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A89837	A few words occasioned by a paper lately printed, stiled, A discourse concerning the Quakers. Together with a call to magistrates, ministers, lawyers, and people to repentance. Wherein all men may see, that the doctrine and life of those people whom the world scornefully calls Quakers, is the very doctnrie [sic] and life of Christ. Written for the sake of the simple minded ones, who are willing to follow Christ under the crosse, and to deny all things to be his disciples. By a servant of the Lord, reproached by the world, and carnall worshippers, under the name of a Quaker; whose name in the flesh is Iames Nayler.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.; A. P.	1654 (1654)	Wing N279; Thomason E731_23; ESTC R202987	25,300	28

to advance James 2. 9. Justice Equity and Righteousnesse which is of God that so you may be honoured by the Lord for true Humility is Honour Prov. 15. 33. and he that Honours the Lord him will he Honour and such have been honoured in all Ages though they never sought it from men And when justice beares rule the Righteous rejoyce Prov. 22. ●● and the Land is in peace and wickednesse is made to blush and be ashamed and the wicked is scattered from about such Rulers O you that Rule in the Nation Is it so Nay Is it not quite contrary O what a height is iniquity growne unto Doth not all manner of sinne abound even in open streets as Isay 2. 11. swearing drunkennesse covetousnesse and oppression Can you passe on the streets and not heare the cryes of it and although there have been Lawes for restraining of some of those abominations yet how are they sleighted so that poore People get not the benefit by them Nay is it not too plain that they who should restraine others are many of them guilty of the same themselves Shall not the Lord visit for these things The cryes Isay 5. ● 28. 29. of the poore oppressed ones is come before the Lord and he is risen to avenge him of him that is too strong for him O when will you see Hath not want of Justice cast Kings from 1 Chron. 1● 21. 22. their Thrones and overturned Nations And is not the Lord Overturning overturning overturning O returne to the Lord and have a care to use your power so as to make a way for purity and holinesse that the Kingdome of Christ may be set up and Reigne and that the Seed of God may have free liberty to come out of Sodom and Egypt to serve the Lord without feare of Man out of all Formes and Customes and Magician Imaginations into the power of purity and of the spirit Cease from Persecuting and Imprisoning the Innocent for crying out against the abhominations of the Times and letting the guilty goe free least the decree goe forth against you and the wrath Jer. 4. 4● of God burne like Fire and there be none to quench it Hath God put Power into your Hands to oppose his owne worke And you lofty ones of the Earth who have gotten much of the creation into your hands and have thereby set your Nests on high and are become Lords over your Brethren Was the creatures Psal 62. ● 10. made for that end to set your hearts upon them to heape together out of the reach of the poore and needy and he who can get the greatest share should become the greatest man and all that have little shall bow downe and worship him and so breake the command of God which saith Thou shalt not bow Exad 20. ●● downe nor worship any Creature in Heaven or in Earth Are you not fallen from the estate wherein you was Created for it was not so from the beginning for he who made all things good Gen. 1. 31. made all men of one mold and one blood to dwell on the face of the Earth and gave them power over the worke of his hands not to heape them together to set your hearts upon them but to Gen. 1 26. use them to his service who made all things for himselfe and the Prov. 16. 4. wicked for the day of evill You that live in your pride painting your selves in your costly Apparrell in venting new wayes Isay 28. 1. and fashions to make you seem glorious in the carnall eyes of others that they may worship you for this is that which the Gal. 4. 8. Heathen worship who know not God and this is that you Acts 17. 23. looke for which Angels dare not take to themselves But Hammon-like Esther 3. 5 you rage if you have it not and beare an evill eye to them who cannot give that to you which belongs to God Isay 2. 18 alone But the hand of the Lord shall be upon all the Idolls of the world you have forgot that you were but dust and Psal 7. 