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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89851	A second answer to Thomas Moore, to that which he calls, his Defence against the poyson, &c. Wherein is shewed the crooked wayes, the Serpent is forced to take to keep God and his creatures at a distance, and yet would do it under the name of a teacher. But is seen to be the same, that perswaded man out from his guide in spirit, and now would keep him so, lest his unclean wayes in the heart of man should be discovered with the spiritual light of Christ; and so man should turn to the Lord, who is that spirit, and the vail be done away, ... Here is also 54. lies gathered out from amongst a multitude more, with T.M. hath heaped up for his defence, against the truth, which he calles the poyson of Satan, which are sent him back to the 48. that I sent him before, that he may either prove them, or they root with the founder, for the truth they touch not. / Set forth to clear the truth from this froth, cast upon it by the enemy thereof, By a friend to the seed of truth, called James Naylor.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1656 (1656)	Wing N314; Thomason E868_9; ESTC R202991	29,892	39

11. 34 35. 36. that the light of the body is the eye and if it be single the whole body is full of light as the bright shining of a Candle doth give light And keep thy heart with all diligence for from thence are the Issues of life And saith Thy word have I hid in my heart that I might not sin and Commune with your own hearts and be still and the Law of God is written in the heart and the heart of the wise Prov. 4. 23 Psal 119. 11. Psal 4. Heb. 8. 10. Prov. 16. 23. Joh. 16. 13 teacheth his mouth and the spirit of truth is that which must lead into all truth Nay doth not all the Scriptures testifie to the light and spirit-teaching within and that they are none of Christs who have not the spirit of Christ and is it counted a familiar spirit now with thee Now is it seen to all the Children of the light that Antichrist is revealing as the Scriptures hath foretold and the Man of sin pleading against freedom from sin and the blinde Guids preaching against the light and he that is born of the flesh against the spirit and its teachings and the Children of darkness against the light that manifests the evill deeds and he is discovering who abode not in the truth and the spirit and light is that truth which thou would preach down to lead out into the world where the lyer is who hates the light because his deeds are evill And this is thy work in thy books and to thy Master and his work thou art faithful using thy utmost subtlety to do his work thorowly to preach Christ out of his Creatures that none should minde his light and spirit but without in another world that so the Devill may have his will in the heart in this World while any one lives and serve God and be made free when they are dead and can do their Master no more service if they would and when thou hast struck them off from looking at any light or spirit within then like the Serpent least his head should be seen thou hides thy selfe with telling of Not to lean to their own understanding and sayes thou though the word be nigh them in their hearts that it might be yet it is not received by them in their hearts or dwelling there as a light or principle to direct them while in their naturall estate when thou hast done what thou can to perswade them that the looking to it is but as to a familiar spirit But is that their own understanding which condemns their natural understanding as they are fallen from God and lets them see that all their understanding wisdom and prudence is God hid from and manifests all their deeds in that state to be evill this hath every natural man in him from the Father of Spirits which manifestation of spirit is given to every one to profit withall if it be but minded and not quenched and without this can be no knowledge of God and if this Candle be put out there is no doing the work of God till it be lighted further then to wait and there is no waiting but with the heart in spirit till it shine out of darkness again and till then all the Creature doth is but deeds of darkness and not accepted by God his prayers are abomination and his plowing sin yea though all the world should flatter such a one they could not save him nor unite him to God nor give peace of Conscience with God nor Sealing in spirit and this the Children of light know though blinde Serpents and deaf Adders oppose it who walk in crast and deceit but the Apostles who handled not the word deceitfully did commend themselves to that in every mans 2 Cor. 4. 2. Conscience in the sight of God and the Ministration of Christ is to the spiritual seed whereby the spiritual seed is quickned and raised out of darkness and death but the Ministration of the Hireling and false Prophet is to the itching eares and so the Beast and the false Prophet joynes against the seed of God to keep it in death and darkness and if it be born up then they persecute him in whom it is born And these take the letter there with to deny the light and oppose that spirit that gave it forth and whereof the letter restifies because they have not the John 5. word abiding within them and this was the work of the Pharises and Hirelings but never any one of Christs Ministers denyed the light and spirit within as thou dost yet slaidly and covertly so as if thou be taxt for it thou may have an excuse to come out of and deny thy work with a meaning and consequence but if none disproves thee then goes on with thy work to lead out simple people from the light of Christ in spirit to follow thy Imaginations without a spirit and light without which thou never saw Yet in this one thing there is not many exceeds thee for when ever thou layes down a deceit the end whereof is to deny the light or spirit or perfection or to slander any who own the truth in these things thou makes sure before thou leave it to make two or three wayes for escape least it fall upon thy head knowing before the thing to be such thou cannot stand by with Scripture and this the least Child of Light may see in thy books wherefore I shall not much need to trace thee therein the thing being so plainly evident to all that in the light read thy books and my answers thereto And when thou hast told a lie and being told thereof thou on purpose having left out a word or syllable there thou makes an escape As for instance in thy answer to the last Query which asks What that grace of God is which brings salvation and hath appeared to all men thy lie is that indeed we believe no such thing as the grace of God appearing to men which I finding this to be as answer to the Query I tell thee Thou answers with a slander saying that indeed we believe no such thing as the grace of God appearing to all men now thou having left out the word all for escape which is in the Query and in the Scripture also In thy defence sayes thou my words are They believe no such thing as the grace of God appearing to men and this thou would charge upon me to be a lie when the lie is thy own and hath both abused the Query and the Scripture on which the Query is grounded leaving out the word all to make it and such holes as this thou creeps out of to hide the lyer from being seen And in other places where thou hast gone a crooked way to fetch a compasse to make a lie for otherwise thou could not which when I come to answer and takes the sum of the thing in brief which otherwise might fill a volume then thy escape

