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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A52687	A door opened to the imprisoned seed in the vvorld, and the way of freedom by the spirit of truth, sent out into the world in love to the sheep that have long been lost, which may serve any who simply seek the life of what they possess, and may shew the feigned & false in heart, the cause why they are shut out of truths power : wherein the elect way is opened to the blind, with encouragements to enter and walk therein : also the fruits of the free-born cleared from legal performances, and the children of bondage shewed the nature of their own works : Christ Jesus known to be king in his temples, through the power of the Holy Ghost, and sword of the spirit lifted up against the man of sin in true judgment / by J.N.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1667 (1667)	Wing N277; ESTC R23128	41,513	48

A Door Opened TO THE Imprisoned Seed IN THE VVORLD And the way of Freedom by the Spirit of Truth sent out into the World in love to the Sheep that have long been lost Which may serve any who simply seek the life of what they profess and may shew the feigned false in heart the cause why they are shut out of Truths Power Wherein the Elect way is opened to the blind with encouragements to enter and walk therein Also the Fruits of the Free-born cleared from legal performances and the Children of Bondage shewed the nature of their own works Christ Jesus known to be King in his Temples through the Power of the Holy Ghost and Sword of the Spirit lifted up against the Man of Sin in true Judgement By J. N. The Second Edition corrected If you know the Truth it shall make you free London Printed in the Year 1667. A Door opened to the Imprisoned Seed in the World and the way of freedom by the Spirit of Truth sent into the World in love to the Sheep that have long been lost EVery Creature being born of corrupted nature hath that spirit in him that lusts enviously against God and that seed in him and growing up with him which daily seeks to ensnare his Soul further into wickedness and vanity and to increase his separation from God by drawing in iniquity and filling the Temple where God should dwell and be known with the accursed things which God hates and cannot behold for this evil seed being subtile and forward prevails above the pure Life and leads out the mind from it into many several temptations presenting them with delight unto the carnal part and outward sences whereby the Seed of God becomes continually vailed and hid from the creature so that man knows not that Word of Life by which he was created nor can he come to be guided by it in himself till the head of this evil seed be bruised through believing in that Light which comes from the Life by which the World was made and this is that Rock which follows man with its unchangeable testimony bearing witness onely to that which is of himself and against all the wayes of that evil seed calling and reproving the World because thereof which call as many as receives and hearkens to by Faith comes to hear the Word of Life wherein Power is received to become the Sons of God which Power of Life as it arises in the Promised Seed the head of the evil seed is bruised and he comes to be brought under who had taken the Soul captive at his will to every vain and evil work and so as the Creature comes to be redeemed from under the power of darkness so he comes to be guided in the Light of that Life by which he came into the World and that Light which before reproved him for his deeds of darkness following him from one to another condemning him in all being turned to by Faith and Obedience now becomes his Leader out of the World to the Son of God in whom Gods Righteousness is revealed from above to justification which Righteousness being received into and abiding in sin is remembred no more and thus man being changed into that Nature which changeth not in the inward man comes to love that Light which before he could not for no man can love that which is of God until he hath received Gods love Now the Light of the World is Gods love to the World for God so loved the World when it was in the power of darkness that he gave his Son into the World a Covenant of Light that whosoever followeth him should not abide in darkness but should have the Light of Life Now Gods Love 〈…〉 in the light of the World That 's his Covenant with the ●●●●d which whosoever rejects and receives not is out of Gods love and in the enmity out of Gods Covenant neither can he in that state believe that Gods love is in it And this is the cause why all men speak evil of the Light who love their evil deeds and cannot receive it as Gods Love and the way to life to such it is condemnation not that it was intended thereto but men loving darkness rather then light it becomes condemnation but to him that believes and is obedient to him it is precious for who follows it out of the World there receives the Nature of Sons and the Love of the Father which the World cannot receive and the Power of Godliness and Treasure of eternal Life and this is not given to any till they come out of the World as he is not of the World for therein stands Gods Covenant with Abrahams Seed for ever So Gods Love to the