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A89839	Foot yet in the snare: though the beast hath healed his wound, and now pretends liberty, but is fallen into the trap of the priests, receiving their testimony to beare it up, who are in the pit themselves, thereby giving them occasion to insult against the truth, as the beast and the false prophet hath alwaies joyned against the lamb. Discovered in an answer to Iohn Toldervy, Matthew Pool, VVilliam Jenkin, John Tombs, John Goodwin, VVilliam Adderley, George Cockain, Thomas Jacomb, and Thomas Brooks, who under a pretence of love to the truth, have gone about to devour it, and cover it with reproach. Wherein their crooked wayes, their confusions and contradictions is traced and laid open, and their spirit tryed to bee the same which joyned Judas and the chief priests, and their false witnesses against the heir at his appearance; so those have joyned testimony to the truth, of a lying book, which by their own confession they never read over. With something of their false testimony is short laid open, lest simple minds should bee led with a lye through the fame of the forgers. / By one who loves the soul, but hates the sin, called, James Naylor.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1656 (1656)	Wing N281; Thomason E863_1; ESTC R12925	23,636	36

against As to the particular actings of that deluded spirit with whom you are joyned witnesses in your book and so are of those who have abused the truth thereby more bitterlie to incense the generations of men beyond measure against us through your misguided spirit yea so much I may say the devill had never yet such a design on foot for the incensing people against those you call Quakers as this Book of yours which you have fill'd with the devils works and lying wonders wrought and witnessed amongst your selves whereof we are clear from the first to the last having been witnesses against it and yet you are not ashamed to say the subiect matter doth relate principallie to the persons of the Quakers which was acted and witnessed among your own persons which are joyned one in it against that spirit of God in the Quakers by which it was denyed in the persons of them both root and branch thereof as is confessed and witnessed by you So let all judge who have the spirit of truth if you be not those misguided spirits you tell on beyond measure who are casting upon us the deceits acted amongst your selves and yet confess the spirit of God in us witnessing against deceit so out of your own mouths be you judged to be those who take part with the deceit acted among your selves against the spirit of God vvho have cast upon us the works that are done amongst your selves of which we are clear in the presence of God Yea Iudas and the chief Priests might as trulie charge what they did in combining to gether against Christ upon the other eleven Disciples as you charge this your act and combination upon the persons of the Quakers or the spirit of God in them the case being the same both in respect of matter and near as near as possibly may be and how guiltie the Disciples were of that or we of this let the light of Christ in all consciences be Judge til he appear to reward you according to your work Further in your Epistle you tel of expressing tenderness to wards your brethren and companions who by their misguided spirit are subject to Laws and Ordinances Ceremonies and Traditions of their own inventing denying themselves their Just and Lawfull Liberty out of a slavish fear to which I say as for Ordinances Ceremonies and Traditions and Inventions they are your own and so is that misguided spirit which led in the inventions to what was acted as is declared in this book as also that misguided spirit by which you are led in your worships you Parish Masters and separated-Masters who have lost the form of the Saints worship and with your misguided Spirit are run into the inventions in everie particular of your worship which you perform in your Idols Temples so that the Scripture wil not warrant your practise in anie particular without wresting to sute your inventions so it nearlie concerns you to plead for tenderness towards your brethren who are companions with you in this misguided spirit and subiect to those Ordinances and Inventions into which you are run that you may also partake of that compassion who never loved to be plainlie dealt withall nor reproved for your errors But as for them who are come from under that misguided Spirit with its Ordinances and Inventions it may be long ere you be heard pleading for compassion to such nay against such is all your misguided Ordinances and misguided spirits with all their inventions combined together as appears in your book who have joyned testimonie to the works of the devill against the spirit of God under a pretence of love to the truth as you would plead for your misguided spirit Ordinances and Inventions under a pretence of compassion and so you shew to all then are wise hearted what your compassion is to But as for denying your selves of libertie lawful or unlawful you are little guiltie of that crime but would accuse others for doing it because we cannot run with you into your excess of pride drunkenness and gluttonie and all