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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

are such as in their hearts are convinced w th the light of Christ of the vvay of truth but finding it straight to their carnal pleasure profits not loving the truth more than the world but taking pleasure in unrighteousness and serving and loving the creature more than the Creator such will be glad of a stumbling block to take occasion thereby to cast off the yoak wholly and so to speak evil of that which they are convinced to be the right waie and would have walked therein had it not been too straight to hold them and their lusts To such I say you have your desire herein and as you waited for a stumbling-block thereat to take offence at the Cross so God in judgement hath sent you one sutable to your desires even from him whose coming is after the working of Satan with signes and lying wonders with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish because you received not the truth in the love of it that you might be saved for this cause God hath sent you strong delusions that you should believe a lie that you all may be damned who take pleasure in 2 Thes 2. unrighteousness more than in the cross of Christ And as the Spirit of Witchcraft in the Magicians did harden Pharoahs carnal proud heart more against Moses and the seed of God so wil the same spirit take advantage upon your lusts to do the like though in a different manner yet to the same end and upon you is the righteous judgements of God in this case who are joyned to that nature which God hath raised up to shew his power upon and in the end you will find that you are of them upon whom this day of the Lord comes as a snare when you are grown up into your measure of hardness and enmitie against the light of Christ opportunities to which you will not want from the Lord in judgement so long as you abide in that nature and the love of it whereof in love to your souls I am moved to warn you There is a third sort for whose sakes I am moved especially to write something in answer to this filthie thing which otherwise being a work of the devill it should have rotted rather than have been raked in or mentioned over again by me and these are such as have a simplicitie in them and a love to the truth and the way thereof and would walk in it did they know it but are yet kept in blindness and darkness by their blind guides who take advantage by these works of the devill lies and slanders to thicken the veil strengthen the bonds whereby to keep them from the light of life and way of peace and so keep them in the way of destruction for their corrupt ends which were they not ensnared in these things through their deceit might possibly be brought forth into the waies of salvation many of them alreadie having been made sensible from the Lord in love to their souls of the barrenness unfruitfnlness and unrighteousness of the worlds waies wherein they have been led and also the deceit pride and covetousness and contrary-walking of their Teachers both in doctrine manners and maintenance to all those whom ever Christ appointed for the work of the Ministery in any age I say for you who are in this case out of the knowledge of God his light and life which is your salvation doth my bowels yearn being sensible of your condition from the Lord and how easie a thing it is for you to be kept in delusion by the false teachers who are not come to the true light especially having such things as these with your lying spirit to work upon whereby to affright you from the truth which many simple hearts are enquiring after in this day of the Lords love as also knowing that any being begun to be unsetled from the deceits by the Light of Christ and then come to be setled again by a spirit of deceit and joyning therewith seeing such deny the tender of love how hard a thing it is for such to be recovered to hearken to any thing from the Lord in spirit to bring them near him I say for your sakes where the simplicity is am I made free to lay open to you some of the deceits of these Spirits that lay wait for your souls that unless you choose your own delusion rather than the simplicity of truth you may not be by them ensnared as the Light of Christ in your consciences will one day witness my tender love to your souls herein And to you John Toldervy Tho. Brooks Tho Iacomb George Cockaine Will. Adderley John Goodwin John Tombs Will. senkin and Matt. Poole who are joyned together that with the light of Christ you might take notice against whom you are joyned and what work it is you are joyned in which is to bear witness unto lyes and confusions and lying wonders which you never saw nor heard as by your own confession who say some of you have but perused a part of the thing to which you are witnesses and have but the things by hear say and that from one possest with a deluded Spirit wherein you shew your envie and rashness and want of discretion and therefore are found falsifying your own words in your book and so have ensnared your selves in your own wickedness and this you call The foot out of the Snare and so your work is begun with a lie and so carried on who in your title-page tell of the manner of his separation from the Quakers which is false for those you call Quakers did separate from him and denie him both in word and writing because of his following a bewitched Spirit and would not be reclaimed by them who oft reproved him and judged him for it with one consent as you afterward confess in your book page 38. and in other places of your book also As in your title-page also you tell of what judgement he was learned in by the Ministrie of those people and so bear witness you know not to what for both you and he are yet unlearned in the judgement and Ministrie of those you call Quakers whose judgement and ministrie is not to be led by vain customes and imaginations out of the truth as you are and are witnesses that he was as in your book is declared In your Epistle you say the subject matter of your discourse relates principallie to the persons who go under the name of Quakers and you confess that many have abused the truth by seeking to defend themselves in that deceit which the Spirit which is of God in those you call Quakers hath witnessed against by which you say the generalitie of men are through their misguided spirits alreadie beyond measure bitterly incensed against them to which I say let your practise judge you as to the work in hand in seeking to defend your selves in that deceit which the spirit of God in us hath witnessed

