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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A46916	Strength in Weakness or The burning bush not consumed Being an answer (formerly published under this title) to two letters written by James Naylor. To which is now added several other papers written since by the same hand (whereof one is intituled, The secret shootings of the wicked reproved.) With a reply thereunto, as also to the rest respectively. By J.J. Published at the request of some, for the satisfaction of others: and tendred to the serious perusall of the impartiall and un-prejudic'd reader.	Jackson, John, fl. 1651-1657.; Naylor, James, 1617?-1660. Secret shooting of the wicked, reproved.	1655 (1655)	Wing J78B; ESTC R216982	27,934	42

things spoken by both parties are reconcileable and that there is no lye to be devided between us nor applyed to either of us for that her soul was in bitterness and conflict at thy charge layd upon her 't is evident which sent her to him who alone knows how to deliver his sons and daughters when they fly and cry unto him and before her answer was returned to thee was heard in what she feared The strength of Israel was prevailed with and it was said unto her soul I will set him at liberty from him that puffeth at him thus of weak was made strong by the arm of the mighty God of Iacob who had set her above thy charge and therefore well might she say at the sending the Answer to thee I am no way troubled at thy continued charges thus hast thou this filth wiped off and needest not be troubled except it be that thou hast spoken unadvisedly with thy lips in accusing the innocent Reprover Onely I shall let thee see in a few words what a body of confusion is in this daughter thou art boasting of She saies she knows her self assuredly to be in the Kingdom of God yet still kept groaning for Adoption Reply Hast thou fairly and honestly recited passages or hast thou not injured the truth in this thy recital shouldst not thou have used her own words when thou sayst she sayes Thou shouldst have said the Kingdom of Grace for so saith the Letter And hast thou not left out a material sentence which manifestly alters the case and makes it speak another thing then is intended the words in the Letter are these Yet nevertheless am still kept groaning waiting for the Adoption to wit the redemption of my body Which last clause thou hast wholly omitted which is the explanation of the former and may not be read without it Was it not an aggravation of the fault in the Tempter to pretend Scripture to back his temptation with an omission of a material part of a sentence Mat. 4. 6. I will not apply it perhaps thou mightst do it ignorantly not willingly however at best it was not fair to say no more 2. But why should it seem to thee a thing incredible and be branded with so much contempt that a son or daughter of God who hath received the spirit of Adoption of Sonship and translated into the kingdom of the dear Son of Love the Lord Jesus that such should groan within themselves waiting for the Adoption to wit the Redemption of their body Hast thou never heard of a company of Redeemed ones who were delivered from the power of darkness and translated into the kingdom of the dear son of the Fathers love in whom they have redemption through his blood the forgiveness of sins Yet even these redeemed ones these that are thus translated into the kingdom of his dear son are advised to take heed of being spoyled through Philosophy and vain deceit after the tradition of men after the rudiments of the world and not after Christ These are further exhorted to mortifie their members which are upon the earth to put off anger and to put on bowels of mercy and above all to put on Love which is the bond of Perfectness There is all this and much more to be found in that Letter or Estle written by Paul to the Colossians who also testifies it was his own case as appears in the eighth of the Romans where notwithstanding that the Law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus had made him free from the Law of sin and death verse the second and that he and the beleeving Romans had the witness in themselves the spirit it self bearing witness with their spirits that they were the children of God and had received the spirit of Adoption whereby they did cry Abba Father Yet nevertheless this holy and blessed witness of Jesus Paul himself and others with him notwithstanding they had received the spirit of Adoption and all that is above mentioned yet account it but as a first fruits of the spirit and groan within themselves waiting for the Adoption to wit the Redemption of the body these were those who were heirs of God and joynt heirs with Christ who nevertheless waited for the Adoption in the sence mentioned before here is no cover no gloss no interpretation no meanings but plain testimonie of Scripture to which agrees that which is witnessed of the condition of other Saints of God who although they were translated into the kingdom of the dear son yet had