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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95098	A true narrative of the examination, tryall, and sufferings of James Nayler in the cities of London and Westminster, and his deportment under them. With the copies of sundry petitions and other papers, delivered by severall persons to the Lord Protector, the Parliament, and many particular Members thereof, in his behalf. With divers remarkable passages (relating thereto) before his journey to Bristol, whither he is now gone towards the filling up the measure of his sufferings.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1657 (1657)	Wing T2789; Thomason E899_6; ESTC R204821	56,615	71

to the Parliament-men as they passed by to one where he saw innocency said He that dwelleth in love dwelleth with God for God is love And to another where he saw envy reign He that hateth his brother is a manslayer and he that hates his brother is a murtherer and several other the like speeches dividing the good from the bad And although was then thought that James Naylor would not have suffered any further punishment by reason that there were many honourable persons then attending the Parliament and Protector on behalf of the said James Naylor and likewise the Protector had sent to the Parliament a Letter c. yet the said Kich then told the People that the Innocent was going to suffer and crying to the Parliament that he was clear from the blood of all men and desiring them to be so too departed and came before the Exchange where with James Naylor he went on the Pillory where he stood and sate by him with two other women that sate on each side by him till after a good space Robert Rich took a Paper out of his pocket and placed over his head whereon was written It is written Luk. 23. 38. This is the King of the Jews But presently an Officer stept up and pull'd it down and turned Robert Rich and the two women off the Pillory but after a while they lifted up Robert Rich again on the Pillory where he staid till James Naylor had finished his sufferings for that time and held him by the hand whil'st he was burning and afterwards licked his wounds and lead him by the hand from off the Pillory This was also very remarkable that notwithstanding there might be many thousands of people yet they were very quiet few heard to revile him or seen to throw any one thing at him and when he was a burning all the people both before him and behind him and on both sides of him with one consent stood bare-headed This was done that the Scripture might be fulfilled Mar. 15. 38. COPIES OF SEVERAL of the PAPERS given into the House of PARLIAMENT in the time of IAMES NAYLERS Tryal sufferings which began the fifth of December 1656. To the SPEAKER of the PARLIAMENT of ENGLAND these to be read FRIENDS ACt nothing cōtrary to that which doth cōvinceyou though bound with an Oath although you bring your selves in never so much disgrace in breaking your Agreement for in such a case you may reject the Counsel of God against your own Knowledge and so appearing to please the world that looks upon you the unjust acts against the Just herein you 'l do despite to the Spirit of Grace wilfully acting that which he knows he should not So here comes mans condemnation just from God therefore before you do act consider and before you do give Sentence fear for Blasphemy proceeds from the root of Transgression and see that you be first out of it before you of it do judge There is no Blasphemy in the Light which is truth And to witness the light is not Blasphemy And to witness the Prophets Life and the Apostles Life that had the Life of Jesus made manifest in his mortal flesh And to witnesse the Life of God and God dwelling in man is not Blasphemy And to witnesse the second Adam the Lord from Heaven and as he is so to be in this world is not Blasphemy but not to witnesse this and to be in the transgression he is in the Root that will blaspheme and for a man to say he witnesses these things and himself in the transgression he blasphemes and is the Synagogue for Satan who did transgresse and not abide in the truth who is in the transgression Now it is not because men can speak the Scriptures of truth therefore they are able to judge of Blasphemy for the Jews could speak the Scriptures of truth but judged the Truth Blasphemy Now if you would know what 's Blasphemy this is blasphemy and these were out of the life of the truth that judged the life blasphemy and you do not read that any that was in the life of Christ did whip banish prison put to death any for blasphemy Alas here is blasphemy heard all up and down the streets men professing what they are not Now the Jews which had the Scriptures and out of the spirit of Christ did put to death for blasphemy Now with this examine and judge your selves that you may not be judged of the Lord Although Darius could not change after sealed yet 't was much grief to him consider what Act that was and Law that was not to be changed after sealed And consider Herods Oath against Iohn Baptist and the counsel and chief Priests against Christ for a blasphemer Is Christ in you Now where is this councel and chief Priests against him It is better to judge of things which you truly understand pertaining to this life but that you cannot till you come to the Light that enlightens every man that comes into the world and so leads into the Kingdom of God and Christ that is not of this world for there is a Kingdom of the world which is not become the Kingdom of Christ which is in the transgression and there are the blasphemers in the transgression of the life which the Scriptures of truth is given forth from which judges the truth blasphemy Now wait in the Light that you may receive the wisdom of God which comes from Christ by which all things was created that with it you may come to use the creatures with the wisdom by which they were created to the Glory of God I know the Lord is striving that innocent blood you bring not upon your heads and hath opened your understandings for to see more then at the first and in many of you hath he wrought a noble Principle of tendernesse and moderation in which if you abide faithful to act what it requires the arm of the Lord you will see revealed and great things brought to pass and so will you be clear whatever becomes of the Innocent in the day of Gods visitation when he makes Inquisition for blood you whose understandings the Lord hath opened and moved to plead the cause of the Innocent be faithful to God be your talent never so small take heed of hiding it least your sin become greater then you will be able to bear If I may have Liberty of those that sit in the Parliament I do here at their door attend and am ready out of the Scriptures of truth to shew that not any thing James Nayler hath said or done is blasphemy or worthy either of death or bond● It concerns no man farther to judge then he is judged and is in the truth This in tender love to all who are of an upright heart that sits in Parliament from Robert Rich. There was several copies of the Letter given to particular Members besides this little paper given to many that had not the Letter In a