their persons neither was it any iudgement he learned by the ministrey of those people as you seem to hold forth in another place and thus you are not ashamed to utter your deceits and believing of lies to tell them and set your hands to them thinking thereby to have them pass as unquestionable truths and to that end recommend them to all Christians and so are found abusing the truth and defending the deceits which you confess the Spirit of God in those you call Quakers hath witnessed against and so through your misguided Spirit are incensing the people beyond measure in bitterness against us shew your selves to be of that Spirit which did ever oppose the Spirit of God which you confess to be in us as out of your own mouth you may be iudged In your first page you bear witness with Iohn Toldervy who you say hath been for divers Years full of zeal after the things of God seeking after the knowledge of Christ for the clearing of his conscience to his close walking with God and blameless life and conversation amongst men And in your 49. page you bear witness to him that before he was principled in the waie of the Quakers he had been verie zealouslie affected in divers waies and there was begot in him much fleshlie wisdome in which his hope did much rest believing it was the mysterie and wisdome of the Holie Spirit revealed in him and that he was covered over with deceit and did glorie in that condition and both these must be believed to be truth by your certificate and this you have recommended as a piece worthie to be read and taken into consideration by all serious Christians But may not all that consider of it see you stark blind and drunk with abomination and confusion Could Zeale to God and exceeding Love towards Christ and waies most usefull for clearing his CONSCIENCE in order to his upright and close vvalking vvith GOD and blamelesse Life and CONVERSATION amongst men and resting in much FLESHLY WISDOME and glorying in being covered over with deceit stand together in one person and both these you say he had in his profession before he joyned with the Quakers what a testimony is this that you nine are ioyned in Do you think it wil excuse you to say that you read it not all over with them whom you have blinded it may but the least of the children of light may see you are erred from the truth and ioyned in deceit witnessing you know not what And in your second page you tell of a spirit infused into him by the operation whereof together with what he apprehended of himself after a short time there was made clear to his understanding what followes so that by your confession this spirit from which hee had those apprehensions was infused into him before hee knew the Quakers after which he became affected with those people called Seekers and afterward met with two of those called Quakers and yet the drift of your book is to make people believe that he received this spirit among the Quakers and this is another piece of your recommended truth so with your own hands you have signified your confusion and cleared them whom you intended to slander In your third page you tell of the Quakers that what they spoke was against all sin yet they declared nothing of the mystery of the Gospel of Christ so that by your doctrine that which declares against all sin is nothing of the Gospel of Christ I say if you had said it had been nothing of your Gospel you might have been believed whose Gospel and the mystery thereof is by talking against sin to make a cover for sin But there is nothing that speaks against all sin indeed and in truth but the Gospel of Christ though another Gospel many of you have invented wherein you can imagine a Justification to your selves while you are the Servants of Sin but by the Gospel of Christ which speaks against all sin do the Quakers know whose Gospell that is which justifies you while you are the Servants of Sin and live in it and incourage your hearers therein also Are you not ashamed to give it under your hands that that which speaks against all sin is nothing of the Gospel Was that nothing of the Gospel when hee said Sin no more lest a morse thing come upon thee If this was any thing of the Gospel or the mysterie of it then all may see that you nine are joyned in a lie And to say that the Quakers speak nothing of the mysterie of the Gospel let thousands that have heard them be witnesses against you whether this be not another yet by your nine-fold cord you would have these to pass for truths In your seventh page you tell of one whom he knew to be a verie serious true hearted man which was converted to our belief which gave John Toldervy to understand that the person that Son of God that dyed at Jerusalem was not the Redeemer of man from sin To which I say Did you hear that man say so or have you it from him who is possessed or did you ever admonish that man of his error to his face before you slandered him before all the world Have you done herein like Christians or as you would be done unto Or did you ever see his face Or do you know his name and why is it not here mentioned that vve might have admonished him though you vvill not Have you not herein discovered your Spirit and your selves a pack of slanderers and backbiters to accuse a man in print whom you never saw nor spoke to one without name all that are not blind may see this stone is not cast at one man but against the vvhole truth and upon your ovvn heads shal it return for all that ever knevv those people called Quakers vvill bear us vvitness that vve ovvn no Redeemer but that Son of God vvhich died at Jerusalem whom we witness in us the Light by which we see sin and by obedience thereto are led out of sin In your eighth page you seem to reproach the Quakers saying You know some of them who fasted 30. or 40. daies * Let the Adulterers cease seeking for a sign or a miracle in this generation seeing this is witnessed with your own hands I say if you had lived in the daies of Moses Elias David Daniel and other the Saints of God and the Apostles who made proof of their Ministrie in Fastings and Prayings yea Christ himselfe should have had no better from you than scorn and reproach therein fasting being a thing which your generation known little of nor are exercised in whose care in the first place is for your bellies and all must fast about you before you want your hire which you expect from them which manie times you do no work for yet war is prepared if they put not into your mouths suits and prisons yea manie times where the children want

generation since the time of his appearance who is tho Light of the world and for that end hast thou gone out to consult with the greatest enemies to that Truth professed by us that is in the Nation as the chief Priests ever was Now to thee and them from the living God must it be after your work and to all the rest who have stirred thee up against them who have tendered thy soul and against that Light which let thee see thy sin which light and truth thou and they shall confess too at the dreadfull daie when you have finished your testimonie against it and for your lusts but as for us whom the thing is intended against we desire none of the evil may come upon you God is our witness yet do we know his word is true who hath said It is meet that offences must come but wo to that man by whom they do come it had been good he had not been born So as thou goes towards the Pit remember what is said and so to you all and let that of God in all your consciences which you have reproached be my witness herein against you all who set this work on foot If this man gain-said and turn'd into fables and believed lies truth changeth not and the Priests make him their refuge as they heretofore did Judas Was hee brought to see his sins and yet heard nothing of the mysterie of the Gospel and is he given over to believe lies and to gain-say the truth Did Cain hear the voice of God and yet slew Abel his brother Did Core come out of Egypt and yet did he gain-say Dost not thou think to perish in his gain-saying that art ungodly But thy and your spirits the Lord rebuke for your spirits are favoured and tried and your voice is known and your myst doth no hurt among the children of Light nor your smoke for the Sun is risen and all the barking of the dogs of Egypt against the lambs them doth not fear the true shepherd is among his sheep who puts them forth and goes before them and they know his voice and follow him and he gives them eternal life I am the light of the world and inlighten every one in the world so you who do hate the light as you manifest in the day of your condemnation remember Therefore an exhortation to all friends The Light which Christ lighteth every man withall which comes from Christ the unchangeable Priest this light lets you see the end of all shadows visions and the end of the first Priesthood and all types and figures and guides out of all changeable things to the unchangeable priest from whence light comes to him by whom the world was made from all lying signs and wonders from all the inventions of the brain from the feigned humility from the will-worship and all hypocrisie and thoughts and imaginations of mans heart which is desperately wicked and hastiness and foolishness and inventions and the desires of mans own wil and lusts to Christ who is the wisdome of God to receive the wisdome with it to be ordered to the glory of God and here the everlasting Covenant of Life of Light of peace is witnessed who believeth in the light makes not hast for the light manifesteth all that is contrary whatsoever here is the true humility known the true patience that obtains the Crowne and the willing and the running kept down which the Light manifesteth which from Christ doth come to whom all power in heaven and earth is given which from him doth come with which light the throne of grace is seen by which you are saved from the wonders of the Beast and the lies of the false Prophet which the world runs after FINIS

