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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52687	A door opened to the imprisoned seed in the vvorld, and the way of freedom by the spirit of truth, sent out into the world in love to the sheep that have long been lost, which may serve any who simply seek the life of what they possess, and may shew the feigned & false in heart, the cause why they are shut out of truths power : wherein the elect way is opened to the blind, with encouragements to enter and walk therein : also the fruits of the free-born cleared from legal performances, and the children of bondage shewed the nature of their own works : Christ Jesus known to be king in his temples, through the power of the Holy Ghost, and sword of the spirit lifted up against the man of sin in true judgment / by J.N.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1667 (1667)	Wing N277; ESTC R23128	41,513	48

whose life you speak evil of but know it not by birth and virtue which is naturally good as the first man is naturally evil And the bondage is in that which is against the pure nature and not in that which is free-born and the law is upon the transgressor and him that is degenerated into that nature which is carnal and sensual and if this man do any thing as to God it is from something that is laid upon him not in spirit but from without and this is legal and in bondage which is not in the free Spirit which doth by nature the things contained in the Law And little it is that such would either do or know were there not a Law or a Letter a Heaven or a Hell to put them upon works and here is the bondage and fear that hath torment but with the Spiritual Seed it is not so who are begotten and born of God in Christ Jesus in whom they receive freely as the branch of the root and what he sends forth through them is fruits of the Spirit against which there is no Law and this is not legal but spiritual and free who are a Law unto themselves and there is no Law against the Seed but is added upon the transgressor because of sin till the Seed be come and where the Seed is born and rules that creature is not under the law letter nor tradition nor bondage but led by the Spirit and born of that Nature which was before transgression was by which the fruits of Righteousness are brought to light by the working of the Holy Ghost who worketh the will and deed of his good pleasure and with the same good will and pleasure it is brought forth without bondage or constraint And in whom the bonds of iniquity are broken the world ended and all things become new and all things of God there dwells not self-righteousness nor spirit of bondage but that is the new creature which is in Christ Jesus created unto good works and not in self and the Heavens new and the Earth new wherein dwells Righteousness as it is in Christ Jesus revealed from God in Spirit and Power without the Law manifest to which the Law and the Prophets bear witness having foretold what glory and freedom should be revealed in the latter dayes at the Seeds appearing and the Letter testifies of this life and power but is not this life but the Spirit gives this life and freedom that it may be of grace freely and the glory of the Lord who is that Spirit and here is the boaster and self excluded and all fruitless trees condemned and seen to come short of the glory of God of whose works he is not either root or off-spring And before you can judge of this Freedom or the nature of the works that spring thereof or inherit the power that brings forth this Righteousness you must own the Judgment of Him that condemns the man of sin in you and receive him for your Law-giver which will break you off from the world and would have you to deny the forms and images and bring you from under its power that 's he that breaks the house of bondage and sets the righteous Seed at liberty to bear the fruits which are of God And thus hath Christ sent his servants to seek the lost and to gather them from among bryers and thorns and bring them to Zion one by one and as they were gained out of sin so the Devils kingdom fell and grew weaker by every servant he lost and Christs Kingdom increased until the Kingdoms of this world become the Kingdom of Righteousnesse wherein the righteous King reigns And out of cruel mockings scorning and bloody persecutions they gathered the lost and gained them to God yea sometimes pulled them out of the fire such hath been their faith and zeal for Christ and his holy Kingdom and their stedfastness to that work to which they were called and hired and the furie of the adversary and his opposite power against him in his servants hath often reached unto blood rendering evil for love to their souls Wherefore take heed to your selves you that name the Lord and call him Master depart from iniquity and obey the good This is his work if you be his servants he hath called you to holinesse as he is holy And that you turn from the world and repent of his works who is the prince of it and deny him and them openly and in secret if you will serve the holy One you must bear his mark and open your heart to him and your mouth for him as confidently as the servants of sin do for it that your Light might shine against the darknesse of this world in the face of the perverse and crooked generation that it may appear to all men that the wayes of the Lord and the world are not one nor their servants one nor their words one nor their garments one nor their table one in all things bearing his Image and Glory above his Adversary that it may appear whose Family you belong to and what is his Glory who hath hired you and what is the Work of your Lord in the World And herein may all people as in a glass see your selves and what you are to God in this his day and what against him these are the two masters which Christ tells of which none can serve but the one he hates who serves the other