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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89836	A discovery of the man of sin, acting in a mystery of iniquitie, pleading for his kingdom, against the coming of Christ to take away sin. Or, an answer to a book set forth by Tho. Weld of Gateshead, Richard Prideaux, Sam. Hamond, Will. Cole, and Will. Durant of Newcastle. By way of reply to an answer of James Nayler's to their former book, called The perfect Pharisee: who call themselves ministers of Christ, but are found ministring for the kingdom of Antichrist. Published for clearing the innocency of the truth from their malicious slanders, and discovering their deceits. By one whom the world calls James Nayler.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1654 (1654)	Wing N274; Thomason E738_16; ESTC R202155	50,411	56

judge of the world in particular he is judge of the world in general for he is but one in all the Saints who is Judge and shall be at the great day which judgements you are ignorant of who are carnal and compare it with carnal judging of Justice at the Bench and so compare spiritual things with carnal and so appear to be ignorant of spiritual things and that spiritual man which judgeth all things yet he himself is judged of no man which spiritual man being in George Fox is judge of the world but George Fox is denied for we look not upon the visible but the invisible which is the Son of God And this may serve for an answer to your reply and for condemnation To the calling George Fox the Son of God you know nothing of the Son of God as he was revealed in the Apostles but are without God in the world a nest of Serpents This Son is the same who is the Judge of the world And whereas you speak of the Angels not being this Son of God It is true he takes not upon him the nature of angels but the seed of Abraham and who seeth by this eye judgeth the deep things of God and searcheth the hearts according to that measure as he is born up And whereas you charge me with saying to one of you How should God reveal any thing to him and I not know it I answer William Cole meeting me in the way said He had a message to me from the Lord Jesus Christ but that was not a convenient place and here Cole's spirit is tryed I told him Jesus Christ was no respecter of places and therein I disowned him and his message and saw it to be deceit Whereupon I told him to this purpose If Jesus Christ should have sent him with any message to me I should have owned it for where the Spirit of Jesus Christ is that owns the message of Jesus Christ And whereas you speak of vindicating the honour of our dread Lord and his Son Jesus Christ I answer By your lying slanders of the innocent you shall never vindicate his honour for he is honoured by the truth but herein you honour the devil and do his work And here Cole's spirit is tried not to be the spirit of Christ which respects places and his message to be a lye For your Reply to the second Position That there is no distinction of persons in the Godhead Before you said it was in Saul's Errand pag. 12. and now you say you did but infer it from those words that George Fox said that it was but a busie minde But what shuffling is this Are not you ashamed to charge me with shuffling and are found in it your selves What is it that you may not charge upon us by these false inferences And when you are plainly told of it you call it rayling But your folly is made manifest to all men and the ground you go upon who slander by your false inferences and gathered up reports from the mouthes of others and give them out for truths Here I charge you Priests to be slanderers and lyers Now for your Reply to the third Position That the soul is a part of the Divine essence and you say I do not in the least deny it I answer to your charge As to the general I deny and whether any spoke it in particular or no I question there being so many lyes charged upon us from his mouth who affirms this and how shall I either deny or confess it unless I know the truth of it And if any word in weakness be spoken by one is this an honest ground you go upon to charge it upon the whole in general If any should gather up the prophane words and walkings of many in your Parish and charge them upon you would not you think your selves wronged And herein you appear to all not to do as you would be done by And for what is said of our not knowing what the soul is The endless disputes that are amongst you concerning the soul of man and what it is shall witness against you and with me before all men that I have done you no wrong and that you are ignorant of the living soul Posit 4. That Christ is in every man and in the reprobate held under corruption and in your Reply you say I charge you with lying slanders and yet confess the thing I answer That Jesus Christ is all and in all the light of the world and lightneth every one that cometh into the world without exception is confessed but that I said in the reprobate he is held under corruption which one of you said you received from me in conference that is denied And here you adde lyes to slander withal and what I said of you is true spoken not in envie nor from the fulness of my gall as you would make people believe but in plainness and truth And now you would shuffle it off to John Audland because he wrote in a letter to one that was fallen away from the Truth which he had once received That such crucified Christ within them afresh according to the Scripture But is this to say that Christ in a reprobate is holden under corruption let any judge And thus you seem to go about to make amends for wronging of me by casting the same slander fasly upon another But it seems you have a purpose to slander and some must bear it And for that expression you say I used in Edward Briggs house I deny it and witness it to be no truer then the rest and from the same root And for the Dispute you speak of at Pierce-bride and Sanderson whom you bring to prove your lyes which you cast upon me and others of my brethren who were at Pierce-bridge Decemb. 12 where Priest Sanderson came in and many rude people with him and said that God had not given to every man a measure to profit withal C. A. said Here is not one here which can deny but that Christ hath enlightned them which light is the measure of God which Sanderson denied But that any there said that Christ in some was held under corruption they that were there may all witness against him Therefore be ashamed inventers of lyes who seck others to invent them also and are lyars who say Christ is a true light but not the true light as Saunderson did there and that Christ rules in all to whom he is given for a light which is false and here I charge you all Saunderson the rest to be no ministers of Christ who stumble at the light for many say we will not have this man to rule over us and so deny the light and the Lord that bought them and this is the condemnation that light is come into the world and such abide in darkness and comprehend not the light though the light shine in darkness and here are you who deny Christ to enlighten every one that

