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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52705	Milk for babes: and meat for strong men A feast of fat things; wine well refined on the lees. O come young men and maidens, old men and babes, and drink abundantly of the streams that run from the fountain, that you may feel a well-spring of living water in yourselves, springing up to eternal life; that as he lives (even Christ Jesus) from whence all the springs do come, so you may live also, and partake of his glory that is ascended at the right hand of the Father, far above principalities and powers. Being the breathings of the Spirit through his servant James Naylor, written by him in the time of the confinement of his outward man in prison, but not published till now.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.; Booth, Mary, 17th cent.	1661 (1661)	Wing N299; ESTC R202065	26,742	32

in the day of the deep tryal of his Innocent Lamb even how the Lord was with him when he was beset with darkness and assaulted with strong temptation and how he brought him thorow the Fire and thorow the Sea and under the Mountains and Hills and slevv his Enemy which had Dominion over him and so brought him to know himself and then exalted him over death and delivered him out of the pit in the sight of his Enemies and brought him to the pleasant Valleys Springs again caused his glory to descend upon him in which he met the Flock of his Father in whose Love he became joined and knit unto them that had forsook or stood at a distance from him Also many other weighty Sentences all vvhich are set forth that the vvonders of the Lord may be seen and that flesh may not boast nor glory in the time of prosperity though much of God may be opened and knovvn and that the tender-hearted may not despair in the times of deepest sufferings temptations and tryals but patiently vvait on him vvho worketh all things in his people according to the counsel of his ovvn vvil that he over all and in all things may be glorified vvhose right alone it is So be it Allelujah IT is in my heart to praise thee O my God let me never forget thee what thou hast been to me in the Night by thy Presence in the Day of Trial when I was beset in darkness when I was cast out as a wandring bird and when I was assaulted with strong Temptations then thy presence in secret did preserve me and in a low estate I felt thee near me when the floods sought to sweep me away thou set'st a compass for them how far they should pass over when my way was through the Sea and when I passed under the Mountains there wer't thou present with me when the weight of the hills was upon me thou upheldst me else had I sunk under the earth when I was as one altogether helpless when tribulation and anguish was upon me day and night and the Earth without foundation when I went on the way of wrath and passed by the gates of hell when all comforts stood afar off and he that is mine enemy had dominion when I was cast into the pit and was as one appointed to death when I was between the milstones and as one crushed with the weight of his adversary as a father thou wer 't with me and the rock of thy presence when the mouth of Lions roared against me and fear took hold on my soul in the pit then I called upon thee in the night and my cries were strong before thee daily thou answeredst me from thy habitation and delivered from thy dwelling place saying I will set thee above all thy fears and lift up thy feet above the head of oppressi in I believed and was strengthened and thy word was salvation Thou didst fight on my part when I wrestled with death and when darkness would have shut me up then the light shone about me and thy banner was over my head when my work was in the furnace and as I passed through the fiery spirits thy faith staied me else through fear I had fallen I saw thee and believed so the enemy could not prevail VVhen I lookt back into thy work I was astonished and see no end of thy praises Glory glory to thee saith my soul and let my heart be ever filled with thanksgiving whilst thy works remain they shall shew forth thy power then didst thou lay the foundation of the earth and feddest me under the waters and in the deeps didst thou shew me wonders and the forming of the world by thy hand Thou least me in safety till thou shewedst me the pillars of the earth then did the heavens shower down they were covered with darkness and the powers thereof were shaken and thy glory descended thou fill'dst the lower parts of the Earth with gladness and the valley was opened thy showers descended abundantly so the Earth was fill'd with virtues Thou madest thy Plant to spring and the thirsty soul became as a watered Garden then didst thou lift me out of the pit and set me forth in the sight of mine enemy thou proclaimedst liberty to the captive and called my acquaintance near me they to whom I have been a wonder and in thy love I obtained favour in those who had forsaken me then did gladness swallow up sorrow and I forsook all my troubles And how good is it that man be proved in the night that he may know his safety that every mouth may become silent in thy hand until thou make man known to himself and have slain the Boaster and shewed him the vanity that vexeth thy soul DEar Friends dwell in the pure Power of God and in the undefiled Life walk towards one another and feel one another in harmless hearts and in the bowels of our Lord Jesus Christ judge all straightness in your selves rather then one another How good a thing is Unity of Spirit and Mind And how precious is that Soul that seeks peace with self-denial God is near you who seeth all your Works and evil thoughts slay the Lord of Peace and grieves God exceedingly But that is the Child of his Love and Son of his Bosom that seeks not himself but can lay down his life for another O feel that Spirit and Life my dear Friends and wait for his appearance who is that Life in whom he comes with Power thy Peace shall be as a River that is clear and broad which shall not be dryed up but thou shalt drink into Eternal Rest and Quietness shall fill thy dwelling and the God of Peace and Holiness will delight in thee and in the end thy Fruit shall break out and thou shalt not long be hid but thy God in whom thou delightest shall cover thee with his Glory and make thee to shine in his Light and the Lamb shall speak out of his Temple and shall be confessed too but the self ended Spirit will wither and that which lifts up it self will fall to nothing and back-biters and whisperers and they which carry tales to make debate will God thrust away far from him and the meek shall enjoy his Inheritance alone who hath sought his praise from God and not from men Therefore take heed to your spirits in Gods fear and keep the Unity and Covenant of God and grieve not Gods Spirit nor provoke any to Wrath And again I warn you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ speak not evil nor think evil of Brother or Sister for if you do you cannot be guiltless before God nor stand before the Enemy in the time of tryal for evil thoughts will eat out your peace and precious Life and devour your strength with God and make way for many Evils to enter and prevail upon you Even the Lord God of Eternal Power preserve you all who hath called you

