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A89844 The power and glory of the Lord shining out of the north, or The day of the Lord dawning: wherein the true light is holden forth to all who desire to walk in the day. With a warning to the people of England of all sorts, not to oppose Christ in his kingdom. Shewing also the way how all flesh comes to know the Lord and fear him, by his terrible shaking the earthly part in man, witnessed by the holy men of God in Scripture. With a word to the serpents seed, or ministers of Antichrist, or man of sin, wherever he is found. By one whom the Lord hath called out of this dark world, into the true light, whom Ismaels brood calls a Quaker, whose name in the flesh is James Nayler. Naylor, James, 1617?-1660. 1653 (1653) Wing N302; Thomason E711_2; ESTC R207117 21,947 29

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the Nation praises praises be to our God whose is the earth and the fulness thereof Mat. 6. 25. and thus we do witness the Scripture fulfilled and take no thought for food and raiment as the heathen do but are come into the unity with all Saints in their joy and sufferings Phil. 4. 11 12. and are taught by Christ how to want and how to abound and in all conditions to be therewithall content and we can truly say all is for good to us and to the Church of Christ And our Kingdom and joy is not of this world nor doth the Ioh. 16. 22. world know us nor our joy glory to the highest for ever who is shaking all the wisdoms and powers of men to establish that which is of himself alone to which all shall be made to bend and bow And you that are in power minde the promise of the Father at the coming of Christ to his Kingdom I will overturn overturn overturn till it come into his hand whose right it Isa 9 6 7. is and upon his shoulders shall the government be established he that hath an ear to hear let him hear And take notice how many have been overturned already who would have been limiting him by their wisdoms And now it is come into your hands who above all have seen his wonders done for you and Amos 3. 2. the Nation and you above all have declared that you desire is that Christ alone may reign in his Kingdom and some of you I have known to be tender towards any who looked that way Oh that there were such a heart in you to lay aside all your own wills and carnal consultations and to take Counsell Isa 30. 1. at the Spirit of the Lord and be guided by his pure light shining into your conscience which would bring you into the fear of the Lord and to depart from self-ends interests and exaltations and to follow rhe Law of God in establishing Laws for your selves and others to walk by and that you may follow the practise of the Saints left in Scripture without Psal 89 14 15 16. wresting it that so you might come to have unity with them in the same Spirit that gave them forth and so be guided by the same Spirit of Justice and Judgment by which all were guided that ever have ruled well in all Ages whom God did bless and hath honoured for ever that so God may bless you and establish you and preserve the Nation out of the hands of yours and the Nations enemies And that you may be honoured Isa 1. 23. with taking away oppression and wicked and unjust Rulers Zach. 7. 9. to the end who are the cause of it who judge not the cause of the poor and needy and which the Lord hath been grieved at these many years but if you forget your selves and what you have promised before the Lord in the day when you sought unto him for deliverance and so exalt your selves over the poor and set up your own Laws and not the Law of God in its purity I declare unto you this day from the Word of the Isa 42. 23. Lord that he will overturn you and raise up his Kingdom Isa 14. 26 27. another way whether you will hear or whether you will forbear the word of the Lord shall stand for the Almighty God Hag. 2. 6 7. hath been shaking the Nations that his glory may appear and there shall be no rest untill his Kingdom be established above all mountains Hear all ye powers of the earth The Lord alone will raign This I am to declare abroad that they who are wise-hearted may understand and fear before the Lord God Almighty the time is at hand he that Believes shall be Established James Nayler TAke heed how you speak evil of the things you know not Jude 10. You who neither know the Lord nor his works in your selves take heed how you judge it in others you are without God who are in the world and the works of God have always been strange to that Nature which you live in but search the Scriptures and you shall finde that the holy men of God do witness quaking and trembling and roaring and weeping and fasting and tears but the world knows not the Saints conditions But beware therefore lest that come upon you which is spoken of in the Prophets and Apostles of such despisers and scorners as you are Behold ye despisers and wonder and perish for I work a work in your days a work which you shall not in any wise believe though a man declare it unto you Acts 13. 40 41. The Lord reigneth let the people tremble he sitteth between the Cherubims let the earth be moved Psal 99. 