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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

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

the Devils kingdome and this you doe who search into the things of God with your fallen wisdome So are you kept in labour to no purpose never can get from under the works of condemnation therefore you conclude None can ever come to be wholly free while they live and so make the blood of Christ of none effect which we doe witnesse doth cleanse from all sinne and save to the uttermost all that come unto him the thing which Hagars seed doth most oppose and scoffe at that wherein we triumph above the world and Imagemakers That our God is a Saviour from that which none can be free from who are without him though they make many likenesses of him from the letter the forme without the power t is to no purpose Take notice you severall sorts of Worshippers who worship a God a farre off whom you know not which if you did there would not be so much contention about him what he is and the way of his worship Nor can you know him till he be revealed in you nor can he be known in you but as you come to be cleansed for with him dwells no uncleanesse Thus you that plead for your sinnes plead against your own soules which cannot be satisfied but by his presence who is not seen present where sin is standing And by unbeliefe doe you cut your soules off while you say you can never be cleansed till after you be dead here hath the Devil deceived you and so far prevailed with you to enter into Covenant with him while you live to serve him And being blinded this you know not That you have made Covenant with Hell and Death which by God is cursed and troubled That I know and own that troubles your peace and sets you on seeking but the way you seeke is from another principle which is selfish and shall never obtaine peace for you He that troubles all that 's out of his way guides and gives peace to all in his way the same is a spirit the world knows not blowes where it listeth therefore never found but in his own way and will You who seek him in the will of man there cannot finde him nor can your Ministers made by the will of man tell you of him where he is or the way to him He is not born of that Generation not of that Will nor of that seede is he begotten therefore not knowne to them therefore they themselves with all their seeking not having found him can doe no lesse then tell you that he will never appeare more to his people that which is written is all the word and what others have seene is all the knowledge that any need ever to looke for while the world continues and what others have done that 's all you have to talke on for your righteousnesse And thus the way of Gods walking and working in his people is wholly excluded from the face of the earth And a faith you have devised and set up besides it if not wholly against it so that now to witnesse good works is counted Poperie though all that comes to God are fore-ordained to walke therein and to that end new-created Thus are not men afraid to denie the work of God and his Righteousnesse and yet say you are his workmanship and that you are in God and Christ but out of his works and must be in the works of the Devil yet God is your Father Yet in this confusion none must tell you you are in Babylon for then you say they judge you nor that they that teach you thus are Ministers of Antichrist for that you call railing though to such the Spirit of Christ hath ever used it Thus hath the Devil set up his worke and fenced it with the name of highest Faith in the world and who is under this Faith though they sinne yet they say they can never fall finally nor totally though the whole man be found in the action nor is your sins like others because you say you are believers though both they and you in one action and nature So that Faith which you professe is become a defence for sin But our Faith is that which overcomes sin so to the good work is not reprobate And thus you set up a profession without power But did you mide the light of Christ that never changes by it to be taught in Spirit these deceits would be soon discovered and you could not walk in darknesse With it we see that he that commits sin is of the Devil and is fallen from God whatever be his profession and there can be no greater fall then to fall from that which should keepe him into the Devils power to act according to the Devils movings and to bring forth his begettings and such we know are his children With the Light we see that he that is in the way of God is in holinesse and he that is not is in the way of the Devil and that he that 's in God is out of selfe and there sin is blotted out and forgotten but he that 's in selfe is in sin though he be praying or plowing with it we see the life of Christ is pure and who lives any other life its polluted though never so finely covered with it we see the way of God is perfect and you whose way is not perfect is the way of condemnation With the Light we see him that hath not the word within him to have no more then the Devil hath who knows the letter and can preach it and that he that hath not that faith that overcomes sin in its measure hath no faith but as the Devils and that he that hath not heard his voyce knows him not nor he that hath not seen him hath no fellowship with him and whose heart is filthy can doe neither With the Light we see that who is in the work of God is in the good work and he that is not is in the evill and whatever he doth is abominable and that he that hath not the righteousnesse of God hath his own which is imperfect but who hath that of God hath that which perfectly satisfies both God and man so far as with it the creature is covered With it we see him that hath faith without this work to be as a body without a spirit which can doe nothing and that faith is vaine thats without power And as we see with that which is eternal so we judge and the world receives not our testimony because the carnal minde is enmity and cannot he subject nor can the naturall man receive the things of the Spirit onely those who minds the light of the Spirit discernes and owns our testimony and receives our witness and his power who is true and so become willing to follow that truth that leads to freedome How long have you talked of being a willing people in the day of his power but doth vaine words save you while you are in the power of darknes

