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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89844	The power and glory of the Lord shining out of the north, or The day of the Lord dawning: wherein the true light is holden forth to all who desire to walk in the day. With a warning to the people of England of all sorts, not to oppose Christ in his kingdom. Shewing also the way how all flesh comes to know the Lord and fear him, by his terrible shaking the earthly part in man, witnessed by the holy men of God in Scripture. With a word to the serpents seed, or ministers of Antichrist, or man of sin, wherever he is found. By one whom the Lord hath called out of this dark world, into the true light, whom Ismaels brood calls a Quaker, whose name in the flesh is James Nayler.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1653 (1653)	Wing N302; Thomason E711_2; ESTC R207117	21,947	29

by the same Spirit into the world as these are at this day Is this a Christian Law as you pretend it to be that thus withstands Christ in his Kingdom and were you spiritual as you pretend would not these carnal Laws that oppose the Spirit and practise of the Acts 17. 2 3. Saints be laid aside by you and now try whether that Spirit act in you which led the Apostles and Saints into the Temple and Synagogues daily there to dispute against all Idolatrous worships and to hold out to the people the true substance and thereby gathered the Church into God in the Spirit there to meet and worship or that Spirit that was in them who persecuted Acts 16. 19 20 21. the Saints for so doing and commanded them silence and charged them with breaking their Law and turning the world upside down and counted them mad men And if any be moved to speak a word of truth while your Parish Teachers are talking or before their glass be run you that execute a carnal Law upon the bodies of such are you subject to the Kingdom of Christ which is in the Spirits of his own whereby he rules the conscience and brings them to obey him in his commands Or will not you be found in the day of tryal to be fighters against him under the name of professing him 1 Cor. 14. 30. And do these whom you persecute any thing but what was the Saints practise And how are you not ashamed to profess that Scripture to be your Rule which saith If any thing be revealed to another that sits by let the first hold his peace and this the Apostle sets down as order and the Saints liberty but what Spirit acts you who would restrain it and call it disorder and hale them before Rulers or to prison for so doing And you that say If such have their own liberty it is reason they should be silent and not cry out against others know that the Law of Christ is not grounded on the will and reason of men And is your reason here any thing but carnal for doth pure reason give any way that deceit should go under the name of truth unreproved and is there any reason to limit the Spirit of Christ that it shall not discover the man of sin wherever he is who must be destroyed and revealed by the brightness of his coming in his Saints and by the sword of his mouth and is there any reason that the powers of the earth should make Laws for the Spirit of Christ in the Saints to act by though in all Ages they would be medling with it to their own hurt And if all should be subject to your Law which you say is reason how should truth be spred abroad and deceit be brought to blush seeing deceit hath always and doth still wind into the earthly powers for safety but truth seeks no corners not shelters from earthly powers for all that ever was sent out by Christ to preach the Gospel was called by him alone without the consent of earthly powers neither stood they to the judgment or Tryal of any men or powers as from them to receive order whether to preach or forbear but by his authority alone by whom they were sent to whom alone they were to give accompt of their Ministry with joy or sorrow and in this work they denyed all the Learning and Wisdom of the World Christ was not learned and the Apostles was not learned and Paul when he tells of his bringing Acts 4. 13. up in learning counts it amongst other carnal things loss dross and dung which before he had counted gain that Phil. 3. 7 8. in the loss of them he might win Christ And saith that the knowledge of the Gospel he had it not of man nor by man nor was he taught it but by the revelation of Jesus Christ but what Rule walk you by who must have them to such a Gal. 1. 11 12 pitch of Learning and so many years at Oxford or Cambridge and then to study so long in Books and old Authors and all this is to know what unlearned men Fisher-men Plow-men Herds-men did mean when they spoke forth the Scriptures who were counted fools and madmen by the learned generation when they spoke it forth And they who speak it by the same Spirit are so still by the same Serpents wisdom And when you have brought them to this height of Learning yet the Scripture is a book sealed to all their wisdom and learning Rev. 5. 