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A89837	A few words occasioned by a paper lately printed, stiled, A discourse concerning the Quakers. Together with a call to magistrates, ministers, lawyers, and people to repentance. Wherein all men may see, that the doctrine and life of those people whom the world scornefully calls Quakers, is the very doctnrie [sic] and life of Christ. Written for the sake of the simple minded ones, who are willing to follow Christ under the crosse, and to deny all things to be his disciples. By a servant of the Lord, reproached by the world, and carnall worshippers, under the name of a Quaker; whose name in the flesh is Iames Nayler.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.; A. P.	1654 (1654)	Wing N279; Thomason E731_23; ESTC R202987	25,300	28

be pride envy covetousnesse selfe love exaltation slandering false-accusing deceit dissimulation and hypocrisie and such like which are the workes of the Devill all thy outward pretences shall not keep thee from the condemnation of the Devill for it is that which leades out of the works of the Devill that brings from under the condemnation of the Devill Thou puts much upon Church-Ordinances but fee if thou be distinguished from the world otherwise then in notion and thy owne conceit which will deceive thee and all the covetous oppressors in the world in the day of tryall Therefore prove thy selfe if thou be a Saint sanctified Iude 1. Iohn 17. 9 14. come out of the worlds pleasures riches wayes and worships and fashions as they were whose conditions thou talkest on or else thy crying the Temple of the Lord will but stand thee in little stead which if thou deale plainely in and let truth speak in thee thou wilt see a great distance between a Saints life and thine as between a Saints spirit and thine which is plainely discovered Thou sayest It is observable that where Churches are these Owles dare not appeare These reproachfull names beseems that spirit from whence they come but which of them have refused to come where they have been sent for feare of your Churches or what corners are they in except it be such as you have shut up in prisons or dungeons doe not these that are at liberty meet in the middest of common Streets and Fields where God calls them and many of the most conscientious of your Churches owne them and frequents their meetings others who have the feare of God before them dare not persecute them in word or deed but the day is come that all spirits must shew themselves Thou advisest to doe all according to Scripture it is good advice but dost thou that teachest another Mat. 7. 12. teach thy selfe dost thou as thou would be done by in all things dost thou forsake pride and covetousnesse which is Idolatry and not to be so much as named among Saints dost not thou seek great things for thy selfe having food and rayment Jere. 45. 5. Iam 4 4. art thou therewith content art thou out of love with the world which is enmity with God dost thou not take thought for to morrow for food and rayment hast thou crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts and put off the body of sin art thou not a scorner reviler and false accuser dost thou feed the hungry cloathe the naked and let the oppressed goe free Iam. 1 27 hast thou forsaken all to follow Christ art thou hated of all Mat. 15. 10. 11. men for the name of Christ hast thou denied to be called Master art thou come to yea and nay in thy common occasions Mat. 23 8. 10. dost thou love the Brethren with the same love Christ hath loved his withall art thou set free from thy sinne and rash passions Mat. 5 37 Rom. 6 18. dost thou hold thy Faith in a pure Conscience voyd of offence 1 Tim. 1 5 19. towards God and Man dost thou walke as Christ walked And many other the commands of God set down in Scripture in Acts 24 16. which the Saints walked as is plaine in Scripture which if thou ● Iohn 2 6. walke iu there thou dost all according to the Scripture but if thou take but some part of Scripture to performe as it is given out by the holy Ghost to wit that which will most fit thy forme and please thy owne will and not crosse thy lusts profits and greatnesse in the world and for the rest either let them stand by or wrest them by subtill meaning and exposition to bring 2 Pet. 3. 16. them to bend to thy disobedient minde shall not God find thee out and plague thee for thy adding and diminishing altering Rev. 22. 18. and changing that which was perfectly given forth to be read and fulfilled as it is And whereas thou would charge the light of Christ shining into the Conscience which teacheth into onenesse to be the cause of all the errors in the world It is false for the light of Christ is but one and all that are led by Rom. 8. 