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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

and your own wills standing Are you a willing people for God when you see with the light of Christ in your hearts what you ought to doe and what you ought to forbear but your own wills withstands it and leads you into coveteousnes pleasures and wantonnes and selfishnes contrary to it And what power is this which acts you in these ways of unrighteousness for which your hearts condemns you This is the power of darknes which the light of Christ in your consciences bears witnes against And thus you have got words instead of power and life and you think salvation is in them crying the Ordinances of God But did God ever ordaine a talke without power and life Is not Christ the Ordinance and the end of all Ordinances who is the way the truth and the life Is there any Ordinances without him in the Gospel Or will he accept your taken on performances from imitation of others which he leads not to in spirit Is not he that commands and he that gives power one who in spirit gives out his will to every generation which they who followed imitations could never own nor could he ever own their service whose fear and worship is taught by the precepts of men and not by his spirit within Is not he the Sabboth Circumcision Baptisme the Supper c. are not all these in him and doth not he minister all these in spirit to every one that comes to him and so the shaddow is come into the substance the end of all shaddows which is life indeed but the figures are not the life nor can any have the life but who comes to the end of them for the outward makes nothing pefect but the inward doth all that come unto it and abide in him When will you be weary of your vaine imaginations of a Day to come wherein you must have power How long have you been deceived with these vaine thoughts Was not this it you talked on twenty thirty forty or fifty years since yet now further off from it then ever And are not these vaine words though you cannot bear it to have them so called When will you be ashamed of your vaine profession you that run to seek God in the high-places amongst the hirelings running from God to seek him vvhere he is not And is not this vaine profession when nothing is brought forth but winde nor is he found by you wherein your fruit is Those who had the forme and not the power could never finde him then how should you speed any better that joyne with them who have neither for in such a forme you worship as in which God never appeared but Christ and his ever witnessed against and doth to this day yet will not you be instructed but in your own wills and ways you will stand though you finde nothing but emptines in it and yet you talke of being a willing people in the day of his power but when will you have it present who abide in that way where both will and power is wanting Free-will you have not but to follow Satan who hath begot a will in you that God never created contrary to God in all things and where that will rules it will not own his power therefore is that a day a far off you but the will of the Devil and his power is persent and acts you at his pleasure and you are offended that any should vvitnesse being set free from it Thus you are suffered to please your vaine minds the day to talke on but the night and deeds of darknesse you must walke in else your old master is highly d●spleased and if any call you to the Light he sayes its Delusion and as for freedome from sin or the way to perfection that 's most dangerous Heresie and Delusion And thus he makes you most afraid of freedome least any of you should believe in the Son which leads to it for the Devil knows if he can but keep you from believing it you are sure for ever comming to it for as is every mans faith so shall be his freedome Thus you stand afar off and cry take heed of Delusion and deceiving when you have nought but your sins to be deceived on nor can you say you have ought in you that 's pure but that which you deny in your conscience which is a witnes against you and this is the cry of all who are deceived already in all formes in the world But who have the Spirit that can try all things is bold as a Lyon and will not receive nor hold fast any thing but that which is good that none can take from him The Heathen were ever afraid to be spoyled of their Idols and so are you of your Images you have set up and formed from others every one according to your owne wills If shaddowes and likenesses could save then would it be found in these Nations who have of all sorts and statures tall and with heads of Gold some of them which you zealously worship and compell others also who know no better And this is that they serve for for they cannot save you onely they serve you to contend about and keep you doing least you should waite upon God alone and be saved from your sinnes and then the Devils Kingdome were broken wherefore he feeds you with a profession and form without power And of likenesses you may choose from one to another yet all in his Kingdome of sin and imperfection as long as you live that 's his limit and for no lesse time will he have his Covenent and you are willing to enter into it with him and plead for it exceedingly mad against any that break it or believe in him that redeems from it nay so blinde and deafe are you that if any have found freedome you cannot abide to hear them declare it and the end of Christs comming must not be preached nor his Covenant that is pure and without sin as he is that made it and so each Covenant is like its Master And this we doe witnesse and see now at present which you know not who look not for it till after death therefore sin must stand in that Covenant because you have not our keeper for God hath so concluded it And the Light is in the world where all are sinners but none have the life but who receive the Light and joyne to it and are led out of the world by it to such sheep Christ is keeper who follow him out of uncleannes and for such he is become an undertaker the strong man to binde and cast out who believe that he will doe it for them but the swine he keeps not the shepheard they will not follow there the Devil must enter and have power and into the Sea must they headlong Take heed carnall professors whose Religion lookes downward into the earth the Sea is next and the place is steepe And you have nought to keepe who deny the life of