manner of lasciviousness and shelter it with you under the name of Christian libertie therefore you speak evill of us who see your wickedness and cannot joine with you therein who under the name of Christian libertie have opened a dore to your hearers of all liscentiousness as wofull experience may witness throughout the Nations what pride and oppression what excess and lasciviousness drunkenness and gluttonnie gaming sporting and wantonness what changeable fashions and foolish childish toyes in your habits which you are pleading for in your book which sober minded heathen would be ashamed of what Idolatrous worships speaking high words through the lusts of the flesh beguiling the souls that are unstablished what Idolatrous daies and feasts what imprisonment persecution and bloodshed what swearing and whoring foolish jesting and filthie communication idle talking and all manner of abomination is lived in amongst you and your hearers and all covered with the name of Christian Libertie And if anie make conscience of these things they are presentlie condemned by you for denying themselves their Just and Lawful Libertie accused of whi●sies and voluntary humiliation and of works and so the devill hath got Scriptures and the Saints words to plead for his lusts and condemn the Saints practise And how much you parish masters value the just libertie of such as witness against your unjust dealings the most of the Goals in the nation may testifie So the libertie of Barrabas bespeaks the death of Jesus and his imprisonment Do not ye remember your fathers the Bishops who under pretence of Christian Libertie set out their Play books giving them names of lawfull recreations which indeed were the devills practises and are not you got upon the same beast yet as blinde as they and as full of rage had you the same power against them that reprove you thereof But as for anie libertie we denie which is according to God charge us with it in particular and let truth make its defence You tell again of giving account of John Toldervy his separation from the people called Quakers I say that is but the former lie told over again for the people called Quakers did separate from him when he was separated from the light and acted by a spirit of darkness and would not be reclaimed In your cautions to the Reader you confess that his errors from what was written in the Scripture and ●in himself was that by which he dearlie suffered having before cast it upon the persons of the Quakers and this is the truth which you are satisfied of as you have signified with your hands but are found with deceit in your mouths If it was his departing from the Scriptures and what was written in him that was his error and cause of his sufferings then it was not the persons of the Quakers which before you said was the subject matter of your discourse and that which did relate principallie to

FOOT yet in the SNARE Though the Beast hath healed his wound and now pretends liberty but is fallen into the trap of the Priests receiving their testimony to beare it up who are in the pit themselves thereby giving them occasion to insult against the Truth as the Beast and the false Prophet hath alwaies joyned against the Lamb. Discovered in an Answer to Iohn Toldervy Matthew Pool VVilliam Jenkin John Tombs John Goodwin VVilliam Adderley George Cockain Thomas Jacomb and Thomas Brooks Who under a pretence of love to the truth have gone about to devour it and cover it with reproach Wherein their crooked wayes their confusions and contradictions is traced and laid open and their spirit tryed to bee the same which joyned Judas and the chief Priests and their false witnesses against the Heir at his appearance so these have joyned testimony to the truth of a lying book which by their own confession they never read over With something of their false testimony in short laid open left simple minds should bee led with a lye through the fame of the Forgers By one who loves the soul but hates the sin called JAMES NAYLOR And the chief Priests after they had hired Judas to betray Iesus they sought many false witnesses to put him to death but their witnesses agreed not together LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black-Spread-Eagle neer the West end of Pauls 1656. FOOT Yet in the SNARE GOOD is the Word of the Lord who by his Spirit hath foretold of the Heathen raging and the people imagining vainthings thereby to stop the appearance and exaltation of the King of Righteousness in every age of his coming into the world who hath also foretold of the gatherings together of the great Armies of Gog and Magog to battel against the Lamb with all the subtilty sorcery and witchcrafts of the devil that old Serpent and hater of innocencie who ceases not to stir up his chiefest interests and those whom he hath deceived and bewitched with lies and lying wonders joyning together head and tail root and branch in that nature to trample upon the appearance of Christ and shut up the Kingdome against men and for this end as one of his deepest designes he is ever seeking to get in amongst the children of Light with his Son of Perdition conforming himself as near as may be in outward things yea transforming himself into an angel of light a thing above all