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A89829	Antichrist in man, Christ's enemy: who hath been pretending for Christ in notion, but now at his appearance stands up with all his power to deny his Light, and preach him unsufficient. Clearly discovered in an answer to a book titled, Antichrist in man the Quakers idol: set forth by Joshua Miller, wherein he confesseth Antichrist to be in man, but denies the light of Christ within to be sufficient to reveal him, and to witness Christ to be the onely means to salvation, he cals an error, if not damnable. With much more such confused stuffe, discovered for the sake of the simple who are led blind, with such blind guides, to their destruction: that such as will may beware and turn to the Lord, that with his Spirit of truth they may be guided into all truth, and out of this great deceit and enmity, wherein they are led and knows not. By a lover of the seed of God, and one that seeks the peace of lost souls, called James Naylor.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1656 (1656)	Wing N263; Thomason E869_6; ESTC R202979	13,662	19

Antichrist in Man CHRIST'S ENEMY Who hath been pretending for Christ in notion but now at his appearance stands up with all his power to deny his Light and preach him unsufficient Clearly discovered in an Answer to a Book titled Antichrist in Man the Quakers Idol Set forth by Joshua Miller wherein he confesseth Antichrist to be in man but denies the light of Christ within to be sufficient to reveal him and to witness Christ to be the onely means to salvation he cals an error if not damnable With much more such confused stuffe discovered for the sake of the simple who are led blind with such blind guides to their destruction That such as will may beware and turn to the Lord that with his Spirit of truth they may be guided into all truth and out of this great deceit and enmity wherein they are led and knows not By a Lover of the Seed of God and one that seeks the peace of lost souls called James Naylor If the blind lead the blind they must needs fall into the ditch LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert and are to be sold at the Black-spread-Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1656. Antichrist in Man Christs Enemy JOSHVA MILLER HAth not thy Brethren the Men of darkness sufficiently shewed their blindness and envy concerning the appearance of Christ but thou art forced to reveal what is in thee of the same nature and therefore thou brings out this superfluous thing as thou cals it to shew thy self to whom thou art joyned and for whom thou art labouring in all this mudd against the pure light of Christ his Spirit and Word within which the Father of Lights hath given for a Covenant of Light to lead and guide into all truth which the Devil and his Ministers would deny and set the Letter in his stead and the man of sin without the Spirit and Light of Christ to give his meanings thereof that so by the Letter he may uphold his idolatrous false worships he hath been setting up ever since the times of popery and which with his carnal spirit he hath been changing from one thing to another but all without the Light and Spirit that never changeth and so out of both form and power of the Saints life declared in Scripture which idolatry can never be discovered or destroyed out of the hearts of people where it hath been so long time rooted any other way than by the Light and Spirit of Christ which is a thing the Devil with all his power is now set against mustering up all his servants in all parts of the Nation whom for many years he hath fed with the glory riches and pleasures of this present world that in the day of his straits even the appearance of the Heir they might all stoutly defend his Kingdom of darkness in the heart of Man against the light of Christ which the Father hath given to lighten every man that cometh into the world and indeed his Army is very faithful to him and at his call are ready to arise though to their confusion with such stuffe as they have from all parts of the Nations with lyes and slanders clubs and stones persecution and imprisonments hypocrisie and feigned humility and much the like such Weapons as he hath laid up in their hearts and hath furnished his house with all this while the Heir hath been away and God not known in his Temple and so he hath kept the house in peace And now the Lamb is appearing to enlighten the heart and to reveal him that is set and exalted in the Temple of God above all that is called God now is the Beast rowsed on his seat and the false Prophet is joyned with him and the house of his Armoury is opened and now behold the noise of his Armour clashing one against another and the mouth of the pit being opened out comes such a smoak that the Locusts cannot see one another wherefore a noise of confusion is heard amongst you sometimes confessing sometimes denying the Light but all against it to devour it with open mouth