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

that we can truly say here hee is all and selfe is nothing but abhorred because it is polluted the eye being now open that 's onely taken with affection to that which is holy And with this eye we see you your name your Covenant and your righteousnesse which all lyes under the power ofdarknesse Is not that light which is in you become darknes who have your way to seek without you What name is in you when the Serpents seed is still unbruised who is head and rules in you where the Name of Jesus is the Devills tremble and bow as God hath appointed and they that know his name doe it witnesse What is your righteousnesse who bring forth that which is imperfect which with the light of the Covenant is condemned Is this the righteousnesse of Jesus which doth not satisfie God and man being witnessed by that in the Conscience And now you may see what it is you professe in this world and in what stead it will stand you in the day of evill which is condemned already with that in your Consciences But you use to say that the Righteousnesse of God you looke for hereafter to be covered with it at the day of Judgement but not in this life I say what 's this then you are now doing which you are here preaching pressing and practising whose is this Righteousnesse is it either Gods or your owne selfe-Righteousnesse which if it be Gods it endures for ever but if not it 's abomination what ever it seemes to you whose eye is blinded and so professes and practises and presseth an abominable sacrifice and know not that you doe evill for this I say Better no righteousnesse then that which is not Gods for such is spirituall wickednesse in heavenly places and the long prayers of such is abomination and they receive the greater Damnation and of such Christ saith Publicans and Harlots take the Kingdome before them But you say Must we not pray then I say wait for the spirit of prayer which onely is heard and without which none know what to pray for with that prayer which helps the infirmities and gives the understanding only such are answered in what they pray for what effect hath thy prayers which are abomination doth God heare a contrary spirit thou that delightst in wickednesse God will not heare that prayer that 's out of the Covenant and thou art in that nature that God hath cursed from him and its in vaine for thee to blesse it And this is the cause why nothing you doe is accepted because it is performed in the disobedient cursed Nature and there is Cains sacrifice and Esan's prayers and teares And you that abide in that nature are of those who said Why have wee fasted and prayed and thou hast not regarded you call but receive no answer But did you but minde that in your Conscience which is pure you would see how often hee hath called to you and checked you for sin but you have not answered There might you reade the cause why you call but hee doth not answer as hee hath said Because I called and you would not answer therefore when you cry I will not answer And thus it is with you who observe the outward worships but minde not the Spirit which is given to profit withall in the worship and though all have a measure yet you that hide your talent cannot pray with the Spirit nor with the understanding and so your fellowship is with the forme but not in the power with men in words but not with God and so your times are in your owne hands and you have resolved them before-hand And you have a time to pray and a time to play a time to abstain from your lusts and a time to fulfill your lusts a day to abstain from the world and days to conform to the world and thus not being guided with that Spirit which is before all to lead and bring you out of time you are still in observations and your times of Religion and your times in the world your customes in Religion and your customes in the world are both in your owne will and corrupt nature and so your prayers are abomination and your plowing sin But the times of Sons and Daughters are not in their own hands and this wee have learned of Jesus in Spirit not to please our selves nor to be men-pleasers but to be obedient to another principle which moves contrary to the will of all men for him wee witnesse who is not borne after the will of man but which the will of man could never owne who by the wills of men ever suffered where hee is borne into the world and the same this day is manifest a seede contrary to the seed of evill doers and a righteousness that exceedes the righteousness of the world that which is amongst the greatest professions and this is that holinesse without which none shall see God But say you this is that Righteousnesse wee beleeve in and by which we are justified by that blood which was shed at Jerusalem and by that obedience that was in him and by that holinesse but that the want of his righteousnesse in us or that want of Christ or his blood in us can hinder our justification that we deny and look upon it to be Heresie and false Doctrine for it is Christ without us that hath satisfied for sin and not Christ in us and his blood without us and his righteousnesse without us and his faith and patience meekness and sufferings hope and love and obedience c. it s these without us that whoever beleeves in shall be saved and by this faith the ungodly is justified To which I say Hee that beleeves not what Christ suffered at Jerusalem with all his obedience and Righteousness and that hee bare our sins in himself and trode the wine-press alone and alone was well pleasing to the Father and that in him alone the work of Redemption is placed and wrought with much more which may be truly said of him I say whosoever beleeves not this cannot be saved neither can hee ever come to receive Christ within him working and witnessing the same in Spirit as is declared in the letter nor can hee come to witness him that 's greater in him then hee that 's in the world giving him victory over the Devill Sin and the World because God hath placed all power in Heaven and Earth in him and without faith in him who is that power none can come to it nor receive it but in him in whom God hath freely given it Nor can any have him and be without it all the promises of life and salvation being in him Yea and Amen But now you that make the receiving of him to stand in a bare confessing with the tongue when the heart beleeves not unto righteousness and that this is that faith a perswasion from the letter or from the knowledge of others that such a one dyed at

