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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52687	A door opened to the imprisoned seed in the vvorld, and the way of freedom by the spirit of truth, sent out into the world in love to the sheep that have long been lost, which may serve any who simply seek the life of what they possess, and may shew the feigned & false in heart, the cause why they are shut out of truths power : wherein the elect way is opened to the blind, with encouragements to enter and walk therein : also the fruits of the free-born cleared from legal performances, and the children of bondage shewed the nature of their own works : Christ Jesus known to be king in his temples, through the power of the Holy Ghost, and sword of the spirit lifted up against the man of sin in true judgment / by J.N.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1667 (1667)	Wing N277; ESTC R23128	41,513	48

to him that liveth and sinneth not And this appearance will be your daily Salvation and Peace and daily growth and encrease in God and make this sure to you in that principle which would not sin for gaining the whole world so shall you not lose your Election nor your Calling but an entrance thereby will be daily ministred into the Kingdom everlasting which is in Christ Jesus the Light and Truth and Power of God But if you go out to any other thing for help or counsel then that Spirit which is pure which is just which is meek and lowly by nature as God is which is righteous by nature and springs in you to bring forth fruit of it self to God alone in that principle which is pure and clean then you go from the fountain of living waters to dig for your selves and into your own works and what you bring forth is your own righteousness and not that which is revealed from above to all generations of God elected And you will go through your work hard bestead and when you have brought it forth it will not satisfie that in you which hungers towards God and is of him onely it will puff up that nature which is selfish and exalt that which is too high already to receive life from God and this righteousness God accepts not nor is it everlasting to all generations which is brought in by works and not by vertue of the Divine nature springing freely in you from an eternal Spirit which those who are entred into rest and keep the Sabbath holy are freely fed with and covered over who are ceased from their own works whose works are wrought in God and in him are brought to light where the holy Child is born and the Son of God manifest through that Spirit which the World neither seeth nor knoweth which gives to see and inherit God and godliness in a clean nature and vessel Which Birth if you desire to be born of then cease from flesh and blood and what ever that can do for you within and without that is defiled and in that which calls and convinceth you of sin wait and be faithful till you find a life and desire quickned in you which can savour or delight in nothing but that which is as God is pure just and holy and loaths whatever is contrary and cannot joyn to it in thought word nor action for this is the life of the holy Child if ever you feel it move and breath in you and that spiritual birth which as it grows in the vessel is to be heir of the heavenly treasure which though at first it be weak as a child without understanding or full strength and you not knowing what way it is ever like to come to have all the power and dominion in you by reason of the abundance of corruption that is above in you and the strong bonds of iniquity that rules in your flesh which all war against the resurrection of this Innocent life and by which the strong man keeps the house with much subtilty and spiritual wickedness against the pure and simple life yet if you do but abide in that which first gave you light to the quickening of it and be obedient thereto it will bring you a way you know not and though you may come through great travels and temptations and many fiery tryals and tribulations where you may come to be sifted and winnowed yet shall not one grain of that pure Seed perish and fail in the way for that Spirit of light and truth will lead you in his light and in his truth which hath been tryed in that way for many generations for this is he that comes in the Name of Christ Jesus the Light and Salvation of Ages who hath overcome the Devil and the world and all the power of darkness for all that are sanctified and now is come to do it in you that you may inherit your purchased possession and sit with him in heavenly places also so that your work is faith and obedience and patience towards him who is that Spirit and Light in you and to him must you give up life and all who will confound your corrupted wisdom and blind his adversary that he may give light to that Seed that 's yet under the shadow of death and build up in you the way of peace and you shall no more live by your works and gifts natural but because he liveth in you shall you live also and your life will be that which is begotten of God which never dieth and this will he do for as many as give up themselves wholly to him whose light leads out of sin this is the King of Saints and holy Life if you will receive him he hath the Power of God But you that pray and profess and seek abroad and cry for help but know not him who hath help in his hands for you in him alone to wait that in all things you might observe him you worship you