1. Tremble thou earth at the presence of the Lord at the presence of the God of Jacob Psal 114. My flesh trembleth because of thee and I am afraid of thy judgments Psal 119. 120. He looketh upon the earth and it trembled he toucheth the hills and they smoke Psal 104. 30. A fire goeth before his face and burneth up all his enemies round about his lightning enlightened the world the earth saw and trembled the hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord Psal 97 3 4 5. Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me and horrour hath overwhelmed me Psal 55 5. So terrible was the voice that Moses said I exceedingly fear and tremble whose voice then shook the earth but now he hath said that once more I shake not the earth only but heaven also Heb. 12. 21 26. When Paul heard the voice of Christ he trembling and astonished said Lord what wilt thou have me to do Acts 9. 6. The Corinthians received Titus in obedience with fear and trembling 2 Cor. 7. 15. Paul was with the Corinthians in weakness and fear much trembling 1 Cor. 2. 3. When Paul reasoned of righteousness temperance judgement to come Felix trembled Act. 24. 25. The Apostle exhorts the Saints to work out their salvation with fear trembling Phil. 2. 12. The Jaylor when he believed he came trembling and fell down before Paul and Silas Act. 16. 29. When Isaac blessed his sons he trembled very exceedingly Gen. 27 33. Hear the word of the Lord ye that tremble at his word your brethren that hated you that cast you out for my names sake said Let the Lord be glorified but he shall appear to your joy and they shall be ashamed Isa 66. 5. Thus saith the Lord to this man will I look even to him that is poor and of a contrite heart and trembleth at my words Isa 66. 2. Oh that thou wouldst rent the Heavens that the mountains might flow down at thy presence as when the melting fire causeth the water to boyl and to make his name known to his adversaries that the Nations may tremble at his presence Isa 64. 1 2. Yea I will make many people amazed at thee and
their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee when I shall brandish my sword before them and they shall tremble at every moment every man for his own life in the day of thy fall Ezek. 32. 10. When Habakkuk heard the voice his belly trembled his lips quivered and rottenness entred into his bones and he trembled in himself that he might rest in the day of trouble Hab. 3. 16. When Daniel saw the vision he stood trembling they that were with him thought that they saw it not yet a great quaking fell upon them so that they fled to hide themselves Dan. 10. 7 11. When God sets up his Son as King all are exhorted to serve him with fear and rejoyce with trembling Psal 2 6 11. When Iob remembred God he was afraid and trembling took hold on his flesh Iob 21. 6. The pillars of heaven tremble and are astonished at his presence Iob 36. 11. Which shaketh the earth out of her place the pillars thereof tremble Job 9. 6. Thou hast made us to drink the wine of astonishment thou hast made the earth to tremble thou hast broken it heal the breaches thereof for it sheketh Psal 60. 2 3. The earth shook the heavens also dropped at the presence of the God of Israel Psal 68. 8. And the Land shall tremble and sorrow for every purpose of the Lord shall be persormed against Babylon Jer. 51. 29. When Ezra heard of the peoples sins he pluckt his hair off his head and off his beard he rent his garment and sate down astonied and there assembled unto him all that trembled at the word of the God of Israel Ezra 9. 3 4. The people were to enter into Covenant with God by the counsel of those that trembled at the Command of God Ezra 10. 3. The Lord will take the cup of trembling out of the hands of his people and put it into the hands of those that afflict them Isa 51. 22 23. When the Lord shall roar then the Children shall tremble as a bird Hos 11. 10 11. Shall not the Land tremble for this and every one mourn that awelleth therein and all feasts shall be turned into mourning and all songs into lamentation as a lamentation for an only son Amos 8. 8 10. Thus saith the Lord of hosts Yet a little while and I will shake the Heavens the Earth the Sea and the dry Land and I will shake all nations and the desire of all nations shall come and I will fill my house with glory saith the Lord Hag. 2. 6 7. I beheld the Mountains and lo they trembled and all the hills moved lightly Jer. 4. 24. At his wrath the earth shall tremble and the Nations shall not be able to abide his indignation Jer. 10. 10. Tremble ye women that are at ease be troubled ye careless ones strip ye and make ye bare and gird sackcloth upon your loyns Isa 32. 11. Ieremy said his heart was broken within him all his bones shaked because of the Lord and because of the word of his Holiness Ier. 23 9. The Elders of Bethlehem trembled at the coming of Samuel 1 Sam. 16. 4. Ezekiel was commanded to eat his bread with quaking and drink his water with trembling and with carefulness Ezek. 12. 18. Blow the trumpet in Zion sound an alarme in my holy mountain let all the inhabitants of the Land tremble for the day of the Lord cometh for it is nigh at hand Joel 2. 