World while men are in that corrupt nature and the Witness of the Spirit of Truth is to reprove the World of sin and testifie condemnation against the deeds thereof but to such as have received it it 's a Leader Comforter and Saviour and this is the cause why the one loves and the other hates each Nature speaking that state in which it stands towards God and as it hath obtained from him in Christ Jesus love or condemnation and he that will not receive Gods love that calls him out must abide under the power of the seed which God hates and this is he that seeks to murther him that is in Gods love the evil one having power to blind that mind who denies the Light so far till he cannot see that the Murtherer is of the Divel but thinks he is doing God service and this in the end hath ever befallen such Professors as reject the Light of the World for he that walks in darkness knows not whither he goes but God is Light and in him is no darkness at all nor hath darkness any fellowship with him here is known the Children of God and the children of darkness he that loves the Light brings his deeds to the Light and hath fellowship with God in his deeds and this works the Work of God and he that denies the Light works in darkness and cannot believe the Power that is in the Light being under the power of darkness And therefore he that is born after the flesh knows not him that is born after the Spirit of Light nor can judge of his wayes which are strange and wonders in his carnal sight neither knows he by what power and love that is by which he overcomes the World and takes pleasure in denying the pleasures thereof and vanquisheth all its vanities out of the heart and mind and can no more rejoyce in the World nor make merry with its mirth but rejoyceth in the Truth and is made glad with that which saves him from such folly the wicked knows not the life of the Righteous nor the spring whence his Virtues arise nor the power of his Change nor the end of all his patient sufferings and tryals but stands wondering at it as folly and madness that eye

temple nor lies in the bosom of harlots who are out of his power and perfect way of a holy Life Therefore Your work would profit you most to take the Candle of Truth and sweep the house at home and cast out the old leaven and whatever is of the world and wait in that which works in spirit against the old till therewith all be made new and the new vessel which will not receive the old nor mix with it that is it which will hold with the new which God will fill with himself there the Seed may spring and not be devoured and the Lilly grow without being choaked There the Lamb may be safe from the Fox and the pure from pollution which can never be while your covetous proud lustful earthly minds are alive in you or ought that therewith you have treasured in or grows up in that ground the Plant of God is more pure and tender then to grow amidst such pollution so to judgment you must first come and own your condemnation upon all the old before you can receive of the new or it grow in you What agreement hath the Spirit of meekness with the spirit of pride Contentedness with covetousness Holiness with lust Christ with Belial Light with darkness Read and understand here is the cause why you have sought and laboured many years and many of you further off then at first but none hath found freedom indeed nor that rest where the Thief and unclear comes not to devour Consider these things while they are near you lest your hearts harden in you through unbelief and the deceit of lusts And if you will come then refuse not him that calls and gives you light in the dark but faithfully manage the watch and the war on his behalf with all your power till all be brought under 〈…〉 which he testifies against in you and do not answer the Truth 〈…〉 calls with deceit and excuses lest he turn away from you and 〈…〉 more worthy If you say the world holds you back then its time you should not delay to break those bonds that are grown so strong already they will be stronger every day and what will the end be Consider understand like men and say not you have not strength but turn with that strength with which you have long served the world and you will find God that gave it you the better Master and the Redeemer is served with less vigor than the spirit of bondage and do but faithfully give the strength you have of God unto the service of God in the Light and he requires no more then he gives its deceit that makes these excuses and not a willing mind and were you in the fear of God these words you would not utter against your selves a witness for these are not the words of children of love nor obedient servants but of such as are without Therefore in truth of heart consider what state you are in and who is your father and hath power in you who thus speak Can you do evil with both hands live to your lusts serve the world compass the earth for your profits and pleasures with power wisdom and delight and have you not power to do well Now should you see your strong captivity and how you are degenerated from God and the end of your creation with your whole strength and become altogether reprobate to Gods service and for this should your hearts be smitten with sorrow did you love God or his true Worship and that evil