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A89835	A discovery of the first wisdom from beneath, and the second wisdom from above. Or, The difference betwixt the two seeds, the one after the flesh, the other after the spirit. With the true worship of God after the spirit, and the false worship of the world, who lives in outward forms, useth customes and traditions, not knowing the onely true God that dwelleth in his saints, and rules by his spirit of power, which causeth them to differ from the world, and those that have the form of godlinesse, and want the power thereof. ... Written by a servant of the Lord, whom the world scornfully nicknameth, and calleth a Quaker, who is prisoner for the testimony of the truth at Applebie in Westmorland, whose name is James Nayler.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1656 (1656)	Wing N272; Thomason E693_4; ESTC R207000	26,155	39

and would have all to worship him because of the abundance of it that he hath got together for he knows no other God nor Exod. 5. 2. greater happiness then what he sees with carnall eyes this all his actions witness and this is he that is exalted above all that is called God and opposeth God in 2 Thess 2. 4. all his commands When God faith Thou shalt not Gen. 2. 17. Gen. 3. 4 5. oat of the Tree of knowledge for if thou do thou shalt die he saith You may eat of it and not die but live bet Matth 4. 10. ter be as God himself When God saith Thou shalt Exod. 20. 5. not bow down nor worship any Creature in heaven or earth for I am jealous of mine honour and will not have it given to any creature but will visit that sin to the third and fourth generation he saith Thou shalt bow down and Luke 4. 5 6 7 8 worship me and thou shalt gain by it and be received into the kingdoms of the Earth and the glory of them for there I am Prince and I will bestow great things upon thee But if thou wilt not I make a Decree I●ester 3. sign it with my own Ring and set all my servants to act it that all thy seed shall be cut off out of my Dominions in one day And thus to oppose God and seek to destroy his seed where it appears hath been his way from the beginning and is his way at this day and here are all you haters enviers and persecuters and you are doing his worke and you are acted by him who was a murtherer from the beginning The second man is the Lord from Heaven and he that bears his Image minds heavenly things and delights in heavenly things for he is spirituall and judgeth I Cor. 15 47. Col. 1. 15. not according to outward appearance for the evill eye that offends is pluckt out that eye which leads into visible things and there is an eye turned inward Psal 25 14. which pierceth into the hidden treasure which is eternall which the naturall eye sees not and having once got a sight of the true riches he casts away all his Idols and Idol worships and what ever is perishing and treads upon all that may hinder his enjoyment thereof though they have been never so dear unto him now it is become base dross and dung that he may obtain the Phil. 3. 8. invisible riches and then the first born whose heart is in the earth calls him a fool and a mad man and thinks it strange that he will not serve the world nor the times for money nor have mens persons in admiration Jude 16. because of advantage nor observe the Heathenish customes for fear of men but is made to declare against them in open streets and markets and then that nature Acts 14 16. which lives in these things takes up stones to cast at him cries against him in tumults Away with him it is not fit he should live for he breaks all customes and traditions which we and our Fathers have lived in so many years and turns the world up-side down but being blind cannot see that the Lord is in him who Acts 16. 20 21. counts all the customs of the Heathen vain and overturns Kingdoms and Nations at his will and thereby makes way for him to reign whose right it is The first man worships a God at a distance but knows him not nor where he is but by relation from others either by word or writing and as he receives his knowledge 1 John 2. 4. of him from men so his worship towards him is 1 John 2. 6. taught by the precepts of men and if men on whom Isa 29. 13. be depends command him to go to Steeple-house he goes if they command him to pray he prayes if they command him to sing he sings if they bid him hear kneel sit stand fast or feast he doth it and here he hath fellowship with men and doth as his neighbours do or with those he calls brethren if he be got into a more strict form but as for any command from God binding to these or any communion with God or answer of acceptance from him upon every performance he looks for no such thing now in these dayes as though God was not now the same to his people that he hath been in all Ages And thus in vain doth Matth 1● 9. he worship receiving for Doctrines the commandements of men and so uphold and plead for a customary worship in a form of tradition which he is resolved to practise as long as he lives but as for any other fellowship Heb 6. 