purity and perfection which we have in the holy God as all ever had who lived in him And in him is truth and freedome but a lie there is in all your likenesses and you are blinde and will not see it all you who have a God and Christ and a worship which doth not make the commers thereto perfect nor set you above the Devill nor overcome his temptations Your God and King we know which keepes you in the earth which you will curse if ever you looke upward your peace we know and the end of it your Kingdome with all its glory when from this world you are taken there is your parting when he shall breake your Covenant whose Covenant you have broken and would not heare him though you pretended still to seeke him That 's his call which in your consciences lets you see you have lost him which did you wait in it would lead you to him but erring from it you are out of his way and counsell and all other wayes is to no purpose his Light is that which searcheth your hearts in secret nor can any other judge you in private yet from that you will be running to aske counsell at them who know not your condition so instead of God you consesse to men that cannot judge you nor help you while you go to the naturall you leave the spirituall and so with naturall words you seed the naturall comprehensions but the spirituall man seeds not at that fountaine for its the spirituall that thirsts which not minded the naturall runs and seeds above it and this being above you cannot receive the food of the Spirit therewith to God to be reconciled and quickned nor is that fed that death hath passed over nor out of death is it raised but that which lives in you is for death and by feeding on that wisdome the vaile is thickned and the eternall is out of your knowledge yet you say God is a Spirit and teaches in Spirit and will be worshipped in Spirit but cannot endure to hearken to any thing within you nor turne to that Spirit How blinde are you led with your blinde guides Is not that which is spirituall within or can it be knowne any where else Is God known by hearsay then who is it that knows him not Can the carnall eye see the spirituall God or the carnall eare hear him then should not his ministry be to the spirits in prison to open the blinde eyes and to unstop the dease eares yea where the carnall is open But this you know not who have eyes and see not eares and hear not and hands which never handled the word of life yet would you be teaching others that which you never saw nor heard and to this teaching you would limit others Paul was sent to open the blinde eyes yet was he sent to those who had eyes as you have with which they could see to stone him and whip him and eares to hear him and call what he said heresie and blasphemie as you doe and as ever the carnal judged of the spirituall who hath not an eare to hear what the Spirit saith Oh unwise people you have but one thing that lets you see your evill yet will you not turn to that for teaching nor that eye you love not which lets you see your darknesse You cry you have nothing that 's good in you yet will you not own that which lets you see it is so and thus you keep Covenant with darknesse though death and destruction be the end of it but the Covenant of Light which shines in darknesse you regard not that 's far below your comprehensions nay it s the least seed in you which we know is the seed of the kingdome troden under foot by the kingdome of the world therefore nothing else leads out of the world but that whose kingdome is not in it and with this seede is the Covenant which seed you know not who take pleasure in the flesh that 's of another kingdome to which is no Covenant but Death and Hell Yet you talk of Abraham his Covenant and Promise but that in Abraham in which the Covenant was established was that which led him out out of the world wherein he became a stranger and wanderer as that seede ever is which you call vagabonds persecute and imprison you that have rule in this world shewing that you are not of that seed that entertaines strangers nor in that Covenant where all are strangers and Pilgrims in this world nor doe you own that which divides you from this world being uncircumcised in heart which to be is the seal of Abrahams faith and so you whose life is in the earth are far off from Abrahams bosome Faith and Covenant which is onely to his seede not to the seede of evill doers not to seeds which is many but to one which is Christ So in the world out of Christ and out of Christ out of Gods Covenant for his Promises are all yea and amen to them that are in Christ Jesus but not to them that abide in the world Who owns him as King cannot want the Promise neither can you have it who abide in the world therefore you apply the words but want the life which is the power nor can your literall Promises sute your condition nor save you from Satans power but as all others who think salvation to be in the letter so doe you denie leading and guiding of the Spirit in which the power is placed therefore the Light you will not follow neither can you believe it to be sufficient And he that denies the Light cannot own the Lord of life So you are ignorant of God and his way in which he makes himselfe krovvne to his people and so takes up your rest in outward observations set up and upholden in the wills of men and for such traditions you are zealous and strongly contend for them but the Lavv of God written in your own hearts you make of none effect while you denie to be ruled according to it yet you say We are in the new Covenant when you are in the old traditions and what you know is from others But the least in that Covenant knows him and his preferce and witness him true according to his promise ever manifesting his power to undertake for us against all our enemies a present help in time of trouble and we know him in whom we have believed where he is and the way to him have seen the glory of his kingdom and the powers of the eternall World the house wherein are many Mansions yet the lowest place is pure for which the Lord alone prepares his people and their way which the creature cannot doe of himself onely Christ doth it where selfe is denied and selfe-will for by the will of man comes no promise nor obtains that will any performance So he begets both the will and the deed which you know not where your wills is standing by

