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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

him not forgotten who in your wills make a profession and in the same wills contend for it with which you can fight and sue and trade in the world and heap together and what you will you pray and aske for and grudge if you be not satisfied but if you compasse your desires in that will the lust catcheth the gift but you forget the giver so that mercies become a curse to you which to those who in the will of God stands are a blessing which will of God is to keep the heart and eye to the Creator and giver and if such receive not the giver the gift is nothing that satisfies because the vertue and fulnesse is wanting whereby the gift is sanctified Thus is God prized and praised in his own Will a sacrifice for ever accepted Therefore Christ must not be offered up in his own will but in the will of the Father Mat. 26. 39. and in that will he had power to lay down his life and againe to take it up thus he is become our example whom we delight in the same will to follow which you that read this in the Scripture with your own wills cannot therefore to you the crosse is preached which must be taken up ere you can follow the example This is the slumbling Stone and Rock of offence God hath laid to prove you who say you love God and say Thy will be done in earth but loves your owne wills better as your practises witnesse to your face daylie when his will is your sanctification but yours is pollution and to live in uncleannesse against which he hath given testimonie witnesse that in all your consciences which is pure declaring daylie to your faces that he consents not to your sinnes nor takes delight in your destruction and here Gods love is tendered and your love is tried God so loveth the world that he hath given his Son a light into the world that whosoever believes and followes him shall not abide in Death and darknesse but shall have the light of life and this we know who love his appearance and that he hath loved us first and in that love we follow him and call to all to come to it But how doe you answer this love of his who abide in the love of the world where the Fathers love dwels not nor with his light will you be led out of the world where his love dwelleth thereof to be partakers yet you will talk of it where it is not and these vaine words cannot save you God is light and in him is no darknesse at all and if wee walk in the Light as he is in the Light then have we fellowship with him and the blood of Christ cleanseth us from all sin But what 's this to you who walk in darkness not cleansed nor can you believe that ever you can be while you live yet would you not be called unbelievers though that faith that purifies the heart you cannot own yes say you we believe we shall be cleansed after we be dead in another world so your faith must worke hereafter but is dead at present such a faith as never was professed by any you read of but that faith we witnesse which overcomes this world and this is present power as the Saints have found it and born witnesse of it that God was faithfull who had given them a measure above which was no temptation but your gift is to come so temptations prevailes for the present and you cannot own them where it doth not thus you put farre from you the good day the Lord and his power which now is present where he is received and believed And by such he is praised who by faith are redeemed above the pollutions of this world the strange land wherein they were captivated into freedome where Sions song is sung which you cannot unredeemed And here see your praises which arise from a vaine minde in your owne wills and imitations but not from a soule redeemed quickned and set free from the power of sin and temptation so your praises are not living praises nor from a living principle of the living God but from that principle where death reigns and the seed of God is in prison so you praise you know not what who are still unredeemed from bondage but where redemption is witnessed there that seed is raised the bonds of death are broken the way of life is found and this being known in the life then with understanding God is praised and with the same spirit which he hath raised which onely with God is accepted without respect of persons and here the works of God praise him and in his Saints he is glorified and admired in all who are raised above the graves who are in him and see his worke and this Church is rightly gathered who out of sin death and darknes is brought into God who is holy with whom dwells no unclean thing Here are the pure praises where the Sons of God sing together having the Psalme given of the Father these praises are pure which from him comes to him returns freely but this is not known to the sons of bondage nor believed by you therefore you sit down in a shaddow empty and form without power nor the presence of God you have not who take your rest in fleshly formes that eye cannot see him nor know him thus in your sins you perish for want of his knowledge who is our life eternall and to you is freely tendered but by your unbeliefe denyed so his love rejected All you that are in the world who lye in wickednes God so loveth you that he hath sent his Son into the world to you a witness against the world and all the deeds of it that they are evill but all that own and follow him into the good work he leads them and out of the evill hee keeps us and that 's his light which in your consciences shines in the midst of darkness which you comprehend not with your dark mindes nor sensuall wisdome yet a faithfull witness is it against your deeds of darkness declaring your end and death upon your life and sorrow and howling upon your laughter condemning your vain pleasures and invention with which you spend your pretious time which should be redeemed and not spent unprofitably which with the light the Saints and redeemed ones are led to to redeeme the time and this is our diligence and delight in but yours is to spend it shewing a contrary nature and leader a contrary delight in a contrary kingdom with whom you joyned and to whom you are fashioned according to the course of this world and the Prince and powers of it which rules in children where disobedience is born and brought forth And thus you are united into that nature which God hath appointed the Devil to be Prince of and wrath and woe the end of and so God is justified herein that you who despise the riches of his light

