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truth_n	darkness_n	light_n	walk_v	4,073	5	8.1342	4	true

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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

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