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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

Therefore faith Jam. 4. 4. God let love be without dissimulation abhor that which is evill cleave to Rom. 12. 9. that which is good and that love is it which covers sinne which condemns sin unto death and covers it with righteousnesse Otherwise saith the Scriptures he that covereth sinne shal not prosper And saith James Prov. 28. 13. Jam. 5. 20. He which converteth a sinner from the error of his way shall save a Prov. 29. 5. soul and shall hide a multitude of sinnes And saith Solomon Open rebuke is better th●●●●●●t love such wounds are precious to them that know what love is but he that spares mens wickednesse hates Gods righteousnesse And so with the Light is seen Gods love and the Devils love and each loves his own works and so do their Children in whom they raign For who ever loves the one hates the other and he that serves the one hates the other and so the Servant pleads for his Master whom he loves Concerning Judgment TRue Judgment as it is known to men is a gift from the Spirit of God set in the heart of every one who dwells in the Light of Christ which Judgmennt passeth upon all that 's in the Creature contrary to the life of God and so as it is received springs up with Light and Salvation to the redeeming of the heart from all uncleannesse condemning all which is contrary to purity that God may be seen in his dwelling place with his righteousnesse and so he is said to redeem Zion with Judgment and her Isa 1. 27 Converts with Righteousnesse and to purge away the filth of the Daughter of Zion with the Spirit of Judgment and the Spirit of burning And if there be a dwelling in the Light this Judgment ceases not till the Isa 4. 4. Throne of Christ be established in the heart in peace for this is his Judgment and is upon all that stands up against his Kingdom and this Isa 9. 7. is the cause why the enemies of righteousnesse love it not but have turned it into gall and wormwood which the righteous delights in and loves who are redeemed and saved therewith and knows it to be the the Promise first to be received For saith the Lord I will make Judgment Isa 51. 4 to rest for a light of the people which being received his righteousnesse is neer to be revealed Therefore his Judgment must passe before upon all that 's Unrighteous and none can have his righteousnesse but who receives his Judgment Hos 6. 5. Therefore saith the Lord I have hewed them by the Prophets I have slain them by the words of my mouth and my Judgments are as a Light that Dan. 7. 2 goeth forth And for this end is Judgment given to the Saints of the most High And saith the Lord righteous men shall judge them after the manner of Adulteresses and after the manner of women that shed blood because they are Adulteresses and blood is in their hands thus will I cause loudness to cease out of the Laud. Therefore is Ezekiel so often commanded to judge them and cause them to know their abominations And Jeremy was full of the fury of the Lord and he was weary with hold 〈◊〉 in And Micah was full of power by the Spirit of the Lord and of Judgment to declare to Jacob his transgression and to Israel his sinne And so in all Ier. 6. 11. Ages he placed his Judgments in his servants who were to judge the Heathen and such as knew not God therewith and so many as did believe Mic. 3. 8. it and receive it did repent and found mercy and the rest were hardened And this judgment is eternal and shall stand in Heaven as it is passed upon earth And this was committed to the Apostles as a Doctrine and Heb. 6. 2. whom they bound were bound and who by it they loosed were loosed therefore did all the Saints love judgment for it is the ministration of Christ ministred out upon all that 's against Christ and that which is against Christ is against the Soul so this judgment must begin at the 1 Pet. 4. 17 house of God but where the Devil keeps the house he rejects it and saith Solomon the ungodly scorneth Judgment and evill men understand it not So saith he there i that 's destroyed for want of Judgment and Prov. 19. 28. he that hath not Judgment is blind and sees not that his Enemy raigns which must raign till Judgment be brought into victory and set in the Prov. 28. earth but when Judgment is laid to the Line and Righteousnesse to the Prov. 13. 25. Plummet then the Covenant with Hell and Death must be disanulled so all that are in this Covenant loves not that which breaks it Isa 28. 17 18. And this is your Case who hates reproof who when you are told of your evil hearts where sinne lives and your cursed crooked natures you say Who made thee a Judge And many say You could like what we say but that we judge people so you are they that hate Judgment and would not have the Ministry of Christ to go on for who hath the Spirit of Christ hath the Spirit of Judgment and who serves that Spirit must s●ffer it to speak and judge in them and all that oppose it shall be condemned by it Therefore saith David the tongue of the Righteous talketh judgment the Law of God is in his heart his steps shall not slide but the wicked Psal 137. 