14 it walke after Christ as he walked but the cause of all errors comes from the Serpents subtill twining and wresting the Scriptures every one for their owne Formes ends and carnall traditions but none of them will owne it to live the life of it as it is and so have it fulfilled in them as is was in those that spoke it forth Thou sayest Be sure the Christ the Faith the Hope the Baptisme the Worship be that which is in Scripture Now that Christ which the saints witnessed in Scripture is the light of the Iohn 8. 12. world given to enlighten the Gentiles and lighteneth every Iohn 1. 9. one that commeth into the world which light is in the saints Iohn 1. 7. and whosoever walkes in it hath fellowship with God and one with another and thereby are cleansed from all sin in which light all Sriptures were spoken forth which light thou denyes to be equall with the Scripture but scornes and reproaches with nick-names as Ignis fatuus a naturall light making it plainely appeare that thou art one of those the Scriptures speaks on who hates the light And the Scripture Faith is that by which Iohn 3 20. 1 Iohn 5. 4 5. the saints overcame the world sinn and the Devill and gets victory which Faith thou in this Paper canst not owne but denyes and would reproach in them in whom it hath overcome sinne and brought up to perfection and he that hath the Scripture hope purifies himselfe even as he is pure and the Baptisme 1 Iohn 3. 3. of Christ is with the holy Ghost and with Fire which thou Mat. 3 11 in thy Paper speaks scornefully of in others that owne it And the Scriptures-worship is not in Idolls Temples Formes and Letters but in spirit and in truth and God seeks such to worship Iohn 4 24. him And thou ranks up a number of Raunters Notionists Papists and such like that are most odious to people and with these thou puts in those called Quakers and tells of their opinions but those thou so callest denies all opinions and lives in the light and practice of Scriptures but thou when thou art proved will be found more in opinion then practice And thou that denies the infallible spirit to be in thee art but in opinions at the best And for the Purgatory thou speakes on thou that sayes None can ever be perfected and set free from sinne while they are here had need to own a Purgatory but they who are Redeemed and set free from sinne by the Lambe of God need it not but have received the earnest of their eternall inheritance And for the word Baptisme which is but Water

Saints have in the Word which is true but thou that would ascribe them to the Letter knowest them not but in the notion Thou sayest that those that have glorioser discoveries and revelations of Christ to boast on then ever any of those men knew yet doe cast downe the glory of their light before the Scriptures and are in subjection to Scriptures and Ordinances And thou dost instance the Disciples who saw Christ ascend I answer Whether is it a more glorious discovery and manifestation of Christ to see him appearing in them the second time in the spirit without sinne unto salvation or that to see him depart in the flesh seeing Christ tells them lt Heb. 9. 28. 2 Tim. 1. 10. is necessary that he goe away in the Flesh that he may come in the Spirit thou dost sufficiently cleare thy ignorance measuring Iohn 14. 28. 1 Cor. 15. 8. others who witnesse him with thy selfe who knowes no more of him but what thou hast found of him in the Letter And for that subjection to the Scripture and Ordinances and waiting thou speakes on did they waite in the letter and in those formes and customes and Idols temples that you waite in they waited together for the appearance of Christ in spirit praying in that measure of spirit they had received Thou goest about to make people beleeve that the light of Christ which is Acts 1. 14. given to enlighten every one that comes into the world is a naturall or fallen light but if thou didst know owne and obey it it would leade thee out of the fall and for that end art thou and others so often checkt and reproved by it for your pride Iohn 8. 12 covetousnesse envy scornefulnesse and other sinnes which though you now disobey as a thing too low for your high notions yet this light shall remaine for an eternall witnesse against all that hate and disobey it And whereas thou would scandall this light to leade into exorbitances deceit and miscarriages and many such things they are falsly cast upon this light for all these are amongst you who hate the light but who so obeys and loves the light it discovers these and leades all who follow it into one minde heart and soule and if ten times ten thousand that are guided by it yet not a word of dispute Acts 4. 32. but all speake the same things And thou calls the Scriptures A standing Rule but it is not so to you who cannot beleeve that ever it shall be fulfilled in you as it was given out by the holy Ghost neither will you so be tryed by it but you will wrest and twine it to make it meet your wills where your profits pleasures and lust will not suffer you to take up the Crosse and come up to it but if it be a Standing Rule let it stand as it is not confounded with the Serpents Wisedome and then prove thy selfe by it and those people thou reproaches and mis-calls whether thou or they owne it in practice Thou calls the Word of God the Sunne of truth and yet thou would make people beleeve it is the Scripture Letter Is the Letter the Sunne of truth may not all that looke on yee see thee in Babylon Thou sayest How could it be knowne that there is a God and Christ and holy ● Iohn 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Ghost with their works and worships I answer If thou know not Iohn 4. 