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A89849	A salutation to the seed of God. And a call out of Babylon, and Egypt, from amongst the magitians, where the house of bondage is, and the imaginations rules above the seed of God, the cause of all blindnes, and condemnation. Also that which is perfect made manifest, even everlasting righteousnesse, which endures for all generations, ... With the way to him, set forth most for such as groan for freedome from the power of sin; but may be serviceable to all who loves his appearance. Also a testimony from Christ what he is in this world, and where he is; ... Also a suite to such rulers, magistrates, and governours, as have not wholly hardened their hearts, and stopt the eare against the voyce of the spirit, that they may hear and their soules may live, and be established a blessing to the nations. With some things more added to this second impression. / Written in love to all your soules, by him who is called James Naylor.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1655 (1655)	Wing N310; Thomason E852_25	31,397	40

him not forgotten who in your wills make a profession and in the same wills contend for it with which you can fight and sue and trade in the world and heap together and what you will you pray and aske for and grudge if you be not satisfied but if you compasse your desires in that will the lust catcheth the gift but you forget the giver so that mercies become a curse to you which to those who in the will of God stands are a blessing which will of God is to keep the heart and eye to the Creator and giver and if such receive not the giver the gift is nothing that satisfies because the vertue and fulnesse is wanting whereby the gift is sanctified Thus is God prized and praised in his own Will a sacrifice for ever accepted Therefore Christ must not be offered up in his own will but in the will of the Father Mat. 26. 39. and in that will he had power to lay down his life and againe to take it up thus he is become our example whom we delight in the same will to follow which you that read this in the Scripture with your own wills cannot therefore to you the crosse is preached which must be taken up ere you can follow the example This is the slumbling Stone and Rock of offence God hath laid to prove you who say you love God and say Thy will be done in earth but loves your owne wills better as your practises witnesse to your face daylie when his will is your sanctification but yours is pollution and to live in uncleannesse against which he hath given testimonie witnesse that in all your consciences which is pure declaring daylie to your faces that he consents not to your sinnes nor takes delight in your destruction and here Gods love is tendered and your love is tried God so loveth the world that he hath given his Son a light into the world that whosoever believes and followes him shall not abide in Death and darknesse but shall have the light of life and this we know who love his appearance and that he hath loved us first and in that love we follow him and call to all to come to it But how doe you answer this love of his who abide in the love of the world where the Fathers love dwels not nor with his light will you be led out of the world where his love dwelleth thereof to be partakers yet you will talk of it where it is not and these vaine words cannot save you God is light and in him is no darknesse at all and if wee walk in the Light as he is in the Light then have we fellowship with him and the blood of Christ cleanseth us from all sin But what 's this to you who walk in darkness not cleansed nor can you believe that ever you can be while you live yet would you not be called unbelievers though that faith that purifies the heart you cannot own yes say you we believe we shall be cleansed after we be dead in another world so your faith must worke hereafter but is dead at present such a faith as never was professed by any you read of but that faith we witnesse which overcomes this world and this is present power as the Saints have found it and born witnesse of it that God was faithfull who had given them a measure above which was no temptation but your gift is to come so temptations prevailes for the present and you cannot own them where it doth not thus you put farre from you the good day the Lord and his power which now is present where he is received and believed And by such he is praised who by faith are redeemed above the pollutions of this world the strange land wherein they were captivated into freedome where Sions song is sung which you cannot unredeemed And here see your praises which arise from a vaine minde in your owne wills and imitations but not from a soule redeemed quickned and set free from the power of sin and temptation so your praises are not living praises nor from a living principle of the living God but from that principle where death reigns and the seed of God is in prison so you praise you know not what who are still unredeemed from bondage but where redemption is witnessed there that seed is raised the bonds of death are broken the way of life is found and this being known in the life then with understanding God is praised and with the same spirit which he hath raised which onely with God is accepted without respect of persons and here the works of God praise him and in his Saints he is glorified and admired in all who are raised above the graves who are in him and see his worke and this Church is rightly gathered who out of sin death and darknes is brought into God