30 31 32. seekech to slay him So for uttering the Judgments of God against the Wicked have the just ever suffered and for the same do you now hate them and condemn them and you are in the same nature and covenant that your Fore-fathers was in who shed the innocent bloud and you would have joyned with them had you lived with them what ever your deceipt may say to the contrary And you are found in the same Opposition to the utmost power you have against the Spirit of Judgment now as they was then and the cause is the same now as it was then both they and you living in that which is for Judgment Fire and Condemnation therefore you cannot receive their Testimony who have that evil judged and condemned which you love and live in and for this cause Cain slew his Brother and so do all his generation and with that which you hate shall you be condemned and shall not be able to stand in judgment which is the Saints delight in which they are united to God as he hath said I ●os 2. 19. will betroth ye unto me for ever in righteousness and in judgment which righteousnes and Judgment must condemn the wicked So who hath Christ hath him in Judgment and righteousness and loves him his Judgment and righteousness but who is married unto the world cannot love that which is his Condemnation for so doing Concerning

is plain 1 Cor. 10 therefore they were to keep their Consciences pure from things offered to Idols for they could not partake of the Table of the Lord and eat that which was sacrificed to Devils though in some Cases they might go to a Feast among Unbelievers yet whether they eat or drank they were to do it to the Lord as at his Table and not as at the Table of Gentiles whose feasting is in the Lust and so their meat they sacrifice to Devils and eat not to God and so do all who eat to the lust To keep from which there is no other thing can but to eat in remembrance of Christs death till he come who when he is come he takes the ordering and government of the Creature himself upon his shoulders and so ever keeps them out of the lust in all they do and so is the Creation restored and reconciled to God in Christ Jesus at his appearing till which time the Apostles exhorted to these things and warned of the contrary as Jude who saw some crept in among the Church who did turn the grace of God into lasciviousnesse walking after their own hearts lusts whereby they defile the flesh living in sensuality not having the Spirit to order them they fed themselves without fear and these were spots in their Feasts who being once inlightened and again giving way to the lusts and excesse they became twice dead plucked up by the roots yet had they great swelling words And of such like are many Examples at this day who have had something quickned in them to hope for the appearance of the Lord but fulnesse and excesse having overtaken them for want of eating alwayes in fear and in remembrance of his coming they are become dead again to any hope of his appearance at the present and have put his coming afar off into 1 Cor. 4. 5 6. another world yet are contending about the Shadows or Figures of his coming as they have imagined concerning them But are become reprobate Pil. 4. 5. in the Faith as to his appearance and plucked up by the roots And to avoid this it was the Lord Jesus commanded his Disciples in eating and drinking to shew forth his death till he came and they knowing this from the Lord gave it in example and warning to those who were convinced that in all fear and moderation they might wait for his appearance who at his coming would bring to light the hidden things and manifest the counsels of the heart and all its deceipts and become the Worker in them and then they should have praise of God and these things were transferred to the Apostles in a figure So they exhorted the Believers to whom the Lord was at hand to let their moderation be known to all men the Lord is at hand which they knew All who get up into the liberty of the flesh rioting and excesse will put afar off as it is at this day with many who are in Observations outward who have a day to go into the Idols Temple and there to eat Bread and drink Wine in a Self-solemnity once a moneth or three times a year or as they imagine some affirming the Body and Blood of Christ to be in the Creature after Consecration as they call it some saying Nay but it is Spiritual after Consecration Others saying It is still carnall and not changed because of words and one imagines the body of Christ reall in it another not reall but by Faith as they say But in this they all agree that they return back into the pleasures of the flesh and fashions of the world there to eat and drink the rest of Gods Creatures to spend on their lusts and it must needs be so with such as do not discern his body in their eatings who is the body of all Creatures and filleth all things in Heaven and