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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89849	A salutation to the seed of God. And a call out of Babylon, and Egypt, from amongst the magitians, where the house of bondage is, and the imaginations rules above the seed of God, the cause of all blindnes, and condemnation. Also that which is perfect made manifest, even everlasting righteousnesse, which endures for all generations, ... With the way to him, set forth most for such as groan for freedome from the power of sin; but may be serviceable to all who loves his appearance. Also a testimony from Christ what he is in this world, and where he is; ... Also a suite to such rulers, magistrates, and governours, as have not wholly hardened their hearts, and stopt the eare against the voyce of the spirit, that they may hear and their soules may live, and be established a blessing to the nations. With some things more added to this second impression. / Written in love to all your soules, by him who is called James Naylor.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1655 (1655)	Wing N310; Thomason E852_25	31,397	40

in observations of dayes yeares persons and formes loe here loe there and the time and manner of his reigne you are jangling about and what a-one he shall be and which of you shall be greatest at his comming and such like conceits without you hath the enemy up amongst you till you have wholly lost the favour of Christ within and can neither know his appearance in your selves nor beleeve him in others in whom he is come nor know what a one he shall be What a Christ is this you are looking for Is he the same that was from the beginning whose kingdome is not of this world and doe you looke for him after another manner then he hath appeared is he not the same yesterday and to day and for ever how hath the enemy of your soules deceived you and keepes you spending houres and dayes talking of him what he was and what he will be at a distance without you but knowes not him at hand what hee is so that when hee would appear in you to lead you out of the world you know not his voyce nor will you obey him in spirit because he is not come in your forme nor teacheth after your will and in your way so is hee now set at nought by you builders as ever he was and you cannot receive him in your hearts nor is there any roome for him in the Inne farther then to take on and express as a covering for your pride and earthly pleasures let that of God in your consciences be judge betwixt God and you herein how you receive the Son of his Love the despised one search your hearts therewith and see Can you receive him who is set as a signe every where to be spoken against will you beare his markes in your body will you take up his Crosse dayly and beare his reproach will you own him in whippings stoneings mockings and temptations and to be counted the filth of the world and off-scouring of all things for his name sake Can you be willing to be accounted fooles that his wisdome may be manifest in you will you beare his reproach in stocks and prisons and dungeons and to be numbred amongst transgressors will you confess him before men to the loss of your estates and to the casting out of the Synagogues will you own him in leading you through the loss of all your unjust gaine and oppression in your tradings or will you follow him to yea and nay in all your occasions shall nothing separate you from the Love of God in him who is rejected of all the World This is our Christ and this is his condition in this world as ever it was and this is his Glory to carry his People through all these things and above all these into the eternall Kingdom of the Father and them present perfect without spot or wrinkle or any such thing and this is he whom the world cannot receive nor all you who are in the worlds pleasures can see any comelines in him nor beauty that you should desire him that eye is blinde that jangles about him afar off in the carnall comprehensions and sensuall wisdome it 's the eye of faith that seeth him present in the measure and leads to follow him and he that beleeves hath the witness in himselfe wherewith his glory is seen in the eternall the same to all generations that will receive him who is the light of the world yet not of this world nor his glory from whose root springs righteousness mercy and judgment who is meek and lowly a man of sorrowes acquainted with grief who takes no pleasure in unrighteousness to set up pride but shakes his hand at the gain of oppression who strikes at your life in all unrighteousness and that 's his witness in you which cals you out of their vain things that with his light he might lead you out of the world there to commune with you about your back-slidings and shew your transgressious and the everlasting Covenant of the Fathers Love even the eternall inheritance which none can come to but who receives his witness in the light a Cross to all the worlds lovers and it's glory So if you can receive him you may if not this I say to you your expectation will faile who lookes for his appearance in the worldly glory or after your imaginations who judge him to be like your selves or such a one as you would have him who have changed your glory for fading things and so imagine of him also Doe you think the Lamb hath changed his glory because the beast is got up into his seat nay his glory is the same though you have changed your God and have bowed down to the Prince of this world and his glory and hath committed adultery therewith yet God is the same and changes not Wherefore come down you painted harlots you adulterers and adulteresses whose minds would uphold carnall delights and yet profess the name of the Lord Jesus you are an ill savour to the Nations whom the Lord is about to gather who say you are the people of God but live worse then the Heathen you are the enemies of God and your profession stinkes in his nostrills will he accept your words when your lives preach rebellion openly and have begot a faith in one another to beleeve that God wil accept you herein a Christ you look for conformable to your Kingdom of pride and worldly glory selfe-worship respect of persons whither you have followed the Heathen into that principle where man erres thither are you gon out of the faith of Christ which stands not in respect of persons neither can you beleeve who receive honour one of another so your hope shall perish and your sorrow and your end shall come upon you in one day except you returne though now you put it afar off yet shall you see that vain words shall not save where Light and life is denyed And you whose unity stands in the visibles and by them are gathered together and there you receive and know one another and that you make the door to receive into your Church and without it no Communion whose knowledge is outward and your worships outward as in words or water bread or drink or any carnal perishing things though good in their time and place to them who in their place could use them yet were they not given as the substance but as the shadows not in the place of God but in way of obedience to God as many other carnal things which in their place and time must not be omitted as Temple Circumcision Sacrifices Brazen-Serpent which were good till set in the place of God and till they who had them set them up against truth and righteousness and became as bad if not worse then they that had them not yet blessed themselves in their evil ways because of them and excluded all else Then the Lord departed out of them and left them empty and desolate