the litteral professors that thereby he may the more stronglie delude and make the waie more open whereby to make havock of the innocent doing that under a pretence of owning the truth which he never could do with open opposition this is his design which ever attends the appearance of the Son of God in this world for so is the fathers good pleasure to permit him for the trial exercise of his own seed where it is manifest thus it was with the Son of God in his appearance amongst the Jews where one of the twelve was a devil by his treacherie to the light convincement which he had received the chief priests pharisees got their envie effected against the Lamb he being an instrument for them against him which they never could do by al their disputes open contentions oppositions so it is seen at this daie by thee Iohn Toldervy the chiefpriests in these daies joined with thee herein joining your deceits against the innocent waie of the Lamb this design of Satan the spirit of God hath foreseen revealed to his holie apostles prophets which was to continue for the trials of his own at his coming amongst the saints in after-ages therefore Paul at his departure doth forewarn them to take heedun to the flock church of God which he had purchased with his own blood not onlie warning them of grievous wolves which would enter in amongst them not sparing the flock but saith he also of your own selves shal men arise speaking perverse things to draw disciples after them to perdition these are the heresies which the Scripture tels of which the Holy Ghost saith must be amongst the people of God that they that are approved may be made manifest it doth not onlie manifest them 1 Cor. 11. 9 that are approved but them that are for perdition also and these things were not strange to such as dwelt in the light nor are they strange to such as in the light dwell now who see there cannot be a war unless there be a Dragon as well as a Lamb and the beast with the many heads horns with blasphemie on every head as it is seen in you of many colours heads horns ioyned together in this blasphemie as doth now appera wil appear more plain concerning you in this thing than before who have set to your hands to certifie the belief you have concerning the truth of the devils actings who is a liar from the begining abode not in the truth nor doth he abide in the truth and to all who are in the least measure of light you have discovered your selves with whom you ioyne against whom you take part though your secret smiting cannot touch the truth nor them where it is manifest all you can do is to shut up the kingdom against such as are in the world with you least they should enter as did your fathers so do you of their reward shal you receive having fill'dup your measure three sorts of people there are that are much concerned in this filthy thing you have hatched brought forth besides the common scoffers of these daies as a snare to catch withall to devour in the way by consent as your fathers ever did The first sort of which the greatest envie is are without the reach of your trap those who have received the light of Christ whose eie is in their head who are come to any measure of the anointing are joyned in the election in the least measure there abiding are set above all the devils deceit and lying wonders who are brought to the love of the Lord his light and life to such I say this all other things that can befall in this world work together with the light for your good and therein I do rejoice on your behalf who shall hereby not only glorifie God who hath opened an eye to see above all these wiles of Satan whereby they are judged and the ground from whence they arise but also hereby learn the more to fear the Lord to walk worthie of him in your measures who hath called you out of darkness wherein others are stumbling and falling in mischief into his marvellous light wherein abiding you wil all be taught by this as by all other his vvorks to knovv his end as to your selves that he may teach you his praise both in redeeming his ovvn seed also in hardning the vvicked to destruction The second sort

to be truths you speak in your Pulpits without examination Or do you think that wisdom and light is wholly excluded from amongst men and true judgement wholly rejected then might you think that your lies and deceits might pass unreproved you cover your selves therewith as with a garment But the Lord is risen and rising the light is come the daie-spring from on high is visiting his people your works of darkness must come to judgement you must know against whom you builders are gathered though you think it is but against the despised people who have none to take their part in the earth But what is the work you have done herein further than manifesting Herod Pilate your selves who could never agree in yourworship nor opinions now joined together to set your hands to a lie against the Lamb and his Light which was ever refused by you builders and so no strange thing is hapned to the children of Light and your works shall tend no further then to accomplish the will of God to keep them blinde who desire not the way of the light because they love their deeds of darkness and so the just Judgment of God is upon them and you who