and this of thine hath in it as much envy as the most but as little of truth and light as any and indeed such a lump of confusion and envy and scornful light words unto the sober minded it may serve to discover the Author without an answer and by what spirit he is acted so that much I shall not need to write thereto onely lay open some of thy lies slanders and deceitful doctrine whereby thou would exclude Christ and the Spirit under a pretence of worshipping him which is the thing moving me to write otherwise as to all thy lies cast upon our persons I might have been in silence knowing what we are to look for at the hands of the worlds teachers And in the front of thy book thou shews thy begettings and thy birth and begins with a lie calling Antichrist in Man the Quakers Idol which is false for though we see Antichrist in thee and the rest of thy brood so exalted that he would be worshipped yet we dare not make an Idol of him nor worship him therefore are we hated by you in whom he is and we know Antichrist is in every Man until he be revealed by the light of Christ within where he is that is to be revealed for fear of which it is that his Ministers to whom he is an Idol would keep people seeking without lest he should be seen within the heart where he is Hast not thou confessed this against thy Masters Kingdom who sayes he is in Man but would set people to a light without to seek him but now that thou hast confessed him in Man tell me if there be any other thing that can reveal him but the light of Christ within where he is that is to be revealed which if so then let thy work in opposing that light within declare whose Minister thou art and thus instead of discovering our wayes and opinions thou hast laid open thy self and work thou hast in hand and for the confutations thou tels on they will appear further when the Light beholds them Thy work thou directs to all that beleives salvation and justification for all their sins past present and to come by what Christ hath done in his own person I say this faith sutes thy work for didst thou look to account for thy wickedness thou durst not have added such a heap of lies and blasphemies against God his Light and Spirit as thou hast done in thy book and thou hast many brethren with thee in that ranting opinion that matters not much what you do hereupon But who tels you all your sins are pardoned that are yet to come Christ saith not so who saith you shall account at the Mat. 12 36 37. day of judgement yea for every idle word and by thy words thou shalt be justified and by thy words condemned Rom. 2. and every one shall at that day receive according

not he the light of the world given of the Father for a Covenant of light even to the Gentiles to open the blind eyes to enlighten them that sit in darkness and to be the salvation to the ends of the earth and shall not all that knows beleif bear witness against thee that it was Christ that gave light to them when they sat in darkness and in the shadow of death and became a guide in spirit into the way of peace and salvation which salvation by that light in us thou cals accursed Is not here thick darkness that may be felt by all who ever knew any light what a generation of blind guides are you become how hath thick darkness covered you is not the light of God sufficient nor the light of Christ neither what light must it be that is sufficient to lighten them that are in blindness seeing God and Christ is denied by thee or can any say that Jesus is Lord but by the Light and Spirit within and this thou cals accursed and not to be received And thou would reason because all have not Christ therefore he doth not enlighten all contrary to that John 1. 9. and contrary to Christs words who saith the Spirit of truth should lead into all truth he shall take of mine and testifie of me John 15. 26. and 16. 13. and we know there is a light in Spirit that testifies of Christ before Christ be known in the Creature and none can become the Sons of God but who receive the light of Christ according to that Scripture John 1. 12. which thou who knows neither light nor Spirit art Ignorant of and therefore sayes it is an error if not damnable to say the light of Christ is sufficient without some other help And thou goes on in thy confusion telling of a first second and third light which the Scripture knows no such thing but thy own imaginations to blind people withal and thou sayes that which John testifies on Iohn 1. 