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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52687	A door opened to the imprisoned seed in the vvorld, and the way of freedom by the spirit of truth, sent out into the world in love to the sheep that have long been lost, which may serve any who simply seek the life of what they possess, and may shew the feigned & false in heart, the cause why they are shut out of truths power : wherein the elect way is opened to the blind, with encouragements to enter and walk therein : also the fruits of the free-born cleared from legal performances, and the children of bondage shewed the nature of their own works : Christ Jesus known to be king in his temples, through the power of the Holy Ghost, and sword of the spirit lifted up against the man of sin in true judgment / by J.N.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1667 (1667)	Wing N277; ESTC R23128	41,513	48

holy movings in them by which the holy men of God spoke saw and discerned in all Ages as the Scriptures do testifie all which is lost in that man who is exalted above the pure Light and lowly Spirit in which God meets man to teach him the knowledge of the Truth And therefore you Teachers and People of all sorts and Sects who so violently have set your selves against the Light of the Spirit within you and within others when it calls to you for a return to it How long will you kick against that which pricks you at the heart for your contrary walkings and dissembling professions why will you not be still and commune with it in your own hearts that you might come to a true feeling and discern what nature it is of and from whence it is and what way it works and against what And also what nature that is in you which it chiefly condemns and works against and from whence that is that so with the Light of Truth you might come to judge things that differ in the ground and in the end that you might so come to walk in the Light in Judgment and in Truth of Heart towards God and man And let the single Truth of God without mixture answer these things following feelingly in you What is the cause that while you are professing to seek God and serve him you should be so unwilling to serve him in that which is of his own Nature and to worship him in Spirit and Truth in your own Vessels whose bodies should be the Temples of God who is not worship'd in Temples made with hands nor in a nature contrary to himself Or will the talking of what he is or was in others in whom he was known to walk and speak deliver your Souls from the power of the Prince of darkness and deceit that is in your selves unless you can by Faith receive him in you also as they received him and feel his Power overcoming and casting out him that hath you captive at his will against your Faith and Conscience Or will God be found in you or accept your worship whilst his Temple is possessed with his enemy and a contrary nature acts you therein Can you meet with God in any thing but that which is Holy who hears not the prayer of him that regards iniquity Wherefore your first work should be to know him in you whom God accepts for he alone must present you to the Father who appears without sin understand what I say he that appears without sin else you are reprobate in Gods sight there is no hope without Christ in you and you in him the everlasting Priest to offer up upon the Altar of atonement Holiness must make one in Spirit and though by the height of your minds he that is without sin be low and little in you yet without me you can do nothing saith Christ Jesus mind what he saith you can do nothing Then what are you doing who are not in the holy Spirit Can you worship by Tradition or be saved by the Letter will you make Christ a lyar who saith Without me you can do nothing I am the Light of the world every branch saith Christ that abideth not in me is cast out and withereth and is for the fire Mind this you that reject holiness in Spirit and light from the holy Spirit in you Are you not cut off who are not in that which is holy are you not withered and for the fire Are you not cast out who have no abiding-place in that which is holy and a light in that which is holy Mind what is withered in you and what is fruitful Have you power light and knowledge in you to do evil but not to do well Are you not withered then unto God are you not cut off from the natural Son and planted in a wild Vine of a contrary nature Your light is withered and your seed corrupted and your tree is known by its fruits which now is green and brings forth but not to God nor from God who are cut off and withered without light in you without Christ in you without God in you to keep you not so much Truth in your inward parts as is able to teach you to make you free here is your loss and nakedness manifest and the short bed and the narrow garment who have not so much of the holy Spirit as will cover you nor bear you harmless Now will you say you hope you are born again of the Spirit and are baptized into the Spirit and walk in the Spirit and worship in the Spirit and then are gone out for Salvation and Light and speak evil of that within as not able to bear you against him that is of the world Now your Hope is not an Anchor nor your Faith in that which overcomes by birth as the Saints do Whosoever is born of God overcomes the World And he that is begotten of God keepeth himself that the evil-one toucheth him not Now mind Where is he that keepeth himself and where is the evil-one Let Truth answer in you if there be any knowledge of God in the house Is not that he who gives you light that would keep you from the evil-one and should you not be one in Him that would keep you from evil Who is your Keeper Watchmen that are blind Do not you watch in vain who know not the Lord to keep your City else how should the evil-one have his liberty in and out without