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A89843	Love to the lost: and a hand held forth to the helpless, to lead out of the dark. Wherein is plainly held out divers perticular things, as they are learned of Christ; and are most needfull to be known of all who profess godliness. Set forth chiefly for the directing the simple into the living way of truth, as it is in Christ Jesus, the Righteous, that therein they may come to the life and power of that which the world hath in words; which being received, satisfies the weary soul, and makes the creature wel-pleasing to his maker. Wherein also there is some reproofs to the dark world. / By one that seeks the redemption of Sions seed, and a lover of the creation of God, who is called James Naylor.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1656 (1656)	Wing N294; Thomason E866_2; ESTC R207630	74,213	79

have bowed down to the god of this World and his begettings are in all houses and assemblies and the name of the Lord you have polluted before all the world yet will you lean upon the Lord and say The righteousnesse of Christ the righteousnesse of Christ so that you have more dishonoured his Righteousnesse then all that ever were before you and the name of a Christian is become a reproach in all the world because of your unfaithfulnesse to his righteousnesse For this will he plead with you and will take from you the Covering that you may appear and he will bring forth his Righteousnesse to your Confusion and his own shall witnesse him in the Gate and his work shall praise him openly so shall sinners be afraid and fearfulnesse surprize the Hypocrite when God shall own his own righteousnesse and judge the wicked after the works of their hands Concerning the Word THe Word is that which was in the beginning and was the beginning of all visible things and that by which all things were made but it self is invisible which though it be the Upholder of all visible things yet can no visible thing reveal it yet doth it reveal the ground and use and end of all visibles And as without it was nothing made that was made so without it is nothing soen as it was made nor any thing can be guided nor used in its pure place but what ever man medles with not having the Word in him to guide order and sanctifie the same he defiles and it is polluted as to him Nor can this Word be comprehended in Heaven or Earth without this Word can no Scripture be read with profit for it opens the Scriptures and the Scriptures declare of it yet cannot the Scriptures nor all the Writings of the World comprehend it nor declare the depth and extent of it which is beyond all Generations yet is it the Teacher and Guide of his own in all Generations and in all Generations of Saints hath been known in measure more or lesse immediatly though it hath no place in the worlds profession So hearing of a Word but not knowing it they say The Letter is it But who hath the Word hath that which comprehends Death and Hell and the Grave that which binds and chains Satan overcomes the World gives the issues of Life and Light whereby the new Creation is known wherein dwels Righteousnesse and this every one hath so far as he hath the Word abiding in him but so hath not every one that hath the Letter Nor can any mans will change the Word for it is contrary to all mens Wills nor can any mans Wit open or expound this Word which confounds the Wisdome of the Wise and brings the understanding of the Prudent to nought that hides from the Wise and Prudent and reveals to Babes and the Word grows and increases within the Babes but so doth not the Letter and as it grows it sanctifies all that have it but so doth not the Letter and it s as a Fire and a Hammer to all that have it but so is not the Letter It is quick and powerful to the dividing asunder the Joynts and Marrow the Soul and Spirit where ever it is so is not the Letter And the Word is a Reproach to every Carnal Mind even to them especially who profess the Letter Whosoever have the Word with it are washed and cleansed and translated from the World and conformed to God so far as they have it and it reconciles to God all that have it but many have the Letter who know not God but are in the unclean Customes and Fashions and wayes of the World not changed nor reconciled None can keep the Word and his sins both but the Letter without he may for where ever the Word is known the new Creature is witnessed who is created to walk in Righteousnesse and who hath the Word sees all who say they know the Word and walk not in Righteousnesse to be Lyars and do not the Truth and with the Word of Truth are such cast out and judged to be those who dishonour the Word as though it were a polluted thing or could dwell with pollution which is a Fire to burn up all uncleannesse where ever it is and where sinne stands the Word is not known But such reading of the word which came to the Saints in obedience to which they were washed and purified and in which they were begotten again they finding that the Saints had this word but not knowing it they say the Letter is it which doth but declare of it and so their word hath not power in them to overcome the Devil break the bonds of wickedness whereas the word of God is not bound but free sets free all that have it abiding in them which breaks down the seat of sin and raises up and quickens the seed of God which lives in the life of God which through sin death hath passed over and so quickens the mortall body to newness of life