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spirit_n	heart_n	know_v	soul_n	7,408	5	4.7811	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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