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A89835	A discovery of the first wisdom from beneath, and the second wisdom from above. Or, The difference betwixt the two seeds, the one after the flesh, the other after the spirit. With the true worship of God after the spirit, and the false worship of the world, who lives in outward forms, useth customes and traditions, not knowing the onely true God that dwelleth in his saints, and rules by his spirit of power, which causeth them to differ from the world, and those that have the form of godlinesse, and want the power thereof. ... Written by a servant of the Lord, whom the world scornfully nicknameth, and calleth a Quaker, who is prisoner for the testimony of the truth at Applebie in Westmorland, whose name is James Nayler.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1656 (1656)	Wing N272; Thomason E693_4; ESTC R207000	26,155	39

Dan. 5 25. and nothing will be weight but what is pure and holy truth from the heart no deceit nor hypocrisie will be weight no peace by a drunkard or whoremongers will be weight no idolators proud or covetness no swearer lyer drunkard or whoremonger will be Revel 23. 13. weight no Idolators proud or covetous ones no scorner railer or false accusers no murtherer nor envious persecuter no fornicator nor unclean ones nor any that lives to the flesh can be weight but wil be found wanting and then wo unto you for your kingdom must be taken from you and given to them who will bring forth fruits that God may have glory now all professors and people consider your conditions you have been long hearers and professors but what have your fruits been herein is Mat. 3. 10. my Father glorified that you bring forth much fruit but now you fruitless trees you must be cut down and cast into the fire for all mens works must be tried by 1 Cor. 3. 13. fire and then wo unto you who have taken pleasure in sin repent and return to the Lord betime that you may find mercy for your destruction is of your selves VI. The cursed condition of conceited ones who are wise in their own eyes VVO unto you that are wise in your own eyes Isai 5. 21. and prudent in your own sight you that think Iohn 14. 17. to understand the spirituall things of God by your carnal Iude 10. wisdom and because God wil not reveal his secrets to your serpentine wisdom therefore you speak evil of it where it is revealed though you know it not your wisdom is of the earth and feedeth upon dust and dust is the Serpents meat by your wisdom you can over-reach Isai 65. 25. your brethren oppress the poor to get riches to make your selves great in the earth and thereby Lord it over your brethren by it you can go to law and begger your poor brethren for trifles to fulfil your own wils by it you can deceive the simple and harmless man and make him your laughing-stock when you have done by it you can contrive mischief on your bed and when the morning is come you put in practice against those whom you envy And do you think that ever God wil Mica 2. 1 2 3. reveal himself to this wisdom any other wayes then in wrath from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of this wisdom nay the secrets of the Lord are with them that fear him but there is no fear of the Lord where this wisdom ruleth But you are puft up in your vain mind think you know much when as you know nothing yet as you ought to know For saith the Apostle Who is a wise man amongst you and en Rom. 1. 18. dued with knowledge let him shew out of a good conversation Iam. 3. 13. his works with meekness of wisdom Your works that proceed out shew plainly what kind of wisdom is within that wisdom that brings forth pride scorning lightness and wantonness swearing lying covetousness self-love Iob 14. 4. envy hatred deceit backbiting slandering and evill speaking lust excess strife and contention persecution or any other unclean or filthy practice doing to others that which you would not have them to do to you that wisdom is of the Divel and not of God Now this is the wisdom the world drives after and so highly extols and by which you think to attain to the pure and invisible things of God And thus the wisdome of the Serpent which riseth out of the earth and feedeth on earth would be climbing up to the hidden things of God and so would be heirs of two Kingdoms But saith the Apostle If ye have bitter envyings and strife in your hearts glory not and lye not against the truth Iam. 3. 14 15 16. This wisdom descends not from above but is earthly sensual and divelish For where envy and strife is there is confusion and every evil work but that wisdom which is from above is first pure then peaceable gentle and easie to be entreated ful of mercy and good fruits without partiality without hypocrisie Now you Iam. 3. 17. who think you are the men for wisdom try your wisdom by these marks set down by the Apostle whether it be given you from above or it be of the Serpent arising out of the earthly part within you Is it such a wisdom as shews forth of a good cōversation the works of meekness Is it pure Is it peaceable Is it gentle and easie to be intreated Is it full of mercy and good fruits without partiality without hypocrisie If it bring forth these fruits it is from above and God will own it reveal his secrets to it even the hidden things of God But on the contrary if it be that wisdom that Jam. 3. 