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world_n	earth_n	glory_n	heaven_n	8,971	5	5.2422	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52722	To the life of God in all	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1659 (1659)	Wing N321; ESTC R31710	8,394	10

what ever I have taken counsell of without this life and against it is for ever condemned as Adultry in my heart and so I have found it in his pure sight to whom I confesse for my God and Saviour in all my troubles And in whom soever this pure Eternall Spirit of Life throughout the world hath been troubled or offended in man or woman through my fall or the advantage which the adversary got against my Soul Gods truth and his People to that in all I acknowledge mine offence Against thee have I sinned who was with me in the deep and in so many tender hearts for my recovery and salvation which is one in all for ever confessed too and the occasion of the griefe thereof for ever condemned in the presence of God his Host and People But against him that sought my life in that day and rejoyced at that occasion have I requited no evil in my heart neither have I opened my mouth before the Lord that the evil day should haste who rejoyced at my fall and was glad at that advantage to persue my soul into the pit that I might never have seen light more nor have appeared in the Assemblies of them which God hath sanctified on the earth But in the bowels of him that hath born me through all adversitie I have been kept towards them and I know it is the Spirit of Christ Jesus which thinks not evil for evil and when all visible help was removed a far off and I in the depth of the pit then this was with me and in me before God which often appeared when all else was gone and many a time stayed my soul in secret that it sunk not under the accuser and the weight of his temptations when I was alone from any creature and now seeing that the loving kindness of the Lord hath outlived all this enmitie and the long suffering of Christ Jesus hath born to the end thereof and that endless life hath ministred freedom for me thereto be glory and praise for evermore And to God the Father of all be thanks for ever who is begetting his creatures into that one pure Life and with the cords thereof hath bound up as in one bundle so many at this day who in his living Spirit and Power are made at the needfull time to stand before him with cryes prayers one for another which he hath heard and doth heare even as he hath begotten thereto in every creature the answer whereof makes many glad at this day praises to God everlasting And to the glory of this precious life is this sent forth that all that have sinned against him may have hope in him and return whose Judgments are right and his mercy endures for ever and that all who have made their graves deep through disobedience and their darkness thick through lust might awake and confess to the Lord of life and come forth who quickeneth the dead at his word the blind he makes to see and hath called to the great deeps that his praises may live for ever And that all you in whom any measure of this precious life hath been betrayed either through this or any other thing that to the light thereof you may return in your selves and there waite till the Life arise which is your return and which must give you rest with the flock of God for its the Life that 's the door and the fold and without it you will be but wanderers and lost in all your thoughts and motions and God will cross you and curse you for its sake and plead against you till you return if he cast you not off for often rebellion from which the Lord keep you And take heed of evill thoughts to which you will be tempted you that are gone out from the true Light or an evil eye going out of your own hearts against the truth you once was called into or them that walke in it to spie faults in others and feed thereon This food will but strenthen the enmity in you against you and your return and with this you may make bonds which you cannot break when you would And your evil thoughts are as witchcraft to the pure Life and as a canker will eat till it have devoured all that remains in you to lead you to repentance that not so much as the place thereof you will find in the end And this I am moved to warn you of having been often tempted therewith that the Life of Peace and Truth may only live and guide in you all without which there can be no true unity with God or his People which is that the devil chiefly hates and withstands in all in whom he can prevaile Thus having drunken a measure of that depth which cannot be measured I cannot but confesse thereto and declare thereof to his praise who above all excelleth in judgment and mercy to every perticular creature in their severall states and conditions that all might hear and take heed to abide in him whose off-spring they are who hath his way in the deeps and makes darkness as light before him he turns man to destruction for his disobedience and the light of his word is Salvation and his Life the Resurrection out of the greatest depth who hath saved my soul from death thus far and lift my feet up out of the pit even to him be immortall glory for ever and let every troubled soul trust in him for his mercy endureth for ever JAMES NAYLOR And in the Day when my God lift my feet out of the Pit was this given forth ITt is in my heart to praise thee O my God let me never forget thee what thou hast been to me in the night by thy presence in the day of tryall when I was beset in darkness when I was cast out as a wandring bird when I was assalted with strong temptations then thy presence in secret did preserve me and in a low estate I felt thee neer me when the floods sought to sweep me away Thou set a compasse for them how far they should passe over when my way was through the sea and when I passed under the mountains there was thou present with me when the weight of the hills was upon me thou upheld me else had I sunk under the earth when I was as one altogether helpless when tribulation and anguish was upon me day and night and the earth without foundation when I went on the way of wrath and passed by the gates of Hell when all comforts stood afar off and he that is mine enemy had dominion when I was cast into the pit and was as one appointed to death when I was between the milstones and as one crushed with the weight of his adversary as a father thou was with me and the Rock of thy presence when the mouths of lyons roared against me and fear took hold on my soul in the pit then I called upon Thee in the night and my cryes was strong before thee dayly who answered me from thy Habitation and delivered me from thy dwelling Place Saying I will set thee above all thy fears and lift up thy seet above the head of oppression I beleeved and was strengthed and thy word was salvation Thou didst fight on my part when I wrestled with Death and when darkness would have shut me up then thy light shone about me and thy Banner was over my head when my work was in the furnace and as I passed through the fire by Thee I was not consumed though the flames ascended above my head when I beheld the dreadfull visions and was amongst the fiery Spirits thy faith stayed me else through fear I had fallen I saw thee and beleeved so the enemy could not prevaile When I look back into thy works I am astonished and sees no end of thy praises glory glory to thee saith my soul and let my heart be ever filled with thanksgiving Whilst thy works remaine they shall shew forth thy power Then didst thou lay the foundation of the Earth and leadest me under the Waters and in the deep didst thou show me wonders and thy forming of the world By thy hand thou led me in safety till thou shewed me the pillors of the Earth then did the Heavens shoure down they was covered with darkness and the powers thereof was shaken and thy Glory desended thou fil'd the lower parts of the earth with gladness and the springs of the valleys were opened thy showres descended abundantly so the earth was filled with vertue thou made thy plant to spring and the thirsty soul became as a watered garden then didst thou lift me out of the pit and set me forth in the sight of my enemies Thou proclamed liberty to the captive and called mine acquaintance neare me they to whom I had been a wonder looked upon me and in Thy love I obtained favour in those who had forsook me then did gladness swallow up sorrow and I forsook all my troubles and I said how good is it that man be proved in the night that he may know his folly that every mouth may become silent in thy hand untill thou make man known to himselfe and have slain the boaster and shewed him the vanity that vexeth thy Spirit THE END LONDON Printed for Thomas Simmons at the Sign of the Bull and Mouth near Aldersgate 1659.