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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89839	Foot yet in the snare: though the beast hath healed his wound, and now pretends liberty, but is fallen into the trap of the priests, receiving their testimony to beare it up, who are in the pit themselves, thereby giving them occasion to insult against the truth, as the beast and the false prophet hath alwaies joyned against the lamb. Discovered in an answer to Iohn Toldervy, Matthew Pool, VVilliam Jenkin, John Tombs, John Goodwin, VVilliam Adderley, George Cockain, Thomas Jacomb, and Thomas Brooks, who under a pretence of love to the truth, have gone about to devour it, and cover it with reproach. Wherein their crooked wayes, their confusions and contradictions is traced and laid open, and their spirit tryed to bee the same which joyned Judas and the chief priests, and their false witnesses against the heir at his appearance; so those have joyned testimony to the truth, of a lying book, which by their own confession they never read over. With something of their false testimony is short laid open, lest simple minds should bee led with a lye through the fame of the forgers. / By one who loves the soul, but hates the sin, called, James Naylor.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1656 (1656)	Wing N281; Thomason E863_1; ESTC R12925	23,636	36

FOOT yet in the SNARE Though the Beast hath healed his wound and now pretends liberty but is fallen into the trap of the Priests receiving their testimony to beare it up who are in the pit themselves thereby giving them occasion to insult against the Truth as the Beast and the false Prophet hath alwaies joyned against the Lamb. Discovered in an Answer to Iohn Toldervy Matthew Pool VVilliam Jenkin John Tombs John Goodwin VVilliam Adderley George Cockain Thomas Jacomb and Thomas Brooks Who under a pretence of love to the truth have gone about to devour it and cover it with reproach Wherein their crooked wayes their confusions and contradictions is traced and laid open and their spirit tryed to bee the same which joyned Judas and the chief Priests and their false witnesses against the Heir at his appearance so these have joyned testimony to the truth of a lying book which by their own confession they never read over With something of their false testimony in short laid open left simple minds should bee led with a lye through the fame of the Forgers By one who loves the soul but hates the sin called JAMES NAYLOR And the chief Priests after they had hired Judas to betray Iesus they sought many false witnesses to put him to death but their witnesses agreed not together LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black-Spread-Eagle neer the West end of Pauls 1656. FOOT Yet in the SNARE GOOD is the Word of the Lord who by his Spirit hath foretold of the Heathen raging and the people imagining vainthings thereby to stop the appearance and exaltation of the King of Righteousness in every age of his coming into the world who hath also foretold of the gatherings together of the great Armies of Gog and Magog to battel against the Lamb with all the subtilty sorcery and witchcrafts of the devil that old Serpent and hater of innocencie who ceases not to stir up his chiefest interests and those whom he hath deceived and bewitched with lies and lying wonders joyning together head and tail root and branch in that nature to trample upon the appearance of Christ and shut up the Kingdome against men and for this end as one of his deepest designes he is ever seeking to get in amongst the children of Light with his Son of Perdition conforming himself as near as may be in outward things yea transforming himself into an angel of light a thing above all the litteral professors that thereby he may the more stronglie delude and make the waie more open whereby to make havock of the innocent doing that under a pretence of owning the truth which he never could do with open opposition this is his design which ever attends the appearance of the Son of God in this world for so is the fathers good pleasure to permit him for the trial exercise of his own seed where it is manifest thus it was with the Son of God in his appearance amongst the Jews where one of the twelve was a devil by his treacherie to the light convincement which he had received the chief priests pharisees got their envie effected against the Lamb he being an instrument for them against him which they never could do by al their disputes open contentions oppositions so it is seen at this daie by thee Iohn Toldervy the chiefpriests in these daies joined with thee herein joining your deceits against the innocent waie of the Lamb this design of Satan the spirit of God hath foreseen revealed to his holie apostles prophets which was to continue for the trials of his own at his coming amongst the saints in after-ages therefore Paul at his departure doth forewarn them to take heedun to the flock church of God which he had purchased with his own blood not onlie warning them of grievous wolves which would enter in amongst them not sparing the flock but saith he also of your own selves shal men arise speaking perverse things to draw disciples after them to perdition these are the heresies which the Scripture tels of which the Holy Ghost saith must be amongst the people of God that they that are approved may be made manifest it doth not onlie manifest them 1 Cor. 11. 