Jerusalem and rose againe and from thence conclude that all shall be saved and are believes that profess this Faith though they come not to the Fellowship of his sufferings and of his resurrection in themselves and so come to witness his death and life manifest in their mortall flesh and so the body of sin put off by the body and washed with the blood of Christ and so be baptized into his death dead with him to sin and alive with him to righteousness and true obedience to the Father in their measures I say you that say that a bare perswasion or outward Confession is that faith that justifies the ungodly without Christ in them Then what are you doing when you say Stand off me for I am more holy then thou and are gathering from them who all beleeve with this faith as well as you onely they differ from you in other practises as some open sinnes and the like and why have not the greatest drunkards and swearers or who remongers as good right to Christ Church-fellowship as you have or why doe you hinder them from that which you call the Seales or Sacraments seeing that faith in Christ is the ground of interest to all that belongs to Christ Doe not you according to your own principle exclude beleevers even of the same faith with you and who are those unbelievers you tell on who are condemned and to whom doe you preach faith in these Nations seeing you can finde none in them who are come to understanding Papist nor Protestant but they beleeve this with you That Christ dyed at Jerusalem If hereby they be justified before God how dare you charge any thing upon them or separate from them if God have owned them Also many hundred thousand pounds a yeare may be spared which are spent under this pretence as to make people beleevers when all they preach to are beleevers already and have that faith that justifies the ungodly And whose is the righteousness people are exhorted to bring forth if the Righteousness of Christ that 's necessary to salvation be onely without them then whose is that you call for within them But if you say they must have some of the righteousness of Christ within them and the rest without them then why doe not you describe a measure that people may know how much to look for and when they come to an end of their labours and how much they must doe before Christ will undertake to doe the rest Or if Christ have done all how much of it must they doe over againe before they come to their rest and to be accepted and differ what it is that must be brought forth from within and what must be beleeved without but not enjoyed within that so people may come to see what is Christ and what is selfe righteousnes and where they are that they may avoide the one and receive the other But thus you lye in confusion from which by that faith which stands in Jesus wee are freed and have received his righteousness to which wee are obedient by which wee are purified by bringing forth that which hee begetteth as formerly we were defiled by bringing forth that which was begotten by the Devill and so through obedience of the Spirit our souls are purified and we become conformable to him that 's gone before us who received light and obedience and power from the Father and so became the first fruits unto perfection and holiness through whom we receive power for obedience grace for grace by which wee are saved and our life is in him and our obedience and hee is all in us which we receive of the Father who hath wrought all our workes in us and so ordaines peace for us yea beyond all that you know or can beleeve who know not Christ in you So you have set up a reprobate faith that you cannot but be servants of sin while you live in this world so are to every good work reprobate But you use to say You have that which Christ did in his owne person evidenced to you that hee did it for you particularly which drunkards swearers and the like have not I say your Evidence is but in words and conceipt who have not Christ in you no more then theirs is You are perswaded and hope it is so and so are they also but neither of you bring forth the fruits that are his But you say you bring forth better fruits then drunkards and swearers I say the best fruite that 's brought forth in either which is not the worke of God by Christ in you is but selfe-righteousnesse and all your selfe taken on performances in your owne wills is no better But you say you doe what you can and God accepts the will for the deed but so doe not those who are openly wicked I say God accepts no will but his owne and this hee begets by his Spirit in all that waite upon him in the light of Jesus and with such hee that begets the will begets the deed also and it is no more what we can but what hee will with whom all things are possible and wee can doe nothing neither doe we desire to doe any thing yet can wee doe all things that hee wills through him that in us so the will of God is done in us by his power in our measures as it is in Heaven and this is perfect righteousnesse where Christ is all and the Creature nothing And as for your doing and others not doing I say every one hath that opinion of himselfe that hee is not so bad as others and with this the Devill deceives you to keep all in his kingdom And by this opinion of yours none is to be condemned who hath any worse then himselfe in his doings for this must needs follow from the best to the worst unlesse you describe how farre it must goe and no further and then must you needes shut out some who have endeavoured as much against sin in their owne strength as ever you did in yours I have knowne a drunkard shed more teares set stronger resolutions and make more vowes against that filthy sin of Drunkennesse then ever I knew the greatest professor doe against his secret covetousnesse which is Idolatry Nay the highest professions can plead for it though not under that name and make a trade on it which the other is ashamed to doe for his drunkennesse Now if God had placed righteousnesse and acceptance in doing what one can then why should not the first of these be accepted as well as the latter seeing hee prays and weeps and doth what he can to overcome it And thus all sorts of people in the world who know not Christ and his strength in them which alone is appointed by God to overcome sin for all that receive him I say you are all in confusion labouring to no purpose one condemning another thereby to get peace to your selves but all under the curse and so is

