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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74895	A discovery of faith; wherein is laid down the ground of true faith, which sanctifieth and purifieth the heart, and worketh out the carnal part. Shewing the way that leadeth to salvation: with the difference betwixt the two seeds, the one of Mount Sinai, which tendeth to bondage; and the other, which is the immortal seed of God, begotten by the immortal word, which liveth and abideth for ever. Being as Isaac was, the childe of the promise, and of Jerusalem which is from above ... The difference betwixt the living word and the letter.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.; Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1653 (1653)	Thomason E703_6**	16,669	16

A Discovery of Faith Wherein is laid down The Ground of True Faith Which Sanctifieth and Purifieth the heart and worketh out the Carnal part SHEWING The Way that leadeth to Salvation WITH The Difference betwixt the two Seeds the one of Mount Sinai which tendeth to Bondage and the other which is the immortal Seed of God begotten by the immortal word which liveth and abideth for ever Being as Isaac was the childe of the Promise and of Jerusalem which is from above which is the mother of us all that are of the immortal Birth begotten not by the will of man but by the will of God and born again of Water and the Spirit baptized into one body and made to drink into one Spirit having Fellowship with the Father and the Son all springing from one root and growing into one Body a habitation for God through the Spirit The difference betwixt The Living WORD and the LETTER 1 John 4. 6. We are of God he that knoweth God heareth us he that is not of God heareth not us hereby know we the Spirit of truth and the Spirit of Error London Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black Spread Eagle at the west end of Pauls 1653. An Epistle to the READER Christian Friend THis ensuing Treatise was not written for swine to snuffle upon and so cast dirt upon it with their dirty noses but from the flowings of love to tender desires that they may minde what begets the desire to Righteousness and so comeout of all mens Words and Writings that doth arise out of the corrupt nature for they are filthy and unclean the heart of man being deceitful and that above measure and all words and writings that arise out of the first nature are corrupt and earthly and there is no life in them but for the dead minde that is carnal which knoweth not the things of God therefore do they not know those that are begotten to a lively faith in God which purifieth their hearts and worketh out the carnal part that did delight in the unclean conversation of the world in conforming to the customs and fashions of the world in Capping and Cringing Bending and Bowing to men of corrupt hearts and unpure mindes all being earthly and brutish following the imaginations of their hearts idolizing the creatures falling down to worship men more then God fearing to displease men of Corrupt hearts and unclean conversation for some self end or other not regarding the command of Jesus Christ who saith Fashion not your selves like unto the world for the fashion of the world paseth away again saith he be not conformed like unto the world but be ye transformed by the renewing of your minds neither be ye men pleasers for he that is a man pleaser he is no longer the servant of Jesus Christ who did not seek to please men but did the wil of his father in reproving sin evil and testifying against the deceits of the world and that was the reason why he was hated of the world not for any evil but because saith he I testifie against the world that the deeds thereof are evil therefore do the world hate me and the fair sayers then came to him and tempting him saying Master we know that thou teachest the way of God truly and that thou carest for no mans person and the subtil serpent in the Pharisees lay at catch and laid snares for the innocent to betray him into the hand of sinners that they might have to accuse him to put him to death and the Pharisees with the chief Priests they sought out false witness to put him to death because he did testifie against their deceitfulness hypocrisies and dissimulations and the blessed Spirit in him seeing the envy subtilty and venom that lodged in their hearts and covered over with fine words and fair pretences being wise to do evil he said to all that are of the seed of Abraham after the Spirit born again of the same Spirit beware of the leaven of the Pharisees which is hypocrisie for saith he the children of the world are wiser in their generation then the children of the light therefore be ye wise as serpents and harmless as doves but beware of the leaven of the Pharisees now they are alive the same seed of evil doers to persecute and lies in wait to destroy the simple ones who are guided by the pure Wisdom of God and are Redeemed from their vain conversation and walks in obedience to the Commands of Iesus Christ being guided by the same Spirit God sending the Spirit of his Son into their hearts crying Abba Father and saith the blessed Spirit of truth Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness but rather reprove them Ephes 5. 