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A89842	The light of Christ, and the word of life. Cleared from the deceipts of the Deceiver, and his litterall weapons turned upon his owne head. Also the man of sin found out, who is hiding himselfe in a heape of confusion, pretending Antichrist is not yet come. Occasioned by laying open some deceipts in a booke titled, The deceiv'd and deceiving Quakers discovered; subscribed Mathew Caffin and William Jeffery, brethren in iniquitie, who are joyned to deny God, Christ, the light, and spirit, in his saints, and calls it teaching Christs spirit apart from his body, and an evill spirit, to witnesse the spirit of Christ in the saints. Set forth that the simple may see the wiles the devill hath to keepe them from the word of life, the soules salvation. / By a lover of Israels seede, called James Nayler.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1656 (1656)	Wing N293; Thomason E877_1; ESTC R206580	19,351	24

the Powers of darknesse in this world yet art thou found in the world joyned with the Prince of the world to wrastle against the light of the world even the spirituall light of Christ which all the holy men of God did ever beare witnesse too and preached to them that was in darknesse and witnessed it to be that by which they was inlightened even the light within which shined out of darknesse in their hearts which gave them the knowledge of the Glory of God in the face of Jesus which was their treasure in the earthen vessels which they Preached and not themselves that the Praise might be wholy of God who had given them this light in Christ Jesus wherefore they renounce the hidden things of dishonesty not handling the word of God deceitfully but by manifestation of this truth commend themselves to every mans conscience in the sight of God and not to the fleshly wisdome nor braine knowledge but to the light in every mans conscience 2 Cor. 4. and they exhorted them to have no fellowship with the unfruitfull works of darknesse but to reprove them and said all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light and whatsoever doth make manifest is light and this they preach for the light of Christ Ephes 5. 11 13 14. and doth also declare that the want of this light having their understandings darkned and the blindnesse of their hearts is the cause why men are past feeling and so given themselves over to lasciviousnesse to work all uncleanesse with greedinesse Eph. 4. 18 19. But he saith the Sains have not so learned Christ if they have heard him and been taught by him as the truth is in Jesus being renewed in the spirit of their minds who sometimes were darkness but now are light in the Lord and so walk as children of the light bringing forth fruits of the Spirit in all goodnesse righteousness and truth and this light was their message which they declared to their hearers as the way to the bloud of cleansing saith John This is the message as we have heard of him and declare unto you that God is light and in him is no darknesse at all if we say we have fellowship with him and walk in darknes we ly do not the truth but if we walk in the light as he is in the light we have fellowship one with another and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin 1 Joh. 1. 5 6 7. This light they Preached to be the way out of the world following Christ who led them therein who saith I am the light of the world no man cometh to the Father but by me this light they preached to be the way to cleansing by the blood of Jesus and this light they preached to keep out of the occacion of stumbling and said they that walk in darknesse know not whether they go because that darknes hath blinded their eyes 1 John 2. 10 11. And this was the end of their Ministry which was the end of the Covenant and the end of Christs coming even to open the blind eyes and to bring them that sit in darknesse out of the Prison house Isa 42. 7. And this was the end of the Apostles Ministry to open their eyes and to turne them from darknes to light and so from the power of Satan to God Acts 27. 18. And this eye was within them that was blind which they was to open which the God of this world had blinded which Christ calls the light of the body and therefore saith Take heed that the light that 's in thee be not darknesse Luke 11. 34 35. Which eye the blind guides who loveth the world and their sin have closed and their ears they have shut whose hearts are waxen grosse so that they can neither see hear nor understand Mat. 13. 