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 who will receive it and beleive therein which is Sions glory Christ with his life and power made manifest in mortal flesh 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 written to such as are imagining such a Christ as they would have but cannot receive the same that is from the beginning and in the same way manifest 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 We have found him whom our soules loves And greater is he in us then he that 's in the world LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert at the Signe of the Black-spread Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1655. A SALUTATION TO THE Seed of God AND A Call out of Babylon Egypt from amongst the Magitians where the house of bondage is and the Imaginations Rules above the Seed of God ARise shine forth thou seed of the Covenant to which the Promise is for thy glory is come and with Judgement is the Lord arisen to redeem his chosen and all that turn to him shall be covered with righteousnes even that which before the world was and above all the world is which is perfect for evermore Put off your rags you that have covered your selves with your wisdome and let that which is imperfect be done away How long will it be ere you hearken to the Lord that you may pertake of the best and receive of the Lord freely that your souls may be satisfied that no leannes there may be nor crying out of wants Can the Lord be pleased with that righteousnes which that of God in your consciences declares to be imperfect Or will he accept that which is none of his own Consider of this you Professors of the Nation who pray and weep and seek but finde not that which gives peace nor reconciles you to God W●●hout faith in Christ its impossible to be well-pleasing to God who is your peace and that 's not faith in Christ that lays hold of an imperfect righteousnesse for that 's your own But that 's the righteousnesse of God which by faith in Christ alone is f●eely received and the least measure is perfect This is the gif● that comes from above which takes up the creature above all other That which we have received we declare and wee can doe no other for in him is our glory and this of his is our boldnes in the day of Judgment that as he is so are we in this world herein is our love perfected in him because we are of him and one with him in his righteousnes and that measure we have of it is freely ours without upbraiding and an inheritance we have in it wherefore we leave all to follow him who is our fullness and cannot but call to all who loves their soules to come to us knowing his freenesse And your labours to no purpose you who are kindling sparkes with whom we have laid long in sorrow and we know the end of your labour and your fruit is cursed though in the sweate of your browes you bring it forth all you that say you must doe what you can and Christ will doe the rest you must do some and Christ must doe other some this is your own way and not the way of God for here the linsie-woolsie garment is seene which is forbidden for in the way of God Christ is all in all but here is part in you and part in him as you imagine and you are two and there is sin for while you live sin lives and if we say we have no sin we deceive our selves and have not the truth in us But where he alone lives there is no sin for the life of Christ is the death of sin as it is manifest and for this purpose we know he was manifest to take away our sinnes and in him is no sin for by the appearance of his life are we translated into his likenesse which is our boldnesse and he that hath this hope purifies himselfe even as he is pure for we see him as he is our life our hope our strength and way which is pure and perfect and as he is so he makes our way perfect and this is our peace that we have nothing but what we have received and it is his owne and he cannot deny himselfe who is faithfull and with his faithfulnesse are we made faithful to him and the least measure of him which comes from above which is present power and in a measure of him we move and have our being where nothing is impossible The day of his power is come whereby we are made willing in which will his people ever took pleasure and whatever he doth is good for us and his wonderous works we see which have been told of how with his own arme he takes the kingdome is us which so much we talked on when we did not know him nor his power but with you put the good day far off us to another generation when the Lord was neare us though we did not know him but looked for the kingdome of God without us which was within us unregarded therefore did we sit down in sorrow being out of that way where rest was placed and did not se● him who was foreordained for good works wherein we should walk in which by him we should be exercised therefore we could never come to be satisfied but our conscience still accusing us in our best performances yea feares and doubtings were our best condition who therein were like the false Prophets speaking peace one to another where God had not spoken peace in our consciences thus healing the hurt deceitfully as all the world at this day is doing crying peace when the bonds of iniquity still stands and you are servants in evill workes where the Prince of this world is Ruler and guid and what peace can you have while that Kingdome stands and you in it and this Kingdome must stand till his power be known who is appointed to take it and binde the Prince of it Wherefore come out of Death all that will have life and make no longer Covenant with it How can you prevaile who take the Serpents councel to overcome