11. but he that departs from iniquity makes himself a prey and because that there is not a Running with them into the same excess of Riot therefore speak they evil of them as of evil doers calling them Quakers or what they can invent to make them odious in the eyes of the world but t is nothing but the seed of the serpent that doth so and it is known by the Spirit of the living God where Iesus Christ is made manifest in Spirit having destroyed the works of the devil the Spirit of truth and righteousness living in them it lets them see how the seed of the serpent lies upon the earth and grows in the earthly delights and is covered over with an earthly Profession and brings forth nothing but weeds and tares which is for the fire and must be burnt up by the Lord God Almighty who is the heart searcher and tryer Now friend if thou do but with a single eye read this little ensuing Treatise thou wilt not finde any gilded expressions in it that doth arise from the wisdom of the flesh for they do but feed the fleshly minde which must be destroyed with a sore destruction let me intreat thee that when thou readest thou may first return into thy own spirit and see how thou standest in the fear of the Lord which is to lay aside all evil and see that thy understanding be kept open as thou readest and thy minde free from all hard thoughts and opinions of men which ariseth out of the dark nature stand free out of all mens words that doth arise out of the corrupt nature and give thy deligence attention to what thou readest as well within as without and it will shew thee the way that leadeth to salvatien and the true guide which it is written from that thou mayest have union with him in the life and substance of it without all question or doubt to live in the life and power of the truth it self for as the lightning cometh out of the east and shineth into the west so shall the coming of the Son of man be wait wholly within and sink down into the eternal love and thou wilt see me and the rest that we are in the unity of that

then and the Apostle told of a Cain amongst the Saints and the same nature that was is the first birth the second birth is they that come to witness it know it there 's but two Seeds two Wayes read your selves light and darkness see whether you are in he that walks in darkness the fruit of darkness shews it he that walks in the light the fruits of the light make it manifest Let your light so shine before men as that you may glorifie your heavenly Father which is in heaven He that walks in the flesh the fruits of the flesh makes it manifest and shews it forth and he that walks in the Spirit the fruits of the Spirit shews it forth so deceive not your selves God will not be mocked with words and doe not take him for a cleak making a profession and live in deceit for woe unto him that is covered and not with the Spirit of the Lord therefore stay your selves and see and Gal 6. 7. Isa 3 1. be not hasty nor rash nor fierce but honestly stay your selves on the Lord and see your selves the Prodigall when he saw himself what hee had done went home unto his Fathers house and thou hast read of a Prodigall in the Scripture that fed among Swine but dost thou see thy self to be the Prodigall feeding among the Swine feeding on Luke 15. 20 16 Husks Is this opened unto thee dost thou know what this Husk is thou must not read this Parable without knowing it but within thee when thou seest thy self thou wilt witness this thing with me when thou are come to thy Fathers house thou wilt rejoice with me and see that thou hast bin seeding among the Swine the Letter the outside which profits not To all that love the Lord Jesus Christ and turns away from Fables light Speeches filthy talking cursed Speaking idle Jesting and walketh in cleannesse of life who have Families Children and Servants I charge you by the Lord be paterns and examples to them and all in Wisdom and gravity in holinesse and righteousnesse teaching Children humblenesse meeknesse and tendernesse which leads to the fear of the Lord and let no corrupt communication come out of your mouth left children and Servants learn it and there thou are a patern of evil Nor no filthy jesting nor light Talk lest thou be an example of evil for one teaches and learns of another and while the evil cunning deceipt lodgeth its hatehing and inventing evill and so others learns of it and so who are wicked learns wickedness and grows up in it Therefore all you who are lovers of Jesus Christ shun the occasion of such and have no fellowship with such for they be unfruitfull workers but rather reprove them And you which be Servants fear the Lord and be diligent serving the Lord who have Dames Masters and Mistresses as they call them which live in rioting drunkennesse and pride