a powerful resisting consider in your selves Where is he that gives you to see when the evil-one toucheth you and when he tempteth but toucheth not What nature is he of that doth this for you and where is he Is he not light and understanding and is he not in you and is he not of a contrary nature to the evil-one that tempteth And doth he not shew you the temptation before you consent thereto if you mind him Then what is the cause that the evil is committed seeing a Light and Nature appears against him Is it not because you joyn to the evil-one and like his motion better than his that testifies it to be evil And so you deny the Holy-One and the Just and become one with the evil-one And then you say The Light is not able when you have denyed it and have not been faithful to joyn to it in counsel and strength but have given your strength to the contrary but they that are born of it do not so but when they are shewed the evil-one and his temptation be it what ever it be to or under what pretence soever if the Light testifies against it Then is their diligence watchfulness and sobriety used against it in the fear of God lest they should be drawn from the Light and enticed and with all their power they joyn in obedience to the way of the Light so that there is a war and wrestling ere the thing be over and being resisted

eternal and to the strengthening the holy Seed in man quickening the Soul which by sin hath suffered and this it doth by condemning sin in every motion that it may never arise against the holy Seed and also by ministring comforts and promises and power in spirit to the soul in the way of its arising above the power of the son of wickedness still ministring light and understanding in the hidden part to the holy Seed that hates sin opening that eye daily through the obedience of Truth which the god of this world hath blinded and purifying the Soul by putting off the body of corruption and blinding him that saith he sees but knows not the way out of sin ministring the Law upon him And this is the ministration of free Grace to every Soul that receives it and this it worketh powerfully in all that abide in it through the Spirit of Christ Jesus and this Grace as saith the Scripture hath appeared to all men yea and doth daily appear in all who truly wait in Spirit for its appearance and gives to all such a sight of Truth in themselves testifying with or against every motion in their hearts according as it stands in the sight of God whether it be good or evil whereby the Conscience doth accuse or excuse even as God shall judge them by Christ Jesus So that there is no cause in this Grace why any are not saved thereby from sin and condemnation but being rejected of some it becomes their condemnation and the same thing which saves him that receives it in faith and obedience condemns him that rejects it in his disobedience And this is the Grace of God that changeth not which appears to all men but only reigns to Salvation through righteousness wherein it is believed to be sufficient and obeyed in the Truth therewith made manifest So that is the Grace of God which is of God in man ministring in Spirit light to the Soul in the midst of darkness ministring life to that which is dead in sin leading that through the vail of death up to God from whom the Grace hath appeared and of whom it is and the Light thereof is Judgement and discerning in every one that receives it to be led with it in Judgment and Condemnation to such as turn it into lasciviousness denying the life thereof and the truth that leads thereto and so cannot be saved through it but he that receives it and joyns to it in Spirit becomes one with it and by his daily sinking into it in counsel it grows in him and he in it until it becomes a habitation and cover for him against all evil and so he becomes gracious in words and works daily receiving Grace for Grace of his fulness And he that hath received of this Grace and is faithful therein must not minister of it to strengthen the transgressor who loves his sin and so is under the Law for that is to cast the pearls to swine but to such as are heavy laden and weary of sin to encourage against sin and temptations which all that turn from the Devil must be sure to meet with and Judgement it ministers to the wicked that therewith he may know his condemnation with the light of Truth in whom Grace is denied to reign it is their condemnation that he is come into the world who is full of Grace and Truth but the Kingdom of Grace is Salvation in whom it reigns through righteousness unto eternal Life by Jesus Christ the Lord. So he that receives the teaching of Grace comes therein to the leading of the Spirit and so becomes free from sin is no more under the Law but under Grace but the Law hath power over him that walks after the flesh and every appearance of Grace is witness against him by declaring him to be under the law of sin and death and not in Covenant with him that appears against sin in the power of Grace and Truth which is Christ Jesus the Lord. THE END

