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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A82017	An exact history of the life of James Naylor with his parents, birth, education, profession, actions, & blaspheemies [sic]. Also how he came first to be a Quaker, and received his commission from heaven (as he saith) when he was in the field at plow. Taken from his own mouth. With the doctrines, tenets and practises of some other of the same sect. / By John Deacon.	Deacon, John, 17th cent.	1657 (1657)	Wing D482; Thomason E903_2; ESTC R207417	25,672	56

he would not be uncovered though he were in the Parliament house Yet let him know that he that resisteth or contemneth the Powers resisteth the Ordinances of God and he that resists See Mr. Bourn p. 41. receiveth unto himself damnation And it is a most sad thing indeed with Korah Dathan and Abiram to play with and contemn the wrath of God-lest the bowels of the earth chastise their presumption Rom. 13.2 3. I both would and shall endeavour brevity in what convenience may require yet for the good of those that stand between two not knowing whether they were better to backslide or stand fast where they are I shall endeavour in a few words to shew you what I apprehend to be the cause of the Lords for saking him and giving him over tp his own lust and as I often told him and George Fox Borows and Hoberthorn c. I observed a Learned Author laid this down as maxim in Divinity that when a man ceases with this quaking Sect to be guided by Gods Laws God gives him over to be ruled by his own lusts and therefore I wished them not to whet and provoke the anger of the Lord which is a consuming fire And in a word I am cleerly of this opinion that had he had true faith he could never have finally fallen to reprobation and blasphemie It is probable he might have faith but not true faith for as saith Dr. Holmes there is a faith of adherance and there is a faith of assurance c. The true faith must be exercised in true worship the end whereof is true happiness and all worship not agreeing with Gods revealed will is prophaness and irreligion the end whereof is not happy but wretched For this is life eternal to know God and whom he hath sent Jesus Christ and not James Naylor And he that expects to reign with nim must believe that he is able to save to the uttermost Heb. 11.6 John 1.11 2 Cor. 5.7 John 20 29. Heb. 11.1 Ephes 2.8 and all other that pretend so to doe besides him are seducers and let him pretend what revelations he will this a true believer must know and relye on That no man hath seen Gods essence that is greater then any finite apprehension so that let Quakers and their seducing teachers say what they please this is truth and no lie we walk by faith the eye of the soul and not by sight and therefore Christ when he had assumed a visible nature in his incarnation for that work of our Redemption would not be long conversant on earth in his publique Ministry that our salvations might not be in sense but believing blessed are they that have not seen yet have believed The necessity of faith appears in that the just shall live by it by faith we are justified without it we cannot please God Habakkuk 2.4 and what is not of faith is sin the excellency of it in that it apprehendeth the riches of Christ and in him the unspeakable treasure of Gods mercy peace of conscience reconcilation with God remission of sin indemptnity from the guilt and punishment c. In fine all things which concur to the compleating true happiness It stiled Abraham Gods friend and us his sons it is the sanctuary of a troubled spirit the first fruits of the heavenly Paradise In a word precious is that faith which believeth all the word of God is true and to be obeyed and saith that Jesus and not James is the true Christ and that there is Salvation in no other name under Heaven They best know how sweet a Jewel faith is that can value the enjoyment by the want of it but to such as Naylor and his sect who are deluded with false light and temptations of security there appeareth no want of it in themselves because they are secure but I heartily wish they knew and would believe there is a common faith which reprobates may have and that is either historical such at the Divels have Jam. 2.19 or temporal as Mat. 13.20 Acts 8.13 and this is either a faith of miracles or a delusion of security There be many degrees but one onely object of true and saving faith and that is Jesus Christ and not James Naylor and that which we are to believe and obey is the infallible truth of God the first God the second his Oracles and his Will concerning our Salvation revealed in his Word The word and testimony of man may be the ground of opinion which is of things probable but true faith can stand on no other basis but the Word of God which is infallible certain and can have no falshood in it and he that goeth without this guide runneth like those Israelites to the mountains of the Cananites Numb 14 40. to their own destruction as this Sect and particularly him of whom we now speak gives too sad a testimony of this truth I desire thy excuse Courteous Reader if I have been transported too far on this Subject be thou pleased to read it but with as much patience as I writ it and 't will extenuate the Teadiousnesse of it I shall rest no longer here but presse onward to what I intend and that leads me to the second ground which argues the spirit by which he is acted to be not divine but diabolical Which is this Secondly By his actions in general but chiefly by reason that the first step he took after his apostacy gives strong suspicion nay plain assurance that he is guilty of inconstancy and adultery to the clearing of which I shall proceed and in so doing it will be requisite to trace him along from the beginning when he first left that Church whereof he was a member and in so doing observe what is worth the noting as shall seem most convenient Naylor being a member of a Congregation at Wool-Church in Yorkeshire he was there excommunicated for his blasphemous Tenets as Mr. Christopher Marshall Pastor of that Church whereof he was a member confessed 〈…〉 who is also well known to be an able godly and sincere Minister of the Word of God who also in a Letter to a friend a Copy whereof I read is related this story that James Naylor since he was a Quaker having gotten into the acquaintance of a woman named Mistris Roper and her husband being gone away from her on some occasion a long voyage he the said James Naylor used greatly to frequent her company being more then ordinarily and to be plain more then civily familiar with her using frequently to dandle her on his knee imbracing and kissing her more then was either fitting or beseeming civility and in the time of her busbands absence either by some other or as is most likely and is supposed by James Naylor she was gotten with child and when her husband had been absent from her and Naylor acquainted with her seven and forty weeks she was brought to bed of a Bastard-child and this was