the Devils kingdome and this you doe who search into the things of God with your fallen wisdome So are you kept in labour to no purpose never can get from under the works of condemnation therefore you conclude None can ever come to be wholly free while they live and so make the blood of Christ of none effect which we doe witnesse doth cleanse from all sinne and save to the uttermost all that come unto him the thing which Hagars seed doth most oppose and scoffe at that wherein we triumph above the world and Imagemakers That our God is a Saviour from that which none can be free from who are without him though they make many likenesses of him from the letter the forme without the power t is to no purpose Take notice you severall sorts of Worshippers who worship a God a farre off whom you know not which if you did there would not be so much contention about him what he is and the way of his worship Nor can you know him till he be revealed in you nor can he be known in you but as you come to be cleansed for with him dwells no uncleanesse Thus you that plead for your sinnes plead against your own soules which cannot be satisfied but by his presence who is not seen present where sin is standing And by unbeliefe doe you cut your soules off while you say you can never be cleansed till after you be dead here hath the Devil deceived you and so far prevailed with you to enter into Covenant with him while you live to serve him And being blinded this you know not That you have made Covenant with Hell and Death which by God is cursed and troubled That I know and own that troubles your peace and sets you on seeking but the way you seeke is from another principle which is selfish and shall never obtaine peace for you He that troubles all that 's out of his way guides and gives peace to all in his way the same is a spirit the world knows not blowes where it listeth therefore never found but in his own way and will You who seek him in the will of man there cannot finde him nor can your Ministers made by the will of man tell you of him where he is or the way to him He is not born of that Generation not of that Will nor of that seede is he begotten therefore not knowne to them therefore they themselves with all their seeking not having found him can doe no lesse then tell you that he will never appeare more to his people that which is written is all the word and what others have seene is all the knowledge that any need ever to looke for while the world continues and what others have done that 's all you have to talke on for your righteousnesse And thus the way of Gods walking and working in his people is wholly excluded from the face of the earth And a faith you have devised and set up besides it if not wholly against it so that now to witnesse good works is counted Poperie though all that comes to God are fore-ordained to walke therein and to that end new-created Thus are not men afraid to denie the work of God and his Righteousnesse and yet say you are his workmanship and that you are in God and Christ but out of his works and must be in the works of the Devil yet God is your Father Yet in this confusion none must tell you you are in Babylon for then you say they judge you nor that they that teach you thus are Ministers of Antichrist for that you call railing though to such the Spirit of Christ hath ever used it Thus hath the Devil set up his worke and fenced it with the name of highest Faith in the world and who is under this Faith though they sinne yet they say they can never fall finally nor totally though the whole man be found in the action nor is your sins like others because you say you are believers though both they and you in one action and nature So that Faith which you professe is become a defence for sin But our Faith is that which overcomes sin so to the good work is not reprobate And thus you set up a profession without power But did you mide the light of Christ that never changes by it to be taught in Spirit these deceits would be soon discovered and you could not walk in darknesse With it we see that he that commits sin is of the Devil and is fallen from God whatever be his profession and there can be no greater fall then to fall from that which should keepe him into the Devils power to act according to the Devils movings and to bring forth his begettings and such we know are his children With the Light we see that he that is in the way of God is in holinesse and he that is not is in the way of the Devil and that he that 's in God is out of selfe and there sin is blotted out and forgotten but he that 's in selfe is in sin though he be praying or plowing with it we see the life of Christ is pure and who lives any other life its polluted though never so finely covered with it we see the way of God is perfect and you whose way is not perfect is the way of condemnation With the Light we see him that hath not the word within him to have no more then the Devil hath who knows the letter and can preach it and that he that hath not that faith that overcomes sin in its measure hath no faith but as the Devils and that he that hath not heard his voyce knows him not nor he that hath not seen him hath no fellowship with him and whose heart is filthy can doe neither With the Light we see that who is in the work of God is in the good work and he that is not is in the evill and whatever he doth is abominable and that he that hath not the righteousnesse of God hath his own which is imperfect but who hath that of God hath that which perfectly satisfies both God and man so far as with it the creature is covered With it we see him that hath faith without this work to be as a body without a spirit which can doe nothing and that faith is vaine thats without power And as we see with that which is eternal so we judge and the world receives not our testimony because the carnal minde is enmity and cannot he subject nor can the naturall man receive the things of the Spirit onely those who minds the light of the Spirit discernes and owns our testimony and receives our witness and his power who is true and so become willing to follow that truth that leads to freedome How long have you talked of being a willing people in the day of his power but doth vaine words save you while you are in the power of darknes

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