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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89842	The light of Christ, and the word of life. Cleared from the deceipts of the Deceiver, and his litterall weapons turned upon his owne head. Also the man of sin found out, who is hiding himselfe in a heape of confusion, pretending Antichrist is not yet come. Occasioned by laying open some deceipts in a booke titled, The deceiv'd and deceiving Quakers discovered; subscribed Mathew Caffin and William Jeffery, brethren in iniquitie, who are joyned to deny God, Christ, the light, and spirit, in his saints, and calls it teaching Christs spirit apart from his body, and an evill spirit, to witnesse the spirit of Christ in the saints. Set forth that the simple may see the wiles the devill hath to keepe them from the word of life, the soules salvation. / By a lover of Israels seede, called James Nayler.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1656 (1656)	Wing N293; Thomason E877_1; ESTC R206580	19,351	24

mind and guide the heart of man which is in darknesse such a doctrine as this was never preached by any of Christs Ministers whose message was to preach Christ all-sufficient in all to work the whole work in fallen man both to light and life which if thy doctrine be not quite contrary let the work in thy book testifie Thy second thing that thou wouldst prove is that the letter of the Scripture is the word of God and so the Rule and touchstone to judge spirits with and that by which the world must be judged and much such like that belongs to God and his Spirit alone in Christ Jesus wouldst thou in opposition thereto ascribe to the letter not knowing what the word Rule and Judge is And this to prove thou addes a great heap of confusions and contradictions but cannot find one Scripture that saith the letter is the word But thou instances that place Marke 7. 12 13. which hath relation to the 5 Commandement and with a deal of confidence thou affirmes that Christ calls the letter the word in this place because he saith they make the word of God of none effect by their traditions so thou hast proved the letter of that Commandement to be thy word but in thy 24 page having forgot thy word thou overthrows it againe and sayes the Apostle calls that the letter of the Law which killeth and the ministration of death written and engraven in stones by which no flesh shall be justified of which letter the Apostles was not Ministers of So by thy proofe thy word is that by which no flesh shall be justified but is the letter that killeth and ministration of death of which words the Apostles was not Ministers and in thy 39 page thou sayes it is done away so thou hast lost thy word and such like wild confused drunken stuffe thou hast to prove the letter the word wherein thou hast rightly proved thy word to be that which the Apostles was no Ministers of nor by it shall any be justified and this is thy main pillar which falls thus on thy own head but where the light of Christ is denyed the blind must needs stumble though at noon day but they that have the word know that the word they made voyd by their traditions was what God had written in their hearts of which the outward was a figure Isa 51. 7. Psal 119. 11. Mat. 13. 15. Another proof thou brings Acts 2. 41. which saith they that gladly received Peters word were baptized in which thou hast proved the letter not to be the word for they that Peter preached to had the letter before they received Peters word which word was Christ of which the letter testifies Such like as these are all the rest of thy proofes many grosse lies mixt amongst them not worth the while to gather or repeat after thee As thou art not ashamed in thy 25 page to lye against the Apostles words saying they were Ministers of the letter which the Apostle plainly denies 2 Cor. 3. 6. As indeed is the most of thy work in thy book to oppose plaine Scripture and contradict thy selfe As for instance Saith Paul Gal. 1. When it pleased the Father to reveal his Son in me that I might preach him I went c. Sayest thou page 26. The Apostles went forth testifying the Lord Jesus not come within them Saith Christ the Spirit of truth When he is come he shall testifie of me Sayest thou page 33. Which Spirit the Saints receiving did not declare him to be their onely inheritance Saith Christ The Spirit of truth shall guide you into all truth John 16. 13. Sayest thou page 15. Men are not led into all truth by a light within Saith Christ Take heed that the light that is in thee be not darknesse Luke 11. Sayest thou False and erronious is that Spirit that bids men give attendance to a light within Saith Christ John 5. 25. The houre is coming and now is when the dead shall hear the voyce of the Son of God c. Sayest thou page 45. Not come and now is Saith the Apostle 2 Cor. 4. 6. God who commanded light to shine out of darknesse hath shined in our hearts to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God c. And speaks of some whom the God of this world had blinded their minds least the light of the glorious Gospell should shine unto them Sayest thou page 8. as to the same thing not from a teacher within but from the Apostles who plainly affirme that they were to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God so putting the Apostles instead of God and belying them says they affirme it when the Apostle saith God gives it and not they And thus thou shewes thy selfe all along to be that man of sin that old gainsayer who opposeth thy selfe against the truth of the Scriptures and yet would have the letter thereof to be the word which thou canst thus turne and wrest against the truth but the word thou knows not which cannot be wrested altered nor changed nor canst thou prove the letter to be it though many crooked wayes thou takes to doe it but its hard to take the letter to prove against the word which doth testifie of the word from whence it came But seeing thou canst not prove the letter to be the word I shall prove that the letter is not the word and the letter it selfe shall witnesse with me therein First That which one may have and not have the word is not the word but one may have the letter and not have the word so the letter is not it That one may have the letter and not have the word is plaine John 5. 38 39. The Jewes had the Scriptures and Christ bids them search them and they thought to have eternall life in them yet Christ tells them they had not the word So the letter cannot be the word which one may have and yet not have the word Whosoever hath the word hath life but so hath not all who have the letter Whosoever hath the word hath God but so have not all who have the letter The word is without beginning or without ending but so is not the letter That which can be changed by men is not the word but the letter is and hath been changed by men 1 Pet. 1. 25. The word of the Lord came to such as had the letter and some of them received it and some received it not yet all had the letter and believed it All that hear the word it quickens but many hear the letter but are still dead in sin And such they are who know not to distinguish between the word it selfe and the letter which is the declaration thereof which letter the Devill and wicked men get to plead against the word and for their sins which is the great use the letter is wrested to at this day let any of the servants of God reprove