So that the old life and the word cannot stand together in one body nor doth the old man who lives in that life know any word but the letter and the life of that he knows not but in the Imaginations searches with the fallen wisdome for that which God hath in his wisdome hid from it and in this is all the darknesse to this the Scriptures are spoken as a Parable and Mystery which in that disobedient wisdome cannot be found out so is the Simplicity deceived with Meanings Addings and Wrestings which are all in that man that cannot enter in whom the Word dwells not nor can any thing such do be accepted because it is not from the Word for all that comes not from the Word by the Word is condemned not to be the Work of God for all that God made he made it by the Word and it was seen in the light to be good which was made with the Word and here all stood in the reconciliation to God but when man went out from the Word then he went out from the good and so with the Light was seen to be in the evil and so was accursed from the same Word against which he had sinned and so long as out of that Word he acts all is accursed being Self and not God that works it And so man being gone out into the world the light of the Gospel is preached to turne man again to know the word that coming to the knowledge thereof in his heart and having his mind stayed thereto in the light he may come to see the power of the word working in Spirit working out the unclean nature and the rebellious will and working in the pure nature in the Cross slaying the carnall man with all his affections and so through death thereof raising up the new man making a new Creation in Christ Jesus with power unto Good works from the eternall word and this God owns when he is

that Spirit which never erred and who ever is lead out by any other is Erred already though unknown to them who are so deceived For Error could never Judge of Error nor darkness of light though it will be doing to shew enmity So Error Cryes Take heed of being deceived which is deceived already but the Spirit of light searcheth out that deceipt but who walks not in the spirit and light of Christ is blind and knows not by what he is lead nor whither and stumbles at the light which should Judge his blindness and become his Leader and such a one though he be in Error yet knows not whence he is fallen who never knew the right way as many at this day who are talking of blindnes but themselves in the pitt and must be till they own the light to lead them out of it which never Erred which is of God even as they who received it are of God and they that were of God knew that all that would not heare them had the Spirit of Error and thereby they knew it and the Spirit of truth And what ever that be which leads out into the Worlds Conformity and pleads for it or any thing that is come in by the Fall that is the Spirit of Error But that Spirit which testifies against all that is in the fall and convinceth of it and leads out of it that 's the Spirit of truth comes to testifie of the redeemer Christ Jesus who is to set free out of it which all that lives in lives in Error So all who desire to know the Spirit of Error you must turn to the Spirit of light from whence you have Erred for no other thing shews the Error but that which reproves the fruit of Error that which reproves for sin is that from which man hath Erred the faithfull and true witness which is in the beginning of the Creation of God to which all must give an account and which alone is appointed for a light and leader of the people that sit in darkness to shew the darkness and the way out of it So to that which was in the beginning all must come that with the light from which man hath Erred you may know the wayes of Error and the way of truth Concerning Faith HE that hath living faith which is in Christ lives by it and the life that he lives is above all the world and the powers of darknesse and the least measure of that Faith ●s perfect and is present power against all the assaults of ●acan if in it the Creature abide faithfull and run not to other helps and so lay himself open to distrust for it is the gift of God whereof whosoever receives a measure he hath a measure of the Son above which he Father will not suffer any temptation for the true faith laies hold upon Gods righteousnesse against which no unrighteousnesse can prevaile which righteousnesse is received by faith in Christ Jesus wherein the Creature so believing stands armed against all the fierie darts and temptations of the Devill with Gods righteousnesse seene in the light and wrought in the Spirit whereby the Creature becomes Gods workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works by which he becomes free from the evill dead to sin but alive to Gods righteousnesse waiting in faith to see it revealed through obedience thereto from faith to faith and it is written The just shall live by faith and this is the living faith which purifies the heart unto the life of godlinesse and so reveales the righteousnesse of faith for an inheritance everlasting righteousnesse ever growing and springing whereby the Creature grows into the knowledge of God with him to walke by faith out of the knowledge of all the world translated out of the pleasures and kingdoms of it into the kingdom of the Son of God where the reproach of Christ is esteemed great riches laying hold upon the invisible which the worlds faith cannot reach which caryes them no higher then visible reasonings