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death_n	die_v	sin_n	true_a	5,476	5	5.2516	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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

that we can truly say here hee is all and selfe is nothing but abhorred because it is polluted the eye being now open that 's onely taken with affection to that which is holy And with this eye we see you your name your Covenant and your righteousnesse which all lyes under the power ofdarknesse Is not that light which is in you become darknes who have your way to seek without you What name is in you when the Serpents seed is still unbruised who is head and rules in you where the Name of Jesus is the Devills tremble and bow as God hath appointed and they that know his name doe it witnesse What is your righteousnesse who bring forth that which is imperfect which with the light of the Covenant is condemned Is this the righteousnesse of Jesus which doth not satisfie God and man being witnessed by that in the Conscience And now you may see what it is you professe in this world and in what stead it will stand you in the day of evill which is condemned already with that in your Consciences But you use to say that the Righteousnesse of God you looke for hereafter to be covered with it at the day of Judgement but not in this life I say what 's this then you are now doing which you are here preaching pressing and practising whose is this Righteousnesse is it either Gods or your owne selfe-Righteousnesse which if it be Gods it endures for ever but if not it 's abomination what ever it seemes to you whose eye is blinded and so professes and practises and presseth an abominable sacrifice and know not that you doe evill for this I say Better no righteousnesse then that which is not Gods for such is spirituall wickednesse in heavenly places and the long prayers of such is abomination and they receive the greater Damnation and of such Christ saith Publicans and Harlots take the Kingdome before them But you say Must we not pray then I say wait for the spirit of prayer which onely is heard and without which none know what to pray for with that prayer which helps the infirmities and gives the understanding only such are answered in what they pray for what effect hath thy prayers which are abomination doth God heare a contrary spirit thou that delightst in wickednesse God will not heare that prayer that 's out of the Covenant and thou art in that nature that God hath cursed from him and its in vaine for thee to blesse it And this is the cause why nothing you doe is accepted because it is performed in the disobedient cursed Nature and there is Cains sacrifice and Esan's prayers and teares And you that abide in that nature are of those who said Why have wee fasted and prayed and thou hast not regarded you call but receive no answer But did you but minde that in your Conscience which is pure you would see how often hee hath called to you and checked you for sin but you have not answered There might you reade the cause why you call but hee doth not answer as hee hath said Because I called and you would not answer therefore when you cry I will not answer And thus it is with you who observe the outward worships but minde not the Spirit which is given to profit withall in the worship and though all have a measure yet you that hide your talent cannot pray with the Spirit nor with the understanding and so your fellowship is with the forme but not in the power with men in words but not with God and so your times are in your owne hands and you have resolved them before-hand And you have a time to pray and a time to play a time to abstain from your lusts and a time to fulfill your lusts a day to abstain from the world and days to conform to the world and thus not being guided with that Spirit which is before all to lead and bring you out of time you are still in observations and your times of Religion and your times in the world your customes in Religion and your customes in the world are both in your owne will and corrupt nature and so your prayers are abomination and your plowing sin But the times of Sons and Daughters are not in their own hands and this wee have learned of Jesus in Spirit not to please our selves nor to be men-pleasers but to be obedient to another principle which moves contrary to the will of all men for him wee witnesse who is not borne after the will of man but which the will of man could never owne who by the wills of men ever suffered where hee is borne into the world and the same this day is manifest a seede contrary to the seed of evill doers and a righteousness that exceedes the righteousness of the world that which is amongst the greatest professions and this is that holinesse without which none shall see God But say you this is that Righteousnesse wee beleeve in and by which we are justified by that blood which was shed at Jerusalem and by that obedience that was in him and by that holinesse but that the want of his righteousnesse in us or that want of Christ or his blood in us can hinder our justification that we deny and look upon it to be Heresie and false Doctrine for it is Christ without us that hath satisfied for sin and not Christ in us and his blood without us and his righteousnesse without us and his faith and patience meekness and sufferings hope and love and obedience c. it s these without us that whoever beleeves in shall be saved and by this faith the ungodly is justified To which I say Hee that beleeves not what Christ suffered at Jerusalem with all his obedience and Righteousness and that hee bare our sins in himself and trode the wine-press alone and alone was well pleasing to the Father and that in him alone the work of Redemption is placed and wrought with much more which may be truly said of him I say whosoever beleeves not this cannot be saved neither can hee ever come to receive Christ within him working and witnessing the same in Spirit as is declared in the letter nor can hee come to witness him that 's greater in him then hee that 's in the world giving him victory over the Devill Sin and the World because God hath placed all power in Heaven and Earth in him and without faith in him who is that power none can come to it nor receive it but in him in whom God hath freely given it Nor can any have him and be without it all the promises of life and salvation being in him Yea and Amen But now you that make the receiving of him to stand in a bare confessing with the tongue when the heart beleeves not unto righteousness and that this is that faith a perswasion from the letter or from the knowledge of others that such a one dyed at