tongue you would bridle and your eyes you would limit from vanity your ears from pleasure and your hearts from deceit that so you might only hearken to the Light if by any means you might come to hear the voice of him that 's sent into the world to call you from under the power of Satan unto the living God by preaching Light to you who sit in Darkness and are dead while you live neither can you be quickned till you hear the Voice of the Son of God which the deceiver keeps you from in your worldly pleasures long prayers and a lying profession taking the Saints words to cover you from true judgment but have not their Spirit nor Power to live their lives nor are you Plants of that Root and Nature which brings forth to God as he is in whom there is no change And this is not the Sacrifice that God accepts which is brought in the unclean Vessel without his power and renewed strength Wherefore that nature which is become so wholly unprofitable should be denyed its will and its way stopt and to that seed you should dye which rules in that strength you have and runs to and fro to seek for its self but seeks not God first and to that which is pure must you turn and therein wait for the Anointing and the rising of the holy Seed for it 's the most holy that must be anointed in you ere you can know Christ in you and without Christ you can do nothing and that seed which is neither willing nor able is not he but is the seed of the evil-doer as is manifest by his fruits which must be denyed his thoughts his words his profession his prayers his lusts his sin and his righteousness for it 's all of one nature and stands up in you to withstand the coming of the Seed of the Covenant Christ Jesus the Life of God and Light of Men which hath Gods Power which was in the beginning Gods Righteousness and is to all generations whom the Heavens must retain until the end of all these things and the restitution of the Creation to God till which you cannot know his appearance in you without sin who died for sin Whose Light as is before declared shews you his Law and the Spirit of Prophesie testifies of him to come whose way before his face must be prepared if you have ears to hear and understand and all your crooked untoward wanton wayes must be made streight and your hidden subtile wayes made plain and the Refiners fire must pass through your house and take hold on all that will burn till it be consumed for till the filth be purged out and an end made of sin God comes not to his Temple nor is everlasting Righteousnesse brought in for an Inheritance to eternal Life And here will you come to learn the first Principle of pure Religion and Doctrine of the beginning of Christ and the foundation of Repentance from dead works will be laid in you then will you see what kind of treasure your wanton careless minds have treasured up in your vessels your deceitful unprofitable words and works you will then see by that which will not lie then will you find that all will fail but Truth and what you have gathered by craft and deceit will stand in no stead but to deceive you Truth in the inward parts must be your stay if any you find for to that Rock you will be

mind this Spirit in you and then whither will you run and forsake the Lord of Life will you leave Christ the Fountain which should spring in you and hunt for your selves should you not abide within and drink of that which springs freely and feed on that which is pure meek and lowly in spirit that so you might grow spiritual men into the same Spirit to be as he is the sheep of his pasture for as is your pasture so are you filled High carnal minds seek high things and so they grow lofty and proud and such God resists and keeps them afar off but the poor in spirit seek truth and meekness and are fed thereof at the table of the Lord meek and lowly and just and faithful are all his houshold who feed and sup with him Now mind and consider your wayes who are gone out unto the mountains to worship and feed your selves you may read of Israels sin in going out from the Temple in which the Lord had said he would dwell and be enquired of and they builded Altars without him and there called upon him but found him not for which he rejected their Worships and their Temple also And where hath Christ said he will now be worshipped is it not within for saith Christ the true worshippers worship the Father in Spirit and in Truth mind it Professors not at Jerusalem will he be enquired of but in spirit and truth and the body is the Temple as he hath said I will dwell in them and walk in them and I will put my Law in their inward parts and all shall know me from the least to the greatest Not in Temples made with hands doth the Godhead dwell whose off-spring we are not in your high places and Steeple-house Churches but in that which springs of him Can you read this and understand it aright in that which springs of him is the Godhead and Power known but the high-minded are too far off it to feel it it 's the poor and lowly in spirit that are near it and he that 's become as a little child can only understand it who is not too great in his thoughts to hearken to that which is little and pure in him by birth and nature that springs of God and not the height of that mind which hath Notions Divine but not Nature Life