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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89854	Something further in answer to John Jacksons book called Strength in weaknesse.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1655 (1655)	Wing N318; Thomason E854_5; ESTC R207473	8,654	12

ever was in the world since Cains time now got a cover of prefession and Church-name a mongst you how are you got above all reproofe herein for pride and stateliness soe that the very language and gestures of the Saints is abomination to you and the sufferings of such as follow them is not so much valued as you would do your dogs how have you made these the times of advantage to exalt your selves which God hath appointed to pull downe what was exalted how have you eaten up the sins of them that went before you and have added their curse to your own so that double blindness and hardness is come upon you And now you are more voide of feeling and feare then you was before ever you professed any thing of God The Lord and his light be Judge amongst you who now can swallow downe and live in that which once you could not have done for all the world so let the Lord be witness and no deceiptfull lips if I speake not the truth as to many of you how hath the enemie lead out your minds from the Spirit that while you are preaching the Saints words you are not able to look within at your own contrary practice and stop the mouth of the gainsayer that so the true witness of God might arise in you and let you see the cast away surely you are they that are to be bemoaned above all other who have had a measure of tenderness but now wholly lost and not only so but now oppose it in others who retaine it nor would seeke after it and now this being all that this shaking and reformation hath brought forth in you the righteous God hath cast you off and chosen things that are not and things weake and foolish and contemptible to confound the wise and mighty and learned And the Children of the Kingdom is casting out and from farre they come to inherit therefore the heads of the Serpent and the beast and the prophet that tels lies meete together to strengthen one another and this is seene amongst you of severall heads and hornes and collers so to you all I write and not to thee alone who art but one joyned in amongst many that if there be any amongst you that will own the despised light and search your hearts therewith and try your waies and returne to the Lord that you may be healed and with the light in thy conscience thou maist take thine own and so the rest of you for his witness is faithfull and swift against you and according thereto he will proceed except ye repent JAMES NAYLER A Few Words in answer to a printed paper subscribed F. B. who hath printed a peece of the Bible over again and added a few of his own words to it for to pervert it shewing himself to be one of those spoken of 2 Pet. 3.16 Unlearned unstable who wrests these and all other Scriptures out of their place and so to his own destruction FRiend thou hast gathered up many Scriptures which thou say'st dost witness against thy judgement and practice of the Quakers with a charge as thou callest against them but hast not proved one particular true but if thine eye had been single thou mightest have found thy selfe lying guilty under the condemnation there of in thy practice so take them back again and consider of them and let that of God in thy Conscience be judge for so it shall at that day when he shall clear the innocent The Scriptures we own and that Light and Spirit that gave them forth whereby we know thou art not he that spoke those words to Job but one that useth thy tongue boasting in other mens lines made ready without thee to oppose that life wherein they lived in his despised ones of this Generaion whom not one of these Scriptures doth reprove neither canst thou make it appear in any one particular Thou sayst thus saith the Lord who hath washed away our sins in his own blood I say see it be so least thou be found in sin and so proved a false witness for such are they who set up false Christs who profess a Christ without power and cry loe here loe there in outward forms without but who hath the true Christ goeth nor forth So consider the beam in thine own eye and the nakedness thou tells of appeareth in thy paper he that hath an eye doth see it For the lusts of the flesh thou tells on search and see if thou be not he that is found in the much wantonness thou speakest of which we deny a Servant to corrupt things and would have others so also if thou say we preach another Gospel thou should have shewed wherein but it is a small thing that we should be judged of man thou sayst judge nothing before the time until the Lord come who will bring to light the hidden works of darkness and will make manifest the Counsels of thy heart So it seems thou confessest a time of judgement where the Lord is come which time we witness and by the brightness of his comming the Man of sin revealed and the Councels of thy heart made manifest who to thy Mâster art fallen and for him thoustandeth Thou sayst doubtless thou countest all things but losse and dung that thou may win Christ I fay take heed it be so least when search is made thou be found a lyar thou sayest let nothing be done in vain glory but in lowliness of mind let each esteem others better then themselves I say remember this and let it stop thy