15. And in this state are all you blind guides blind leaders of the blind who can neither speak nor walk according to the Law and Testimony because ye know not the light in ye nor can any but from that light within and therefore in your blindnesse are opposing the light of the world which the Law and the Prophets prophesied of which had the Testimony of Jesus which we witness to be the light of the world who are come to the end of the Law and the Prophets even the new Covenant where the Law is written in the heart and the spirit of Prophesie received which is the testimony of Jesus which we knew not till that eye was opened and therefore went along with you in your blind worships and selfe taken on performances from the letter which gave us no life which life we witnesse now in the Spirit by faith in the light of Christ and his commands in Spirit is life and power for obedience to the faith in the light it is seen and accepted in which light we see you and your labours which are without not in the light and spirit and deny you and your sparks your kindling your literall Teaching and selfe righteousnesse and all your brick making who are in the Aegyptian darknesse enemies to the light of Israel and its seed And you we see to be enemies to Zions Redemption as you are enemies to the light of the world both in your selves and others And this I say further to thee and the rest of thy dark generation That all your boast of Religion and knowledge in the letter will not bring you to God without the light of Christ nor can any one that is in ignorance come to know the way to life but by the light of the world and untill man be led thereby he cannot come out of his darknesse even with that light that reproves the world and manifest your evill deeds must he be led though the beasts of the field who know not what liberty the Sons of God have in his garden calls this a Spirit of bondage which is bondage to the beastly nature but is freedome to the Sons and Seed of God which the love of God is too who loves purity but hates iniquity And whereas thou and the rest of you would confine the light of Christ onely to such who are enlightned already I say who must enlighten the rest is there some other light to be preached before him is not he the author as well as the finisher who are enlightned indeed knowes this that he is the light in the times of darknesse and there is none besides him and that he giveth life to all who receive his light and follow it but those that rebell against the light knows not the wayes thereof nor abides in the paths thereof Job 34. 13. There in that Chapter thou maist read thy selfe and thy way and work Is this the end of your talking of the Spirit and is it now become an error to say its sufficient to teach and guide out of darknesse and is it some carnall thing that must enlighten the

it the Word which doth but declare of the Word now is the deceipt of your high notion found out who have pretended so much light and Spirit that now the true light is come and the gift of the Spirit is manifest for every one to profit withall you are found the greatest opposers and set your selves to make the people evill-affected against the light and Spirits teachings though no man can say that Jesus is Lord but by that Spirit which is given to every one to profit withall 1 Cor 12. 3. 7. And all your prayers and worships that are out of this light and before it are blind and abominable And all you prove in this your opposing the light and Word is but your selves Children of darknesse and wholy Ignorant of the Spirits teaching and the least Child of light shall Judge you herein for the least that ever knew any thing from God eyther of Judgement teaching or promise or power they know they have it in Spirit and such know that what the Saints declare of in the letter which they received of God in Spirit will not satisfie their longing soules unlesse they can have it from God in Spirit also so that your opposing the spirituall light and power doth but give occasion to all that have the lest sight of the Spirit and its teaching to see you heart blind and so joyning with the God of this world to blind the minds of others also and the least of the Children of light can you not deceive with this onely you discover your Babel which you have builded without the light and Spirit in your Imaginations from the letter without the light the ground of all the false worships sects opinions and devisions The seate of the hypocrite and Court of Conceites in which you blesse your selves in darknesse without God in the world not having the Father and the Son in you and so are out of the doctrine of Christ 2 Epistle of John 9. 10. And so are shut out of the habitation of the Children of light O blind men how hath your wisdome perverted you and the Devill deceived you Is this the doctrine of Christ that his light is not sufficient to lead without something else joyned with it That the Spirit is false and erroneous that bids take heed to a light within Luke 11. 35 And that Christ did not Commend people to a light within Is this the doctrine of Christ That men are not led into all truth by a light within them John 16. 13. Rom 8. 14 That to suppose that God in men is their teacher is an error John 6. 45. John 14. 26. John 17 23 That to declare the light within is another report and another Spirit That its an error to say that Christ is in the Saints in their sufferings suffering with them Acts 9 5. 2 Cor 1. 5. Colo 1. 24 That its an error to say that is the true light even the light of the world that lighteth every man that comes into the world and that it alone is sufficient Joh 1. 9. John 8. 12. And that the light of the world is the onely way which leads to all other things but no other thing can lead to it but it selfe John 14. 6. John 8. 