15. brings forth bitter envyings and strife and every evil work vainglorying and lying against the truth the Apostle saith plainly It is not of God but is earthly sensual and divelish and this wisdom must never enter into the kingdom but is of the Serpent cursed above all creatures more subtile then all the beasts of the field eating the forbidden fruit the judging of good and evil by carnal knowledge creeping into the earth earthly things all for the belly feeding on dust and delighting in things that perish and fade away painted on the outside decking thee with pride curiously invented Scrpent-like by this wisdom and feeding thy lust with curious devised dishes Dives-like devising and plotting to get riches right or wrong so that you can but keep within the compass of the laws of the nation never regarding to be guided by that pure law of God within written in the heart which would lead Heb. 10. 16. Rom. 8. 7. you in all things to do as you would be done by But the wisdom of men is not subject to the law of God neither can be for it is death to it and you deceive your selves who did think to find out the mystery of the things of God by this wisdom for God hath hid it from your eyes and the world by wisdom knows 1 Cor 1. 20 21. not God for God hath turned their wisdom into foolishness And saith Christ I thank thee O Father Lord of Heaven and earth that thou hast hid these things from Matth. 11. 25. the wise and prudent and revealed them to Babes God Iohn 3. 5 6 hath hid them in Christ and none comes to Christ but Babes such are of the new birth not flesh and blood but of water and the spirit such onely enter into the mystery of the Kingdom by the Door in all the strait way through the Cross where your Serpents wisdom would not willingly come for if it do it must be slain and you must become fools for Christs sake Luke 18. 17. that you may be wise you must enter as a little child or else you cannot come there for it is revealed to Babes onely your wisdom that you so much boast on must be crucified and die and a new wisdom must Job 8. 28. be given you from above which begins with the fear of the Lord for the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and to practice it is understanding and when you once come to own this true Wisdom which is of God then you shall see the world who did so highly applaud you for your wisdom before will now call you fools and madmen for that wisdom which they do applaud shall be cast behind thee and then thou shalt witness the Scripture fulfilled when God hath destroyed the wisdom of the wise and brought to 1 Cor. 1. 19. 20. 21. nought the understanding of the prudent where is the wise where is the disputer of this world for the world by this wisdom knowes not God nor ever shall do for God hath chosen the foolish things of this world to confound the wise and weak things to confound the 1 Cor. 1. 25. 27 mighty then thou shalt see that wisdom not to be of 1 Cor. 2. 6. 7. 8. this world neither of the Princes of this world which come to nought but the wisdom of God which is a hidden mysterie which none of the Princes of this world knew for if they knew it they would not persecute it where it is but the knowledge of this mystery is the free gift of God given onely to them who fear and love him given without all naturall helpes whatsoever 1 Cor. 2. 14. 15 for the naturall man receives not the things of the spirit of God for they are foolishness to him neither can he know them for they are spiritually discerned but the spirituall man Judgeth all things and he himself is Judged of no man for he that is in the spirit lives above all the earth and Colos 3. 3. earthly wisdom and sees all the world where they live but no carnal wisdom shall ever see where he lives for his life is hid with God in Christ from all vultures eyes and venomous beasts James Nayler a prisoner of the Lord to all that names the name of the Lord to whom these shall come desires Grace and Peace FINIS

A DISCOVERY OF THE First WISDOM from beneath AND THE Second WISDOM from above OR The difference betwixt the two Seeds The one after the Flesh the other after the Spirit WITH The true worship of God after the Spirit and the false worship of the world who lives in outward Forms useth Customes and Traditions not knowing the onely true God that dwelleth in his Saints and rules by his Spirit of Power which causeth them to differ from the world and those that have the form of godliness and want the power thereof Also the subtilty of the Serpent ruling in the hearts of the Children of Disobedience discovered And a call to repentance to all that run on in blindness darkness and ignorance and the judgement that is due to all those that will not take counsell of the Lord but turn the Grace of God into wantonness Written by a Servant of the Lord whom the world scornfully nicknameth and calleth a Quaker who is prisoner for the testimony of the Truth at Applebie in Westmorland whose name is JAMES NAYLER London Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black Spread Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1653. A Discovery of the first Wisdom from beneath and the second Wisdom from above or The difference betwixt the two ●eeds the one after the flesh the other after the Spirit I. The Wisdom from beneath which leadeth into bondage and the Wisdom from above which leadeth up into perfect libertie where there is freedom and Communion with the Father and the Son DEar friends all minde your guide within you even the pure light of God which bears witness against all your ungodly wayes ungodly words thoughts works and worships which are after the world and leads you without from the Lord your guide for what stands in outward things devised in the will and brain which is the Serpents seal is accursed from God kept out of the