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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89859	Weaknes above wickednes, and truth above subtilty. Which is the Quakers defence against the boaster and his deceitfull slanders. Clearly seen in an answer to a book called Quakers quaking; devised by Jeremiah Ive's against the dispised contemptible people trampled on by the world, and scorned by the scorners. In which the deceits are turned into the deceivers bosome, and the truth cleared from the accuser. In much plainesse, that the simple may see and perceive, and come to be gathered to the Lamb, from amongst the armies of the wicked, who have now set themselves against the Lord, and sees it not. Also some queries to Jeremy Ive's touching his false doctrine and deceits. / by one who is called, James Nayler.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1656 (1656)	Wing N327; ESTC R207303	22,439	32

called a lye but not proved one and time will prove it otherwise The fifth lye is that James Naylor in a written Paper calls thee shamelesse Man for tempting him to deny the Lord. The sixth lye is that James Naylor in the same Paper said if he had come in his own name thou wouldst have received him as was confessed by thee To both which I answer as many can witnesse with me at the dispute which occasioned the Letter when I denyed thy faith to be the the faith of God or any of his Saints and proffered to prove it so before all the people if thou would put it upon tryall thou denyed my request unlesse I would deny my Call from God and say I was called some other way or else there work a miracle and then thou wouldst put thy faith on tryall according to my request which if this was not to tempt me to deny the Lord and his Call to obtaine a dispute wherein I could not be received while I confessed to come in the Name of God which another way in my own name and will thou proffered to receive me And this being done before many witnesses was the occasion of these words in my Letter as followeth O Shameless man was ever such a thing demanded by any child of God to tempt one to deny the Lord yea the Heathen would blush at such a thing to send for one to dispute and then to deny to come t otryall with that they call the Rule and touchstone unlesse they whom they did dispute with would deny their God first Hast not thou proved thy selfe worse then any that ever disputed with the Apostles or any of the Servants of God that ever he sent forth Dost thou professe the Scriptures and is it become such an odious thing to thee to come in the name of God that for that very thing thou drust not put thy Faith upon tryall by Scripture nor could receive me but if I would come in my own name thou would as thou plainly confessed that if I would say I was not sent of God thou would put thy Faith upon tryall c. Now the things being true before related as many can witnesse where the lye is in these words let honesty judge and let any mind the wicked one how he hath perverted my words to slander me with saying that I said if I had come in my own name he would have received me as saith he I said he did plainly confesse and leaves out the rest which words as I writ them runs thus as thou plainly confessed That if I would say I was not sent of God then thou would put thy Faith on tryall The truth of which words will be witnessed by many that heard that thou pretended that very thing to hinder the tryall of thy faith because of my coming in the name of God And further thou added that if I was one sent of God it was to no purpose to put thy faith on tryall with me for I would overturne all thy proofes or words to that purpose as may be testified by many witnesses So the lyes be to thy selfe and on thy head till thou repent thereof but peace and truth to him that loves it Thy seventh lie is that while one ran from Bull Mouth to thy house for the Paper I slipt away which is a most abominable falshood as hundreds can witnesse that I went not away till the meeting broke up neither knew I of any such thing as the Letter fetching neither have I yet run from your filthy lyes envy much les shall I run from the truths written with my own hand which I here have owned and clearly proved to be truth thee to be the lyar and and shall further doe it if to the truth it may be service able And when thou hast done thou sayest these a are but a few of those Legions of Lyes that are in our writings and preachings when the Lyes are thy own raised by that Spirit of Insidelity who having denyed the Faith of Christ would turne his truth into a lye and was thou not impudent in thy wickednesse thou might be ashamed of thy birth thou hast brought forth who hath been hunting for accusations against the truth but canst find none and so runs to a sort of hurling Priests and their false accusations thou preachest for Truths being of the same nature with them their reports agree most with thy spirit and thy foundation being deceit thy work falls upon thy own head Then thou makes a boast of something that thou wouldst prove the first thing is the writings of the Scripture to be the word of God this thou wouldst prove from Mark 7. to where Christ saith They that doe not honour their father and mother maketh the word of God of none effect saying that he faith their making this written Law of none effect which is false for his words are Making the word of God of none effect through your traditions but thou that wouldst make the letter of that command the word which was written in stone if thou readest 2 Cor. 3. thou mighst find the Apostle denies that or to be any Minister of it and saith that ministration is done away and owns the ministration of the Spirit and not of the letter so thou hast lost thy word if the Apostle saith true and a new proofe thou must seek to prove the letter the word Another proofe thou brings is from Jer. 36. where thou wouldst prove that the letter of that Role is the word of God which Baruck read so by thy proofe the word of God may be burnt if that Role be it and so thy word of God is lost that which was written in that Role not so much as being in the Bible and with such confused stuffe as this thou makest thy proofes which the least of wisdome would be ashamed of If that engraven in stone be the word and that in Baruks role the word and both wanting the letter of the one and the matter of the other then there is two of the words lost and how thou wilt prove that which is lost to be the word now wisdome may judge who knowes the word of the Lord that endures for ever what ever becomes of the letter but a literall ministration suits best with thy made faith how should that faith which comes not from God believe the living word but like thy fore-fathers the Jews who were deaf and blind as thou art who could read the Scriptures but the word of God had no place in them who could heare Christ speak literally with their carnall ears but could not hear his word Thy next proofe is as confused as the rest thou sayest thou would prove the Scriptures to be the word of God out of our own mouths and yet thy accusation against us is that we deny the Scriptures to be the word what conjuration is this that thou art about who canst prove

