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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95098	A true narrative of the examination, tryall, and sufferings of James Nayler in the cities of London and Westminster, and his deportment under them. With the copies of sundry petitions and other papers, delivered by severall persons to the Lord Protector, the Parliament, and many particular Members thereof, in his behalf. With divers remarkable passages (relating thereto) before his journey to Bristol, whither he is now gone towards the filling up the measure of his sufferings.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1657 (1657)	Wing T2789; Thomason E899_6; ESTC R204821	56,615	71

be made manifest which have been lost the Truth the power of the form and the life of Christ and Christ himself the Emanuel Therefore take heed of persecuting that which is created and made by his power where the power is received and dwelt in for the powers sake which power is Christ and which the power speakes through and where the power of God rules where there is a fault the fault is judged but where the seed is that is to be owned and it is not just that the mouth of the séed should be stopped in the fear of God and meekness vveigh and consider these things before you act and consider what vvas in the Apostles that caused them to suffer POSTSCRIPT IF the seed speake which is Christ he hath no other Name for the seed is Jesus Christ and it is not blasphemy but truth but if the seed of the serpent speak and say he is Christ that is the Lyer and the Blasphemer and the ground of all Blasphemy and is not the seed which is Christ but the head of the serpent is to be bruised which is the cause of all enmity strife and debate with the seed of the Woman which is Ghrift George Fox Was not the appearance of Christ when He was born glorious when that the voyce was cryed Hosanna to the Highest Was not this to the astonishing of the beholders and amazement of the world did it not stir up all chief Priests and Herod was not He puzled about His Birth and they troubled at his coming did not the Chief Priests and Rulers gather against Him who was full of grace and truth did not the glory of Him shew it self forth when He went up unto Jerusalem when the high voice was spoken and the songs to him sung the strength ordained out of the mouths of Babes and sucklings and was not Jerusalem the highest place of Worship and did not the strength which was ordained for the Babes and Sucklings set the Priests and Rulers on rage against Christ that they crucified and slew him and did not that make Herod and Pilate friends in the highest place of Worship did not He say and tell his Disciples Hee would come again the Hosanna Him that was cryed Glory to the Highest And did not He come again to his Apostles accordin 〈…〉 o his promise and make his abode with them and sup with them Did not the Apostles say to the Saints that Christ was in them the mysterie the hope of glory and if He was in them the body was dead because of sin did not the Apostle say Examine your selves prove your selves Know you not that Iesus Christ is in you except you be Reprobates mark Iesus Christ in you the Emmanuel the Saviour the Lamb of God the Hosanna Is not his appearance in the Spirit as glorious in his second coming as it was at his first is it not as much to be admired in the world as it was ever Answer these things and satisfie yourselves To the Light wherewith Christ Jesus hath enlightned you all I speak that with it you may see when you act against him where he is manifested To prison them contrary to the Just is to make them to grow and to banish them is to shame your Religion and not to own the thing the scripture speakes of and to put them to death is to destroy your selves George Fox Whether or no you will suffer Christ to have as much honor in the earth and the world as the Devil hath Where Christ is manifested whether or no he shall not have more honour or as much where he is manifested And whether or no it is offence to bow to man or to kneel before a Indgein the world Whether this be offensive to the world amongst the world to bow before such and among such the truth is not in And whether or no it would not be offence to such to bow to Christ where he is manifested and persecute such as do bow where the thing is in the truth whether or no such a thing may not be done in the truth and bee a figure to all the bowings of the earthly Powers which be out of truth which hath reigned above the seed of God An example to you all Therefore take heed and consider before you act any thing or judge lest God judge you afterward for be assured He will Whether bowing in the Truth may not bee a figure that the seed of God shall rise and reign above the Earthly Powers and they shall bow to it And how know you but such things as these may bee tryalls to you whether you will persecute another for taking that which is acted among you to your selves in another way different from this Now come to do as you would be done by and do not persecute that in another that is acted in the world though it be professed otherwayes in the intent and come to the true measure and weight and act nothing in your own wils nor out of the counsel of God to judge the just upon earth in this world the just you 'l be judged by that is of the world to come without end I receive not Honor of man Whether or no if any do persecute the seed which doth take the honor of God which is over the world and it They themselves do take the honor of the world that persecutes the contrary Are these things judged with a just measure and weighed with an equall ballance yea or nay George Fox DID not Christ wash the Disciples feet Did he not do that as a pattern and example to those that came after him that they should do to one another Have you washed one anothers feet Have ye anointed one another with oyle that stumble at these where they are acted Are not these the expressions of love to one another And are not these things to be acted amongst the Disciples of Christ Are not these things wonders amongst you that do not wash one anothers feet that be out of the example of the Lord did not the Disciples wash one anothers feet according to Christs example Were not the Prophets feet washed Did not Peter desire his head o be washed Do not wonder and strange at these things where they are practised Were not the Saints to salute one another with a holy kisse and was not Peter to be carried whither he would not Was there not a time that he girded himself And is it not the Prince of the air that rules in the children of disobedience if it be not the Prince of Peace and the Lamb of God And is it not an expression of love and honor where there is the washing of one anothers feet And for the washing or kissing of feet it is but an expression of love and humility And is not this a patern and example to all you to judge you all how far short ye are of washing one anothers feet or kissing one anothers feet and do not wrong