no other but For that which is not immediate from God nor from any light and spirit within must be litterall teachings the letter For sayst thou the preaching of it was given by those great Apostles and of the same vertue or quality that ever it was for teaching all things and afterwards calls it the Anointing and yet denieth any light and spirit within So that all that reads thy Answer shall see that I have spoken nothing but the truth of thee in saying Thou would thrust it to literal teaching and thy crooked ways cannot hide thee But thine own words in another place may put the thing wholly out of doubt where thou saist That the grace of God that brings Salvation to all men instructs them not to look to any light or spirit within them for direction Here would thon thrust out from the light and spirit within to literal teaching contrary both to the Spirit and the Letter also for that which is in Spirit is within and the Letter saith The anointing that you have received of him abideth in you and you need not that any man teach you but as the same Anointing teacheth you of all things Thou goes on to the fifth Query and there thou casts down all thy whole work if thou do'st but mind what thou art there driven to to hide thy self where thou confesses the Comforter that reproves the world and leads into all truth and reaches effectually to be in the heart and cannot be out of it so that by thy Confession now there can be no teaching out of the heart So let any compare this with the rest of thy books and see thy confusion and what shifts thou art driven to to and fro like one stark drunk in thy Imaginations vomiting out thy own shame Is there no teaching out of the heart and the grace of God thou sayes instructs not to look into our selves or to any Light or Spirit within us for direction What a Birth is this thou hast brought forth into the world How will these two agree Or with what divination wilt thou reconcile them No Teaching but in the heart and yet not look within But seeing thou hast confessed that there can be no reproving and Teaching but in the heart let me mind thee of it again lest thou forget it it being a truth I would have thee no more to contradict it Might not thou as well have confessed this long-ago and have spared all thy wranglings and crooked paths thou hast walked in thereby to deny the Light and Spirit within to be the onely Teacher and now confesseth it cannot be out of the heart So if thou own it in thy heart thou maist read thy Condemnation for opposing it all along in both thy books And thou adds another Accusation as false as the rest and that is That I pervert most of the Scriptures I meddle with and for instance thou names that of Jer. 23. 30. which thou sayes I do in the close of my 32 page I say thou shamelesse man were thou not hardened in thy wickednesse past feeling thou would blush to say I pervert a Scripture where I mention none But this is like the rest of thy slanders who can both name the Scripture and pervert it thy self and then slander it upon me that doth not so much as mention it nor any other in that place In thy other thou accused me for perverting Scriptures where I did but quote them as they are without a word adding and now thou accusest me where I quote none nor mention any at all but it 's impossible to escape thy tongue It 's not much to be wondered that thou should call Christ and his Light within which convinceth of sinne nothing but a fancy and as a familiar Spirit as thou do'st It 's a strange Doctrine to thee to know the Son of God condemning sinne in the flesh and so it appears when the Lyar is so strong in thee If thou knew any light in thee but what is thy own fancy the Devil would be reproved and sin condemned did'st thou know Christ in the flesh But the Prince of the world not being udged the Reprobate is Head which knowes not Christ in thee his Light and Spirit which reproves the world and guids into all truth in whom he is known and followed So thy Confession is suitable to thy practice for thou that hath not Christ in thee to condemn sin it 's not like the Devil should condemn what he begets so thy tongue becomes without bridle and thy heart without knowledge that thou do'st evill So deceiving and being deceived is thy work even whilst thou art telling what Christ did on the Cross Thou hast lost the Cross and to the Devil is at liberty in thee unreproved or condemned So not believing in the Light thy self is in the same Condemnation and knows not but is past feeling being heart-blind And thou tells of a Promise thou hast made to prove a Wolf in a sheeps skin and thou wilt prove it out of my Acknowledgment of the righteousness of God wrought in the One Person of Jesus Christ of Nazareth his Sufferings Resurrection and Ascension according to the Scriptures And thou tells of two little words I have left out so it seems that to confess Christ according to the Scripture without two little words more with thee is a Wolf and with such muddy dirty stuff as this not worth naming after thee thou keeps thy promise and fills thy hook And thou sayst I care not how full I make my Acknowledgment of the righteousnesse of GOD wrought in the Death and Resurrection of that Person in that Personal body So they be not understood to be therein finished and need not be wrought in us To which I say that it is the thing most feared by thee and him for whom thou labour'st lest any should look for the righteousnesse of God wrought in them A thing which thou art little guilty of thy self out of whom springs the work of the Devil like a flood yet do we know that the work of righteousness is not ended and finished for any Creature so as to bring them to GOD till God's righteousness be wrought in them A thing the Devil and his Ministers doth now most of all oppose though you confess what was done at Jerusalem yet can he keep his Kingdome in England in every heart wherein God's righteousness is not wrought So righteousness to talk of without but the Devil within is the Doctrine best-pleasing to the Devil and his Ministers But who are his Workmanship have not so learned him which knows Christ in us which thou calls Antichristian and thou that art without Christ with the Lyar in thee would be counted the Christian And further thou sayst the Wolf appears under the sheep-skins in my following Declaration of our Principles To which I say I did lay down 12 particular Heads being the chief things which thou cunningly went about to deny in