true light and lighteth every man that cometh into the world but not within so that our Errour must be that we say the Light of Christ is spirituall and within and herein we have the witnesse of all those who had the faith of Christ and thereby knew what this light was which was in darknesse though the darknesse comprehended it not as Joh. 1. 5. which shined out of darknesse in their hearts which treasure they had in Earthen vessells 2 Cor. 4. 6 7. Ephes 5. 13. with many other places and much it matters not what the Infidell who hath denyed the faith of Christ saith against it Some Queries thou askes which I shall answer so far as there is any thing worth the answering in them 1. First then what need is there of Scripture to declare the mind of God I answer they testifie hereof against such as thee 2. Whether that Light will shew that the Virgin had a Son 3. Can it shew that Christ dyed and rose againe in three dayes 4. What favour it was to the people of Israel to have the written Law c. 5. Whether men by the Light within could have known Christ should have been born at Jerusalem c. To all which I answer all these things and much more was made known by the Light before they was written in the letter but being believed generally there is no such necessity that he should make a declaration of those things againe in this Nation but that he should Minister the substance to wit Christ in Spirit which none can know without this Light though they have the letter no more then they could know Christ when he came who read in the letter that he was to be born at Bethlem who might as well have askt him who bad them believe in the Light of the world that they might be the children of Light but would this Light have told us that there was an Ark builded by Moses and a Temple builded by Solomon and how many years it was a building and many other visible things which they too much doated on already and here was thou not blind might thou read thy selfe and more of thy Generation and see that the end of thy Queries is but to discover thy selfe where thou art Thou askes further Whether the Name of Christ may be known to all the world by the Light within them without Scripture or tradition I say yea and by nothing else without it for the Name of Christ consists not of Letters and sillables but in righteousnesse mercy and judgement c. which Name none can know but by the Light of the world though many of you read your Bibles who are the greatest enemies to his Name such is your knowledge as appears by your practice Other Questions thou askes the substance whereof is What then needs our books or our preaching is not that superfluous I say our preaching serves to direct people to the light which such as thou who are Reprobate to the Faith of Christ and knows not the mystery thereof which is held in a pure conscience have led them out from and some of our Book serve to manifest your folly and wickednesse before all the world but hadst thou not been partially blind thou might ask thy selfe this question and thy Brethren who would make the letter the Light and would hold it forth onely for sufficiency what need your divining from it if it be sufficient of it selfe but thy faith teacheth not that doctrine to doe as they would be done by Thy fifth errour thou chargest us with is touching John Lawson being accused for saying the day of judgement was past and this is an accusation like the rest thou says he goes about to prove it in Sauls Errand so he having answered for himselfe it may be seen whether he own it or no by them that read that book For those words wherewith he is accused I own not The sixth Errour thou sayest that George Fox said he was the eternall Judge of the world and thy proofe is the Priests Petition and that George denies it not as thou sayes but saith the Saints shall judge the world to which I say to what George saith herein we own but the Priests accusation and thy proofe we deny Thy seventh errour was that George Fox said I am the way the truth and the life and this thou proves like the rest as thou proved foaming at our meetings because he denies it not but saith the old Man cannot endure to hear the new man speak and so doe I say so also for where Christ speaks in Male or Female he is what he testifies himselfe to be if thou canst receive it thou may Thy eigth Errour is that Fox said that he which took a text of Scripture and made a Sermon of it was a Conjurer and this thou would disprove by Phillips speaking to the Eunuch to which I say those are not Georges words as thou speaks them but the words of the accuser neither did George speak of what Phillip did who was immediately sent of God nor of what was done in that generation by them who owned the spirituall Light of Christ but of what is done now by such Diviners as deny the Faith of Christ and his Call and Spirit in them and what such raiseth must needs be conjuration who denyes the faith and Spirit of God Thy ninth Errour is that he saith the Scriptures are carnall and this is a lye like the rest for he saith the letter of the Scriptures are carnall for a Scripture is known before the letter was though the blind see it not and that Scripture we doe not say is carnall but own it to be the word of God and our Rule who doe not walk after a carnall rule though not contrary to the letter Thy tenth Errour is against one Leonard Hill a name I neither know nor own and so I passe it by as not necessary for me to contend about The eleaventh Errour is John Lawson againe that he said he had been in Hell and is now in Heaven to which I say though it seem an Errour to thee yet this is plaine that the Saints have witnessed being in Hell and in Heaven also as is plain in Scripture which thou that calls it an error art ignorant of as is plain in these Scriptures with divers others Jonah 2. 2. Psal 16. 10. Ephes 2 6. 2 Cor. 12. 2 4. And they was not in an errour who witnessed this nor he if it was true in him Thy twelsth Errour is that we say we are perfect and sin not and this thou repeats over againe in thy eighteenth Error and calls it a lye but the lye being thine own twice told over I leave it with thee till thou prove it yet doe we own perfection and believe in it which is not that we never had as thou falsly sayest but as we have received Christ so we have received perfection in whom all selfe boasting is