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A52717 Several papers of confessions, prayer, and praise; by James Naylor: concerning his fall and restoration Naylor, James, 1617?-1660. 1660 (1660) Wing N316; ESTC R215561 28,774 41

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an Enemy to him tho' the Creature may not know it but may think it is doing God service it being got above the suffering Seed in themselves would scatter and devour it in others And this Spirit the Lord hath shewed me and its end and hath redeemed me from it by the Spirit of the Lamb and I shall never join as Head or Tail therewith but shall earnestly pray to the Father that a deep Search of Truth may seriously pass through the Hearts and Reins of all Contenders that all that are guilty herein may speedily come to Repentance left they be hardned therein and there come a time when they would give whatever is dear to them for one Hour's Society with the People of God and cannot obtain it then with lamentable Wo shall the Wrath of that be known that is now trampled on without the true Fear of God or Life of his Love And having at length received this Favour of the Lord I have taken this time in the tender Bowels of Love as one wounded therewith to warn you hereof Beseeching you all for the Lord Jesus Christ's sake that you all search low for the Bowels of him who loved you and suffered for you when you were his Enemies and put them on towards all Men but especially towards one another who have been called by one Spirit into one Truth that so the holy Spirit be no more grieved nor Satan get any more advantage whose Work is to sow Dissention even among Brethren And the Lord God of Love give us all to see that whatever our Gifts or Powers be yet if we have not the Life and Power of Love it avails not with God though Men may esteem of us never so high For only he that dwells in Love knows God and lives in him the rest knows not what Spirit they are of And this I feelingly declare from that dear Love of God in me begotten to all his People whereby I am so far from taking delight in troubling the People of God that their growth in Peace and Truth upon the Foundation laid already was never so much desired and my Love to them is daily increased beyond what I can here express yet the Lord knows it and whence it is whether it be receiv'd by Men or no yet the Seed snall feel it in God's time to which it is and in whose Peace only I have Peace and I hope in the Power of that Love God will so strengthen me that nothing of Shame Loss or Reproach shall ever be too hard to take up for the advancement thereof as God shall shew and lead me therein without whom I dare do nothing lest I deny his Work or confound it with my own And concerning you the tender Plants of my Father who have suffered through me or with me in what the Lord hath done with me in this time of great Tryal and Temptation the Almighty God of Love who hath numbred every Sigh and put every Tear in his Bottle Reward it a Thousand-fold into your Bosoms in the Day of your need when you shall come to be tryed and tempted and in the mean time fulfil your Joy with his Love which you seek after The Lord knows it was never in my Heart to cause you to mourn whose Sufferings is my greatest Sorrow that ever yet came upon me for you are innocent herein But the Envious One hath taken his advantage which the Lord will turn to his disadvantage and utter ruine in many Souls and in this believing is all my rest in my great trouble of heart concerning you or my self and in Patience I wait to see it when the Man of Sin hath had his time to be revealed For I have seen the good Hand of God all along working in it whose End is good to all that love him else had I been destroy'd e're this such hath been the Violence of the Enemy of my Soul But he hath numbred my Hairs and not left me in the Fire or Water when none else was with me thou wert my Comforter O that I may never hide thy Praise by covering my Sin or Shame God forbid By a way unexpected did the Lord open a way to declare these Words all other means of writing being taken from me Blessed be He on whom I wait further to see his Will that I may do or suffer it The Presence and Peace of the Almighty comfort his People whom I salute in the Bowels of Love James Naylor I beseech you all that can to receive it even as you would be received of the Lord and for the rest the Lord give me Patience to suffer till the Lord make up the Breach A Testimony to Christ Jesus delivered to the Parliament who Persecuted him as a Blasphemer written in the time of his Imprisonment in Bridewell CHrist Jesus the Immanuel of whose Sufferings the Scriptures declare him alone I confess before Men for whose sake I have denied whatever was dear to me in this World that I might win him and be found in him and not in my self whose Life and Virtue I find daily manifest in my mortal Body which is my Eternal Joy and Hope of Glory whom alone I seek to serve in Spirit Soul and Body Night and Day according to the measure of Grace working in me that in me he may be glorified whether by Life or Death and for his sake I suffer all things that he alone may have the Glory of my Change whose Work alone it is in me Even to that Eternal Spirit be Glory and to the Lamb for ever But to ascribe this Name Power and Virtue to James Naylor