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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

this appearance in Spirit and tell people that this is not to preach Christ and yet profess Christ in you tell me what Christ is in people if not Light and holie Life and a faithful Witness against the contrary in all in whom he liveth and by what other thing he may be known in spirit life and power if this be denyed else let the mouth of Antichrist be stopt that the simple may pass on the right and living way free from such who will neither enter the Kingdom themselves nor would suffer others who have always resisted the holy Ghost Also the fruit of the free-born cleared from legal performances and the children of bondage shewed the nature of their own works Children of this world who have the form but not the power of Godliness and have got notions of life but not the nature and spirit thereof in your dark thoughts from an unfruitful spirit you judge the Children of Light and when you see us acting in the life of Christ Jesus then you say we are under legal performances and that we think to be saved by our works and that we do it to merit and the like but you are greatly mistaken in your selves and are not in that Spirit which doth see us or can judge the nature of our works nor our end therein wherefore be silent and hear what is said to you if you have an ear to hear withal for though your selves be dead withered branches cut off from the tree which is good by nature and there abide yet it is not so with such as are born again and ingrafted into the good Olive for he that is really born of God knows two several seeds and natures which spring and bring forth from several roots and after their several kinds Now the first of these is in bondage with its branches and brings forth unto self from some outward observation or litteral command or something that is carnal or visible sets on work and being thus set on work to do things contrary to your life and nature you go hardly through it and if you attain the outward performance the boaster gets up to glory in what you can do who doth all for self-ends and so looks for reward above such as you think cannot do as you have done Now you who have gone no further but wearied your selves herein and found nought but bondage are turned back into liberty again and you judge as you have found in your selves so you say all good works are from the spirit of bondage boasting and merit and the like But you should not judge the Children of Light after the flesh your measure will not reach that birth for he that 's born of God is a branch of another root and seed then you know which hath another nature inclining to God from whence it is as the first inclines to the world whence it is And as the natural man doth evil naturally with delight his root and life being so So the spiritual man in his measure doth good naturally after his root and life which is his pleasure and joy to bring forth from the good root that which is good by nature as it is the delight of the other to bring forth that which is evil by nature for as is the heavenly such are they that are heavenly and it s no bondage for the heavenly to bear heavenly fruits but to the earthly man it is being against his nature wherefore saith Christ either make the tree good and his fruits good or the tree evil and his fruits evil so good trees evil trees and fruitless trees are known to be of several natures and for several ends So this is but your own darkness that thus thinks and with evil thoughts you judge amiss Will you say of such as are really planted into the living Vine that their fruits which freely spring from thence are legal and bondage and that we think to be saved by our works and by our own righteousness c. Nay these are the fruits of such who are saved already and the Righteousness of God is given to us who are ceased from our own works whose works are no more legal but spiritual free and not bondage and he that 's in Christ is fruitful in good works and free therein by birth and he that abides in Christ sins not nor is his seed of the evil doer Could you understand this you would not condemn the fruits of the living with such as are dead while they live whose fruit is withered being broken off from that which is good by nature and planted into that which is wild by nature but the spiritual man you cannot judge his fruits nor freedom his off-spring nor his end whose fruits judge all fruitless trees yet is he judged of no man and it 's as hard for you to do good who are accustomed to do evil as the Leopard to change his spots but it is otherwise with such as are changed already born of the Light and heirs by birth and right nature to everlasting Righteousness and Truth it 's hard for such to do evil being against Nature Seed and Sonship which is in God and though this you cannot believe yet he that 's born of Faith can and the least Child of God can read it in his measure who knows the old Adam and the new and as in the first all are in sin and bondage so in the second are all made righteous and free to Gods work and in the second is known the new Creation wherein dwells Righteousness as God hath said I will dwell in them and walk in them And will you call this self-righteousness where all things are of God and all things new is this legal and bondage And if any man be in Christ all things are of God and its God that worketh in us of his good and pleasure to will and to do and this is not the spirit of bondage but good will and pleasure which God worketh freely in us So you reproach what God worketh by the hearing of faith and not by the letter which righteousness wrought in Abraham which was in God before Abraham was which is wrought for everlasting and elect of God in Christ Jesus before the world was and is a free gift to all that by Abrahams faith come out of the world to him who is not of the world which you that abide in the world inherit not who are in self and seeking your selves in what you do to God or men how can you believe saith Christ And you that look for rewards are not in that Spirit which worketh freely So you look for rewards and honour teachers and people are all for rewards honour and respect of persons and in that nature is all the bondage merits and rewards in this nature out of the faith of Christ Jesus who went from place to place doing good freely and preaching freely and so will all do who are born of freedom as he is free