9. which he cals the true light is but the light of nature or reason and a comparative darkness so they who know no better may beleive that John preacht a natural reason and comparative darkness for all to beleive in and called it the true light and said the world was made by it c. and such blind stuffe thou brings to confute the Quakers And thou goes on to prove this further and brings Pauls words Rom. 2. and thou deals with him as thou does with John and tels two lies together of him first thou sayes he sayes the Gentiles which knew not God do by nature the things contained in the Law yet know not God for all this light when Paul saith they became a law unto themselves and was Jews in spirit whose praise was of God and not of men but doth not say they knew not God who brought forth the Law of God Secondly thou sayes Paul there means by nature nothing else but the light they have to distinguish them from Beasts which is false also for he sayes that light led them to shew the works of that Law God had written in their hearts their conscience bearing witness and excusing them in the day when God shall judge the world by his Gospel which is something else than thou speaks on but that nature which brings forth these fruits thou knows not nor the light and fruits of it which will stand at the day of judgement praised of God but not of Men. And then further to deny that the light of Christ that lighteth every one that cometh into the world to be sufficient sayest thou this opinion contradicts the whole current of the Scripture but can name none it contradicts but seeing thou can quote none against it I shall quote some that shall witness it John 1 9. John 8. 12. Ephes 5. 13 14. Luke 7. 21. 2 Cor. 4. 6. Prov. 4. 23. Isai 49. 6. Luke 2. 33. 1 John 1. ●7 where the wise may see that of all sorts of people Christ is the light which is sufficient and that in spirit within also And thou denies that this light can shew that Christ was born of a Virgin that the world was made of nothing nor convince of the resurrection To which I say none of these was known at first but by the light nor can they be known now as they ought to be though blind guides may talk of them but by the light for it is the Spirit that reveals all things even the hidden things of God and leads into all truth else the knowledge is but a tradition but to thee I say as Job doth of such They that rebell against the light knows not the wayes thereof so thou child of darkness may stop thy mouth for telling what the light can do or not do for the Scripture saith that which may be known of God is manifest in them for God hath shewed it to them but thy knowledge comes not in at that door And thy threefold light thou tels on the first thou cals the light of Nature and saith it is that word John 1 9. and this thou cals the light of God and sayes it is but comparative darkness Thy second thou cals the light of Christ and that thou proves Ephes 5. 14. And the third thou cals the light of Glory and that thou proves John 8. 12. where Christ saith I am the light of the world and this thou sayes speaks in the Future Tense and such mangled stuffe that one that had but common sense would blush at is that which saith I am the light of the world in the Future Tense and not the light of Christ and is the light of God and that Word which was in the beginning which John speaks on by which the world was made become so much less than the light of Christ that it is but comparative darkness did John preach comparative darkness when he said Then this is the message we have heard of him and declare unto you that God is light 1 John 1. 5. 6. 7. and in him is no darkness at all and if we walk in his light the bloud of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin But thy message is that the light of God is comparative darkness and that which Christ saith I am the light of the world and he that follows me shall not abide in darkness but shall have the light of life But this thou sayes not now but the time shall come when he that follows me shall have a light without sin so light and following must be in another world but not while this world lasts for this is the term of time the Devil his Ministers would have his Covenant of sin darkness to last but if you make it for any less you must be no Ministers for him nor have none of the worlds glory from him who is the Prince of the world where Christ the Light of the world is not owned and when thou

out of the Scriptures you blind sots and take no more hire for talking of them for they that testifie of Christ to be the one thing needful denies you who say he is not sufficient without somewhat else you are afraid of your craft But what is that other that must be joyned to him to make him sufficient must it be the Hirelings and what is it you will add to him to make him sufficient this is it you will tell people he is not sufficient nor his light for its an error to beleive it if not damnable should the Apostles have gone amongst the Heathen told them this story instead of preaching him alsufficient had not they been mad men that would have beleived in him and so have run into a damnable error as you say had they preached that doctrine they should but have gathered a few to Christ but like the Pharisees and you have gathered them into Sects for all who gather not with him scatter abroad into Sects but seeing Christ saith there is but one thing needful and you say his words are true when you write