or to that which had a beginning and must return to Dust or for that to be exalted or worshipped to me is great Idolatry and with the Spirit of Christ Jesus in me it is condemned which Spirit leads to Lowliness Meekness and Long-suffering So having an opportunity given with readiness I am willing in the Fear of God the Father in Honour to Christ Jesus and to take off all Offences from every simple Heart this to declare to all the World as the Truth of Christ is in me without Guile or Deceit daily finding it to be my Work to seek Peace in Truth with all Men in that Spirit James Naylor J. N's ANSWER to the FANATICK HISTORY In Relation to himself AS for thy Charge against J. N. through the Everlasting Mercy of my God I have yet a Being amongst the Living and breathe to answer for my self though against the Intents of many Bloody Cruel Spirits who pursued my Soul unto Death as much as in them lay in that Day of my Calamity when my Adversary was above and wherein I was made as a Sign to a Backsliding Generation who then would not see nor hear what now is coming upon them but rejoiced against this piece of Dust and had little pity towards him that was fallen into their Hands wherein God was just in giving me up for my
Practises and so still serve that Evil Spirit that hath all along betrayed you of your Obedience to God but wait to feel that Spirit which calls you to mourn a part every one for the Evils of his own Heart against his God and let that be minded which leads to Repentance towards God first that if by any means you may find a place for Repentance which will be hard for many of you to do you have so long Dissembled with God and betrayed his Witness in you through Deceit for this is the Truth to you all If you find that from the Lord in Spirit that will let you see the Evils of Provocation and give you Power to put it off whatever it be you will find favour with God therein for your Souls but if you find not that Spirit you will find small Peace with God and then that which Men can do for you will be little available for it is for want of Hearing and Obedience towards God that all this Evil is come upon you which must be turned to e'er it can be taken Everlastingly off for if you had harkned to his Light in your Consciences and his Word had had a Place in your Hearts to Obedience when you was yet tender then would it have kept you in his Fear so that you durst not have coveted that Cursed thing with which you hid and covered that Just Principle in you and blinded your Eyes with the Riches and Spoil of your Enemies nor durst you have set up what you had cast down and got into their Estates and so into their Pride by unrighteous Gain whom God had cast out Then had you not provoked God by these things to your utter Ruining Or if after this was entred upon you you had hearkned to his Reproof and put this off your selves with his Spirit then had he not brought this Terrible Besom to sweep it away from off you and from within you who hath left you no Place to hide your Glory or your Riches where his Hand shall not reach and his Eye find them out And there is now no hope for Agreement with God in y●●r selves nor that he will cease his Anger against you till you return to that from which you departed that the same Spirit may be confessed and Glory given thereto by putting off in his Counsel and Motion that which was put on in your Counsels against that Spirit and his Light in your own Consciences and also in many others whose Souls were troubled and grieved for you in that Day and this the Lord God looks for that Glory be given to the just in his sight and in the sight of all before whom his name hath been Blasphemed And this is now the Work of this your Day while you have a little time and for this he waits and forbears that he may be Gracious to your Souls for his Names's sake And it is not a time for you to sleep and sit at ease nor spend your time in Vanity nor seek to hide that which God is resolved to declare openly nor with fleshly Counsel seek to save that which God will destroy It 's time now at last to see what that selfish Spirit and its Counsel hath done for you and Repent of it by following whereof all this Evil is come upon you for your Authority hath vomited you out your Glory hath left you naked and your Riches cannot profit you in this Day of Wrath from the Almighty This was I moved of the Lord to write to you J. N. Oh! KING GOD hath in these Nations a People gathered by himself into his Light who are known to himself better than to Men and therefore have we suffered by Men under all the Powers that have risen in this Nation ever since God called us towards himself by his Eternal Light and Spirit and though we receive not our Laws from Man yet are we not without Law as to our God but have one Law-giver even Christ Jesus our Lord our Life and our Head blessed over all And from his Laws we may not depart and by his Law in our Conscience and the Power of his Spirit in our Hearts are we ordered and guided to walk Holily towards our God and Harmlessly towards Men as the Saints of Old witnessed in Scripture however they be minded towards us and by the Virtue of the Lamb and not of Flesh and Blood are we made to give our Goods to the Spoil and our Bodies to the Tortures of Cruel Men rather than defile our Consciences or Sin against any one of