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A52705	Milk for babes: and meat for strong men A feast of fat things; wine well refined on the lees. O come young men and maidens, old men and babes, and drink abundantly of the streams that run from the fountain, that you may feel a well-spring of living water in yourselves, springing up to eternal life; that as he lives (even Christ Jesus) from whence all the springs do come, so you may live also, and partake of his glory that is ascended at the right hand of the Father, far above principalities and powers. Being the breathings of the Spirit through his servant James Naylor, written by him in the time of the confinement of his outward man in prison, but not published till now.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.; Booth, Mary, 17th cent.	1661 (1661)	Wing N299; ESTC R202065	26,742	32

minds to dwell in and take up its rest which hath been tost to and fro as in a Wilderness and by killing in the Watch all that would draw you out and sinking down into this meekness and stedfast lowliness you will come to feel the Plant of God that brings forth this meekness and holiness and springs of living virtue and there will you meet the Lord in his Kingdom on Earth where he delights to walk as in a Garden for in these things he delights and in such as delight therein and there wait to feel his fellowship and receive his Counsel in purity and coolness in which he will let you see whatever it be that would break his Covenant with you and whatever leadeth out from the Eternal Life and will with his Spirit lead you out to war against it in vvhich Spiritual War being faithful you shall not fail of Victory till every cumbrance in your minds be cast out and so heavenliness become a quiet habitation that in the meek spirit you may feed upon the heavenly food and not to have that ravenous earthly spirit to steal and devour it from the soul And as you get an entrance into this heavenly Mansion so diligently watch and in the Light stand armed against the Thief and keep out whatever would enter into your affections or desires under what pretence soever for if it enter into your affections it will steal away your minds from this pure innocent Plant and this is Adultery Treachery and Whoredom which you must wrestle against in the power of his love And with willingness of mind to put off all the old Idols out of your affections what ever hath any place there for by the entrance of that through lust hath the Son of Righteousness suffered and the Innocent been slain and until that be condemned and cast out which hath come over the Just in your affections the Son of Righteousness arises not into his Kingdom who must fulfil all righteousness before the entrance be made Which Work you stop whilst you retain the unrighteous having a Seat in your heart uncondemned and cast out and hence it is that many seek to enter but are not able the cursed thing not being cast out which can have no place in Gods Kingdom with which the just hath not communion nor the Temple of God with Idols And this I say to you which is a learned Truth in this Journey That if you either retain your old Lovers or suffer any thing now to enter your affections or draw out your minds from this pure Plant of Righteousness and Truth you shall in no wise enter into the Kingdom of Heaven for this is the Way and must make your entrance therefore fight against whatever would draw you from it and with violence break through it and take the Kingdom for onely he that hath been faithful in the Baptism of John to fulfil all righteousness shall receive power to press into the Kingdom and when you come here you will find violent Powers to keep you out which with the Lamb in War must be overcome violently for the strong man having got a possession within is not easily bound and cast out for it is a spiritual wickedness and in heavenly places with which you are to wrestle therefore a Heavenly Virtue contrary thereto and of a greater Power must give you you Victory So press into the Heavenly Spirit with its power to overcome the Earthly Spirit with its powers strive earnestly in the meeke spirit to obtain a measure of Faith and Patience larger then the Temptation and that will endure to the end of it a Meekness and Love to cover all strife and wrath a Long-suffering to famish all hast and that which seeks its own ease and so in all things with desire drinking in of the Heavenly Virtue from above whereby you may become strengthned with all might to stand all assaults of the Enemy within or without and so in the cross come to put on every measure Christ Jesus the great Power of God unto Salvation and Well-springs of Eternal Life and Glory which is done by sinking down into the Heavenly feeling contrary to the Will of the exalted Life whereby you will be overshadowed from above from whence the Saviour is looked for to overcome things below And as you come into the feeling of these Virtues hold them fast till he come who is the fulness and with that you have wrestle against what ever would draw out your minds from it for with that of him must you make War against whatever is contrary thereto and as you are faithful to abide therein you wil feel every high thing fall before you for that which cleanseth the Vessel of all corruptible things is your Weapon and that