excesse and lying oaths foolish songs and jesting shun the occasion of such for they are evill examples and practise not such things but wait upon the Lord and whatsoever ye doe doe it as unto the Lord but to you that have Families that love the Lord Jesus Christ and all his Saints reall in power love and mercy wil be multiplyed among you and you that be Servants labor in love as unto the Lord and children walk in love and soberness so God is the head who is love amongst you all to be a family of Love and all the creation is the Lords and all that you doe doe it as unto the Lord not with compulsion rigor and hardness for that 's the sloathful Servant that lives in the earth without the fear of the Lord. Thou that hast applyed all the Promises Redemption and Salvation thou sha't see to thy self is due nothing but curses woe misery and condemnation and destruction for that nature and self is out of the truth and is not reconciled to any thing he that is reconciled to God is reconciled to all things he is come out of death which hath past over all he is not of this world he sees all the world passeth away he is escaped from the pollutions he hath put off the body of sin with the filth of the flesh it is he by whom all things were made in the beginning and who were with him when all things were made Who are of the world knows him not but is a preserver and it is he that rejoyceth in the heavens which the world cannot contain it is he whose words are the words of life he is a saviour but they are destroyers Thou that canst contain this hast laid hold upon eternall life thou that hearest his voice hast life he that hears the voice of the Son of God shall live The death which hath past over all men is but one and Christ Jesus took upon him not the nature of Angels but the seed of Abraham which the death hast past over now thou that hast not the same Spirit that raised up Jesus Christ from the death is none of his and all the promises is to the seed which seed is but one which is Christ in you who are of Faith are of Abraham cald out of the heathenish nature and worships and out of their native Countrey as Abraham was and are of Abraham and thousands do witnesse it one Faith one seed The difference betwixt the Word of God and Letter IN the beginning was the Word and none knows this Word but who are come into the beginning now all people and Priests who can witness this who are come hither into the beginning what our hands have handled what our eyes have seen what was from the beginning the Word of life this declare we unto you who knovvs this Word is pure and are made clean through the Word are washed by it are sanctified by it are cut in pieces by it are divided asunder by it This Word is a Hammer beating down every thing that the seed of God may rise up and all who know this Word may come to the beginning it is as a fire burning up all corruptions and this is the Word that is nigh thee in thy heart And this is the Word which all the Prophets spoke from and this is the Word that became Flesh and dwelt amongst us saith the Saints and this is the Word of life which the Apostles preached the substance of all figures types and shadows and this is the Word which makes all the Saints one that reconciles their hearts together to the Lord this is the Word by which all things stands and remains and are upheld by his Word and power and this is the Word which doth endure for ever all vvho are born again of the immortall seed witness this Word with me And now the Word is made manifest the same as ever was vvhich gathers together the hearts of all people which divides asunder the precious and vile and of twain hath made one and this

Word the Steeple-house the Church the 4. Books Mathew Mark Luke and John the Gospel Hebrew Greek and Latin these are the tongues Oxford and Cambridge two well heads of Divinity and the Letter and the Spirit insoparable and the Spirit is in the Letter and that learned men must raise it out Now they who are made Ministers by the will of God their Word is God their light is Christ their Church is in God their record is the Spirit their original is the Word which was before all tongues which opens tongues their Gospel is Jesus Christ the lamb of God prepared before the world was which was before the World was salvation is in God the Spirit is within them and they are the sons of God that are guided by his Spirit The Spirit is not in the Letter but it is within as it was in them that spoke forth the Scriptures So all people weigh and try your Teachers and let the Scriptures be your rule which you doe profess in words the life of the Scriptures is the Saints rule and guide within them the World professeth the Letter to be their rule yet walk contrary to it the Saints baptisme is with one Spirit into one body the worlds baptism is in sprinkling a little Water which they say they baptise into the Church withall there is not one example among the Saints for them to practise such a thing yet professing the Letter to be the rule they act contrary to