in Earth which they who stick in Observations never knew and with such he is alwayes to come or past But the carnall eye which stickes in the Visibles can never see him present to order the Creation out of the Lust and therefore it is that all the Creatures of God are turned to feed the Lust in that state as is seen in all the Worlds Profession and therefore accursed the more riches the more pride the more fullnesse the more lust in that state where Christ is not discerned present And so their eating is not the Supper of the Lord nor doth he sup with them in the Newbut in the lustfull Spirit become the table of the Devill where the Creatures are Sacrificed to his use so he keeps them in observation of a day from the letter which they think is worship but he bears rule in their whole lives by his Spirit and so much of the Creation as is in their hands is used at his will Aud hence is all lasciviousnesse wantonnesse strife fighting Suites and Violence Sports and Vanities too many here to mention all with the Creation is spent upon given not to that end for which they shall account who are in that state when shall be required his Corn and his Wine his Wooll and his Flax which he hath made for his use and to be ordered by his Son who is the fullnesse and vertue of every Creature which all know who come to his Supper where the Father and the Son are come in and Supp with the Creature which all the imitaters and observers of times are ignorant of whose contention is about out-sides And for the sake of such who are lost in this thing and troubled in minde concerning it what I have received of the Lord that I shall declare unto you which all shall witnesse to who come to pertake thereof as the truth is in Christ Jesus If you intend to supp with the Lord or shew the Lords death till he come let your Eating and Drinking so oft as you do it be in remembrance of him and in his feare that at death you may witnesse to the lust and excesse which is that which slew him since the Foundation of the World And is the great enemy of his appearance and that by which he lies slain in the great City which is called Sodom Egypt For all you that live in pleasure on the Earth and are wanton you that nourish your hearts as in the day of slaughter you have condemned and killed the Just and he doth not resist you and you must know a death to this before you can Supp with the Lord or he with you But if you eat in remembrance of him and so come to dye to that which slue him then do you shew the Lords death till he come and when he comes he shall not find you eating and drinking with the drunken nor beating your fellow-servants And this is known from the Lord in the Eternall to be the true end of the Supper of the Lord instituted and appointed that in the rememberance of his death they might

fell and into the self-inventions which he had chosen in the contrary will and so entring into the forbidden thing became accursed lost the measure of God his honour and likenesse in which he stood above the Creation and so became bruitish in his Understanding and as to the things of God as the Beast that perish for the Seed he had lost wherein the Election the Wisdome the Authority and all haopinesse present and eternal did consist and so became led by another Seed wherein God had placed emptinesse of himself which he had raised up for dishonour And here it is that man hath lost his dominion over the Devil by letting him in which otherwise had never power further then to proffer which now being got in with a shew of God and godlinesse into the Temple of God the principle part in man and man having joyned in one with him now is become his Captive in whom he makes havock beguiling him of the life of simplicity and godlinesse and perverting his ways as to the end for which man was made yea all the mercies that God gives to that Creature he being above and Ruler in the heart are turned to the Lust that is Carnal and Self-ended and to that Lust and Self-ended things the man becomes a Servant yea hath so lost his dominion as he is brought to serve the Creature over which he ●as Ruler Hence it is that some become servants and are captivated some with Covetousnesse some with Pride some with Lust and many other several things which are become Lords in the heart of man whereby he is hurried with all eagernesse out of all moderation hunting after vanity and folly yea what vain toyes and foolish trifles hath led away the heart of man from the pure wisdom of his God till he scarce knows any end of running after changable things gluttony and excesse in dyet yet not satisfied foolery in apparel without all stay or stop being wholly fallen from that which is unchangable the true satisfaction and honour and the further man goes in this state the more emptinesse and darknesse comes in upon himself and being fallen under the earthly principle he is covered with thick darknesse so that the mind of God he knows not nor his woful state he sees not the God of this world having blinded the