3. and they from whom you expect the opening of this mysterie are at a jar amongst themselves what should be the meaning of it and have been in all Ages disputing quarrelling imprisoning killing and burning one another and would do so now had they power for this learned generation have been the stirrers up of all strife and bloodshed setting Kingdoms Nations and People one against another and all about standing to uphold their Meanings Forms and Imaginations and vain conceptions from the Letter but are all ignorant of that Spirit which gave it forth for they who have the substance contend not about words and meanings and that Spirit is the substance which gave it forth and opens it again as it ariseth in its measure and they who have that Spirit are Ministers of the Spirit and they minister to the raising up of the Spirit in others and not to the Serpents wisdom for they know that wisdom which stands in the will of man must not enter for the mysterie is hid from it and such cannot persecute the bodies of men because they know not so much as they neither do they seek to destroy the Creature but they strike at the accursed Spirit which keeps the Creature in blindness and bondage and so redeems the Creature and reconciles him to God in the Spirit and this is the Ministry of reconciliation guided by the Spirit and by this was the Scripture written forth for holy men of God spoke forth the Scriptures 2 Pet. 1 12 as they were moved by the Holy Ghost without carnal learning and holy men by the same Spirit read and understand them again not by carnal learning and natural tongues for the Spirit is the Original which first reveals the mysterie to 1 Cor. 2. 14. the Spirit within man and then declares it forth in words or Eph. 3. 3 5. writing to the understanding of others to the directing their minds to wait upon God for the same free-gift of the Spirit here is the true worship in Spirit found and performed which stands in the teaching of the Spirit and not in the Letter unknown to the world but owned of God but all you who seek to find out the invisible things of God or the way of his worship Mat 11. 25. by your learning and wisdom in the letter you seek that which is hid from your wisdoms you take the Saints conditions to

your backs on it for when you should bring your works to it to be proved then you joyn with the deceit to make covers for your sins and hide them lest they should come to the light and be made manifest and this is the cause why you stumble because you walk not in the light for your evil deeds will not abide the light the Adulterer loves the night and Iob 24. 15. and 16. the thief loves the night and the drunkard loves the night and all the children of darkness love the night that they may 1 Thes 5. 7. bring forth their evil deeds unreproved And here thou art who lovest thy sins and here wilt thou be found profess what thou wilt for the day will throughly declare thee what thou art for now is the day of the Lord which will judge thee as thou art neer at hand and wo to thee that hidest thy sins and coverest chine iniquities thou maist hide it from men and make men believe thou art a Christian but God will not be mocked for above all he abhors the Eph. 5. 8. hypocrite and dissembler wherefore take heed and turn from your deceit and come forth you children of darkness and come into the light where there is no occasion of stumbling and make it appear you are children of the light by loving it and make it appear you love the light by bringing your deeds to it to be proved that all your works may be works of the light that your light may shine forth before all men in your works and that true Judgment may be set up in you and all unrighteousness condemned and cast out and truth received in that the truth may make you free for while you joyn with the deceit Ioh. 8. 32 34. you consent to keep your sins and while you commit sin you are the servants of sin and the wages of sin is death and death reigns in you because you will not come to Christ who Ioh. 3. 19. is the light that you may have life and your destruction is of your selves and God is just and your condemnation is this that light is come into the world and you love darkness rather then light because your deeds are evil and this is that grace of God that hath appeared to all men which is the Saints Teacher and teacheth them to deny-ungodliness and Tit. 2. 11 12. worldly lusts which you that live in your lusts turn into wantonness and will not be taught by it and here you read your Iude 4. condemnation in every sin you commit O you people of England how long will it be ere you be obedient to the Kingdom of Iesus Christ how long will you profess him in words and forms and yet will not own him in power you can be content to let him have the name of a 1 Cor. 4. 20. King so that you your selves may raign and under the name of Christs Kingdom act your own wills and though you cannot Tit. 1. 