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A89829	Antichrist in man, Christ's enemy: who hath been pretending for Christ in notion, but now at his appearance stands up with all his power to deny his Light, and preach him unsufficient. Clearly discovered in an answer to a book titled, Antichrist in man the Quakers idol: set forth by Joshua Miller, wherein he confesseth Antichrist to be in man, but denies the light of Christ within to be sufficient to reveal him, and to witness Christ to be the onely means to salvation, he cals an error, if not damnable. With much more such confused stuffe, discovered for the sake of the simple who are led blind, with such blind guides, to their destruction: that such as will may beware and turn to the Lord, that with his Spirit of truth they may be guided into all truth, and out of this great deceit and enmity, wherein they are led and knows not. By a lover of the seed of God, and one that seeks the peace of lost souls, called James Naylor.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1656 (1656)	Wing N263; Thomason E869_6; ESTC R202979	13,662	19

hast made up this bundle of confusion sayes thou I hope we may safely distinguish where the Scripture doth when the Scriptures say no such thing but thy blind imaginations to put out the light of Christ within and keep people without in thy imaginations Thy next thing thou goes about to prove is that the Scriptures is the Word and Mind of God to you thou sayest it must either be the word of the Devil the word of Man or the Word of God To which I say if thou intend the letter of the Bible it is not one of these but a declaration of the words of all these and then thou goes on in thy blind Logick to prove it and thy Argument is thus much If one Command be the Word then all the Scriptures is the Word c But who taught thee this Logick to prove Generals by a Particular if God spoke some words in Scriptures is that which the Devil spoke the word also because it s in the book Because that was the Command of God that said Thou shalt not bow nor worship any thing but God alone was that the word of God also that said If thou wilt worship me all shall be thine Luke 4. 7 8 This is thy arguing and with such as this thou leads them blind who knows no better yet thou can find no Scripture that saith so onely thou instanced that Mark 7. 10 11 12 13. which hath relation to the first Commandement but if that be thy word to wit the letter written and engraven in stone which if it be taken in the letter as it can be no other in thy sense then the Apostle tels the 2 Corinth 3. and also to the Hebrews that it is done away so thou hast lost thy word if that letter be it and so thy Argument is fallen and a place is left for me to set another in its stead thus That which one may have and not have the Mind and Word of God is not the Mind and Word of God but one may have the Letter of the Scripture and not have the Mind and Word of God Ergo the Major cannot be denied and the Minor I prove by plain Scripture Acts 13. 27. they that dwelt at Jerusalem had the Scriptures read every Sabbath day yet knew not their voices and so had not the Mind of God John 5. 38. 39. The Jews had the Scriptures and thought to have eternal life in them yet Christ tels them they had not the Word in them also John 8. 37. he saith the Word hath no place in them and verse 43. he tels them they could not hear the Word therefore they could not understand his speech and this Word it was they had made void by their traditions and so have you also and so know no Word but the letter which never Minister of Christ pleaded yet had they the Scriptures and did not make them void in the letter Another thing thou wouldest prove if thou could that Spirits are to be tried by Scripture and with thy vain Phylosophy thou wouldst prove this also for the Scripture will not onely thou quotes that Isaiah 8. 20. which may serve to overturn thy whole Argument To the Law and to the Testimony if they speak not according to this word it s because there is no light in them Wherein the Prophet shews that none can speak according to the Law and Testimony but from the light in them the Law and Testimony being bound up and sealed amongst the Disciples as in the 16. verse therefore who are Disciples and follows Christ the Light know the Law of the new Covenant to be written in the heart Hebr. 8. 9 10. and the Testimnoy of Jesus to be the Spirit of prophesie Revel 19. 10. John 15. 26. but they that are spiritually blind knows not this whose eyes are abro●d and therefore set up the Letter instead of the Spirit and such by searching the Scriptures could never know Christ although they testifie of him who are not first taught of the Spirit and therewith led into the Scriptures such cannot read the Scriptures but wrest them to their own destruction as is plain 1 Peter 3. 16. and so are farre unlike to try Spirits therewith yea wiser than thou had the Scriptures but knew not their voices Acts 13 27. no not the Disciples themselves till Christ with his light had opened their understandings Luke 24. 25. but this is the Serpent who would be trying of Spirits with the letter as he tried the Spirit of Christ by the letter of the Law as is plain in John 19. 7. And by such tryers hath the Spirit of God been condemned and his People suffered in all ages where Men without the Spiritual light wrested the letter out of its place to set it above the Spirit which doth but testifie of the Spirit And thou sayes as God and Christ are one so is Christ and the Scriptures for they cannot be broken but if you have not broken the Scriptures let the Spirit of God that gave them forth judge who have changed the way of God and set up such a worship as no Scripture will own without wresting and breaking in upon it with your own meanings And thou sayest How must we try the Spirits by a light in us Oh strange unheard of doctrine I say yea by the light in us and he that hath not the light in him can try no Spirits but as the blind guides have ever done for those who are bidden to try Spirits had the annoynting in them who need not any man to teach them but as the same annointing did teach them all things in which is the whole truth and no lie and this onely is able to try the Spirits which we have received of him 1 John 2. 27. And thou brings that 2 Peter 1. 19 We have a more sure word of prophesie c. and this thou would have people beleive is the letter of the old Prophets so by thy doctrine the letter of the old Prophets which never saw Christ on earth is a surer testimony than the Apostles who was eye-witnesses of his Majesty saw him transfigured and heard the voyce of God testifying unto him 2 Peter 1. 16 17 18 19. and such dark stuffe as this is the fruit of thy literal Ministry and in this mud and darkness would thou be an opener of Scriptures and art pleading for thy self and the rest of thy brethren therein mentioning many of the Saints practices but not one of them will own your way of opening and therefore proves nothing for you further than that you are wholly out of their way And thy next work is to prove that a Man may be justified without Christ and his righteousness within which being searched is but a justification imagined for he that knows not Christ in him is a Reprobate and so not justified 2 Cor. 13. 5. for it is receiving Christ and his righteousness by which Man is justified and not by