the Powers of darknesse in this world yet art thou found in the world joyned with the Prince of the world to wrastle against the light of the world even the spirituall light of Christ which all the holy men of God did ever beare witnesse too and preached to them that was in darknesse and witnessed it to be that by which they was inlightened even the light within which shined out of darknesse in their hearts which gave them the knowledge of the Glory of God in the face of Jesus which was their treasure in the earthen vessels which they Preached and not themselves that the Praise might be wholy of God who had given them this light in Christ Jesus wherefore they renounce the hidden things of dishonesty not handling the word of God deceitfully but by manifestation of this truth commend themselves to every mans conscience in the sight of God and not to the fleshly wisdome nor braine knowledge but to the light in every mans conscience 2 Cor. 4. and they exhorted them to have no fellowship with the unfruitfull works of darknesse but to reprove them and said all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light and whatsoever doth make manifest is light and this they preach for the light of Christ Ephes 5. 11 13 14. and doth also declare that the want of this light having their understandings darkned and the blindnesse of their hearts is the cause why men are past feeling and so given themselves over to lasciviousnesse to work all uncleanesse with greedinesse Eph. 4. 18 19. But he saith the Sains have not so learned Christ if they have heard him and been taught by him as the truth is in Jesus being renewed in the spirit of their minds who sometimes were darkness but now are light in the Lord and so walk as children of the light bringing forth fruits of the Spirit in all goodnesse righteousness and truth and this light was their message which they declared to their hearers as the way to the bloud of cleansing saith John This is the message as we have heard of him and declare unto you that God is light and in him is no darknesse at all if we say we have fellowship with him and walk in darknes we ly do not the truth but if we walk in the light as he is in the light we have fellowship one with another and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin 1 Joh. 1. 5 6 7. This light they Preached to be the way out of the world following Christ who led them therein who saith I am the light of the world no man cometh to the Father but by me this light they preached to be the way to cleansing by the blood of Jesus and this light they preached to keep out of the occacion of stumbling and said they that walk in darknesse know not whether they go because that darknes hath blinded their eyes 1 John 2. 10 11. And this was the end of their Ministry which was the end of the Covenant and the end of Christs coming even to open the blind eyes and to bring them that sit in darknesse out of the Prison house Isa 42. 7. And this was the end of the Apostles Ministry to open their eyes and to turne them from darknes to light and so from the power of Satan to God Acts 27. 18. And this eye was within them that was blind which they was to open which the God of this world had blinded which Christ calls the light of the body and therefore saith Take heed that the light that 's in thee be not darknesse Luke 11. 34 35. Which eye the blind guides who loveth the world and their sin have closed and their ears they have shut whose hearts are waxen grosse so that they can neither see hear nor understand Mat. 13. 15. And in this state are all you blind guides blind leaders of the blind who can neither speak nor walk according to the Law and Testimony because ye know not the light in ye nor can any but from that light within and therefore in your blindnesse are opposing the light of the world which the Law and the Prophets prophesied of which had the Testimony of Jesus which we witness to be the light of the world who are come to the end of the Law and the Prophets even the new Covenant where the Law is written in the heart and the spirit of Prophesie received which is the testimony of Jesus which we knew not till that eye was opened and therefore went along with you in your blind worships and selfe taken on performances from the letter which gave us no life which life we witnesse now in the Spirit by faith in the light of Christ and his commands in Spirit is life and power for obedience to the faith in the light it is seen and accepted in which light we see you and your labours which are without not in the light and spirit and deny you and your sparks your kindling your literall Teaching and selfe righteousnesse and all your brick making who are in the Aegyptian darknesse enemies to the light of Israel and its seed And you we see to be enemies to Zions Redemption as you are enemies to the light of the world both in your selves and others And this I say further to thee and the rest of thy dark generation That all your boast of Religion and knowledge in the letter will not bring you to God without the light of Christ nor can any one that is in ignorance come to know the way to life but by the light of the world and untill man be led thereby he cannot come out of his darknesse even with that light that reproves the world and manifest your evill deeds must he be led though the beasts of the field who know not what liberty the Sons of God have in his garden calls this a Spirit of bondage which is bondage to the beastly nature but is freedome to the Sons and Seed of God which the love of God is too who loves purity but hates iniquity And whereas thou and the rest of you would confine the light of Christ onely to such who are enlightned already I say who must enlighten the rest is there some other light to be preached before him is not he the author as well as the finisher who are enlightned indeed knowes this that he is the light in the times of darknesse and there is none besides him and that he giveth life to all who receive his light and follow it but those that rebell against the light knows not the wayes thereof nor abides in the paths thereof Job 34. 13. There in that Chapter thou maist read thy selfe and thy way and work Is this the end of your talking of the Spirit and is it now become an error to say its sufficient to teach and guide out of darknesse and is it some carnall thing that must enlighten the