1. with God or knowledge of him or overcoming the body of sin or growing up toward perfection he looks for none while he is here but he hath set up his Stand as far as he intends to go and if any go any further or witness any more then he knows he accounts it blasphemy and cries out against it as a thing not to be suffered and with carnall weapons would force all to his light but who have eyes open see him to be blind The second man worships a God at hand where he dwels in his Holy Temple and he knowes him by his John 4. 24. own word from his dwelling place and not by relation 2 Cor. 6. 16. 1 Cor 6. 19. of others and thus the holy men of God alwayes knew him for Abraham did not know him by what he had spoke to Noah nor the Prophets by what he spoke Gen. 12. 1 2. Hosea 1. 1. to Abraham no● the Apostles by what he spoke to the 1 Joh. 5. 10. Prophets nor the Saints by what he spoke to the Apostles but he that beleeveth hath the witness within himself and thereby sets to his seal that God is true and therfore Christ exhorts to have salt in your selves 2 Pet. 1. 19. Gal. 4. 6. 7. and the Apostle exhorts the Saints to wait for the appearance Joh. 16. 13. of Christ in themselves and to waite for the Joh. 14 26. John 4. 22. day Star arising in their heart and they knew themselves 1 Cor. 14. 5 to be the Sons of God by the Spirit that he had Revel 27. 11. 17. 29. given them and so doth he that is born of the Spirit and by the same Spirit that witnesseth God dwelling in him he is taught how where and after what maner he will be worshipped and he knowes what he worships and he worships in spirit and he prayes in the spirit and sings in the spirit and with understanding also and not in form and custom and he hath an Ear open to hear what the spirit saith by which he is taught when and how to pray to sing to fast or Feast and he Feasteth of fat things whereby the soul

A DISCOVERY OF THE First WISDOM from beneath AND THE Second WISDOM from above OR The difference betwixt the two Seeds The one after the Flesh the other after the Spirit WITH The true worship of God after the Spirit and the false worship of the world who lives in outward Forms useth Customes and Traditions not knowing the onely true God that dwelleth in his Saints and rules by his Spirit of Power which causeth them to differ from the world and those that have the form of godliness and want the power thereof Also the subtilty of the Serpent ruling in the hearts of the Children of Disobedience discovered And a call to repentance to all that run on in blindness darkness and ignorance and the judgement that is due to all those that will not take counsell of the Lord but turn the Grace of God into wantonness Written by a Servant of the Lord whom the world scornfully nicknameth and calleth a Quaker who is prisoner for the testimony of the Truth at Applebie in Westmorland whose name is JAMES NAYLER London Printed for Giles Calvert at the Black Spread Eagle at the West end of Pauls 1653. A Discovery of the first Wisdom from beneath and the second Wisdom from above or The difference betwixt the two ●eeds the one after the flesh the other after the Spirit I. The Wisdom from beneath which leadeth into bondage and the Wisdom from above which leadeth up into perfect libertie where there is freedom and Communion with the Father and the Son DEar friends all minde your guide within you even the pure light of God which bears witness against all your ungodly wayes ungodly words thoughts works and worships which are after the world and leads you without from the Lord your guide for what stands in outward things devised in the will and brain which is the Serpents seal is accursed from God kept out of the Kingdom where the earthly will hath libertie leads out to visible things and feed upon dust which is the Serpents meat but you who desire to be fed with that which is Eternall lay aside all your wisdom which is naturall for the naturall man receives not the spirituall things of God for that wisdom shall never know God which stands in the will of man but darkens the pure light in you and opposeth it and if you abide in the pure light within you shall see that what ever the light of Christ makes appear to be evil and to be cast off then the other light which stands in mans wisdom makes a cover for it that it may abide still and thus the flesh lusteth against the spirit and that wisdom which ariseth out of the earth opposeth that which is from above and cals evil good and good evil and the wo being upon that nature you can have no peace while that stands and from hence comes all your troubles and darkness within you because that eye which is open to the visible offends and here