12. And much more such like doctrine the man of sin is not afraid to preach openly thereby to deny the light of Christ to be sufficient least that light should reveale him all against the doctrine of Christ And that he may not be suspected to be the Antichrist and man of sin who is thus opposing Christ and pleading for sin you would perswade us that the Antichrist will but be one single person when he comes That so while people are looking for him in a single person he may thus oppose the light and spirituall appearance of Christ in his Thousands and ten thousands who are gathered as the sand of the Sea for multitude to oppose the light and plead for sinne And to confound your selves you say againe that even now are there many Antichrists but cannot see your selves to be they who are armeing your selves thus against his light and appearance and as one of his last shifts to set the letter in his stead which doth but declare of his appearance who is the light of the world made manifest to enlighten them that sit in darknesse and destroy the workes of the Devill in all that beleeve and follow him And where this light is received and followed you are therewith Comprehended your worke and the end of it and in all that you doe in thus opposing the light of the world you are but breaking your selves against the Corner Stone foolish women who are pulling downe your own house with your owne hands for the more you resist the light the more it shines and the more you Raile against the light and Spirit the more you are manifest to be out of the doctrine of Christ who is that light and Spirit and you doe but give an opportunity to all that see your worke to see the Innocency of that light you oppose and to see you set against that which is the onely thing testified of in the Scriptures and so shall that in every tender Conscience witnesse against you and for that Spirit you resist So behold your doctrine and compare it with the Apostles and with Christs and the Prophets and let that of God in your conscience g●ve righteous Judgement upon you if this of yours be the doctrine of Christ had John said concerning Christ This is the true light that li●hteth every man that cometh into the world but it is not sufficient without something else had he been a forerunner of Christ or of something else Had Christ said I am the light of the world beleeve in the light and follow it but it is not sufficient without something else with it for it is but a naturall light had not he then taught them a naturall foundation in stead of a spirituall who said beleeve in the light that you may be the Chi●dren of light had the Apostles gone forth to preach Christ the light for every one to beleeve in said this is our message wee have received of God and declare unto you that God is light and whatsoever makes manifest is light and all things that are made manifest are reproved by the light but this light is not sufficient had they then preached Christ all in all a sole ground and authour of faith nay had they not been mad-men that would have beleeved them if 〈◊〉 had thus preached as you doe a light and Spirit but not 〈…〉 Had the Prophets preached a Covenant of light 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to beleeve and when they had done told them that it was not sufficient without the letter had not they destroyed their faith in their generation before the letter was written nay goe through all the Scriptures and find any of the Children of light in your doctrine if you can till then for

shame cease calling us deceived and deceiving Quakers many of us have been too long deceived with such blind guides enemies to the light who have alwayes resisted the Spirit but the light hath appeared and is received by which we see the deceivers and no more by them can wee be deceived neither can Antichrist cover himselfe in the letter whose worke is to devoure the light and Spirit that gave it forth it will not serve your turne whose end is contrary that which was given forth to testifie of the light of the world will never say it 's not sufficient and that which saith he is the authour and finisher you cannot make it say there must be something before him and that which saith hee is all in all will not limit him and that which saith the Spirit giveth life the same saith the letter kills so behold your work and be ashamed such dead deceitfull blind doctrine is sutable to such dead workes you bring forth and darke wayes you walke in the Children of light sees you whose faces are turned from you and are set out of the world in which your Religion stands conformable to it and in vaine doth Pharaoh pursue or A●…aleck smite the hindmost it is but that you may be drown'd in your envy and with the floods of your own confusion that thereby your names may be blotted out and become a curse before the Lord and his people for all your envy and hard speeches you have spoken against the truth slanders and false accusations you cast upon the servants thereof though wee have not desired this evill da● to come upon you by persisting in your wickednes the Lord he knoweth and for the abominable lyes thou hast cast upon us in thy booke wee are content to beare them being no other thing then our portion in this world yet that thou hast spoken them falsely every day shall make them more manifest And this I shall say unto them all before all the world if the Lord our righteousnesse whose righteousnesse we serve in soule and spirit doe not cleare us thereof by a godly conversation then paper and inck will not so to the Lord and into the hands of his power we referre our selves therein And this I say as of the Scriptures God is at liberty to speake to his people by them if he please and where they are given by inspiration he doth so and so is he at liberty to speake by any other created thing as to Balaam by his Asse or by his owne Immediate voyce but of him I have learned to know his word from that he speakes by and not to limit him though you have not And this I say further that men may read the Scriptures in the booke without all their time and till the eye and eare be opened within with the light of Christ they cannot heare the words of God in the Scriptures no nor from Christ himselfe were he in the flesh his owne words shall be my witnesse herein John 8. 