1 For in my jealousie and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the Land of Israel so that the fishes of the Sea and the fowls of the Heaven and the Beasts of the field and all creeping things that creep upon the earth and all the men that are upon the face of the earth shall shake at my presence and the mountains shall be thrown down and the steep places shall fall and every wall shall fall to the ground Ezek. 38. 19 20. When God heard Davids prayer out of his holy Temple the earth shook and trembled the foundations of the hills moved and were shaken because he was wroth Psal 18. 6 7. David roared all the day long and was weary with his Psal 38. 8. Psal 32. 3. groanings he wept all the night and made his bed to swim Psal 6. 6. with tears he fasted till his knees grew seeble and his flesh Psal 109. 24. failed of fatness untill he could number his bones while he Psal 22. 6 7 17. suffered the terrors of God he was distracted he was a reproach Psal 88. 15. among men for so doing and despised of the people Psal 35. 16. all that saw him laught him to scorn he was a mocking to the Psal 22. 16. wicked they made mouths at him and shaked the head at him Psal 41. 6. the drunkards made songs of him he was a taunt and a by-word Psal 71. 7. among them dogs compassed him about the assemblies of wicked men inclosed him vain persons came to see him that they might tell it abroad and he was a wonder to many and a stranger to his brethren and his kinsmen stood afar off Thus saith the Lord We have heard a voice of trembling of fear and not of peace Ask now and see whether a man doth travel with childe wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loyns as a woman in travel and all faces are turned into paleness Alas for that day is great so that none is like it it is even the time of Jacobs trouble but he shall be saved out of it Jer. 30. 5 6 7. Hear now this ye foolish people and without understanding which have eyes and see not which have ears and hear not fear ye not me saith the Lord will ye not tromble at my presence Jer. 5 21 22. A Word to the Seed of the Serpent or Ministers of Antichrist or Man of Sin wherever he is found KNow this thou subtil One who hast long upholden a Kingdom of sin unrighteousness injustice and oppression with all manner of filthiness by thy wisdom that now the day of thy torment is at hand for now is that seed arisen which is appointed to discover thee and thy deceitfull workings and to bruise thy head and to lay all thy pride and glory in the dust And he will set up a Kingdom Isa 29. 14 15 of righteousness purity and holiness in the hearts of his people who have been deceived through thy divination and witchcrafts these many years And you Ministers of Antichrist who have made people believe that you were the Ministers of Jesus Christ the Son of Righteousness by your crying out against sin in words and making poor ignorant people think that you were enemies to all unrighteousness and lovers of purity and perfection but now that the Lord is bringing out a people out of the unrighteous world destroying the body of sin and bringing
will it be ere you cease to pervert the ways of God for your own ends Oh that you had eyes to see that you might make peace with him least he tear you in pieces and there be none to deliver ANd now to you poor scattered sheep who have been scattered by these hirelings in this cloudy dark day which hath been upon all flesh spred upon the face of the earth and you have been running from mountain to hill to find the Lord but have not found him who is to give rest to your souls And many of you are still wandring you know not where Others have seated themselves under green trees and are worshipping you know not what but as others tell you who know as little of the true and living God as your selves Others are weary with seeking where nothing can be found and are fallen asleep in the world of ease and carelesness others have their ears open to all voices which cry lo here lo there but know not who to trust being all in confusion now all awake to meet the Lord who is arisen to seek and save and gather into one fold all his scattered ones and to bring them up to Zion the holy City where he will feed them himself alone without fear in good pasture where they shall lie down in peace now come off from all your blinde guides that are not in the way themselves nor can they direct others where the way is come out of the world and worldly cares and pleasures and return to the Lord in Spirit he is within you and there if you wait in Spirit you shall hear him speak to your spirits to the directing your minds out of all the works of darkness and sin up to God where no sin is nor unclean thing can come and if you minde to obey his voice he will teach you to lay aside all your dissembling hypocrisie whereby you have deceived your selves and others professing godliness in words but denying it in power and you will finde power given in from the Lord to become what you profess in reality and truth and to profess no more but what you are that God may have glory by you and take delight to dwell in you for this is the day of your visitation if you will own it the day of Salvation from all sin and unrighteousness the day wherein all the children of the Lord shall be taught of the Lord and great shall be their peace in righteousness shall they be established and they shall be far from oppression Isa 54. 