somthing still to be subdued and mortified and were to cleanse themselves from all pollution or filthiness both of flesh and spirit perfecting holyness in the fear of God These things considered I hope thou wilt see cause to cease to condemn the generation of the righteous because they dare not say they are perfect though notwithstanding through the strength of Christ they are going on to perfection striving against sin watching against it and warring against it and assured in their measure that they shall one day be more then conquerors through him that loves them who both teacheth their hands to fight and their fingers to war and what else meanes those words of this friend whom thou dost charge with obstinate wickedness who saith in these words following Through Grace I can testifie the gracious preservation my heavenly father doth daily visit me with a teaching leading power of his holy spirit whereby I finde my self in the kingdom of Grace not shut out as thou sayest by my comprehension nor vain imagination having received union with that holy spirit in my measure do daily take counsel and try first my own deceivings which are within me and those also which are without which causeth me to turn away from so many who professe they are sent messengers from the Lord The good Lord I beleeve assuredly will as he hath faithfully promised to my soul break every yoke of sinful covenant within me it is no grief of heart but true joy yea wonderfully more then my pen at this season can express to feel and find the increase of his grace in my soul with his peace which passeth mans understanding yea even thy deep censures This may suffice to clear away that body of confusion at which thou art so causelesly offended and so grossy stumblest Reprover And had she known the kingdom of God in her she had never wondred how I-durst adventure to write to one whose face I had not seen as she doth in her Paper and saies she consider whether ever the Apostles or Prophets thou art like herein Art thou not still out of the way wouldst thou bear it from another see if thou hast not again varied the case much and judge if it be fair Doth the Letter say she wondered how thou durst adventure to writt to one whose face thou hadst not seen or doth it not say I therefore doe the more wonder how thou durst adventure upon one thou knowest not

hast thus written by revelation to me or by information from others consider from whence it commeth I say consider whether either the Apostles or the Prophets thou art like unto herein I know it to be no evill but my duty to wait for the injoyment of all that is fore-told in the holy Scriptures Oh my soul wait thou on God for my expectation is from him leave me to the Lords Tryal So do I freely leave thee not having faith to follow thee nor thy friends yet to manifest love to thee and thy friends for thy Soul at the Throne of Grace and all other outward expressions of Love for thee and thy friends as in my measure I am able through Christ The 16th of the 4th Moneth 1655. Mary Noel To Mary Noel deliver these FRiend had I known thee no other way but by sight or hearing or any outward appearance I durst not have writ on to thee nor owned a Seed in thee nor do I appear to that in thee which so judges my witness is that in thee that never changeth which shall confess what I have writ to be from the Eternal Unity and Love to thy soul which another principal calls a heavy charge yet art thou made to confess it in thy Letter If thou didst but see it who art yet groaning and waiting for Adoption and yet says thou art in the Kingdom truly friend thou knowst not what it is to be in the Kingdom none are there but Sons yet canst thou not bear it that it should be called comprehensions though it be sound and not stattering as for those Christ Iesus foretold to come in the last days they are come and in the world have been many hundred years and their fruits do make them manifest as he hath spoken and were thou joyned to that seed thou talk'st on thou should know them and avoyd them not because they are messengers sent of the Lord but be ause they run unsent and those are enemies to such are sent and was ever and whereas thou says thou knows not any one thing true that I writ to thee I say if thou hadst known it then should I not have been moved to write to thee of it But for thy sake who knows not who hast not him whom thy soul longs after which is the sum of my writing which thou denies calling God to iudge between us and yet confesses thou art waiting for Adoption and Redemption which if thou had it why shouldst thou wait for it as that of God in thy conscience shall witness when thou shalt cease to put the Iudge a far off thee for that Wisdom could never own Apostles nor Prophets yet was they manifest to every mans conscience in the sight of God and i● thou read me in that which is meek and longs after Christ Iesus then the harsh nature will be judged and thou wilt see that plainness is pure love till then I must bear the reproach of the world and looks for no other from