and Sonship begotton and born of God A sanctified life and vessel is God's off-spring but he that saith and doth not is not born of Truth but of Fornication and Falshood so read your birth and nature and kindred with the Truth It 's not the uncircumcised in heart nor the bastard that 's God's Off-spring and Child of his Love but the pure and clean in heart mind and spirit hath his Image And if you look to be godly you must know this in you else you are without God in the world having neither seen him nor known him whom you seem to worship but are alienated from him in your minds and in your members and in your whole strength so that you have neither power nor understanding to do well being taken captive of a contrary spirit in all your abilities of spirit soul and body your wisdom perverted and understandings darkned and parted from the root whose off-spring man is And now this should be your return to sink down to that which is holy and pure in the Light and to that give up your whole man and all you are and have and no more consult with your wisdom nor follow your own understanding but let the little thing in you that 's pure and simple lead you and thereto bow and bend and confess And this will be your restoration to God to give all you have to the Holy who when he hath befooled your cursed wisdom and brought down your high conceits and bound the strong man and tyed the colt to the vine then will he arise in power who is meek and holy and rule in your strength parts and wisdom having purged the enmity out and renewed your abilities and you will have all restored again manifold all new and clear and able by the power of the Holy One who will reign and govern therein and you shall know the Lord whose off-spring you are to be both root and head and all in you and you shall say no more I am weak and can do nothing but all things through him that gives you strength for the devourer shall no more pervert it but great shall be the Holy one in the midst of you if this you can believe and receive And you shall no more as you have done sow for the devourer nor bring forth unto blasting but your fruits shall arise to God who will receive them with good will and your prayers shall not return empty when he hath bent you for himself and taken away the accursed from amongst you And then will you know the Lords Redeemed and that Seed which is elected and blessed which brings not forth as other men and you will see that all who despise the day of small things neglect their own mercy to follow the teacher of lies who turns not at his reproof who is holy and therefore worship without power Then will you know the life and power of Redemption and Sanctification and Justification and renewing of the Holy Ghost in you when your strength is redeemed to God your wisdom redeemed your hearts tongues eyes and ears and all you have redeemed into God into that which is holy to be guided and exercised in all your conversation possessing your vessels in Sanctification Here is that renewing of the holy Ghost known which sanctifies and justifies through the redemption of the bodie and mind and reconciliation which is in Christ Jesus who is not known to be Lord but by the holy Ghost that Spirit of Truth which leads into all Truth which Truth is a witness in you against you who say you are redeemed to God by Christ Jesus when another Lord rules in you and leads you captive into sin by which Christ Jesus is denied and suffers in you and by which you are separated from God and in a nature contrary to him wherefore to that must you come which changeth your nature and not your words and forms and teachers but which begets another seed and kills that which is begotten of whoredom and lust which is after the Prince of this World that God may be served in his own Spirit in his own Truth of his own nature of his own begetting Holy as he is Holy in every measure and growth thereof that so the least of his Children may be known to be of him and separate from the world in soul and in body coming out of the world bearing his image and reproach And as many as honestly desire to be heirs of this holy Power and Kingdom patiently wait till you feel that move in you which is of this pure Nature and having felt it alive in you rejoyce in it

whose life you speak evil of but know it not by birth and virtue which is naturally good as the first man is naturally evil And the bondage is in that which is against the pure nature and not in that which is free-born and the law is upon the transgressor and him that is degenerated into that nature which is carnal and sensual and if this man do any thing as to God it is from something that is laid upon him not in spirit but from without and this is legal and in bondage which is not in the free Spirit which doth by nature the things contained in the Law And little it is that such would either do or know were there not a Law or a Letter a Heaven or a Hell to put them upon works and here is the bondage and fear that hath torment but with the Spiritual Seed it is not so who are begotten and born of God in Christ Jesus in whom they receive freely as the branch of the root and what he sends forth through them is fruits of the Spirit against which there is no Law and this is not legal but spiritual and free who are a Law