it Oh blind Hypocrites the blind leads the blind so both fall into the ditch The bread the Saints break is the body of Christ and the Cup they drink is the blood of Christ and are all made to drink into one Spirit and the Cup the World take is a little Bread and Wine and they call that a Sacrament which there is no Scripture for and so shew forth the spirit of error who hath an ear to hear may hear and who can reach to these things may receive them the Ministers made by the will of God their fountain is God A Letter of James Nayler to severall Friends about Wakefield JAmes a prisoner of Jesus Christ unto all that love the appearance of our Lord Jesus Christ every where grace and peace be multiplyed from God the Father and from our Lord Jesus Christ My dear hearts you whom the Lord hath manifested so much love unto as to call you out of sin and death and the world all the delights and pleasures of the world which fades away up to himself where is joy unspeakable pleasures and riches that endure for evermore Dear friends watch and be sober that you may hear the voice of your beloved when he calleth and let not the precious proffers of the love of God be tendred in vain while you have an ear open to the world you cannot hear the voice of God so that you have bin made to groan under it how long have you been deceived by it all your time promising peace fulness and satisfaction but have bin brought to cry out of oppression and deceit and your cries are come before the Lord of Sabbaths who is your rest and he is now appeared to deliver you and set you free from bondage that you may serve him alone And now take heed of consulting with your old master hath the Lord been so mercifull unto you as that he hath set your faces out of Sodom and Egypt towards the promised land O take heed of looking back left you be taken captive and led back again and so you come short of redemption and your faith fail you and so you come short of the promise for unbelief cannot enter into the rest but you Dear friends put on resolution put on strength be valiant for your freedome cast off every weight follow your Captain the Lord Jesus Christ who for the joy set before him indured the cross despised the shame and so entred into rest and glory Take heed of halting between God and the World what agreement can there be or what peace while you are married to the world Your thoughts turn in thither and you are adulterated from God who gives you all good things as so many tokens of his love hereby is the broken language brought forth and you cannot speak the pure language of the land of rest And while you give way to that in you which leads you to look back to what is behind you you keep your selves in the wilderness and darkness and lose your way and know not where you are grieving the holy Spirit of the Lord which hath appeared unto you to guide you to but O friends mind your guide and follow him Arise shine your light is come and the glory of the Lord is come upon you the night is far spent the day is at hand even the day of Sions deliverance Arise come away all you that love her come off from the World and worldly things come into the life lie no longer in death and dead things Awake thou that sleepest and stand up from the dead that Christ may give thee light Come forth come forth of all created things witness your redemption to all the world that you are redeemed from the earth upto God out of all kindreds tongues people and nations to reign as Kings and Priests for ever above the world sin and death triumphing and treading upon all that would take you captive This is the day of your deliverance own it with the loss of all fading pleasures make it appear to all the world this is the day you waited for even the day of your joy but of the worlds sorrow A day of blackness and gloominess a day of fear and trouble to them that oppress you a day wherein the Kingdome of Jesus Christ shall be exalted and all the kingdoms and powers of the earth shaken a day wherein the Lord will avenge the power of him that is too strong for him Rejoyce rejoyce ye meek of the earth shout for joy ye poor despised ones whom your Brethren have troden upon and have cast you out and you have been made their mocking-stocks for the truths sake Sing and rejoyce the voice of a King is amongst you and he will marry you to himself in righteousness purity and holiness and will rejoyce over you as a bridegroom over the bride and you shall be for a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord and a royall Diademe in the hand of your God O my dear hearts my desire to God for you all is that you might come to see what unspeakable riches is laid up for you in Jesus Christ which is hid from all flesh neither can you see it while you live in the flesh and while you continue your love to the world and worldly things you keep out the manifestation of the Fathers love for your hearts canot receive both Now shew your selves wise men choose that which is eternal here is light and life tendred you in Jesus Christ