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spirit_n	faith_n	gift_n	grace_n	6,936	5	5.6824	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89849	A salutation to the seed of God. And a call out of Babylon, and Egypt, from amongst the magitians, where the house of bondage is, and the imaginations rules above the seed of God, the cause of all blindnes, and condemnation. Also that which is perfect made manifest, even everlasting righteousnesse, which endures for all generations, ... With the way to him, set forth most for such as groan for freedome from the power of sin; but may be serviceable to all who loves his appearance. Also a testimony from Christ what he is in this world, and where he is; ... Also a suite to such rulers, magistrates, and governours, as have not wholly hardened their hearts, and stopt the eare against the voyce of the spirit, that they may hear and their soules may live, and be established a blessing to the nations. With some things more added to this second impression. / Written in love to all your soules, by him who is called James Naylor.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1655 (1655)	Wing N310; Thomason E852_25	31,397	40

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

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

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