who is holy with whom dwells no unclean thing Here are the pure praises where the Sons of God sing together having the Psalme given of the Father these praises are pure which from him comes to him returns freely but this is not known to the sons of bondage nor believed by you therefore you sit down in a shaddow empty and form without power nor the presence of God you have not who take your rest in fleshly formes that eye cannot see him nor know him thus in your sins you perish for want of his knowledge who is our life eternall and to you is freely tendered but by your unbeliefe denyed so his love rejected All you that are in the world who lye in wickednes God so loveth you that he hath sent his Son into the world to you a witness against the world and all the deeds of it that they are evill but all that own and follow him into the good work he leads them and out of the evill hee keeps us and that 's his light which in your consciences shines in the midst of darkness which you comprehend not with your dark mindes nor sensuall wisdome yet a faithfull witness is it against your deeds of darkness declaring your end and death upon your life and sorrow and howling upon your laughter condemning your vain pleasures and invention with which you spend your pretious time which should be redeemed and not spent unprofitably which with the light the Saints and redeemed ones are led to to redeeme the time and this is our diligence and delight in but yours is to spend it shewing a contrary nature and leader a contrary delight in a contrary kingdom with whom you joyned and to whom you are fashioned according to the course of this world and the Prince and powers of it which rules in children where disobedience is born and brought forth And thus you are united into that nature which God hath appointed the Devil to be Prince of and wrath and woe the end of and so God is justified herein that you who despise the riches of his light

in Christ Jesus should be left in darkness therewith to be guided and in Chaines reserved till the great day in which you shall be judged by the light now denyed with your carnall reason prudence and wisdome from which God hath hid the things of our kingdome in all generations and that is the darkness even your wisdome and prudence which is the greatest light you have to judge withall most sought prized by you who deny the light of Christ and this wisdome when it speaks cals light darkness darkness light so did they ever who with it judged And this is your condition who deny the light of Christ and say it s not sufficient but preferr your comprehensions and imaginations above it and that was ever it with which people resisted the counsell of God against themselves and this is his counsell and all you know of him that which is manifest in you which moves against sin and wickedness and would lead out of it if you did it follow The same that condemns you for sinne when you had done it the same would lead out of it before it be acted and so keep out of condemnation And now honestly consider if you have such a Counseller who is with you at all times faithfull to you in shewing the evill to which you are unfaithfull when you forget it and turne from it for your self-ends and the righteous pure way he shews you with the light in your Conscience which you reject for earthly pleasures and know when you do it yet will you pray that God would shew you his way make you wise to salvation but when he hath freely done it you will not walk in it nor own no such wisdome because it comes contrary to your own wils yet you will say the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God yet will you not own that which is foolishness to the world to guide you out of it though there be nothing else appointed to doe it but that is contrary to it thus in words you confess him but in workes deny him and his counsel yet you say wherein doe wee deny him doe not wee profess his name Covenant waite for his righteousness thereby to be saved I say it serves you to talke on therewith to cover you while you are serving the other Master the Devil and the world but his Covenant you put farr from you his name and his righteousness whereby wee are redeemed What Covenant have you who deny the light of Christ to guide you was not he given for an everlasting Covenant of Light both to Jew and Gentile and in his light all that knew him was guided according to the severall administrations both of Law and Gospel And when they turned from his light in Spirit to mens teaching from the letter then they set up carnall worships instead of spirituall obedience then they became wise in their own eyes and zealous for their customes but by him was rejected who is worshipped in Spirit And with you it is the same now though you cannot see nor beleeve it no more then they did when they were told of it by them who in the light walked and stood in his counsell which all errours discovers they made the Law of God void through their tradition walking after the Fathers so doe you that Law God hath written in your heart by following your companions and learned Rabbies they said and did not and so doe you also nay herein you exceed them who have a higher profession but lesse practice they did not beleeve him come who is to fulfill all righteousnesse for and in all that beleeve and follow him but this Christ you profess and the Scripture that so witnesses of him yet are you farther from it then ever they were both in practice opinion they kept to the letter in the Forms of their worship though they had lost