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The grand impostor examined: or, The life, tryal, and examination of James Nayler, the seduced and seducing Quaker with the manner of his riding into Bristol. Whereunto is added, the sentence passed upon him by the High Court of Parliament.
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Deacon, John, 17th cent.
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peace oh how my soule travelleth to see this day which Abraham did and was glad and so shall all that are of faithfull Abraham O suffer me to speake what the Lord hath moved There is one temptation neere the like unto the first and is like the wisdome of God but it is not and therefore it must be destroyed Oh it desileth and hateth the innocent I beseech thee wait my soule travelleth to see a pure Image brought forth and the enemy strive to destroy it that he may keep me alwaies sorrowing and ever seeking and never satisfied nor never rejoycing But he in whom I have believed will shortly tread satan under our feet and then shalt thou and thine return to Zion with everlasting rejoycings and praises But till then better is the house of mourning then rejoycing for he that was made a perfect example when he had fasted the appointed time of his father vvas tempted to eate and to shew a miracle to prove himselfe to be the Sonne of God But man lives not by bread said he and now no more by that vvisdom shall he live on vvhich he hath long fed as on bread and as his food hath been so must his fast be and then at the end temptation to as low a thing as a stone that if it vvere possible the humility and the miracles vvould deceive the elect innocent and righteous branch of holiness But be his vvils never so many the time comes he shall leave thee for he is faithfull vvho hath promised he vvill not leave the Throne of David vvithout a man to sit thereon vvhich shall judge the poore vvith righteousnesse and the World vvith equity This shall shortly come to passe and then shall the vision speak and not lie O let innocency be thy beloved and righteousnesse thy Spouse that thy fathers lambs may rejoyce in thy pure and cleare unspotted image of holinesse and purity vvhich my soul believeth I shall see and so in the faith rest I am in patience vvait and the power vvill preserve from subtilty though under never so zealous a pretence of innocent vvisdom it be yet shall the Lord not suffer his holy one to see corruption nor his soule to lie in Hell but will cause the mountain to melt at his presence and the little hills to bring him peace O I am ready to fear as a servant and to obey as a child If I have spoken words too high love hath constrained me which is as strong as death and with the same spirit cover them as they are spoken with and then shall the spirit of David be witnessed who refused not words though from his servants mouth if they were in the fear I am his servant and he my Master whom I love and fear and trust I shall do unto the end Hannah Stranger From London 16. day of the 7th month Hereafter followeth the Letter wherein John Stranger calleth James Naylor Jesus Another from the same OH thou fairest of ten thousand thou onely begotten Son of God how my heart panteth after thee O stay me with flagons and comfort me with Wine My well beloved thou art like a Roe or young Hart upon the mountains of Spices where thy beloved Spouse hath long been calling thee to come away but hath been but lately heard of thee Now it lies something upon me that thou mindst to see her for the spirit and power of God is with her And there is given to her much of excellent and innocent wisedome arissen and arising in her which will make all the honest-hearted to praise the Lord alone and no more set up self And therefore let not my Lord and Master have any jealousie again of her for she is highly beloved of the Lord and that shall all see who come to know the Lord And now he doth blesse them that blesse his and curse them that curse his for this hath the Lord shewed me That her portion is exceeding large in the Lord and as her sorrow hath been much so shall her joy be much more which rejoyceth my heart to see her walke so valiantly and faithfully in the work of the Lord in this time of so great tryals as hath been laid upon her especially And I am Hannah Stranger The Postscript Remember my dear love to thy Master Thy name is no more to be called James but Jesus John Stranger This John Stranger is Husband to this Hannah Stranger and this was added as a Postscript by him to his Wives Letter as is acknowledged Remember my love to those friends withthee The seventeenth day of the eighth month superscribed this to the hands of James Naylor We shall now return to his examination Q. Art thou the only Son of God A. I am the Son of God but I have many Brethren Q. Have any called thee by the name of Jesus A. Not as unto the visible but as Jesus the Christ that is in me Q. Dost thou own the name of the King of Israel A. Not as a creature but if they give it Christ within I own it and have a Kingdom but not of this world my Kingdome is of another world of which thou watst not Q. Whether or no art thou the Prophet of the most high A. Thou hast said I am a Prophet Q. Dost thou own that attribute the Judge of Israel A. The Judge is but one and is witnessed in me and is the Christ there must not be any joyned with him if they speak of the spirit in me I own it only as God is manifest in the flesh according as God dwelleth in me and judgeth there himself Q. By whom wert thou sent A. By him who hath sent the spirit of his Son in me to try not as to carnal matters but belonging to the Kingdome of God by the indwelling of the Father and the Son the judge of all spirits to be guided by none Q. Is not the written word of God the guide A. The written word declares of it and what is not according to that is not true Q. Whether art thou more sent then others or whether others be not sent in that measure A. As to that I have nothing at present given me of my Father to answer Q. Was your birth mortal or immortal A. Not according to the Natural birth but according to the Spiritual birth born of the immortal seed Q. Wert thou ever called the Lambe of God A. I look not back to things behind but there might be some such thing in the letter I am a lamb and have sought it long before I could witnesse it Q. Who is thy mother or whether or no is she a virgin A. Nay according to the naturall birth Q. Who is thy mother according to thy spirituall birth A. No carnall creature Q. Who â—â—…n A. To this he refused to answer Q. Is the hope of Israel in thee A. The hope is in Christ and as Christ is in me so far the hope of Israel stands Christ is in me
