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A89837	A few words occasioned by a paper lately printed, stiled, A discourse concerning the Quakers. Together with a call to magistrates, ministers, lawyers, and people to repentance. Wherein all men may see, that the doctrine and life of those people whom the world scornefully calls Quakers, is the very doctnrie [sic] and life of Christ. Written for the sake of the simple minded ones, who are willing to follow Christ under the crosse, and to deny all things to be his disciples. By a servant of the Lord, reproached by the world, and carnall worshippers, under the name of a Quaker; whose name in the flesh is Iames Nayler.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.; A. P.	1654 (1654)	Wing N279; Thomason E731_23; ESTC R202987	25,300	28

troubled waters and the greater discention amongst the people the more is your gaine Is not your Purses filled and your Ez● 18. 1● Estates raysed in the ruings of the People And are not those Mal. ● ● Lawes which ought to be used to preserve People from Oppression by abusing made the undoing of whole Families impoverishing Townes and Countries The Law as it is now used is scarce serviceable for any other end but for the Envious Man Isay ● 1● who hath much money to revenge himselfe of his poore Neighbours which may be never did him wrong Is there any appearing for the poore against the rich although his cause be just but by deceit delayes and expences the remedy is worse then the disease so that they are made to sighe and groane under oppression Isay 5 ● and their cryes are come into the eares of the just God who is now arising to avenge them And now Woe to you that seem to be easers of peoples burdens but make their oppressions Iames 5 4. greater even grievous to be borne and by increasing of contentions have taken away the Key of Knowledge For what Knowledge hath the workers of iniquity who devoure the poore to satisfie their owne lusts the woe is upon you for the just God hath shaken his hand at your dishonest gaine Woe unto Hab. 2 9. him that coveteth with an evill covetousnesse to his house that he may set his Nest on high Woe unto him that builds his house by oppression and establisheth the City with iniquity how are you gone Ier 22 ●3 out of the right way and how is the cause of the poor bought and sold for money Was you thus made at the first are you not in the inventions is this the end for which we came into the world are you not in the Earth and in the Fall and in the curse and at a distance from the pure God who is holy and just and loves Righteousnesse How long will it be ere you will enquire Eze. 18. 30 after the right way or loathe your selves for your filthinesse O Repent Returne to the Lord from whence you are falne Rev. 2 5. for what will you doe in the end thereof Shall not Justice from on high take hold on you who have slighted justice upon earth Your day is at hand Shall not the Judge of all the Earth doe right Why will you destroy your soules for money and what will you give in exchange for your soules or shall all your gain redeeme you Doe you act according to the Law of God which sayth Thou shalt love thy Neighbour as thy selfe Doe not you Mat 19 16 prize the accursed things before the love of God or your Neighbour Let your practice witnesse And you People of the Nation that have seen the hand of God against the Prince and People for these and the like abominations and you your Iude 23 selves are escaped as Brands plucked out of the Fire have you Zach. 3 2. at all turned to him who hath smitten you or are you bettered by correction or have you made your peace with the Almighty Although you have seen warre and the Sword reaching to the very soule are you not every one to your owne Power gathering fuell to that Fire which hath been burning in the Land and hath consumed thousands which should have been Hos 14. 1. 2. as a warning unto you who are escaped to returne to the Lord from the evill of your doings But are not you still making the breach still wider between God and the Nation as though you were left for no other end but to fill up the measure of iniquity that is yet behinde that the just God may sweepe the Land with the Beesome of destruction O when will you cease to provoke the Lord by your sinnes Where is your Redeemer you Isay 14. 23 have professed so long in words and Formes Can you witnesse him in your works and what hath he redeemed you from For saith he Why call you me Lord and doe not the things which I say Is he your Luke 49. Lord and you servants to all manner of filthinesse And notwithstanding that you have seen his wonders in the Nation yet doe not you exceed all that ever went before you in Pride Covetousnesse Drunkennsse Swearing Envying Quarrelling Backbiting Slandering false accusing selfe love and deceit in all manner of Merchandise Micha 6. ● and trading false weights and measures sayings protestings one towards another in your bargaining speaking things that are not true and hereby to over-reach your brethren and get dishonest gaine How many false oathes and idle words are spent about every bargaine in your Markets and open Streets without blushing or being ashamed yea it is able to breake the hearts of Psal 31. 17. any who knowes the pure God to know it and heare it For it is come to such height of deceit that none can trust his brother for lying swearing and for-swearing it abounds in the Nation And yet you will professe your selves to be the Members of Jesus Christ And had Jesus Christ ever such a body as this nay all that are Phil. 1 27. Members of him are of one heart and one soule And you talke of a communion of Saints Had ever the Saints such a communion Ier. 32 29. as this to defraud one another for money and professe a Redeemer and are servants to the Devill and your owne lusts in all the motions and temptations thereof and are led captive at his will But what redemption is this you witnesse so long as sinne is the partition wall between God and you stands still whole in your wils you be drunke sweare lye and commit adultery dissemble Rev. 2● 27. and satisfie your lusts in all things and say we are redeemed to commit all these abominations and live in them under a pretence of a profession and going to the Idols Temple once a weeke Did ever Jesus Christ redeeme such a people or dwell in such a people Those whom he hath redeemed he hath freed from the servitude of sinne by separating them from sinne and reconciling them to God from whence they are fallen by sinne for God and sinne cannot dwell in one And to such he saith Be ye holy for I am holy And as he John 1. 2● is the Lambe of God who taketh away the sinnes of the world Now see how is your sins taken away when the Kingdome of darkenesse doth wholly rule in you and leades you into workes and wayes of darkenesse Are you reconciled to God and have you fellowship with him Are not you yet strangers to him and worship an unknowne God For he that commits sinne hath not seen him neither 2 Iohn 3. 6. knowne him and so worship they know not what in formall and superstitious worships O blinde People who have eyes and see not How long will it be ere