all whom I have to deal with knowing that my Message is against the will of all men I. N. For the hands of James Naylor FRiend I am no way troubled at thy continual charges but do assuredly know in whom I have beleeved and certain knowledge I have received of my spiritual Son-ship in Christ Jesus and by this holy Union with Christ Jesus my head have been by him taught many years past to try the publick Teachers of this Nation with those private also who have held forth themselves to be sent Messengers from Christ Jesus and by his holy spirit to which I am united am taught to turn from them and from thee also who hast run before thou wast sent with this false message to me assuredly knowing my self to be in the Kingdom though men and Devils say never so much to the contrary my assurance wherof I speak came not by them therefore they cannot take it from me I am not afraid to declare what the Lord hath done for my soul before the faces of thousands If I knew it were my duty this with holy confidence do I know and lift up my head with joy when the fire shall try and doth already every mans work of what sort it is So I leave thee to him who is the onely righteous Judge between thee and me desiring thee no more to write unto me for I am taught to turn from thee as I already have done from others yet remaining to manifest Duties of love to thee and thy friends through the strength of my Christ as need is offere● Mary Noel The Secret Shooting of the wicked reproved Or a word to the nameless Publisher of that he calls Strength in weakness or the burning Bush NOw is the living God visiting his people and gathering his seed out of Babylon and Egypt and hath called out his servants and sent them to these strange Kings with his Message to bring out to light that which hath been kept in prison whereat Pharaoh is exceedingly troubled and the King of Babylons Posts meet one another with this cry Our Kingdome is taken at one end the Sea rages and all that have treasures in Ships are gathered to stand up for their God and their King to keep in bondage But from him that sits upon the seat of iniquity to the Magitians that use the inchantments to deceive withal yea and upon all that beleive them shall the hand of the Lord be to make Babylon desolate and to dash her children against the stones which lie in the streets thereof which all the builders refuse This is the Lords doing and wo to him that doth resist him who hath sent his Word to strange Nations and to people of dark understandings whether they will hear or for bear And thou amongst the rest who calls thy self the publisher of what I write to James Nowell's Wife but conceals thy name as one ashamed of his vision saying in thy practice Smite him secretly as the B●ckbiters and Whisperers of old ever did stirring up prejudice in the minds of people and making them evil affected against the truth so dost thou against the movings and Messages of the living God in his servants rendring them under the names of sore Temptations terrible Adversaries bitter Assaults of the enemy and such like corrupt words thou uses to inform the Reader withal before he read the Letters and when thou hast cast out thy venom against the truth of the Lord then thou covers thy self with feigned words saying I leave it to the most wise and holy God to direct the wise in heart to consider them Oh thou full of all subtilty was not God able to direct the wise without thy forestalling slanderous opinions how hast thou helped God or any wise man herein hadst thou Printed them both and been silent then thou hadst left it to God indeed and I should have been silent also hast thou dealt moderately herein or as thou wouldst be done unto

shall not the least of wise men Iudge thee and thy spirit nay hast thou not helped on the Devils Kingdom with lies as I shall bring no other witness against thee herein but her whom thou so highly commends for says thou her temptations afflictions and conflict was repeated and renewed so often as opportunity was given by her new visiters which visiters are these letters which thou hast published but saith she I am no way troubled at such continued charges Now how must this be divided betwixt you seeing the one at least must be the Lyar both in this and divers other things I might instance but I delight not to rake into such filth onely I shall let thee see in a few words what a body of confusion is in this daughter thou art boasting of which shame might have been hid had it not been for your glorying against the truth and thuogh to me both thou and she is known without words yet before others who yet judge things according to the outward appearance I shall tak but a word or two out of her own mouth where by her foundation might be discovered to the least of those who know the Kingdom She says she knows her self assuredly to be in the Kingdom of God yet still kept groaning for Adoption I say the Kingdome of God consists not in groaning for Adoption but in righteousness peace and joy in that which is holy and none are there but ons