not he the light of the world given of the Father for a Covenant of light even to the Gentiles to open the blind eyes to enlighten them that sit in darkness and to be the salvation to the ends of the earth and shall not all that knows beleif bear witness against thee that it was Christ that gave light to them when they sat in darkness and in the shadow of death and became a guide in spirit into the way of peace and salvation which salvation by that light in us thou cals accursed Is not here thick darkness that may be felt by all who ever knew any light what a generation of blind guides are you become how hath thick darkness covered you is not the light of God sufficient nor the light of Christ neither what light must it be that is sufficient to lighten them that are in blindness seeing God and Christ is denied by thee or can any say that Jesus is Lord but by the Light and Spirit within and this thou cals accursed and not to be received And thou would reason because all have not Christ therefore he doth not enlighten all contrary to that John 1. 9. and contrary to Christs words who saith the Spirit of truth should lead into all truth he shall take of mine and testifie of me John 15. 26. and 16. 13. and we know there is a light in Spirit that testifies of Christ before Christ be known in the Creature and none can become the Sons of God but who receive the light of Christ according to that Scripture John 1. 12. which thou who knows neither light nor Spirit art Ignorant of and therefore sayes it is an error if not damnable to say the light of Christ is sufficient without some other help And thou goes on in thy confusion telling of a first second and third light which the Scripture knows no such thing but thy own imaginations to blind people withal and thou sayes that which John testifies on Iohn 1. 9. which he cals the true light is but the light of nature or reason and a comparative darkness so they who know no better may beleive that John preacht a natural reason and comparative darkness for all to beleive in and called it the true light and said the world was made by it c. and such blind stuffe thou brings to confute the Quakers And thou goes on to prove this further and brings Pauls words Rom. 2. and thou deals with him as thou does with John and tels two lies together of him first thou sayes he sayes the Gentiles which knew not God do by nature the things contained in the Law yet know not God for all this light when Paul saith they became a law unto themselves and was Jews in spirit whose praise was of God and not of men but doth not say they knew not God who brought forth the Law of God Secondly thou sayes Paul there means by nature nothing else but the light they have to distinguish them from Beasts which is false also for he sayes that light led them to shew the works of that Law God had written in their hearts their conscience bearing witness and excusing them in the day when God shall judge the world by his Gospel which is something else than thou speaks on but that nature which brings forth these fruits thou knows not nor the light and fruits of it which will stand at the day of judgement praised of God but not of Men. And then further to deny that the light of Christ that lighteth every one that cometh into the world to be sufficient sayest thou this opinion contradicts the whole current of the Scripture but can name none it contradicts but seeing thou can quote none against it I shall quote some that shall witness it John 1 9. John 8. 12. Ephes 5. 13 14. Luke 7. 21. 2 Cor. 4. 6. Prov. 4. 23. Isai 49. 6. Luke 2. 33. 1 John 1. ●7 where the wise may see that of all sorts of people Christ is the light which is sufficient and that in spirit within also And thou denies that this light can shew that Christ was born of a Virgin that the world was made of nothing nor convince of the resurrection To which I say none of these was known at first but by the light nor can they be known now as they ought to be though blind guides may talk of them but by the light for it is the Spirit that reveals all things even the hidden things of God and leads into all truth else the knowledge is but a tradition but to thee I say as Job doth of such They that rebell against the light knows not the wayes thereof so thou child of darkness may stop thy mouth for telling what the light can do or not do for the Scripture saith that which may be known of God is manifest in them for God hath shewed it to them but thy knowledge comes not in at that door And thy threefold light thou tels on the first thou cals the light of Nature and saith it is that word John 1 9. and this thou cals the light of God and sayes it is but comparative darkness Thy second thou cals the light of Christ and that thou proves Ephes 5. 14. And the third thou cals the light of Glory and that thou proves John 8. 12. where Christ saith I am the light of the world and this thou sayes speaks in the Future Tense and such mangled stuffe that one that had but common sense would blush at is that which saith I am the light of the world in the Future Tense and not the light of Christ and is the light of God and that Word which was in the beginning which John speaks on by which the world was made become so much less than the light of Christ that it is but comparative darkness did John preach comparative darkness when he said Then this is the message we have heard of him and declare unto you that God is light 1 John 1. 5. 6. 7. and in him is no darkness at all and if we walk in his light the bloud of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin But thy message is that the light of God is comparative darkness and that which Christ saith I am the light of the world and he that follows me shall not abide in darkness but shall have the light of life But this thou sayes not now but the time shall come when he that follows me shall have a light without sin so light and following must be in another world but not while this world lasts for this is the term of time the Devil his Ministers would have his Covenant of sin darkness to last but if you make it for any less you must be no Ministers for him nor have none of the worlds glory from him who is the Prince of the world where Christ the Light of the world is not owned and when thou