the least of the Commands of our Lord and Law-giver Christ Jesus who by the Light of his Eternal Spirit doth dayly lead us out of the Evils and Vanity of this present World and having begotten us into his own Guiding he doth not suffer us to subject our selves to any thing whatsoever is not set up by himself nor to Worship the god of this World nor obey him in Commands or Customs but the Exercise of our Consciences he hath redeemed wholly to himself and by his Precious Blood hath sprinkled them and made them tender and pure so that we may not Worship false gods nor the true God in a false manner nor may we Worship Men nor the true God in a false manner nor may we Worship Men nor follow the Customs of Nations Kindreds or People or Languages but the Spirit of Truth it self we must follow Nor may we break Christ's Commands in Swearing when Men Command us but must obey him who faith Swear not at all Nor may we join to or uphold any Worship whatsoever but what the Spirit of Truth it self leads us into though many have sought to force us thereto Nor may we leave the Ministry of Christ and that Maintenance which the Gospel allows of to Maintain a Priesthood with Tithes and so go back from Christ to the Law that the Apostle saith is disannulled Heb. 7. And for such things as these concerning a tender Conscience and the Law of our God have we suffered Grievous Persecution and not for any Unrighteousness done by us against any Man's Person or Estate nor have we suffered by any just Law of the Nation but by the Wills of Cruel Men and as a Prey to every Man's Lust hath been our Liberties Lives and Estates and the Rulers that have been to this Day have not sought our Deliverance but have dealt Treacherously with us and the Lord whom we serve hath seen it and reproved it and yet we are not set free but at this Day we live in the Account of the rude and envious People as a People appointed to Death and Desolation and the whole Body of Ungodliness and Rage of Wickedness is upon us daily and with Cruelty falls upon us in our Persons and Estates and our Peaceable Meetings to Worship the living God And as to all these things we are laid as the Mire in the Street for every rude Boy to run
over and we have not found help from Man as to all the Powers that have been till this Day since we were a People nor do we speak this because we look for help from Man nor indeed can we expect that from Men until Men own the same Principle of God to Rule in them to which we are subject which is the Son of Righteousness and leads all into Righteousness Truth and Peace that his Light doth follow who is known to us to be King of Kings and Judge of the Judges though Flesh and Blood sees not his Kingdom And now O King as we have been moved of the Lord in Bowels of Love and with much Plainness of Speech after the Spirit of Truth and not with vain Complements to lay these things before all the several Powers that have risen hitherto with several other Evils which our God hath sent us to testifie against both in Rulers Teachers and People so we have done and for that we have suffered also for a Witness against them as it is at this Day So the same God hath now after a while put into our Hearts to lay these things before thee O King that thou mayst not be Ignorant to what we are called and for what we suffer And in this we rejoice That we feel love to thy Soul even while we are thus doing and if many should be moved hereto of God take heed of being wearied therewith nor count it Clamour or Trouble as they that was before thee did and so let up Prejudice and Evil Thoughts in their own Hearts against the Innocent for this we say unto thee and affirm in the Name of our God that the more any are truly moved by the Eternal Spirit to warn thee of these Things or any other Evils that may any way grieve his Holy Spirit so much doth the Lord of thy Life and true and Everlasting Peace double his Love unto thee and shew his Willingness to stay thee from that which hath removed Kings and broken Kingdoms And this we know to be in God and by him in us towards thy Soul and Eternal Welfare And though we cannot Swear and Unswear Covenant and Uncovenant with every Change that comes as Men do that know not the Everlasting Covenant and Decree of God yet this hath God fealed in our Hearts To seek the Good of all Men Plot against none but study to live quietly and Exercise our Conscience faithfully towards whatever Government our God shall set up desiring that all Men in their Day may so use their Power as they may give Account to God with Joy and not leave their Names for a Curse and Reproach among Men for this we know That God is now at Hand to give a speedy Reward to every Man as shall be the Work of his Day Wherefore O King seek the Fear of the Lord and not Pleasure do Justice and Judgment in this thy Day Relieve the Helpless Oppressed and break the Yoak of Bondage that lies upon the Poor and bring Judgment into the Gates and let not Justice be sold least the Meek of the Earth Cry to God against thee Verily God is nearer this Nation to avenge than many can believe though the hath done Wonders in this Generation that many Generations have not seen and he is trying all Sorts of People with the Testimony of his Appearance Blessed are they whose Eye is open to discern the Signs of the Times for a Work is God working