got power by letting some carnal thing in upon you to press you down which Spirit waits upon you continually to ensnare the Heavenly Life and get above it in your minds and so as a weight beset you in your way lest that which comes from Heaven should have free passage through a clear Vessel to Heavenly Seed free from cares cumbrances and earthly pleasures and from Earth to the Heavens for it 's he that comes from above which declareth to man his way and his wants presents his prayers and receives the answer and by him alone doth God work all his Works in you for you in Heaven and in Earth Now if you join to another and give your strength of heart and mind to his Enemy then the Work of God ceases the way being stopt for the Adulterer the Covetous the Idolater the Wanton the Sloath or what ever of that Nature you join to your consent giveth him strength to stop the Way of Life And this is your condemnation witnessed with the Light and herein had Death its power at the first which can be no Head but where he is hearkned to let in or obeyed but being resisted flyes but being let in he seateth himself in the Heavenly way with much policy and power and is not easily got out nor seen to be what he is so when you feel your way darkned or affections grow cold towards Heaven then take heed with all diligence in the pure Light to search for your Enemy hath got some entrance which by faithful and patient waiting in the Light you will come to see and through the power of the Cross to kill that life and cast out that in which it was conceived for that must not abide in the House with him that is Heir of the Heavenly Inheritance but is an Enemy to his coming for it is he that letteth till he be taken out of the way which while he is in the way dulls the affections and clogs the Heavenly mind that it cannot ascend wherefore that which you have received of the Holy One his Unction hold fast till he come and with it stand armed against whatever would enter to lead out to any outward observations but with all diligence observe that which you have of his in Spirit which the adversary seeks so much to draw you forth from least you should encrease your Lords money and herein you maintain your daily watch and war with that you have of Life and Power and not with that you have not so are you faithful Stewards and are accepted in what you have and not in what you have not for the World is in darkness and so wait for they know not what and have no ground for their Faith nor power to prepare his way to his coming further then words of others or their own conceivings but are not in him who is true but you are in him who is true who have his Light received and are in it to observe hhis appearance in all things and the Messenger of his Covenant you know who goeth before his face to prepare his way turning your hearts from every evil way and out of the paths of the destroyer that you may be fruitful upon earth that so he may receive you into himself vvhen he cometh to smite the Earth vvith a Curse which that which brings forth Bryars and Thorns is nigh unto whose Seed is not of himself his root and off-spring at his coming which is begot in the Adulterous mind For the mind feeding from without upon any knowledge form or observation but what the life leads to in Spirit and power is the ground of the mystery of iniquity the woman of Witch craft which hunteth for the precious life of the holy Child seeking to draw your strength of affections from him after the harlot that so he may fall die daily in your hearts and affections while the Lust goes out to another covered with some fair pretence whereby the worldly Spirit gathers strength daily as you shal feel who are watchful and diligent in the Spiritual War so shal that Truth appear to you That as your love waxeth cold so wil iniquity abound with an unresistable power whatever you know to the contrary which is not in the life Or whatever you believe without that faith which works by love to the life of Truth more then to the knowledge of Truth So let your wrestling be into the power and life of God and thereon feed and your life shal indure for ever and your strength and virtue shal be daily renewed But you read of some who had the form of Knowledge and of the Truth but being out of the life of Truth held the Truth in Unrighteousness and such when they knew God did not glorifie him as God in life So he gave them up who became vain in their imaginations who retained not the life in the knowledge turned the Truth of God into a Lie So that knowledge could not keep them from being filled vvith unrighteousness which stood not in the life and povver of righteousness and who received not that Truth in that Faith which loves to live the life of it Wherefore let your food be in the life of what you know and in the power of Obedience rejoice and not in what you know but cannot live for the Life is the Bread of your souls which crucifies the flesh and confounds that which runs before the Cross So let your labour and diligence be in that which presseth into the Heavenly Being and seeketh a Conformity to Christ in obedience of what you believe and hearken in love to that not in that mind which would save your own lives nor feed you where you are but in love to that which seperateth you from self-life and changeth you into his life whom you wait for from above so in receiving his commands in that which loves to be like him in life your Faith works by love and his Commands are joyous through love That Faith worketh obedience quickness and willingness it worketh out the old and worketh into the new and so through the hope of that which you love and obedience of Faith the entrance is made with the Life into the holy Kingdom and the Immortal Glory is put on which in the Light is seen and in the Life obtained as with the Word of Faith the separation is made and the Life that 's Mortal put off whose Life is without the Vail and is for death with that Life who makes the entrance through his Blood and through his Flesh a living Way a Way of Life a new Way to all who are seeking the Door in old Ordinances and Traditions and outward Observations feeding their minds with thinking or talking of what others did long since or what may be done in times to come and so are in Times but out of that Life which endures for ever and onely hath the promise of the Father and Power to make the