so now who hath hired you whom do you serve and whom do you hate Is it the World you serve then you hate Christ Is it Christ then you deny the World And these are plain things and you may read as you go if you will whose business you go about and whose hand you strengthen If you commit sin and plead for it then you war against him that is manifest to destroy sin And if you say sin must live in you while you live then while you live the Devil must have a place and power in you and a kingdom as long as you live and if you believe to overcome sin then you wait for the Kingdom of God which consists in Righteousness and believe to see it and seek it daily with your whole heart for it is not words which take the Kingdom but power of Faith against the evil one Neither is it forms and professions or any outward thing that can vanquish the Devil for he is a spirit and by a spiritual power must he be resisted and the weapons must be spiritual and mighty through God which casts down his seat in man though many are led out from form to form and deny that power of God in them and obey the power of sin in them not knowing that power which layes the Ax to the root of the evil tree out of which all the evil springs and these are manifest to be such as are not hired what ever your forms may be which you chuse and change you are but in the

temple nor lies in the bosom of harlots who are out of his power and perfect way of a holy Life Therefore Your work would profit you most to take the Candle of Truth and sweep the house at home and cast out the old leaven and whatever is of the world and wait in that which works in spirit against the old till therewith all be made new and the new vessel which will not receive the old nor mix with it that is it which will hold with the new which God will fill with himself there the Seed may spring and not be devoured and the Lilly grow without being choaked There the Lamb may be safe from the Fox and the pure from pollution which can never be while your covetous proud lustful earthly minds are alive in you or ought that therewith you have treasured in or grows up in that ground the Plant of God is more pure and tender then to grow amidst such pollution so to judgment you must first come and own your condemnation upon all the old before you can receive of the new or it grow in you What agreement hath the Spirit of meekness with the spirit of pride Contentedness with covetousness Holiness with lust Christ with Belial Light with darkness Read and understand here is the cause why you have sought and laboured many years and many of you further off then at first but none hath found freedom indeed nor that rest where the Thief and unclear comes not to devour Consider these things while they are near you lest your hearts harden in you through unbelief and the deceit of lusts And if you will come then refuse not him that calls and gives you light in the dark but faithfully manage the watch and the war on his behalf with all your power till all be brought under 〈…〉 which he testifies against in you and do not answer the Truth 〈…〉 calls with deceit and excuses lest he turn away from you and 〈…〉 more worthy If you say the world holds you back then its time you should not delay to break those bonds that are grown so strong already they will be stronger every day and what will the end be Consider understand like men and say not you have not strength but turn with that strength with which you have long served the world and you will find God that gave it you the better Master and the Redeemer is served with less vigor than the spirit of bondage and do but faithfully give the strength you have of God unto the service of God in the Light and he requires no more then he gives its deceit that makes these excuses and not a willing mind and were you in the fear of God these words you would not utter against your selves a witness for these are not the words of children of love nor obedient servants but of such as are without Therefore in truth of heart consider what state you are in and who is your father and hath power in you who thus speak Can you do evil with both hands live to your lusts serve the world compass the earth for your profits and pleasures with power wisdom and delight and have you not power to do well Now should you see your strong captivity and how you are degenerated from God and the end of your creation with your whole strength and become altogether reprobate to Gods service and for this should your hearts be smitten with sorrow did you love God or his true Worship and that evil tongue you would bridle and your eyes you would limit from vanity your ears from pleasure and your hearts from deceit that so you might only hearken to the Light if by any means you might come to hear the voice of him that 's sent into the world to call you from under the power of Satan unto the living God by preaching Light to you who sit in Darkness and are dead while you live neither can you be quickned till you hear the Voice of the Son of God which the deceiver keeps you from in your worldly pleasures long prayers and a lying profession taking the Saints words to cover you from true judgment but have not their Spirit nor Power to live their lives nor are you Plants of that Root and Nature which brings forth to God as he is in whom there is no change And this is not the Sacrifice that God accepts which is brought in the unclean Vessel without his power and renewed strength Wherefore that nature which is become so wholly unprofitable should be denyed its will and its way stopt and to that seed you should dye which rules in that strength you have and runs to and fro to seek for its self but seeks not God first and to that which is pure must you turn and therein wait for the Anointing and the rising of the holy Seed for it 's the most holy that must be anointed in you ere you can know Christ in you and without Christ you can do nothing and that seed which is neither willing nor able is not he but is the seed of the evil-doer as is manifest by his fruits which must be denyed his thoughts his words his profession his prayers his lusts his sin and his righteousness for it 's all of one nature and stands up in you to withstand the coming of the Seed of the Covenant Christ Jesus the Life of God and Light of Men which hath Gods Power which was in the beginning Gods Righteousness and is to all generations whom the Heavens must retain until the end of all these things and the restitution of the Creation to God till which you cannot know his appearance in you without sin who died for sin Whose Light as is before declared shews you his Law and the Spirit of Prophesie testifies of him to come whose way before his face must be prepared if you have ears to hear and understand and all your crooked untoward wanton wayes must be made streight and your hidden subtile wayes made plain and the Refiners fire must pass through your house and take hold on all that will burn till it be consumed for till the filth be purged out and an end made of sin God comes not to his Temple nor is everlasting Righteousnesse brought in for an Inheritance to eternal Life And here will you come to learn the first Principle of pure Religion and Doctrine of the beginning of Christ and the foundation of Repentance from dead works will be laid in you then will you see what kind of treasure your wanton careless minds have treasured up in your vessels your deceitful unprofitable words and works you will then see by that which will not lie then will you find that all will fail but Truth and what you have gathered by craft and deceit will stand in no stead but to deceive you Truth in the inward parts must be your stay if any you find for to that Rock you will be

place mind to know his spiritual Nature and Vertue and what hath power against sin in word and in deed therein is his Kingdom and there is his Glory and there he reigns So take heed how you let that Spirit which goeth out against sin in judgment and in victory in the least of his people and this know that his Kingdom is spiritual and within and holy and there are his Testimonies Laws and Judgements which he sends out by the mouths of his Servants as he sees fit and it s against the works of the evil one he testifies in judgement and vertue for that is his Nature and to that end he appears on earth to destroy the Devil and his works through the Sword of his Spirit and none will let this but Antichrist and his servants whose works are evil and so would stop the Mouth of Truth and Voice of Christ Jesus So you may come to know his voyce from his Temple when you hear Judgement from the Spirit of Truth passing against pride and lust and all the works of the flesh to destroy out of the world this is his voyce from his Temples in which his Throne is his holy Kingdom and Power and that 's the voyce of Antichrist who would let this and sayes thou must not judge when sin is judged and so with the words of Christ would save the works of the Devil from shame and destruction And now there be many Antichrists in this work to withstand the Word God in his Temples and who set the Letter against the Spirit to keep up sin and to silence the Word of the holy Ghost that comes out of his house against it and here are the Children of the holy God known and the children of this world the one seeks to cut down sin the other to save it and both professe Christ in words but the end of their work makes them manifest And you that are talking of Christs appearance where will you allow him a place to rule in if not in the heart and chief place in man therein to judge and govern and speak and give out his Laws will you allow the evil one to utter his voice openly in man in swearing lying and cursed speaking and every evil work and must Christ be silent and dumb thereat in his vessels when he sees it is not this his priviledge in his redeemed ones as the other hath his power in his captives that in them he may judge sin as openly as in the other it is acted and this is the reasonable service of his chosen vessels to give up their bodies that he may speak and act and shew forth his vertues and life and power therein against the spirit of the world in his vessels and were it not for this none of the holy men of God need to have suffered nor been hated but for the words of God spoken by them as Christ hath said It is not you that speak but the Spirit of your Father that speaks in you and this is the voice which the world knows not and so would stop it and sayes it is not the Lord not knowing that justice and judgement are the habitation of his throne in the hearts and mouths of his people What must not the Spirit of Truth in whom he lives judge deceit and falshood where it lives Must not that which is Holy judge the unclean must not the lowly one judge the proud the chaste one judge the lust must not he that is spiritual judge all things must not Saints judge the world What a nation would you have this to be who would root out judgement and yet profess Christ in you Is Christ in that people where there is no judgement against sin what none to judge pride and excess lying swearing and cursed speaking false wayes and false worships would you have all sin to pass openly without reproof Is the Land wholly become as Sodom mind what was their words to Lot in this case This one fellow came in to sojourn and he will needs be a Judge whose righteous soul was vexed daily with their unclean conversation So would you have sin to go openly in the streets without repoof and shame Where is the Holy One in whom doth he dwell who is of purer eyes then to behold iniquity Is Christ a King is he a Judge is he pure and clean in heart doth he live can he see sin and be silent where he hath a mouth to speak by did he ever take up his abode in people where none would