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A89855	Spirituall wickednesse, in heavenly places, proclayming freedome to the forme, but persecuting the power: or an answer to a booke intituled, Freedom of religious worship: or, the jubilee of ordinances set forth without a name.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1654 (1654)	Wing N319; Thomason E808_16; ESTC R207529	10,645	12

the Pope and Quakers pretend a spirit of infallibility such as was in the Apostles when as the Scripture saith That all the gifts of the saints are by one and the same spirit and by one spirit were they all Baptized and he that is joyned to the Lord is one spirit and here I charge thee in the presence of the Lord to be a seducer and Anti-Christ and led by a spirit of error who hath not that infallible spirit which was in the Apostles for whosoever hath not that spirit is Anti-Christ and this is the cause why so many lyes and confusions are found in thy mouth because thou art not guided by that spirit of truth which leads into all truth which was in the Apostles and in all the saints but art led by thy own imaginations and serpents wisedom from whom the things of God are hid and thou beast false prophet who hast not that spirit which was in the Apostles by which the Scriptures were given forth and by which the saints are guided what hast thou to doe to sit as Judge of the saints or what they doe in obedience to that spirit thou knows not or to interpret any Scriptures for no Scripture is of any private interpretation and thou that has not that spirit hast a private spirit and thy interpretions are private and for thy private ends and against thy generation is the Booke sealed and you see but the out-side and out of pride and a busie mind would guide others but are blinde your selves and being told of it calls it rayling which is the truth in plainnes as one day you shall be forced to confesse it against thy selfe as now thou confestest in thee much darknesse and yet thou wilt be judging the children of light Thou sayest It is the marke of Christs sheep to suffer persecution not to persecute here be thou witnes against thy selfe that thou art none of Christs sheep who talkes of whipping finings and imprisoning any for obeying Christ which thou calls disturbance and who would have them publikely whipped whom God hath commanded to goe naked as signes to you who live in your pride and excesse and thou enemy of God hadst thou lived in Isayahs time who was made a signe in the same kind he should have had no better censure from thee for obeying God then these have And thou sayest this follows their conceited perfection the great Idoll of their profession if they be but perfect as Adam they may goe naked as Adam and throw away their cloathes as they doe Ordinances And here thou shewest what spirit acts in thee which of them hast thou known to goe naked upon that accompt that is to say perfection or which of them have throwne away their cloathes to goe naked but having done what they were commanded have put on their cloathes againe neither doe they it of custome or by their own wills and what Ordinances of Christ have they thrown away and here I charge thee before the Lord to be a lyar and a false accuser of the brethren till thou prove what thou hast said and thou that calls perfection that which God requires of all his an Idoll here I charge thee to be a blasphemer and an enemy to the commands of God and a persecuter of them that obey him and the hand of God thou shalt not escape thou envious one who talks of whipping the saints and yet for a cover would seem to write against persecution O thou full of subtilty thy covers cannot hide thee which of the saints did ever talke of whipping their brethren fining and imprisoning them And thou sayest to disturbe any in the time of their worship as the Quakers doe is justly punishable never any of the Apostles did practice it in the Iewish Synagogues or Heathenish-Temples I answer any one being moved of the Lord to come into the Assemblyes in a peaceable way to declare the word of the Lord and to gather soules out of your Idolatrous Formes into the worship in spirit you that call this a disturbance are worse then the Heathen who heard the Apostles and counted it no disturbance and by this means were the Churches of the saints gathered from among the Heathen And thou that sayest none of the Apostles did ever practice this plaine Scripture shall witnesse thee a lyar for doth it not say plainly Paul as his manner was went into the Iewish Synagogues three Sabbath dayes reasoning opening and alledging the things of Christ Acts 17 And the Apostles went into the Temple and spake boldly after they were threatned and charged to speake no more in that name by such persecuters as thou art Acts 15. And here thou art proved a lyer before all people who reads the practice of the Apostles and matters not what thou sayes true or false so thou canst but make the practice of the Saints odious and thereby keep up thy false worship that none be suffered to lay it open from the Lord but calls it a disturbance and breaking of the peace who comes in peace to declare truth but those who beate stone mocke and shamefully entreat such and imprison them while they move not a hand against any these are counted no offenders by those of thy generation but you punish the innocent and lets the guilty goe free and for this shall you be accountable before the Lord when he comes to enquire after blood And thou sayest a carnall ministery may convert soules whereas God saith I sent them not and therefore they shall not profit the people and here thou art one of them who holds up the false Prophets and a carnall Ministery whom Christ never sent and such did alwayes hate and persecute the true Ministers of God and as thou pleads for a carnall Ministery so thou holds up carnall Ordinances but who holds up the carnall knowes not the spirituall worship and thou who art born after the flesh persecutes him who is born after the spirit and the Scripture is fulfilled upon thee Thou sayest the children of the world have more necessary qualifications to all governments then the children of light and the Iewes had a command from God to appoint godly Magistrates yet were their Magistrates most hideous oppressors I answer here thou shewest thy prophanesse who prefers the wisedom of man in matters of Government before the light of God and it is plaine to all that thou knows not the guiding of the light of God nor the worth of it but art contrary to God the Scriptures and all good men for saith God They that take counsell and not of me shall not stand and all that ever governed well had their councell from the spirit of God as appears in David Solomon and all the Kings of Iudea and when they took councell at any thing else then they fell and the Scripture saith When the righteous are in authority then the people rejoyce but when the wicked beare rule the people mourne And said David in thy