would be done unto before God let him be witness whose Spirit you have blasphemed this daie between us and you Also let all the Judges in this Nation give their testimonie and all that understand Law between man and man if such a Witness deserve not the Pillory or punishment sutable to his slander who would dare to be a witness against another in things he never saw nor heard as you confess some of you have done though I am far from desiring that any of these things should befall you but that you might come to see your unjust dealing after the manner of men being that the things of God you understand not being heart-blind are become past feeling and so given up to shameless things to set to your hands as witnesses to such contradictions and confusions as is in this your Book yet to become as certain witnesses to that which you confess you have but seen part of and so set to your hand to you know not what Was ever such a thing done by any that feared God moderate Heathen would blush thereat Have not some of you been the wisdome of the Nation But how are you faln and how hath envie besotted you Is not the Word of the Lord concerning your fathers in fulfilling now upon you The dayes of your visitation is come the dayes of recompence are come Israel shall know it The Prophet is a fool the spiritual man Hosea 9. 7 8. is mad for the multitude of their iniquity and the great hatred The Prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his wayes and hatred in the house of his God Praises Praises to our Redeemer who frustrateth the tokens of the lyars and maketh Diviners mad that turneth wise men backward and maketh Isa 44. 25. 27 their knowledge foolish that saith to the Deep be dry and I will dry up the rivers that he may make way for his kingdom through the depth of the sorceries In his works we rejoice who hath given us an inheritance therein yet for you there is a lamentation knowing the shame that must cover you and the woful day that must come upon you which is near at hand You go on further in your deceit to make a cover for all this filthiness and when you have fathered all these lying wonders upon the persons of the Quakers then you go about to clear us of it again and in your 49 page you say he had a clear understanding of what our Ministry held forth and had a right knovvledge of our belief and practise before he did comply vvith us and here you add another lye to cover the former for he never had a right knovvledge of our belief or practise for all that are in a right knovvledge of our faith and practise deny all such things and by our faith and practise vvas he denyed vvho acted such things And then you go on to tell the occasion how he came to be lost in his understanding and so distracted and confused in minde and this you say you will do for the Truths sake Oh ye full of all subtilty Have you cast out all this venome upon the Truth in your Book and are you now about to clear it Is there not more of the Devill seen herein than in your former wickedness more Hypocrisie and Deceit Stop your mouths you Dissemblers the Truth will clear it self and in the end all shall witness it when the War is compleated and the Beast and the false Prophet is cast into the Lake And in the clearing of the Truth say you he being fully perswaded by what he learned from the Quakers of the Truth which was made known by the Light in us which Light is spirituall and guides out of the work of the flesh to Worship God in Spirit and Truth he was then to wait out of thoughts and imaginations c. and his Vnderstanding being now thus opened he was possessed with much joy in the sence of that love he had received whereupon he was resolved to give all diligence that his Calling and Election may be made sure but being naturally of a hastie and forward minde and his resolution in part being of a Covenant of his own there was speedily begot in him an extreame fiery Zeale so that in the generall he was hastily carryed forth before the true Light by which in a short time he became lost in his Vnderstanding and so the Disputer was raised to life and that which was for Condemnation having darkned the Light of the Sun formed it selfe in the shape of the true Light and so deceit got the Power and led one of the true Obedience in the things before related by which the Simple became exceedingly deceived but when he was restored by the cleare Light of Life being guided in that obedience which was professed by those people amongst whom he was being the Quakers and his witnesse you say herein is true To all which I say this being true then out of your own mouths be ye judged that what you witnessed to before was a lie For if it was the true Spirituall Light which first let him see his Darkness and would have guided him out of the works of the Flesh his own thoughts and imaginations and if the cause why he turned from that was his naturall hastie forward minde and resolution which carried him forth before the true Light being a Covenant of his own and thereby darkned the Light of the Sun and so formed up false Lights in shape of a true Light whereby deceit got power to do those filthie things before related and if he was restored again by the true Light being guided by that obedience which was professed by the Quakers and this you say his witness therein is true then let all wherein there is the least measure of honestie judge of your blasphemie lies and slanders and abominable confusions who all along in your Book have gone about to defile and slander the true Light of the Spirit of God with these filthie things which you now confess was acted in his hastie forward minde carryed forth before the true Light in a Covenant of his own whereby the true Light was darkned and the deceit got power to act those things by which the simplicity was deceived which you would cast upon the persons of the Quakers Can you behold your confusion and not be ashamed Is this your foot out of the Snare and do you not blush at your envie against the innocent and are you not afraid at your envie against the light can you say and unsay accuse and excuse and all in one thing and witness all for truth was there ever a generation of men thus brazened in iniquity and who could feede upon mischiefe like you Hovv long vvill you make lyes your refuge and smite the innocent in secret therevvith vvho are passing on their way peaceably Do you believe that all are so blinde as some who are led by you who believe all

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