allow him a habitation and a mouth to speak by Mind his walking aforetime in his Servants and what he did and spoke in them and against what and is he not still a God of Judgment at hand against his adversary though such as know not his Voice put him afar off So you who say you are for Christ and his Kingdom mind whose kingdom sin is in and whose work it is to defend it from judgment and take Scripture to plead for it that is he which condemns the just who would clear the guilty and that is abomination to God and withstands his appearance and you that yeeld your members thereto are not for Christ but against him in his members who have yeelded themselves Servants of Truth and such as you were they who slew the Just One his Prophets and Apostles in whom the Word of God spoke against sin and had the Scriptures and served sin Wherefore if you love the appearance of Christ Jesus you must not love sin but in that principle which would not sin feel him that suffers because of sin and yet is without sin and against sin and if to him you come whose appearance is in that which is holy just and true and therein joyn to him you will love that which condemns sin by which he is grieved oppressed and then are you for Christ when you can feel and suffer with him by that which he suffers and you will then see that nought is it that is offended at sin being judged but he that is guilty thereof Grace received and Grace rejected THE Grace of God is that which brings Salvation to man all men being in natural darkness as they are in the world without God so the Grace of God is tendred to all without respect of persons And that 's it in every man which gives him a sight of Truth in himself which Truth God by his Grace accepts in every man who would have all men to come to the knowledge thereof that they might be saved Now this Grace in it self is one in every man and is of God in every man and doth not spare the evil nor deny the good in any out of respect either to person wisdom strength or riches which is of this world but hath respect to the Truth of Spirit in all and their obedience thereto therein to teach and lead to Salvation and the true Worship of God in Spirit which leads to Life

eternal and to the strengthening the holy Seed in man quickening the Soul which by sin hath suffered and this it doth by condemning sin in every motion that it may never arise against the holy Seed and also by ministring comforts and promises and power in spirit to the soul in the way of its arising above the power of the son of wickedness still ministring light and understanding in the hidden part to the holy Seed that hates sin opening that eye daily through the obedience of Truth which the god of this world hath blinded and purifying the Soul by putting off the body of corruption and blinding him that saith he sees but knows not the way out of sin ministring the Law upon him And this is the ministration of free Grace to every Soul that receives it and this it worketh powerfully in all that abide in it through the Spirit of Christ Jesus and this Grace as saith the Scripture hath appeared to all men yea and doth daily appear in all who truly wait in Spirit for its appearance and gives to all such a sight of Truth in themselves testifying with or against every motion in their hearts according as it stands in the sight of God whether it be good or evil whereby the Conscience doth accuse or excuse even as God shall judge them by Christ Jesus So that there is no cause in this Grace why any are not saved thereby from sin and condemnation but being rejected of some it becomes their condemnation and the same thing which saves him that receives it in faith and obedience condemns him that rejects it in his disobedience And this is the Grace of God that changeth not which appears to all men but only reigns to Salvation through righteousness wherein it is believed to be sufficient and obeyed in the Truth therewith made manifest So that is the Grace of God which is of God in man ministring in Spirit light to the Soul in the midst of darkness ministring life to that which is dead in sin leading that through the vail of death up to God from whom the Grace hath appeared and of whom it is and the Light thereof is Judgement and discerning in every one that receives it to be led with it in Judgment and Condemnation to such as turn it into lasciviousness denying the life thereof and the truth that leads thereto and so cannot be saved through it but he that receives it and joyns to it in Spirit becomes one with it and by his daily sinking into it in counsel it grows in him and he in it until it becomes a habitation and cover for him against all evil and so he becomes gracious in words and works daily receiving Grace for Grace of his fulness And he that hath received of this Grace and is faithful therein must not minister of it to strengthen the transgressor who loves his sin and so is under the Law for that is to cast the pearls to swine but to such as are heavy laden and weary of sin to encourage against sin and temptations which all that turn from the Devil must be sure to meet with and Judgement it ministers to the wicked that therewith he may know his condemnation with the light of Truth in whom Grace is denied to reign it is their condemnation that he is come into the world who is full of Grace and Truth but the Kingdom of Grace is Salvation in whom it reigns through righteousness unto eternal Life by Jesus Christ the Lord. So he that receives the teaching of Grace comes therein to the leading of the Spirit and so becomes free from sin is no more under the Law but under Grace but the Law hath power over him that walks after the flesh and every appearance of Grace is witness against him by declaring him to be under the law of sin and death and not in Covenant with him that appears against sin in the power of Grace and Truth which is Christ Jesus the Lord. THE END