in the Earth and he will cut it short in Righteousness for his Elect sake which Daily hath waited upon Him that is Blessed for ever O King spend not thy time in Fleshly Pleasures neither strive after that Glory which will fade away but apply thy Heart to God and wait to feel his Spirit in thee giving thee Light and Understanding to guide thy ways before him for only Blessed is he who Rules by his power and who is taught of God shall be Established in Righteousness and be far from Oppression and only such shall be called the Blessed of God to all Generations read and remember the Righteous and the Wicked From one of those whom the World calls Quakers JAMES NAYLOR Written the 3d Day of the 4th Month 1660. FINIS LONDON Printed in the Year 1660. To all the Dearly Beloved PEOPLE of GOD Mercy and Peace THere is nothing dear and percious to me in this World but God's Truth and his Life of Righteousness for which I have forsaken all the World and whatever was dear to me therein I have hated and counted it as an Enemy that I might obtain Christ the Fountain and Spring of that Eternal Life of Truth the Beauty whereof I cannot express as I see it and feel it The Loveliness thereof to my Soul hath so dearly united my Spirit to all that bear the Image and Life of it that there can be no Separation but my Life suffers thereby and I can truly say that there is no other thing whatsoever that can unite me as one with any Creature living but this Image and Life where I see it born up or breathing to Life but in whomsoever it be without respect of Persons that I see the least appearance of this Seed of Life is I can by that Power of Love the Father hath begotten in me lay down my Life to serve for the Seed's sake And wherein I have come short of this formerly and have respected the High more than stood only in this Seed I have been judged of the Lord and my evil Thoughts therein condemned yea and I do condemn them before all the World to be of that which favours Self and not the Things of Christ And the lower God doth bring me and the nearer to himself the more doth this Love and Tenderness spring and spread towards the poor simple and despifed ones who are poor in Spirit meek and lowly Suffering Lambs and with those I choose to suffer and do suffer where-ever they are found and I bear my Testimony against that Spirit by which they suffer where-ever it is found and this lies upon me from the Lord Hearing and feeling a Spirit of Enmity having got head by what the Lord hath done with me and now doth exercise its Power against the Peaceable Meetings of the Lord's People the Burthen whereof lies heavy upon me and I suffer under it and have long waited with Prayers and Tears of Sorrow Night and Day to receive Counsel from the Lord what to do in it in that Condition I am now in at present God knows I Lye not for there is nothing of all my Hardships that hath lain and doth lie upon me like this that any of the Flock of God should be offended or suffer through me therefore I have not ceased to warn as God hath opened to me such as I could speak to to live in Peace and Love to suffer but not to act Strife and Violence and have denied that Spirit not to be of the Lamb but
Disobedience for a little moment as a Father to correct yet should not they have sought to aggravate things against me as thou dost For it was a Day of deep Distress and lay sore upon my Soul and the pitiful God saw it who though he was a little displeased yet his Thoughts was not to cast off for ever but extend Mercy as it is at this Day Glory be to his Name from my deliver'd Soul eternally And in that Day there was many Spirits flock'd about me and some whom while my Candle shone upon my Head I ever judged and kept out from me who then got up and acted and spoke several things not in the Light and Truth of God by which they who sought occasion against me then was strengthned to afflict this Body and he that watches for Evil in thee and some others makes use of still against God's Truth and Innocent People whose Mouths the God of my Mercy stop and so finish the Trouble of my Heart as to that thing For my Soul hath long dwelt among Lions even among them that are set on Fire whose Teeth are Spears and Arrows and their Tongues a sharp Sword speaking mischievous things to shed Blood But O Man or Men whatever you be whose Work it is to gather together the Failings of God's People in Time of Temptation or Night of their Tryal and aggravate them and add there to the Wickedness and mischievous Lyes of your own Hearts as thou hast done in thy Book and then come out with those against God's Everlasting Holy Truth it to Reproach I say you are set to work by an Evil Spirit and you do but shew your selves to be Enemies to God and his Children And it is our Sorrow that any of us should give such Spirits occasion to blaspheme and it hath been Trouble of Soul to all the People of God that have ever loved Righteousness when they have thus occasioned the Joy of the Wicked or to feed that Man that watches for Iniquity and feeds on Mischief Yet know this you that are of that Brood God will not cast off his People though he be sometimes provoked to correct them even before their Adversaries which is a Sign to them yet is his Anger but for a moment and his Favour shall return as Streams of Life Then shall the Food be taken out of