and consulting with sensuall wisdom and carnall helps and so brings nothing to perfection because it sees nothing that is perfect but the liying faith sees him that is invisible and layes hold on the measure of God made manifest in Spirit which measure of the Spirit is that which in the faith worketh out the old and worketh the new both will and deed whose worke is perfect to kill and make alive But the worlds faith is not of this nature and power who heare a thing with the outward care and so set themselves to believe or not believe it in their wills or outward perswasion from others or in their own imagination and as their imaginations thoughts and conceivings changes so their faith changes also and so it cannot be steadfast because it stands not in the measure of God known in the heart which changes not and this faith serves not God nor can it please him nor doth it see him that is invisible And so not standing in that which is contrary to the will of man and power of sin it lies under the wills of men and power of the Prince of this world and as the world and times changes so doth that faith but can never lead out of the world and all time up to the redeemer of the soul And to all who are in that nature the living faith that stands in that which is of God in a pure conscience is a mystery not known nor received and so cannot be improved which is the true faith which is the gift of God which none Tim. 3. 9. can receive but in the Spirit So the faith of Christ and the faith of the world are two and have their severall effects and fruits the one professeth freedome and redemption in the imaginations and comprehensions but is a servant of sin the other hath the living faith which gives the life of freedom and so as is their ground and roote so is their fruits and effects and the one of these is against the other For that Act. 13. 27. faith which stands in Christ believes in purity and perfection and holynesse and slays sin and by that faith alone the just lives and justice and righteousnesse is brought forth to light in the godly conversation but that faith which stands in the imaginations and wisdom of man which believes salvation without holynesse of life that slaies the just and keeps alive the unjust and this faith they had which believed the Scriptures and the words of the Prophets and that God was their Father but not having the word of Faith in their hearts these slew the Son of God and set the murtherer free and as that faith which is dead works death so that faith which is living worketh life And a profession of faith without righteousnesse is like a body without life and like as a living man is known by his actions so is the living faith by its fruits And as the man cannot live

be kept from all excesse that at his coming they be found fit to receive him which they who feed without fear do deny and crucifie afresh to themselves And therefore in another place speaking of his coming he warnes them to take heed least at any time in eating their hearts be overcharged with surfetting and drunkennesse and cares of this life and so that day come upon them unawares and so become a snare unto them for so it is to all who are in that State when he should appeare unto them and they cannot receive the day of his visitation whose hearts are gone out into these carnall things And this he knew that till That man be born which lives not by bread alone That man that lives upon the Creatures is so one drawn into them and so to forgett his coming who is the maker thereof who is the Sanctifier thereof at his coming and so orders the outward food as unto God and not to carnall things the minde growes thereby and so to the pure all things are pure but where the pure is not all things are defiled when they are not Sanctified by the word and prayer And therefore are to be received in fear and remembring therein his death till He come who is the word and prayer which at his coming restores all things to God which till then are Subject to be used to the lust which was the thing Christ in tender love to his disciples at his departure warned them on knowing that their nature would draw to the earth-ward not yet being changed nor having Christ born in them to keep them and for all this his warning and leaving this as a signe how soone were they returned into the carnalls and to their fishings and the like having forgott the promise of his coming till he renewed the rememberance of it making himself known in breaking of bread again after his Resurrection and so charging them to wait for his coming at Jerusalem the promise of the Father of which he had told them before his death which they were to shew so often as they broke bread till he came and after he was come to the Apostles they continued it for their sakes who were weak in the faith to whom he was not yet appeared And so those did break bread from house to house and eate with Singlenesse of Heart to Christ and not to the lust which was another thing then the Worlds Observation of Bread and Wine or Wafers in the Idols temple where the Lords death is not shewed till he come where some are hungry and some are drunken where the Covetous the proud the liers swearers whoremongers fighters sewers scorners and all evil workers meet to eate bread and wine so often a yeare and returne into the lust again This is not to Eate the Lords Body nor at his table but the table of Devils And this you shall all know that you that do this for an hour or a day and then feed