13 14. Many of you have had great travel and gone through many sorrows to finde rest but have found none many prayers and tears but no answer of peace many days of seeking but have not found him whom your souls thirst after and all this because you have been seeking the living among the dead he is not to be found in the world nor formal worships nor in humane wisdom and learning but he is only to be found as he reveals himself freely to those who patiently wait for him in spirit Dear People to you that love the Lord above all earthly things and yet have not your minds directed where to wait for him to you I speak to your souls that lie in death till they hear the voice of the Son of God he is near you who is the way to the Father look not out he is within you that which I know declare I unto you and the way I know where I have found my beloved my Saviour my Redeemer my Husband my Maker who hath set me above all the world my sins my fears my sorrows my tears into his love to live with him in Spirit for ever but dying daily to all visible things praises praises to my Father for ever The night is far spent the day is at hand come out of darkness all that love the Lord into his marvellous light where you shall see what you have been and what you are redeemed from that you may live and praise the Lord for it is the living that praise the Lord and not the dead Arise come out of death come away and let us rejoyce together in his love in the life of our king even so Amen And you that are so much offended at perfection and being cleansed from sin I leave these Queries with you to consider 1. Whether any unperfect one committing sin be the Image of God yea or no 2. Whether any can witness the work of Redemption compleat in them by Christ while they commit sin and are overcome with the temptation of the Devil yea or no 3. Whether any unperfect and unclean one that lives in sin shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven yea or no and if not how shall one dying in sin and where shall he be made perfect and clean seeing the tree must lie as it falls and whether you own a Purgatory yea or no 4. Whether a Christian have ground to believe that he may be recovered by the second Adam into that estate in which he was created and which he lost in the first Adam yea or no 5. Whether God created man and woman perfect without sin and able in his power so to have stood if they had not forsaken his power and consented to the wisdom of the Serpent yea or no 6. Whether God and man be wholly reconciled till man be brought into that estate again yea or no 7. Whether all those that both by their life and doctrine labour to perswade people to abide in that condition of sin imperfection and separation from God which Christ came to destroy and so to unite man to God again be not Ministers of Antichrist and for the upholding of the Kingdom of the Devil yea or no FINIS
THE Power and Glory of the LORD Shining out of the NORTH OR THE Day of the LORD Dawning WHEREIN The true Light is holden forth to all who desire to walk in the Day With a Warning to the People of England of all sorts not to oppose Christ in his Kingdom Shewing also the way how all flesh comes to know the Lord and fear him by his terrible shaking the earthly part in man witnessed by the holy men of God in Scripture With a Word to the Serpents Seed or Ministers of Antichrist or Man of Sin wherever he is found By one whom the Lord hath called out of this dark World into the True Light whom Ismaels brood calls a Quaker whose name in the flesh is James Nayler Then spake Jesus again unto them saying I am the light of the world he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life Joh. 8. 12. Therefore behold I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people even a marvellous work and a wonder for the wisdom of their wise men shall perish and the understanding of their prudent men shall be bid Isa 29. 14. For in my jealousie and the fire of my wrath have I sp●ken surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the Land of Israel so that the fishes of the Sea and the fowls of the heavens and the beasts of the field and all creeping things that creep upon the earth and all the men that are upon the face of the earth shall shake at my presence and the mountains shall be thrown down and the steep places shall fall and every wall shall fall to the ground Ezek. 38. 19 20. London Printed for Giles Calvert at the sign of the Black-spred-Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1653. The Power and glory of the Lord shining out of the North. ALL People everywhere who profess that you love God and have a desire to walk in his Rev. 11. 