know not what nor where and while in words you talk of God that liveth in works you deny him and give your strength to the dead and not to the living Should not every man know his God liveth in him and go to his own God for life according to the manifestation of the Spirit of Truth given to profit withal in every creature to Godward And this God that liveth who is just holy and true should you hear and know and learn of not of dead forms but the power of the Spirit of life whose Word giveth life to as many as have that ear open to hear the living spirit and can savour the living from the dead Now what ever you look to for life and salvation which is not in this spirit and power it 's that which kills and devours your strength to no purpose for nothing gives life but the Spirit it 's the pure Spirit that feeds the hungry soul with bread of life and to that you should give up all you have and are in hearkening and obeying spend your time and all your strength to encrease in the life that 's bread indeed but when you give your strength to customs and forms and carnal rudiments vain pleasures and delights and set your minds on these visible things then you spend your strength for that which is not bread and labour for that which profits not to life eternal nor can carnal things give you an entrance into the most Holy but in that which is pure should you wait that he may open to you the door of life I am the Door the Truth and the Life saith Christ Jesus who is not carnal who is pure clean and lowly and meek in spirit who is in you except you be reprobates and if any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his Minde and consider well the Spirit of Christ in you that 's he lowly in you that 's meek in you that 's just and holy in you

wholly to the power of darkness who will then keep you seeking Salvation without whilest he is heaping up evil within For that which seeks to devour your Souls is within you whilst he is leading you out to seek Salvation and nought can damn you but what is in you sin is within before it be acted so must Salvation be within before you be cleansed though the old deceiver hath taught people to think they are saved by believing God at a distance who neither know nor worship him in the Spirit and Truth nor are their bodies his Temples nor can the Holy One dwell or walk in them because of uncleanness but their Vessels being filled with all the powers of darkness and the heavenly Place with Spiritual wickedness hath caused God to depart from the children of men for this uncleanness and yet a Lyar speaks Peace and preaches Salvation and the Creature believes so being filled with darkness But the Children of Light receive not this Doctrine who see and feel and cannot be content with words but with power A talk of God satisfies not the Soul of a good man till he feel his Presence and Power God without and the Devil within is not the Saints Faith nor Salvation but God in them and the Devil cast out is their glory and strength and they are bold through the might of his Spirit in them to war daily against the Prince of this world because they know him who is greater in them and more holy than he that is in the world And this is the Faith-that overcomes the world and he that 's born of the Spirit hath the Father and the Son and he that hath the Devil is his Enemy and knows him not whence he is but judgeth him after the flesh and outward appearance but the Child of Light wars not after the flesh but after God that he alone may have the glory who is all in them that they have to glory in who gives their souls the holy victory And now were not you wholly blind in your minds and past feeling you could never sit down so besotted as to believe you are saved while you are daily captivated in sin and forced many times to do that which you know you should not and this by the power of lust in you entising and leading you into every temptation and causing to fall into many hurtful evils which gathers strength and rooting daily in you heaping wrath and vengeance by adding sin unto sin which must all be accounted for in the end thereof when you have filled your vessels to a full measure And can you say you are redeemed from the Devil while he hath this power in you that you are not able to resist him but are led captive at his will contrary to all fear of God or power of Righteousness Are your Bodies redeemed to God and are you Members of Christ whilest you yeeld your members unto unrighteousness or are you saved who are servants of sin In what stands the life and power of your Redemption of your Faith and of your Salvation seeing nought can stand in God but that which brings forth to him Is not he in the bonds of iniquity who is bound to bring forth iniquity Is not he a servant of sin in whom it reigns Is not he the child of bondage who is bound to bring forth what the evil-one begets in him and to serve him in what he moves him unto Mind this you who are born after the fleshly spirit who act according to his will who worketh in your flesh to bring forth unto death Doth your profession save you who are not turned from dead works The foundation of Repentance is not yet laid in you and therefore death reigns above the Life that should bring forth to God and this is the servant of sin's state and spirit of bondage and not the Heirs state who inherits God's Righteousness and brings forth thereof unto that Spirit which pleaseth God as you bring forth to the flesh and