22 23. 24. the Father Sonne and Spirit one God and the way of his worship other wayes then thou hast found in the Letter thou Phil. 3. 3. knows but that in letter and notion which all the Saints of God knew in spirit and power and thou worships in letter and forme thou knowes not what who doth not know and worship in spirit and herein thou shalt have Christ all the holy men to witnes against thee Thou sayest the holy Ghost interprets Scripture by Scripture und reveales Christ the Father the holy Ghost the soules union with them by Scripture I answer The holy Ghost where he 2 Pet. 1. 21 is needs no Scripture to interpret Scripture by who gave forth Iohn 14. 26 Mat. 13. 10 11. all the Scripture and opens it againe for the holy Ghost did not give out the Scripture in Parables to its own seed but to the Serpents seed and as that spirit ariseth it opens and brings Iohn 16. ● all that is spoken in Scripture to remembrance and leades into all truth in its measure and when any in whom the spirit was have made use of Scripture in such like cases it hath not been to open the meaning to themselves but to convince others who had not the spirit or would not owne it And for sovles union 2 Cor. 3. 3. which of the Saints had the witnesse of their soules union to seek in the Letter but he that beleeveth hath the witnesse in himselfe 1 Iohn 5 10. Rom. 8. 16. in spirit and not in the letter and for trying and judging 1 Cor. 2. 15. it is not the litterall but the spirituall man that judgeth all things and no visible thing can judge him Thou would have them to suspect this light those who have no light to walke by but what they by their wisedome and learning have gathered out of the letter have cause to suspect it but they who have the infallible light of Christ by which all is tryed and judged and discerned and judgement brought forth into victory in themselves by it they have no cause to suspect it but waite to walke in it Thou art offended that they should say they pray 1 Thes 5. 17. alwayes have the Baptisme of Fire eate the Flesh and drinke the 2 Thes 1. 11. blood of Christ that they were once as others Hypocrites now why Mat. 3. 11. wilt thou thus wrangle that the cōmands and promises of Christ John 6. 53. should be witnessed fulfilled in the Saints now as they have bin in Scripture witnessed Doth not the Apostles exhort to pray alwayes without ceasing and are any Baptized into Christ who are not able to witnesse the Baptisme of Fire and the Spirit without which Water Baptisme availes not to salvation And doth not Christ plainely say that whosoever eats not his Flesh and drinkes not his blood hath no life in them And have not the Saints Rom. 6. 21. witnessed a time wherein they were hypocrites and in the world without the true God And thou sayest they can give no Scriture account of the estate they are now in and yet dost blame them for owning the Scripture fulfilled in them in these things but that nature could never be satisfied with Christ nor any of his nor any account from them though they could not convince them of sinne yet they would tempt hate and persecute even till death if they had power Thou would make people beleeve that these deny the

1 Pet. 3. 21. without but not that of the spirit the answer of a good Conscience and observing of Holy dayes First cleare thy selfe and then finde fault with them that deserves Thou talkest of pittying and praying for these but the spirit of scorning slandering and deceit and the spirit of pitty and Prayer cannot stand in one and where the first is I cannot owne the latter Thou sayest Prayse the Lord that hath delivered out of the snares of Sathan And it Iam. 3. 11. is true they who are so can delight in nothing else but Prayses but whilest thou commit sinne thou art in his snares and a servant to him Thou sayest Worke out your salvation with feare Iohn 3. 