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A89842	The light of Christ, and the word of life. Cleared from the deceipts of the Deceiver, and his litterall weapons turned upon his owne head. Also the man of sin found out, who is hiding himselfe in a heape of confusion, pretending Antichrist is not yet come. Occasioned by laying open some deceipts in a booke titled, The deceiv'd and deceiving Quakers discovered; subscribed Mathew Caffin and William Jeffery, brethren in iniquitie, who are joyned to deny God, Christ, the light, and spirit, in his saints, and calls it teaching Christs spirit apart from his body, and an evill spirit, to witnesse the spirit of Christ in the saints. Set forth that the simple may see the wiles the devill hath to keepe them from the word of life, the soules salvation. / By a lover of Israels seede, called James Nayler.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1656 (1656)	Wing N293; Thomason E877_1; ESTC R206580	19,351	24

sin in the word of the Lord and presently the Serpent gets a Scripture to plead for it and so to give God the lye which was his work before the letter was to wit to oppose the word in open lying but now hath got the letter to hide him and can now come as boldly with it is written Luke 4. 10. to uphold his sin and imperfection as ever he did with his lye to Eve to set up his kingdome of sin and imperfection at the first which then he got in by subtilty without Scripture but now by the letter would maintaine it by force and if any believe to attaine that estate againe before he entred with boldnesse from the letter he will prove him an heretick and find Scripture to murther him for it also he having but power to doe it and this is the use the Scriptures are of when such give meanings of them and preach them whose eye he hath blinded and have not the word in them from which the Scriptures came and without which none know them nor understand them And thus the Jewish Rabbies put Christ to death by the letter John 19. 7. And so doth he suffer to this day in whom ever he is by the worlds Teachers wresting the letter therefore saith Peter such wrest all Scriptures to their own distruction 2 Pet. 3. 16. And this is the ground of the Devills envy against the children of light at this day because we exhort people to the Spirit of Christ and to his light to enlighten their mindes that they may not read without understanding and so wrest the Scriptures to their own destruction which things we our selves did while we was in our fallen wisdome for while man is in darknesse the best of Gods gifts are perverted to a wrong end but being enlightned from the word the gift is seen and sanctified to its right end without which it cannot for God hath placed the blessing and right use of all his mercies in his Son who is the light of the world the word by which all was made and is upholden therefore is he first to be preached who is first and last to enlighten people that sit in darknesse death and delusion which light being first received all the gifts of God are yea and amen therein to his praise and the creatures good for without faith all is lost and it is not faith in the gift that saves but faith in the giver for many did believe in the Scripture and thought to have eternall life therein but could not believe in the light of the vvorld and so denyed the giver and the Scriptures could not save these but in their thoughts thereof deceived themselves who had not the word in them and so stuck in the letter but would not come to the light of life for it is he that hath the Son hath life and not every one that hath the letter and such alone have the word of life which such as stick in the letter knows not nor can hear John 8. 47. Nay there was many that heard Christ speak but did not nor could they hear the word John 8. 43. And this was much more then the letter yet such blind and deaf creatures being blinded by the God of this world they thought to have eternall life in the Scripture Saith Christ v. 47. He that is of God heareth Gods words ye therefore hear them not because ye are not of God yet did Christ speak the words of God and they did hear him carnally as carnall men doe the letter and could make him answer to his speech but could not hear the words of God as Christ plainly saith and here thou maist read thy blindnesse Also that place Acts 17. which you think makes so much for you to prove the letter the word it doth but fall on your own heads as all other Scriptures doe for them of Berea was not called more noble then them of Thessalonica because they had the Scriptures read for the Jews of Thessalonica had the Scriptures read every Sabbath day but this was their nobility in that they received the word gladly with all readinesse of mind and then searched the Scriptures dayly first they received the word to enlighten and then searched the Scriptures in the light so this doth plainly prove that they had not the word before though they had Scripture before so that here you doe but prove that the letter is not the word Also this place clearly proves that one may have the Scriptures all their lives and read them in way of worship constantly for so did both these sorts of Jewes and yet neither know word nor Scriptures untill they received the word of light but when the word is received or not received that makes the difference of believers and unbelievers the one owns the other envies and persecute though both have the Scriptures this Scripture proves this in the Jewes and your practice proves the same in you Gentiles who call your selves Christians who are found joyning with the lewd people as they did and stirring up their minds to persecu●e through your lyes which otherwise might be silent so your worke is seene and makes it manifest what word you know as all thy yes and slanders in thy booke may test●fie thee to be one of that envious broode which is the most they serve for for us they touch not yet is thy reward no lesse yet this all may note that the searching of the Scriptures without the word first received cannot find the way to faith as this scripture doth plainly prove for till the eye be opened with the light of the word of life The Scriptures are a mystery to the Carnall understanding and all that man can doe with them in that state is to wrest them to his own destruction 2 Pet. 3. 16. And you who are Judging of Scriptures and setting others so to doe without the light of Christ are they who lead the blind and resist the holy Spirit as did your fathers so doe you resist the Spirit with your Imaginations from the letter Be ashamed of your doctrine hath the Spirit given out the letter to testifie of the light of the world and its suffic●e●cy and that there is no other way out of the world but Christ the light of the world and that the light the way are one And doe you pervert this against the light to prove it not sufficient Hath God given his Word to his seede in every generation and hath promised that it shall never depart out of the mouth of that seede for ever Isa 59. 21. By which Word all was made and all his are to be guided and sanctified and because the testimony of some few of those who had this Word is in writing to witnesse that Christ is this Word and that all are to waite for him And will you take this letter and pervert it against this Word to set it in its stead to keepe from this Word and call