8. ways and are in this dark world wandering too and fro enquiring the way how you may come out of this great City which is Sodom and Egypt where fil●hiness and darkness rules and is heard wherein the Lord is crucified and all the righteous blood hath been shed and your selves are kept in bondage to sin and unrighteousness blindness and thick darkness and know not where you are nor the way out of this condition though many of you have been inquiring after the way so many years seeking after your blinde guides who are not the way neither in the way themselves and so have forsaken the fountain of light and have run after and have been led by them who are in the same darkness with you now stand still a while and see where you are and what you have been doing you pretend as to the Kingdom of God but you are not seeking where it is you have been seeking without but it is within you and there you must find it if ever you finde it it is not to be found in Forms and Customs and outside Observations Luk. 17. 21. but the Kingdom of God is within you and the way to the Kingdom is within you and the light that guides into the way and keeps in the way is within Christ is the way and know ye not that Christ is in you except ye be reprobates Joh 14. 6. and as he is the Way so he is the Light I am the light of the 2 Cor. 13. 5. world and lighten every one that cometh into the world Joh. 1. 9. and 8. 12. he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness but shall have the light of life I am the true shepherd of the sheep and my sheep know my voice but the voice of a stranger they 1 Pet. 3. 19. will not hear and the voice of Christ is spiritual not carnal Rev. 2. 7 17. and he speaks to the Spirits in prison and he that hath an ear Joh. 10. 11 12. hears what 's the Spirit saith and he who comes once to hear the voice of Christ in Spirit will no more desire to hear the voice of strangers All your hirelings are strangers to Christ and he knows them not for though they may prophesie in his name and in his name cast out devils yet if they be workers Mat. 7. 22 23. of iniquitie Christ knows them not and such know not Christ For he that saith I know him and keeps not his Commandment 1 Ioh. 2. 4. is a lyer Now all people cease from your strange guides and outside-lights and return to the light of Christ in you that which shews you sin and evil and the deeds of darkness for what ever makes manifest is light and this is that light which shines into the conscience which tells you that lying Eph. 5. 13. swearing pride envy coveteousness backbiting and dissembling leads to condemnation and this light checks you for sin and would have you to do to all men as you would be done to And this light is not a Chapter without you in a Book but it is that light that revealed that to the Saints in their several measures which they spoke forth and which thou readest in the Chapter and this light being minded will lead to the perfect day which declares all things as they are And this did the Apostles exhort the Saints everywhere to take heed unto till the day dawned and the day-star did arise 1 Pet. 1. 19. in their hearts and this is a more sure word of prophesie then that the Apostle did see in the mount as he declared unto them and if you take heed to this light to obey and love it then it will shew that to you which no outward declaration of man can shew you it will let you see all your sins done in secret and whom you have wronged and how you have spent your time and will bring you to repentance and to tenderness of heart towards all people and will bring you to exercise a pure conscience in the fear of God towards God Act. 24. 16. and man in uprightness and so will lead up to Justification and Peace and if you disobey it it will condemn you in your own hearts and will shew you that God is greater then your hearts who will render to every one according to their works and here you are left without excuse before God Men and Angels and in this that you know sin and live in it here you have learned your codemnation and your deceit is discovered whereby with a pretence you make prayers and say Lord shew us a sight of our sins when as God hath given you a light within you which being minded and obeyed will shew you all your sins and wickednesses and lead you out of them Joh. 3. 20. but this light you hate because you love your evil deeds and you perish not for want of light tendred but because you turn
your backs on it for when you should bring your works to it to be proved then you joyn with the deceit to make covers for your sins and hide them lest they should come to the light and be made manifest and this is the cause why you stumble because you walk not in the light for your evil deeds will not abide the light the Adulterer loves the night and Iob 24. 15. and 16. the thief loves the night and the drunkard loves the night and all the children of darkness love the night that they may 1 Thes 5. 7. bring forth their evil deeds unreproved And here thou art who lovest thy sins and here wilt thou be found profess what thou wilt for the day will throughly declare thee what thou art for now is the day of the Lord which will judge thee as thou art neer at hand and wo to thee that hidest thy sins and coverest chine iniquities thou maist hide it from men and make men believe thou art a Christian but God will not be mocked for above all he abhors the Eph. 5. 