which springs up in a contrary nature is your life The beholding whereof as it riseth and keeping your eye constant in the Faith and Hope of attaining to his fulness will make your Work the Work of Love your obedience delightful and all your sufferings easie and your loss of your former glory will in that eye appear great gain and this is your acceptable service and that Faith which vvorks by Love vvhich avails much vvith God and being follovved overcomes the World and sets free from it in all things So vvith the Light mind to be led dovvn into that Life that is not of this World come to him that seeks not himself vvho hath not his rest in things on earth vvho is rejected of men denyed of his ovvn kindred and forsaken of all and as you come to him you vvil come to be proved vvhether you can forgo all these for him alone and that he may make his appearance in you and cover you vvith himself his contempt and reproach and his patient povver to bear all for it 's he that can bear all things that shall never be moved and he that thus overcomes shall know the white stone and that Rock which breaks the Nations but builds the House of God But in all your Journey take heed of the Adulterous mind for it secretly devoureth the precious Life Wherefore take heed of that which looketh out give not way to that eye not for a moment for if you consent to it upon any pretence whatsoever you enter into a Covenant therewith against the holy Seed to destroy the chast mind but whether it be rough or smooth yet hold it as an Enemy and that which if it get in by consent must out by suffering double to the delight it brings with it but if as an Enemy you withstand it by constant and patient resistings it will flye and grow weaker upon every assault and he that giveth you victory will grow more in your esteem and delight Wherefore think it not strange so long as any of the old leaven is within unpurged out That the nearer you draw to God in the lowly-suffering-meekness the deeper you sink into tribulation and your suffering encrease upon

you learn him that kills and makes alive that casts down and raises up that condemns and justifies and so shal know the way of death and the way of life and who that is that is hardned by the Law and who fulfills it and the life and end of both and you wil see the cause and end of all the tribulations earthquakes and thunders and several voices clouds smoak and darkness and great temptations and the trial of your faith herein wil be as that of gold and will bring to inherit the knowledge of God and eternal life and power to judge the Prince of the Air and over the mystery of iniquity and to deny the God of this world with all his snares and traps wherein the unlearned Professors are caught and held captive at his wil though some of them have a knowledg and form of the Truth taught from what others have thus learned all which you shal judg and have power over and all ministration under the Son shal with this be comprehended whether Angels or Spirit Even he that is faithful and diligent unto the end of this great tribulation shal be made white and have judgment committed to him and the Key of Davids house to bind and lose and shal sit in the Lambs Throne of Judgment and Righteousness in heaven and the Grave nor Hel shal have no more power nor shal his old iniquities have any more power over him the strength of sin being dead Wherefore Brethren in the Light be faithful when you come into this condition take heed of Unbelief and hast not out of it least you tempt the Lord of your Life and grieve his meek Spirit and provoke him to leave chastening and so your spot remain and you prove but Bastards and not free-born Children of this Kingdom Power and Glory and so in time your old Iniquities overtake you again For whatever of the old man comes out of the fire unconsumed dead and buried in this Baptism wil be a continual Canker seeking to eat and an Enemy daily waiting his opportunity upon all occasions to get up and overspread the pure Plant of Innocency and so spoil you of your Beloved and so make void all your sufferings past and bring in the old Evils like a Flood upon you as it hath befallen many at this day but be faithful to the end of all Iniquity the Root as wel as the Branch so shall your Righteousness arise clear and unspotted and your old sins shall therewith be buried and never arise again neither to accuse nor raign and this is your victory over death And this know whatever others imagine let none deceive you That though sin the evil Seed be sown when men sleep and take root with pleasure and spring up with ease and delight yet the end thereof is bitterness and great Tribulation but the precious Seed is sown with tears conceived in sorrow brought to light with sighing nights of watching dayes of mourning and with much labour of spirit and travel of Soul must you come to see your desire for though the World have conceived a Faith in the air and so bringeth forth nought but several sorts of Winds striving upon the Earth without Foundation and so builds nothing to perfection Yet with you it must not be so for to you the Light is sprung up which leads to the Foundation of God and you have received a Faith that gives you a sight of the Stone which the Builders see not and to you it is given not onely to believe in him but to suffer