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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
A94718	The naked truth laid open, against vvhat is amiss: or, may be mis-interpreted, in those two bookes: the one, entituled, The foot out of the snare; and the other, The snare broken. Together with a word of invitation to all who are estranged to the true faith, that they would hear and receive the word of truth, which makes free the Israel of God. / Set forth by me John Toldervy.	Toldervy, John.	1656 (1656)	Wing T1769; Thomason E868_13; ESTC R207736	12,904	17

conceived there was no evill in the not performance thereof And in respect of which things onely I my self did separate from them which things were none other but a denial of those things which generally is called Civil Carriage to Civil Persons These four grounds being the chiefest ends of my purpose in writing I was wel satisfied in what work I had done though yet I appeared a transgressor in respect to my self for which cause having received knowledge that my ends are generally frustrated I am constrained as I have said in this further appearance to the world Now that transgression in respect to my self was thus in the consideration of what condition I had brought my self unto since first I became affected with those people who are called of men Quakers My minde was directed as I have said for the answering of those ends which I have related in which work I was glad in that I was of any sufficiency to appear therein but yet I would scarcely have appeared to the world as one who should discover himself in such a work that I might not be looked upon as one my self with those people amongst whom I was lest the same reproach and losse of friendship from men c. which once was my reward for the obedience of that faith which the world knoweth not I say lest self should thus have bin destroyed I sought secretly to discover my minde something in obscurity but yet I made provision that such who were not ingaged but would read and understand my witnesse with a single eye that such might see the end of my minde according as before is discovered which thing was unto me for the present a satisfaction in what I had done But yet further considering the strangeness of that Relation which declares of those delusions which the evill spirit in me guided me in subjection unto and also considering what prejudice had befallen me by those many reproaches which hath passed abroad concerning me since my departure from those people together with what losse of kindred and acquaintance had befallen me since I came amongst them considering these things I was much provoked time after time to seek for some help now in this my appearance to the world but seeing this provocation was from the tempter I was fully perswaded for some time after I had writ that none should have the least sight of what I had done untill it was discovered to the world but upon a further consideration that I might not appear ridiculous to men of serious mindes because of the strangenesse of what I had related I was perswaded to desire a credible witness of what I had so spoken from some persons of sober minds whose moderation was something known to me though some there are whose Names were made use of against my good-will but that the people for their sakes might not understand and otherwise then I intended I was led forth to discover more plainly the cause of those distractions which I then declared as the effect of the evil One in me Before which discovery I spake again of the darknesse and the emptinesse of that Ministry which is of the outward Law of the Letter under which Ministry I could never enjoy a true peace c. for which cause I said I departed from that way and Ministry having received knowledge where the truth indeed was to be found which knowledge I received from those people before named and so having related the effects which this knowledge should have wrought upon me I came to discover how I erred from that work of Faith wherein I was called which first began with the Creatures Joy and Covenant and forward zeal which ran before the fear and so led forth before the true light by which darknesse was brought in in which Darknesse the Disputer was raised to life and exalted above the light of the Sonne formed in the shape of a true light and so delight got the power by which the true obedience was lost and so the Simple was deceived and having thus done I concluded in the praise of that way in which those people are led forth in which leads to the perfect Truth which way and truth is but one which the world knoweth not neither can they know untill they come to walk in it These things being laid open my Judgment was that although those names were used in my book yet the people would have considered the thing as it was discovered from me and not in a generall sence as a thing proceeding from their Judgments whose Names were unto it and so another thing than it speaks But now I am mistaken in my Judgment and on the contrary a Division amongst men concerning the thing such who are affected in the way of those whose Names appear in what I have done they and these who have appeared receive to themselves a satisfaction of that which the thing speaks not of but condemns as also it condemns them and their way A second sort there are in whom there is no prejudice unto the one or unto the other but receives the thing as it is singly and they give witness that surely a thing could not have appeared more in such a case as this was on the behalf of those people who go under the name of Quakers than that did And a third sort have been unsatisfied not knowing whether it speaks for the one or for the other These things I received knowledge of time after time from divers whose mindes were thus different in the thing but in the consideration that there were such who saw my minde and meaning as it was and so received my witnesse I aboad hitherto silent judging that if such who were ingaged would leave their vanity they might see and understand as others did and that such who say they could not understand the true meaning thereof might leave the thing as it was Now James Naylor that person from whom there was discovered in answer unto the thing by what I now am given to understand was otherwise minded in respect of some things than what I at first understood of him which was thus When having read his Book and seeing much of the Spirit of Judgment upon me and all those who appeared with me and that we were by him united in one as such who were joyned in enmity against the light of Christ and that he looked upon them as one with me and I with them in the whole of what was discovered and so secret smiters against the truth the thing being something in obscurity-Seeing these things I was moved and sought to finde what should be the cause why he appeared in such a Spirit for I saw that either he was much mistaken or else I was greatly deceived in what I had done but when having searched again and again I could not see that his judgment was true upon me except in that of my receiving other witnesse to what I had discovered than my own the

