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A89830	The boaster bared, and his armour put off, without a conquest, by the quaking principle. In an answer to Enoch Hovvets, called Quaking principles dasht in pieces. / Written by James Nayler.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1655 (1655)	Wing N266; Thomason E835_12; ESTC R202980	14,097	15

THE Boaster bared AND HIS ARMOUR Put off without a Conquest by the QUAKING PRINCIPLE IN AN ANSWER TO ENOCH HOWETS CALLED Quaking Principles dasht in pieces Written by James Nayler LONDON Printed for G. Calvert and are to be sold at his shop at the Black Spread Eagle neer the West end of Pauls 1655. THE Boaster bared And his Armor put off without a Conquest by the quaking Principle IN An Answer to ENOCH HOWETS called Quaking Principles dasht in pieces THat Principle which caused Moses David Daniel the prophets holy men of God to quake tremble hath been often struck at by a Principle of Darkness which knows not the Word at which the Saints Trembled Isa 66.5 and this alwayes under a pretence of Truth saying let God be Glorified but it never could be dashed in pieces though many weapons have been formed against it which are carnall and out of the truth And it is the same now as wil appear by this which thou Enoch Howet hast written wherein thou wilt be found in the same ground of opposition gathering up false accusations to cast on the the truth where it is manifested and being blind thou thinks thou dost God service therein that the Scripture may be fulfilled upon this Generation who are gathered as the sand of the Sea for multitude Mat. 24.6 against the despised people of God And the seven-Heads thou hast lifted up against the Truth with the many horns arising from thence pushing at the Saints with many lies which heads thou callest our mistakes but six of them as thou hast discribed them are thy own mistakes if not thy malitious slanders as wil appear upon tryall when with truth they come to be weighed to which thou adds many lyes to make up thy number Before thou comes to the seven heads thou begins an oration The God of the whole earth is now about to declare his glory to the Gentiles and the Kindoms of this World are about to become the lords and his Christs I Answer Many such as thou in a vain minde have long fed your selves with what wil be but for the present lives in your own wils and pleasures and are not subject to the Kingdom of Christ Luke 17.21 nor that way in which he raigned when he was upon earth which the litterall knowledg could never owne and whilest we fed with you upon these vain words without knowledg and life we were beloved of you being of this world with you but now being come to the knowledg of the Lord by the name of I am and seeing his glory having denyed the glory of the world in our selves and others to own Christs Kingdom wherein he reigned above the worlds pleasures now you hate us and out of all forms are you gathered against us 2 Cor. 4.8 c and on every side are we beset but not destroyed neither can thy boasting words dash in pieces that principle wherein we stand and when thou hast made way with thy fair speeches then thou begins to push with thy horns wherein is the names of Blasphemy casting out thy lyes saying that we call the God of this world that blinds the eyes a God of light and all this darkness spiritualness and that we can hardly endure what is written but run to unwritten notions c. whenas we own no Light but that which God hath made to shine out of darkness wherein he hath shined in our hearts to give the knowledg of himself 2 Cor. 4.6 which is the light of Christ and thou that calls this the God of this world or an unwritten notion makes it appear thou hast not the light in thee nor the Testimony of Jesus And thus being not born of the truth thou serves the Land of thy Nativity as thou sayest with false accusations and calling Christ thy Master wil not hide thee for such works he never owned Now thy first head thou sets up to oppose us with is that we slight the Written Word To which I answer If thou means the Scriptures I say thy accusation is false for the Scripture we own which testifies of the Word which Word was in Spirit and spiritually discovered in them that spake forth the Scripture before they spake it or writ it in Letters which Word we witness in spirit according to Scripture Gal. 1.11 12.15 16 17. 2 Cor. 3.6 discovered in us spiritually which thou denies to set up a litterall discovery 2 Cor. 13.15 to the 7. verse of the 4. chap. And the Vaile being untaken away by turning to the Lord which is that spirit thou canst not see the Gospell Light nor the end of the Scriptures which were given to lead to the spiritual light and Word that gave them forth where the life eternall is which they who think it to be in the letter without deny it in spirit as the Jews did and thou dost and thou that denies this end of the Scriptures art he that denies the Word to set up the Letter in his place and calls it by his Name who is the word before the Letter was which we dare not do which the Letter doth not Now if thou calls this slighting of the Word then did not the Saints also slight it before us who called what they writ a Declaration of the Word 1 Ioh. 1.22.3 Luke 1.1 And it s called the words of Ieromiah to whom the word of the Lord came a cleare distinction between the invisible Word that came to him in spirit and the visible writings declared from that word for the words were many but the Word is but one from whom these words were spoken Ier. 1.1 2. And thou goes on in thy Book often repeating It is written it is written Iohn 1. i. Rev. 19 i3 now it is written that God is the Word and Christ his name is called the word of God but where is it written that the Letter is the Word or of a written word And now it wil appear who owns what is written and who adds to it or would take from it prove what thou sayest with plaine Scripture then thou maist boast of its written thou holds out ignorance of the Scriptures to be the ground of error which if thou meanest litterall knowledg I deny what thou sayest for many such as thou knows the history but ers from the life for it is the ignoronce of the Spirit and power that the Scriptures declare of that 's the ground of error without which knowledg puffs but up to oppose the life and power and for thy rancking us amongst the Papists and saying we perswade you to the uselesness of the Scriptures calling subtile devils and the like these are but lying slanders to make us odious and on thy head shal they fall for the Devil is known by his works a lyar and false accuser he was and so he is as it is written and his subtilty he uses to uphold his Kngdom of sin and not to pul it down