the hope of glory Q. What more hope is there in thee then in others A. None can know but them of Israel and Israel must give an account Q. Art thou the everlasting Son of God A. Where God is manifest in the flesh there is the everlasting Son and I do witness God in the flesh I am the Son of God and the Son of God is but one Q. Art thou the Prince of peace A. The Prince of everlasting peace is begotten in me Q. Why dost thou not reprove those that give thee these attributes A. I have said nothing unto them but such things are written Q. Is thy name Jesus A. Here he was silent Q. For what space of time hast thou been so called A. And here Q. i th ere no other Jesus besides thee A. These questions he forbore either to affirm or to contradict Q. Art thou the everlasting Son of God the King of righteousness A. I am and the everlasting righteousness is wrought in me if ye were acquainted with the Father ye would also be acquainted with me Q. Did any kisse thy feet A. It might be they did but I minded them not Q. When thou wast called the King of Israel didst thou not answer thou sayest it A. Yea. Q. How dost thou provide for a livelihood A. As do the Lillies without care being maintained by my father Q. Who dost thou call thy Father A. He whom thou callest God Q. What businesse hadst thou at Bristoll or that way A. I was guided and directed by my father Q. Why wast thou called a Judge to try the cause of Israel A. Here be answered nothing Q. Are any of these sayings blasphemy or not A. What is received of the Lord is truth Q. VVhose Letter was that which was writ to thee signed T.S. A. It was sent me to Exeter Gaol by one the world calls Tho. Symonds Q. Didst thou not say it ye had known me ye had known the father A. Yea for the father is my life Q. VVhere wert thou born A. At Anderslow in Yorkshire Q. VVhere lives thy wife A. She whom thou callest my wife lives in Wakefield Q. VVhy dost thou not live with her A. I did till I was called to the Army Q. Vnder whose Command didst thou serve in the Army A. First under him they call Lord Fairfax Q. Who then A. Afterwards under that man called Col. Lambert and then I went into Scotland where I was a Quartermaster and returned sick to my earthly habitation and was called into the North Q. What wentst thou for to Exceter A. I was sent to Lawson to see the brethren Q. What estate hast thou A. I take no care for that Q. Doth God in an extraordinary manner sustain thee without any corporal food A. Man doth not live by bread alone but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Father the same life is mine that is in the Father but not in the same measure Q. How art thou cloathed A. I know not Q. Dost thou live without bread A. As long as my heavenly Father will I have tasted of that bread of which he that eateth shall never die Qu. How long hast thou lived without any corporal sustenance having perfect health A. Some fifteen or fixteen days sustained without any other food except the Word of God Q. was Dorcas Erbury dead two days in Exceter and didst thou raise her A. I can do nothing of my self the Scripture beareth witness to the power in me which is everlasting it is the same power we read of in the Scripture The Lord hath made me a signe of his coming and that honour that belongeth to Christ Jesus in whom I am revealed may be given to him as when on earth at Jerusalem according to the measure Q. Art thou the unspotted Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world A. Were I not a lamb wolves would not seek to devour me Q. Art thou not guilty of horrid blasphemy by thy own words A. Who made thee a Judge over them Q. Wherefore camest thou in such an unusual posture as two women leading thy horse others singing Holy holy c. with another before thee bare-headed knee-deep in the high-way-mud when thou mightst have gone in the Causey and at such a time that it raining thy companions received the rain at their necks and vented it at their hose and breeches A. It tended to my Fathers praise and glory and I ought not to slight any thing which the Spirit of the Lord moves Q. Dost thou think the Spirit of the Lord moved or commanded them A. Yea. Q. Whom mean they by holy holy holy c. A. Let them answer for themselves they are at age Q. Did not some spread their cloaths on the ground before thee when thou ridst thorow Glanstenbury and Wells A. I think they did Q. Wherefore didst thou call Martha Simons mother as George Fox affirms A. George Fox is a lyer and a firebrand of hell for neither I nor any with me called her so Q. Thou hast a wife at this time A. A woman I have whom by the world is called my wife and some children I have which according to the flesh are mine Q. Those books which thou hast writ wilt thou maintain them and affirm what is therein A. Yea with my dearest blood The Sentence which it pleased the high Court of Parliament to pronounce against James Nayler THat he stand in the Pillory on Thursday being Decemb 18. 1656. in the new Palace at Westminster for two hours and then by the Hangman to be whipped from Westminster to the Old Exchange London and there also to stand in the Pillory two hours on Saturday next between Eleven and one with an Inscription fastned to him relating his Crimes and at the old Exchange to have his tongue bored thorow with an Hot-iron and in the forehead stigmatized with B and that he be conveyed thorow Bristol with his face towards the horses tail and there likewise whipped and after returned to London to remain a prisoner in Bridewel during the pleasure of the honourable Parliament ACcording to the sentence pronounced he was whipped from Westminster to the Old Exchange and from thence conveyed to Newgate where the next day there came unto him one Robert Rich so called who when he was approaching neer him sang but what it was I know not but when he saw James Nayler he saluted him by bowing to him and having asked whether he had prayed for him James answered Yea he had Whereupon this Rich took him round the middle stroaked his face and kissed him And having took his leave of James Nayler he descended the stairs saying Oh ye hard hearted people and unbelieving Generation will ye not believe although ye see such wonders signs and miracles wrought before ye Another came to him and said unto him thus James none will venture to come and see thee but Paul Nicodemus and I. ON Decemb. 20. was presented