9 that are approved but them that are for perdition also and these things were not strange to such as dwelt in the light nor are they strange to such as in the light dwell now who see there cannot be a war unless there be a Dragon as well as a Lamb and the beast with the many heads horns with blasphemie on every head as it is seen in you of many colours heads horns ioyned together in this blasphemie as doth now appera wil appear more plain concerning you in this thing than before who have set to your hands to certifie the belief you have concerning the truth of the devils actings who is a liar from the begining abode not in the truth nor doth he abide in the truth and to all who are in the least measure of light you have discovered your selves with whom you ioyne against whom you take part though your secret smiting cannot touch the truth nor them where it is manifest all you can do is to shut up the kingdom against such as are in the world with you least they should enter as did your fathers so do you of their reward shal you receive having fill'dup your measure three sorts of people there are that are much concerned in this filthy thing you have hatched brought forth besides the common scoffers of these daies as a snare to catch withall to devour in the way by consent as your fathers ever did The first sort of which the greatest envie is are without the reach of your trap those who have received the light of Christ whose eie is in their head who are come to any measure of the anointing are joyned in the election in the least measure there abiding are set above all the devils deceit and lying wonders who are brought to the love of the Lord his light and life to such I say this all other things that can befall in this world work together with the light for your good and therein I do rejoice on your behalf who shall hereby not only glorifie God who hath opened an eye to see above all these wiles of Satan whereby they are judged and the ground from whence they arise but also hereby learn the more to fear the Lord to walk worthie of him in your measures who hath called you out of darkness wherein others are stumbling and falling in mischief into his marvellous light wherein abiding you wil all be taught by this as by all other his vvorks to knovv his end as to your selves that he may teach you his praise both in redeeming his ovvn seed also in hardning the vvicked to destruction The second sort

against As to the particular actings of that deluded spirit with whom you are joyned witnesses in your book and so are of those who have abused the truth thereby more bitterlie to incense the generations of men beyond measure against us through your misguided spirit yea so much I may say the devill had never yet such a design on foot for the incensing people against those you call Quakers as this Book of yours which you have fill'd with the devils works and lying wonders wrought and witnessed amongst your selves whereof we are clear from the first to the last having been witnesses against it and yet you are not ashamed to say the subiect matter doth relate principallie to the persons of the Quakers which was acted and witnessed among your own persons which are joyned one in it against that spirit of God in the Quakers by which it was denyed in the persons of them both root and branch thereof as is confessed and witnessed by you So let all judge who have the spirit of truth if you be not those misguided spirits you tell on beyond measure who are casting upon us the deceits acted amongst your selves and yet confess the spirit of God in us witnessing against deceit so out of your own mouths be you judged to be those who take part with the deceit acted among your selves against the spirit of God vvho have cast upon us the works that are done amongst your selves of which we are clear in the presence of God Yea Iudas and the chief Priests might as trulie charge what they did in combining to gether against Christ upon the other eleven Disciples as you charge this your act and combination upon the persons of the Quakers or the spirit of God in them the case being the same both in respect of matter and near as near as possibly may be and how guiltie the Disciples were of that or we of this let the light of Christ in all consciences be Judge til he appear to reward you according to your work Further in your Epistle you tel of expressing tenderness to wards your brethren and companions who by their misguided spirit are subject to Laws and Ordinances Ceremonies and Traditions of their own inventing denying themselves their Just and Lawfull Liberty out of a slavish fear to which I say as for Ordinances Ceremonies and Traditions and Inventions they are your own and so is that misguided spirit which led in the inventions to what was acted as is declared in this book as also that misguided spirit by which you are led in your worships you Parish Masters and separated-Masters who have lost the form of the Saints worship and with your misguided Spirit are run into the inventions in everie particular of your worship which you perform in your Idols Temples so that the Scripture wil not warrant your practise in anie