wholly to the power of darkness who will then keep you seeking Salvation without whilest he is heaping up evil within For that which seeks to devour your Souls is within you whilst he is leading you out to seek Salvation and nought can damn you but what is in you sin is within before it be acted so must Salvation be within before you be cleansed though the old deceiver hath taught people to think they are saved by believing God at a distance who neither know nor worship him in the Spirit and Truth nor are their bodies his Temples nor can the Holy One dwell or walk in them because of uncleanness but their Vessels being filled with all the powers of darkness and the heavenly Place with Spiritual wickedness hath caused God to depart from the children of men for this uncleanness and yet a Lyar speaks Peace and preaches Salvation and the Creature believes so being filled with darkness But the Children of Light receive not this Doctrine who see and feel and cannot be content with words but with power A talk of God satisfies not the Soul of a good man till he feel his Presence and Power God without and the Devil within is not the Saints Faith nor Salvation but God in them and the Devil cast out is their glory and strength and they are bold through the might of his Spirit in them to war daily against the Prince of this world because they know him who is greater in them and more holy than he that is in the world And this is the Faith-that overcomes the world and he that 's born of the Spirit hath the Father and the Son and he that hath the Devil is his Enemy and knows him not whence he is but judgeth him after the flesh and outward appearance but the Child of Light wars not after the flesh but after God that he alone may have the glory who is all in them that they have to glory in who gives their souls the holy victory And now were not you wholly blind in your minds and past feeling you could never sit down so besotted as to believe you are saved while you are daily captivated in sin and forced many times to do that which you know you should not and this by the power of lust in you entising and leading you into every temptation and causing to fall into many hurtful evils which gathers strength and rooting daily in you heaping wrath and vengeance by adding sin unto sin which must all be accounted for in the end thereof when you have filled your vessels to a full measure And can you say you are redeemed from the Devil while he hath this power in you that you are not able to resist him but are led captive at his will contrary to all fear of God or power of Righteousness Are your Bodies redeemed to God and are you Members of Christ whilest you yeeld your members unto unrighteousness or are you saved who are servants of sin In what stands the life and power of your Redemption of your Faith and of your Salvation seeing nought can stand in God but that which brings forth to him Is not he in the bonds of iniquity who is bound to bring forth iniquity Is not he a servant of sin in whom it reigns Is not he the child of bondage who is bound to bring forth what the evil-one begets in him and to serve him in what he moves him unto Mind this you who are born after the fleshly spirit who act according to his will who worketh in your flesh to bring forth unto death Doth your profession save you who are not turned from dead works The foundation of Repentance is not yet laid in you and therefore death reigns above the Life that should bring forth to God and this is the servant of sin's state and spirit of bondage and not the Heirs state who inherits God's Righteousness and brings forth thereof unto that Spirit which pleaseth God as you bring forth to the flesh and please the world And these two seeds are within and are at enmity and disagreement and there can be no concord betwixt them no more than light and darkness and their several fruits are made manifest with the Light which condemns the one and confesseth the other to be of God and wrought in God And as many as are quickned with the Spirit of Life have the feeling of this before they bring forth the fruits thereof into the world and are come to the discerning of things that differ in nature and effect by the tasting and handling of the Word of Life and knowledge of that Election which is before the World was by which they are made able to judge the ground and end of every motion in them or to them which abiding in they need not man to teach them neither can they be deceived which makes them with boldness bring forth openly such words and works as are begotten in them by the Word of Life which shews the whole World to lie in wickedness and makes it manifest in the Light of Life by whom the Prince of this World is judged and condemned and the secrets of hearts made manifest according to the nature of every several spirit which comes up to the day of the Lord's appearance And to this Spirit of Truth must an account be given by all flesh living for this is he that lives to all generations and is unchangable in his witness against the evil seed into whatever form he transforms himself in words and profession yet is there no agreement betwixt their several natures be they in one person or be they in a family or be it in a Nation there is not agreement nor can any one person Family or Nation serve them both but whoever serves the one hates the other and condemns him so he that serves Deceit condemns the Just and so condemns that which should save him and must judge him in the end And here is the cause of that fleshly liberty which some have got for the present where the Witness is slain and also of the horrour of Conscience where the Just appears towards Judgment the unstable estate of such who are faithful to neither the everlasting Peace and Power in such where the Just hath dominion and the present sorrows of such who are diligent in waiting and wrestling to the end of the World and the beginning of Christ Jesus through Faith and Patience And all these are comprehended with him who hath learned Christ by being faithful to that Spirit of Truth sent in his Name to testifie what is of him in every vessel and what is of the spirit that lusteth against him and keeps the Creation in bondage And this is that one way to Life and Salvation holden forth freely by the Spirit of Truth sent forth by the Father in the Name of Christ Jesus who hath its several operations in several vessels according as he finds them towards God in some he