Kingdom where the earthly will hath libertie leads out to visible things and feed upon dust which is the Serpents meat but you who desire to be fed with that which is Eternall lay aside all your wisdom which is naturall for the naturall man receives not the spirituall things of God for that wisdom shall never know God which stands in the will of man but darkens the pure light in you and opposeth it and if you abide in the pure light within you shall see that what ever the light of Christ makes appear to be evil and to be cast off then the other light which stands in mans wisdom makes a cover for it that it may abide still and thus the flesh lusteth against the spirit and that wisdom which ariseth out of the earth opposeth that which is from above and cals evil good and good evil and the wo being upon that nature you can have no peace while that stands and from hence comes all your troubles and darkness within you because that eye which is open to the visible offends and here you are shut out of the Kingdom which consists in righteousness peace and Joy in the holy Ghost but were that eye pluckt out and you turned within to see with that eye that is single then the whole body would be full of light and abiding in that light it will shew you a path that leads to puritie and Holiness without which none shall ever see the Lord And it will let you see a Law written in your hearts even the righteous Law of the new Covenant which is a Book sealed to all the wisdom of the World and none can read it but the pure light that gave it forth which light as it ariseth in you it will open all Parables and read all Scriptures within you in your measure and so you will come to the Unitie with all Saints in measure and so come to Christ the first born even to the innumerable company of Angels to the spirits of just men made perfect and to God the Judge of all where no Serpents wisdom shall ever come and that Law being laid open will be a limit to the carnall minde when it would run forth and the Judge will appear who will passe true judgement upon all things as they are within you and a separation will be made between the precious and the vile in you and you will be brought to discern what leads to obedience and what leads to disobedience and here is your true Teacher whereby all shall be taught of God as saith the Scripture and minding this light it will shew you a Crosse to be daily taken up whereby all the unruly nature must be crucified for all must be brought subject to the yoke even the most rebellious and stifnecked in you for he will tread upon the neck of Kings and that which hath captivated the pure in you must go into captivity for now the Lord is Risen to disquiet the earth and them that are at rest yea wo to them that are at ease in Sion for he is risen who is to rule all Nations with a rod of Iron and to deliver the oppressed and to set open the prison doors and to set the prisoners free that they may serve him and praise his name even the name of the Lord Holy and pure blessed for evermore And dear friends be faithfull in what you know take heed of making a profession of what you are not and so you be found dissemblers before the Lord but keep low in meekness and patience standing in the will of God in all things and all those enemies that will not that Christ should raigne over them bring them before the Judge that they may be slain even upon that Crosse that is daily to be taken up for the Cross is to the carnal wilde heady bruitish nature in you which lies above the seed of God in you and oppresseth the pure now giving this up to be crucified makes way for that which is pure to arise and guide your minds up to God there to wait for power and strength against whatsoever the light of God makes manifest to be evil and so to cast it off and so you shall see where your strength l●●th and who it is in you that worketh the w●●l and the deed and then you shall be brought into a possession of what you have but had a profession and ●inde the power of what you have had but in words which is hid from all professions in the World and is revealed no other way but by the pure light of God dwelling in you and you in it take heed of searching into the hidden things of God by your own wisdom which is carnal for that hath God shut out of the Kingdom and separated it from him and the things of God and his Kingdom are hid from it and it is appointed for utter darkness accursed from him and doth oppose him in all things and in all ages the wisdom of the great men of the earth have persecuted the pure wisdom of God and

and would have all to worship him because of the abundance of it that he hath got together for he knows no other God nor Exod. 5. 2. greater happiness then what he sees with carnall eyes this all his actions witness and this is he that is exalted above all that is called God and opposeth God in 2 Thess 2. 4. all his commands When God faith Thou shalt not Gen. 2. 17. Gen. 3. 4 5. oat of the Tree of knowledge for if thou do thou shalt die he saith You may eat of it and not die but live bet Matth 4. 10. ter be as God himself When God saith Thou shalt Exod. 20. 5. not bow down nor worship any Creature in heaven or earth for I am jealous of mine honour and will not have it given to any creature but will visit that sin to the third and fourth generation he saith Thou shalt bow down and Luke 4. 