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

come to see the power that sin hath not over you and that you are wholly polluted and sold under it then will you see the great transgression and the feare of God will appeare in you and so your hearts will grow tender in his feare which is but the beginnings of the knowledge of God and his wisdome And so waiting in the light you will come to see openings and breathings after Christ Jesus in which abiding and waiting low in the feare you will come to see some openings and promises of the Fathers Love to that seed which is breathing in you after him and some hopes of pardon of sin in Christ Jesus and so come to see the Law and the Prophets prophesying which condition many have come to and then have lost their condition by the mindes getting out of the feare and flesh exalting into the promise and so come to get the wound heald before death be flaine and so loses that little communion they had with God afarr off but never come so far as to the washing throughly nor to the marriage but the light minde gets into this and tattles it out to others and calls it experience yet never came so far as to see Christ and the Father yet after these doth the world wonder notwithstanding they live in the same filthiness as they did formerly yet say they I have assurance so many years since and the promise of God is sure and his Covenant cannot be broken but cannot see that the condition is lost and the seed is buryed under the earthly pleasures to which the promise was for the promise is to the seed which is one not to seedes which is many Gal. 3. 16. not to the fleshly man which is now got up but to the spirituall seed which is meek and lowly which God teacheth and blesseth and the creature that turnes to it is blessed because of that meek Spirit into which they are turned and should be for ever if in it they did continue for to it is the Covenant which cannot be broken therefore all that depart out of it it will not follow for then should not the Covenant stand sure in that seed which is but one one heart one minde one soule one spirit and whosoever receives this unity of faith shall finde this Covenant sure but this was never placed in the worldly seede but in the spirituall so the carnall is death and hell that 's its covnant but the spirituall is life and peace that 's its Covenant and each Covenant stands sure to them who are in them So that creature who was sometimes tender and lowly minded and that seed awakened to which is the promise not waiting in the promise till it be performed the creature turnes into the world where the curse is and there inherits yet is the Covenant sure to the seed and all that abide in it and this all witness who have waited in their measure though he that turnes from it is damned And if you abide faithfull in the light waiting you will be so far from turning into the liberty of the flesh that you will see every vaine thought and Imagination judged in the first motion and the ground of all sin you will see layd open and so come to see the Axe layd to the roote of the corrupt tree that hath brought forth the evill fruite which is Johns Ministery and the Baptisme of Repentance and so be led on to him who fulfills all righteonsness and that kingdome you will heare preach't at hand which consists not in words but in power then vaine babblers you will come to see and avoide and be brought onely to presse after Righteousnesse and so see your light grow and spring up to the burning and shining till the day-starre arise in your hearts then will you cease to put God and Christ afarre off you and waite to see Christ in you the hope of Glory and so come to see Christ in you the light the way the truth and the life and not to have your light and life to seeke in a booke without you nor from men but Christ your life in you made manifest in your mortall bodies and so coming to the Son and to see him revealed by him come to have the Father revealed also and so come to the knowledge of God which is life eternall even God in his Temple where hee is worshipped in Spirit and truth and this truth in you and this God in you then shall you know that your bodies are the Temples of the living God as hee hath sayd I will dwell in them and walke in them 2 Cor. 6 16. And that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you 1 Cor. 3. 16. By which Spirit he is worshipped and by the same Spirit you are taught and this is not knowne by heare-say nor got by imitation nor taught in the imaginations but through death it is learned onely in those who in the light are guided and by the Spirit kept in the fire and in the water where death is slaine faith purifyed and the body cleansed and purged from its drosse and filthinesse patience given and proved and all the gifts and graces of God which vaine mindes talke on but know not but in words these to be waited for in the light received in the faith and proved in the patience to the bringing the Creature wholly to rely upon God in the worst condition even at their wits ends when all the world failes and becomes enemies then to fall into the defence of God alone or when the world tempts with the greatest pleasures then to deny all for the love of God this is soon talked on but none can have it but who have received it in the same way of obedience that Christ hath gon before and leades in Spirit and power all his after him who beleeve in his light and follow it Then may you say follow us as wee follow Christ and walke as you have us for examples till then you are but imitators and out of the life and power and so lead one another into formes and traditions but deny the power which should give you victory over sin in this world and so you get the Saints words but their lives you have not that you looke for in another world but in the meane time goeth on to fill up the measure of evill and so go to the grave in feare and torment And all those Calls and Reproofes of the Spirit of light in your owne hearts now by you slighted are by him recorded and remaines a testimony against you till that dreadfull appearance of the righteous Judge and heart-searcher shewing his love tendered and his desire to save from sin and condemnation which love being rejected there is no escaping condemnation And you that have form'd a Christ in your owne imaginations so as your pride lust ryot and oppression may be exalted and you in them and now your eyes are abroad expecting his comming without you

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