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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

purity and perfection which we have in the holy God as all ever had who lived in him And in him is truth and freedome but a lie there is in all your likenesses and you are blinde and will not see it all you who have a God and Christ and a worship which doth not make the commers thereto perfect nor set you above the Devill nor overcome his temptations Your God and King we know which keepes you in the earth which you will curse if ever you looke upward your peace we know and the end of it your Kingdome with all its glory when from this world you are taken there is your parting when he shall breake your Covenant whose Covenant you have broken and would not heare him though you pretended still to seeke him That 's his call which in your consciences lets you see you have lost him which did you wait in it would lead you to him but erring from it you are out of his way and counsell and all other wayes is to no purpose his Light is that which searcheth your hearts in secret nor can any other judge you in private yet from that you will be running to aske counsell at them who know not your condition so instead of God you consesse to men that cannot judge you nor help you while you go to the naturall you leave the spirituall and so with naturall words you seed the naturall comprehensions but the spirituall man seeds not at that fountaine for its the spirituall that thirsts which not minded the naturall runs and seeds above it and this being above you cannot receive the food of the Spirit therewith to God to be reconciled and quickned nor is that fed that death hath passed over nor out of death is it raised but that which lives in you is for death and by feeding on that wisdome the vaile is thickned and the eternall is out of your knowledge yet you say God is a Spirit and teaches in Spirit and will be worshipped in Spirit but cannot endure to hearken to any thing within you nor turne to that Spirit How blinde are you led with your blinde guides Is not that which is spirituall within or can it be knowne any where else Is God known by hearsay then who is it that knows him not Can the carnall eye see the spirituall God or the carnall eare hear him then should not his ministry be to the spirits in prison to open the blinde eyes and to unstop the dease eares yea where the carnall is open But this you know not who have eyes and see not eares and hear not and hands which never handled the word of life yet would you be teaching others that which you never saw nor heard and to this teaching you would limit others Paul was sent to open the blinde eyes yet was he sent to those who had eyes as you have with which they could see to stone him and whip him and eares to hear him and call what he said heresie and blasphemie as you doe and as ever the carnal judged of the spirituall who hath not an eare to hear what the Spirit saith Oh unwise people you have but one thing that lets you see your evill yet will you not turn to that for teaching nor that eye you love not which lets you see your darknesse You cry you have nothing that 's good in you yet will you not own that which lets you see it is so and thus you keep Covenant with darknesse though death and destruction be the end of it but the Covenant of Light which shines in darknesse you regard not that 's far below your comprehensions nay it s the least seed in you which we know is the seed of the kingdome troden under foot by the kingdome of the world therefore nothing else leads out of the world but that whose kingdome is not in it and with this seede is the Covenant which seed you know not who take pleasure in the flesh that 's of another kingdome to which is no Covenant but Death and Hell Yet you talk of Abraham his Covenant and Promise but that in Abraham in which the Covenant was established was that which led him out out of the world wherein he became a stranger and wanderer as that seede ever is which you call vagabonds persecute and imprison you that have rule in this world shewing that you are not of that seed that entertaines strangers nor in that Covenant where all are strangers and Pilgrims in this world nor doe you own that which divides you from this world being uncircumcised in heart which to be is the seal of Abrahams faith and so you whose life is in the earth are far off from Abrahams bosome Faith and Covenant which is onely to his seede not to the seede of evill doers not to seeds which is many but to one which is Christ So in the world out of Christ and out of Christ out of Gods Covenant for his Promises are all yea and amen to them that are in Christ Jesus but not to them that abide in the world Who owns him as King cannot want the Promise neither can you have it who abide in the world therefore you apply the words but want the life which is the power nor can your literall Promises sute your condition nor save you from Satans power but as all others who think salvation to be in the letter so doe you denie leading and guiding of the Spirit in which the power is placed therefore the Light you will not follow neither can you believe it to be sufficient And he that denies the Light cannot own the Lord of life So you are ignorant of God and his way in which he makes himselfe krovvne to his people and so takes up your rest in outward observations set up and upholden in the wills of men and