the life and power but you have left the lettr and lead one another in your inventions so that you have no plain Scripture for your worship performed by you in your Idols Temple And for your opinion of Gods righteousness you far exceed them they put it from them to another generation waiting for him to come who was appointed King of it asking when it should come shewing a desire to see it but you have put it wholly from you into another world and if any have found it and its power and purity and beare witness of it whereby the body of sin is destroyed and the soul freed and the creature redeemed from committing sin your faith beleeves it to be the greatest blasphemy in the world nay you dare not come neare it lest you should be infected but consult how to banish it out of the Nations as an error not to be tolerated in the world Thus you profess a Redeemer but hee must be a man whose Redemption must be of another world and there must hee work his work but the old work of the Devill must stand in this world yet the more to blind you and that you may the more blind others he sets you on talking that Christ is your Righteousness when you never knew him so in you who is stronger then the God of this world to binde him and take you out of his Kingdom and break that Covenant whose faith is that you must be subject to him while you live in this world which is such a faith and Covenant as none ever professed who believed in the name of Jesus at which every knee bowes who hath his name and hee that beares that name departs from iniquity and beares testimony to his righteousnesse here in this world in the midst of the untoward unrighteous generation of this darke world that so God may be glorified in his creatures by his light shining and his righteousnesse reigning above the unrighteous principle of the devil which he hath begot in the untoward Nature and in such the Devill is denyed and disowned before the world where God is obeyed and such are his servants sons and Daughters who obey him and wait upon him that they may bring to light what he workes in them even that which none else can work but hee alone that 's pure nor can any bring it forth but by his power and thus his workes praise him in the gates of the wicked where the floods of ungodlines doe most swell and rage even then in his people doth this kingdome stand in Righteousnes Peace and Joying in holines And this wee witnesse to be that Covenant and that power by which wee are entered into that inheritance which is eternall and are made partaker of the divine nature which nature is righteous mercifull and just meeke and patient faithfull and diligent to the obedience of the Crosse long-suffering full of love moderation and temperance and in all things thereby are transformed into his holinesse so farre as wee are entred into and abide in this Covenant so

that we can truly say here hee is all and selfe is nothing but abhorred because it is polluted the eye being now open that 's onely taken with affection to that which is holy And with this eye we see you your name your Covenant and your righteousnesse which all lyes under the power ofdarknesse Is not that light which is in you become darknes who have your way to seek without you What name is in you when the Serpents seed is still unbruised who is head and rules in you where the Name of Jesus is the Devills tremble and bow as God hath appointed and they that know his name doe it witnesse What is your righteousnesse who bring forth that which is imperfect which with the light of the Covenant is condemned Is this the righteousnesse of Jesus which doth not satisfie God and man being witnessed by that in the Conscience And now you may see what it is you professe in this world and in what stead it will stand you in the day of evill which is condemned already with that in your Consciences But you use to say that the Righteousnesse of God you looke for hereafter to be covered with it at the day of Judgement but not in this life I say what 's this then you are now doing which you are here preaching pressing and practising whose is this Righteousnesse is it either Gods or your owne selfe-Righteousnesse which if it be Gods it endures for ever but if not it 's abomination what ever it seemes to you whose eye is blinded and so professes and practises and presseth an abominable sacrifice and know not that you doe evill for this I say Better no righteousnesse then that which is not Gods for such is spirituall wickednesse in heavenly places and the long prayers of such is abomination and they receive the greater Damnation and of such Christ saith Publicans and Harlots take the Kingdome before them But you say Must we not pray then I say wait for the spirit of prayer which onely is heard and without which none know what to pray for with that prayer which helps the infirmities and gives the understanding only such are answered in what they pray for what effect hath thy prayers which are abomination doth God heare a contrary spirit thou that delightst in wickednesse God will not heare that prayer that 's out of the Covenant and thou art in that nature that God hath cursed from him and its in vaine for thee to blesse it And this is the cause why nothing you doe is accepted because it is performed in the disobedient cursed Nature and there is Cains sacrifice and Esan's prayers and teares And you that abide in that nature are of those who said Why have wee fasted and prayed and thou hast not regarded you call but receive no answer But did you but minde that in your Conscience