5 6 7 8 worship me and thou shalt gain by it and be received into the kingdoms of the Earth and the glory of them for there I am Prince and I will bestow great things upon thee But if thou wilt not I make a Decree I●ester 3. sign it with my own Ring and set all my servants to act it that all thy seed shall be cut off out of my Dominions in one day And thus to oppose God and seek to destroy his seed where it appears hath been his way from the beginning and is his way at this day and here are all you haters enviers and persecuters and you are doing his worke and you are acted by him who was a murtherer from the beginning The second man is the Lord from Heaven and he that bears his Image minds heavenly things and delights in heavenly things for he is spirituall and judgeth I Cor. 15 47. Col. 1. 15. not according to outward appearance for the evill eye that offends is pluckt out that eye which leads into visible things and there is an eye turned inward Psal 25 14. which pierceth into the hidden treasure which is eternall which the naturall eye sees not and having once got a sight of the true riches he casts away all his Idols and Idol worships and what ever is perishing and treads upon all that may hinder his enjoyment thereof though they have been never so dear unto him now it is become base dross and dung that he may obtain the Phil. 3. 8. invisible riches and then the first born whose heart is in the earth calls him a fool and a mad man and thinks it strange that he will not serve the world nor the times for money nor have mens persons in admiration Jude 16. because of advantage nor observe the Heathenish customes for fear of men but is made to declare against them in open streets and markets and then that nature Acts 14 16. which lives in these things takes up stones to cast at him cries against him in tumults Away with him it is not fit he should live for he breaks all customes and traditions which we and our Fathers have lived in so many years and turns the world up-side down but being blind cannot see that the Lord is in him who Acts 16. 20 21. counts all the customs of the Heathen vain and overturns Kingdoms and Nations at his will and thereby makes way for him to reign whose right it is The first man worships a God at a distance but knows him not nor where he is but by relation from others either by word or writing and as he receives his knowledge 1 John 2. 4. of him from men so his worship towards him is 1 John 2. 6. taught by the precepts of men and if men on whom Isa 29. 13. be depends command him to go to Steeple-house he goes if they command him to pray he prayes if they command him to sing he sings if they bid him hear kneel sit stand fast or feast he doth it and here he hath fellowship with men and doth as his neighbours do or with those he calls brethren if he be got into a more strict form but as for any command from God binding to these or any communion with God or answer of acceptance from him upon every performance he looks for no such thing now in these dayes as though God was not now the same to his people that he hath been in all Ages And thus in vain doth Matth 1● 9. he worship receiving for Doctrines the commandements of men and so uphold and plead for a customary worship in a form of tradition which he is resolved to practise as long as he lives but as for any other fellowship Heb 6. 1. with God or knowledge of him or overcoming the body of sin or growing up toward perfection he looks for none while he is here but he hath set up his Stand as far as he intends to go and if any go any further or witness any more then he knows he accounts it blasphemy and cries out against it as a thing not to be suffered and with carnall weapons would force all to his light but who have eyes open see him to be blind The second man worships a God at hand where he dwels in his Holy Temple and he knowes him by his John 4. 24. own word from his dwelling place and not by relation 2 Cor. 6. 16. 1 Cor 6. 19. of others and thus the holy men of God alwayes knew him for Abraham did not know him by what he had spoke to Noah nor the Prophets by what he spoke Gen. 12. 1 2. Hosea 1. 1. to Abraham no● the Apostles by what he spoke to the 1 Joh. 5. 10. Prophets nor the Saints by what he spoke to the Apostles but he that beleeveth hath the witness within himself and thereby sets to his seal that God is true and therfore Christ exhorts to have salt in your selves 2 Pet. 1. 19. Gal. 4. 6. 7. and the Apostle exhorts the Saints to wait for the appearance Joh. 16. 13. of Christ in themselves and to waite for the Joh. 14 26. John 4. 22. day Star arising in their heart and they knew themselves 1 Cor. 14. 5 to be the Sons of God by the Spirit that he had Revel 27. 11. 17. 29. given them and so doth he that is born of the Spirit and by the same Spirit that witnesseth God dwelling in him he is taught how where and after what maner he will be worshipped and he knowes what he worships and he worships in spirit and he prayes in the spirit and sings in the spirit and with understanding also and not in form and custom and he hath an Ear open to hear what the spirit saith by which he is taught when and how to pray to sing to fast or Feast and he Feasteth of fat things whereby the soul

