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A95098	A true narrative of the examination, tryall, and sufferings of James Nayler in the cities of London and Westminster, and his deportment under them. With the copies of sundry petitions and other papers, delivered by severall persons to the Lord Protector, the Parliament, and many particular Members thereof, in his behalf. With divers remarkable passages (relating thereto) before his journey to Bristol, whither he is now gone towards the filling up the measure of his sufferings.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1657 (1657)	Wing T2789; Thomason E899_6; ESTC R204821	56,615	71

be made manifest which have been lost the Truth the power of the form and the life of Christ and Christ himself the Emanuel Therefore take heed of persecuting that which is created and made by his power where the power is received and dwelt in for the powers sake which power is Christ and which the power speakes through and where the power of God rules where there is a fault the fault is judged but where the seed is that is to be owned and it is not just that the mouth of the séed should be stopped in the fear of God and meekness vveigh and consider these things before you act and consider what vvas in the Apostles that caused them to suffer POSTSCRIPT IF the seed speake which is Christ he hath no other Name for the seed is Jesus Christ and it is not blasphemy but truth but if the seed of the serpent speak and say he is Christ that is the Lyer and the Blasphemer and the ground of all Blasphemy and is not the seed which is Christ but the head of the serpent is to be bruised which is the cause of all enmity strife and debate with the seed of the Woman which is Ghrift George Fox Was not the appearance of Christ when He was born glorious when that the voyce was cryed Hosanna to the Highest Was not this to the astonishing of the beholders and amazement of the world did it not stir up all chief Priests and Herod was not He puzled about His Birth and they troubled at his coming did not the Chief Priests and Rulers gather against Him who was full of grace and truth did not the glory of Him shew it self forth when He went up unto Jerusalem when the high voice was spoken and the songs to him sung the strength ordained out of the mouths of Babes and sucklings and was not Jerusalem the highest place of Worship and did not the strength which was ordained for the Babes and Sucklings set the Priests and Rulers on rage against Christ that they crucified and slew him and did not that make Herod and Pilate friends in the highest place of Worship did not He say and tell his Disciples Hee would come again the Hosanna Him that was cryed Glory to the Highest And did not He come again to his Apostles accordin 〈…〉 o his promise and make his abode with them and sup with them Did not the Apostles say to the Saints that Christ was in them the mysterie the hope of glory and if He was in them the body was dead because of sin did not the Apostle say Examine your selves prove your selves Know you not that Iesus Christ is in you except you be Reprobates mark Iesus Christ in you the Emmanuel the Saviour the Lamb of God the Hosanna Is not his appearance in the Spirit as glorious in his second coming as it was at his first is it not as much to be admired in the world as it was ever Answer these things and satisfie yourselves To the Light wherewith Christ Jesus hath enlightned you all I speak that with it you may see when you act against him where he is manifested To prison them contrary to the Just is to make them to grow and to banish them is to shame your Religion and not to own the thing the scripture speakes of and to put them to death is to destroy your selves George Fox Whether or no you will suffer Christ to have as much honor in the earth and the world as the Devil hath Where Christ is manifested whether or no he shall not have more honour or as much where he is manifested And whether or no it is offence to bow to man or to kneel before a Indgein the world Whether this be offensive to the world amongst the world to bow before such and among such the truth is not in And whether or no it would not be offence to such to bow to Christ where he is manifested and persecute such as do bow where the thing is in the truth whether or no such a thing may not be done in the truth and bee a figure to all the bowings of the earthly Powers which be out of truth which hath reigned above the seed of God An example to you all Therefore take heed and consider before you act any thing or judge lest God judge you afterward for be assured He will Whether bowing in the Truth may not bee a figure that the seed of God shall rise and reign above the Earthly Powers and they shall bow to it And how know you but such things as these may bee tryalls to you whether you will persecute another for taking that which is acted among you to your selves in another way different from this Now come to do as you would be done by and do not persecute that in another that is acted in the world though it be professed otherwayes in the intent and come to the true measure and weight and act nothing in your own wils nor out of the counsel of God to judge the just upon earth in this world the just you 'l be judged by that is of the world to come without end I receive not Honor of man Whether or no if any do persecute the seed which doth take the honor of God which is over the world and it They themselves do take the honor of the world that persecutes the contrary Are these things judged with a just measure and weighed with an equall ballance yea or nay George Fox DID not Christ wash the Disciples feet Did he not do that as a pattern and example to those that came after him that they should do to one another Have you washed one anothers feet Have ye anointed one another with oyle that stumble at these where they are acted Are not these the expressions of love to one another And are not these things to be acted amongst the Disciples of Christ Are not these things wonders amongst you that do not wash one anothers feet that be out of the example of the Lord did not the Disciples wash one anothers feet according to Christs example Were not the Prophets feet washed Did not Peter desire his head o be washed Do not wonder and strange at these things where they are practised Were not the Saints to salute one another with a holy kisse and was not Peter to be carried whither he would not Was there not a time that he girded himself And is it not the Prince of the air that rules in the children of disobedience if it be not the Prince of Peace and the Lamb of God And is it not an expression of love and honor where there is the washing of one anothers feet And for the washing or kissing of feet it is but an expression of love and humility And is not this a patern and example to all you to judge you all how far short ye are of washing one anothers feet or kissing one anothers feet and do not wrong