for his sake in the behalf of him and so to run as to win him so to strive as to obtain him his Name his Power his Nature for this is that your soul groans for to possess and inherit his Power his Love his Meekness his Patience in all Tribulations his Faith in all fears and to have the Power of all his Grace and Vertue living in you whereby you may be men of able Spirits rightly furnished to every good work and against all evil that in him you may overcome when you are tryed and be more then Conquerors and your Work is to war against whatever would keep you from coming to this Foundation and Corner-stone And it is not beating the air that will fight your Battel for it 's against all these deceits you are to fight and airy notions and all spirits that would possess you with words and forms without the Power of Righteousness and what ever lyes under the power of sin the true Light gives you to see the cursed deceipt that lyes in all this and that these are the subtile paths of the destroyer and nothing less then Victory over sin and subtilty will satisfie your souls so that it 's onely Life and Power that can give you peace and therefore yours is work and not vain words and that which strikes at the root of sin is your best Weapon So it is not Flesh that profits you it 's the spirit that must quicken through hardship that which ease hath slain ere you come to perfect peace For though the Letter tell of a Child that is heir of all things and gives this Inheritance to all in whom he is formed whose Name is Wonderful in Counsel and Strength yet is not this brought forth without hard labour and travel and the pangs of death gone thorow for when you come to the Lord for Counsel and feel that there is two manner of Seeds in the Womb then will you see that great Work is to be done ere you come to rest There is the strong man to be bound before the Babe can reign and strongly is he armed with all manner of Wiles to save himself and it 's not words and thoughts that will cast out the Mother her Son which must not inherit and this must be done or all is in vain He that is born of Flesh is in bondage to things here below this cannot inherit Immortality for sin hath power in him and dye he must that the Son of Righteousness may arise to life in you and bring your life to light with him as he appears and though the Light be above the Transgressor yet the Son is lowly that gives it So being faithful in the Light which from the Son cometh which condemneth all the lofty wayes of the first-born you will beled into ways lowly to cross your life in him through Watchings and Fastings and great Tribulations must he be famished into which the Spirit will lead you where there is nothing for the Lust to live on nor for that Wisdom to walk in that loves it self or seeks its ease and pleasure Then be faithful to your Guide however he storm that is to be destroyed And with all diligence press into that which calls in the wandering mind and give heed with watching and wrestling to get abiding therein which as you are faithful therein it will be enlarged till it become a habitation for your pure

entrance to him from whom all the World are driven who are in the Lust and in that Nature which loves it self and worketh iniquity yet wearying themselves to find the Door without the Light of that Life which is not of this World And as you mind onely to feed on the Plant of Life you will come to know the Work of the Father in his Vineyard and who the faithful Labourer is and what must be his Work and the sloathful servant and what his Work bringeth forth and the cause why the field of the sluggard is over-grown with evil fruits and why his Vine bringeth not Fruit to perfection For you will find many Plants besides the Tree of Life all which seek to be fed and strengthened in the mind and affections and many grown Trees tall and strong which have got fast rooting spread and bring forth abundantly after their several kinds and all these present themselves to the eye of the mind to be fed from thence which is as the feet fetching food from far without which they cannot live long but must pine away and fall as they dye in the affections and as the mind is withdrawn from such objects as they are fed withall So the Work of him that is faithful is to number these to the Axe and to the fire and not to suffer these any place in the mind how strongly soever they tempt and try every way to spread Root to keep life that so through the death of these the Vine may grow alone in the clean affections and holy mind and honest chaste heart which is the good ground and where the pure Plant will bring forth of it self in all where it is not cumbred with that which is contrary to it Which contrary fruits all that mind the Light may see but the sluggard not being diligent to dig up the Root as well as to condemn the Fruit therefore they are daily growing and the good ground ever cumbred with them and such ever know what they should do but are never able to abide there their life being lost in the midst of this Wilderness and over-grown with wild Plants But you being diligent in your Watch you will see that the cause of all your troubles and confusion when you come to the true labour indeed is not for nothing for you will find many plants of several kinds for the World is in the heart of man as he is