you are shut out of the Kingdom which consists in righteousness peace and Joy in the holy Ghost but were that eye pluckt out and you turned within to see with that eye that is single then the whole body would be full of light and abiding in that light it will shew you a path that leads to puritie and Holiness without which none shall ever see the Lord And it will let you see a Law written in your hearts even the righteous Law of the new Covenant which is a Book sealed to all the wisdom of the World and none can read it but the pure light that gave it forth which light as it ariseth in you it will open all Parables and read all Scriptures within you in your measure and so you will come to the Unitie with all Saints in measure and so come to Christ the first born even to the innumerable company of Angels to the spirits of just men made perfect and to God the Judge of all where no Serpents wisdom shall ever come and that Law being laid open will be a limit to the carnall minde when it would run forth and the Judge will appear who will passe true judgement upon all things as they are within you and a separation will be made between the precious and the vile in you and you will be brought to discern what leads to obedience and what leads to disobedience and here is your true Teacher whereby all shall be taught of God as saith the Scripture and minding this light it will shew you a Crosse to be daily taken up whereby all the unruly nature must be crucified for all must be brought subject to the yoke even the most rebellious and stifnecked in you for he will tread upon the neck of Kings and that which hath captivated the pure in you must go into captivity for now the Lord is Risen to disquiet the earth and them that are at rest yea wo to them that are at ease in Sion for he is risen who is to rule all Nations with a rod of Iron and to deliver the oppressed and to set open the prison doors and to set the prisoners free that they may serve him and praise his name even the name of the Lord Holy and pure blessed for evermore And dear friends be faithfull in what you know take heed of making a profession of what you are not and so you be found dissemblers before the Lord but keep low in meekness and patience standing in the will of God in all things and all those enemies that will not that Christ should raigne over them bring them before the Judge that they may be slain even upon that Crosse that is daily to be taken up for the Cross is to the carnal wilde heady bruitish nature in you which lies above the seed of God in you and oppresseth the pure now giving this up to be crucified makes way for that which is pure to arise and guide your minds up to God there to wait for power and strength against whatsoever the light of God makes manifest to be evil and so to cast it off and so you shall see where your strength l●●th and who it is in you that worketh the w●●l and the deed and then you shall be brought into a possession of what you have but had a profession and ●inde the power of what you have had but in words which is hid from all professions in the World and is revealed no other way but by the pure light of God dwelling in you and you in it take heed of searching into the hidden things of God by your own wisdom which is carnal for that hath God shut out of the Kingdom and separated it from him and the things of God and his Kingdom are hid from it and it is appointed for utter darkness accursed from him and doth oppose him in all things and in all ages the wisdom of the great men of the earth have persecuted the pure wisdom of God and

of evil speaking and hast brought forth thy image in thy Children in persecuting killing stoning mocking imprisoning covetousness drunkenness whoredoms thefts and all manner of evil works and deeds of darkness thou hast long raigned as King on earth and in earthly hearts and carnall minds and there hast shewed forth thy enmitie Rom. 8. 7. 2 Thes 2. 4. against God and in such thou art exalted above Esther 3. 5. 6. all that is called God and hast got thy will upon Esther 5. 9 13. Esther 6. ●3 them and hast brought them to fall down and worship thee for that thy pride lookes much after and as thou hast divers colors so thou lookest for divers kinds of worship and where thou appearest in greatest glory there thou lookest for greatest worship and those who will obey thee herein to them thou givest large promises of great things in the World and they shall be advanced in thy partiall Kingdom but there is a seed thou couldest never bring to fall down before thee though thou hast often attempted it and divers wayes sometimes by great threatenings even to destroy the Esther 3. 6. whole seed at one blow as in Haman to Mordecai and all the seed of the Jewes because he would not worship thee and sometimes by great promises and large dissembling proffers as unto Christ the Son of God shewing him all the riches of the world and the glory thereof saying all this will I give thee if thou wilt fall Mat. 6. 