47. and your practises prove it dayly ANd now a word to thy brother in the latter part of thy book whose work is to clear the Whore of Babylon from being the Antichrist and that the man of sin and the Antichrist will but be a single person such a work as none of the men of God ever undertook but the children must plead for their Mother And yet in thy pleading for her least thou should injure the kingdom of the man of sin the Antichrist thou first puts it out of question that none needs to fear him come already they may sleep quietly for that and when he doth come he will be but a single man so none that 's now alive needs fear in the least that they are he for sayest thou he will be but one man thus hast thou cleared the world of the man of sin and the Antichrist for the present but cannot see thy selfe to be he who art pleading for his kingdome till dooms day as people call it in thy 76 page And who art lying against the holy Ghost saying that Antichrist will be but one man and that he is not yet come contradicting the Spirit of Christ who saith even now there are many Antichrists 1 John 2. 18. So thou art the Antichrist who art the lyar 1 John 2. 22. And saith the Spirit he is Antichrist who denyes the Father and the Son so thy companion is one who saith To suppose God in men to teach them is an error p. 17. thus he denyes the Father to be his onely Teacher And thou art another who calls it an error to preach up the Spirit of Christ within for a Teacher p. 68. and calls it an evill Spirit and herein thou denies the Son and many such Antichrists there are in the world who both deny the Father and the Son for he that denyes the one denyes both and he is an Antichrist that so doth and no new thing it is to the children of light to see such who have received the spirit of the world in their hearts to deny the Father and Son there to teach and lead and these was the Antichrists John saw who was gone out into the world and so the Spirit of God and of the world could not both be confessed in one heart 1 John 4. but where the Spirit that was of God is there Christ is confessed in heart and God also but who hath corrupted his ways saith in his heart There is no God Ps 14. 1. So try thy wayes and try thy words who denies Christ within and calls it teaching up the Spirit of Christ apart from his body to preach Christ within and sayes its an evill Spirit to say Christ is in them and thus the Reprobate who knows not Christ in thee art become a Teacher 2 Cor. 13. 5. Hast thou not here shewed thy selfe the Antichrist indeed who thus opposes Christ in his Saints Doth not he say Without me you can doe nothing abide in me and I in you he that abideth in me and I in him the same bring●●… forth much fruit for without me you can do nothing Joh. 15 4 5. Doth not Christ say to the Father touching the Saints I in them and thou in me that they may be made perfect in one John 17. 23. Did Christ here preach up his Spirit apart from his body Or was this an evil Spirit and a Spirit of error as thou says it is in us And did not all his Ministers preach the same Doth not Paul say when it pleased the father to reveal his Son in me that I might preach him Gal. 1. 16. And Christ in you the hope of glory whom we preach Col. 1. 27. And know ye not that Christ is in you except you be Reprobates 2 Cor. 13. 5. My little children of whom I travell in birth againe till Christ be formed in you Gal. 4. 19. And he that hath the Son hath life and he that hath not the Son hath not

all things was made and saith in him is life and the life was the light of men and that this light shined in darknesse but the darknesse comprehends it not And this light thou denies and would limit to some persons who act in darknesse and cannot comprehend it though it shine in darknesse wherefore saith the blind guide this is another report and another Spirit and such a thing is not to be found in all the Scriptures but cannot see thy blind Spirit opposing the living Spirit of light and life in all the Saints both in Scriptures and to this day And Simeon the Prophet he testifies to this light and saith He is prepared before the face of all people a light to lighten the Gentiles and the Glory of his people Israell and calls it Gods salvation Luke 2. 30 31 32. But saith the false Prophet and Antichrist this is not sufficient alone though it be Israells glory and salvation and the Gentiles light And saith Christ of himselfe I am the light of the world he that followes me shall not abide in darknesse but shall have the light of life John 8. 