please the world And these two seeds are within and are at enmity and disagreement and there can be no concord betwixt them no more than light and darkness and their several fruits are made manifest with the Light which condemns the one and confesseth the other to be of God and wrought in God And as many as are quickned with the Spirit of Life have the feeling of this before they bring forth the fruits thereof into the world and are come to the discerning of things that differ in nature and effect by the tasting and handling of the Word of Life and knowledge of that Election which is before the World was by which they are made able to judge the ground and end of every motion in them or to them which abiding in they need not man to teach them neither can they be deceived which makes them with boldness bring forth openly such words and works as are begotten in them by the Word of Life which shews the whole World to lie in wickedness and makes it manifest in the Light of Life by whom the Prince of this World is judged and condemned and the secrets of hearts made manifest according to the nature of every several spirit which comes up to the day of the Lord's appearance And to this Spirit of Truth must an account be given by all flesh living for this is he that lives to all generations and is unchangable in his witness against the evil seed into whatever form he transforms himself in words and profession yet is there no agreement betwixt their several natures be they in one person or be they in a family or be it in a Nation there is not agreement nor can any one person Family or Nation serve them both but whoever serves the one hates the other and condemns him so he that serves Deceit condemns the Just and so condemns that which should save him and must judge him in the end And here is the cause of that fleshly liberty which some have got for the present where the Witness is slain and also of the horrour of Conscience where the Just appears towards Judgment the unstable estate of such who are faithful to neither the everlasting Peace and Power in such where the Just hath dominion and the present sorrows of such who are diligent in waiting and wrestling to the end of the World and the beginning of Christ Jesus through Faith and Patience And all these are comprehended with him who hath learned Christ by being faithful to that Spirit of Truth sent in his Name to testifie what is of him in every vessel and what is of the spirit that lusteth against him and keeps the Creation in bondage And this is that one way to Life and Salvation holden forth freely by the Spirit of Truth sent forth by the Father in the Name of Christ Jesus who hath its several operations in several vessels according as he finds them towards God in some he

forced to fly in the end for refuge when all else is weighed and found too light to abide the tryal though now it be lightly esteemed and you say it s not able to save it s that within that must give you the knowledge of God in the face of Jesus nought without you will make your peace but that which works in you that must cleanse the house of your adversary and ordain peace for you And this is that which makes the holy men of God who have gone before you in this Regeneration to preserve a clean House and a pure Conscience above all that the World can afford or promise knowing that in the day of tryal all will prove a lye but what is truth in the inward parts and that none are true worshippers but who worship the Father in the Spirit and in Truth and the whole mystery of Faith and of Godliness is learned within and holden in that which is pure and the pure in heart onely sees God and have heard and learned of him and such are Sons indeed who are born of the Spirit and led by the Spirit and filled with the Spirit and these have power light and understanding to do well who have God in them who is holy and that Spirit which the Devil is not able to resist and every Child of God hath this in their measure by which they resist the World and overcome it even that which is born of God that onely overcomes which is faithful and will not forget himself blessed onely are they who have of this in them in the evil times which God cannot forget nor suffer to be tempted above measure such only have that Election for whose sake the flesh is saved and in this only doth the creature find favour in the sight of God in the day of vengeance when God ariseth to plead with all the earth for their wickedness a Seed shall be saved but that is not it which saith and doth not And therefore think of this all you who mock at a pure Conscience and reject that of God within and speak lightly and reproachfully of it did you know whom you reproach and against what it is you sport your selves you would rather gnaw your tongues then utter a word against it you would change your minds and seek it with those that sell all that they may find it though it be little in you so that you dare not trust to it yet all that have proved it prize it as the great Power of God to Salvation and whether you can receive it or no you have no Election but what is in it In this did Noah find grace in the sight of God when the earth was corrupted and Noah walked with God and was just and perfect in his generation and in that which was just and perfect he was saved and in the Righteous Seed which was grieved with the uncleanness of Sodom was Lot saved Now if you can read your Election you may its onely that which