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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

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

purity and perfection which we have in the holy God as all ever had who lived in him And in him is truth and freedome but a lie there is in all your likenesses and you are blinde and will not see it all you who have a God and Christ and a worship which doth not make the commers thereto perfect nor set you above the Devill nor overcome his temptations Your God and King we know which keepes you in the earth which you will curse if ever you looke upward your peace we know and the end of it your Kingdome with all its glory when from this world you are taken there is your parting when he shall breake your Covenant whose Covenant you have broken and would not heare him though you pretended still to seeke him That 's his call which in your consciences lets you see you have lost him which did you wait in it would lead you to him but erring from it you are out of his way and counsell and all other wayes is to no purpose his Light is that which searcheth your hearts in secret nor can any other judge you in private yet from that you will be running to aske counsell at them who know not your condition so instead of God you consesse to men that cannot judge you nor help you while you go to the naturall you leave the spirituall and so with naturall words you seed the naturall comprehensions but the spirituall man seeds not at that fountaine for its the spirituall that thirsts which not minded the naturall runs and seeds above it and this being above you cannot receive the food of the Spirit therewith to God to be reconciled and quickned nor is that fed that death hath passed over nor out of death is it raised but that which lives in you is for death and by feeding on that wisdome the vaile is thickned and the eternall is out of your knowledge yet you say God is a Spirit and teaches in Spirit and will be worshipped in Spirit but cannot endure to hearken to any thing within you nor turne to that Spirit How blinde are you led with your blinde guides Is not that which is spirituall within or can it be knowne any where else Is God known by hearsay then who is it that knows him not Can the carnall eye see the spirituall God or the carnall eare hear him then should not his ministry be to the spirits in prison to open the blinde eyes and to unstop the dease eares yea where the carnall is open But this you know not who have eyes and see not eares and hear not and hands which never handled the word of life yet would you be teaching others that which you never saw nor heard and to this teaching you would limit others Paul was sent to open the blinde eyes yet was he sent to those who had eyes as you have with which they could see to stone him and whip him and eares to hear him and call what he said heresie and blasphemie as you doe and as ever the carnal judged of the spirituall who hath not an eare to hear what the Spirit saith Oh unwise people you have but one thing that lets you see your evill yet will you not turn to that for teaching nor that eye you love not which lets you see your darknesse You cry you have nothing that 's good in you yet will you not own that which lets you see it is so and thus you keep Covenant with darknesse though death and destruction be the end of it but the Covenant of Light which shines in darknesse you regard not that 's far below your comprehensions nay it s the least seed in you which we know is the seed of the kingdome troden under foot by the kingdome of the world therefore nothing else leads out of the world but that whose kingdome is not in it and with this seede is the Covenant which seed you know not who take pleasure in the flesh that 's of another kingdome to which is no Covenant but Death and Hell Yet you talk of Abraham his Covenant and Promise but that in Abraham in which the Covenant was established was that which led him out out of the world wherein he became a stranger and wanderer as that seede ever is which you call vagabonds persecute and imprison you that have rule in this world shewing that you are not of that seed that entertaines strangers nor in that Covenant where all are strangers and Pilgrims in this world nor doe you own that which divides you from this world being uncircumcised in heart which to be is the seal of Abrahams faith and so you whose life is in the earth are far off from Abrahams bosome Faith and Covenant which is onely to his seede not to the seede of evill doers not to seeds which is many but to one which is Christ So in the world out of Christ and out of Christ out of Gods Covenant for his Promises are all yea and amen to them that are in Christ Jesus but not to them that abide in the world Who owns him as King cannot want the Promise neither can you have it who abide in the world therefore you apply the words but want the life which is the power nor can your literall Promises sute your condition nor save you from Satans power but as all others who think salvation to be in the letter so doe you denie leading and guiding of the Spirit in which the power is placed therefore the Light you will not follow neither can you believe it to be sufficient And he that denies the Light cannot own the Lord of life So you are ignorant of God and his way in which he makes himselfe krovvne to his people and so takes up your rest in outward observations set up and upholden in the wills of men and for such traditions you are zealous and strongly contend for them but the Lavv of God written in your own hearts you make of none effect while you denie to be ruled according to it yet you say We are in the new Covenant when you are in the old traditions and what you know is from others But the least in that Covenant knows him and his preferce and witness him true according to his promise ever manifesting his power to undertake for us against all our enemies a present help in time of trouble and we know him in whom we have believed where he is and the way to him have seen the glory of his kingdom and the powers of the eternall World the house wherein are many Mansions yet the lowest place is pure for which the Lord alone prepares his people and their way which the creature cannot doe of himself onely Christ doth it where selfe is denied and selfe-will for by the will of man comes no promise nor obtains that will any performance So he begets both the will and the deed which you know not where your wills is standing by