which is pure you would see how often hee hath called to you and checked you for sin but you have not answered There might you reade the cause why you call but hee doth not answer as hee hath said Because I called and you would not answer therefore when you cry I will not answer And thus it is with you who observe the outward worships but minde not the Spirit which is given to profit withall in the worship and though all have a measure yet you that hide your talent cannot pray with the Spirit nor with the understanding and so your fellowship is with the forme but not in the power with men in words but not with God and so your times are in your owne hands and you have resolved them before-hand And you have a time to pray and a time to play a time to abstain from your lusts and a time to fulfill your lusts a day to abstain from the world and days to conform to the world and thus not being guided with that Spirit which is before all to lead and bring you out of time you are still in observations and your times of Religion and your times in the world your customes in Religion and your customes in the world are both in your owne will and corrupt nature and so your prayers are abomination and your plowing sin But the times of Sons and Daughters are not in their own hands and this wee have learned of Jesus in Spirit not to please our selves nor to be men-pleasers but to be obedient to another principle which moves contrary to the will of all men for him wee witnesse who is not borne after the will of man but which the will of man could never owne who by the wills of men ever suffered where hee is borne into the world and the same this day is manifest a seede contrary to the seed of evill doers and a righteousness that exceedes the righteousness of the world that which is amongst the greatest professions and this is that holinesse without which none shall see God But say you this is that Righteousnesse wee beleeve in and by which we are justified by that blood which was shed at Jerusalem and by that obedience that was in him and by that holinesse but that the want of his righteousnesse in us or that want of Christ or his blood in us can hinder our justification that we deny and look upon it to be Heresie and false Doctrine for it is Christ without us that hath satisfied for sin and not Christ in us and his blood without us and his righteousnesse without us and his faith and patience meekness and sufferings hope and love and obedience c. it s these without us that whoever beleeves in shall be saved and by this faith the ungodly is justified To which I say Hee that beleeves not what Christ suffered at Jerusalem with all his obedience and Righteousness and that hee bare our sins in himself and trode the wine-press alone and alone was well pleasing to the Father and that in him alone the work of Redemption is placed and wrought with much more which may be truly said of him I say whosoever beleeves not this cannot be saved neither can hee ever come to receive Christ within him working and witnessing the same in Spirit as is declared in the letter nor can hee come to witness him that 's greater in him then hee that 's in the world giving him victory over the Devill Sin and the World because God hath placed all power in Heaven and Earth in him and without faith in him who is that power none can come to it nor receive it but in him in whom God hath freely given it Nor can any have him and be without it all the promises of life and salvation being in him Yea and Amen But now you that make the receiving of him to stand in a bare confessing with the tongue when the heart beleeves not unto righteousness and that this is that faith a perswasion from the letter or from the knowledge of others that such a one dyed at

Jerusalem and rose againe and from thence conclude that all shall be saved and are believes that profess this Faith though they come not to the Fellowship of his sufferings and of his resurrection in themselves and so come to witness his death and life manifest in their mortall flesh and so the body of sin put off by the body and washed with the blood of Christ and so be baptized into his death dead with him to sin and alive with him to righteousness and true obedience to the Father in their measures I say you that say that a bare perswasion or outward Confession is that faith that justifies the ungodly without Christ in them Then what are you doing when you say Stand off me for I am more holy then thou and are gathering from them who all beleeve with this faith as well as you onely they differ from you in other practises as some open sinnes and the like and why have not the greatest drunkards and swearers or who remongers as good right to Christ Church-fellowship as you have or why doe you hinder them from that which you call the Seales or Sacraments seeing that faith in Christ is the ground of interest to all that belongs to Christ Doe not you according to your own principle exclude beleevers even of the same faith with you and who are those unbelievers you tell on who are condemned and to whom doe you preach faith in these Nations seeing you can finde none in them who are come to understanding Papist nor Protestant but they beleeve this with you That Christ dyed at Jerusalem If hereby they be justified before God how dare you charge any thing upon them or separate from them if God have owned them Also many hundred thousand pounds a yeare may be spared which are spent under this pretence as to make people beleevers when all they preach to are beleevers already and