again let it be plainly known what that one thing is which is sufficient seeing you say it s a damnable error to say its Christ and his light And seeing thou sayes Christ enlightens none under that name but beleivers tell us what light must be preached as sufficient to unbeleivers seeing thou renders it as a damnable error to preach the light of Christ as sufficient to unbeleivers which if thou deal plainly herein Antichrist will be discovered to be no Idol of the Quakers though he be in man opposing Christ and his light in the Quakers but whether you will deal plainly or no herein yet this I say to thee without making an Idol thereof that that in thee which denies Christ and his light to be onely sufficient is Antichrist and in thee he is revealed to be who is preaching Christ unsufficient And whereas in the front of thy book thou tels of one of them taken with a lie in his mouth before the Magestrates which is no lie as thy book afterwards doth shew by which thou sayes they obtained a dismission that they went not to prison I say with shame may thou say it that any should be in danger of imprisonment for speaking to one who professeth himself a Minister of Christ and reproving their false worship did ever Minister of Christ make use of such weapons to defend their worships But did not the man thou thus charges take thee in more lies than one insomuch that thou was forced to plead lying no sin saying it is but a change of the mind so thy ministry thou hast herein manifested from whom thou hast it and what it tends to if lying be no sin but a change of the mind than what confidence can there be in men of that faith This makes much for your liberty who can do little else but who is come into the truth sees this to be his spirit who abode not in the truth that 's now pleading for his own kingdom And if thou say I wrong thee herein send to Francis Gauler and let him give thee an account both of time and place where thou spoke it and to the rest of thy doctrine it is suteable FINIS ERRATA IN the Title line 3. for Vho read Who page 4. l. 26. for and read is page 10. l. 8. for first read fift page 12. line 24. for taking read talking page 14. line 18. for other read others

hast made up this bundle of confusion sayes thou I hope we may safely distinguish where the Scripture doth when the Scriptures say no such thing but thy blind imaginations to put out the light of Christ within and keep people without in thy imaginations Thy next thing thou goes about to prove is that the Scriptures is the Word and Mind of God to you thou sayest it must either be the word of the Devil the word of Man or the Word of God To which I say if thou intend the letter of the Bible it is not one of these but a declaration of the words of all these and then thou goes on in thy blind Logick to prove it and thy Argument is thus much If one Command be the Word then all the Scriptures is the Word c But who taught thee this Logick to prove Generals by a Particular if God spoke some words in Scriptures is that which the Devil spoke the word also because it s in the book Because that was the Command of God that said Thou shalt not bow nor worship any thing but God alone was that the word of God also that said If thou wilt worship me all shall be thine Luke 4. 7 8 This is thy arguing and with such as this thou leads them blind who knows no better yet thou can find no Scripture that saith so onely thou instanced that Mark 7. 10 11 12 13. which hath relation to the first Commandement but if that be thy word to wit the letter written and engraven in stone which if it be taken in the letter as it can be no other in thy sense then the Apostle tels the 2 Corinth 3. and also to the Hebrews that it is done away so thou hast lost thy word if that letter be it and so thy Argument is fallen and a place is left for me to set another in its stead thus That which one may have and not have the Mind and Word of God is not the Mind and Word of God but one may have the Letter of the Scripture and not have the Mind and Word of God Ergo the Major cannot be denied and the Minor I prove by plain Scripture Acts 13. 27. they that dwelt at Jerusalem had the Scriptures read every Sabbath day yet knew not their voices and so had not the Mind of God John 5. 38. 39. The Jews had the Scriptures and thought to have eternal life in them yet Christ tels them they had not the Word in them also John 8. 37. he saith the Word hath no place in them and verse 43. he tels them they could not hear the Word therefore they could not understand his speech and this Word it was they had made void by their traditions and so have you also and so know no Word but the letter which never Minister of Christ pleaded yet had they the Scriptures and did not make them void in the letter Another thing thou wouldest prove if thou could that Spirits are to be tried by Scripture and with thy vain Phylosophy thou wouldst prove this also for the Scripture will not onely thou quotes that Isaiah 8. 