5. must to dust and God will honour himselfe in laying all Honours Iohn 5. 44. in the dust which men seek to themselves and is not of God alone You lustfull ones which lives of the fat of the Ezek. 34. 3 Earth whose care is onely to satisfie the Flesh and the Lusts thereof your curious devised dishes Dives-like Is this the end Nehe. 8. 10. for which you was made you are fitted for destruction your day is comming the cry of your iniquity is gone up before the Lord the cryes of the poore which you have oppressed Iames 5. 4. 5. whose labours you have spent upon your lusts the Rust of your Gold and Silver doth witnesse against you Repent repent cast off your gorgious Apparrell and guird you with mourning Let your Songs of Musicke be turned into howling your Banqueting Amos 8. 3. 10. and Feasting into Fasting for the Lord is wrath with you and the Fire is begun allready Breake off your sinnes by Repentance and your iniquities by shewing mercy unto the poore and turne to the Lord with all your heart from all your evill doings if so be that you may finde mercy that you may be hid in the day of his fierce wrath which is to come upon Zeph. 2 3. all the workers of iniquity For he will bring downe the Mighty from their Seates that he may exalt them of low degree O take heed how you contend with him Did ever any doe it and prosper Shall the Clay strive with the Potter If Ier. 1 8 6. he fall upon you he will breake you to powder And you Lawyers ought not you to pleade the cause of equity between man and man for equity sake without respect to your selves or others but onely to truth it selfe that a just Cause may be owned in whom ever it concernes But is not the justest Cause sure to fall if the Party have not Money to satisfie your 1 Tim. 6 10 demands which are many times very unreasonable and you who should instruct people in the wayes of truth and peace Doe not you by your wisedome teach them lyes and strife Doe not you advise your Plantives as you call them to declare in Bills things that are not true and make small offences seem very great by false glosses For say you We may Declare what we will and Prove what we can so that you and they who you act for knowes before-hand that scarce one thing of ten can Luke 11. 4● 52. be proved neither is true Is this the way to make up the breach and preserve peace and truth amongst people O miserable fall from God when that Law which should before preserve in peace is used to aggravate offences beyond truth and so make differences greater And doe not you delight to fish in

A Few Words occasioned by a Paper lately Printed Stiled A Discourse concerning the QUAKERS Together with a Call to Magistrates Ministers Lawyers and People to Repentance Wherein all men may see that the Doctrine and Life of those People whom the world scornefully calls Quakers is the very Doctnrie and Life of Christ Written for the sake of simple minded ones who are willing to follow Christ under the Crosse and to deny all things to be his Disciples By a Servant of the Lord reproached by the world and carnall worshippers under the Name of a Quaker whose Name in the Flesh is Iames Nayler To the READER Friend MEeting lately with a Printed Paper stiled A Discourse concerning the Quakers and finding many things in it deeply reflecting on the spirit of the Lord sent into the hearts of men to reprove and convince them of sinne and reproaching his holy people whom he hath called out of the world and that it was scattered abroad into many hands and so might prove a stumbling blocke to weake minds I was moved to send it to a friend in the West who for the simple ones sake hath given forth a few things that truth might appeare And if there be any that by Reading this shall be brought to discover truth from error or to lay to heart their conditions and how they have hitherto trifled away their pretious time There is another Paper now in the Presse from the same hand which will shew forth the true light that guides to God and opens the Scriptures removes the doubts about the great power of the Lord manifested in shaking the earthly part of those he brings to himselfe plainly declare the deceipts of the false prophets of the world and let the Magistrate see the bounds of his Authority There is another Paper come forth by the Author of the former Discourse occasioned by something Writ in Answer to it by one who saith he is none of those called Quakers and yet the Discourser chargeth all things he saith on them But the Paper sufficiently bewrayes the Authors weakenesse and its owne