christ Jesus that spirit and as thou feel his working in thee and thou one with him therein in his work thou art justified and by beholding of him in this Faith thou wilt be changed
darkness be turned into light thy condemnation into peace thy sorrow for sin to rejoyce in holiness and this will be a good day to thee even the day of the Lords righteousnesse and redemption to thy soul and a witnesse to all men of the appearance of the just One which testimony whosoever refuseth to bear all his Religion will prove in vain and consists in words without power THere is a way in which the barren becomes fruitful and a little is more serviceable to God then he that hath great riches for himself you that sees your wants are nigh it and the lowly mind will soonest follow it and for the honest-hearted it is prepared who seeks to serve God and not your selves If you take heed to your own wayes and make nothing in your minds you must not create that which must stand before God for he will be served with his own begettings in you Take heed therefore you make nothing to your selves nor murther that which he freely begets but let your minds be alwayes heavenly waiting with patience in that which lets you see your wants therewith that your hearts may be open alwayes upward towards God the father of every good gist and you being hid in the Heavenly mind from that nature which compasseth the Earth in its comprehensions and would compasse Heaven also waiting in a cross to that mind as you come into the patient stilnesse you will feel the begettings of the Father moving in you to be brought forth to which you must become servants setting aside all subtilty and that which is hasty and what ever is your own or hath an end to your selves and in the pure mind behold what way this moves its appearance against the worldly spirit that with your whole hearts and might you may bring it forth in its own image without reasoning or consulting with any thing of your own or any thing of this world for this arises in a contrary nature to that which is one with the world bears another image and fruit hath another glory in its appearance in which the Father alone is glorified even in this his Son of his own free begetting and herein is the Father glorified that he be brought forth with his fruits into the world who thereby is known how far he is above and contrary to the worldly spirit both in the ground root and off-spring And whosoever will give up themselves to serve him herein by his encrease shall become rich towards God and encrease in strength dayly against the world and by bringing forth and by his beauty in holinesse shall become glorious and beloved in the sight of the Father whose image begetting they bear wherein they shall become Heirs of the eternall glory But if you look into the earthly mind there the worldly spirit meets you with his counsel and consulting and reasoning therewith you take counsel in the night from which the counsel of God is hid his work the end and glory thereof and instead of that you will be presented with the pleasure and glory of this world which stands in visible things and is pleasing to the visible eye and sences which glory the God of this world sees into and leads into in which his wisdom and knowledge stands which cannot enter into the invisible glory and treasure And in this spirit that knows not God nor his works nor seeks his glory will you meet with the thief and murtherer sons of darknesse who will perswade you strongly to murther the pure motion and not to bring it forth or else so to bring it forth as that the image thereof may be marred as not to bear its clear and perfect testimony against the worlds Kingdom Power and Glory and this you cannot avoyd if you look back into his counsel and consult with your own reasonings wherein arises thoughts cares and pleasures out of the world which cumbers the mind choaks the seed and kills the holy childe and covers the Pearl with earthly affections lusts which continually hardens the heart and strengthens the will against the innocent and so puts the just to death in the womb for want of bringing forth in its time and according to its motion which when you have rejected you cannot beget again of your selves nor in your own wills though you may procure the likeness of it from another spirit in that nature which resists the truth and corrupts the mind and brings forth in its own will to gainsay as some have done who having disobeyed the still motion of a meek spirit and looking for high things God hath given them up to a lofty spirit and strong workings in a contrary nature who now have a power wherewith to resist that which first begot them out of the World and a moving spirit which draws towards the world again which being got into the place of God as God makes them believe that their return is of the same spirit that called them out to which they yielding the same obedience thenceforth without fear becomes the same they were if not seven-fold worse without hope of recovery and this disobedience becomes as witchcraft Wherefore in the fear of God watch with all diligence hearken in the simplicity of your hearts and take heed that you slip not any time of hearings nor prove false in your conception or bringing forth but that both calling and election may be made sure to you not onely by being in the knowledge of it but also by bringing it forth that it may be your own for ever for that which you bring forth is your inheritance and none can take it from you but you have power therein against all contrary spirits which whilest it is but in the motion will strongly tempt and seek the life thereof to stifle but being brought forth it is before you and onely so it is put on as a brest plate and becomes a defence and sets you over the head of the evil one which being begot and not brought forth it withers and becomes as dry bones in the womb Therefore as you must give your minds wholly to hearken so must you give your strength wholly to obey and when you feel the pure to move in you with your whole strength serve it and bring it forth give up your bodies a sacrifice sor his sake whom you have not seen that his life may be made manifest in your mortall flesh and through you to the World that he may be seen in his brightnesse to all that love him and before his enemies then is the body for the Lord and not for fornication But if you rest in the knowledge of this mystery and bring not forth to life with that knowledge you commit fornication and teach others to commit fornication also this knowledge in the disobedient mind becomes the mother of harlots and fornications of the earth with which the Kings of the earth are deceived but none ever joyned to God For it is not the hearing of the truth that purifies the soul but the obedience of truth which makes the Vessel fit for the Masters use who in his using and its obedience makes it a vessel of honour and glorifies his Son therein in a body prepared to do the Fathers will in the world whereby the Father is glorified in the Son in whom he shines forth in the clear image as the Father begets him again in you and you in him which was in him before the World was of his own nature and good will which as you conceive again by faith and obedience you will be changed into the same image and nature and to delight onely therein being born of the same spirit as he that is born of the flesh delights in the things of the flesh J. N. THE END LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1660.