in Christ Jesus should be left in darkness therewith to be guided and in Chaines reserved till the great day in which you shall be judged by the light now denyed with your carnall reason prudence and wisdome from which God hath hid the things of our kingdome in all generations and that is the darkness even your wisdome and prudence which is the greatest light you have to judge withall most sought prized by you who deny the light of Christ and this wisdome when it speaks cals light darkness darkness light so did they ever who with it judged And this is your condition who deny the light of Christ and say it s not sufficient but preferr your comprehensions and imaginations above it and that was ever it with which people resisted the counsell of God against themselves and this is his counsell and all you know of him that which is manifest in you which moves against sin and wickedness and would lead out of it if you did it follow The same that condemns you for sinne when you had done it the same would lead out of it before it be acted and so keep out of condemnation And now honestly consider if you have such a Counseller who is with you at all times faithfull to you in shewing the evill to which you are unfaithfull when you forget it and turne from it for your self-ends and the righteous pure way he shews you with the light in your Conscience which you reject for earthly pleasures and know when you do it yet will you pray that God would shew you his way make you wise to salvation but when he hath freely done it you will not walk in it nor own no such wisdome because it comes contrary to your own wils yet you will say the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God yet will you not own that which is foolishness to the world to guide you out of it though there be nothing else appointed to doe it but that is contrary to it thus in words you confess him but in workes deny him and his counsel yet you say wherein doe wee deny him doe not wee profess his name Covenant waite for his righteousness thereby to be saved I say it serves you to talke on therewith to cover you while you are serving the other Master the Devil and the world but his Covenant you put farr from you his name and his righteousness whereby wee are redeemed What Covenant have you who deny the light of Christ to guide you was not he given for an everlasting Covenant of Light both to Jew and Gentile and in his light all that knew him was guided according to the severall administrations both of Law and Gospel And when they turned from his light in Spirit to mens teaching from the letter then they set up carnall worships instead of spirituall obedience then they became wise in their own eyes and zealous for their customes but by him was rejected who is worshipped in Spirit And with you it is the same now though you cannot see nor beleeve it no more then they did when they were told of it by them who in the light walked and stood in his counsell which all errours discovers they made the Law of God void through their tradition walking after the Fathers so doe you that Law God hath written in your heart by following your companions and learned Rabbies they said and did not and so doe you also nay herein you exceed them who have a higher profession but lesse practice they did not beleeve him come who is to fulfill all righteousnesse for and in all that beleeve and follow him but this Christ you profess and the Scripture that so witnesses of him yet are you farther from it then ever they were both in practice opinion they kept to the letter in the Forms of their worship though they had lost the life and power but you have left the lettr and lead one another in your inventions so that you have no plain Scripture for your worship performed by you in your Idols Temple And for your opinion of Gods righteousness you far exceed them they put it from them to another generation waiting for him to come who was appointed King of it asking when it should come shewing a desire to see it but you have put it wholly from you into another world and if any have found it and its power and purity and beare witness of it whereby the body of sin is destroyed and the soul freed and the creature redeemed from committing sin your faith beleeves it to be the greatest blasphemy in the world nay you dare not come neare it lest you should be infected but consult how to banish it out of the Nations as an error not to be tolerated in the world Thus you profess a Redeemer but hee must be a man whose Redemption must be of another world and there must hee work his work but the old work of the Devill must stand in this world yet the more to blind you and that you may the more blind others he sets you on talking that Christ is your Righteousness when you never knew him so in you who is stronger then the God of this world to binde him and take you out of his Kingdom and break that Covenant whose faith is that you must be subject to him while you live in this world which is such a faith and Covenant as none ever professed who believed in the name of Jesus at which every knee bowes who hath his name and hee that beares that name departs from iniquity and beares testimony to his righteousnesse here in this world in the midst of the untoward unrighteous generation of this darke world that so God may be glorified in his creatures by his light shining and his righteousnesse reigning above the unrighteous principle of the devil which he hath begot in the untoward Nature and in such the Devill is denyed and disowned before the world where God is obeyed and such are his servants sons and Daughters who obey him and wait upon him that they may bring to light what he workes in them even that which none else can work but hee alone that 's pure nor can any bring it forth but by his power and thus his workes praise him in the gates of the wicked where the floods of ungodlines doe most swell and rage even then in his people doth this kingdome stand in Righteousnes Peace and Joying in holines And this wee witnesse to be that Covenant and that power by which wee are entered into that inheritance which is eternall and are made partaker of the divine nature which nature is righteous mercifull and just meeke and patient faithfull and diligent to the obedience of the Crosse long-suffering full of love moderation and temperance and in all things thereby are transformed into his holinesse so farre as wee are entred into and abide in this Covenant so