one another about these outward things but to come to know the Seed of God which bruiseth the Serpents head which would destroy and set one at enmity with another that crusheth down these outward things and reigns over these outward things which seed of God comprehands all strife and comprehends the world which seed the promise and blessing of God is to in which seed is the unity and not the enmity for that is it which is bruised with it Therefore do not shew your selves in enmity against these actions where they are acted in the seed of God in righteousnesse not in the world out of the enmity not as justifying the wicked in these things nor condemning the righteous Minde consideration before you do judge of such as are moved to act these things whether or no they be not examples to you all to try you all whether or no you will persecute or lift up your hands against such and an act whereby you may search your selves and see how far short ye come of a Disciple And come to that good in you all that is of God that with it you may overcome if there be any thing that is evil and the heaping the coles of fire upon that which is the adversary And whether or no there be not such things to be acted in righteosnesse and simplicity as washing the seet of the Disciples or that some may be carried whether they would not go and if any should kisse the feet or wash the feet of another in love and simplicity is that such a crime And for Jesus and Christ and the prince of life and peace if Jesus Christ be within the second Adam is witnessed God with us which is Jesus and be not offended with this if any do witnesse the State reconciled to God who hath witnessed the State drove from God the first Adams state who witnesses the second Adams state the Emanuel God with us Again Now be not ye offended at this least you do manifest your selves to be in the first Adams state driven from God not witness Jesus Christ God with you reconciled to God again But if you stand against this it shews your selves to be in the transgression standing against the Emanuel which is God with us Be not hasty in acting these things but examine and consider before you do act George Fox Except ye see signes and wonders ye will not believe but this is come to pass that the Scriptures might be fulfilled that saith the time will come that they shall think they do God good service when they kill you Remember the Scripture which saith His face is more marr'd then any mans Isa 52. 14. And whether this be not the same that gave his Checks to the Smiter and opened not his mouth And see now who they are that have spit upon him but what evil hath he done Notwithstanding all these warnings yet on the 17. day of the tenth moneth the major part of the House pronounced Sentence on him A brief Account of the Grounds of the Petitioners that appeared for James Nayler With the Copies of their Petitions for satisfaction of all moderate spirits GOd who worketh all things according to the Counsell of his own Will is oft times pleased to make use of extremities and by them to point out unto his people their duty Thus did he Order that the encreased tyrannies and oppressions of Israel in the Land of Egypt should presse forth their cries and tears unto the Lord that he might thence take his rise to appear for them So in the daies of the Bishops of late years the tryals and sufferings of the people of God have come to some head and ripenesse before He hath bin provoked to deliver them as we might instance both in Scotland and our own Nation Even so fareth it with the poor people of God at this day who having been for some time asleep and in a pleasing dream as if the storms were over and the Winter were past and gone are awakened by a fresh Alarm to consider and behold the same spirit of persecution and blood revived again in the bosome of that worldly peace and glory wherein we have delighted to stand forth in the Image of the Nations How much better and safer had it been for us to have stood by the Lord in his founding of Zion waiting for his Counsel who stood by us in our destroying the grosser Babylon and to have been of the poor of his people that trust in it and not of those that exercise dominion over it There is a poor contemptible people whom God hath pleased to call forth out of all the Sects and Divisions in this Nation both Professors and Non-professors whose principles and waies have bin fitted and prepared to give check or confront at least to that Spirit of Lordlinesse and formality that after the throwing down of the old Fabrick of a painted and pompous Church and State was but too apt to spring up again among us which is the best account we can at present give why God should suffer so many upright souls to be snatcht from their former communion and walking into so exasperating a way There was something of the measure of the sufferings of Christ yet behind and of the Spirit of Antichrist yet to be vented and acted upon our English Theatre And truly not without some regret in our selves have we heard observed the long oft repeated sufferings of that poor people who have bin whipt imprisoned As Evesham can witnesse in many parts of this Nation thrust into holes and dungeons where they have scarce had the liberty to breathe and all this for nothing as far as we understand but what peaceable people may do without any disturbance to the civil peace and quiet of the Nation We hope what we have writ is clear and we may easily be understood herein not to approve their scheme of doctrine as absolutely clear and Evangelical but who knows what sufferings may do to the purifying and refining thereof But thus have we stood gazing upon them not pleading their Cause because disgusting some of their Principles till the Wisdom of God saw good to give us a fresh and louder Alarm not in our Ears only but before our Eyes in the bitter usage of James Nayler one of the very chief of that people though now dis-owned by the generallity of them whose case therefore is the more respected by us So that we could no longer as persons unconcern'd keep silence but we must appear for him in a Petition to the Parliament And this we could not refuse unlesse we would renounce that Love that Light that Cause and those Principles we have all along for some years professed and avowed But how low and tender these first buddings of our charity were the Petitions themselves will shew which yet were as high as we could well go or the Parliament bear And we were not so modest but some thought