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A82017	An exact history of the life of James Naylor with his parents, birth, education, profession, actions, & blaspheemies [sic]. Also how he came first to be a Quaker, and received his commission from heaven (as he saith) when he was in the field at plow. Taken from his own mouth. With the doctrines, tenets and practises of some other of the same sect. / By John Deacon.	Deacon, John, 17th cent.	1657 (1657)	Wing D482; Thomason E903_2; ESTC R207417	25,672	56

according to the flesh are mine I was obedient and after I had been there a while it was given me what I should declare and ever since I have been obedient to that which is pure in me and in you all Christ manifest in mortal flesh Whereupon I asked him whether that friend or any else besides himself heard that same voice or how should it be known to be a truth since we had nothing but his own word for it He answered it was not a carnal audible voice to be heard with an earthly ear for it was heavenly and that it is true the spirit beaereth witnesse and I know his witnesse is true Q. I asked him whether the voice were external or internal and to whom he gave his estate A. He said that that which is pure in all your consciences which convinces you of the evil you do Christ in you the true light spoke to that of God in me and I heard it and will witnesse to that of God in you all or words to this purpose that it is pure and eternal Q. I asked him to whom he gave his goods and estate A. He said to his Wife and children When indeed I had thought in imitation of the Pharisees he had boasted of some deeds of charity he had done with it before men not but that it was well bestowed as it was disposed of for I think as they had most need of it so they had most right to it and the promise he faith is fulfilled in that God hath witnessed to his doctrine but what that Witness what that Power and what that voice is and from whence is evident First By his Apostacy in that when he had associated himself with a people that endeavoured to live and walk with and in the Lord that he should backslide from those ways of truth and embrace such errors as have led him unto the height of blasphemy when as the Apostle saith They and so he went forth from us because they were not of us but like tares among Wheat disagreeable and fit for nothing but Destruction Secondly By his Actions the first step whereof led him to such art Act as gives much suspition nay even assurance of inconstancy and adulteries c. as hereafter shall be made evident in this discourse Thirdly His Doctrine in that he preacheth down all truth and up all errors as denying either Magistracy or Ministry or either Gospel or civil Laws or Discipline c. Fourthly By his Blasphemies of which he is justly convicted and for which he hath partly suffered by the Supreme Authority as that he is the Son of God and the Son of God is but one and then he being one and the Son of God as he saith there is by that account no other and questionless he hath been long of this judgement though not so publique in it For long since he said he was as holy just and good as God himself thereby claiming anequality with God though at a farther distance then now for then he onely claimed an equality by purity but now by dignity affinity as being the Son of God and one with the Father See Mr. Farmer 's Satan inthron'd in his Chair of Pestilence c. I have first laid down those four Heads as a ground-work to what I intend to enlarge upon in prosecution of this Treatise but before I proceed to doe so I shall speak a word or two concerning the proceeding of the Supreme Authority against him of whom we now treat by reason that many though some indiscreetly say The sentence pronounced against him savours of a harsh judgment thereby endeavouring to scandalize the supreme and high Authority with cruelty to which I shall speak a word or two impartially Since it is esteemed not onely in this but in all other Nations an act of high in justice to sentence him to die the very worst of deaths that shall assume unto himself the title of his Prince or Governour or that shall any waies endeavour to impair the titles and glory of him how much more ought he to die or suffer a worse punishment that shall commit a greater offence and make himself the Son of God the King of righteousnesse I have read of them that for bearing in their Coats of Arms that which belonged onely to the Crowne have suffered as Traytors as Lord Howard Duke of Norfolk with his son the Earle of Surrey in the dayes of Henry the 8th though men in great and high esteem and of no less honour for this offence and no other were arraigned convicted and condemned as Traytors then how much more ought he that shall make himself the Son of God c. to die if it were possible a hundred times for look how much God is above man so much ought he to suffer a just torment more then death if it were possible And therefore the sentence which was past upon him and he hath partly undergone was more in mercy then justice could well admit and they with honour pronounce against him but 't is true indeed mercy shall find mercy and its a signal token of a tender charity in that mercy was exalted in the midst of just Judgement I shall now proceed to treat upon and examine the several things before laid down First That it is an evidence that that voice that power and that witnesse is not of God or goodnesse that spoke to him goeth with him and testifieth of him Firft by reason of his apostacy it is a precept in the word of God concerning him which backslideth from the faith which stands in Jesus Christ the onely reall and eternal Son of God the Father after the first and second admonition if he repent not give saith the holy Ghost or deliver such a man over to Satan which is excommunicate or exclude him so then he being delivered over to Satan is no more of God in respect that power which is given to the Church to excommuninate false members hath been exercised on him as a backsliding brother we ought to look on him as one under the power of Satan and not to bid him good speed lest we be partakers with him in his evill deeds And indeed if we consider him in the state of a falne brother we cannot wonder to see him raign in all manner of wickedness in respect the Holy Ghost saith that false Prophets mnst come and false Christs shall arise it is just with God to give him over to believe lies because he hath pleasure in unrighteousness 2 Thes 2 10 11 12. 1 John 4.8 Heb. 12.29 For as God is light and so able to discern all things so is he all-sufficient to understand and do all things and as he is all love to his children so is he all judgement yet merciful to his enemies Therefore let him repent him of and not persevere in his blasphemies 1 Tim. 1.23 for though he can contemn Authority and say in the mind he is in