9. and trembling but scornes quaking and sayes It is from the power of the Devill but it is in this as in all thy Paper thou wilt owne the Scripture in notion and letter but scornes and persecutes the power and practice of it And now friend a word to thy present condition as thou art revealed thou art in the world in thy fleshly will pride of heart and rash anger exalted above thy brethren and the spirit of persecution acts in thee thou denyest to walke answerable to a light in thy Conscience which would leade thee out of these things up into obedience love and meeknesse and thy love to the deeds of darkenesse makes thee hate the light I speake to that in thy Conscience which shall eternally witnesse me at the great day of the Lord when all secrets shall be layd open where thou shalt account for all thy hard speeches against the spirit of God in his people Wherefore repent and take heed how thou speakest evill of the things thou knowest not or opposeth the spirituall Kingdome of Christ in the Consciences of his owne poore despised little Flocke but turne in thy high minde and see what thou hast been doing and who thou strivest against If he fall upon thee he will grinde thee to powder let not thy high mind scorne that which may be for thy eternall good Search the Scritures and see if any of the holy men of God ever acted such things Now thou hast time prise it least thou harden thy selfe against God and so be for destruction eternally thou knowest not what spirit thou art of Thy Name I know not but where thou livest I know and what spirit acts in thee Oh that thou knewest in this thy day the things that belong to thy Eternall Peace My Name in the Flesh James Nayler A Call to Magistrates Ministers Lawyers and People to Repentance O Man and Woman how art thou fallen from thy Maker Gen. 1. 26. 27. and from the estate wherein thou was created And how dost thou lye in the losse and in the fall How long will it be ere thou enquire after the Lord who is holy and pure And you people of England How long will it be ere you leave off your out-side formall customary worships and seeke the Lord in truth of heart bringing forth fruits of righteousnesse and Rom. 1. 2. 3. holinesse according to what you professe that the Lord who hates dissembling may be honoured not in words but in life power and practice Doth not your actions declare against you before men and Angels that you are out of the way and in the Jer. 28. curse Children of the night and brings forth the fruits of darkenesse and death and not unto God And you who say Isay 56. 10 11. you are the Teachers of the Nation How long will it be ere Jer. 6. 13. 14. you looke at your owne wayes Is not all manner of filthinesse Exod. 3. 4. amongst you which you should leade the people out of Is there not among you Drunkennesse Gluttony Whoredome and Sporting sitting downe to Eate and to Drinke and rising up to play Swearing Lying Backbiting false accusing Rayling Slandering Contention Strife and Envy Yea Are not the best of you given to Pride and Covetousnesse which is Idolatry fulnesse of Bread and abundance of Idlenesse Are not you Hirelings and Teach for the Fleece Doe not you contend for Money with your owne Hearers and sue them at Law for it yea although they cannot satisfie your demands but sinne against the light in their owne Conscience and so sinne Isay 9. 15. 16. against God Are you not Bitter and Persecuters of any that comes to discover your lewdnesse crying out to the Magistrate Exod. 18. 21. 22. to uphold you in your beastly wayes and to stop the mouthes of all those whom God hath sent to witnesse against you And Rom. 13. 3. 4. much more works of this nature is amongst you which the pure Micha 3. 11. All-seeing God hath shewed unto his people to be amongst you and therefore it is that they come out from you least they Prov. 21. 3. partake with you of your sinnes and plagues But are not you blinde leaders of the blinde when you neither see these to be the workes of darkenesse nor those that follow you Woe unto Isay 1. 23. 24. you that devoure soules for Money and Gaine The day of your Account is at hand O repent the blood of soules is upon you Jer. 5. 28. 29. Die ever God send forth such a Generation of Teachers amongst his People who are not taught themselves by him to forsake Isay 3. 14. Iames 1. 2. 8. 9. such wayes as these which you walke in How are you ensamples to the People to follow The Leader of this People hath caused them to erre and they that are led by them are destroyed and hereby Priest and People are at a distance from the Lord. Job 13. 10. O you Rulers of the People who are set up to judge betwixt a Man and his Neighbour ought not you to judge for God and Luke 20. 21. not for Man Ought you not to be Men fearing God and hating Covetousnesse not judging for gifts and rewards Prov. 28. 21. Ought not you to countenance and encourage them that doe Exod. 18. 22. well and be a terror to them which doe evill Justice is so And Rom. 13. 3. 4. 5. he that is of God and beares his Sword turnes the edge of it against all sinne and wickednesse injustice and oppression and so sets up justice and judgement in the gates that the poore Prov. 29. 2. 14. may be delivered from him that is to mighty for him and that the cause of the Fatherlesse Widdow and Stranger may not fall but hath an eare open to the cryes of the poore and helplesse Prov. 10. 6. who hath but little Money and few friends that a poore man may not be afrayd to appeare in a good cause against the greatest Isay 5. 4. 7. oppressor in the Nation And ought not you to judge without respect to persons or without seeking respect to your own Persons Worship or Honour from men but onely