whose life you speak evil of but know it not by birth and virtue which is naturally good as the first man is naturally evil And the bondage is in that which is against the pure nature and not in that which is free-born and the law is upon the transgressor and him that is degenerated into that nature which is carnal and sensual and if this man do any thing as to God it is from something that is laid upon him not in spirit but from without and this is legal and in bondage which is not in the free Spirit which doth by nature the things contained in the Law And little it is that such would either do or know were there not a Law or a Letter a Heaven or a Hell to put them upon works and here is the bondage and fear that hath torment but with the Spiritual Seed it is not so who are begotten and born of God in Christ Jesus in whom they receive freely as the branch of the root and what he sends forth through them is fruits of the Spirit against which there is no Law and this is not legal but spiritual and free who are a Law unto themselves and there is no Law against the Seed but is added upon the transgressor because of sin till the Seed be come and where the Seed is born and rules that creature is not under the law letter nor tradition nor bondage but led by the Spirit and born of that Nature which was before transgression was by which the fruits of Righteousness are brought to light by the working of the Holy Ghost who worketh the will and deed of his good pleasure and with the same good will and pleasure it is brought forth without bondage or constraint And in whom the bonds of iniquity are broken the world ended and all things become new and all things of God there dwells not self-righteousness nor spirit of bondage but that is the new creature which is in Christ Jesus created unto good works and not in self and the Heavens new and the Earth new wherein dwells Righteousness as it is in Christ Jesus revealed from God in Spirit and Power without the Law manifest to which the Law and the Prophets bear witness having foretold what glory and freedom should be revealed in the latter dayes at the Seeds appearing and the Letter testifies of this life and power but is not this life but the Spirit gives this life and freedom that it may be of grace freely and the glory of the Lord who is that Spirit and here is the boaster and self excluded and all fruitless trees condemned and seen to come short of the glory of God of whose works he is not either root or off-spring And before you can judge of this Freedom or the nature of the works that spring thereof or inherit the power that brings forth this Righteousness you must own the Judgment of Him that condemns the man of sin in you and receive him for your Law-giver which will break you off from the world and would have you to deny the forms and images and bring you from under its power that 's he that breaks the house of bondage and sets the righteous Seed at liberty to bear the fruits which are of God And thus hath Christ sent his servants to seek the lost and to gather them from among bryers and thorns and bring them to Zion one by one and as they were gained out of sin so the Devils kingdom fell and grew weaker by every servant he lost and Christs Kingdom increased until the Kingdoms of this world become the Kingdom of Righteousnesse wherein the righteous King reigns And out of cruel mockings scorning and bloody persecutions they gathered the lost and gained them to God yea sometimes pulled them out of the fire such hath been their faith and zeal for Christ and his holy Kingdom and their stedfastness to that work to which they were called and hired and the furie of the adversary and his opposite power against him in his servants hath often reached unto blood rendering evil for love to their souls Wherefore take heed to your selves you that name the Lord and call him Master depart from iniquity and obey the good This is his work if you be his servants he hath called you to holinesse as he is holy And that you turn from the world and repent of his works who is the prince of it and deny him and them openly and in secret if you will serve the holy One you must bear his mark and open your heart to him and your mouth for him as confidently as the servants of sin do for it that your Light might shine against the darknesse of this world in the face of the perverse and crooked generation that it may appear to all men that the wayes of the Lord and the world are not one nor their servants one nor their words one nor their garments one nor their table one in all things bearing his Image and Glory above his Adversary that it may appear whose Family you belong to and what is his Glory who hath hired you and what is the Work of your Lord in the World And herein may all people as in a glass see your selves and what you are to God in this his day and what against him these are the two masters which Christ tells of which none can serve but the one he hates who serves the other so now who hath hired you whom do you serve and whom do you hate Is it the World you serve then you hate Christ Is it Christ then you deny the World And these are plain things and you may read as you go if you will whose business you go about and whose hand you strengthen If you commit sin and plead for it then you war against him that is manifest to destroy sin And if you say sin must live in you while you live then while you live the Devil must have a place and power in you and a kingdom as long as you live and if you believe to overcome sin then you wait for the Kingdom of God which consists in Righteousness and believe to see it and seek it daily with your whole heart for it is not words which take the Kingdom but power of Faith against the evil one Neither is it forms and professions or any outward thing that can vanquish the Devil for he is a spirit and by a spiritual power must he be resisted and the weapons must be spiritual and mighty through God which casts down his seat in man though many are led out from form to form and deny that power of God in them and obey the power of sin in them not knowing that power which layes the Ax to the root of the evil tree out of which all the evil springs and these are manifest to be such as are not hired what ever your forms may be which you chuse and change you are but in the