thing is fallen out to try you whether or no you act against Christ where he is manifest in his Members for it is said Christ in you and if Christ be in you the body is dead because of sin and if Christ be within may not he speak in Righteousness and be confessed there Now if Jesus Christ be not in you mark Jesus Christ be not in you ye are reprobates and if Christ be within must he not speak mark Iesus Christ the Emanuel the same is it offence for Christ to speak and Jesus to speak where he is within Now examine your selves know not you your selves how that Jesus Christ is in you except ye be reprobates And if Jesus Christ be in you must he not speak in you Is it not he that must speak for the natural man receives not the things of God because they are spiritually discorned they are foolishness unto him and did not the Apostle say He did not live but Christ it was Christ that lived in him mark again it was Christ that lived in him if it was Christ that lived in him it was Christ that spake in him the life that he lived it was by the faith of the Son of God mark what a life was this and did he not say that the Son of God was revealed in him and if the Son be revealed in any must it not be he that must speak and declare of the Father but people have had the form of godliness since the dayes of the Apostles but have wanted the thing wants the thing that the Apostles were in who had the Son of God Christ Iesus and therefore it is by them that have the form wondred and stranged at and not the power of God wondred estranged where Christ Jesus is manifested and speaks and acts and rules was it not the Apostles Doctrine to preach Christ in them and told them the hope of the Glory which was in them which was the Mystery hid from ages and generations And is not this Christ the hope of Glory a Mystery in this age as it was in the days of the Apostles to the world and had been to generations before and hath it not been a mystery in the ages past amongst them that have had the form of godliness since the Apostles But where Christ within this Mystery this hope of glory is witnessed may he not speak without offence And did not Christ say he would come again to his Disciples and make his abode with them And did he not say I in you and the spirit of the Father which speaketh in you They were not to take thought when they were brought before Rulers and Magistrates and is not the spirit of the Father the spirit of Christ And are not they that have not the spirit of Christ none of his Therefore take heed I am moved to warn and charge you in the presence of the Lord God ye Rulers and Magistrates of this Nation lest ye be found acting against the spirit of the Father where he speaks in such as are brought before you who have the form of godliness such as witness Christ in them and the spirit of the Father to speak and the Son of God come according to his promise which doth witness that fulfilled doth not John say in his Epistle That the Son of God was tome and they were in him and this was the true God and Eternal life and do not the Apostles in their several Epistles which have been read amongst you long speake that Christ is in you and of their being the sons of God and the son of God revealed in them and the spirit of the father in them and Christ the mystery in them Have ye not heard these things read and amongst you and have not these things long been hid amongst them that have had the form of godliness and Christ in the male and the female and God will dwell in you and walk in you and the Word is in thy heart and is not Christs Name called the Word of God Now thi●k you not it strange to finde any to witness these things and that these things should be possessed you that have had the form of godliness long the night of the apostacie hath been long since these words were spoken forth and the thing enjoyed that these words spake of but now cometh to be possessed the things that they did enjoy which spoke the words which long they have had the form of in the night of the apostacie since the dayes of the Apostles Now if it be not the spirit of God nor the voice of the father nor the spirit of Christ that speaks in man it is natural and devilish and that is it that stands against the voice of Christ and the spirit of God but if any meer creature by him made saith that he is Christ that is false and is not so for all creatures that were created were by him and for him and all things that were made were created for his service Christ Iesus the Power of God by which all things were made and created and where the Power of God is there is Christ and Christ is the Power of God take notice of that the Power of God is everlasting where the Power of God is received and felt Christ is received and felt and where the Power of God speaks Christ speaks and ye that feel the Power of God ye feel Christ and will not be offended at the Power of God where it speaks which is Christ and so Christ is one in all who are in the povver and vvhere the povver of God doth not rule and speak the power of the devil that speaks and that is it which is tormented at the power of God which is Christ that speaks if the truth speak is it not Christ Doth he not say I am the Truth and if the life speak is it not that I which is the Life If the unrighteous speak it is a false thing but is the power of God speaks it is the truth If it be the power of God that speaks which is the true Christ it is the power of the Devil which is the false christ So examine your selves if Christ be in you the body is dead because of sin and there the sin is dead And is not Christ Iesus which ex●ept he be in you ye are reprobates is not he the Emanuel and the Saviour and the Prince of peace and is not he the prince of Life and the Hosannah and is not this witnessed within where he is made manifest or is he divided from these and is not he the Lamb of God and are not they against him where he is manifest with him that would not have him to speak such as would not have him to raigne Here you may see what hathbeen lost since the Apostles that they were in and rejoiced this night of apostacie which time had the form but not the power but now is coming again to