folly Reade without prejudice that thou may receive Instruction and not increase thy owne misery A. P. A Paper being come to my hand which is full of deceit under pretence of Religion and a Forme of Profession striking at the life of all Religion which is obedience to all the commands of God in the spirit and under pretence of the Letter which he calls the Word he goes about to reproach and scorne and sleight the teachings of Christ in the spi●it whereby he rules in the consciences of his Saints and by which light he reveales the Father in them and thereby declares himselfe to be the Eternall Word and Witnesse within his which Word first was known within them a free gift of the Father without any Letter or humane Learning and then declared out in the Letter But they who as the Jews thinke they have salvation in the Letter are enemies and persecutors of John 5. 3● them who have the Eternall Witnesse of salvation in the Spirit Gal. 3. 2● And from that spirit hath this Paper its foundation for God having put the enmity between the carnall and the sp●rituall Seeds there can be no agreement Now though I abhorre striving for Master-hood in words or writing yet for the sake of the simple ones who not yet having the true judgement and salt in themselves to discerne of spirits are subject to take great swelling words of mans wisedome for the power of God unto 1 Cor. 2. 5. 6. salvation I am therefore moved to lay open some of the deceits in this Paper that where truth and simplicity is in the heart it may more cleerly judge of truth from dece●t The Paper is Titled A Discourse concerning the Quakers It is no new thing for the dearest servants and children of God Psal 69 12. Psal 31. ●1 to be a discourse a reproach a taunt and by-word a wonder and Psal 22 6. a scorne to fooles and wicked men and to have the belly-god and drunkard to make songs of their sad and afflicted conditions Psal 60 12. and to be called by nick-names such as it pleaseth Ishmaels Iohn 10. 20. brood to cast upon them to be called Devills Deceivers Heretickes Franticke Madd men Quakers and such like but it is that the same Scriptures may be fulfilled in the Saints that were in Christ their example As they have done unto me so will Luke 23. 31. they doe unto you If they keep my sayings they will also keep yours If they have called the good man of the house Beelzebub how much more them of his houshold Thou sayest It s plainely fore-told that in the last dayes shall be the greatest Deceivers and worst of Hypocrites men extraordinarily inspired with a spirit of lyes and delusion It is above sixteen hundred yeares since those were foretold and they have had so long a time since to broach their deceits and strengthen themselves in the earth that the deceit is now growne a monster and hath got many heads and hornes religions Revel 13. 1. and formes one at warre with another striving with words and weapons who should be greatest But now that Christ is arisen in his Saints to reveale this man of sinne by his 2 Thes 2. 7. 8. light and to destroy him with the sword of his mouth All Ezek. 38. 18. 19. formes of Religions the Beast and the false Prophet Gog and Acts 4. 26. 27. Magog are joyned together to strike at this light and no wonder for that deceitfull spirit knowes that that light which discovers him in one forme will discover him in all And now the Devill would passe Judgement upon that light which is come to judge him where he is and so set any whom he can prevaile in to cast reproach upon it under many odious names that so he may keep people at a distance from so much as owning Luke 6. 22. it for he knowes if any owne it there he is discovered and dis-owned and this is his way in all in whom he speaks to cry out against those that walke in the light in generall calling them Deceivers Heretickes Hypocrites denyers of Scriptures Acts 24. 14. Acts 6. 13. 14. and Ordinances and many such words as he thinks may make the truth most odious to others but not once shew in what particular such walke contrary to the Scripture for the deceit knowes that if it come to tryall it selfe will be found that which walkes contrary to the Scripture for the same light that gave out the Scriptures leades not contrary to it And now who will be the greatest deceivers whether a poore despised persecuted reproached people whom God hath called out of the worlds wayes words workes worship riches and pleasures and so are become strangers and wanderers to and fro seeking a City whose builder and maker is God Heb 11. 26.