20. which may serve to overturn thy whole Argument To the Law and to the Testimony if they speak not according to this word it s because there is no light in them Wherein the Prophet shews that none can speak according to the Law and Testimony but from the light in them the Law and Testimony being bound up and sealed amongst the Disciples as in the 16. verse therefore who are Disciples and follows Christ the Light know the Law of the new Covenant to be written in the heart Hebr. 8. 9 10. and the Testimnoy of Jesus to be the Spirit of prophesie Revel 19. 10. John 15. 26. but they that are spiritually blind knows not this whose eyes are abro●d and therefore set up the Letter instead of the Spirit and such by searching the Scriptures could never know Christ although they testifie of him who are not first taught of the Spirit and therewith led into the Scriptures such cannot read the Scriptures but wrest them to their own destruction as is plain 1 Peter 3. 16. and so are farre unlike to try Spirits therewith yea wiser than thou had the Scriptures but knew not their voices Acts 13 27. no not the Disciples themselves till Christ with his light had opened their understandings Luke 24. 25. but this is the Serpent who would be trying of Spirits with the letter as he tried the Spirit of Christ by the letter of the Law as is plain in John 19. 7. And by such tryers hath the Spirit of God been condemned and his People suffered in all ages where Men without the Spiritual light wrested the letter out of its place to set it above the Spirit which doth but testifie of the Spirit And thou sayes as God and Christ are one so is Christ and the Scriptures for they cannot be broken but if you have not broken the Scriptures let the Spirit of God that gave them forth judge who have changed the way of God and set up such a worship as no Scripture will own without wresting and breaking in upon it with your own meanings And thou sayest How must we try the Spirits by a light in us Oh strange unheard of doctrine I say yea by the light in us and he that hath not the light in him can try no Spirits but as the blind guides have ever done for those who are bidden to try Spirits had the annoynting in them who need not any man to teach them but as the same annointing did teach them all things in which is the whole truth and no lie and this onely is able to try the Spirits which we have received of him 1 John 2. 27. And thou brings that 2 Peter 1. 19 We have a more sure word of prophesie c. and this thou would have people beleive is the letter of the old Prophets so by thy doctrine the letter of the old Prophets which never saw Christ on earth is a surer testimony than the Apostles who was eye-witnesses of his Majesty saw him transfigured and heard the voyce of God testifying unto him 2 Peter 1. 16 17 18 19. and such dark stuffe as this is the fruit of thy literal Ministry and in this mud and darkness would thou be an opener of Scriptures and art pleading for thy self and the rest of thy brethren therein mentioning many of the Saints practices but not one of them will own your way of opening and therefore proves nothing for you further than that you are wholly out of their way And thy next work is to prove that a Man may be justified without Christ and his righteousness within which being searched is but a justification imagined for he that knows not Christ in him is a Reprobate and so not justified 2 Cor. 13. 5. for it is receiving Christ and his righteousness by which Man is justified and not by

taking of it even by the free gift of righteousness which is but one and wrought by one yet it must be received in all who receiveth Christ who is Gods righteousness without which none can be justified as is plain Rom. 5. 15 16 17. and Christ in the Saints is the hope of glory Colos 1. 27. without which there is no justification this is the just that lives by faith and the Justifier of all them that so receive him And whereas thou wonders how the Patriarks and Prophets were justified before Christ came I say by the Spirit of Christ in them and so they are to this day Isaiah 50. 8. 1 Cor. 6. 11. but thou not knowing the Spirit in thee wonders at it and so that Scripture is fulfilled upon thee foretold both by the Prophets and Apostles Acts 13. 41. And thou sayes thou hast sufficient ground to beleive that some do deny Christ ascended with his body but tels not who yet doth thy mischievous mind aim at us else why is it here mentioned and when thou hast set up this lie then thou contends against what thou hast forged thy self to disprove it Then thou goes on to plead for respect of persons and creature worships and bowing to the pride and against us because we cannot do it but it seems thou hast forgot thy lying Title where thou sayes Antichrist in Man is the Quakers Idol and now art murmurring that we will not worship him in whom he is exalted and thou bids us read that word if we dare Levit. 19. 