was before sin was that is grieved at sin and testifies in man against uncleanness and this Seed stands elect before the world was if you can receive it and make it sure you may but you which say you have not power to do well and denies his Call can never do it He that calls out of sin and the soul that is vexed because of sin is little and lowly in you but the god of this world is lofty strong and powerful in you and hath lifted up your hearts on high to seek great things far above that pure principle of true light and understanding which God hath chosen and elected to himself and wherein he will commune with man and teach him his fear and knowledge and give him renewed strength and of his spiritual power and salvation from sin And now your lofty looks are too high for this door and the day of this small and simple one you despise these waters are too still for you to drink on and to stay and wait for great things where so little is seen you have not faith so you out-run your rest and the poor in Spirit take the Kingdom before you to whom the Election and Blessing belongs Now consider you that are lofty rich and high-minded mind the Calling of God and his Election Hath he elected the rich in notion and high in profession the proud and the wanton Hath not he chosen the weak and poor foolish and contemptible to confound all this But he doth not confound the Election the poor lowly and meek the pure and holy in heart and soul he doth not confound nor shut out but he that is pure meek and holy calls and the soul that is meek lowly and loves holiness it answers in all conversation obtaining grace to be holy as he that calls is holy Here is the Calling made sure and the Election by answering thereto who keeps in the Call and in the Election which was in God before transgression was But you that deny him that calls you out of darkness into light by the power of his holiness lowliness meekness and truth manifest in Spirit in you according to the gift of God in his tender mercy by which this springs from above as was in the beginning I say you that reject this to lay hold on something that is set up without you since the beginning you deny your Calling and Election and betake your selves to a changeable thing which the Election is not nor he that calleth thereunto For the Election hath been preserved in God when all the world else professions and people have been deceived defiled destroyed and changed And that is it which is alwayes pure as God is pure and changeth not and he that goes out from this doth not make it sure to himself by well-doing For the Election is in the light and power of Holiness and Truth which they that say and do not are out of Therefore return from off the Mountains you that have lift up your selves on high without God who have a form without the power of God And feel after that which is pure lowly and just in you for God is a Spirit and in the Spirit and Truth is he known and served and there is his counsel received in that which is truth in your inward parts feel that which never sinned near you then you draw near to God in Spirit and keep there and wait and hearken what the Spirit saith which never sinned with that principle in you which would not sin with that wait upon the holy Spirit and mind his motion continually and be obedient thereto that you may once come to serve the living and not the dead that you may be able to say your Redeemer liveth and that you know him and have heard his Voice that is holy as God is holy that is lowly and meek and that you have learned and do alwayes learn of him and are joyned to him that you may become conformable

on their way out of the world which is Christ the life that 's holy and light that 's pure and to this the mind is kept in all their travels and tribulations and temptions which worketh in them by faith in Christ more hope and more strength daily and every thing that happens them in the way gives experience and renewed strength against their adversarie the Devil while they keep close to Christ in faith and love and though they feel the Devil in the sensual part to be strong and powerful and past their strength at present yet they yeeld him not the Kingdom for that but into the faith and hope and patience of Christ Jesus they sink down waiting for the resurrection of that Life which never sinned but died when sin took his kingdome and there wait for the appearance of Christ without sin to save them from that power of death which wars in their own members to bring forth sin in this world and this is to be true in their service and faithful who wait for the Kingdom of God within them and Righteousnesse thereof and the comming of their Lord with their minds girt up with holinesse and hearts stedfast not to consent to the least work of the Devil if it would gain the whole world in the aperition of the sensual reason and wisdom And if these be overtaken with a fault it is not willingly but as Servants of Christ they stand against it to the utmost they then see and sin being a work of the wrong master they abhor it and themselves for it and deny it and will not plead for it or seek to hide it in them but confesse it and cannot have peace till it be cleansed out and these are the little children who have an Advocate with the Father to whom sin is as death and dare not speak a word for it but against it in themselves and in others and these appear against sin openly and confess to him that is holy with all their