Spirituall wickednesse in Heavenly places proclayming Freedome to the Forme but persecuting the Power Or an Answer to a Booke intituled Freedom of Religious Worship Or The Jubilee of Ordinances set forth without a Name A Booke being brought to my hand intituled Freedom of Religious Worship or The Jubilee of Ordinances no Name I finde at it yet the spirit I know and from whence it hath its rise who seems to have hornes like a Lambe but hath the mouth of a Dragon speaking great swelling words as though he would make fire come down from Heaven in the sight of men telling of great things that shall be an appearance of Christ to come he knows not when but like the Jews is become an open persecuter of him where he is made manifest yet would he cover over his poyson under a pretence of not persecuting for conscience yet by lyes and slanders seeks to make him odious because of the plainnesse of them in whom he is and what they doe in true obedience he calls pretences And out of a busie mind sits as judge upon many things he knows nothing of but what he knows naturally having not the spirit that was in the Apostles as he himselfe confesseth and though he have not that spirit wich is infallible yet judge he will and by his judgement all shall escape who are of his mind or will own him for a leader but if any doe out-strip him in obedience to Christ in things that are against his Kingdom and beyond his wisedom and carnall reason such shall be punished with whips fines and prisons now though all the children of light may easily judge from whence this partiall spirit is yet least his faire words should beguile the simple to take a wolfe for a lambe I shall for the truths sake uncover his deceits in some few things that by these he who will see may judge of the rest for he who is found with a lye in his mouth cannot be of the truth and such are not to be beleeved in matters of Faith And thou begins thy Book with telling what great things God hath done for this Nation and how many houses of state and honour and palaces of delight Christ hath in it I answer the first is true great things hath God done for this Nation which being forgotten shall rise up in judgement against it But for the second it is but thy swelling words for in those thou calls his houses of state and honour and palaces of delight they who see with the light of Christ sees every one hunting after his own honour and state worshipping and seeking worship one of another and treading under foot humility which is the honour of Christ and Christ takes no delight to dwell in such palaces and were thou not blinde thou should see more cause herein to mourn then to boast Thou tells of the work of Christ in this Nation then compares it to a Picture with a double face on the one side with the face of a beautifull Virgin of the other side the face of an ugly Owle But this is thy double eye which shall never see into the work of Christ who sayes it seems ugly but this is thy confusion who art blinde for who sees into his works witnes them holy perfect Thou sayes godly men in all ages have put to their shoulders to uphold some peece of Anti-Christ I answer That is thy work who would punish with whips fines and prisons such as are sent to discover Anti-Christ and to declare the word of the Lord in your Synagogues and calls it disturbance and here thou would not hold up part but all Anti-Christs Kingdom who would not have any to discover him where he is and thou who would give the title of godly to men while they are upholding Anti-Christ would put a faire colour on a wicked worke and here thou appears to be of the serpent painting the out-side who would be counted God-like but acts for the Kingdom of Satan but such godly men shall have their reward according to their work Thou tells of the Scribes and Pharisces who seemed to long after the comming of the Messias in the Flesh of whom they were the greatest opposers but cannot see thy selfe that Pharisee who while thou art talking of his personall appearance in another age thou knowest not when art for whipping fining and imprisoning the bodies of them in whom Christ is made manifest in spirit and here thou art Anti-christ who denyes Christ at present to be come in the flesh and would put him a far off to another day telling of glorious dayes to come but at present art an enemy to him and an open persecuter of him and knows not him who is the same Christ to day yesterday and for ever to all who will receive him Thou saist for a wicked man to impose upon a godly man is tyrannicall and yet thou would have some whipt fined and imprisoned for obeying the commands of Christ which thou calls disturbance and here thou art that wicked tyrant that would impose upon the righteous Thou sayest all Governments are alike lawfull by Gods word I answer Gods word ownes no Government but that which is according to it just and righteous and though his saints may suffer under unrighteous governments yet are not such governments lawfull by Gods word but God hath sent and doth send his word by his servants to declare against such governments and here thou belyest the word of God which is pure and just and condemnes all that is unjust and unholy and by the word shall all Governours be judged which word is but one and doth comply with no mans will though such as thou may wrest the letter to your own destruction yet the word stands a witnes against you for ever And thou sayest some blasphemously question whother the Scripture be the word of God I answer The Scripture it selfe saith God is the word and the word was in the beginning before the letter was but it doth not say the letter is the word which hath been and may be altered which had a beginning and shall have an end and this thou sayest is eternall and here all that knows any thing of the word shall witnes thee a lyar and I charge thee to prove if thou canst that any of the holy men of God to whom the word came had it from the letter or out of a Book but they who were the false prophets which God never spoke to stole what was spoken to others their neighbours and called that the word as you doe but saith the Lord I am against such and such are false Prophets now and theeves and knows not the word nor the doore and God is against you and you shall not escape Thou sayest The weapons of the Gospel are wooings and beseechings and yet thou would have some whipt fin'd and imprisoned and here thou art Babylon and it is not to be heeded what thou sayest Thou sayest none but