for such traditions you are zealous and strongly contend for them but the Lavv of God written in your own hearts you make of none effect while you denie to be ruled according to it yet you say We are in the new Covenant when you are in the old traditions and what you know is from others But the least in that Covenant knows him and his preferce and witness him true according to his promise ever manifesting his power to undertake for us against all our enemies a present help in time of trouble and we know him in whom we have believed where he is and the way to him have seen the glory of his kingdom and the powers of the eternall World the house wherein are many Mansions yet the lowest place is pure for which the Lord alone prepares his people and their way which the creature cannot doe of himself onely Christ doth it where selfe is denied and selfe-will for by the will of man comes no promise nor obtains that will any performance So he begets both the will and the deed which you know not where your wills is standing by

and his next appearance cryed them down without and set up the substance of them within so that God hath been forced all along to pull down what he himself did set up though never so good yet if cannal the carnal mind would get into it and adulterate from the maker as you may reade in the Scriptures how many things he hath laid waste upon that account even at his appearance in some of his sons and daughters even such things as he had said should be signs for ever yet their abuse caused the servants of God to cry them down so your carnal things wherein God and his power and righteousness is not your setting them up instead of Christ makes them odious to all that know Christ and they cannot see that which belongs to God given to any creature and be silent but you will say they are commands of God and there is no Scripture for taking them away I say those carnal things are but commands as Circumcision and the Passover were and many other yet were they taken away with out letter by that Spirit that gave them when they were abused what letter had Hezekiah to take away the Brazen-Serpent and break it in pieces what Scripture had Paul to cry down Circumcision when he saw it abused though he had circumcised what Scripture had Paul to deny that he was sent to baptize when he saw them abuse it and setting it up above Christ and many other things which by the Spirit of God was removed when Idollized for which the literal observers who denyed the Spirits teaching counted them blasphemers as you do now and so by such they suffered for holding forth the substance and denying the shadows to such as Idollized them though otherwise the shadows had been lawful nor do I judge any that do it in obedience and so come up above it but all you that stick in these outward things contending about dipping or sprinkling but neglect the power and life you are the Jews of these days who strive about outward washings some for yong and some for old but in the mean time all out of the power and in the world in your own wills and worldly pleasures and profits pride and covetousness some for free will others not but all in your own wills and thus while you are about these things received by tradition the law of God written in your hearts is made of none effect nay you cannot own it that there is any thing there to guide or give the knowledge of God so you have a form of God but the world hath power over you and in you and so are become a reproach to Religion wherfore come out of the world and the power of darkness and come to the guide of the spirit of truth that you may be set free to the Lord from the rudiments which God is departed out of and follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth then shall you see him separating you from the world in the substance of truth in mercy and righteousness before you be hardened in your wickedness and your forms be left to you desolate and a strange thing come upon you which is seen concerning some of you who will not now own his appearance who before all form is will it not be a strange thing to see you who above all have cryed out for liberty of Conscience and against persecution who have been persecuted for Conscience-sake to see you become the most subtil persecuters that ever were in the world you in this generation be not grieved to hear of these things for God is bringing strange things to pass which you will not believe though it be told you but when it is come upon you remember you have been told for the Lord is gathering his seed out from the heathen where it hath been scattered and who will not be gathered shall be scattered and who will not come into the kingdom of the Lamb must be left amongst the beasts and when man denyes the Spirit of God to lead him he is no better who hath blinded that eye that foresees the evil shall fall into mischief ere he be aware ANd you Rulers Magistrates and Governours who have the sword of the Lord in your hands to rule in righteousness and judgement there is one thing needful for you to minde that you know the Lord to be your Judge and Law-giver in particular without which you cannot rule for God nor as deserving the name of Christians the Heathens exercise Lordship in their own wills and there is but one thing that differs you from them if you rule for God and after his will so as to give way that he may set up his kingdom in the soul who hath set you up to