one another about these outward things but to come to know the Seed of God which bruiseth the Serpents head which would destroy and set one at enmity with another that crusheth down these outward things and reigns over these outward things which seed of God comprehands all strife and comprehends the world which seed the promise and blessing of God is to in which seed is the unity and not the enmity for that is it which is bruised with it Therefore do not shew your selves in enmity against these actions where they are acted in the seed of God in righteousnesse not in the world out of the enmity not as justifying the wicked in these things nor condemning the righteous Minde consideration before you do judge of such as are moved to act these things whether or no they be not examples to you all to try you all whether or no you will persecute or lift up your hands against such and an act whereby you may search your selves and see how far short ye come of a Disciple And come to that good in you all that is of God that with it you may overcome if there be any thing that is evil and the heaping the coles of fire upon that which is the adversary And whether or no there be not such things to be acted in righteosnesse and simplicity as washing the seet of the Disciples or that some may be carried whether they would not go and if any should kisse the feet or wash the feet of another in love and simplicity is that such a crime And for Jesus and Christ and the prince of life and peace if Jesus Christ be within the second Adam is witnessed God with us which is Jesus and be not offended with this if any do witnesse the State reconciled to God who hath witnessed the State drove from God the first Adams state who witnesses the second Adams state the Emanuel God with us Again Now be not ye offended at this least you do manifest your selves to be in the first Adams state driven from God not witness Jesus Christ God with you reconciled to God again But if you stand against this it shews your selves to be in the transgression standing against the Emanuel which is God with us Be not hasty in acting these things but examine and consider before you do act George Fox Except ye see signes and wonders ye will not believe but this is come to pass that the Scriptures might be fulfilled that saith the time will come that they shall think they do God good service when they kill you Remember the Scripture which saith His face is more marr'd then any mans Isa 52. 14. And whether this be not the same that gave his Checks to the Smiter and opened not his mouth And see now who they are that have spit upon him but what evil hath he done Notwithstanding all these warnings yet on the 17. day of the tenth moneth the major part of the House pronounced Sentence on him A brief Account of the Grounds of the Petitioners that appeared for James Nayler With the Copies of their Petitions for satisfaction of all moderate spirits GOd who worketh all things according to the Counsell of his own Will is oft times pleased to make use of extremities and by them to point out unto his people their duty Thus did he Order that the encreased tyrannies and oppressions of Israel in the Land of Egypt should presse forth their cries and tears unto the Lord that he might thence take his rise to appear for them So in the daies of the Bishops of late years the tryals and sufferings of the people of God have come to some head and ripenesse before He hath bin provoked to deliver them as we might instance both in Scotland and our own Nation Even so fareth it with the poor people of God at this day who having been for some time asleep and in a pleasing dream as if the storms were over and the Winter were past and gone are awakened by a fresh Alarm to consider and behold the same spirit of persecution and blood revived again in the bosome of that worldly peace and glory wherein we have delighted to stand forth in the Image of the Nations How much better and safer had it been for us to have stood by the Lord in his founding of Zion waiting for his Counsel who stood by us in our destroying the grosser Babylon and to have been of the poor of his people that trust in it and not of those that exercise dominion over it There is a poor contemptible people whom God hath pleased to call forth out of all the Sects and Divisions in this Nation both Professors and Non-professors whose principles and waies have bin fitted and prepared to give check or confront at least to that Spirit of Lordlinesse and formality that after the throwing down of the old Fabrick of a painted and pompous Church and State was but too apt to spring up again among us which is the best account we can at present give why God should suffer so many upright souls to be snatcht from their former communion and walking into so exasperating a way There was something of the measure of the sufferings of Christ yet behind and of the Spirit of Antichrist yet to be vented and acted upon our English Theatre And truly not without some regret in our selves have we heard observed the long oft repeated sufferings of that poor people who have bin whipt imprisoned As Evesham can witnesse in many parts of this Nation thrust into holes and dungeons where they have scarce had the liberty to breathe and all this for nothing as far as we understand but what peaceable people may do without any disturbance to the civil peace and quiet of the Nation We hope what we have writ is clear and we may easily be understood herein not to approve their scheme of doctrine as absolutely clear and Evangelical but who knows what sufferings may do to the purifying and refining thereof But thus have we stood gazing upon them not pleading their Cause because disgusting some of their Principles till the Wisdom of God saw good to give us a fresh and louder Alarm not in our Ears only but before our Eyes in the bitter usage of James Nayler one of the very chief of that people though now dis-owned by the generallity of them whose case therefore is the more respected by us So that we could no longer as persons unconcern'd keep silence but we must appear for him in a Petition to the Parliament And this we could not refuse unlesse we would renounce that Love that Light that Cause and those Principles we have all along for some years professed and avowed But how low and tender these first buddings of our charity were the Petitions themselves will shew which yet were as high as we could well go or the Parliament bear And we were not so modest but some thought