mouth when thou shalt plead for respect of persons which the redeemed ones John speaks of are redeemed from even out of Kingdoms Tongues People and Nations and all their vain Customs and Worships to worship God only thou sayst thou shalt rise up before the hoary head and honour the face of the old man and fear thy God I say see thou doth so but how is this fulfilled among you who will binde gray hairs to bow down and worship you where pride is got up in young ones thus God never commanded nor the Scriptures as thou might have found hadst thou had an eye to these Scriptures following James 2.10 Joh 32.21 22. Hest. 3. Prov. 28.21 Acts 10.18 Rom. 2.11 Ephes 6.9 Jude 16. with divers others which maketh little for prides purpose yet will they stand a witness against it for ever Now to thy slanders which thou hast added upon those thou callest deceived ones thou sayst by our Doctrines and practice we make little of Christ which is at the right hand of God in the Heavens That we make lesse of his word the rule of righteousness and judgement both of Doctrines Men and Spirits That we make nothing of his Ordinances in which his Saints are to wait until his second comming That we revile his Ministers that we condemn his justified ones who would deceive them of all that faith hope peace and joy in the holy Ghost wherein the Church of the first born hath ever lived To all which I say thou hast proved thy self the man thou speakest on who hast given thy mouth to evil and thy tongue frameth deceit and slanders and this must rest upon thee till thou prove us guilty of these things thou hast falsely accused us seeing thou layest the charge against all those thou callest Quakers And for the Army of Martyrs and their life thou tellest of If thou minde that in thy Conscience by which the Ministers was guided thou wilt finde it a witness against thee who hast armed thy self with their words against their life which is now made manifest in his despised ones which thou amongst the rest hast lifted up thy Horn against and thus thou shalt see when the book is opened and that eye which the God of this world hath blinded then shalt thou see though that in thy Book is of little force against us yet it riseth from the same root of envy from whence hath sprung greater things and that which hath stirred thee up to this is but making the way for thee to follow them that imprisoned and shed the blood of the Martyrs so take heed least thou proceed to faor and be given up to have an hand in the same practise for envy is as blind now as it was then and there is nothing stops it but the measure of God and his light which if thou forget and act against it when thou art found in the same work that hath been before mentioned thou mayst remember thou hast been warned For thy confused exhortation which riseth from the blind eye it is judged with the light of Christ who sees thy confusion Thou sayst repent and become sinners that we may be righteous in Gods righteousness repent and become meek in spirit and pure in heart and so shall we see God so thou mayst compare thy exhortation and see how it will hold in the ballance of truth but such repentance suits well with the love of the world where you may live in your sins and talk of Gods righteousness but where the heart is purified and God seen your repentance is judged and your vain talk of righteousness without life and you are known to be of those which shall not be able to stand in the sight of God So take thy exhortation back again and repent of thy false accnsations and speaking evil of that thou knowes not and publishing a generall charge that thou canst not prove and make a search through thy paper and what thou hast written more then the words of the Scripture is but to add slanders and false accusations and for the Scriptures thou hast printed it is but that thon mightest turn them out of their place to set them against that spirit that gave them forth and they little suit for thy purpose So when thy blind zeal is alittle abated thou mayst see thy work and be ashamed and learn when thou writest again to charge no more then thou canst prove least whilst thou goest onto cast thy dirt upon others whose lives thou canst not judge thou receive thy own inside and cover thy self with thy own shame thou mayst receive this if thou canst from a lover of thy soul who contendeth not for mastery but to clear the truth called JAMES NAILER THE END

Something further in answer to John Jacksons book called Strength in Weaknesse IOhn Jackson in the printing of my Papers so far as thou hast printed my words in that I rejoyce and shall rejoyce the more it is preached though some preach Christ of envie but thy deceits ought not to be hid least I partake with thee therein In thy title page thou saies published at the request of some c. and in thy letter to me thou said thy Spirit was free to publish it and that it were thus with thee and this was before some of my answers was written did some body request thee to publish the answer to my Papers respectively as thou saies before they was written this is but a poore shift but it must serve where no better can be got when the Leopard changes his spots then will that Spirit deale plainly but did none of those some request thee to answer my Queries which thou hast printed unanswered And that letter I sent to Samuel Tull and thee and the rest If they had not beene partiall in their requests they might