12. But saith Antichrist this light is not sufficient of it selfe And saith Christ Take heed that the light that 's in thee be not darknesse The light of the body is the eye therefore when thine eye is single the whole body is full of light but when thy eye is evill thy whole body is full of darknesse Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darknesse And this he spake to the people and the Pharisees Luke 11. But saith Antichrist it is not to be found in all the Scriptures that Christ or any of his did Counsell Ignorant people to take heed to a light within them and saith the Blasphemer False and Erronious is that Spirit that bids men attend to a light within So the lyar and the Antichrist is now revealeing and there are many Antichrists who thus oppose Christ his light and doctrine who have the hornes of blasphemy and dare blaspheme God in his Temple Calling the Spirit of Christ false and Erroneous And saith that to suppose that God in men is their teacher is an Error not knowing the Scriptures when the Scripture saith You shall all be taught of God John 6. 45. And know you not that yee are the Temple of the living God as God hath said I will dwell in them and walke in them and the Temple of God is holy whose Temple ye are but sayest thou for to suppose God to teach thee is an Error and so art not afraid to blaspheme God in his Temple And saith the Scripture All thy Children shall be taught of the Lord Isa 54. 13. And they shall teach no more every man his neighbour and every man his brother saying know the Lord for they shall all know me from the least of them to the greatest Jere. 31. 34. Heb 8. 11. But saith the Children of darknesse where the Son of perdition sits in the Temple of God this is Error who are strangers to this Covenant of light and without God in the world who are of such the Apostle tells on Eph 4. who because of the blindnesse of their hearts through denying the light within are alienated from the life of God and so become past-feeling and so are given to sin and plead for it though it be their destruction for all that deny the light within are heart-blind and so strangers to the life And here are all you blind guids of all sorts enemies to the light stumbling at it which is the Corner Stone and so all that hate the light loves your evill deeds and so plead for them while you live and so the words of Christ is fullfilled upon you John 3. 19 20. And saith Christ I am come a light into the world that whosoever beleeveth in me should not abide in darknesse and hee exhorts the Pharisees and unbeleevers who beleeved the Scriptures to beleeve in the light of the world which John calls the true light which ligheth every man that cometh into the world and saith Christ God so loved the world that hee gave his onely begotten Sonne that whosoever beleeveth on him should not perish but have everlasting life but he that beleeveth not is condemned already and this is the condemnation that light is come into the world and men love darknesse rather than light and this he spake of them that beleeved the letter as you blinde guids doe now but would not beleeve in the light of the world as you doe now who deny Christ to be the light of the world and would limit him only to be the light of Beleevers which beleevers when searched you are found to be enemies to the light but saith they that beleeve he is a light to lighten the Gentiles Luk. 2. 32. And the people that sate in darknesse saw a great light and to them that sate in the Region and shaddow of death light is sprung up Math 4. 16. But saith Antichrist hee inlightneth none but such as are inlightned already that so he may keepe all in darknesse that are in darknesse but the Children of light know that there is no other thing to inlighten them that sit in darknesse whose minds the God of this world hath blinded but the light of Christ and till then the Gospell is hid and the vaile is over the heart and all other meanes till the eye be open is unprofitable and it is his light alone which is that eye and his Spirit alone that takes away that vaile 2 Cor 3. 16 17. And that it is his Spirit alone that guides into all truth John 16. 13. Even the same Spirit which reproves the world of sin ver 8. But saith Antichrist men are not lead into all truth by a light within so by thy doctrine the Spirit of truth must either not be within or else darknesse within for sayest thou men are not lead into all truth by a light within but saith the Scriptures Yee have an unction from the holy one and yee know all things and this anoynting abideth in you and ye need not that any man teach you but as the same anoynting teacheth you of all things and is truth and is no lye and even as it hath taught you yee shall abide in him but saith the lyar that spirit is false and erroneous that bids men give attendance to the light within as their onely teacher when the Spirit of God saith Yee need not any man to teach you but as the same anoynting that abideth in you teacheth you of all things and no lye is in it and commands them to abide therein And this spirit thou calls false and erronious and so art found that Blasphemer against the Spirit of God and an open lyar who saith there is not such a Scripture as directs to a light within for the onely teacher and though in thy Book thou sayest wee must wrastle against