16. bear it to be Judged by the Spirit of Christ where it is in his people which judgeth all the world and all things yet 1 Cor. 2. 15. you cannot escape for you shall be found guilty before the mighty Judge of Heaven and Earth when he shall appear in flames of fire to be avenged upon all deceipt and unrighteousness of men And will you be found at that day 1 Pet. 5. 3. Subjects in the Kingdom of Christ wherein all the Saints are one and Christ their head and Law-giver or are you not Lords over Gods heritage yea over Christ himself and you will appear such when the mysterie of iniquity shall be revealed Mat. 28. 20. in you you who ought to make it your whole care to observe the Law of Christ in all things that he commands as a Rule for you to walk by but are you in your duty as servants to Christ when you are prescribing him ways to walk by in his Church And is it not so when you would limit him to speak only by such as you in your wisdom approve of or else he shall be silent and to effect this are all the powers of the earth combined together do not you here take upon you to be Lords of the vineyard and not servants and would not Mat. 21. 23. to the end suffer him to send forth Labourers into it who is Lord of it Is not this the way to make the heritage your own hath not all the persecutions of the messengers of God arisen from this ground And how many times have earthly powers been 2 Chron. 36. 16. broken to pieces against this Rock And do you walk according to the Scriptures which you say is your rule when you would limit the Spirit of the Lord not to speak in his own time and in what place soever they who have the message are Amos 7. 13. sent into you who are offended because the Lord sends his Messengers into your Idol Temples to cry against your Idol Act. 5. 19 20 worships and Heathenish customs and to call out poor ignorant people from amongst you which have been long deceived Act. 17. 2 3. by their blind guides And to call them out of forms and likenesses into the substance of all worships which is only in Spirit and not in Forms and Customs and outside observations Ioh. 4. 21 22 23 24 that they may come to know what they worship even the living God that their souls may live which was the way by which the Apostles did gather the Saints out of all the Idols Temples and Carnal worships into the Spirit as you may read in the Scripture And this with you is a transgression of your Law and you say it breeds distraction in your Churches but what Churches are they which will be so soon distracted and what people are those Churches made up of who no sooner hear one deliver the Lords Message in a peaceable way but they are all on fire beating buffetting cursing swearing and haling them to prison and were you not blind you might plainly see what generation these are who are and always have been offended at the will of God Is it not the love of God to souls to send to call them who will hear his voice out of such Churches as are thus acted by a Spirit of envy rage and murther which is the spirit of the Devil and this is that Spirit which being offended sets the Creatures one to destroy another least his deceipt should be revealed and are you not blinde who cannot distinguish of that spirit which acts in the persecutor and that Spirit which acts in the sufferer and hath so done in all Ages and come out from amongst them And what Law is that which you say is transgressed by the creature being obedient to the Creator obeying the voice of Christ witnessed in the Scripture by the practise of the holy men of God sent out

the Nation praises praises be to our God whose is the earth and the fulness thereof Mat. 6. 25. and thus we do witness the Scripture fulfilled and take no thought for food and raiment as the heathen do but are come into the unity with all Saints in their joy and sufferings Phil. 4. 11 12. and are taught by Christ how to want and how to abound and in all conditions to be therewithall content and we can truly say all is for good to us and to the Church of Christ And our Kingdom and joy is not of this world nor doth the Ioh. 16. 22. world know us nor our joy glory to the highest for ever who is shaking all the wisdoms and powers of men to establish that which is of himself alone to which all shall be made to bend and bow And you that are in power minde the promise of the Father at the coming of Christ to his Kingdom I will overturn overturn overturn till it come into his hand whose right it Isa 9 6 7. is and upon his shoulders shall the government be established he that hath an ear to hear let him hear And take notice how many have been overturned already who would have been limiting him by their wisdoms And now it is come into your hands who above all have seen his wonders done for you and Amos 3. 