eye which should show him his misery and the ear being stopt which should hear the voyce of the souls shepheard whereby he should be quickned his eye and ear being led out to Carnall things and there captivated so that the voyce of the Spirit he knowes not And so being become heart-blind cannot receive the way in Spirit and whatsoever is spoken to man in this state in love to the soul which lies in death the Serpent being above upon the earth catcheth the thing into the Imaginations and the Creature being led to consult with him there in the flesh he beguils the Creature of the simplicity and keeps the Creature so in Self that he regards not the Seed of God which is fallen under all this death and darknesse and so long as the Creature will but hearken to him and his lying promises he will lead him from one thing to another in things without but never to see that from whence he is faln Therefore to all in this state Christ and all his Ministers preached repentance that all might turn their minds from these dead works to the living God who is a Spirit known in Spirit and so worshipped whose Kingdom is within and whose light is in the midst of all this darknesse though the darknesse comprehend it not but as many as repen●● of their following this way of self-wisdom and knowledge and come to stand still to such he shows his Salvation and his Kingdome near at hand which the Serpent whilst they follow him doth put afar off And as the mind is staid to wait for the Kingdome of God in Spirit the god of the world comes to be denied and resisted And as the mind is staid in the light from hearkning to the earthly So that Seed which lies in Death comes to hear the voyce of the Sonne of God and to receive life and strength from the Word whereby it is raised out of the grave and appears above the earth to receive from the Father the dew of heaven whereby it is nourished and refreshed and as man beholds the Seed growing so he comes to see the new Creation and what he lost in the Fall and so is restored by the power of the Word in the Son of God into his Dominion power and purity made able to resist the Devil to chuse the thing that is good and delight in it as before he delighted in the contrary so comes man to be reconciled to his Maker in the Eternal Unity beyond what is to be expressed The wisdome and power received from above whereby the heart is set free from Corruption and made able to escape the pollutions of the world and to run the pure ways with delight which is the glorious liberty of the Sons of God the resurrection from the dead and the entrance into the everlasting rest And now all you who find your selves fallen from your Dominon that measure of God which he placed in man from which he received power and wisdome over the evill one and now find your selves led Captive with the evil one into the ways of Death Sinne and Evill so that Corruption hath got dominion in you and over you never look to be restored by that which leads out for that which acts in the flesh is onely evill and will but lead you from Mountain to Hill and so keep you doing without in self without life and power healing your selves in false perswasions which will not stand in stead in the evil day nor reconcile to God to be accepted in any thing you do for that is the first man with his righteousnesse But to that from which you are fallen must you look return into that from which you are gone out that by the light that 's in the midst of all this darknes and death you may be led in again by the blood of the Cross through the fire and sword into the Garden of God where he plants and feeds into which the old man with his will and works cannot enter nor he whose Leader is any visible thing for by the Spirit from whence man is fallen and gone out by the same must he be led in again and that seed which man hath sinned against must make the atonement to which the Promise is which is free and sets all free as they were born thereof So that which leads out into the Knowledge is the Fall but that which leads into the Simplicity of Life which is manifest in the Spirit and not in the Knowledge of the first man that leads to the Resurrection of Life for it is the hidden wisdome that God ordained before the world unto glory So to

shewed us a more excellent way The Light is come and therein have we found Christ Jesus the Guide of his people and the Leader of Ages even the Spirit of Truth which leads into all Truth even into all that God requires the obedience to which is better then Sacrifice And to direct people to this Spirit are we sent that Christ may be all in all who gives power in the Creature to perform in what he leads into that thereby all that believe in the light may learn him who begets the Will and the deed also who is the Author and Finisher of their Faith who look to him alone and to his light that all may see their righteousnesse to be of him alone And by this which we have received of him in Spirit do we all see you who read what the Saints have done by