8. 9. down and worship me but this seed is that which is appointed to bruise thy head and lay all thy pride in Gen. 3. 15. 1 King 22. 8. the dust and the voice of this seed is terrible to thee 2 Thes 2. 8. where it speakes for it never speakes good concerning Rom 8. 6. Mat. 7. 13. thee but evil and this seed is Christ who is risen in his Saints to discover and destroy thy Kingdom by the sword of his mouth and by the brightness of his coming for he speakes death to thee where he speakes and declares the Kingdom to be death and darkness and thy works to be dead works and that all thy ways lead to the chambers of death and that hell death and destruction are the portion of all whom thou deceivest and leadest on in the broad way but where ever the seed of God appears it holds forth life and leads into a way of life works and words of life and power for it is the light of life and leads to life Eternal and as this light ariseth it discovers thee not only within but also sees thee where thou art in the world and is brought to lay thee open to others and all thy deceiveable workings 1 Cor. 2. 15. and to judge and condemn thee and this is the Son 1 Cor. 6. 2 3. and where he is he is the light of the world and judge of the World for the Father hath committed all judgement unto the Son and he judgeth thee in and by his Saints And now thou seest plainly that if he do but speak and the creature hear and beleeve then he will discover all thy subtiltie and redeem from under thy power by which thou hast deceived the nations and Prov. 26 25. 26. ruled over them for many generations And therefore Revel 12 13 15. now thy designe is to stop his mouth that he may not speak under pain of imprisoning or killing the body in whom he speakes and if that will not prevail then thou perswadest people not to beleeve that it is he that speakes in his own calling it Blasphemy for any to confess him to speak in them or dwell in them now O thou cursed crooked winding Serpent more subtile Joh. 9. 22. Joh. 6. 24. then all the beasts of the field this was thy way amongst the professing wise knowing Jewes when this seed first appeared in flesh to make them beleeve that it was not he who was the Christ the Saviour of the World he was too poor too plain and of too mean a stock to be King of Israel ye know this man from whence he is a Carpenters Son his kindred are with us none beleeve on this man but sinners women and Children and a poor people that know not the Law and they are accursed but when Christ comes then the rulers Mat. 21. 15. will own him and beleeve in him thus by perswading Joh. 7. 48. 49. them to look for great things at a distance a Christ to come who would appeare more glorious to their carnal eyes who prevailed in them to crucifie the Son of God and Redeemer of the World But now that the history of Christ being come and hath suffered and is risen again is generally beleeved Now thy design is to perswade people that it is a thing past long since and sets them on to cry out against the Jews for killing of him and Judas for betraying him and thus sit one of thy children to cry out against another making these beleeve that they are in a better condition then their fathers when they are all found in one and the same work killing some imprisoning others mocking stoning beating and shamefully intreating others and to keep Mat. 21. 35. 36. them on in this work perswades them that it is not Christ they persecute now for Christ is in Heaven and sits at the right hand of God and how can he be in his people now he doth not appear in any now or speak Gal. 1. 16. Mat. 11. 27. in any now neither is there any Revelations it was so 1 Cor. 2. 14. in the Apostles time and the Saints of old witnessed Heb. 1. 2. such things but it is blasphemy for any now to confesse him in these dayes and thus thou beguilest carnal man led by carnal reason to look for a carnal Christ like themselves who can but be in one place or person as though God had now found some new way to speak to his people and not by his Son all this is to put out the light lest thou shouldest be discovered for thou rulest in darknes by darknes keepest thy possession amongst those whom thou hast blinded but where Christ is revealed and known he is known to be spiritual and not carnal not limited to one place but filleth heaven and earth is all and in all his but not seen by the carnal Col. 2. 10. 11. 2 Cor. 4. 4. man though he be the light of the world for the Psal 58. 4 5. God of this world hath blinded the eyes of the world Eze. 4. 20. 21. that they cannot see him for he is a mistery to them and hid from all their carnal wisdom neither can they hear his voice for they are not of his sheep but are as the deaf Adder but to them onely in whom he dwels he is known they hear his