droven from God And every kind hath its several life which lives have their several feedings all which you may feel in the Light by their temptings to lead out your minds and though they are of several motions and live upon several objects yet the least of them being fed by consent in your mind will over-run the Vine and in time bury it by growing up in your affections Wherefore all must down that Truth alone may rise in your affections and the Word of Life have place in your hearts who is purer then to dwell in the Adulterous minde and whose eye cannot behold iniquity who hath no communion with darkness nor fellowship where any Idol stands in the Temple So this is your faith in your labour even that which overcomes the World and suffereth nothing thereof to take place in your minds but with the Spirit of Life to watch and wrestle against every lust and kill every affection that would go out for food for what-ever goes out betrayes the innocent and every pleasure of the flesh as a Canker doth eat out the Life of the holy and just one but by Faith the Just lives and in faithfulness doth he judge and make War against all his Enemies in every one who are exercised therewith And in this Work mind what you follow follow nothing rashly but prove all things with the fire and that which will not endure the Temptation and bear the Cross is the Adulterer who will look out every way for ease and the Serpent wil present many likely wayes to her under fair pretences which she that would live at ease will hastily hearken to and if you hearken to her you will betray the Work of Life which is bringing forth in hard travel and labour which is flain in the birth where ease and sloath is consented to and with living at ease and pleasure hath the Life been slain from the beginning of the world and hath been kept under by her Sorceries who fares deliciously upon Earth and by consenting to her pleasures hath the Election been lost and covered with the Seed of Wickedness which God hates which Wars after the flesh and lusts after the flesh to strengthen it self above the holy spiritual Seed but minding to make that sure to you which calls in your mind and being obedient thereto it will lead down by the Power of the Cross through that which is above to the feeling of the Election and a separation being made betwixt that which God chuseth in this Working-Power and what he condemneth you will come thereby to know to what to join and from what to withdraw that you may be Workers together with him and not against him which the subtile one will lead you to do till with the Light the separation be made and so joining to it in faith and obedience the Election will arise and by diligence thereto it will be made sure And once feeling the Innocent to move under the Oppressor give your selves no rest until the strong man bow for with great Plagues upon that Nature and with a strong hand against that will must the Seed of Promise be redeemed from under his Power which like Pharoah if he get but rest will not let Israel go from under his Power and if you keep with the Spirit and hearken low it will let you see what must be the Plagues you must pour upon him till he be brought dovvn that a little Child may lead him and reign over him and he that was oppressed by the Beast may ride upon him And as that Nature got head and strength by having its Lusts fulfilled so it must be subdued by having its Lusts famished which if you be not faithful to the seed of God herein you sell your Birth-right and betray your own redemption and are found deceitful Workers against God and your own Souls Wherefore run not with that which is in hast but lye down in that which is meek lovvly and patient that vvhich is vvilling to vvait the Fathers time and seeks to obtain by the obedience of Faith and not in the Will that vvould have in its ovvn hand For a Nature there is vvhich runs out for help and raveneth abroad to be satisfied vvhich God vvill famish And this vvill seek to lead the mind if it be follovved and vvill hunt about and murmure if it be not satisfied This goeth about the Citie but entereth not and this must suffer hunger and feel the Lambs wrath and plagues upon the head thereof what vvay soever it turns till it bovv and

comeunder vvhich it vvill not till it be pined vvith famine and vvearied upon the mountains of prey then shal the Lion lie dovvn vvith the Lamb and the little Child lead to rest and no ravenous beast shal take his feeding from him But in this vvork take heed you be not betraied vvith that Spirit for it is very subtil to run to the one hand or the other either into the eagerness and hast vvhich is its first vvay after Convincement Or else vvhen it gets not its ends there then into sloth and idle carelesness and both these keep it alive in strength above the Seed but a straight Way there is betvvixt these in vvhich the Seed ariseth vvhich is a diligent vvatchful patient meekness feeling the godly Principle moving and following it in faith and obedience in all things vvithout hast or ends further then vvhat is opened in the life of obedience constantly diligent least any thing slip out of the mind vvhich is freely given either for practise or teaching for onely the diligent mind holdeth the true living Treasure but the sloathful and disobedient are leaking Vessels So as wise in the