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A94718	The naked truth laid open, against vvhat is amiss: or, may be mis-interpreted, in those two bookes: the one, entituled, The foot out of the snare; and the other, The snare broken. Together with a word of invitation to all who are estranged to the true faith, that they would hear and receive the word of truth, which makes free the Israel of God. / Set forth by me John Toldervy.	Toldervy, John.	1656 (1656)	Wing T1769; Thomason E868_13; ESTC R207736	12,904	17

outward Law into that state from whence he is fallen as it is written But that no man is justified by the Law in the sight of God Gal. 3. 11 12. it is evident for the just shall live by faith and the Law is not of faith but the man that doth them shall live in them but the Scriptures they declare of him who is the Redeemer and where he is to be sound but they are not him which is in the month and in the heart the word of faith Moses was a figure but he was not the Christ Christ Jesus appeared in the visible and was true in himself yet the spirit was not given untill he was glorified Now that Law that is of faith in the spirit that judges and condemns the Serpent in the root whence he sprang which faith whomsoever receives will see that promised seed which breaketh the head of the Serpent to be neare in the month and in the Heart and so the ministration of death being passed upon the unjust the spirit is renewed untill the election be raised to life unto which the promise is two and so that state witnessed of which Paul spake to the Colossians the third and the third For ye are dead and Your life is bid with Christ in God by which obedience the spirit is renewed they being the fruits of faith There is therefore now no condemnation to them Rom. 8. 1. 2. which are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit for the Law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the Law of sin and death Gal. 3. 23. 24. But before Faith came we were kept under the Law shut up unto the Faith which should afterwards be revealed wherefore the Law was our Schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ that we might be justified by faith but now they that are not yet come to the hearing of faith are strangers to these things Paul was very strict in this profession as touching his Conversation amongst men blameless he profited in Gal. 1. 14. the Jewish Religion above many his equalls being more exceedingly zealous of the Traditions of the Fathers yet all this while he was a stranger to the true faith until it pleased God to reveal his Son in him and thus it is Gal. 1. 1. 516. with all who are led by the letter untill they come to see Christ Jesus brought to light in them yet should I say there is no other way under Heaven by which men can come to know their Redeemer but by that light with which all are inlightened Christ Jesus the light of the World should I so say as I do vanity and darknes unto which what I so speak is unknown would deny me in so speaking but my words are true by which I may not be deceived knowing they come forth from the word of truth I have a little tasted of both wayes of the good and of the evill but really I found the foolishness of preaching to be another thing then the wisdom of flesh and base things and things of mean degree to be another thing then what is in the exaltation though never so lovely but here is the misery darkness is passed over and so good is called evill and evill good let not people believe generall reports but call to minde a despised people those were they in all generations but if any thing heard and seen in particular may appear truly to be evill then may it be refused but if good why then are men so vain that they will not see that so they may understand Abraham was taken from his first Habitation and from his Gen. 12. 5. kindred and sent by revelation into a strange Land in which obedience he received the promises now the promises are made unto the seed not as of many but as of one which seed is Gal. 3. 16. Christ I will bless them that blesse thee curse them that curse thee and in thee shall all the Families of the Earth be blessed not as of Ishmael but of Isaac neither yet not of the Law but of Gen. 12. 3. 21. 10. Gal. 3. 18. 3. Heb. 7. 28. Rom. 5. 10. promise but the Law was added because of transgression untill the seed should come unto whom the promise was made against which inheritance there is no Law as it is written but the word of the Oath which was since the Law maketh the Son which is consecrated for evermore and here is it now not of works but of grace Man being run out from God into the transgression he hath broken the Law the fruit was pleasant and delightful he feels t is pleasant the daughters of men were fair and now he knowes good and evill he is under the Curse he hides himself he is ashamed and thus having denyed the obedience required death is passed over that seed created by God in him a living soul and so that breath of life which came forth from God and breaths after himself is hid in darkness and now being lost in this fallen estate the same nature in him which at first joyned with the Serpent feeding upon the Tree of knowledge seeks for a justification having transformed it self into the outward forms of worship and appearances of things and thus the eye with which men should see being put out the evill day is put a farre off and the good day rejected But now the Grace of God hath appeared by which is made Rom. 10. 18 19. Rom. 10. 16. 17. Rom. 10. 8 9. known the everlasting Gospel of Peace but yet who hath believed our report So then faith commeth by hearing and hearing by the word of God which word is near in the mouth and in the heart and here is the end of the Covenant That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in thy heart that God hath raised him from the dead thou shalt be saved Now to confess with the mouth and believe with the heart is not onely a belief in the minde what the Scriptures declare of him that he is risen and so a confession from that belief but to confess believe to the Resurrection of him in us to increase Col. 3. 1. 2. 19. 12. 2. 23. with the increase of God to the death and Resurrection of Christ above the rudiments of the world and the Ordinances which things have a shadow of the wisdom and so to witness what David spake I know my Redeemer liveth and what Paul spake I live yet not I but Jesus Christ that liveth in me And now what redeems but the precious blood of Christ as of a Lamb Rom. 5. 9. in all from the foundation of the world and this Redemption Rom. 5 10. Heb. 7. 25. Gal. 3. 21 Heb. 13. 8. is perfock into the state in which man was first created unto which there is no death by which regeneration such who receive the power for the obedience of the faith in Christ Jesus boing born again of him are become the seed of Abraham and so inhenitors of the promises by Generation and here is the second Adam Christ Jesus brought forth into the World but this is a Mystery to such whose mindes are without who are yet seeking for a Christ without whose faith is without whose obedience is without who are estranged from the discovery of Christ Jesus within who is given of the Father to work all our works in as and through us that the praise might be alone of him that calloth but now it is of grace and not by any works of righteousness which we have done but through the obedience of faith in him which is not of the will but by which the least motion to will is subdued in its motion which is wrought in spirit by obedience to the spirit for the Resurrection of the seed which things the Adultress eye cannot see but unto those that have received the light they are made manifest FINIS