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

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

come to see the power that sin hath not over you and that you are wholly polluted and sold under it then will you see the great transgression and the feare of God will appeare in you and so your hearts will grow tender in his feare which is but the beginnings of the knowledge of God and his wisdome And so waiting in the light you will come to see openings and breathings after Christ Jesus in which abiding and waiting low in the feare you will come to see some openings and promises of the Fathers Love to that seed which is breathing in you after him and some hopes of pardon of sin in Christ Jesus and so come to see the Law and the Prophets prophesying which condition many have come to and then have lost their condition by the mindes getting out of the feare and flesh exalting into the promise and so come to get the wound heald before death be flaine and so loses that little communion they had with God afarr off but never come so far as to the washing throughly nor to the marriage but the light minde gets into this and tattles it out to others and calls it experience yet never came so far as to see Christ and the Father yet after these doth the world wonder notwithstanding they live in the same filthiness as they did formerly yet say they I have assurance so many years since and the promise of God is sure and his Covenant cannot be broken but cannot see that the condition is lost and the seed is buryed under the earthly pleasures to which the promise was for the promise is to the seed which is one not to seedes which is many Gal. 3. 16. not to the fleshly man which is now got up but to the spirituall seed which is meek and lowly which God teacheth and blesseth and the creature that turnes to it is blessed because of that meek Spirit into which they are turned and should be for ever if in it they did continue for to it is the Covenant which cannot be broken therefore all that depart out of it it will not follow for then should not the Covenant stand sure in that seed which is but one one heart one minde one soule one spirit and whosoever receives this unity of faith shall finde this Covenant sure but this was never placed in the worldly seede but in the spirituall so the carnall is death and hell that 's its covnant but the spirituall is life and peace that 's its Covenant and each Covenant stands sure to them who are in them So that creature who was sometimes tender and lowly minded and that seed awakened to which is the promise not waiting in the promise till it be performed the creature turnes into the world where the curse is and there inherits yet is the Covenant sure to the seed and all that abide in it and this all witness who have waited in their measure though he that turnes from it is damned And if you abide faithfull in the light waiting you will be so far from turning into the liberty of the flesh that you will see every vaine thought and Imagination judged in the first motion and the ground of all sin you will see layd open and so come to see the Axe layd to the roote of the corrupt tree that hath brought forth the evill fruite which is Johns Ministery and the Baptisme of Repentance and so be led on to him who fulfills all righteonsness and that kingdome you will heare preach't at hand which consists not in words but in power then vaine babblers you will come to see and avoide and be brought onely to presse after Righteousnesse and so see your light grow and spring up to the burning and shining till the day-starre arise in your hearts then will you cease to put God and Christ afarre off you and waite to see Christ in you the hope of Glory and so come to see Christ in you the light the way the truth and the life and not to have your light and life to seeke in a booke without you nor from men but Christ your life in you made manifest in your mortall bodies and so coming to the Son and to see him revealed by him come to have the Father revealed also and so come to the knowledge of God which is life eternall even God in his Temple where hee is worshipped in Spirit and truth and this truth in you and this God in you then shall you know that your bodies are the Temples of the living God as hee hath sayd I will dwell in them and walke in them 2 Cor. 6 16. And that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you 1 Cor. 3. 16. By which Spirit he is worshipped and by the same Spirit you are taught and this is not knowne by heare-say nor got by imitation nor taught in the imaginations but through death it is learned onely in those who in the light are guided and by the Spirit kept in the fire and in the water where death is slaine faith purifyed and the body cleansed and purged from its drosse and filthinesse patience given and proved and all the gifts and graces of God which vaine mindes talke on but know not but in words these to be waited for in the light received in the faith and proved in the patience to the bringing the Creature wholly to rely upon God in the worst condition even at their wits ends when all the world failes and becomes enemies then to fall into the defence of God alone or when the world tempts with the greatest pleasures then to deny all for the love of God this is soon talked on but none can have it but who have received it in the same way of obedience that Christ hath gon before and leades in Spirit and power all his after him who beleeve in his light and follow it Then may you say follow us as wee follow Christ and walke as you have us for examples till then you are but imitators and out of the life and power and so lead one another into formes and traditions but deny the power which should give you victory over sin in this world and so you get the Saints words but their lives you have not that you looke for in another world but in the meane time goeth on to fill up the measure of evill and so go to the grave in feare and torment And all those Calls and Reproofes of the Spirit of light in your owne hearts now by you slighted are by him recorded and remaines a testimony against you till that dreadfull appearance of the righteous Judge and heart-searcher shewing his love tendered and his desire to save from sin and condemnation which love being rejected there is no escaping condemnation And you that have form'd a Christ in your owne imaginations so as your pride lust ryot and oppression may be exalted and you in them and now your eyes are abroad expecting his comming without you