and thou shalt be cast out of heaven and thy Angels into the earth and thou shalt be chained in the bottomless pit and shalt deceive the nations no more for thou art discovered and the Beast and the false Prophet by whom thou hast maintained wars against the Saints and you shall all be cast into the lake that burneth Rev. 20. 10. there to be tormented for ever IV. A Caution to all who shall be found persecutors persecuting the righteous not suffering that Spirit to speak which boldly and impartially speaks without slavishness being carried up above fears not him who can kill the Body and can do no more but fears God TAke heed ye men of the earth how you contend against the Lord and how you speak evil of the Psal 2. 1 2. things you know not why do ye imagine a vain thing Psal 2 4 5. against the Lord and against his anointed by your Psal 37. 13. rage you shew your selves to be Heathen He that sits Job 9. 4 12. in Heaven shall laugh the Lord shall have you in derision he will set up his King upon his holy Hill of Sion without your leave Did ever any strive against God and prosper he will break you with a rod of Iron and dash you in pieces like a potters vessel be wise take heed fear and tremble before the Lord left his wrath kindle against you and you be consumed in his anger Isai 45. 9. Isai 29. 1● Wo to him that striveth with his Maker let the potsheards strive with the potsheards of the earth shall the clay question the work of the Potter You forget your selves while you are contending against the mind of God you are exalted and have forgotten that you are but dust and must to dust again you were not made to oppose the Lord in his works but to humble your selves before him And know this all yee proud ones Isai 2. 10 11 12 13 17 18 19 20 21. of the earth that God is now exalting his own Son to be King alone upon the Throne of David and of the Isai 9. 6. 7. increase of his government and peace there shall be no end for he shall order his Kingdom himself in judgement and justice for ever but wo unto the proud at that day for the day cometh that shal burn as an Oven and all the proud and all that do wi●kedly shal be as stubble and the day that cometh shal burn them Mal. 3. 2 3. up and leave them neither root nor branch yea who may abide the day of his coming and who shall stand when he appears For he is like a Refiners fire and Fullers sope and shal sit as a Refiner and Purifier of silver and shal purifie the sons of Levy all you must pass through the fire and all your dross and tin must be consumed your high looks and great swelling words wil be found dross and is for the fire You that go about to limit the holy one of Israel what he shall do Job 21 22. and how he must make himselfe known to his creatures and by whom God wil never come your way for your wayes are not his wayes nor your thoughts his thoughts for the one are contrary to the other Oh Job 40. 2. vain man shal he that contendeth with the Almighty instruct him he that reproveth God let him answer it What art thou that questions the work of the Lord or his way Thou art of that brood that came to ask Christ by what authority he did those things his Father had sent him to do and because thou must not enter into the secrets of God by thy Serpents wisdom thou wilt forbid and persecute them in whom it is revealed as they did Now wouldst thou but look back and search the Scriptures thou shouldst find thy generation all along from Cain to thy self for all particulars are of that Serpents brood It may be thou wilt Gen. 4. 6. own all that generation to be of Cain til it come to thy Mat. 23. 29 30 31. self and then thou wilt deny that thou any of that brood yet art found acting in the verysame things herein thou differest not at all from the rest for they would all deny it even from the first For when God asked Cain where his brother was said he knew not Am I my brothers keeper when as he had slain him And the Scribes Pharisees and chief Priests garnished the sepulchres of the Prophets whom their Fathers slew and said Had we lived in their dayes we would not have killed them and at that very time were they consulting to kill the Son of God to whom all the Prophets bare witness But as the Divel was a murtherer from the beginning so he was a lier from the beginning But though hou wilt not own thy self to be of the Divel yet thy actions declare to thy face before Men and Angels that thou art not of God Did ever any that was of God forbid any to speak in the name of the Lord Jesus whom he sent to declare his will Did they ever imprison any for it Did they ever beat stone mock revile or hate any Did they ever raise lies slanders or false reports of any or seek false witnesses Isai 3 15. against them Did they ever oppress the stranger because he was a stranger and send them to prison when they found them because they knew them