who are Adopted no farther in the Kingdom then new-born and self denyed though shesay herself is in the Kingdom which never came so far as a Disciple where self is standing much less not into the Kingdom Further she confesses her own deceivings yet within her unjudged which are yet to try and the yoke of sinful convenant in her yet unbroken all which and much more may be taken from her own pen without wronging her as her Letters by thee published may witness yet withal this she says She knows her self to be in the Kingdom of God when it is no other but exalted into the Chambers of your own imaginary for all who knows the Kingdom of God can witness against you that no such unclean stuffe comes there no self nor self-deceivings no sin nor sinful covenant comes there all this is in the Kingdome of Satan and not of God never was nor ever shall be blessed be God who hath condemned out all that filth and confusion and all that lives in it that he may keep his Kingdom pure therefore do the Virgins love him And had she known the Kingdome of God in her she had never wondred how I durst adventure to write to one whose face I had not seen as she doth in her Paper and says she consider whether ever the Apostles or Prophets thou art like herein I say did not God command his servants to write his Message to strange Lands and strange persons and did he first send them to look upon their faces to know what to write to them or doth that add to his Word Oh shame with your blindness herein is God become as blinde as you who cannot judge but by carnal appearance and will you limit him to your selves that eye never saw Prophets nor Prophesies Christ nor Apostles but this is all you know of God or his Word his Iudgments and Kingdom who are blind and deaf as to the invisible and so the visible and carnal Iudges judging God to be like your selves imagines self to be in the Kingdom but the blind and deaf comes not there in that state Had God no other servants but such as you it might be long ere the obedience of Christ and his sufferings should be manifest in flesh for the gathering his seed into the light as ever he did send them to strange people who declared his Word to them whose faces they had not seen to open their blind eyes and so bring them out of darkness into the light to be seen which to her is a wonder And this is thy daughter thou boasts on and calls her a daughter of Abraham who is a daughter of disobedience strengthening her self against the Word of the Lord because the instrument had not seen her face resisting in her own will the tender of eternal love and this thou calts Strength in Weakness which is obstinate wickedness and that both she and thou must know when you have finished your measure and of her blood I am cleer for ever And this is the bush thou boasts of which is not consumed though fire be in it I say there is a time when the fire is in the Bush and the Bush unconsumed then is the Seed of God in Egypt under Pharaoh and the Magitians and in that state death raigns from Adam till Moses Also there is a time when the light of Israel doth burn up the Bush and devour the Briars and Thorns in one day then is that God known who is a consuming fire to all that choaks his seed go learn what this means then shalt thou see whereof thou art glorying and under that glory a fire shall be kindled Who would set Briars and Thorns against me in battel I will go through them and burn them together Thy murmuring against the Northern people is come before the Lord Thus saith the Lord I have raised one from the North from the rising of the Sun is he come upon you as upon morter and clay who declares from the beginning knows him and who is before time can say that he is righteous but thou canst not hear him nor declare him who consumes the Bushes and makes plain before him that he may plant in the Wilderness and make it a Land of springs for the poor and needy to drink at where shall come no more fear of Briars and Thorns but the little ones shall feed safely this death knows not only the fame you have got Woe to you brambles and bushes who tears the lambs on every side Josephs bough you know not nor its fruit though you have got it to talk of you are the fruit of the cursed ground your end is to hand yet a lamentation there is that doth not change for the seeds sake By a lover of your Souls James Naylor A word to the Reprover Or some Animadversions upon the foregoing Paper AS now the living God is visiting and gathering his seed out of bondage and confusion so hath he been ever doing from the time of the manifesting his pleasure in that word of Grace Gen. 3. 15. if by the seed be intended the remnant whom the Lord our God shall call Acts 2. 39. Rom. 8. 28. Revel. 12. 17. Revel. 17. 14. That seed of whom its said A seed shall serve him it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation Psal. 22. 30. This seed hath the most high been gathering since the time of their first scattering and for that cause among others is Iesus Christ said to be the same yesterday to day and for