Call from God and from that sets your selves to do the like to be in the Imitation and self-righteousnesse and Will-worship both in this and all other things into which you are not led by the Lord and by a Call from him For this I say that the Father hath given his Son for a Leader and Guide to all Ages and into and out of all Forms at his Will and in his way and time in every Generation And therefore it is that all who know his Will herein cannot endure that any visible thing should be set up to limit his leading in Spirit or his people from following in Spirit So no form we deny into which Christ leads in Spirit but all forms we deny that are used by Men to keep people from following the Spirit for those onely are the Children of God Rom. 8. 14. who are led by the Spirit of God to whom they who are led by the 2 Cor. 4. 6. Letter were ever enemies for it is the Spiritual Ministration that gives the knowledge of God and his Glory and Power and not the literall for he that is born after the flesh hath his way in the visibles but he that is born after the Spirit hath his food the world knows not of and therefore becomes his enemy And in that state you are who takes the shadow to oppose the body which should lead to the body which is the end of the shadow And takes the Letter to oppose the Spirit which Co● 2. 16 17 20. is given to declare the sufficiency of the Spirits teaching alone and so pervert the Scriptures out of their place and end which are set to testifie of Christ the Life and End to set them in the place of Christ and Joh. 5. 38 39 40. think to have life in them And this is the errour of the Wicked who are gone into the world sensual not having the Spirit And in this state wherein the Spirit leads not both Scriptures and Ordinances and all other the gifts of God are abused wrested out of their places and made unprofitable And therefore you that take up from the Letter cannot bring forth their fruits who were spiritually called into their several Ministrations therefore your Ordinances are left to you desolate you and they in the world together out of which God is leading his people in Spirit to get himself a Name in such a way as is foolishnesse to your wisdome yet the hidden wisdome of God to the Children of Light who have believed therein And you that use great swelling words crying We deny an Ordinance of God To you I say To neglect that which is altered from what God ordained both in Call Manner and End is no neglecting an Ordinance of God 1. God never called any to baptize but first he called them out of the world and their habitations there to follow Christ as into the Wildernesse which were Prophets and Apostles called immediatly 2. They did not baptize Believers over again with water who had had it because they had it not before in their fashion but they went to disciple Unbelievers Neither did they lay it upon all as of absolute necessity but as they saw it useful and could for bear in case it was idolized 3. Their End was to gather all into One out of all the Shaddows and Ceremonies and Fashions of the World to follow Christ alone as he walked bearing his Crosse daily suffering the spoyling of their goods joyfully and their lives unto death rather than to conform to any but him alone for whose sake they were hated of all men which end how your Baptisms answers let your Pride and Pleasures and Conformity to the world in their Fashions Manners and Worships and upholding thereof your Suits and Contentions about carnal things your Rents and Divisions about outward Forms of Baptisms and Worships and upholding that in others which you know is false by Tythes and Offerings whereby Christ is denyed and the Popish Inventions holden up with much such like I say That these things judge you before all men and the light in your Conscience answers thereto untill the Lord appear to judge your unfaithfulnesse herein Concerning the Lords Supper THis is the thing that all the Worlds Professors are contending about and indeed is of great use and profit to the weak Believers who have not yet seen the Lord for bringing them all into one body and bloud mind and heart and soul and spirit But since the Mystery of Iniquity began to work the Worlds Teachers and Professors having lost their in-dwelling in the body of Christ are run out into the Imaginations and are so far from the life of this as that they have lost the Form and the first Institution as as it was by Christ first performed and appointed and therefore are so far from being thereby made one in the blood of Christ that they are shedding one anothers blood about the Form which they are all out of and have lost and the power also For this was done and instituted by Matth. 26. 26. Christ as they sate at meat and did eat and so often as they did eat and drink thereof they were to do it in remembrance of him shewing his Mar. 14. 22 death till he came 1 Cor. 11. 26. And this was that the Apostles received of the Lord and was so practised in the purity of the Church before they ran into confusion which did continue stedfastly in the Apostles Doctrine and Fellowship breaking bread and prayer daily breaking bread from house to house did eat their meat with gladnesse and singleness of heart in the fear and favour of God And this was to be done at all Seasons when they eat and Act. 2. 41. to the end drank in their eating and drinking they were to do it to the Lord and therein to have Communion with his Body and his Blood and for that 1 Cor. 10. end were to keep themselves pure from all pollution yea when they 15. to the end were to eat with Gentiles they were to partake of the Table of the Lord as