THE NAKED TRUTH Laid open Against vvhat is amiss OR May be mis-interpreted IN THOSE TWO BOOKES The one entituled The Foot out of the Snare And the other The Snare Broken Together with a Word of Invitation to all who are estranged to the True Faith that they would hear and receive the Word of Truth which makes free the Israel of GOD. Set forth by me John Toldervy Rom. 9. 31 32 33. But Israel which followed after the Law of Righteousness hath not attained to the Law of Righteousness Wherefore because they sought it not by Faith but as it wore by the works of the Law for they stumbled at that stumbling stone As it is written behold I lay in Sion a Stumbling stone and a Rock of Offence and whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed London Printed for G. Calvert at the Black-spread Eagle at the West-end of Pauls 1656. The Naked Truth laid open against what is amiss or may be mis-interpreted in these two Books The one entituled The Foot out of the Snare And the other The Snare broken FOrasmuch as there hath appeared some secresie in me in that work which first I appeared in to the World entituled † The Foot out of the Snare By which the true end and scope of my purpose in the greatest part of what I have discovered is much clouded in obscurity from the general sight of men and also for that I have stood up in the Defence of this my Vanity in that of † The Snare broken By which much prejudice may attend that work which the Prince of Righteousnesse is now in this our day bringing to passe that his Name might be known in the Earth a Deliverer from the Bonds of Iniquity a Leader Captivity Captive a Redeemer of ●i● Chosen which hath long lain in Death by the disobedience of a Rebellious people I say having not been found faithfull to that Witnesse of God in my own Conscience which condemneth all deceit and being much rebuked and condemned for what I have done I am constrained in this further Discovery that the Simple might be undeceived and the Envious might be reproved When first I was perswaded to write I had principally 4. things in my Eye First my design was to discover the emptiness and the vanity of all that Ministry and of all those Ways and Forms of Worship which generally is upheld amongst us by the dark mind of those who are blind in their understandings by which the people who are in darknesse are mourished in that condition and the Seed of the Righteous which creates a new heart and redeems out of sinne is kept in bondage And for this purpose I began with a Discovery of what I was and how I was led before I came amongst those people who go under the name of Quakers where I say I was for divers years full of zeal led forth in love to seek after the knowledge of God and Christ for which cause I sought if that I could find those wayes and those means which were most useful for the clearing of my Conscience that I might walk in unity with God by a holy and innocent life to which end I said in my perswasion I was led forth with much fervency of spirit after those teachers which were esteemd of amongst the primest Professors as men inlightned with the spirit of God in which way I laboured had there been a possibility to apprehend the true knowledge and mind of God but not finding a possibility in that way to apprehend the thing sought for but instead thereof unstability and diversity of Opinions confusion in Societies things which are at perfect enmity with God who is one Spirit and cannot be divided I said I left them as they were and all that ever I received from them and sought further if that I might find the way of Redemption from under that heavy burthen which lay upon me in which seeking as I have spoken I found such who declared against all sin whose order and manner of teaching and Duties were united compleat in one they being the fruits of one Mind by which they were joyned in one Spirit and so judges and witnesses for God against all those false Christs and false Prophets who were going forth into the world whose doctrine was of Man who having slain the Witness knew not the Word of Life therefore uncapable of edifying the People and so Ministers of the Letter and not of the Spirit Here my purpose was to extinguish them who are ever learning the people and themselves and yet never able to know the truth and withall to confirm those who appeared in such a Witness against all sin whom I concluded were the people of God whose doctrine and life I have not denied by words in any particular of all what I then discovered except in those things of civil Expressions and Carriages which otherwise I called Ceremonies A second thing which my mind was directed in was to invite or perswade such who were strangers to those people and their ways who are called of men Quakers That they should inquire after that Truth which is professed by them for which end I discovered them as such who were united in one mind and so acted on in their duties whose Ministry was one being guided therein by one Spirit c. and then I relate a Discourse ministred by one of those people with the effects which that Discourse wrought upon my Spirit together with what I had received before from those people as the Discourse holds soul also of my orderly forbearance untill I had received a more cleare understanding before I complyed with them in which time I received a further Witness And so I go on discovering of their Judgment without which knowledge there is none can ever come to see the Redemption of their Souls These things being considered I was perswaded that something of that end might be effected for which purpose they were discovered Having thus laid open my Understanding I began in the third place to give warning unto all who may be perswaded to receive the Word of Truth that when convinced in their understandings where that Word of Life which redeems out of sinne is to be found That they consider and examine in themselves where withall they are led that they run not before they are sent but to abide in the watch that so they lose not their Guide and bring in Darknesse upon their Spirit And for this cause I discovered what evill attended me through the hastiness of my mind in that I gave not heed to that obedience whereunto I was called which evill I wholly took upon my self as being the work of myself with purpose therein to unvail that Darknesse which was upheld in many by their mis-understanding of the cause of those things which generally had passed abroad concerning me A fourth end was to discover those things practised by those people who are in that way in which I