and Greek bond and free Col. 3. 11. And this is the true light that enlightens every one that comes into the world John 1. 9. John 8. 12. And you say you have fully proved that all men in the world do need an outward light and that it is the way of Christ to make himself known by outward discoveries and you say you have proved it by arguments I answer Your deceitful arguments I deny and they are no proof to me nor any that fear God who receive that truth by the Spirit and not by arguments but bring one Scripture in plain words that all men need an outward light or that an outward discovery is the way by which Christ makes himself known to his people and till then I deny you and your Philosophy and prove one Saint that ever knew Christ since his ascension but by revelation And what talk you of preaching the Gospel who denies the immediate call of Christ or any hearing his voice or to talke of Officers given for perfecting of the Saints which say none shall ever be perfect while they live which shew you to be none of those Officers given by Christ for the perfecting of the Saints for you plead against such as witness that work and that end And whereas you say That the light spoken of 2 Pet. 1. 19. that Peter doth not send them to a light within but to books and words of the Prophets which Scripture shall witness against your deceit and blindeness for the Apostle exhorts them to wait on the light til the day dawn and the day-star arise in their hearts which is not without nor in books and if the testimony of the old Prophets was a more sure word then that which Peter heard from the mouth of God then it must needs follow that the testimony of the old Prophets who spoke but darkly of Christ and did not see his day though they desired it must be a more sure testimony then the Apostles who were his eye-witnesses and the words of books a more sure word then the voice that came from heaven which was the immediate voice of God which blinde absurdity all who have the Spirit of prophesie which is the sure word and testimony of Jesus shall condemn your blindeness who knows not that sure word of prophesie that was in them And whereas you wish the Reader to observe that Nayler cries down the Scriptures as needless here you would have the Reader to observe your lyes for though the letter doth not discover Christ but the Spirit yet it is not useless for it is a witness against your practice opinions traditions and casts you all amongst the false Prophets and hirelings and herein it is of use and authority and also is a witness without against all who will not own the witness within nor do I cry down the publishing the Gospel by the Ministery nor the hearing God and his word but you who deny the immediate call and the word of God coming to any now denies both the word and Ministery which we own and witness The twelfth Position That there is no need of any outward teaching by reading or hearing the Scriptures opened or applyed And herein you accuse me of shuffling railing and lying because I say you apply the promises of God to them who are in the first birth and preach them up all believers and say men must commit sin while they are here and sow pillows under mens arm-holes now is not this true of you who sprinkle Infants by the faith of their Parents and calls them your flock and receives them to your Ordinances and do you not here preach them up believers within your liberty or Parish though they live in sin and here you sow pillows under every arm-hole and then do you not fine them who refuse to pay you Tythes or hire and so you prepare war against them who put not into your mouthes And you hold forth that none can be free from sin while they live Now where are the lyes or what wrong have I done you let any that is spiritual judge for lying I abhor or to wrong any but I speak the truth of you as your practice doth witness And in your answer to that Scripture which saith They shall no more teach every man his neighbour saying Know the Lord Heb. 8. 11. This you say doth onely concern the children of God and such as have their sins pardoned wherein you exclude all your Parish people from the children of God and pardon of sin for how many have you that are taught of God and needs not your teaching as you say I desire your hearers that they would consider of it that so they might come to the teachings of God and so witness the children of God and sin pardoned and so to witness the everlasting Covenant and no need of your teachings And whereas you tell of 4 Arguments and above 30 plain Scriptures in your Perfect Pharisee Your Arguments I deny and sees them to be deceit and there is not one of the thirty nor in the whole book that doth plainly witness to your way of teaching but the whole Scriptures are against you and all that teach for hire and denies the immediate call and the word of the Lord coming to you Jer. 23. 21 32. And you ask why the Apostle wrote to the Hebrews to teach them if that were the meaning that no man should teach their neighbour I answer To draw them to the teaching of Christ as is plain when he tells them of a growth that need no man to teach them and though he say You have need that one teach you again which is the first Principle of the Oracles of God doth he say this to continue them in a need of that as you would inferre or to shame them that they were not yet grown up to the teachings of God Heb. 6. 1. and out of mans teachings towards perfection And whereas you alledge the exhortation of the Apostles we own it which was to draw up to the light and teaching as is plain in their exhorting them to wait for the appearing of Christ who was their light and life Col. 3. 4. And whereas you say You press all to struggle after that perfection they do not yet enjoy now how this agrees with your saying they shall never be perfect while they live and what encouragement you give them to struggle is evident who tells them they must struggle but never prevail while they live And here you are found to be the juglers you speak of whose teaching is yea and nay And whereas you charge me with casting dirt upon the Scriptures because I say the Holy Ghost did not put it into Chapters and Verses but the hireling-Priests to trade withal Here you appear to be false accusers and the railers and lyars you speak on for I have not spoken one word against the Scriptures but own them as the Holy Ghost gave them forth The thirteenth