blind zeal and enviy cannot receive it Concerning Free Will. THere is no Will free for God but that which is free from sinne which Will Man lost in the Fall when he let in the Will of the Devil and entred into it wherein Man became in bondage And all that man in that state knows of the free Will is that which moves in him against the Will of the flesh and of the Devil which is seen in the Light of Christ And this is the Will of God whereby he willeth not the death of the sinner And this Will of God is manifest according to the Spirit which is free always moving contrary to the Will of the flesh which is in bondage to the Devil And this Will that is free onely those who abide in the light do feel the moving of it present in the Spirit And as the Spiritual man is quickned by the Word of God and that man born which is not of the flesh nor of the will of it so is that Will seen again in man which is free wherein the Creature is made free from the Will of the flesh which is bondage So the Spiritual man hath the Spiritual Will which is free and that is from above And the Carnal man which is from below his Will keeps in bondage who is contrary to God in all things So the first born hath not the Free-Will for who is born after the flesh thereof is kept in bondage but who is begotten again of the Word from above is free born when he is born who is born of the Spirit for where the Spirit of the Lord is there is liberty but where the Spirit of the World is there is bondage for as is the Man so is his Will So with the light of Christ which shows you the thoughts of the heart if you it diligently mind you may see the two motions of the two Wills each contrary to other the one after the flesh the other after the spirit So whether of these Wills thou art servant to that thou may be said to have and to the other thou art an enemy for no man hath Free-Will further then he is joyned to it though he that is in his own Will may feel the Will of God contrary to him and that Will he is in yet can he not come to it untill he own that which leads him to take up the Cross to his first Will and in the Cross to his own Will is he born who hath the Will of God wherein God worketh to Will and to do of his good pleasure in the Male and in the Female even the plant of God who hath the will of God the mind of God the heart of God as in measure he is formed it the Creature So man hath not free will further then he is free-bor from above of the Seed that sinneth not and the growth in that Seed is mans freedom but while this lies under the Earthly Will and Self thereby it is denied though the Free-will may often move in the Creature to Holiness and be felt in the light of Christ as a Tender of healing yea and would lead to holiness healing were it minded obeyed for that will which is of God onely leads to God by which Will we are sanctified and saved but you that stand in the Will of the flesh resists and so you will not come to me that you may have life for the Will of God which is life is free and freely tendered in Christ Jesus to every Creature and in the light which reproves the evil deeds it is seen but they that resist free grace resist free will for that 's free grace which shews a man his sin and reproves for it which would lead to God and to deny all ungodliness and worldly lusts and so to live godlily righteously and soberly in this evill world And that 's free Will which wills not that thou should commit sin which Will is that thou should not die So mans destruction is of himself and self-will by which he resists the Will of God but Salvation is of the Will of God which is free and in the measure of God is this freedom found and enjoyed so that in Christ I have free will but in the flesh is bondage therefore the flesh must be denied by all that will own freedom in will or deed for none hath free Will but who in the light of Christ hath learned to deny their own Wills and such knows that in the first man is neither will nor deed that is free from sin nor for God and his Work or Worship for God hath concluded the whole man under sin that the gift of grace might appear to be free that all might glory in the Lord and the whole treasure be found in him to whom every tongue shall confess when the glory of man shall come to an end to his praise who is blessed for evermore FINIS

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