Saints have in the Word which is true but thou that would ascribe them to the Letter knowest them not but in the notion Thou sayest that those that have glorioser discoveries and revelations of Christ to boast on then ever any of those men knew yet doe cast downe the glory of their light before the Scriptures and are in subjection to Scriptures and Ordinances And thou dost instance the Disciples who saw Christ ascend I answer Whether is it a more glorious discovery and manifestation of Christ to see him appearing in them the second time in the spirit without sinne unto salvation or that to see him depart in the flesh seeing Christ tells them lt Heb. 9. 28. 2 Tim. 1. 10. is necessary that he goe away in the Flesh that he may come in the Spirit thou dost sufficiently cleare thy ignorance measuring Iohn 14. 28. 1 Cor. 15. 8. others who witnesse him with thy selfe who knowes no more of him but what thou hast found of him in the Letter And for that subjection to the Scripture and Ordinances and waiting thou speakes on did they waite in the letter and in those formes and customes and Idols temples that you waite in they waited together for the appearance of Christ in spirit praying in that measure of spirit they had received Thou goest about to make people beleeve that the light of Christ which is Acts 1. 14. given to enlighten every one that comes into the world is a naturall or fallen light but if thou didst know owne and obey it it would leade thee out of the fall and for that end art thou and others so often checkt and reproved by it for your pride Iohn 8. 12 covetousnesse envy scornefulnesse and other sinnes which though you now disobey as a thing too low for your high notions yet this light shall remaine for an eternall witnesse against all that hate and disobey it And whereas thou would scandall this light to leade into exorbitances deceit and miscarriages and many such things they are falsly cast upon this light for all these are amongst you who hate the light but who so obeys and loves the light it discovers these and leades all who follow it into one minde heart and soule and if ten times ten thousand that are guided by it yet not a word of dispute Acts 4. 32. but all speake the same things And thou calls the Scriptures A standing Rule but it is not so to you who cannot beleeve that ever it shall be fulfilled in you as it was given out by the holy Ghost neither will you so be tryed by it but you will wrest and twine it to make it meet your wills where your profits pleasures and lust will not suffer you to take up the Crosse and come up to it but if it be a Standing Rule let it stand as it is not confounded with the Serpents Wisedome and then prove thy selfe by it and those people thou reproaches and mis-calls whether thou or they owne it in practice Thou calls the Word of God the Sunne of truth and yet thou would make people beleeve it is the Scripture Letter Is the Letter the Sunne of truth may not all that looke on yee see thee in Babylon Thou sayest How could it be knowne that there is a God and Christ and holy ● Iohn 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Ghost with their works and worships I answer If thou know not Iohn 4. 22 23. 24. the Father Sonne and Spirit one God and the way of his worship other wayes then thou hast found in the Letter thou Phil. 3. 3. knows but that in letter and notion which all the Saints of God knew in spirit and power and thou worships in letter and forme thou knowes not what who doth not know and worship in spirit and herein thou shalt have Christ all the holy men to witnes against thee Thou sayest the holy Ghost interprets Scripture by Scripture und reveales Christ the Father the holy Ghost the soules union with them by Scripture I answer The holy Ghost where he 2 Pet. 1. 21 is needs no Scripture to interpret Scripture by who gave forth Iohn 14. 26 Mat. 13. 10 11. all the Scripture and opens it againe for the holy Ghost did not give out the Scripture in Parables to its own seed but to the Serpents seed and as that spirit ariseth it opens and brings Iohn 16. ● all that is spoken in Scripture to remembrance and leades into all truth in its measure and when any in whom the spirit was have made use of Scripture in such like cases it hath not been to open the meaning to themselves but to convince others who had not the spirit or would not owne it And for sovles union 2 Cor. 3. 3. which of the Saints had the witnesse of their soules union to seek in the Letter but he that beleeveth hath the witnesse in himselfe 1 Iohn 5 10. Rom. 8. 16. in spirit and not in the letter and for trying and judging 1 Cor. 2. 15. it is not the litterall but the spirituall man that judgeth all things and no visible thing can judge him Thou would have them to suspect this light those who have no light to walke by but what they by their wisedome and learning have gathered out of the letter have cause to suspect it but they who have the infallible light of Christ by which all is tryed and judged and discerned and judgement brought forth into victory in themselves by it they have no cause to suspect it but waite to walke in it Thou art offended that they should say they pray 1 Thes 5. 