without fear not shewing the Lords death in all other your eating so oft as you eate and drink till he come you are they who Eate Judgment to your selves herein And all your will-worship will not be found at that day to be an Ordinance of Christ as you have limitted it nor can you know his coming to your Savlation And of this Sort are you who now say The Lord delayeth his coming and have put it into another generation if not till dooms-day as you call it and so have setled your selves in your worldly pleasures and high Notions with the drunken Spirit eating and drinking and beating your fellow-servants mocking whipping and imprisoning them at your will and pleasure having forgott his coming which if you did remember to shew forth his death so often as you eat and drink till he come you should not have been found in blindnesse and opposition to his coming as to your selves nor persecuting him now which is come in others nor should your table have been made a snare unto you that that day should overtake you unawares as it is seen at this day upon whom the Words of Christ are to be fulfilled Concerning Redemption THis is that which many boast on and glory in who never knew what it is to be redeemed further than in words and imagination thereof nay there are few who are come so far as to know what it is that wants redemption and that the promise is to wherein onely it is seene and received for there is a seed to which the promise of redemption is but thou who takes delight in sin and pleads for it art not he Thou that can take pleasure in the flesh and fashion thy selfe thereto art of another seed who art at liberty in the world to conforme thy selfe thereto in thy own will and way and time who hast power in thy hand to do what thou list and when thou list and as thou list Thou needs no redemption who art at liberty nor physitian who art not sick and so a talk of redemption little changes thy condition in that State who art of this world and obtaines that thou loves and therein takes pleasure building a feate and blessing thy selfe therein laying up thy treasure here below he that redeemes Israels seede is no glad tydings to thee who speaks woe to all in that state But if thou find somthing in thee that in all these worldly delights cryes Vanity and Emptynesse and can find no satisfaction therein nor can conforme to this world nor take pleasure in wickednesse that cannot plead for sin but cryes woe to thee because of thy wickednesse and mornes because of the abominations of thy times wherein thou hast followed the worlds customes and foolish fashions if thou find that in thee that cannot take delight in decking the outside with pride nor feeding without feare that cannot feed upon the visibles nor shorship the creature nor bow to any but God alone but condemns thee if thou so do If thou find that which breaths in thee towards God for life and strength against all these vanities and all other evills That which would follow God out of all the world if it had power I say if such a seed thou find in thee though it be the least of all seeds in thee yet that is the seed of the Kingdom to which the promise is and no further then that principle is raised to raigne in thee above all that is contrary to it no further art thou redeemed by Christ Jesus for that 's the plant of Gods renowne the Lilly among the thornes which with the Cares of this world and the deceiptfullnesse of riches and pleasures is choaked that it cannot bring forth to God who hath placed it in thee for himselfe that therein he might teach thee to profit and from thence thou might receive wisdom and strength yea all that is needfull for thee in thy measure to which thou art called And this lying under thy lusts and pleasures is

the cause thou knows not God the Father nor the Son for to this he is revealed though thou talke of redemption yet thou knows not God nor his power nor life nor persence with thee to guide thee out of the evill and to give the victory over the Prince of this world and his dominion but art captivated at his will to do his works and so under the condemnation that he is in and the talke of redemption doth not deliver thee from his temptations but into it thou falls and commits the sin that is of his moving and so art of the Devill but that which is of God lies under in death and captivity and bonds of iniquity and so thou canst not have power nor the promise nor salvation which in the seed is placed which is not of thee nor with thee while thou art in these delights but against thee and thou sinning against it and so art not of the promised seed but an enemy to it and by thy lusts and pleasures and self-will art in Pharoahs state and nature keeping the seed of God in the house of bondage and dost not pittie nor regard the cryes thereof which cryes against thy pride and excesse envie and wrath and all thy wickednesse by which thou oppressest the seed of God in thee in that state where death raignes for which the wrath of God comes upon the world of iniquity who are enemies to that seed which is of the Covenant and are not joyned to it but to the contrary in the contrary nature to which all who are joyned in the light come to pertake of Gods love and life therein by Jesus Christ who takes upon him that seed after the flesh not the seed of the evill one nor the nature of Angels but the seed of Abraham to whom the promise is And all who know this quickned and raised by the Spirit of Jesus know the plant of Gods renowne of