A True NARRATIVE OF The Examination Tryall and Sufferings of James Nayler in the Cities of London and Westminister and his deportment under them With the Copies of sundry Petitions and other Papers delivered by severall Persons to the Lord Protector the Parliament and many particular Members thereof in his behalf With divers remarkable Passages relating thereto before his Journey to Bristol whither he is now gone towards the filling up the measure of his Sufferings Esth 3. 8. And Haman said unto King Ahasuerus There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the Provinces of thy Kingdom And their Lawes are divers from all people neither keep they the Kings Laws Therefore it is not for the Kings profit to suffer them Printed in the Year 1657. To the truly Christian Readers GReat is the enmitie between the two Seeds that of the Woman and that of the Serpent A Truth which though every Christian doth experiment in himself in his measure and degree yet it is then rendred most remarkable when the appearances of Christ are most signal and carry a greater disagreement with flesh and blood and the glories of the first Creation The reason is this the natural man having escaped the grosser pollutions of the World and decking himself with the knowledge of Christ Jesus after the Flesh and the litterall understanding of the Scripture is whetted thereby with greater zeale and fury to oppose the ministration of Christ in the Spirit and his exsertions of himself in that simplicity innocencie and selfdenyall which are proper only to this dispensation The legall Spirit is filled with indignation to be fo farr left behind yea to be in danger of losing all by this spirituall birth of the Child Jesus in the Heart as Herod was at the apprehension of his losse in the outward upon the relation of the naturall birth This was the ground of the sufferings of the Prophets of Christ himself and many of the Saints since that time whether this consideration obtaine not in the present case of James Nayler upon the perusall of this ensuing Treatise no doubt you will receive full satisfaction 'T is an acquiescence to some Spirits that they bore their Testimonie against it and though their endeavours did not produce their desired effect yet having discharged their consciences as in the sight of the Lord and resting in his will they shall not lose their reward Who knows how necessary sufferings are for the Saints yea how great a measure of them is yet behind Gird up therefore the loyns of your minds and receive an alarum from the hand of the Lord to that self denyal and patience in which you are to prssesse your souls untill the Lord come It is not denyed but a Saint may be subject to many Temptations 't was the priviledge of Christ alone not to bee overcome by them yet when the True Judge appeares he will embrace his own seed and passe sentence not according to occasional diversions but according to the constant tenour of the integrity and uprightnesse of our spirits in his fight A REPORT FROM THE COMMITTEE TO WHOM The Examination of James Nayler Blasphemer and other Misdemeanors were referr'd Resolv'd THat the matter of Fact together with the particular Resolutions of this Committee thereupon bee reported to the House First I shall give you the short History of his Life as the Committee had it from his owne mouth He saith he was born in the Parish of Ardisloe neer Wakefield in Yorkshire where he lived 22 or 23. yeers till he was married according to the world as he expressed it Then he removed into the Parish of Wazefield where he continued till the last Wars began during which time he was under several Commands and at last was Quartermaster in Major General Lamberts Troop in which Service he continued till disabled by sickness in Scotland and so retired to his own home about which time he was a Member of an Independant Church at Horbery in Yorkshire of which Church Mr. Christopher Marshal was Pastor by the same Church since cast out a If he was cast out it was not till some yeers after he had withdrawn from them for their wanton and unchristian carriage especially of Christopher Marshal their Pastor which things he had charged upon them and given them in writing under nine particulars proving their practice contrary to Scripture but never yet received a line from them of any crime as he declared before the Committe and how doth this prove him an Imposture c. as himself confesseth he hath heard b From others but nor from them by which Church he was charged as guilty of Blasphemy c Which Blasphemy was That he had affirmed in a book Justification by the gift of Gods Righteousness which he proved from Rom. 5. which stopt their mouthes and uncivil and wanton carriage d But nothing proved further then common salutations which then were not accounted evil being about seven yeers since and before he saw the vanity of those customes with one Mrs. Rop●r a married Woman as that she should sit on his knee and kiss him before divers other persons e So it seems it was not done in a corne and that it was his Opinion He might lye with any Woman that was of his Judgement f Which he denyed before the Committee as utterly false being never his Judgement And then after some time g Which time was this last Summer being so many yeers after went to visit the quakers in Cornwall and by his way was by Major Saunders h This is false for Major Saunders gave him liberty to go on his journey but he was brought back about 20. miles from thence and committed by a Judge and fined 20. marks for not putting off his hat committed to the Common-Goal in Exon as a Vagrant i Of which company few had bin Prisoners as is intimated And thence he and his Companie being delivered k Must it be taken for granted because alledged when nothing is made appear that is evil by an Order from the Council They travelling to Bristol in the way Nayler took upon him l What as was alledged m And four men what 's the reason they are not mentioned as wel as the women against him And as he passed through Chewstoke in the County of Sommerset towards Bristol it is informed upon oath certified by three Justices to the Committee That staying in that Towne one night he was there in a Chamber with three Women n But was there not fourmen and two women more in the room of his Company leaning upon the bed with one of them at night when the servant of the house left them And in the morning the servant found Nay●er on the bed with one of the Women and the Curtaines drawn and some of the Company p What evil was in this if while he was on