the Mouth of the Viper and the Prey from between the Teeth of the Devourers and God shall feed them with their own Vomit and the Poyson that hath long lain under their Tongues shall be bitter in their own Bowels Thus will God certainly plead with Zion's Enemies as he bends her Sons for himself and God will make up her Breaches And this hath my Soul seen Jacob's Captivity restored and the Diggers of the Pit are fallen therein Neither hath he smitten him as he smote them that smote him or is he slain according to the Slaughter of them that are slain by him but this is all his Fruit to purge away his Sin So he that had long waited for my failing then got advantage against me yet had I then Power to bear his utmost Envy through Christ Jesus whom I then confessed before Men who then was my support in all and under all and who is over all blessed for ever of all who have proved him in the depth But that which was and is the Sorrow of my Heart is the advantage the Enemy then took against the Name of Christ his Truth and his despised People in that time of Temptation which is that which thou art now pursuing with Hatred and Lyes as that I had a Woman in Bed with me the Night before I suffer'd at Bristol When there was Six or Seven Persons in the Room that Night and a Man to wit Robert Rich in Bed with me But this and several other false things thou hast written in thy Book of which I am clear before the Lord so they touch me not at all nor shall I here mention them against thee in particular But to God alone I look in his time to be cleared from all Offences in his sight who only knows my Heart in this thing in whose Presence I can say that nothing is more odious and burthensome to my Soul than that any of that Glory or Worship which belongs to God or to Christ should be given to Flesh and Blood in my self or others And how it was with me at that Day many talk of but few knows so the Judgment of such I bear Desiring that none in Judging me might have Condemned themselves in God's sight whose Counsels are a great Deep and the End of his Works past finding out till he himself reveal them but in the End he will be justified of all and in all he doth that all Flesh may be silent before him And however my self or any others may be left to themselves to be tryed in the Night yea should any utterly fall or whatever may be acted by any Man or Woman that is not justifiable in God's sight yet in vain dost thou or you gather up Sin or watch for Iniquity to cast upon the Light which Condemns it in every Enlightned Conscience and there will clear himself to be no Author nor Actor therein And I know by the Spirit of Jesus which I have received and which worketh in me that this is not his Work nor his Seed nor in him that loves thy Enemies thou art not but the old Accuser of the Brethren it is that worketh strongly in thee and in the Light which thou Reproaches art thou seen to be the Man that makes Lyes and carries Tales to shed Blood Ezek. 22. 9 12. Another Paper added THere is a Spirit which I feel that delights to do no Evil nor to revenge any Wrong but delights to endure all things in hope to enjoy its own in the End Its hope is to outlive all Wrath and Contention and to weary out all Exaltation and Cruelty or whatever is of Nature contrary to its self It sees to the End of all Temptations As it bears no Evil in it self so it conceives none in Thoughts to any other If it be betrayed it bears it for its Ground and Spring is the Mercies and Forgiveness of God Its Crown is Meekness its Life is Everlasting Love unfeigned and takes its Kingdom with Intreaty and not with Contention and keeps it by Lowliness of Mind In God alone it can rejoice though none else regard it or can own its Life It 's conceived in Sorrow and brought forth without any to pity it nor doth it murmur at Grief and Oppression It never rejoyceth but through Sufferings for with the World's Joy it is murthered I found it alone being forsaken I have Fellowship therein with them who lived in Dens and desolate Places in the Earth who through Death obtained this Resurrection and Eternal Holy Life J. N. London Printed in the Year 1660. TO ALL THE People of the LORD EVERY WHERE Gathered or
Scattered IN the Fear of God and Love to his Truth and People do I declare in the Spirit of Meekness what hath long oppressed my Soul concerning those Unclean Spirits gone out from the Unity of the Truth and Light by which we have been called and gathered into one in Christ Jesus the Head over all his Blessed for ever whose Name hath been greatly dishonoured through many wild Actings and his Innocent Spirit grieved and many simple Souls deceived many opressed and many offended against the Truth because of those Spirits gone out from the Truth and now secretly under a pretence seeks dayly to make it odious to all For which Work my Soul hath been much troubled Who to this Day raven about from Place to Place amongst the People of God seeking to enter where they can and so to strengthen themselves into Parties to trouble such as they cannot enter seeking to spoil the peaceable Pasture of the Lambs that they should not Feed in Peace And for that end hunt after the Meetings of the People of God All which Practises and Pretences I deny in my Soul and that Spirit that acts therein And the more it lies upon me from the Lord to warn the