Position That the Scriptures are not the word of God but a Declaration of the condition of them that spoke them forth And in your Reply you alledge many Scriptures but not one that speaks of a written word or that the letter is the word but that it is a Declaration is plain as Luk. 1. 1. 1. Joh. 1. 3. and divers other places where they that had the word in them declared it in writings to others Gal. 1. 16. And whereas you say The seed is the word it 's true but that seed is not the letter nor can any sow that seed but where Christ is revealed in them And you argue carnally and say Can the devil take Christ out of their hearts I answer Where the devil is received in there Christ departs and in that sense may be said to be taken away but if you minde the words that follow Lest they should believe and be saved it will appear to be the seed of Christ for in what else could they be believe to salvation but in Christ and this seed is not the letter as you would prove it to be and for that place 1 Thess 2. 13. where it is said That which the Saints heard of the Apostles was not the words of man I answer It 's true and that word was Christ the word of faith as is plain Rom. 10. 6 7 8. neither can you prove that ever the Apostles preached any other word but Christ Gal. 1. And whereas you say there are two words of God an essential and a declarative word which is your own language but the Scripture speaks no such words And whereas you accuse us to destroy the Scriptures Divinity and Authority but is this to destroy their Authority when we say They were spoken forth by the Holy Ghost which was in them that spoke them forth and ye would make people believe the letter to be the foundation of the Saints and hath the Authority over the Soul and here you deny Christ to establish the letter in his stead who is the foundation of Saints and hath the Authority of Souls for they who preached Christ the foundation denied themselves to preach the letter but your ministration is of the letter who knows no other word but what you read in books And this is your foundation you stand on and here it 's tried and by which you get your living in the world and here you deny Christ for the letter is not Christ And whereas you talk of the commands of God but his commands you know not who have them to seek in the letter for his commands is in Spirit and ever was and yet this doth not destroy the Scriptures but witness the same Spirit that gave them forth and that which the Saints spoke was the word of the Lord and not the letter according to their several measures and conditions And whereas you accuse me to say that the words which the Prophets spoke was Christ wherein your deceit appears to all that read my words for I do not say their words were Christ but that Spirit by which they spoke was the Spirit of Christ And this is that which I spoke of which came to the Prophets which you deny to be Christ and therewith the life of Christ and the Apostles you are all judged out of truth and here your deceit and blindeness and slanders are laid open for every spiritual eye to see The fourteenth Position That the Spirits are not to be tried by Scriptures And here because I say that the infallible Spirit which is the original of all Scriptures is the trial of all Spirits from thence you argue that I set the minde and will of the Spirit in opposition to the Spirit which is false for I set the Spirit of God in whom it is in opposition to all deceitful Spirits for so the Apostle bids them who had the Spirit of God try the deceitful Spirits and this was not spoken to them who were guided by the Spirit of the world for such cannot try the Spirits neither with the letter nor without it as I have formerly proved neither did Christ send them to try his Spirit when he bad them Search the Scriptures nor did the Bereans try the Spirit of Christ but searched the words which Paul spoke from those Scriptures that declared of Christ And here by the visible eye they tried visible words but the Spirit of God is invisible and cannot be tried by any but those who have it and are guided by it And you that would make people believe that all that can read the letter can try the Spirit of God would set up carnal judges over the Spirit of God when the Scripture saith The natural man understands not the things of God and you confess the eternal Spirit to be the trier of Spirits though formerly you seemed to deny it but say your question is what the Saints had to try the Spirits by I answer By the same Spirit by which they are sanctified and prove in Scripture where the Saints are commanded to try the Spirits by any other things and here see your confusion for the letter is dead and speaks nothing for the Apostles said They served God in the newness of life and not in the oldness of the letter and if any man read this letter and not by the same Spirit that gave it forth he is not able to judge of it but wrests it as you do for your several ends if any man read it by the same Spirit that gave it forth it is the Spirit that judgeth of the letter and not the letter of the Spirit And whereas you talk of trying the doctrines of men by the Scriptures it is true they that have had the Spirit of God in all ages have made use of the letter against the deceitful doctrines as we do at this day and yet this letter is not the judge of the Spirit of God in them for this were to set the letter above the Spirit And whereas you accuse us to exclude the Scriptures because we say the holy Ghost is the original of them which slander is false for hereby we confess and own the Scripture to be given forth by the holy Ghost And whereas you say the light which a spiritual man hath is a Scripture-light I answer A spiritual mans light is the light of Christ and is infallible and cannot be altered and therefore all that are guided by it are one where there is no disputes nor janglings but you that have your light from what you gather out of the letter are confused amongst your selves adding to it your own meanings for your own ends and do not speak one and the same things but every man according to his imaginations of the letter so he judgeth and so he worshippeth and here are you Teachers of the world divided in your several judgements and your several worships And thus you are putting meaning upon Paul's words where he saith He is