17. alwayes have the Baptisme of Fire eate the Flesh and drinke the 2 Thes 1. 11. blood of Christ that they were once as others Hypocrites now why Mat. 3. 11. wilt thou thus wrangle that the cōmands and promises of Christ John 6. 53. should be witnessed fulfilled in the Saints now as they have bin in Scripture witnessed Doth not the Apostles exhort to pray alwayes without ceasing and are any Baptized into Christ who are not able to witnesse the Baptisme of Fire and the Spirit without which Water Baptisme availes not to salvation And doth not Christ plainely say that whosoever eats not his Flesh and drinkes not his blood hath no life in them And have not the Saints Rom. 6. 21. witnessed a time wherein they were hypocrites and in the world without the true God And thou sayest they can give no Scriture account of the estate they are now in and yet dost blame them for owning the Scripture fulfilled in them in these things but that nature could never be satisfied with Christ nor any of his nor any account from them though they could not convince them of sinne yet they would tempt hate and persecute even till death if they had power Thou would make people beleeve that these deny the

rule of the Gospel and the divine inspiring of the holy Ghost the infallible rule of all obedience and worship and judgement of all actions but come to tryall and see whether they that owne the light of Christ in spirit and follow it or they that call it an Ignis fatuus deny the rule of the Gospel And whether they that witnesse the same spirit and the inspiration Rom. 8 5 6 7 9. of it without humane helps letter or learning as the 1 Cor. 12 4. to the 14. verse Saints in all ages have done every one in their measures of that free gift given to profit withall or they that would make people beleeve that all such divine inspirations and gifts of the spirit were now ceased and now the letter is all the spirit they must look for deny the devine inspirations of the holy Ghost the infallible rule of all obedience and worship and judge of all actions and for the denying of O dinances thou so much chargeth Mat. 15. 9. them with if it come to tryall they will be found onely to deny your tradition temples and humane inventions never commanded by Christ nor practised by any that ever he sent and Christ never annexed the promise of his presence to that Rom. 6. 2 7. 18. 22. which he never commanded Thou art offended that they should be set free from or have sinne taken away from them Now thou 1 Iohn ● 8. 9. 10. shewest plainely whose Kingdome thou wouldest uphold And thou sayest that by denying sinne to be in them they overthrow repentance but here thou shewest thy blindnesse For he that forsakes his sinne doth establish his repentance but he that returnes unto sinne againe overthrowes it Thou tells of being Heb. 6. ● godded with God but see what spirit that is that thou art led by 2 Cor. 7. 10. who dare take the holy name of God so scornefully in thy mouth to cast as a derision upon others Thou art offended that Heb. 10. 14 Ephes 4 11. 12 13. those should witnesse perfection And is it not the end for which Christ came into the world suffered sent out his Ministers into Col. 1. 28. the world And why dost thou professe Christ and the Scripture and thus opposes the end of his comming and what he did worke in his Saints which is to set free from sinne and bring Rom. 8. 10. to perfection which Christ commands and which the Scriptures witnesse in the Saints but there is nothing more opposed by Iohn 17 23. the Devill and his Instruments then to have the worke of mans Redemption perfected Thou sayest the many ridiculous practises of their franticke mould be too much to relate And hereby thou wouldest render them as vile as thou canst to others but the wayes of Christ were no worse for such as thou saying he was mad for the wayes of God have alwayes been counted madnesse and folly to that generation what thou intend in that word many I know not for where nothing is mentioned in particular I cannot answer But for those thou namest are these they will not put off the Hat to any not to a Magistrate That they thinke it a speciall Badge of their profession to say and write Thou and Thee and by no means say Sir or Master to any and that some will not answer or speake to any question and thou quarrells at some for forsaking the world and giving over their Callings I answer When wilt thou cease wrangling at their obedience of the commands of Christ witnessed in the Scripture Hast thou nothing amongst all those many ridiculous practises thou tells on to charge on them but are according to Scripture Where doth God require putting off Hats or Mat. 4. 10. Iam 2 1. 9. worshipping any creature Magistrate or others And why may Psal 40 4. it not be a badge if thou so call it of their profession to use the Iob 13. 