have that faith that justifies the ungodly And whose is the righteousness people are exhorted to bring forth if the Righteousness of Christ that 's necessary to salvation be onely without them then whose is that you call for within them But if you say they must have some of the righteousness of Christ within them and the rest without them then why doe not you describe a measure that people may know how much to look for and when they come to an end of their labours and how much they must doe before Christ will undertake to doe the rest Or if Christ have done all how much of it must they doe over againe before they come to their rest and to be accepted and differ what it is that must be brought forth from within and what must be beleeved without but not enjoyed within that so people may come to see what is Christ and what is selfe righteousnes and where they are that they may avoide the one and receive the other But thus you lye in confusion from which by that faith which stands in Jesus wee are freed and have received his righteousness to which wee are obedient by which wee are purified by bringing forth that which hee begetteth as formerly we were defiled by bringing forth that which was begotten by the Devill and so through obedience of the Spirit our souls are purified and we become conformable to him that 's gone before us who received light and obedience and power from the Father and so became the first fruits unto perfection and holiness through whom we receive power for obedience grace for grace by which wee are saved and our life is in him and our obedience and hee is all in us which we receive of the Father who hath wrought all our workes in us and so ordaines peace for us yea beyond all that you know or can beleeve who know not Christ in you So you have set up a reprobate faith that you cannot but be servants of sin while you live in this world so are to every good work reprobate But you use to say You have that which Christ did in his owne person evidenced to you that hee did it for you particularly which drunkards swearers and the like have not I say your Evidence is but in words and conceipt who have not Christ in you no more then theirs is You are perswaded and hope it is so and so are they also but neither of you bring forth the fruits that are his But you say you bring forth better fruits then drunkards and swearers I say the best fruite that 's brought forth in either which is not the worke of God by Christ in you is but selfe-righteousnesse and all your selfe taken on performances in your owne wills is no better But you say you doe what you can and God accepts the will for the deed but so doe not those who are openly wicked I say God accepts no will but his owne and this hee begets by his Spirit in all that waite upon him in the light of Jesus and with such hee that begets the will begets the deed also and it is no more what we can but what hee will with whom all things are possible and wee can doe nothing neither doe we desire to doe any thing yet can wee doe all things that hee wills through him that in us so the will of God is done in us by his power in our measures as it is in Heaven and this is perfect righteousnesse where Christ is all and the Creature nothing And as for your doing and others not doing I say every one hath that opinion of himselfe that hee is not so bad as others and with this the Devill deceives you to keep all in his kingdom And by this opinion of yours none is to be condemned who hath any worse then himselfe in his doings for this must needs follow from the best to the worst unlesse you describe how farre it must goe and no further and then must you needes shut out some who have endeavoured as much against sin in their owne strength as ever you did in yours I have knowne a drunkard shed more teares set stronger resolutions and make more vowes against that filthy sin of Drunkennesse then ever I knew the greatest professor doe against his secret covetousnesse which is Idolatry Nay the highest professions can plead for it though not under that name and make a trade on it which the other is ashamed to doe for his drunkennesse Now if God had placed righteousnesse and acceptance in doing what one can then why should not the first of these be accepted as well as the latter seeing hee prays and weeps and doth what he can to overcome it And thus all sorts of people in the world who know not Christ and his strength in them which alone is appointed by God to overcome sin for all that receive him I say you are all in confusion labouring to no purpose one condemning another thereby to get peace to your selves but all under the curse and so is

in observations of dayes yeares persons and formes loe here loe there and the time and manner of his reigne you are jangling about and what a-one he shall be and which of you shall be greatest at his comming and such like conceits without you hath the enemy up amongst you till you have wholly lost the favour of Christ within and can neither know his appearance in your selves nor beleeve him in others in whom he is come nor know what a one he shall be What a Christ is this you are looking for Is he the same that was from the beginning whose kingdome is not of this world and doe you looke for him after another manner then he hath appeared is he not the same yesterday and to day and for ever how hath the enemy of your soules deceived you and keepes you spending houres and dayes talking of him what he was and what he will be at a distance without you but knowes not him at hand what hee is so