THE LIGHT OF CHRIST AND THE WORD OF LIFE Cleared from the Deceipts of the Deceiver and his litterall Weapons turned upon his owne head Also the Man of sin found out who is hiding himselfe in a heape of Confusion pret●nding Antichrist is not yet come Occasioned by laying open some Deceipts in a Booke titled The deceived and deceiving Quakers Discovered Subscribed Mathew Cassin and William Jeffery brethren in iniquitie who are joyned to deny God Christ the light and Spirit in his Saints and calls it teaching Christs Spirit apart from his body and an evill Spirit to witnesse the Spirit of Christ in the Saints Set forth that the Simple may see the wiles the Devill hath to keepe them from the word of Life the Soules salvation By a lover of Israels seede called James Nayler Even now there are many Antichrists and whosoever denyeth the Father and the Son the same is he that is the lyar and the Antichrist Abide in me and I in you for without me you can doe nothing LONDON Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black-spread-Eagle near the West end of Pauls 1656. THE LIGHT OF CHRIST and the word of Life MATHEVV CAFFIN who to shew thy selfe amongst the body of opposition hath raked up a heape of filth out of thy owne heart to cast on the Children of light adding lye to lye so begins and so ends for in thy beginning thou sayes even now are there many Antichrists And in the end of thy booke thou say'st that Antichrist will but be one single man And as is the beginning and ending so is the whole bulke a lumpe of lyes slanders and Confusions as one would thinke the Devill himselfe might blush at As that the Quakers saith and cannot but say that Christ ascended not into heaven with that body which God raised from the dead and glorified And that we say the body and blood of Christ is unprofitable That we Imagine Christ never dyed That we say that the offering of Christs body to be broken and his blood to be shed avails not so as through faith therein to set free from sinne And that we deny the holy Scriptures And much such like which to write after thee might fill a volume but seeing they are but slanders most of them cast upon our persons and that our practises doe every day testifie against them so that none but who are willfully blind but they may both heare and see contrary and seeing we need looke for no other but that all manner of evill must be spoken against us without cause by the lyar who is that Antichrist for his names sake who hath called us out of darknesse we shall therefore willingly receive it as great rules till the Lord our righteousnesse make Esau ashamed at his envies There is onely two things which as to the way of God may prejudice some who are simple which I shall lay open thy deceipts in and for the rest leave it to discover its author and by what spirit he is guided which the least Child of light may easily Judge being nothing but a heape of slanders from the old roote severally spoken to in other places Those two I shall mention is touching the light of Christ and the Word which thou denies to set the letter in the stead which two things being cleared the whole worke falls to nothing but false ●ccusations The first is thy envie against the light of the world that lighteth every man that cometh into the world And to undervalue this thou sayes That false and erronious is that Spirit that bids men give attendance to a light within as their onely teacher And that Christ did not Commend people to a teacher within And that men are not led into all truth by a light within them And that to suppose that God in men is their teacher is an Error not knowing the Scriptures And that it is not to be found in all the Scriptures that Christ or any of his did counsell ignorant people to waite upon a light within them c. And that to declare the light within is another report and another Spirit than Christ and his Ministers and much the like thou inveighs against the light shewing thy selfe utterly blind and a Child of darknesse And yet sayest thou the Gospell is hid and the Creature lost where the God of this world hath blinded the minde and yet wilt thou have no light within And sayest thou it concernes us to have our lights burning yet denies the light within but doth not tell people where their lights must burne without them nor where their enlightened minds must be without them And much such darke mudd●e stuffe comes out from the waters of Babylon too much to gather up after thee whereby thou seekes to darken and undervalue the light of the world as not to be a teacher sufficient that so Antichrist might keepe people in blindnesse and so in their sins Such a worke as none was ever found in but the Devill and his Instruments quite contrary to Gods Covenant and the end of it even the Covenant of light in which God hath placed all his promises and power yea where God himselfe dwells even in the light of Christ the true light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world which was the message that the Ministers of Christ was to declare which Antichrists Ministers oppose And that this light is the onely leader and guide to all sorts of people and in all estates and that without beleeving and following this there is no salvation but without it all are in darknesse I shall make it plaine by the Prophets Christ and his Apostles and their testimony of it against whome thou beares thy testimony and the rest of the Children of darknesse even against that light which is the anoynting which was typified by that pure oyle of the Tabernacle of which the Law and the Prophets prophesied even the everlasting Covenant of light both to Jews and Gentiles As saith the Prophet Isa 42. 6. And in the 49. 6. God calls it a light to the Gentiles and for salvation to the ends of the earth And this thou would limit onely to such as thou calls beleevers which indeed appeares the greatest enemies to it And in the 10●h Chapter 17. he saith This light shall burne up as a fire the briers and thornes in his day Also Isa 60. 3. 19 20. And through his whole Prophesie he makes it the summe of his worke to foretell the Coming and beautie and power of this light and all the rest of the Prophets which would be too large to mention And John Baptist the greatest of the Prophets who came to see this light he testifies of him what he is and what he doth that through him all might beleeve whose whole testimony was of this light John 1. he saith This is the true light that lighteth every man that cometh into the world and calls him the Word that was in the beginning by whom