10 the Scripture Language and where dost thou finde any other Iohn 5 44. Language in the Scripture but thou or thee to a particular whatsoever he was that was spoken to And no wonder that thou stumble that any should witnesse the power of the Scripture when it s taken for such an offence with thee to witnesse the outward Language which all holy men of God have used in Scripture and yet thou calls the Scripture a standing Rule but thou wilt neither make it thy Rule nor suffer them that would And for refusing calling Master is it not the command of Christ Mat. 23. 7 8 10. and dost thou deserve the name of a Christian who would make it an offence to obey his commands because it crosseth thy pride And for their silence Is there not a time to speake and a Eccl. 3 7. time to be silent And was not Christ asked many questions and Mat. 27 12. answered nothing And doth not the Scripture say Answer not a Foole according to his folly And when Christ did answer the tempters it was either with silence or contrary to what they Luke 14. 26. would have had And for for forsaking the world must not all that will come to Christ forsake the World And were they not in Mat. 10 37. their Calling who left their Ships their Fathers and receit of Custome and Wife and Children and Lands to follow the commands of Christ Oh thou enemy of all obedience to Christ dost thou reproach that which thy carnall heart will not suffer thee to follow thou shalt sinde it true that whosoever will not forsake these for Christs sake cannot be his Disciple but it seems the neerer to Christ that any comes in obedience the greater is thy malice to such thou showest thy generation And art thou not ashamed when thou hast done to charge these with disclayming Scripture-light thou loves to talke of the Scriptures but art an enemy to the walking in them Thou sayest of those uncleane birds thou hast heard of none that have returned to the Arke by which if thou meane your Temples or carnall Ordinances I tell thee they make a bad returne who have knowne the Lord in spirit and worshipped in spirit if they returne into Formes and Customes againe to be made perfect Thou sayest seperate not betweene Word and Spirit between Graces and Ordinances but the Apostle doth deny the Gal. 3. 3. 2 Cor. 3 6 ministration of the Letter and ownes the Spirit And he that cannot distinguish between the graces of Gods spirit and your outward Formes you call Ordinances he knowes but little yet as he ought to know Thou tells of Praying and Mourning for sinne bewayling the Heart Reading the Word and Meditating in it Night and Day And thou sayest Its impossible for such an one to fall into this condemnation of the Devill but I tell thee though these may be done and in as much zeale as the Pharisees did them yet if there

be pride envy covetousnesse selfe love exaltation slandering false-accusing deceit dissimulation and hypocrisie and such like which are the workes of the Devill all thy outward pretences shall not keep thee from the condemnation of the Devill for it is that which leades out of the works of the Devill that brings from under the condemnation of the Devill Thou puts much upon Church-Ordinances but fee if thou be distinguished from the world otherwise then in notion and thy owne conceit which will deceive thee and all the covetous oppressors in the world in the day of tryall Therefore prove thy selfe if thou be a Saint sanctified Iude 1. Iohn 17. 9 14. come out of the worlds pleasures riches wayes and worships and fashions as they were whose conditions thou talkest on or else thy crying the Temple of the Lord will but stand thee in little stead which if thou deale plainely in and let truth speak in thee thou wilt see a great distance between a Saints life and thine as between a Saints spirit and thine which is plainely discovered Thou sayest It is observable that where Churches are these Owles dare not appeare These reproachfull names beseems that spirit from whence they come but which of them have refused to come where they have been sent for feare of your Churches or what corners are they in except it be such as you have shut up in prisons or dungeons doe not these that are at liberty meet in the middest of common Streets and Fields where God calls them and many of the most conscientious of your Churches owne them and frequents their meetings others who have the feare of God before them dare not persecute them in word or deed but the day is come that all spirits must shew themselves Thou advisest to doe all according to Scripture it is good advice but dost thou that teachest another Mat. 7. 12. teach thy selfe dost thou as thou would be done by in all things dost thou forsake pride and covetousnesse which is Idolatry and not to be so much as named among Saints dost not thou seek great things for thy selfe having food and rayment Jere. 45. 5. Iam 4 4. art thou therewith content art thou out of love with the world which is enmity with God dost thou not take thought for to morrow for food and rayment hast thou crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts and put off the body of sin art thou not a scorner reviler and false accuser dost thou feed the hungry cloathe the naked and let the oppressed goe free Iam. 1 27 hast thou forsaken all to follow Christ art thou hated of all Mat. 15. 10. 