that when hee would appear in you to lead you out of the world you know not his voyce nor will you obey him in spirit because he is not come in your forme nor teacheth after your will and in your way so is hee now set at nought by you builders as ever he was and you cannot receive him in your hearts nor is there any roome for him in the Inne farther then to take on and express as a covering for your pride and earthly pleasures let that of God in your consciences be judge betwixt God and you herein how you receive the Son of his Love the despised one search your hearts therewith and see Can you receive him who is set as a signe every where to be spoken against will you beare his markes in your body will you take up his Crosse dayly and beare his reproach will you own him in whippings stoneings mockings and temptations and to be counted the filth of the world and off-scouring of all things for his name sake Can you be willing to be accounted fooles that his wisdome may be manifest in you will you beare his reproach in stocks and prisons and dungeons and to be numbred amongst transgressors will you confess him before men to the loss of your estates and to the casting out of the Synagogues will you own him in leading you through the loss of all your unjust gaine and oppression in your tradings or will you follow him to yea and nay in all your occasions shall nothing separate you from the Love of God in him who is rejected of all the World This is our Christ and this is his condition in this world as ever it was and this is his Glory to carry his People through all these things and above all these into the eternall Kingdom of the Father and them present perfect without spot or wrinkle or any such thing and this is he whom the world cannot receive nor all you who are in the worlds pleasures can see any comelines in him nor beauty that you should desire him that eye is blinde that jangles about him afar off in the carnall comprehensions and sensuall wisdome it 's the eye of faith that seeth him present in the measure and leads to follow him and he that beleeves hath the witness in himselfe wherewith his glory is seen in the eternall the same to all generations that will receive him who is the light of the world yet not of this world nor his glory from whose root springs righteousness mercy and judgment who is meek and lowly a man of sorrowes acquainted with grief who takes no pleasure in unrighteousness to set up pride but shakes his hand at the gain of oppression who strikes at your life in all unrighteousness and that 's his witness in you which cals you out of their vain things that with his light he might lead you out of the world there to commune with you about your back-slidings and shew your transgressious and the everlasting Covenant of the Fathers Love even the eternall inheritance which none can come to but who receives his witness in the light a Cross to all the worlds lovers and it's glory So if you can receive him you may if not this I say to you your expectation will faile who lookes for his appearance in the worldly glory or after your imaginations who judge him to be like your selves or such a one as you would have him who have changed your glory for fading things and so imagine of him also Doe you think the Lamb hath changed his glory because the beast is got up into his seat nay his glory is the same though you have changed your God and have bowed down to the Prince of this world and his glory and hath committed adultery therewith yet God is the same and changes not Wherefore come down you painted harlots you adulterers and adulteresses whose minds would uphold carnall delights and yet profess the name of the Lord Jesus you are an ill savour to the Nations whom the Lord is about to gather who say you are the people of God but live worse then the Heathen you are the enemies of God and your profession stinkes in his nostrills will he accept your words when your lives preach rebellion openly and have begot a faith in one another to beleeve that God wil accept you herein a Christ you look for conformable to your Kingdom of pride and worldly glory selfe-worship respect of persons whither you have followed the Heathen into that principle where man erres thither are you gon out of the faith of Christ which stands not in respect of persons neither can you beleeve who receive honour one of another so your hope shall perish and your sorrow and your end shall come upon you in one day except you returne though now you put it afar off yet shall you see that vain words shall not save where Light and life is denyed And you whose unity stands in the visibles and by them are gathered together and there you receive and know one another and that you make the door to receive into your Church and without it no Communion whose knowledge is outward and your worships outward as in words or water bread or drink or any carnal perishing things though good in their time and place to them who in their place could use them yet were they not given as the substance but as the shadows not in the place of God but in way of obedience to God as many other carnal things which in their place and time must not be omitted as Temple Circumcision Sacrifices Brazen-Serpent which were good till set in the place of God and till they who had them set them up against truth and righteousness and became as bad if not worse then they that had them not yet blessed themselves in their evil ways because of them and excluded all else Then the Lord departed out of them and left them empty and desolate