Light prove your Freedom from that nature which is high and fierce and hasty or any way above the meekness for therein stands your perfect Redemption to know that that you are not servants to that nature for it 's the same that hasteth into the greediness after worldly things and fears and distrusts if it hath not in its sight and possession what it lusts after which being convinced of an inheritance in heaven would have that also in all hast by Sight but not through Faith Patience and obedience which if it may not obtain into its own sight and in its own way and time it will be ready to faint and distrust and this will never strip himself of all in hopes of an inheritance it hath not seen so this is in Bondage and not to be Heir but the just live by Faith whose Birth is free from this World your redemption from the other into the leadings of this wchwil bring to the inheritance of the purchased possession Wherefore prove your Freedom in all things that you may not glory in vain but in the Liberty of sons Do not say All things are lawful all things are pure c. and so sit dovvn and say You are redeemed and have right to all but first passe through all things one after another as the Light leadeth you and with a true measure see if you be from under the power of any when you have proved this throughout all things and found your freedom then may you say All things are lawful and know what is expedient and what edifies your selves and others and the Rest to reign over without Bondage thereto And this is the Liberty of the Sons of the new Creation born again not in Bondage whose Liberty is glorious above all created things and these are the pure to whom all things are pure who have proved all things with that which is pure and hold fast onely that which is good and the rest are free from And this ever mind That whatever Freedom you obtain through the sufferings and patience of Christ in Spirit you part not with it to please the flesh but hold it as your everlasting possession purchased for you not with corruptible things so that which is dearly purchased let not lightly go but remember Israel who was redeemed out of Aegypt with much hardships and many signs and sufferings but soon in hast got up that which said Let us return back again and this grieved God above all And this you will find ready to rise upon every further hardship and want as it was with them Wherefore stand fast in that which you have proved to be Liberty indeed and by no means look back nor hearken to that which is behind to let it overtake you again Remember Lot's Wife and the Wrath of God will ever be upon that mind which looks back into old things which are judged in the Light and led out of with the Life Wherefore stand single in your mindes to follow nothing new or old but what the Holy Spirit leads into for the Work is a Work you know not nor the Way you know not but as it is learned in the obedience by which the Soul is purified and cleared by purging out the old Earthly Leaven which hath darkned the Temple of God and God's Work is not seen in that Nature Wherefore give all diligence to the Spirit 's motion leadings what it moves against and what it leades to for now wil God make all things new A new Creation new Heavens and new Earth and new heart and mind and a new Law a new Man to walk therein with his Maker with chearfulness as the old Bonds are broken by the Spirits leading and to serve in newness of Spirit And as you mind the pure Leadings of the Spirit and willingly follow and obey you will come to know your Creator in the dayes of your youth and how he makes the Worlds by the Word of his Holiness and how he is your Father and in what and how he begets you again into the Heavenly Delights who was gone out from him and drove into the Earth with your hearts and affections and so those will lead out still further from God if you look into them but can never come into God again but must dye and be changed by the Spirit and the new Creature is accepted into God the new Heart and Mind and Spirit which is renewed after God by following of his Spirit who createth him And this Work will be darkned to your understanding if your minds come not clear out of the old into the new For Wrath will arise and confusion will be to that mind which is double where the eye is not single kept forward in the belief of the Spirit onely but looks back into the loss and to that which is dying and condemned there is the smoke and darkness and torment and temptations being enticed back into the old but if the eye be single the whole body is full of Light and the Faith ariseth to endure to the end of the world and to look to the beginning and finishing of the new Work of Regeneration And standing single to God herein though the World pass away with Thundering Earth-quakes and a mighty Noise yet shall ye not fear nor faint abiding in the meek patient and suffering-spirit and the leadings of that which endureth all things to win Christ And coming out of Babel you shall not fall with her nor be darkned with the smoke of her torments as all that abide in her must and of her Plagues must partake but the pure mind rejoiceth over her in midst of all A Psalm of JAMES the Servant of JESUS or a Song of Praise which he sung in the day of his Deliverance declaring the wonders of the most High which he wrought