them in their actions and expressions of the highest blasphemie as thou everlasting Son of righteousness and Prince of peace Oh how my soul travelleth to see this day which Abraham saw and was glad and in the same letter as a signal of obedience to him is added Oh I am ready to fear as a servant and to obey as a child and again thy name is no more to be called James but Jesus Page 8. thou King of Israel and thou on Son of the most High Page 13. and Oh thou beloved of the Lord the Prophet of the most High and Martha Simonds a woman for her toughe Page 4. indeed better befitting a Cucking-stool then a speaking place doth acknowledge she worshipt him and being asked why she did so she said she ought so to do it being her duty she calls him Lord because he saith he is Lord of righteousness and Prince of peace and anointed King of Israel Page 15. 16. and Dorcas Erbury witnesseth that he is the onely begotten Son of God Page 17. 18. and that he is worthy of honour being the holy Lord of Israel and she saith she knows no other Saviour and she believes in him the World calls James Naylor and that she calls him the Son of God and she is commanded to call him Lord and Master and to serve him with much more of the like nature which to repeat at large were tedious and unnecessary in respect this is sufficient to shew him guilty of the Fact for which he now hath suffered the greater part of his punishment and what I have said I suppose is sufficient to convince any rational sensible man that the spirit Ruling in him is not Divine but Diabolical and I am confident that he which shall read Mr. John Gilpins Book wherein he relates how he was seduced by the Divel yet with a Quakers pretences of a more pure and cleer light even Christ himself who possessed him immediately and really four several times and shall read this relation of Naylor's call into this sect will find such a concurrence in the manner that the difference will rest onely here the subject is not Gilpin but Naylor and as the manner was alike so is the matter both being delusions vail'd under glorious pretences of divine revelation there extasies were both of alike strain after the manner of the working of Satan by their own reports onely one is seired in impudence the other salved with repentance but one passage in that of Gilpin I cannot omit willingly which is this A Remarkable passage and worthy your Observation GIlpin having but once tasted of that bitter berry of Apostacy from the truth yet wanting that inward evidence from an internal light which others boasted of could not be contented to weigh but pressed forwards from the shallow side to the bottomless channel of soul impoverishing errors and therefore extremely thirsted after the act of quakeing thinking that then he should feel that internal power that might evidence their external preaching which as yet he could not doe But when the Divel had so fair an opportunity as this to enlarge his Dominion he cast him into that action he so much desired When the Divel as it afterwards appeared and confessed it self to be in the likeness of a Dove descended upon him and entred into him pretending to be the holy Ghost in this state he going to their meetings where one Christopher Atkinson was speaking he returned home with great joy in that the power as he saith which was within him had enabled him to witnesse to what was said so that it may easily be discerned what that power is whose doctrine the Divel bears a witnesse unto I am cleerly of this opinion that Satan cannot witnesse unto the things of God really but to overthrow them further by his chief policie I come now to what I would willingly be brief in which is to speak a word or two to the opening and explaining of the politique designes of this man of sin James Naylor in the carryiny on this blasphemy and high treason against the most high God of Heaven and Earth The Politique deceits of this seducing Sophister in carrying on this his designe of Blasphemy and Treason against God ANd in so doing I shall first of all observe two or three things and that but name them And the first is that it was his usual custome and common doctrine both to act and to teach that it was unlawful nay sinful to give or receive civilities good morrow or good deen or you are welcome or fare you well nay not from children to their Parents or inferiours to their Magistrates in general And next more particularly he not only forbid it to his hearers but upbraided others that received titles of honour or respects as Sir and the like and in my Publique discovery in his 14. queries to me and to several others he renders this as an invective against the Ministers and as a signal token of a false Prophet who stand praying in their Synagogue but he cannot say the Pillory and being called Masters c. And lastly What he upbraided as blameable in others he now cries up not only as vertuous but as a fruit of the immortal seed in himself being called not only Master but Lord and not Lord onely neither but King of righteousness and Prince of peace See Satan enthron'd c. p. 13. are these words thou King of Israel and Son of the most High And see Mr. Farmer 's Satan enthron'd c. p. 7. are these words Oh thou fairest amongst ten thousand thou only begotten Son of God how my heart painteth after thee Oh stay me with Flagons and comfort me with Wine and the like which they doe not onely in publique but in common too as Timothy Wedlock testifyeth See Mr. Farmer 's Satan enthron'd c. page 17. you may discern the hypocrisie of this deceiver that will practise contrary to his own doctrine embracing not onely the civilities of Master but honour as Lord and not onely honour as Lord but worship as Christ also I shall now having spoke somewhat to this also proceed to relate one Story which I had from a hand of repute which was this An observable story and yet very true of one Duesbury an eminent Quaker in this Land how he lay with one Rebekah Burnhil who he or Naylor or some of their grandees had seduced to their Heresie A Friend of mine who is a zealous friend to the truth and an ingenuous opposer of their Heresie had by his industrious care procured a relation under the hand of a Lincolnshire Gentleman named Mr. White how that Duesbury a known Seducer too and Preacher of this Quaking heresie having inticed a silly woman named Rebekah Burnhill to his sedition he then indeavoured to pull her one step neerer to destruction by multiplying sin to iniquity and so as he had drawn her to his heresie he indeavoured to intice her