the fruite you bring forth because it is not in Jesus and hee in you in whom the Father hath placed fruite and acceptance peace and reconciliation to whom all shall confesse for ever And now to all honest hearts in whome there is a seed of God who are thus scattered in this body of confusion having lost the way of truth peace and righteousnesse so that you cannot come to that which makes perfect but are at a losse with all you can doe and are condemned with that in your conscience that you are not covered with the righteousnesse of God but are found naked and miserable I say that which condemnes you who are out of the way is the light that leades to the way for whatsoever makes manifest is light so that which makes manifest your darknesse is that light that shines in darknesse to lead out of darknesse that condemnes you while you are in it But that which cryes peace in darknes is the Prince of darknes to keepe in darknes That which condemnes the World is the light of the World given to lead out of the World all that beleeve and follow it and such are justified by the light that their deeds are wrought in God by him which light reproves the evill deeds not wrought by him I say this is the light of Christ given into the world that whosoever beleeves and followes shall not abide in darkness but have the light of life Now reade all the Scriptures and see if there be any other Covenant but this Covenant of light and this is the life which is the light of men which darkness comprehends not nor the world knowes not in which alone the power is placed which whoever receives becomes the Sons of God as the Father hath appointed which he will not alter the Covenant for all the world therefore all that are out of the light are out of the Covenant where God hath placed his power And if you would give your goods to the poor and your body to the fire it s to no purpose because you are out of this love of the Father Therefore all are first called to beleeve in the light ere they can be accepted for without faith its impossible to please God or be found in his worke or receive his power so all your labour brings not forth that which is accepted but with the light is condemned that it is not perfect and so you sit down in sorrow notwithstanding all your labours which are out of the light where God hath promised no peace nor power for God doth not manifest his workes in the darkness but in the light that all the Children of light may see and praise him who doth all for his own glory which the Children of darkness see not who are out of the light of Christ So such talke of what God hath done and what he will doe but know him not at present nor his power working all their works in them Therefore this I say to all who desire to know him that you stand still in the light of Jesus that you may come to see the life and its movings and the powers of death and its movings that you may see what spirit workes obedience and what spirit workes disobedience so shall you see what 's done in the body if the eye be single then is there no place for darkness but it is discovered So with the light you come to discerne each Spirit and each principle and their severall workings and that the one is the powers that workes in the light that workes to obedience the other is the powers that workes in darkness and workes to disobedience and as God hath appointed that the one shall not worke in darknes so the other shall not worke in the light for as he hath given to the Devill the powers of darkness to worke in the Children of darkness that they all may be damned who wil not receive the light so hath he reserved the light pure and therein placed his power that so none may faile who beleeve in it and here is the blessing and the cursing the Election and reprobation the light and the darkness both which the light discovers as it arises in all who in it beleeve and waite And if you abide in the light you will see none can curse what God hath blessed nor bless what he hath cursed for as the one of these leads to the life from whence it comes all that beleeve and follow it so the other downe to death all that abide in it for none in the light did ever perish nor out of it was ever saved whatever is their profession In the light is the power and the power in the light for this is one in Christ Jesus and in this light if you keepe waiting with it you shall see the motions of sin which are after the flesh working in you drawing your mindes after them to obey them and you shall see at the same time the motions of the Spirit in the meek principle drawing you to the contrary so that if you be not rash to follow the motions of the flesh but with the light take counsell you shall see every word and action discovered to you in the light of what sort they are of from what roote they arise and what they tend to and here you come to the knowledge of sin and who begets it in the Creature and the knowledge of Righteousness and who begets it in the creature and here in plainness you come to see your Father and whose Children you are even his whom you obey for if you bring forth the workes of the Devill which hee begets in you then are you his Children but if you deny the workes of the Devill and to bring them to light then God gives you power to bring so th what hee will beget in you in the light and men seeing that worke of God brought forth into the world thereby is God glorifyed and this is not a talking of God but a living to him in your measure and here shall you grow up in the obedience in the knowledge of Christ and learne him of God and the way to him so every one that hath learned of the Father commeth to mee John 6. 44. 45. And none can come to mee except my Father draw them so shall you see the Law written in your hearts which discovers lust and uncleanness even in your hearts in the first rise of it and you will come to see that this Law is pure and must be fulfilled every jot title else no passing when you see none can fulfill it in its righteousness purity then is way made for Christ and so the law is the Schoolmaster to lead to him where the righteousness is placed and power to fulfill it who is the end of it for righteousness to every one that beleeves And as your mindes are kept to this Law that God hath written to shew sin and evill you will

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