Gods own planting in which the fruit is found and such knows where to waite for a supply of all wants and counsell in all straits where is the law received that is spirituall and the righteousnesse of saith revealed from faith to faith from which Gods righteousnesse is manifest in the world not of selfe nor self-works nor of that seed but of the heritage of faith a free gift to the seed And in this seed as it is redeemed hath the Saints fellowship with the Father and the Son in the light and all the gifts and grace whereby that creature becomes free from the law of sin that they be married to Christ in him to serve the living God set free from the service of sin and Satan And this is their freedom even their righteousness which is everlasting as the seed is redeemed out of the pit For where this seed is raised up there the creature receives from God of his fulness but where the seed is in the grave the curse is betwixt upon him where the sin is and the trespasses by which it is slain But where this is raised the creature is blessed of God for the seeds sake throughout all the Nations of the Earth which layes this seed for in this is God worshipped but where this is dead the sacrifice is abomination for they that are in the grave cannot Praise God it s the living that he accepts and not the dead And this I say to all you who find such a thing as is holy thus moving in you against your lusts and worldly pleasures Take heed and do not deceive your selves with a talk of redemption while this is in prison and not brought above all your lusts But in the light of Christ waite which lets you see this that you may see his power in spirit to raise this to raign above all in you that is contrary so shall you raign with it over all the world and its wicked wayes but if you have found this breathing towards God and you have no regard thereto take heed lest he that gave this for thy salvation take it away from thee in wrath and leave thee to thy lusts without reproof For his Spirit will not alwayes strive with you And then it had been good you had not been born And this hath befallen many after many reproofes and motions to good Who now are left to fill up their measure with greedinesse Who now glory in their shame and boast of their filthynesse and this day is coming upon many more who now little minde the measure of God moving in them but live in the lust sinning against their conscience out of the selfe ends And yet please themselves with a talke of redemption As the greatest profession now set up by many is to make the redemption of Christ a cover for all licentiousnesse and fleshly liberty and say they are to that end redeemed which redemption the Son of God needed not to come from Heaven to purchase for them man being thither fallen by nature subject thereto but all who know the redemption of Christ by his pretious blood are redeemed from the vaine Conversation received by tradition into the holy conversation 1 Pet. 1. 5 18. of him that hath called them to be holy as he is holy and not vain as the World is vain And this is the true redemption to all that know it whereby this seed hath received redemption for us who were transgressors even to purge the conscience from dead works to serve Heh 9. 12 15. the Living God And for this end he gave himself for us to redeeme Tit. 2. 14. us from all iniquity and purify unto himself a peculiar people zealous of Rev 5 9. of good works who hath redeemed us to God by his blood out of Rev. 14. 4. kindreds tongues and fashions from amongst men to follow the the lamb and not the lust And all whose redemption leads not out of this world will fail you when you look for another and this all that are redeemed know but who live in the lust are blinded with the god thereof as the light in every conscience shall testifie that he that lives to the flesh is not redeemed So with the light of Christ which lets you see your transgressions search your hearts that you may see if the just principle that moves to righteousnesse be not oppressed and burthened and over-powred by the seed of the evill doer and that nature which loves carnal delights and so you be led captive to do the works of Satan then what redemption have you further then a talk like a man that hath a conceit of eating but still hungry so you conceit freedom but still serve sin and while servants of sin you are free from righteousnesse as he that is a servant of righteousnesse is free from sin for it is an easie thing to conceit righteousnesse and redemption but he that doth righteousnesse is righteous even as he is righteous but this is not seene while the seed of God is

And all his works are by the law condemned untill the Resurrection of the seed and the Image of God be witnessed and all things subdued to him who is the end of the Law by whom the fruits of the Spirit are brought forth against which there is no Law And so by his resurrection and the vetrue thereof that which is of God in the Conscience is answered And so the creature saved from the condemnation of the Law of God which respects no mans person But hath respect to his own seed where it is raised but condemns all where it lyes in death and where death raigns So the Law that layes hold upon all trangressors we witnesse to endure spirituall just and good Given forth against the first Man and his works good or bad as people calls them yea though he set himself to do the workes of the Law never so zealously yet a witnesse of condemnation the pure Law of God