to him that liveth and sinneth not And this appearance will be your daily Salvation and Peace and daily growth and encrease in God and make this sure to you in that principle which would not sin for gaining the whole world so shall you not lose your Election nor your Calling but an entrance thereby will be daily ministred into the Kingdom everlasting which is in Christ Jesus the Light and Truth and Power of God But if you go out to any other thing for help or counsel then that Spirit which is pure which is just which is meek and lowly by nature as God is which is righteous by nature and springs in you to bring forth fruit of it self to God alone in that principle which is pure and clean then you go from the fountain of living waters to dig for your selves and into your own works and what you bring forth is your own righteousness and not that which is revealed from above to all generations of God elected And you will go through your work hard bestead and when you have brought it forth it will not satisfie that in you which hungers towards God and is of him onely it will puff up that nature which is selfish and exalt that which is too high already to receive life from God and this righteousness God accepts not nor is it everlasting to all generations which is brought in by works and not by vertue of the Divine nature springing freely in you from an eternal Spirit which those who are entred into rest and keep the Sabbath holy are freely fed with and covered over who are ceased from their own works whose works are wrought in God and in him are brought to light where the holy Child is born and the Son of God manifest through that Spirit which the World neither seeth nor knoweth which gives to see and inherit God and godliness in a clean nature and vessel Which Birth if you desire to be born of then cease from flesh and blood and what ever that can do for you within and without that is defiled and in that which calls and convinceth you of sin wait and be faithful till you find a life and desire quickned in you which can savour or delight in nothing but that which is as God is pure just and holy and loaths whatever is contrary and cannot joyn to it in thought word nor action for this is the life of the holy Child if ever you feel it move and breath in you and that spiritual birth which as it grows in the vessel is to be heir of the heavenly treasure which though at first it be weak as a child without understanding or full strength and you not knowing what way it is ever like to come to have all the power and dominion in you by reason of the abundance of corruption that is above in you and the strong bonds of iniquity that rules in your flesh which all war against the resurrection of this Innocent life and by which the strong man keeps the house with much subtilty and spiritual wickedness against the pure and simple life yet if you do but abide in that which first gave you light to the quickening of it and be obedient thereto it will bring you a way you know not and though you may come through great travels and temptations and many fiery tryals and tribulations where you may come to be sifted and winnowed yet shall not one grain of that pure Seed perish and fail in the way for that Spirit of light and truth will lead you in his light and in his truth which hath been tryed in that way for many generations for this is he that comes in the Name of Christ Jesus the Light and Salvation of Ages who hath overcome the Devil and the world and all the power of darkness for all that are sanctified and now is come to do it in you that you may inherit your purchased possession and sit with him in heavenly places also so that your work is faith and obedience and patience towards him who is that Spirit and Light in you and to him must you give up life and all who will confound your corrupted wisdom and blind his adversary that he may give light to that Seed that 's yet under the shadow of death and build up in you the way of peace and you shall no more live by your works and gifts natural but because he liveth in you shall you live also and your life will be that which is begotten of God which never dieth and this will he do for as many as give up themselves wholly to him whose light leads out of sin this is the King of Saints and holy Life if you will receive him he hath the Power of God But you that pray and profess and seek abroad and cry for help but know not him who hath help in his hands for you in him alone to wait that in all things you might observe him you worship you know not what nor where and while in words you talk of God that liveth in works you deny him and give your strength to the dead and not to the living Should not every man know his God liveth in him and go to his own God for life according to the manifestation of the Spirit of Truth given to profit withal in every creature to Godward And this God that liveth who is just holy and true should you hear and know and learn of not of dead forms but the power of the Spirit of life whose Word giveth life to as many as have that ear open to hear the living spirit and can savour the living from the dead Now what ever you look to for life and salvation which is not in this spirit and power it 's that which kills and devours your strength to no purpose for nothing gives life but the Spirit it 's the pure Spirit that feeds the hungry soul with bread of life and to that you should give up all you have and are in hearkening and obeying spend your time and all your strength to encrease in the life that 's bread indeed but when you give your strength to customs and forms and carnal rudiments vain pleasures and delights and set your minds on these visible things then you spend your strength for that which is not bread and labour for that which profits not to life eternal nor can carnal things give you an entrance into the most Holy but in that which is pure should you wait that he may open to you the door of life I am the Door the Truth and the Life saith Christ Jesus who is not carnal who is pure clean and lowly and meek in spirit who is in you except you be reprobates and if any man have not the Spirit of Christ he is none of his Minde and consider well the Spirit of Christ in you that 's he lowly in you that 's meek in you that 's just and holy in you