rule amongst men And you cannot rule for God unless you be ruled by him but if you have received his Law written in your hearts and his Judgements there and his power and authority and your souls subject thereto for Conscience-sake even to that power that is of God to come under it and the principle of everlasting Judgement and righteousness to reign in you and rule you and with that power and authority upon you and with you you go forth to judge his people and the heathen then you rule with God and for God and with his power and authority which you have received and to which you are joyned are you justifyed before the Lord God for whom you judge and his Law in every Conscience shall answer to your judgement that it is just and of God and so to that power of God and his authority shall every soul be subject not onely for fear but also for Conscience sake so you become Ministers of God to others but if you depart out of the counsel of God and the leadings of his Spirit and get up into the seat of those that went before you and take counsell at your selves and your policy to establish your wills as a law and have not respect to the law written in the heart but contrary to it set up respect of persons and places instead of Judgement and righteousnesse Then it must needs be that all who have respect to the everlasting Law and power of God in Spirit must suffer by you as witnesses against you as the Prophets Apostles and Martyrs have done against your forefathers till the Lambs testimony be finished and ended against you also yet are not we despisers of authoritie herein no more then they were who in subjection to that power ordained of God suffered by the wills of men who should have defended them by that power from the wills of men who are not subiect to that power of God so by men who deny that power that is ordained of God to rule in them by those doe such suffer as obey that power yet are the Innocent ever accused to be against the power who are but against mens wills in obedience to the power and this is no new thing in this

world But our Judgement remaines sure and to that power we appeare which no mans will can alter to which all shall confesse and every knee bow when he shall Judge who now suffers And if they shall depart into everlasting punishment who doth not minister to him in prison Then what will your doome be who cast him into prison now that he is come into the world And if the not knowing of him will not excuse such as doe not minister to him Then what excuse for you who call him vagabond stranger deceiver Devill c. and think no place bad enough to cast the body into in whom he is And if into everlasting fire with the Devill and his Angells they must goe who doe not visit him in prison Then what way will you escape who will not suffer any of his brethren or servants to visit him though they be moved to come from farre to doe it And though you may reade all this in the words of truth from his owne mouth Math. 25. yet I know you that are in your owne wills can no more beleeve these words then the Jewes and their rulers though you know it is he that spoke those words and confess it to be the word of the Lord which the Jewes did not know so your guilt is greater And though our freedom is in the Lord and we look not for it from men nay though some of you the more you be warned the more you harden your selves against God yet while we are moved of the Lord we cannot be silent if by any meanes some of you might turne to the light and search your wayes therewith and so be joyned to him and established in his power which is the desire of our soules for you That with the honour of God you may come to be honoured which none can have who seek for honour from men So you who desire to see into the wayes of God Consider these things following Did ever any that ruled for God seek for their honour from men or doth God honour such or did ever any want honour who sought the honour of God onely and not their own Is not the Spirit of meekness justice and mercy without respect of persons the Spirit of the living God which being in a Magistrate he is most like God which makes him everlastingly honourable here and hereafter which is true honour and authoritie Is it not want of this Spirit that hath made rulers Contemptible and laid them open to plots murthers and the lusts of seditious people in all ages which the Spirit of God keepes out of and makes their latter end a blessing to following generations Was not persecution ever blind or did ever the Princes of this world know the Lord of life by whom he hath suffered in all ages though they have been alwayes warned of it before they did it or did ever the innocent suffer but under the pretence of offenders Was not Christ and those in whom he was most seen ever Pilgrims and strangers in the earth such as you now call vagabonds and wanderers whip and imprison though they aske you nothing nor ever are beholden to the world wherein their rest is not which God foreseeing hath commanded all that owne him to entertaine strangers and made a law for it which you have a law against it Levit. 19. 34. Heb. 13. 2. Is it not the principall end of Magistrates to Judge the cause of the strangers poor and helpless to releive the oppressed and set the prisoners free c And how you doe this let that of God in your Consciences Judge for him till he appeare to plead the cause of him that hath no helper in the earth FINIS