unto themselves and there is no Law against the Seed but is added upon the transgressor because of sin till the Seed be come and where the Seed is born and rules that creature is not under the law letter nor tradition nor bondage but led by the Spirit and born of that Nature which was before transgression was by which the fruits of Righteousness are brought to light by the working of the Holy Ghost who worketh the will and deed of his good pleasure and with the same good will and pleasure it is brought forth without bondage or constraint And in whom the bonds of iniquity are broken the world ended and all things become new and all things of God there dwells not self-righteousness nor spirit of bondage but that is the new creature which is in Christ Jesus created unto good works and not in self and the Heavens new and the Earth new wherein dwells Righteousness as it is in Christ Jesus revealed from God in Spirit and Power without the Law manifest to which the Law and the Prophets bear witness having foretold what glory and freedom should be revealed in the latter dayes at the Seeds appearing and the Letter testifies of this life and power but is not this life but the Spirit gives this life and freedom that it may be of grace freely and the glory of the Lord who is that Spirit and here is the boaster and self excluded and all fruitless trees condemned and seen to come short of the glory of God of whose works he is not either root or off-spring And before you can judge of this Freedom or the nature of the works that spring thereof or inherit the power that brings forth this Righteousness you must own the Judgment of Him that condemns the man of sin in you and receive him for your Law-giver which will break you off from the world and would have you to deny the forms and images and bring you from under its power that 's he that breaks the house of bondage and sets the righteous Seed at liberty to bear the fruits which are of God And thus hath Christ sent his servants to seek the lost and to gather them from among bryers and thorns and bring them to Zion one by one and as they were gained out of sin so the Devils kingdom fell and grew weaker by every servant he lost and Christs Kingdom increased until the Kingdoms of this world become the Kingdom of Righteousnesse wherein the righteous King reigns And out of cruel mockings scorning and bloody persecutions they gathered the lost and gained them to God yea sometimes pulled them out of the fire such hath been their faith and zeal for Christ and his holy Kingdom and their stedfastness to that work to which they were called and hired and the furie of the adversary and his opposite power against him in his servants hath often reached unto blood rendering evil for love to their souls Wherefore take heed to your selves you that name the Lord and call him Master depart from iniquity and obey the good This is his work if you be his servants he hath called you to holinesse as he is holy And that you turn from the world and repent of his works who is the prince of it and deny him and them openly and in secret if you will serve the holy One you must bear his mark and open your heart to him and your mouth for him as confidently as the servants of sin do for it that your Light might shine against the darknesse of this world in the face of the perverse and crooked generation that it may appear to all men that the wayes of the Lord and the world are not one nor their servants one nor their words one nor their garments one nor their table one in all things bearing his Image and Glory above his Adversary that it may appear whose Family you belong to and what is his Glory who hath hired you and what is the Work of your Lord in the World And herein may all people as in a glass see your selves and what you are to God in this his day and what against him these are the two masters which Christ tells of which none can serve but the one he hates who serves the other so now who hath hired you whom do you serve and whom do you hate Is it the World you serve then you hate Christ Is it Christ then you deny the World And these are plain things and you may read as you go if you will whose business you go about and whose hand you strengthen If you commit sin and plead for it then you war against him that is manifest to destroy sin And if you say sin must live in you while you live then while you live the Devil must have a place and power in you and a kingdom as long as you live and if you believe to overcome sin then you wait for the Kingdom of God which consists in Righteousness and believe to see it and seek it daily with your whole heart for it is not words which take the Kingdom but power of Faith against the evil one Neither is it forms and professions or any outward thing that can vanquish the Devil for he is a spirit and by a spiritual power must he be resisted and the weapons must be spiritual and mighty through God which casts down his seat in man though many are led out from form to form and deny that power of God in them and obey the power of sin in them not knowing that power which layes the Ax to the root of the evil tree out of which all the evil springs and these are manifest to be such as are not hired what ever your forms may be which you chuse and change you are but in the