is against him in his conscience untill the promised seed be born which is not of the will of the first Man nor after the flesh but after the spirit after the will of God one with the Law and by his grace who shews the merry and glad tydings Now Israel after the flesh who received the law in the literall Ministration and the carnall ordinances of them was Christ to be born who was made of a woman under the law to redeeme them that was under the law if they did beleive Even so now Israel fater the Spirit who receive the law in the Spirituall ministration written in the heart such shall witnesse the Child Born of the Royall seed heir of the promise even of Gods righteousnesse for the fulfilling of the pure Law of God for that end given forth Whereof there are many witnesses at this day who have patiently waited in what God hath written in their hearts seen with the light of Christ Who have therein received the faith of the Gospel and the end of that faith even Gods righteousnesse revealed from faith to faith whereby the pure law of God is fulfilled in many and fulfilling in others who abide in their measures of faith which God hath dealt to them walking in the Light not after the flesh but after the Spirit And so by the Law of the spirit of life which is in Christ Jesus see themselves set free from the law of sin and death And so witnesse the Gospel which you cannot do who cast the law of God and his Light behind your backs and in your vain minde say you are not under it in the day of tryal you will be found under the Condemnation thereof And that in every conscience shall witnesse thereto at that day Concerning Christ Jesus THis is He whom the world much talk of but few there be that know him though it be He by whom all things were made who is the Life of all Creatures the Beginning of all Creatures who was before all Creatures without Beginning of Dayes or End of Life a Priest for ever and a King of whose Dominion there is no end By him Kings reign and Dominions are cast down though they know him not where Self is standing who is hidden from the worlds wisdome and the depth of Prudence cannot find him out yet doth he reveal himself to such as walk in his light which is contrary to all the dark paths of the world nor can the will of man walk therein but who deny themselves that they may learn the way of the Lord to such he freely reveals his way for their return that he may bring them down from the seat of exaltation and make known to them their beginning and from whence they are digged that they may see him that bears up the pillars of the earth hath laid the foundation thereof who hath set the world in their hearts who stood not in his counsell so that they cannot find out the beginning nor the end of the work of God yet will vain man in that state be imagining touching him and from whence he had his beginning who is the Eternal Word before all time glorified in the Heavens with the Father who in time was manifest which Word became flesh and dwelt amongst us and took upon him the form of a servant and was made in the likenesse of men and being found in fashion as a man he humbled himself and became obedient to the death that he might become a living Example to all Generations which no Creature could be the whole Creation being in the Fall and having finished the Work of Redemption given him of the Father to do and for which he was begotten he ascended far above all Heavens to prepare a place for all that follow him by Faith in his Light and that from thence all such as wait for him may see his appearance as a Saviour and onely such know him for their Redeemer who know him for their Judge and Law-giver who love him and keep his Commands to such he comes and the Father also and make their abode with him And this is He who is the Light of the world and lighteth every man that comes into the world who stands at the door and knocks and if any hear his voyce and open he will come in and sup with him and such know him and he knows them who hear his voyce by which they are quickned out of the trespasses and sins and the Seed of God raised out of death but where Death reigns Christ is rejected and the wisdome by which he should be known is foolishnesse So if you desire to know him who is not of this world but who is before the world was a Witnesse against all the worlds wayes and wickednesse then mind that light in you which thus witnesseth for as Christ is so is his light that leads to him for that which bears testimony against the world is not of the world even as he is not of the world and so leads out of the world to him who is not known in the world for the world by wisdome knows him not And as thou follows the light out of the world thou wilt come to see the seed which by the worlds wisdome and glory is crucified to which Seed are all the Promises and wherein is all the knowledge of God and Christ and as that Seed is raised therein is the Father revealed and his Power and God-head in his Son Jesus Christ which in him dwels and without him is not revealed but being known is Life Eternal and Eternal Power and Eternal Glory and Riches made manifest in the Light for as you know this Seed raised by the same Spirit that raised Jesus Christ from the death so shall you see him to whom all power and judgment is committed in Heaven and Earth and for whom and by whom all things were made in Heaven and Earth of whom it is said When he bringeth his onely begotten Son into the world Let all the Angels worship