hearts and words But what a difference is there betwixt one of these who when they either see it or are told of their offence against the Lord are broken before the least reproof into tears or sorrow condemning themselves for it and it in themselves openly and you who when you are reproved for sin which is both open and known you set your selves with all your strength and wisdom to plead for it and like the Devil bring the letter to strengthen your selves against just reproof and with hearts full of envie and mouths full of reproach you stand up seeking to ensuare them that reprove you in love to Christs Kingdom and your souls and to recover you out of the works of Satan that his kingdom might fall in you and so he have fewer subjects left in his power and you be added unto the Kingdom of Christ by being brought under his Commands through denying your old matter and confessing and condemning his evil works for a denying of the Devil and his works there must be ere Christ will receive you And thus it is that Christ hath ever taken his Kingdom out of the hand of his adversary in the world by sending his Servants into the high-wayes and hedges to gather his creatures out of the Devils works by true reproof and testifying against them where ever he led them for which they were torn and scratched and evil entreated by that evil spirit in whom it had power as you now do who rise up against reproof Christ Jesus known to be King in his Temples through the power of the Holy Ghost and sword of the Spirit lifted up against the man of sin in true Judgement You who look for the Kingdom of Christ Jesus it stands not in observations words and forms but in the power of the holy Ghost in judgment in truth and righteousness If you would know his appearance to salvation wait for it without sin in that Spirit and Power which is holy to judge and condemn sin this is his Kingdom with men if you can receive it that he be known in his spiritual power in the bodies of holy men and women to dwell and walk in a holy life a witness against all sin by the breath of his mouth and Sword of his Spirit and therein that he hath power and consent to judge all contrary spirits within and without and all contrary actions And what ever opposes him in this his Kingdom is Antichrist which denies Christ in his Temples and House whose House and Temple is the new Creation of holy men and women and in whom he speaks dwells and walks as saith the Scriptures in whom he judges the Prince of this world and all his out-goings in the children of darkness and in his own Temples shews forth his nature and virtue a witness against him and all his works and he that would let this is Antichrist who sits in the Temple of Christ to resist the Holy One and cannot receive the Judgements of Christ against sin in his Temples nor his witness against sin to Salvation but cries do not judge when Truth speaks and the Spirit of Christ testifies against sin in true Judgement and this is he that lets and withstands the coming of Christ without sin who withstands him in his Temple and denies his righteous Judgement against sin and blasphemes and sayes it is not he nor is he now on earth nor speaks in any body now against sin but saith Thou must not judge lest thou be judged and so through deceit would turn Christs words against his work who saith I will redeem Zion with Judgement and Christ did not speak those words to save sin from Judgement when he saith Judge not that ye be not judged not to stop the mouth of Truth and Righteousness for then had he contradicted himself who in another place commands them to judge righteous Judgement And he is manifest to destroy sin and not to save sin in whomsoever he is manifest and for this end he liveth in his people which Antichrist would make as though he lived not nor heard or spoke but as a dumb Idol would he make the living God for people to talk on or set up a form of him to make void his present life and spiritual power in his people that he should not shew forth his vertue and give forth his Laws and Judgements by the mouth of his Servants against the works of his adversary where ever they appear in his eye Therefore you professors of Christ in words and forms seek his Kingdom in you and take heed that your forms withstand not his powerful appearance in spirit His Kingly Authority stands in his heavenly holy Nature and Vertue in Spirit and not in perishing rudiments and shadows without Read in Scriptures how often Antichrist hath deceived people by turning these outward forms to let the spiritual power and so have kept people in words without life opposing Christ in his Kingdom So in the first