particular without wresting to sute your inventions so it nearlie concerns you to plead for tenderness towards your brethren who are companions with you in this misguided spirit and subiect to those Ordinances and Inventions into which you are run that you may also partake of that compassion who never loved to be plainlie dealt withall nor reproved for your errors But as for them who are come from under that misguided Spirit with its Ordinances and Inventions it may be long ere you be heard pleading for compassion to such nay against such is all your misguided Ordinances and misguided spirits with all their inventions combined together as appears in your book who have joyned testimonie to the works of the devill against the spirit of God under a pretence of love to the truth as you would plead for your misguided spirit Ordinances and Inventions under a pretence of compassion and so you shew to all then are wise hearted what your compassion is to But as for denying your selves of libertie lawful or unlawful you are little guiltie of that crime but would accuse others for doing it because we cannot run with you into your excess of pride drunkenness and gluttonie and all manner of lasciviousness and shelter it with you under the name of Christian libertie therefore you speak evill of us who see your wickedness and cannot joine with you therein who under the name of Christian libertie have opened a dore to your hearers of all liscentiousness as wofull experience may witness throughout the Nations what pride and oppression what excess and lasciviousness drunkenness and gluttonnie gaming sporting and wantonness what changeable fashions and foolish childish toyes in your habits which you are pleading for in your book which sober minded heathen would be ashamed of what Idolatrous worships speaking high words through the lusts of the flesh beguiling the souls that are unstablished what Idolatrous daies and feasts what imprisonment persecution and bloodshed what swearing and whoring foolish jesting and filthie communication idle talking and all manner of abomination is lived in amongst you and your hearers and all covered with the name of Christian Libertie And if anie make conscience of these things they are presentlie condemned by you for denying themselves their Just and Lawful Libertie accused of whi●sies and voluntary humiliation and of works and so the devill hath got Scriptures and the Saints words to plead for his lusts and condemn the Saints practise And how much you parish masters value the just libertie of such as witness against your unjust dealings the most of the Goals in the nation may testifie So the libertie of Barrabas bespeaks the death of Jesus and his imprisonment Do not ye remember your fathers the Bishops who under pretence of Christian Libertie set out their Play books giving them names of lawfull recreations which indeed were the devills practises and are not you got upon the same beast yet as blinde as they and as full of rage had you the same power against them that reprove you thereof But as for anie libertie we denie which is according to God charge us with it in particular and let truth make its defence You tell again of giving account of John Toldervy his separation from the people called Quakers I say that is but the former lie told over again for the people called Quakers did separate from him when he was separated from the light and acted by a spirit of darkness and would not be reclaimed In your cautions to the Reader you confess that his errors from what was written in the Scripture and ●in himself was that by which he dearlie suffered having before cast it upon the persons of the Quakers and this is the truth which you are satisfied of as you have signified with your hands but are found with deceit in your mouths If it was his departing from the Scriptures and what was written in him that was his error and cause of his sufferings then it was not the persons of the Quakers which before you said was the subject matter of your discourse and that which did relate principallie to

bread and whereof you stand in no need so that there is little thoughts of your fasting But would you be counted Ministers of Christ and follow him and is fasting become a reproach with you David declares of your generation by whom his fasting was turned to his reproach by the bellie-Gods of his time and the same spirits now act the same things In your nineth page you tell of two Spirits in him one contrarie to the other by vvhich he did manie things in his vvill against his vvill And in your 49 page you say before he was perswaded to complie with us he had a right knowledge of our belief and practise here is another piece of your confusion manifest had he a right knowledge of our belief and practise who was thus acted for which you confess he was judged by all the Quakers and thus your false witnesses will not agree to the end you intended onlie it serves to manifest your own absurdities and that confused spirit to which you are joined which you say led him to do things in his wil against his wil whereby you say he became a destroyer of the will of God and this you would cast upon the Quakers whom you confess to have the Spirit of God in them witnessing against all Deceit and misguided spirits as though the spirit of God