32. Thou shalt rise up before the hoary head I say yea we dare read that and own it but when young ones looks to have grey hair to bow to Antichrist exalted in them that Command is broken Also thou pleads against Thou and Thee and yet beseeches to conform to the wholsom words of Christ Jesus yet murmur at us for so doing who never used other words to a particular though thou would say he did when he spoke not onely what Nathaniel should see but his Disciples also And thou sayes there was never such a word in Scripture as look to the light within when there is not any thing more full in Scripture nor can any have any light to know the things of God but within for what is not spiritual is carnal and what is spiritual is within 2 Pet. 1. 19. Luke 17. 21. 2 Cor. 4. 4. 6. Ephes 5. 8 13 14. Ephes 4. 18. 1 John 2. 27. John 11. 10. but where the light that is within is darkness how great is that darkness and this is befallen the blind guides of this generation above all that ever was before you for though the Pharisees would not beleive in the light of Christ yet they were ashamed to oppose it as you do but if the light be in the letter where is the blind guides the Scriptures speaks on seeing they had the letter who were so called and so hath their followers in our age but thou that saith there is no Scripture that saith take heed to the light within read Luke 11 35. and see the lier And thou sayes that Jesuites without doubt are amongst us But why doth not thy slanderous mind find them out Cowlishaws examination will not prove it onely it serves you Priests to fill up your books and shew your confusion who let the Jesuite go if there was any such and prints your folly and envy against the Quakers wherein you shew to all wise men your desire to mischief without any ground and what you would do if the thing was true who make so much ado about a lie And whereas thou sayes the Pope and the Quakers agree I say stop thy mouth for shame do not all men see that all this venom is cast out upon us by the Parish Teachers who are from thence descended because we testifie against your Masterships Tythes and Parsonages and all the rest of that superstitious worship yet remaining of that which from him was received And wherein you worship every particular out of the Saints practise be ashamed to tell us of the Pope herein you do but discover your folly and give other occasion to look into your superstitions worship and Papal observations all which we deny root and branch and own what was practised by the Saints as the Scriptures bears us testimony herein which will not own one jot of your Steeple-house worship without wresting for which we deny you and it And thou proceeds to give an answer to quaking and trembling a thing thou knows not and thou sayes the ground we have for it is because the Prophets did so and then thou tels of Paul trembling and the Goaler and others and thou sayes one swallow makes not a Summer and thou sayes the Goalers trembling was for fear of the loss of his Prisoners and thus thou goes on heaping up one lie upon another I say which of the Servants of God ever came to hear the voice of God and not tremble and was the ground of it because others did so before them and are all whom thou hast named with many others but one swallow and was it the loss of his Prisoners that made the Goaler tremble whose trembling was not till he knew the Prisoners was safe These serve to make up three lies together and thou adds a fourth saying one may put all their names in a ring who trembled at the Apostles preaching when there is not one of the Saints that ever declares how they came to know God but it was in fear and trembling and this thy blasphemous mouth compares to counterfeit beggars in London and other frivolous unclean language not fit to be named thou utterest for which thou shalt account when the Lord shall appear to the joy of such who tremble at his Word but to thy shame who casts such out saying let God be glorified Isaiah 66. 5. but thou art seen to be one of those thou mayest read of Jer. 5. 21. to the end many other filthy things thou hast stuffed thy book with which serve but to shew thy light frothy and unclean spirit modesty it self might have caused thee to have kept them in but that thou must shew thy self one of the Army of Haman Gog set in array with the rest of thy brethren Thou mayest truly say thy salvation by the light in you is accursed out of which comes such dark muddy stuffe as this is Who sayes that its an error if not damnable to say that the light that Christ gives to all is sufficient and that its an error if not damnable to say Christ is the onely meanes of salvation Are not all you Divines gone mad was ever such a thing said of Christ and his light stop thy mouth for shame and all thy brethren a generation of blind guides who have been so many years a preaching Christ and that faith in him would save and now when he is come you say he alone is not sufficient get you