8. hypocrite and dissembler wherefore take heed and turn from your deceit and come forth you children of darkness and come into the light where there is no occasion of stumbling and make it appear you are children of the light by loving it and make it appear you love the light by bringing your deeds to it to be proved that all your works may be works of the light that your light may shine forth before all men in your works and that true Judgment may be set up in you and all unrighteousness condemned and cast out and truth received in that the truth may make you free for while you joyn with the deceit Ioh. 8. 32 34. you consent to keep your sins and while you commit sin you are the servants of sin and the wages of sin is death and death reigns in you because you will not come to Christ who Ioh. 3. 19. is the light that you may have life and your destruction is of your selves and God is just and your condemnation is this that light is come into the world and you love darkness rather then light because your deeds are evil and this is that grace of God that hath appeared to all men which is the Saints Teacher and teacheth them to deny-ungodliness and Tit. 2. 11 12. worldly lusts which you that live in your lusts turn into wantonness and will not be taught by it and here you read your Iude 4. condemnation in every sin you commit O you people of England how long will it be ere you be obedient to the Kingdom of Iesus Christ how long will you profess him in words and forms and yet will not own him in power you can be content to let him have the name of a 1 Cor. 4. 20. King so that you your selves may raign and under the name of Christs Kingdom act your own wills and though you cannot Tit. 1. 16. bear it to be Judged by the Spirit of Christ where it is in his people which judgeth all the world and all things yet 1 Cor. 2. 15. you cannot escape for you shall be found guilty before the mighty Judge of Heaven and Earth when he shall appear in flames of fire to be avenged upon all deceipt and unrighteousness of men And will you be found at that day 1 Pet. 5. 3. Subjects in the Kingdom of Christ wherein all the Saints are one and Christ their head and Law-giver or are you not Lords over Gods heritage yea over Christ himself and you will appear such when the mysterie of iniquity shall be revealed Mat. 28. 20. in you you who ought to make it your whole care to observe the Law of Christ in all things that he commands as a Rule for you to walk by but are you in your duty as servants to Christ when you are prescribing him ways to walk by in his Church And is it not so when you would limit him to speak only by such as you in your wisdom approve of or else he shall be silent and to effect this are all the powers of the earth combined together do not you here take upon you to be Lords of the vineyard and not servants and would not Mat. 21. 23. to the end suffer him to send forth Labourers into it who is Lord of it Is not this the way to make the heritage your own hath not all the persecutions of the messengers of God arisen from this ground And how many times have earthly powers been 2 Chron. 36. 16. broken to pieces against this Rock And do you walk according to the Scriptures which you say is your rule when you would limit the Spirit of the Lord not to speak in his own time and in what place soever they who have the message are Amos 7. 13. sent into you who are offended because the Lord sends his Messengers into your Idol Temples to cry against your Idol Act. 5. 19 20 worships and Heathenish customs and to call out poor ignorant people from amongst you which have been long deceived Act. 17. 2 3. by their blind guides And to call them out of forms and likenesses into the substance of all worships which is only in Spirit and not in Forms and Customs and outside observations Ioh. 4. 21 22 23 24 that they may come to know what they worship even the living God that their souls may live which was the way by which the Apostles did gather the Saints out of all the Idols Temples and Carnal worships into the Spirit as you may read in the Scripture And this with you is a transgression of your Law and you say it breeds distraction in your Churches but what Churches are they which will be so soon distracted and what people are those Churches made up of who no sooner hear one deliver the Lords Message in a peaceable way but they are all on fire beating buffetting cursing swearing and haling them to prison and were you not blind you might plainly see what generation these are who are and always have been offended at the will of God Is it not the love of God to souls to send to call them who will hear his voice out of such Churches as are thus acted by a Spirit of envy rage and murther which is the spirit of the Devil and this is that Spirit which being offended sets the Creatures one to destroy another least his deceipt should be revealed and are you not blinde who cannot distinguish of that spirit which acts in the persecutor and that Spirit which acts in the sufferer and hath so done in all Ages and come out from amongst them And what Law is that which you say is transgressed by the creature being obedient to the Creator obeying the voice of Christ witnessed in the Scripture by the practise of the holy men of God sent out