meanest spirituall Reason I judge thy accusation to be false for that Reason we own which stands in the faith of God and leads to reasonableness And whereas thou accusest us that we wil not do as Christ and his Apostles did to dispute with gainsayers of the truth Herein let most of the Prisons in the nation be witness against thee wherein we are and have been imprisoned for going into your Synagogues and Idols Temples to dispute and reason with gain-sayers of the truth and herein we are not different from the words and practise of Christ Acts 17.2 as thou accusest us to be which thou in thy reason a voids and saves thy self least any of those things that befalls Christ and his Saints now should befall thee and here is thy own reason wherein Satan is conversant as thou sayes that will not suffer thee to follow Christ and his Saints herein further than thou canst have thy own pleasur s honor and ease and worldly beloveds that thy lusts may live and so throws by the Cross of Christ and his afflictions for which thou accusest us And thou layes down wayes in thy reason to know the things of God as by the aire and sun and by the Creation of the world to know the new Ierusalem and Rome at the day of Iudgment and many such things of Gods secrets thou wilt know without in thy reason but thou hast lost it is written for it is written that which may be known of God is manifest in them Rom. 1 i9 for God hath shewed it to them but where is it written that God is known by reason And many words thou utters not worth answering And thou tels of a day Star rising in the heart now thou wilt confess somthing within and not all in the Letter but what foundation thou art on that art thus tossed to and fro is manifest to the Light but the blinde must needs stumble And now to the fourth head That we deny the ascension or being of the body of Christ and when thou hast raised this slander thou goest about to disprove it and so thou disproves thy own and not ours for the body of Christ we own Iohn 3.13 Iohn 1.1.14 Iohn 3.13 s Iohn 53 to the 56. and the ascension of it and that it is the same that came down from heaven which became flesh and is reall flesh and bone which flesh is our food to spiritual life but if thou saist this body is carnal as the Priests do let us know thy meanining in plain words for a carnall Christ I own not but if thou saist Christ cannot be real flesh except he be carnal I say thou knows not the Scripture nor power of God for Christ is not begotten by carnall generation nor by flesh but the spirit of promise Silence flesh and stop thy mouth for into this MYSTERY thy Reason cannot enter but Christ and his flesh we know therefore does the world hate us had the flesh of Christ been Carnall it had corrupted as thine must but being spirituall it could not Thy fifth head is also a filthy lye That we deny all Ordinances of Christ and that there is nothing which Christ hath commanded as Lord over his heritage but we deny it O that ever any should profess the pure name of God and utter such abominable lyes that all that ever knows our practise or judgment may witness against thee for all the Ordinances of Christ we own in their place and the end of them in Christ who is the body and life of all yet cannot we give or attribute that to the figure which belongs to the substance Col. 2.8 to the end and otherwaies prove if thou canst that we deny any one thing that Christ ordained but it may be thy meaning is that we deny the worshipping in the Idols Temple or your churches as thou calls them which thou pleads for in another place or sprinckling Infants singing Davids words in rime hour-glass preaching from a text as now it is used preaching over the dead churching women taking tythes and set wages and much such like stuff which neither thou nor all the priests in England can prove any one thing of them that Christ ordained as now they are used but had their rise from Rome and are inventions of men which have the pope for their predecessor which thou accusest us withall who deny such beggarly popish rudiments and bears witness against them both in them and you and here be ashamed of thy slander and let it return upon thy own pate and thy reproofe be to thy selfe who denies the Lord to set up those traditions in such a way as hee never commanded And whereas thou mentions baptisme and the Lords supper I say that baptisme we own which is with one spirit into the death of Christ into one body 1 Cor 12. i● which is the baptisme of Christ and the baptism of Iohn we own in its place and the Supper of the Lord we own and the bread we breake is the communion of Christs body and the Cup we drink is the Communion of his blood and we being many therby become one body and one blood soul and minde and the Lords body we discern and eat not damnation but eternall life And thou that calls this denying of those ordinances thou knowest not the end for which they were ordained Thou sayes have we a spirit to guide us without a written Word He that bad not the Spirit to guide without the Letter went to the Familiar spirit c. Sam. 128.13 Iohn 16 Rom. 8.14 Thou saist we may be familiar spirits for ought thou knowest O thou Blasphemer is that a Familiar Spirit that guided the Saints in all ages before the Letter and without the Letter and is not that Spirit the same now to those that know it Doth not Christ say the Spirit of Truth shall guide into all Truth and doth he say not without the Letter And was that a Familiar Spirit how dost thou denie the Spirit and blaspheme against it to set the Letter in its steed And thou makest a dissembling as though thou pittied us but wert thou not blinde thou wouldst bewaile thy self who art spiritually blind who hast not the Spirit of Iudgment to guide thee and to try all things but by the Letter wouldst try the Spirit when a lying Spirit in thee must read it it s no wonder that thou should'st call Light Darkness and say the Letter is the Rule of Life and Love and so denies Christ to be the Rule of Life unless thou saist the Letter is Christ And whereas thou hold'st forth as that all that Christ commanded to any is to be observed by all Then why do not all that reads those commands go Teach and Baptize all Nations And why art thou in thy certain dwelling house and art not wandring without Bag or Scrip freely Preaching and working Miracles And why was not Paul sent to Baptize as wel