place mind to know his spiritual Nature and Vertue and what hath power against sin in word and in deed therein is his Kingdom and there is his Glory and there he reigns So take heed how you let that Spirit which goeth out against sin in judgment and in victory in the least of his people and this know that his Kingdom is spiritual and within and holy and there are his Testimonies Laws and Judgements which he sends out by the mouths of his Servants as he sees fit and it s against the works of the evil one he testifies in judgement and vertue for that is his Nature and to that end he appears on earth to destroy the Devil and his works through the Sword of his Spirit and none will let this but Antichrist and his servants whose works are evil and so would stop the Mouth of Truth and Voice of Christ Jesus So you may come to know his voyce from his Temple when you hear Judgement from the Spirit of Truth passing against pride and lust and all the works of the flesh to destroy out of the world this is his voyce from his Temples in which his Throne is his holy Kingdom and Power and that 's the voyce of Antichrist who would let this and sayes thou must not judge when sin is judged and so with the words of Christ would save the works of the Devil from shame and destruction And now there be many Antichrists in this work to withstand the Word God in his Temples and who set the Letter against the Spirit to keep up sin and to silence the Word of the holy Ghost that comes out of his house against it and here are the Children of the holy God known and the children of this world the one seeks to cut down sin the other to save it and both professe Christ in words but the end of their work makes them manifest And you that are talking of Christs appearance where will you allow him a place to rule in if not in the heart and chief place in man therein to judge and govern and speak and give out his Laws will you allow the evil one to utter his voice openly in man in swearing lying and cursed speaking and every evil work and must Christ be silent and dumb thereat in his vessels when he sees it is not this his priviledge in his redeemed ones as the other hath his power in his captives that in them he may judge sin as openly as in the other it is acted and this is the reasonable service of his chosen vessels to give up their bodies that he may speak and act and shew forth his vertues and life and power therein against the spirit of the world in his vessels and were it not for this none of the holy men of God need to have suffered nor been hated but for the words of God spoken by them as Christ hath said It is not you that speak but the Spirit of your Father that speaks in you and this is the voice which the world knows not and so would stop it and sayes it is not the Lord not knowing that justice and judgement are the habitation of his throne in the hearts and mouths of his people What must not the Spirit of Truth in whom he lives judge deceit and falshood where it lives Must not that which is Holy judge the unclean must not the lowly one judge the proud the chaste one judge the lust must not he that is spiritual judge all things must not Saints judge the world What a nation would you have this to be who would root out judgement and yet profess Christ in you Is Christ in that people where there is no judgement against sin what none to judge pride and excess lying swearing and cursed speaking false wayes and false worships would you have all sin to pass openly without reproof Is the Land wholly become as Sodom mind what was their words to Lot in this case This one fellow came in to sojourn and he will needs be a Judge whose righteous soul was vexed daily with their unclean conversation So would you have sin to go openly in the streets without repoof and shame Where is the Holy One in whom doth he dwell who is of purer eyes then to behold iniquity Is Christ a King is he a Judge is he pure and clean in heart doth he live can he see sin and be silent where he hath a mouth to speak by did he ever take up his abode in people where none would allow him a habitation and a mouth to speak by Mind his walking aforetime in his Servants and what he did and spoke in them and against what and is he not still a God of Judgment at hand against his adversary though such as know not his Voice put him afar off So you who say you are for Christ and his Kingdom mind whose kingdom sin is in and whose work it is to defend it from judgment and take Scripture to plead for it that is he which condemns the just who would clear the guilty and that is abomination to God and withstands his appearance and you that yeeld your members thereto are not for Christ but against him in his members who have yeelded themselves Servants of Truth and such as you were they who slew the Just One his Prophets and Apostles in whom the Word of God spoke against sin and had the Scriptures and served sin Wherefore if you love the appearance of Christ Jesus you must not love sin but in that principle which would not sin feel him that suffers because of sin and yet is without sin and against sin and if to him you come whose appearance is in that which is holy just and true and therein joyn to him you will love that which condemns sin by which he is grieved oppressed and then are you for Christ when you can feel and suffer with him by that which he suffers and you will then see that nought is it that is offended at sin being judged but he that is guilty thereof Grace received and Grace rejected THE Grace of God is that which brings Salvation to man all men being in natural darkness as they are in the world without God so the Grace of God is tendred to all without respect of persons And that 's it in every man which gives him a sight of Truth in himself which Truth God by his Grace accepts in every man who would have all men to come to the knowledge thereof that they might be saved Now this Grace in it self is one in every man and is of God in every man and doth not spare the evil nor deny the good in any out of respect either to person wisdom strength or riches which is of this world but hath respect to the Truth of Spirit in all and their obedience thereto therein to teach and lead to Salvation and the true Worship of God in Spirit which leads to Life