not though they never did them harm And then to make way for their further oppression to have their Agents abroad to seek out any who wil witness any thing against them and so lay snares and traps for the simple and harmless man There was of thy generation in Isaiahs time and God plagued them for it as saith the Isai 29 20 21 Prophet The terrible ones are brought to naught and the scorners are consumed and all that watch for iniquity are cut off that make a man an offender for a word and lay a snare for him that reproves in the gate Now all you that wil be found in this practice take heed repent betime the righteous God wil judge righteously he is no respecter H●s 5. ● of persons and he knows all your secret plots and who they are against you may hide things from men but wo unto them that dig deep to hide their 1 Pet. 1. 17. counsel from the Lord and their works are in the dark Psal 37. 1● 13 1● 15. and they say Who seeth us and who knoweth Surely Isai 29. 13 14. your turning things upside down shall be esteemed as the Potters clay and God wil overturn overturn you and bring all your plotting wisdom to naught O consider what is become of the persecuters of Old Did not God find them out and plague them for it and dost thou think to escape his hand Thy thoughts are vain and wil deceive thee the Lord will set a mark

Dan. 5 25. and nothing will be weight but what is pure and holy truth from the heart no deceit nor hypocrisie will be weight no peace by a drunkard or whoremongers will be weight no idolators proud or covetness no swearer lyer drunkard or whoremonger will be Revel 23. 13. weight no Idolators proud or covetous ones no scorner railer or false accusers no murtherer nor envious persecuter no fornicator nor unclean ones nor any that lives to the flesh can be weight but wil be found wanting and then wo unto you for your kingdom must be taken from you and given to them who will bring forth fruits that God may have glory now all professors and people consider your conditions you have been long hearers and professors but what have your fruits been herein is Mat. 3. 10. my Father glorified that you bring forth much fruit but now you fruitless trees you must be cut down and cast into the fire for all mens works must be tried by 1 Cor. 3. 13. fire and then wo unto you who have taken pleasure in sin repent and return to the Lord betime that you may find mercy for your destruction is of your selves VI. The cursed condition of conceited ones who are wise in their own eyes VVO unto you that are wise in your own eyes Isai 5. 21. and prudent in your own sight you that think Iohn 14. 17. to understand the spirituall things of God by your carnal Iude 10. wisdom and because God wil not reveal his secrets to your serpentine wisdom therefore you speak evil of it where it is revealed though you know it not your wisdom is of the earth and feedeth upon dust and dust is the Serpents meat by your wisdom you can over-reach Isai 65. 25. your brethren oppress the poor to get riches to make your selves great in the earth and thereby Lord it over your brethren by it you can go to law and begger your poor brethren for trifles to fulfil your own wils by it you can deceive the simple and harmless man and make him your laughing-stock when you have done by it you can contrive mischief on your bed and when the morning is come you put in practice against those whom you envy And do you think that ever God wil Mica 2. 1 2 3. reveal himself to this wisdom any other wayes then in wrath from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of this wisdom nay the secrets of the Lord are with them that fear him but there is no fear of the Lord where this wisdom ruleth But you are puft up in your vain mind think you know much when as you know nothing yet as you ought to know For saith the Apostle Who is a wise man amongst you and en Rom. 1. 18. dued with knowledge let him shew out of a good conversation Iam. 3. 13. his works with meekness of wisdom Your works that proceed out shew plainly what kind of wisdom is within that wisdom that brings forth pride scorning lightness and wantonness swearing lying covetousness self-love Iob 14. 4. envy hatred deceit backbiting slandering and evill speaking lust excess strife and contention persecution or any other unclean or filthy practice doing to others that which you would not have them to do to you that wisdom is of the Divel and not of God Now this is the wisdom the world drives after and so highly extols and by which you think to attain to the pure and invisible things of God And thus the wisdome of the Serpent which riseth out of the earth and feedeth on earth would be climbing up to the hidden things of God and so would be heirs of two Kingdoms But saith the Apostle If ye have bitter envyings and strife in your hearts glory not and lye not against the truth Iam. 3. 