2. the Nation and you above all have declared that you desire is that Christ alone may reign in his Kingdom and some of you I have known to be tender towards any who looked that way Oh that there were such a heart in you to lay aside all your own wills and carnal consultations and to take Counsell Isa 30. 1. at the Spirit of the Lord and be guided by his pure light shining into your conscience which would bring you into the fear of the Lord and to depart from self-ends interests and exaltations and to follow rhe Law of God in establishing Laws for your selves and others to walk by and that you may follow the practise of the Saints left in Scripture without Psal 89 14 15 16. wresting it that so you might come to have unity with them in the same Spirit that gave them forth and so be guided by the same Spirit of Justice and Judgment by which all were guided that ever have ruled well in all Ages whom God did bless and hath honoured for ever that so God may bless you and establish you and preserve the Nation out of the hands of yours and the Nations enemies And that you may be honoured Isa 1. 23. with taking away oppression and wicked and unjust Rulers Zach. 7. 9. to the end who are the cause of it who judge not the cause of the poor and needy and which the Lord hath been grieved at these many years but if you forget your selves and what you have promised before the Lord in the day when you sought unto him for deliverance and so exalt your selves over the poor and set up your own Laws and not the Law of God in its purity I declare unto you this day from the Word of the Isa 42. 23. Lord that he will overturn you and raise up his Kingdom Isa 14. 26 27. another way whether you will hear or whether you will forbear the word of the Lord shall stand for the Almighty God Hag. 2. 6 7. hath been shaking the Nations that his glory may appear and there shall be no rest untill his Kingdom be established above all mountains Hear all ye powers of the earth The Lord alone will raign This I am to declare abroad that they who are wise-hearted may understand and fear before the Lord God Almighty the time is at hand he that Believes shall be Established James Nayler TAke heed how you speak evil of the things you know not Jude 10. You who neither know the Lord nor his works in your selves take heed how you judge it in others you are without God who are in the world and the works of God have always been strange to that Nature which you live in but search the Scriptures and you shall finde that the holy men of God do witness quaking and trembling and roaring and weeping and fasting and tears but the world knows not the Saints conditions But beware therefore lest that come upon you which is spoken of in the Prophets and Apostles of such despisers and scorners as you are Behold ye despisers and wonder and perish for I work a work in your days a work which you shall not in any wise believe though a man declare it unto you Acts 13. 40 41. The Lord reigneth let the people tremble he sitteth between the Cherubims let the earth be moved Psal 99. 1. Tremble thou earth at the presence of the Lord at the presence of the God of Jacob Psal 114. My flesh trembleth because of thee and I am afraid of thy judgments Psal 119. 120. He looketh upon the earth and it trembled he toucheth the hills and they smoke Psal 104. 30. A fire goeth before his face and burneth up all his enemies round about his lightning enlightened the world the earth saw and trembled the hills melted like wax at the presence of the Lord Psal 97 3 4 5. Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me and horrour hath overwhelmed me Psal 55 5. So terrible was the voice that Moses said I exceedingly fear and tremble whose voice then shook the earth but now he hath said that once more I shake not the earth only but heaven also Heb. 12. 21 26. When Paul heard the voice of Christ he trembling and astonished said Lord what wilt thou have me to do Acts 9. 6. The Corinthians received Titus in obedience with fear and trembling 2 Cor. 7. 15. Paul was with the Corinthians in weakness and fear much trembling 1 Cor. 2. 3. When Paul reasoned of righteousness temperance judgement to come Felix trembled Act. 24. 25. The Apostle exhorts the Saints to work out their salvation with fear trembling Phil. 2. 12. The Jaylor when he believed he came trembling and fell down before Paul and Silas Act. 16. 29. When Isaac blessed his sons he trembled very exceedingly Gen. 27 33. Hear the word of the Lord ye that tremble at his word your brethren that hated you that cast you out for my names sake said Let the Lord be glorified but he shall appear to your joy and they shall be ashamed Isa 66. 5. Thus saith the Lord to this man will I look even to him that is poor and of a contrite heart and trembleth at my words Isa 66. 2. Oh that thou wouldst rent the Heavens that the mountains might flow down at thy presence as when the melting fire causeth the water to boyl and to make his name known to his adversaries that the Nations may tremble at his presence Isa 64. 1 2. Yea I will make many people amazed at thee and