11. men for the name of Christ hast thou denied to be called Master art thou come to yea and nay in thy common occasions Mat. 23 8. 10. dost thou love the Brethren with the same love Christ hath loved his withall art thou set free from thy sinne and rash passions Mat. 5 37 Rom. 6 18. dost thou hold thy Faith in a pure Conscience voyd of offence 1 Tim. 1 5 19. towards God and Man dost thou walke as Christ walked And many other the commands of God set down in Scripture in Acts 24 16. which the Saints walked as is plaine in Scripture which if thou ● Iohn 2 6. walke iu there thou dost all according to the Scripture but if thou take but some part of Scripture to performe as it is given out by the holy Ghost to wit that which will most fit thy forme and please thy owne will and not crosse thy lusts profits and greatnesse in the world and for the rest either let them stand by or wrest them by subtill meaning and exposition to bring 2 Pet. 3. 16. them to bend to thy disobedient minde shall not God find thee out and plague thee for thy adding and diminishing altering Rev. 22. 18. and changing that which was perfectly given forth to be read and fulfilled as it is And whereas thou would charge the light of Christ shining into the Conscience which teacheth into onenesse to be the cause of all the errors in the world It is false for the light of Christ is but one and all that are led by Rom. 8. 14 it walke after Christ as he walked but the cause of all errors comes from the Serpents subtill twining and wresting the Scriptures every one for their owne Formes ends and carnall traditions but none of them will owne it to live the life of it as it is and so have it fulfilled in them as is was in those that spoke it forth Thou sayest Be sure the Christ the Faith the Hope the Baptisme the Worship be that which is in Scripture Now that Christ which the saints witnessed in Scripture is the light of the Iohn 8. 12. world given to enlighten the Gentiles and lighteneth every Iohn 1. 9. one that commeth into the world which light is in the saints Iohn 1. 7. and whosoever walkes in it hath fellowship with God and one with another and thereby are cleansed from all sin in which light all Sriptures were spoken forth which light thou denyes to be equall with the Scripture but scornes and reproaches with nick-names as Ignis fatuus a naturall light making it plainely appeare that thou art one of those the Scriptures speaks on who hates the light And the Scripture Faith is that by which Iohn 3 20. 1 Iohn 5. 4 5. the saints overcame the world sinn and the Devill and gets victory which Faith thou in this Paper canst not owne but denyes and would reproach in them in whom it hath overcome sinne and brought up to perfection and he that hath the Scripture hope purifies himselfe even as he is pure and the Baptisme 1 Iohn 3. 3. of Christ is with the holy Ghost and with Fire which thou Mat. 3 11 in thy Paper speaks scornefully of in others that owne it And the Scriptures-worship is not in Idolls Temples Formes and Letters but in spirit and in truth and God seeks such to worship Iohn 4 24. him And thou ranks up a number of Raunters Notionists Papists and such like that are most odious to people and with these thou puts in those called Quakers and tells of their opinions but those thou so callest denies all opinions and lives in the light and practice of Scriptures but thou when thou art proved will be found more in opinion then practice And thou that denies the infallible spirit to be in thee art but in opinions at the best And for the Purgatory thou speakes on thou that sayes None can ever be perfected and set free from sinne while they are here had need to own a Purgatory but they who are Redeemed and set free from sinne by the Lambe of God need it not but have received the earnest of their eternall inheritance And for the word Baptisme which is but Water

1 Pet. 3. 21. without but not that of the spirit the answer of a good Conscience and observing of Holy dayes First cleare thy selfe and then finde fault with them that deserves Thou talkest of pittying and praying for these but the spirit of scorning slandering and deceit and the spirit of pitty and Prayer cannot stand in one and where the first is I cannot owne the latter Thou sayest Prayse the Lord that hath delivered out of the snares of Sathan And it Iam. 3. 11. is true they who are so can delight in nothing else but Prayses but whilest thou commit sinne thou art in his snares and a servant to him Thou sayest Worke out your salvation with feare Iohn 3. 