14 15 16. This wisdom descends not from above but is earthly sensual and divelish For where envy and strife is there is confusion and every evil work but that wisdom which is from above is first pure then peaceable gentle and easie to be entreated ful of mercy and good fruits without partiality without hypocrisie Now you Iam. 3. 17. who think you are the men for wisdom try your wisdom by these marks set down by the Apostle whether it be given you from above or it be of the Serpent arising out of the earthly part within you Is it such a wisdom as shews forth of a good cōversation the works of meekness Is it pure Is it peaceable Is it gentle and easie to be intreated Is it full of mercy and good fruits without partiality without hypocrisie If it bring forth these fruits it is from above and God will own it reveal his secrets to it even the hidden things of God But on the contrary if it be that wisdom that Jam. 3. 15. brings forth bitter envyings and strife and every evil work vainglorying and lying against the truth the Apostle saith plainly It is not of God but is earthly sensual and divelish and this wisdom must never enter into the kingdom but is of the Serpent cursed above all creatures more subtile then all the beasts of the field eating the forbidden fruit the judging of good and evil by carnal knowledge creeping into the earth earthly things all for the belly feeding on dust and delighting in things that perish and fade away painted on the outside decking thee with pride curiously invented Scrpent-like by this wisdom and feeding thy lust with curious devised dishes Dives-like devising and plotting to get riches right or wrong so that you can but keep within the compass of the laws of the nation never regarding to be guided by that pure law of God within written in the heart which would lead Heb. 10. 16. Rom. 8. 7. you in all things to do as you would be done by But the wisdom of men is not subject to the law of God neither can be for it is death to it and you deceive your selves who did think to find out the mystery of the things of God by this wisdom for God hath hid it from your eyes and the world by wisdom knows 1 Cor 1. 20 21. not God for God hath turned their wisdom into foolishness And saith Christ I thank thee O Father Lord of Heaven and earth that thou hast hid these things from Matth. 11. 25. the wise and prudent and revealed them to Babes God Iohn 3. 5 6 hath hid them in Christ and none comes to Christ but Babes such are of the new birth not flesh and blood but of water and the spirit such onely enter into the mystery of the Kingdom by the Door in all the strait way through the Cross where your Serpents wisdom would not willingly come for if it do it must be slain and you must become fools for Christs sake Luke 18. 17. that you may be wise you must enter as a little child or else you cannot come there for it is revealed to Babes onely your wisdom that you so much boast on must be crucified and die and a new wisdom must Job 8. 28. be given you from above which begins with the fear of the Lord for the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and to practice it is understanding and when you once come to own this true Wisdom which is of God then you shall see the world who did so highly applaud you for your wisdom before will now call you fools and madmen for that wisdom which they do applaud shall be cast behind thee and then thou shalt witness the Scripture fulfilled when God hath destroyed the wisdom of the wise and brought to 1 Cor. 1. 19. 20. 21. nought the understanding of the prudent where is the wise where is the disputer of this world for the world by this wisdom knowes not God nor ever shall do for God hath chosen the foolish things of this world to confound the wise and weak things to confound the 1 Cor. 1. 25. 27 mighty then thou shalt see that wisdom not to be of 1 Cor. 2. 6. 7. 8. this world neither of the Princes of this world which come to nought but the wisdom of God which is a hidden mysterie which none of the Princes of this world knew for if they knew it they would not persecute it where it is but the knowledge of this mystery is the free gift of God given onely to them who fear and love him given without all naturall helpes whatsoever 1 Cor. 2. 14. 15 for the naturall man receives not the things of the spirit of God for they are foolishness to him neither can he know them for they are spiritually discerned but the spirituall man Judgeth all things and he himself is Judged of no man for he that is in the spirit lives above all the earth and Colos 3. 3. earthly wisdom and sees all the world where they live but no carnal wisdom shall ever see where he lives for his life is hid with God in Christ from all vultures eyes and venomous beasts James Nayler a prisoner of the Lord to all that names the name of the Lord to whom these shall come desires Grace and Peace FINIS