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doctrine_n	apostle_n	false_a	teacher_n	2,669	5	9.2326	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89836	A discovery of the man of sin, acting in a mystery of iniquitie, pleading for his kingdom, against the coming of Christ to take away sin. Or, an answer to a book set forth by Tho. Weld of Gateshead, Richard Prideaux, Sam. Hamond, Will. Cole, and Will. Durant of Newcastle. By way of reply to an answer of James Nayler's to their former book, called The perfect Pharisee: who call themselves ministers of Christ, but are found ministring for the kingdom of Antichrist. Published for clearing the innocency of the truth from their malicious slanders, and discovering their deceits. By one whom the world calls James Nayler.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1654 (1654)	Wing N274; Thomason E738_16; ESTC R202155	50,411	56

commands of God into which the wisdom of the world could never enter God hath made many as signes among you as to go naked in your Steeple-houses in your markets in your streets as many in the Northern parts which is a figure to you of all your nakedness Priests in your first page you say It is their greatest work to deny his righteousness fulfilled in his person to be imputed to you for your justification Rep. What righteousness is there imputed to the workers of iniquity which are cursed the righteousness of Christ we own which he fulfilled in his own person who is the Lord our righteousness we through him are become the righteousness of God and from this you Priests are shut out who would do as your fathers did who persecuted the Lord of glory and I charge you here in the presence of the living God to be lyers for what Christ fulfilled and came to fulfil we own which Christ is the same yesterday to day and for ever and the same Ministery and the same immediate call we witness and have all the Prophets Apostles and Christ the Corner-stone to witness us in the same and all you reprobates and all your weapons you strike with against the truth do but confirm us and establish the innocent and confirm the truth against all you opposers Priests you are speaking of faith being swallowed up in vision I charge you to shew such an expression in Scripture amongst all the Saints which was in faith Priests whereas you say That George Fox called Mr. Nichols hypocrite in Carlile though he never saw his face Here I charge you all Priests to be confused And you say How doth this bottom upon Christ who gave it to none but such as they had a particular knowledge of Here I charge you to be contrary to Ch●st contrary to the Apostles for Christ said Judge not according to outward appearance as the Pharisees did And here I prove you to be Pharisees and the Apostle said He was present in Spirit beholding the order of the Saints though he never saw their faces and here I judge with the Spirits of the Apostles to be out of their life And you say That Christ gave that title as hypocrite to Herod and the teachers of false doctrine Now to you I speak The Scripture it self and Christs words in it shall be your judge to be in the steps of the Pharisees and false teachers and in the nature of Herod which are called of men Masters as the hypocrites were and hath the cheif places in the assemblies and stand praying in the Synagogues which are painted with the Prophets Christs and the Apostles words as your fathers were with the Prophets words laying heavy burthens upon the people as some of your fellow-Priests have imprisoned some because they would not pay Tythes which are pretended teachers and here you are under the wo which Christ pronounced against your fathers as you may read Mat. 23. and so with all the children of the light you are judged and with the light of Christ you are condemned to be out of his doctrine eternally and for condemnation of old with the light which gad in the way of Cain and after the error of Balaam who received gifts and rewards You are casting out your lyes and slanders upon the innocent but with the light of Christ they are for eternal condemnation and you that act them to that in all your consciences I speak which shall witness it eternally and condemn all you that are acquainted with lyes and slanders for the book of conscience is opened Priests you say Paul disclaims all equality with God in your one and twentieth page Here I charge you to be lyers in the presence of the living God Paul saith Let the minde be in you which was also in Christ Jesus who being in the form of God thought it no robbery to be equal with God yet made himself of no reputation c. Phil. 2. 5 6 7. Priests and whereas you say The light which is by Christ is the light of the first covenant Rep. Christ Jesus saith He is the light of the world and doth enlighten every one that comes into the world and the Prophet said God would give him for a Covenant a light to the Gentiles and here let the Scripture judge you to be out of the light that stumbles at the light and the covenant And whereas you would have James Nayler confess George to be the adopted Son of God what Son was that that was revealed in the Apostles but the confessing of the Son of God vexeth you and shews you had not life for you that have not the Son of God have not life Christ saith He is that true light that enlightens every one that comes into the world and your answer is This light is not Christs will and here you blasphemously declare your selves to say The light of Christ is not his will when Christ saies I am the light that enlightens every one that coms into the world him that hates it shall be his condemnation and here you shew you are in darkness that stumbles at the light and your darkness cannot comprehend it Priests you say The light of Christ is not a knowledge of Christ as Mediator Here again I charge you to be lyers in the presence of the living God whoever comes to know Christ as a Mediator is with the light of Christ which hath enlightned him and here again I charge you to be stumblers at the light And whereas you speak in your seven and thirtieth page of a natural light and so blaspheming the light of Christ but with that light ye shall be condemned before you know the Gospel Priests in your sixtieth page you say Christ did not give a saving light to every man Rep. Christ the Saviour saith He enlightens every one that comes into the world and he that walks in the light shall bave the light of life and not walk in darkness and as many as believes in him and receives him to them he gives power to become the Sons of God but you which stumbles at the light of Christ and hate it shall be your eternal condemnation and all your profession to be air and winde and empty and shews you do not believe in the light of Christ and so with the light you are condemned and your mouthes stopped And whereas you are speaking of your outward helps and discoveries or to help the light of Christ here you declare your light to be darkness for the visible doth not open the invisible but the invisible the visible He that hath an ear to hear let him hear but I see you have none that stumble at the light of Christ You speak of a Trinity of sprinkling Infants of merits and of inherent righteousness I command you to shew a word in Scripture that speaks of any of these words you speake of a moral Law of the word essential or suggestion shew forth where the Scripture speaks any such words so take the slander upon your selves wherewith you slander George Fox as jugling which he