9. and trembling but scornes quaking and sayes It is from the power of the Devill but it is in this as in all thy Paper thou wilt owne the Scripture in notion and letter but scornes and persecutes the power and practice of it And now friend a word to thy present condition as thou art revealed thou art in the world in thy fleshly will pride of heart and rash anger exalted above thy brethren and the spirit of persecution acts in thee thou denyest to walke answerable to a light in thy Conscience which would leade thee out of these things up into obedience love and meeknesse and thy love to the deeds of darkenesse makes thee hate the light I speake to that in thy Conscience which shall eternally witnesse me at the great day of the Lord when all secrets shall be layd open where thou shalt account for all thy hard speeches against the spirit of God in his people Wherefore repent and take heed how thou speakest evill of the things thou knowest not or opposeth the spirituall Kingdome of Christ in the Consciences of his owne poore despised little Flocke but turne in thy high minde and see what thou hast been doing and who thou strivest against If he fall upon thee he will grinde thee to powder let not thy high mind scorne that which may be for thy eternall good Search the Scritures and see if any of the holy men of God ever acted such things Now thou hast time prise it least thou harden thy selfe against God and so be for destruction eternally thou knowest not what spirit thou art of Thy Name I know not but where thou livest I know and what spirit acts in thee Oh that thou knewest in this thy day the things that belong to thy Eternall Peace My Name in the Flesh James Nayler A Call to Magistrates Ministers Lawyers and People to Repentance O Man and Woman how art thou fallen from thy Maker Gen. 1. 26. 27. and from the estate wherein thou was created And how dost thou lye in the losse and in the fall How long will it be ere thou enquire after the Lord who is holy and pure And you people of England How long will it be ere you leave off your out-side formall customary worships and seeke the Lord in truth of heart bringing forth fruits of righteousnesse and Rom. 1. 2. 3. holinesse according to what you professe that the Lord who hates dissembling may be honoured not in words but in life power and practice Doth not your actions declare against you before men and Angels that you are out of the way and in the Jer. 28. curse Children of the night and brings forth the fruits of darkenesse and death and not unto God And you who say Isay 56. 10 11. you are the Teachers of the Nation How long will it be ere Jer. 6. 13. 14. you looke at your owne wayes Is not all manner of filthinesse Exod. 3. 4. amongst you which you should leade the people out of Is there not among you Drunkennesse Gluttony Whoredome and Sporting sitting downe to Eate and to Drinke and rising up to play Swearing Lying Backbiting false accusing Rayling Slandering Contention Strife and Envy Yea Are not the best of you given to Pride and Covetousnesse which is Idolatry fulnesse of Bread and abundance of Idlenesse Are not you Hirelings and Teach for the Fleece Doe not you contend for Money with your owne Hearers and sue them at Law for it yea although they cannot satisfie your demands but sinne against the light in their owne Conscience and so sinne Isay 9. 15. 16. against God Are you not Bitter and Persecuters of any that comes to discover your lewdnesse crying out to the Magistrate Exod. 18. 21. 22. to uphold you in your beastly wayes and to stop the mouthes of all those whom God hath sent to witnesse against you And Rom. 13. 3. 4. much more works of this nature is amongst you which the pure Micha 3. 11. All-seeing God hath shewed unto his people to be amongst you and therefore it is that they come out from you least they Prov. 21. 3. partake with you of your sinnes and plagues But are not you blinde leaders of the blinde when you neither see these to be the workes of darkenesse nor those that follow you Woe unto Isay 1. 23. 24. you that devoure soules for Money and Gaine The day of your Account is at hand O repent the blood of soules is upon you Jer. 5. 28. 29. Die ever God send forth such a Generation of Teachers amongst his People who are not taught themselves by him to forsake Isay 3. 14. Iames 1. 2. 8. 9. such wayes as these which you walke in How are you ensamples to the People to follow The Leader of this People hath caused them to erre and they that are led by them are destroyed and hereby Priest and People are at a distance from the Lord. Job 13. 10. O you Rulers of the People who are set up to judge betwixt a Man and his Neighbour ought not you to judge for God and Luke 20. 21. not for Man Ought you not to be Men fearing God and hating Covetousnesse not judging for gifts and rewards Prov. 28. 21. Ought not you to countenance and encourage them that doe Exod. 18. 22. well and be a terror to them which doe evill Justice is so And Rom. 13. 3. 4. 5. he that is of God and beares his Sword turnes the edge of it against all sinne and wickednesse injustice and oppression and so sets up justice and judgement in the gates that the poore Prov. 29. 2. 14. may be delivered from him that is to mighty for him and that the cause of the Fatherlesse Widdow and Stranger may not fall but hath an eare open to the cryes of the poore and helplesse Prov. 10. 6. who hath but little Money and few friends that a poore man may not be afrayd to appeare in a good cause against the greatest Isay 5. 4. 7. oppressor in the Nation And ought not you to judge without respect to persons or without seeking respect to your own Persons Worship or Honour from men but onely