upon thee thou that art a persecuter of the messengers of the Lord Go to saith the Lord write it in a book that it Isai 30. 8 9 10 11. may be for time to come for ever and ever that this is a rebellious people lying children that will not heare the law of the Lord which say to the Seers See not and to the Prophets prophesie not to us right things speak unto us smooth things prophesie deceit Now see if it be not so in these days he that studies out eloquent words to please the ears of men and can talk against sin in words but when they have done joyn with the wicked in his wicked ways as pride covetousness oppression drunkenness rioting and such like and so become men pleasers these are Prophets most fit for them that love their sins and would not have their minds crost Micah saith Mica 2. 11. in his days that a lier and one that will prophesie of wine and strong drink is a Prophet most fit for this people and these Prophets shal never suffer persecution nor ever turn any from their sins But if any come with a true message from the Lord declare his judgments to come against all sin filthiness and witness against all the ways of the wicked both in word and practise then away with such a fellow from the earth it is not Acts 22 22. fit he should live for he judgeth all but himself send him to prison or into his own Countrey out of our coasts what hath he to do here or who sent him or what is his authority I love him not for he never 1 King 22. 8. 18. speaks good of us but evil O friend didst thou but know whom thou strivest against thou wouldst tremble before him it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks thou art not against man but God And this know that no prophesie of old ever came by the wil of man but against the wills of all men in the world both he 2 Pet. 1. 21. that was sent and they to whom he was sent But who hath resisted his wil for there is a necessity laid upon such as are sent by him wo unto them if they go not And they who are thus sent are no Hirelings neither do they come with What will you give me but they 1 Cor. 9. 16 17 must witness forth freely what Christ hath revealed in them though they suffer for it but this cal is not known to Babylons Merchants who buy sell and trade for money Revel 18. 11. neither is it known to the world for if it were they would not hate persecute it but they that are sent by 1 Cor. 2. 8. God have b in hated in all ages and it is the same now else how should the Scriptures be fulfilled but O man take heed what thou doest thy power is limitted though thou know it not thou canst but kill the bodie and the soul shall live thou canst but imprison the body Mat. 10. 2● and the spirit is at liberty out of thy reach and therefore Christ bids his not to fear such who can go no further and it is so for they who are kept close in obedience to Christ are kept out of the fear of man for saith Isa 51. 12. 13. 14. the Lord I even I am he that comforted you who art thou that thou shouldst be afraid of a man that shal die and the Son of man that shall be as grasse forgetteth the Lord thy Maker that hath stretcheth forth the Heavens Isa 51. 16. laid the foundations of the earth hath feared every day because of the fury of the oppressor as if he were ready to destroy and where is the fury of the oppressor but saith the Lord I have put my words into thy mouth have covered thee with the shadow of my hand behold I have taken out of thy hand the Cup of my fury and thou shalt no more drink it again but I will put it into the hand of them that afflict thee which say to thy soul bow down that we may go over thee and thou hast laid thy body as the ground and as the Isa 14. 10. street to them that go over therefore take heed you that tread the poor and helplesse under your feet repent repent your day is coming on a pace wherein the Lord wil avenge the poor on him that is too strong for him and how canst thou stand at the day when thou shalt become weak as another man and no false pretences will be accepted thou must be Judged according to thy works good or evil Oh that you had hearts to humble your selves before the Lord that ye might find mercy at that day for why will you perish rough your own will V. A call to the world to repentance and the cursed condition that men lie in professing much but practising just nothing but pride wantonness covetousness and yet cover themselves with large professions and call themselves Saints wo wo to all them who profess the truth and live in unrightness and that turne the grace of God into wantonness ALl people repent and turn to the Lord from the evil of your doing for the Lord is at hand who Isa 3. 10. 11. will judge the world and give every one according to Isa 26. 21. 2 Thes 1. 7. 8. 9 their doings whether they be good or evil yea he is 1 John 3. 6. coming with ten thousands of his Angels to be avenged on the Heathen and them that know not God now all that live in sin filthiness it plainly appears you know not God for if you did you durst not heap iniquitie and live in your lusts heaping up wrath against the day of wrath wherein the Lord will appear as a consuming fire against all ungodliness of wicked men God is against you you dissembling professors who adorn the outside to be seen of men but the inside is full of deceit serving God in outside forms and notions Mat. 23. 25 26 27 28. but your hearts are not upright with him you are in the earth and earthly mindedness in your covetousness which is Idolatry and God abhors the outside worship when the heart is not upright with him and Christ cals such whited wals painted sepulchres hypocrites Serpents a generation of vipers children of the Mat. 23. 33. devil and the woe is to such how can you escape the damnation of hell God is against you you proud and lustfull wanton ones who make it your greatest care to deck your selves your proud atire inventing new wayes and Isa 28. 12 34. fashions to make your selves glorious in the sight of men that they may bow down and worship you and set you above the Commands of God but know that Isa 2. 10. 11. 17 you are but dust and God will lay such honour in the Isa 16. to the