simple innocent ones of his thereof openly in that through me these Spirits have got much Head and Entrance into the Minds of some who were simple towards God's Truth And this the Envious One hath done in the Night of my Tryal and Hour of Darkness and Temptation taking Advantage at my Sufferings in the Day when my Judgment was taken away and I led Captive under the Power of Darkness which all along hath sought my Life had not the Father hid it and with his Hand upon me staved me in those great Temptations to whom alone I give the Glory of my Deliverance from that great Destruction as his Promise was to me before I came into that Tryal who hath now brought me up again and hath given me to see those Evil Spirits and that the Work of the Murtherer and Devourer is therein against the Life of God in his Temple Which though they seek Entrance under pretence of Humility promising some great things and more Holiness in that way to steal into simple Minds but being got in exalts themselves above the Seed of God and Tramples the Meek Spirit under Foot and so darkens the Vessels and being exalted in the Openings of the Imaginations leads the Creature as God above that of God and so against that of God he warrs in others where God is above And this Mystery of deep Iniquity hath the Lord God in the Spirit of the Lamb revealed unto me whose powerful working I have found working in me above the pure Measure and Unspotted Life of God And though in the Simplicity of Christ Jesus I had given up my Body all along a Free Offering to the Will of God in Life or in Death for the Seeds sake yet ungathered in the World as God knoweth I lye not yet could I often feel that exalted One above secretly tempting to Envy against the People of God already gathered pretending a greater thing to come another Way but this with the Life of God was ever Judged Though often I was buffeted therewith sometimes so strongly as to force Words from me above the meek and lowly Principle All which Words were soon judged with the sufferer which lay under and with his Life be they Condemned for ever And this lyes upon me to declare openly which God hath revealed to me for the sake of the simple Ones who may be deceived therewith but would not did they know his Subtilty And by this shall you all perceive that Spirit whatever it pretends it will secretly withdraw your entire Love from the Flock of God already gathered and cool your Affections and Zeal towards their present Meetings and if you judge it not there it will grow on with an Evil Eye to spy out their Failings and delight to hear of them and talk of them with an hidden Joy whispering them to others and adding thereunto with a desire to see them broken and their Nakedness laid open if any thing be amiss And thus it hath wrought in a Mystery of Wickedness in some Unjudged until it be seated in the Throne of open Enmity and Strife against the Lambs of Christ preferring the Society of the Prophane before them and taking Part therewith against them joining with any who seek to scatter them And what ever pretence this Spirit seeks to cover it self with this I declare of it having been kept by the good Hand of God to see it reveal'd in its Ground and End that it is the Old Spirit of the Ranters which now in a new Way makes Head against the Light of Christ and Life of his Cross which is the only thing that stands in its Way by condemning its Filthiness in every Conscience And so they in whom this is Entered being exalted above the Living Witness in themselves would devour it in others And this in the Presence and Fear of God I declare without the least Prejudice against the Person of any Man or Woman but in Obedience to God and for the Seeds sake lest any more of the simple should be deceived and that such as are deceived already might recover themselves out of Satan's Snares no selfish End have I in it God knoweth And long time hath my Soul been in travail e'er I could obtain Power herein so strongly hath he that letteth withstood my Way Therefore in the Bowels of tender Love I warn you all to take heed how you ever come under that Spirit under any pretence whatsoever but let the Fear of God and sound Judgment in the Spirit of Meekness you all preserve above it for wheresoever it enters by consent it is hardly got out again And if it be it is not without much Sorrow And this I have found in the Depth which for your sakes I declare in Plainness and Truth as I have learned of the Lord labouring with him without ceasing that the rest of the People of God every where may be saved from this Devourer who goeth dayly about to deceive and whosoever he takes he casts into the Earth or into the Sea for Wickedness is with him wheresoever he goeth Even the Lord God Almighty arm you all against his Wiles being warned thereof in his Love and the Eternal Power of Holiness you all preserve clean to Himself who are dearer unto me than ever and that in no other thing but in that Innocent Principle in which you are kept free from all the Pollutions of the World and Fleshly Liberty and stand Witnesses for God against it before all Men and in no other thing have I fellowship with any which is that I seek to set up above all And this was I moved to give forth to go every where as a Witness against that unclean Spirit where-ever it goes felling its Work is to run to and fro