abhors and your slander reacheth him not and so finde out these words in Scripture else lay your hands on your mouths and confess your selves to be juglers to all the world and let the Scripture it self judge you that teach those things there is no Scripture for who saies it is your touch-stone and standing oyle and so the title of Perfect Pharisee shall stand to your selves who would be justified in the sight of man so the beast shall be burned and the false Prophet cast into the lake of fire The thing that was seen concerning Newcastle all his pillars to be dry and his trees to be bare and much nakedness that they have not scarcely the bark but are as a wilderness where much winde and cold comes where there must be much labour before the ground be brought into order for it 's a stony ground and there is much bryers and thorns about her and many trees have grown wilde long and have scarce earth to cover their roots but their roots are seen and how they stand in the stones and these trees bears no fruit but bears moss and much winde pierce thorow and clatters them together and makes the trees shake but still the rootes are held amongst the stones and are bald and naked FINIS

acts in you and your pride covetousness and conformities to the world for that Spirit which is infallible leads out of the world and fashions of it and conforms to Christ and they who judge by that Spirit deny the wisdom and learning of the world or to enrich themselves by it The sixteenth Position They cry down baptism with water and the Lords Supper as being but types and shadows ceasing upon the appearance of Christ in them And in your Reply you quarrel that I should say Paul knew what he said when he said Christ sent me not to baptize but to preach 1 Cor. 1. 17. and you say This is to heap sin upon Peter and the rest of the Apostles but that Paul by speaking the truth or I by speaking it after him doth thereby heap sin upon Peter is a strange inference but it is like the rest for there is no truth that I speak but you can inferre a slander from it and how many times in your book have you slandered me for speaking plain Scripture but it is to manifest you to be what you are And whereas you say we cry down baptisme and the Lords Supper It is false for the baptism of John we own which is with water and the baptism of Christ with the holy Ghost and fire we own and the Supper of the Lord we own and our saith feeds upon him and the eating of his flesh and drinking of his blood is our life John 6. 53 54. and we deny your faith which you say is nourished by bread and wine which is carnal and your sprinkling of Infants we deny which you say You can clear up to be an Ordinance of Christ but doth not nor can do it The seventeenth Position That there is no mediate call of the Ministery And you say I contradict my self because I say That the ordaining of Elders by the direction of the Spirit of God was not by man which I again affirm That it was not by man nor of man nor any created power but by the Spirit of God in the Apostles which did impower them with the gift of the holy Ghost to them who were ordained and this was not of man but of God And whereas you would prove your mediate call from this it will not serve your turn who are either called by the cursed Bishops or by earthly Magistrates or else you call one another by your own wills but no appointment of God nor gift of the holy Ghost is witnessed amongst you And whereas you deny that the late commission did ever pretend to put any in the Office of a Minister here all the North may witness against you that you care not what you say to excuse your selves and accuse others though never so false Did not you and those that were in commission call them before you and examined and appointed whom you would and denied whom you would at will and pleasure and your partiality in it the North can witness and now you deny it be ashamed and confounded before all men you shameless creatures this you may call railing as you do the rest where you are told of your deceit And for your fifty five proofs you tell of which you say are not all answered I answer Those that might seem to make for your purpose are answered and for many other you bring they are so full against the end for which you alledge them that they may answer themselves before all that know any thing of Scriptures and to their judgement I leave them and shall not trouble my self or others with things to so little purpose And for your sending and proving your false accusations under hand and seal as you call it here you shew what Spirit acts in you who pursue such unjust things with such eagerness which none of the Saints of God ever did but your reward shall be as your work is and time shall clear the truth when you have vented your envie Now to that you call our Principles And first Not to salute any And here you accuse us to deny high-way salutes and when you have done you say High-way salutes is our known practise but how doth this agree honesty would never have accused us to deny what is our known practice unless you could have proved that we had denied to salute any as you falsly accuse us for the salutation of the Saints we own and practice and deny your heathenish customes that are used without the fear of God And whereas you bring the practice of some in the old Testament to overturn the Commands of Christ in the new I answer No contrary practice of any though the best of Saints can be a ground for me to break the Command of Christ neither had they whom you instance as Jacob and Abigal any command for what they did to bow down or fall to the ground but rather did it out of fear and weakness Now if any had alledged these to those whom Christ sent out had that been a ground for them to have broken Christs Command to follow their practice without command and it is the same now Christ who hath sent us forth hath commanded us to deny your vain customs and not to salute any by the way and this we witness and practice whatever they did in the old time and here we leave you who are in the world to your traditions of the world follow Christ so witness against all the vanities out of which we are called And for that place in 2 Joh. 10. which you would alledge to keep up the worlds customes which is clear against you for the Apostle there commands Not to bid God speed to any transgressor that doth not abide in the doctrine of Christ and who hath not the Father and the Son for if they bade God speed to any of them they were partakers of their evil deeds Now they who fear God had need take heed whom they bid God speed to for few are found who have in them the Father and the Son and are no transgressors and now how this makes for your God speed to all any that fear God may see and be warned of your deceit lest they partake of other mens evil deeds And so it 's plain the Saints were forbidden to salute any but Saints though you call it Publican-like And whereas you say in Mat. 5. 37. is a command to salute all I answer If that was so as you speak A general command to salute all then doth Christ contradict himself when he commands Not to salute any by the way and so you will make Christ yea nay but it is plain that Christ is there exhorting to love and not to salutation wherein he would have them to exceed the Heathen who shewed their partiality in saluting their friends onely which was a token of their love to be partial but if this were a Command of Christ To salute all and binding to them who had received a command to the