come to see the power that sin hath not over you and that you are wholly polluted and sold under it then will you see the great transgression and the feare of God will appeare in you and so your hearts will grow tender in his feare which is but the beginnings of the knowledge of God and his wisdome And so waiting in the light you will come to see openings and breathings after Christ Jesus in which abiding and waiting low in the feare you will come to see some openings and promises of the Fathers Love to that seed which is breathing in you after him and some hopes of pardon of sin in Christ Jesus and so come to see the Law and the Prophets prophesying which condition many have come to and then have lost their condition by the mindes getting out of the feare and flesh exalting into the promise and so come to get the wound heald before death be flaine and so loses that little communion they had with God afarr off but never come so far as to the washing throughly nor to the marriage but the light minde gets into this and tattles it out to others and calls it experience yet never came so far as to see Christ and the Father yet after these doth the world wonder notwithstanding they live in the same filthiness as they did formerly yet say they I have assurance so many years since and the promise of God is sure and his Covenant cannot be broken but cannot see that the condition is lost and the seed is buryed under the earthly pleasures to which the promise was for the promise is to the seed which is one not to seedes which is many Gal. 3. 16. not to the fleshly man which is now got up but to the spirituall seed which is meek and lowly which God teacheth and blesseth and the creature that turnes to it is blessed because of that meek Spirit into which they are turned and should be for ever if in it they did continue for to it is the Covenant which cannot be broken therefore all that depart out of it it will not follow for then should not the Covenant stand sure in that seed which is but one one heart one minde one soule one spirit and whosoever receives this unity of faith shall finde this Covenant sure but this was never placed in the worldly seede but in the spirituall so the carnall is death and hell that 's its covnant but the spirituall is life and peace that 's its Covenant and each Covenant stands sure to them who are in them So that creature who was sometimes tender and lowly minded and that seed awakened to which is the promise not waiting in the promise till it be performed the creature turnes into the world where the curse is and there inherits yet is the Covenant sure to the seed and all that abide in it and this all witness who have waited in their measure though he that turnes from it is damned And if you abide faithfull in the light waiting you will be so far from turning into the liberty of the flesh that you will see every vaine thought and Imagination judged in the first motion and the ground of all sin you will see layd open and so come to see the Axe layd to the roote of the corrupt tree that hath brought forth the evill fruite which is Johns Ministery and the Baptisme of Repentance and so be led on to him who fulfills all righteonsness and that kingdome you will heare preach't at hand which consists not in words but in power then vaine babblers you will come to see and avoide and be brought onely to presse after Righteousnesse and so see your light grow and spring up to the burning and shining till the day-starre arise in your hearts then will you cease to put God and Christ afarre off you and waite to see Christ in you the hope of Glory and so come to see Christ in you the light the way the truth and the life and not to have your light and life to seeke in a booke without you nor from men but Christ your life in you made manifest in your mortall bodies and so coming to the Son and to see him revealed by him come to have the Father revealed also and so come to the knowledge of God which is life eternall even God in his Temple where hee is worshipped in Spirit and truth and this truth in you and this God in you then shall you know that your bodies are the Temples of the living God as hee hath sayd I will dwell in them and walke in them 2 Cor. 6 16. And that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you 1 Cor. 3. 16. By which Spirit he is worshipped and by the same Spirit you are taught and this is not knowne by heare-say nor got by imitation nor taught in the imaginations but through death it is learned onely in those who in the light are guided and by the Spirit kept in the fire and in the water where death is slaine faith purifyed and the body cleansed and purged from its drosse and filthinesse patience given and proved and all the gifts and graces of God which vaine mindes talke on but know not but in words these to be waited for in the light received in the faith and proved in the patience to the bringing the Creature wholly to rely upon God in the worst condition even at their wits ends when all the world failes and becomes enemies then to fall into the defence of God alone or when the world tempts with the greatest pleasures then to deny all for the love of God this is soon talked on but none can have it but who have received it in the same way of obedience that Christ hath gon before and leades in Spirit and power all his after him who beleeve in his light and follow it Then may you say follow us as wee follow Christ and walke as you have us for examples till then you are but imitators and out of the life and power and so lead one another into formes and traditions but deny the power which should give you victory over sin in this world and so you get the Saints words but their lives you have not that you looke for in another world but in the meane time goeth on to fill up the measure of evill and so go to the grave in feare and torment And all those Calls and Reproofes of the Spirit of light in your owne hearts now by you slighted are by him recorded and remaines a testimony against you till that dreadfull appearance of the righteous Judge and heart-searcher shewing his love tendered and his desire to save from sin and condemnation which love being rejected there is no escaping condemnation And you that have form'd a Christ in your owne imaginations so as your pride lust ryot and oppression may be exalted and you in them and now your eyes are abroad expecting his comming without you