be pride envy covetousnesse selfe love exaltation slandering false-accusing deceit dissimulation and hypocrisie and such like which are the workes of the Devill all thy outward pretences shall not keep thee from the condemnation of the Devill for it is that which leades out of the works of the Devill that brings from under the condemnation of the Devill Thou puts much upon Church-Ordinances but fee if thou be distinguished from the world otherwise then in notion and thy owne conceit which will deceive thee and all the covetous oppressors in the world in the day of tryall Therefore prove thy selfe if thou be a Saint sanctified Iude 1. Iohn 17. 9 14. come out of the worlds pleasures riches wayes and worships and fashions as they were whose conditions thou talkest on or else thy crying the Temple of the Lord will but stand thee in little stead which if thou deale plainely in and let truth speak in thee thou wilt see a great distance between a Saints life and thine as between a Saints spirit and thine which is plainely discovered Thou sayest It is observable that where Churches are these Owles dare not appeare These reproachfull names beseems that spirit from whence they come but which of them have refused to come where they have been sent for feare of your Churches or what corners are they in except it be such as you have shut up in prisons or dungeons doe not these that are at liberty meet in the middest of common Streets and Fields where God calls them and many of the most conscientious of your Churches owne them and frequents their meetings others who have the feare of God before them dare not persecute them in word or deed but the day is come that all spirits must shew themselves Thou advisest to doe all according to Scripture it is good advice but dost thou that teachest another Mat. 7. 12. teach thy selfe dost thou as thou would be done by in all things dost thou forsake pride and covetousnesse which is Idolatry and not to be so much as named among Saints dost not thou seek great things for thy selfe having food and rayment Jere. 45. 5. Iam 4 4. art thou therewith content art thou out of love with the world which is enmity with God dost thou not take thought for to morrow for food and rayment hast thou crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts and put off the body of sin art thou not a scorner reviler and false accuser dost thou feed the hungry cloathe the naked and let the oppressed goe free Iam. 1 27 hast thou forsaken all to follow Christ art thou hated of all Mat. 15. 10. 11. men for the name of Christ hast thou denied to be called Master art thou come to yea and nay in thy common occasions Mat. 23 8. 10. dost thou love the Brethren with the same love Christ hath loved his withall art thou set free from thy sinne and rash passions Mat. 5 37 Rom. 6 18. dost thou hold thy Faith in a pure Conscience voyd of offence 1 Tim. 1 5 19. towards God and Man dost thou walke as Christ walked And many other the commands of God set down in Scripture in Acts 24 16. which the Saints walked as is plaine in Scripture which if thou ● Iohn 2 6. walke iu there thou dost all according to the Scripture but if thou take but some part of Scripture to performe as it is given out by the holy Ghost to wit that which will most fit thy forme and please thy owne will and not crosse thy lusts profits and greatnesse in the world and for the rest either let them stand by or wrest them by subtill meaning and exposition to bring 2 Pet. 3. 16. them to bend to thy disobedient minde shall not God find thee out and plague thee for thy adding and diminishing altering Rev. 22. 18. and changing that which was perfectly given forth to be read and fulfilled as it is And whereas thou would charge the light of Christ shining into the Conscience which teacheth into onenesse to be the cause of all the errors in the world It is false for the light of Christ is but one and all that are led by Rom. 8. 14 it walke after Christ as he walked but the cause of all errors comes from the Serpents subtill twining and wresting the Scriptures every one for their owne Formes ends and carnall traditions but none of them will owne it to live the life of it as it is and so have it fulfilled in them as is was in those that spoke it forth Thou sayest Be sure the Christ the Faith the Hope the Baptisme the Worship be that which is in Scripture Now that Christ which the saints witnessed in Scripture is the light of the Iohn 8. 12. world given to enlighten the Gentiles and lighteneth every Iohn 1. 9. one that commeth into the world which light is in the saints Iohn 1. 7. and whosoever walkes in it hath fellowship with God and one with another and thereby are cleansed from all sin in which light all Sriptures were spoken forth which light thou denyes to be equall with the Scripture but scornes and reproaches with nick-names as Ignis fatuus a naturall light making it plainely appeare that thou art one of those the Scriptures speaks on who hates the light And the Scripture Faith is that by which Iohn 3 20. 1 Iohn 5. 4 5. the saints overcame the world sinn and the Devill and gets victory which Faith thou in this Paper canst not owne but denyes and would reproach in them in whom it hath overcome sinne and brought up to perfection and he that hath the Scripture hope purifies himselfe even as he is pure and the Baptisme 1 Iohn 3. 3. of Christ is with the holy Ghost and with Fire which thou Mat. 3 11 in thy Paper speaks scornefully of in others that owne it And the Scriptures-worship is not in Idolls Temples Formes and Letters but in spirit and in truth and God seeks such to worship Iohn 4 24. him And thou ranks up a number of Raunters Notionists Papists and such like that are most odious to people and with these thou puts in those called Quakers and tells of their opinions but those thou so callest denies all opinions and lives in the light and practice of Scriptures but thou when thou art proved will be found more in opinion then practice And thou that denies the infallible spirit to be in thee art but in opinions at the best And for the Purgatory thou speakes on thou that sayes None can ever be perfected and set free from sinne while they are here had need to own a Purgatory but they who are Redeemed and set free from sinne by the Lambe of God need it not but have received the earnest of their eternall inheritance And for the word Baptisme which is but Water