which witnesseth against all Deceit did lead him to destroy the will of God and afterward confess in the same page that it was his imaginarie which being overthrown in one thing there was begotten the like being in another shape thus adding your confusion as though the like being could be in another shape by which you say he was wrought upon to believe many things and act many things as follows and yet your drift in the book is to accuse the Light of Christ therewith as though his imaginaries were the Light of Christ and much such unsavourie stuff your slanderous spirits send out of the bottomeless pit Then you go on and tell of his believing of what was manifest of God in man is the Light of life and one with himself and that man was the cause of all his distractions and confusions in himself and that man having lost the kernall and substance he feedeth on dry husks and being not refreshed with bread and water of life he remains alwayes seeking and never satisfied and that eternall life living in us there needeth no more thirst and that confusion proceeds from the evill one transformed in man who having darkned his understanding leads him to many duties that are his own that if the author and finisher of our faith live in us there is perfection and that in the first Creation man was made pure and holy c. and many other precious truths which nearly concerns the salvatton of every soul to know and these being things which the Devill most envies you have mixed vvith them some of your ovvn Deceits thereby the better to make people believe they are errors and having heaped a great sort of them together that you might strike at the vvhole foundation at once then you say that you vvill declare some of those effects vvhich this change vvrought in him going on to tell of his filthie practises being led with flies to crucifie himself and to burn his Legs and prick Needles in his Thumbs and such filthie bewitched stuff not worth the mentioning being the devills work You blasphemers did those truths of God before mentioned lead to these things how are you filled with subtil envie against the truth was there ever such a nest to set your hands to slander the truth shall not the Lord find you out and bring your wickedness upon your ownpate shal your ioyning hand in hand keep your wickedness from being punished what you have done in secret the Lord wil reward you openlie the daie of Revelation is at hand and you can be no longer hid You go on to tell how he was moved not to pull off the hat to any man to speak the word THEE and THOU not to bow or worship any man not to direct his mind in drinking to any to pul off his Points at his knees and his Buttons that were unnecessarie and such like things which you vvould loath see go dovvn and therefore give it as though it vvas the Spirit of the devill that bare vvitness against these things and so vvould condemn the spirit of God and practise of the Saints for the upholding of the Devills vvork vvho is not divided against himself vvho hath too many amongst you to make covers for pride and excess to set any on vvork to crie it dovvn or your flattring titles either Did ever the Spirit of God use any other language to a particular than Thou or Thee Doth it not forbid bovving or vvorshipping any man Or did ever any vvho are guided by the Spirit of God put off their hats one to another in vvale of Worship or Complement Or did they ever use the practise of you Drunkards drinking one to another enticing one another to devour the creatures upon your lusts by your heathenish customes Or did they ever use Points at their knees in your manner of filthie pride May not all see what you are about to uphold Are you the Ministers of Christ or the Ministers of sin who are pleading for pride and the worlds customes and whether this be not the lust of the eies the lust of the flesh and the pride of life which is not of the Father Let your Testimonie that you have set your hands unto be witness against you Have you taken monies so manie Years for preaching against sin pride and drunkenness respect of persons and creature-worships and lived in it and now that Christ is come to bear testimonie against it in practise and to cast it down in his Creatures are you now forced to set to your shoulders both in word and writing lest it should fall Do not the most of your Pulpits sound everie daie against those people who cannot bow to these filthinesses Who would have believed had they judged by your words that you would have been found the Ministers of sin and Antichrist Is this your foot out of the Snare or a bringing all feet into the Snare Is this a Restoration of the Inhabitants of Zion into their place whose words tend to uphold such things whereby Zion is captivated and Babylons Brats restored into their place Herein you are seen for this is the daie of Revelation and righteous Judgement which is coming on and by your works you must be proved and not by your words and your reward shall be accordinglie Then you go on to tell of the working of this power upon his Spirit and that by his perswasion of this wa●e he was engaged to make restitution of fortie shillings which he had adventured to take unwarrantablie So you condemning that Spirit and waie which caused the restitution are found the justifiers of that which