outward Law into that state from whence he is fallen as it is written But that no man is justified by the Law in the sight of God Gal. 3. 11 12. it is evident for the just shall live by faith and the Law is not of faith but the man that doth them shall live in them but the Scriptures they declare of him who is the Redeemer and where he is to be sound but they are not him which is in the month and in the heart the word of faith Moses was a figure but he was not the Christ Christ Jesus appeared in the visible and was true in himself yet the spirit was not given untill he was glorified Now that Law that is of faith in the spirit that judges and condemns the Serpent in the root whence he sprang which faith whomsoever receives will see that promised seed which breaketh the head of the Serpent to be neare in the month and in the Heart and so the ministration of death being passed upon the unjust the spirit is renewed untill the election be raised to life unto which the promise is two and so that state witnessed of which Paul spake to the Colossians the third and the third For ye are dead and Your life is bid with Christ in God by which obedience the spirit is renewed they being the fruits of faith There is therefore now no condemnation to them Rom. 8. 1. 2. which are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the flesh but after the spirit for the Law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus hath made me free from the Law of sin and death Gal. 3. 23. 24. But before Faith came we were kept under the Law shut up unto the Faith which should afterwards be revealed wherefore the Law was our Schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ that we might be justified by faith but now they that are not yet come to the hearing of faith are strangers to these things Paul was very strict in this profession as touching his Conversation amongst men blameless he profited in Gal. 1. 14. the Jewish Religion above many his equalls being more exceedingly zealous of the Traditions of the Fathers yet all this while he was a stranger to the true faith until it pleased God to reveal his Son in him and thus it is Gal. 1. 1. 516. with all who are led by the letter untill they come to see Christ Jesus brought to light in them yet should I say there is no other way under Heaven by which men can come to know their Redeemer but by that light with which all are inlightened Christ Jesus the light of the World should I so say as I do vanity and darknes unto which what I so speak is unknown would deny me in so speaking but my words are true by which I may not be deceived knowing they come forth from the word of truth I have a little tasted of both wayes of the good and of the evill but really I found the foolishness of preaching to be another thing then the wisdom of flesh and base things and things of mean degree to be another thing then what is in the exaltation though never so lovely but here is the misery darkness is passed over and so good is called evill and evill good let not people believe generall reports but call to minde a despised people those were they in all generations but if any thing heard and seen in particular may appear truly to be evill then may it be refused but if good why then are men so vain that they will not see that so they may understand Abraham was taken from his first Habitation and from his Gen. 12. 5. kindred and sent by revelation into a strange Land in which obedience he received the promises now the promises are made unto the seed not as of many but as of one which seed is Gal. 3. 16. Christ I will bless them that blesse thee curse them that curse thee and in thee shall all the Families of the Earth be blessed not as of Ishmael but of Isaac neither yet not of the Law but of Gen. 12. 3. 21. 10. Gal. 3. 18. 3. Heb. 7. 28. Rom. 5. 10. promise but the Law was added because of transgression untill the seed should come unto whom the promise was made against which inheritance there is no Law as it is written but the word of the Oath which was since the Law maketh the Son which is consecrated for evermore and here is it now not of works but of grace Man being run out from God into the transgression he hath broken the Law the fruit was pleasant and delightful he feels t is pleasant the daughters of men were fair and now he knowes good and evill he is under the Curse he hides himself he is ashamed and thus having denyed the obedience required death is passed over that seed created by God in him a living soul and so that breath of life which came forth from God and breaths after himself is hid in darkness and now being lost in this fallen estate the same nature in him which at first joyned with the Serpent feeding upon the Tree of knowledge seeks for a justification having transformed it self into the outward forms of worship and appearances of things and thus the eye with which men should see being put out the evill day is put a farre off and the good day rejected But now the Grace of God hath appeared by which is made Rom. 10. 18 19. Rom. 10. 16. 17. Rom. 10. 8 9. known the everlasting Gospel of Peace but yet who hath believed our report So then faith commeth by hearing and hearing by the word of God which word is near in the mouth and in the heart and here is the end of the Covenant That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and believe in thy heart that God hath raised him from the dead thou shalt be saved Now to confess with the mouth and believe with the heart is not onely a belief in the minde what the Scriptures declare of him that he is risen and so a confession from that belief but to confess believe to the Resurrection of him in us to increase Col. 3. 1. 2. 19. 12. 2. 23. with the increase of God to the death and Resurrection of Christ above the rudiments of the world and the Ordinances which things have a shadow of the wisdom and so to witness what David spake I know my Redeemer liveth and what Paul spake I live yet not I but Jesus Christ that liveth in me And now what redeems but the precious blood of Christ as of a Lamb Rom. 5. 9. in all from the foundation of the world and this Redemption Rom. 5 10. Heb. 7. 25. Gal. 3. 21 Heb. 13. 8. is perfock into the state in which man was first created unto which there is no death by which regeneration such who receive the power for the obedience of the faith in Christ Jesus boing born again of him are become the seed of Abraham and so inhenitors of the promises by Generation and here is the second Adam Christ Jesus brought forth into the World but this is a Mystery to such whose mindes are without who are yet seeking for a Christ without whose faith is without whose obedience is without who are estranged from the discovery of Christ Jesus within who is given of the Father to work all our works in as and through us that the praise might be alone of him that calloth but now it is of grace and not by any works of righteousness which we have done but through the obedience of faith in him which is not of the will but by which the least motion to will is subdued in its motion which is wrought in spirit by obedience to the spirit for the Resurrection of the seed which things the Adultress eye cannot see but unto those that have received the light they are made manifest FINIS