are given up to bear your testimony to the Lyar for truly the least of the children of Light who love their measure of God with it they see you and your gathering together and your ground with the root and branch from whence you spring you are comprehended with the Light your compass with the depth of your deceit and your end and the Arm of the Lord is seen gathering his sheep which by you have been scattered upon the barren mountains this cloudy dark day ever since the rise of the Pope and his Adherents the head and tail stalk and branch that from him spring And the Lord is uttering his voice even the Soul-shepheard calling by his light into his teaching and feeding who is the spiritual Pastor who is no hireling nor devourer of the sheep neither doth he make a prey upon them who seeks the lost which you have driven away and restores the lame strengthens the feeble and carries the lambs in his bosome because they are his own who doth not feed upon the fat nor make a prey upon the poor who doth not teach for the fleece nor seek for his gain from his quarter nor bear rule by his means with force and rigor who seeks them and not theirs who respects not the person but the purity Praises praises to him for ever who is now appaaring to call to an account those who have perverted his way And all you who have changed his worship into another thing then what he appointed as is plain amongst you who have not left one particular of his Worship which you have not added to and altered from what it was in himself and his Saints as is plain in Scripture which will not own any one thing you do in your high places to be so much as in the form of true worship but you have formed after the times changes of men some you have led with you into the new forms and some you have left in the old till you have scattered the Lords people from him and his way so that from the Pope to this day you are all gone out of the way nor is there any one form of worship in the Nations into which you have led them which is in that manner much less the matter in which it was before the Pope begun and because we tell you these things and call you to come to the foundation of truth we are accounted your enemies But behold the Lord is zealous for Zion and is rising to gather his outcasts and hath uttered his voice and lift up his Standart against the Idol-shepherds therefore are you gathered to gether against him to war even the heads of all colours and he will break you to pieces together and scatter you as you have scattered his Lambs and trampled upon the Simple and made a prey upon him whose heart hath been set to seek God such have you drawne into your net and led them into your forms there have set your selves over them serving your selves upon them these must be taken from between your teeth and gathered not by might nor by power but by mine arm saith the Lord. Howle you Vine-dressers the heir is come to call for fruit and you are gathering together against him that you may keep his Vineyard as an inheritance to your selves who have planted therein for your selves and not for him so that the Lord can have no fruit Your Vineyard brings forth pride vainglorie and respect of persons love of the world and conformity thereto creature-worships and honour which is not of God this fruit abounds and you like it well and plead for it lest it should be plucked up but the pure God disowns this fruit and therefore your plants he will pluck up which bring forth fruits to the times and not to him not the same that is and was in his Son And all your worships which follow the times and not him that which changes with the times must be plucked up also that he may plant that which is before time was which brings not forth to your times but unto God this he will accomplish though your rage be great Against whom are you gathered you scornfull proud ones against a people whom the Lord hath laid as the streets and as the ground to them that go over Thus hath the Lord made his people to prove you and you are found trampling upon them and they are esteemed in your eyes as not worthy to live Surelie had you risen up against an enemie you might have had honor but you are risen up against them that are laid much lower then the lowest of the people who have no kindred in the earth nor is there anie who will so far debase himself as to plead their cause they are sold for nothing nor doth any enquire after their blood Surely to thee O Lord do we look thou art our beloved on whom we lean at the end of the times thou hast revived us and in thy life we shall live Oh you Potsheards of the earth why will you be broken to pieces vvhy vvill not you look to the pit out of which you vvere digged before you be taken avvaie in his Wrath for your gathering together is the Iron Rod prepared and it is lifted up though you see it not And as for thee Iohn Toldervy who so often hath said to divers people that thou didst put forth this book to clear the truth professed by those called Quakers from manie slanders cast upon it through thy means now that truth by us professed is a witness against thee for ever that thou hast not sought to clear it but hast sought thine own and hast caused the truth to be blasphemed above all that ever was before thee in this