place mind to know his spiritual Nature and Vertue and what hath power against sin in word and in deed therein is his Kingdom and there is his Glory and there he reigns So take heed how you let that Spirit which goeth out against sin in judgment and in victory in the least of his people and this know that his Kingdom is spiritual and within and holy and there are his Testimonies Laws and Judgements which he sends out by the mouths of his Servants as he sees fit and it s against the works of the evil one he testifies in judgement and vertue for that is his Nature and to that end he appears on earth to destroy the Devil and his works through the Sword of his Spirit and none will let this but Antichrist and his servants whose works are evil and so would stop the Mouth of Truth and Voice of Christ Jesus So you may come to know his voyce from his Temple when you hear Judgement from the Spirit of Truth passing against pride and lust and all the works of the flesh to destroy out of the world this is his voyce from his Temples in which his Throne is his holy Kingdom and Power and that 's the voyce of Antichrist who would let this and sayes thou must not judge when sin is judged and so with the words of Christ would save the works of the Devil from shame and destruction And now there be many Antichrists in this work to withstand the Word God in his Temples and who set the Letter against the Spirit to keep up sin and to silence the Word of the holy Ghost that comes out of his house against it and here are the Children of the holy God known and the children of this world the one seeks to cut down sin the other to save it and both professe Christ in words but the end of their work makes them manifest And you that are talking of Christs appearance where will you allow him a place to rule in if not in the heart and chief place in man therein to judge and govern and speak and give out his Laws will you allow the evil one to utter his voice openly in man in swearing lying and cursed speaking and every evil work and must Christ be silent and dumb thereat in his vessels when he sees it is not this his priviledge in his redeemed ones as the other hath his power in his captives that in them he may judge sin as openly as in the other it is acted and this is the reasonable service of his chosen vessels to give up their bodies that he may speak and act and shew forth his vertues and life and power therein against the spirit of the world in his vessels and were it not for this none of the holy men of God need to have suffered nor been hated but for the words of God spoken by them as Christ hath said It is not you that speak but the Spirit of your Father that speaks in you and this is the voice which the world knows not and so would stop it and sayes it is not the Lord not knowing that justice and judgement are the habitation of his throne in the hearts and mouths of his people What must not the Spirit of Truth in whom he lives judge deceit and falshood where it lives Must not that which is Holy judge the unclean must not the lowly one judge the proud the chaste one judge the lust must not he that is spiritual judge all things must not Saints judge the world What a nation would you have this to be who would root out judgement and yet profess Christ in you Is Christ in that people where there is no judgement against sin what none to judge pride and excess lying swearing and cursed speaking false wayes and false worships would you have all sin to pass openly without reproof Is the Land wholly become as Sodom mind what was their words to Lot in this case This one fellow came in to sojourn and he will needs be a Judge whose righteous soul was vexed daily with their unclean conversation So would you have sin to go openly in the streets without repoof and shame Where is the Holy One in whom doth he dwell who is of purer eyes then to behold iniquity Is Christ a King is he a Judge is he pure and clean in heart doth he live can he see sin and be silent where he hath a mouth to speak by did he ever take up his abode in people where none would allow him a habitation and a mouth to speak by Mind his walking aforetime in his Servants and what he did and spoke in them and against what and is he not still a God of Judgment at hand against his adversary though such as know not his Voice put him afar off So you who say you are for Christ and his Kingdom mind whose kingdom sin is in and whose work it is to defend it from judgment and take Scripture to plead for it that is he which condemns the just who would clear the guilty and that is abomination to God and withstands his appearance and you that yeeld your members thereto are not for Christ but against him in his members who have yeelded themselves Servants of Truth and such as you were they who slew the Just One his Prophets and Apostles in whom the Word of God spoke against sin and had the Scriptures and served sin Wherefore if you love the appearance of Christ Jesus you must not love sin but in that principle which would not sin feel him that suffers because of sin and yet is without sin and against sin and if to him you come whose appearance is in that which is holy just and true and therein joyn to him you will love that which condemns sin by which he is grieved oppressed and then are you for Christ when you can feel and suffer with him by that which he suffers and you will then see that nought is it that is offended at sin being judged but he that is guilty thereof Grace received and Grace rejected THE Grace of God is that which brings Salvation to man all men being in natural darkness as they are in the world without God so the Grace of God is tendred to all without respect of persons And that 's it in every man which gives him a sight of Truth in himself which Truth God by his Grace accepts in every man who would have all men to come to the knowledge thereof that they might be saved Now this Grace in it self is one in every man and is of God in every man and doth not spare the evil nor deny the good in any out of respect either to person wisdom strength or riches which is of this world but hath respect to the Truth of Spirit in all and their obedience thereto therein to teach and lead to Salvation and the true Worship of God in Spirit which leads to Life