have spoken one word for me that I might have received once an answer from thee having so often answered thy Queries both by words divers times and also by writing but it seemes both thou and the requesters are got above that law to do as you would be done unto or to deale equal to others as your selves that feed is wanting where the world raignes yet shall not that keepe me from laying open the truth I have received Thou saies Judge not according to appearance c. I say what else can they judge with who denies the light within but will not this destroy your former doctrine may one now judge and not see the face The thing for which thou have to much opposed me did'st thou not before deny any way of intelligence but outward appearance and said thou durst not beleive it it seemes thy faith is changed since then or else thy tongue but here it s seene how Christs words suits your doctrine and practice Thou may be ashamed if thou denie the light of Christ within any more either must men judge according to the light within or by outward appearance Somthing thou hast added in the conclusion as an excuse wherein thou desires the Reader to compare with what went before and try if there be any such thing said as may circumscribe or limit the most high in his message to personal knowledge or information of men to which I say thou said If I had another way of intelligence besides sight and hearing or outward appearance without words c. Thou durst not beleive it besides thy reproaching it with the name of bitter assaults of the enemy and the like And she said to whom I wrote she doth more wonder how I durst adventure upon one I know not whose face I never saw as touching the message I was moved to write to her If this be not as much to circumscribe limit the message of God to personall knowledge and information of men as in your lies all may plainly judge seeing neither her daring nor thy reproach could stop it for doing its worke yet have you both as much with-stood it as the creature can the minde of the creature sent in message and this you will find in the end And whereas you call it a heavie charge I say your seeking to cast it off wil but make heavier could you breake the Yoake of Wood for you must be prepared Iron thus shall it be to all who kicke at his message And whereas you tell of her being unknowne or seene I say knowne and seene she is and thou also with that which changeth not before I writ to either of you though thy name thou did'st conceale but this the blind knowes not who hates the light yet that which thou calls J. N. thou may see so the ground of your opposition must be want of outward knowledge else your ground is false judged with that which reveales that in man which man knows not There is one thing thou hast put in the Margent as though I had not answered to wit the redemption of the body which must have relation to her letters who saith she is still kept groaning for adoption to wit redemption of the body and hath her own deceivings in her untryed and yoakes of sinfull covenant in her unbroken and yet she knowes her selfe to be in the Kingdom To which I answered before that no selfe-deceiving not sinfull Covenant comes in the Kingdom of God unless thou and she meane the Kingdom of this world and call that the Kingdom of Grace a new coyned word to cover your pride and worldly glory for that 's the grace the world loves and its Kingdom And such a Son and Sonship the world lookes for and there the Son finds you now he is come And for groaning for adoption I told thee the Kingdome of God consisted not in groaning for adoption but in righteousness peace and joy and none are there but Sons and as they are new borne and this is a plaine answer to all that know Sonship but who denies the light of the Sun must needs stumble though at noone day and all thou alledges against it to any purpose is that in the 8 to Rom where the Apostle tells of the creatures groaning and traveling waiting for adoption to wit the redemption of the body where its plaine the condition there spoken of was such who had received the first fruits but the Sons of God was not yet revealed as in the 19 vers yet having the first fruits of the Spirit they was in hope of the fullness and so was travelling painfully towards the Kingdom and rest of God where noe travell paines nor groaning is where the Sons of God rejoyce together without rebuke but this the Sons of the stranger who rejoyce in the things of this world knowes not nor can their imaginations get into it though it be told over againe but still are groaping and Questioning about that which God hath hid and sealed from that wisdom and prudence and he is cursed that opens it to that seed any further then the Scriptures hath which is all a parable and the Serpent never the wier for it s not like he that is in the world should know who is in the Kingdom nor can he see himselse to be without who denies the light of Christ to be sufficient who inlightens every man that comes into the world and though the Apostles ministering to the severall measures of them to whom they spoke did come downe to their measures and so said we as in James 3.9 and divers other places yet their conditions it was not then they was come through those things and as touching their own measures they had to say which then they was not able to beare to whom they spoke nor was that they knew in respect of their owne measure lawfull to utter