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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89844	The power and glory of the Lord shining out of the north, or The day of the Lord dawning: wherein the true light is holden forth to all who desire to walk in the day. With a warning to the people of England of all sorts, not to oppose Christ in his kingdom. Shewing also the way how all flesh comes to know the Lord and fear him, by his terrible shaking the earthly part in man, witnessed by the holy men of God in Scripture. With a word to the serpents seed, or ministers of Antichrist, or man of sin, wherever he is found. By one whom the Lord hath called out of this dark world, into the true light, whom Ismaels brood calls a Quaker, whose name in the flesh is James Nayler.	Naylor, James, 1617?-1660.	1653 (1653)	Wing N302; Thomason E711_2; ESTC R207117	21,947	29

your backs on it for when you should bring your works to it to be proved then you joyn with the deceit to make covers for your sins and hide them lest they should come to the light and be made manifest and this is the cause why you stumble because you walk not in the light for your evil deeds will not abide the light the Adulterer loves the night and Iob 24. 15. and 16. the thief loves the night and the drunkard loves the night and all the children of darkness love the night that they may 1 Thes 5. 7. bring forth their evil deeds unreproved And here thou art who lovest thy sins and here wilt thou be found profess what thou wilt for the day will throughly declare thee what thou art for now is the day of the Lord which will judge thee as thou art neer at hand and wo to thee that hidest thy sins and coverest chine iniquities thou maist hide it from men and make men believe thou art a Christian but God will not be mocked for above all he abhors the Eph. 5. 8. hypocrite and dissembler wherefore take heed and turn from your deceit and come forth you children of darkness and come into the light where there is no occasion of stumbling and make it appear you are children of the light by loving it and make it appear you love the light by bringing your deeds to it to be proved that all your works may be works of the light that your light may shine forth before all men in your works and that true Judgment may be set up in you and all unrighteousness condemned and cast out and truth received in that the truth may make you free for while you joyn with the deceit Ioh. 8. 32 34. you consent to keep your sins and while you commit sin you are the servants of sin and the wages of sin is death and death reigns in you because you will not come to Christ who Ioh. 3. 19. is the light that you may have life and your destruction is of your selves and God is just and your condemnation is this that light is come into the world and you love darkness rather then light because your deeds are evil and this is that grace of God that hath appeared to all men which is the Saints Teacher and teacheth them to deny-ungodliness and Tit. 2. 11 12. worldly lusts which you that live in your lusts turn into wantonness and will not be taught by it and here you read your Iude 4. condemnation in every sin you commit O you people of England how long will it be ere you be obedient to the Kingdom of Iesus Christ how long will you profess him in words and forms and yet will not own him in power you can be content to let him have the name of a 1 Cor. 4. 20. King so that you your selves may raign and under the name of Christs Kingdom act your own wills and though you cannot Tit. 1. 16. bear it to be Judged by the Spirit of Christ where it is in his people which judgeth all the world and all things yet 1 Cor. 2. 15. you cannot escape for you shall be found guilty before the mighty Judge of Heaven and Earth when he shall appear in flames of fire to be avenged upon all deceipt and unrighteousness of men And will you be found at that day 1 Pet. 5. 3. Subjects in the Kingdom of Christ wherein all the Saints are one and Christ their head and Law-giver or are you not Lords over Gods heritage yea over Christ himself and you will appear such when the mysterie of iniquity shall be revealed Mat. 28. 20. in you you who ought to make it your whole care to observe the Law of Christ in all things that he commands as a Rule for you to walk by but are you in your duty as servants to Christ when you are prescribing him ways to walk by in his Church And is it not so when you would limit him to speak only by such as you in your wisdom approve of or else he shall be silent and to effect this are all the powers of the earth combined together do not you here take upon you to be Lords of the vineyard and not servants and would not Mat. 21. 23. to the end suffer him to send forth Labourers into it who is Lord of it Is not this the way to make the heritage your own hath not all the persecutions of the messengers of God arisen from this ground And how many times have earthly powers been 2 Chron. 36. 16. broken to pieces against this Rock And do you walk according to the Scriptures which you say is your rule when you would limit the Spirit of the Lord not to speak in his own time and in what place soever they who have the message are Amos 7. 13. sent into you who are offended because the Lord sends his Messengers into your Idol Temples to cry against your Idol Act. 5. 19 20 worships and Heathenish customs and to call out poor ignorant people from amongst you which have been long deceived Act. 17. 2 3. by their blind guides And to call them out of forms and likenesses into the substance of all worships which is only in Spirit and not in Forms and Customs and outside observations Ioh. 4. 21 22 23 24 that they may come to know what they worship even the living God that their souls may live which was the way by which the Apostles did gather the Saints out of all the Idols Temples and Carnal worships into the Spirit as you may read in the Scripture And this with you is a transgression of your Law and you say it breeds distraction in your Churches but what Churches are they which will be so soon distracted and what people are those Churches made up of who no sooner hear one deliver the Lords Message in a peaceable way but they are all on fire beating buffetting cursing swearing and haling them to prison and were you not blind you might plainly see what generation these are who are and always have been offended at the will of God Is it not the love of God to souls to send to call them who will hear his voice out of such Churches as are thus acted by a Spirit of envy rage and murther which is the spirit of the Devil and this is that Spirit which being offended sets the Creatures one to destroy another least his deceipt should be revealed and are you not blinde who cannot distinguish of that spirit which acts in the persecutor and that Spirit which acts in the sufferer and hath so done in all Ages and come out from amongst them And what Law is that which you say is transgressed by the creature being obedient to the Creator obeying the voice of Christ witnessed in the Scripture by the practise of the holy men of God sent out

talk on And they having outwardly declared their inward worship and fellowship they had with God in Spirit and 1 Ioh 1. 3. this you find in the Letter and every one according to your several conceivings thereof sets up an outward form image or likeness of the Saints worship and here you worship and for this you contend by reasons and arguments and wrest the 2. Pet. 3. 16. Scriprures to uphold your form and if any will not worship this your Image you are greatly offended and here is all the contention in the world about things without as forms customs and traditions and here carnal minds contend with Rom. 6. 6 7. carnal words and weapons about carnal things and you who are here cannot own the Saints conditions in your selves as to witness the infallible teachings of the Spirit and the body of sin put off and to be sanctified throughout in soul and body but you will own the Scriptures as they are as far as they will make with your Form and that you may live in the delights of the world And for those which crosse your ways and wills you will alter them by meanings and expositions and thus the Scripture must bend to you and submit to your wills that the will may raign and you live in your lusts but to believe that ever they shal be fulfilled in you by Christ as Rom. 8. 3 4. they are and were in the Saints to this your Faith is reprobate And yet you are not ashamed to profess Christ your King and the Scripture your Rule and you make a great sound in words the Kingdom of Christ and the Ordinances of Christ and the Church of Christ and the Saints practise and the Scripture Rule but is it so upon tryal or but a thing like these you speak on and where you appear to be wanting there you have covered with words meanings and expositions but the Saints whose conditions you talk on was what they spoke without meanings or deceit they were subjects in the Kingdom of Christ and he did rule in them and they followed Rev 7 14. him through persecution mockings and death but is it so with you who are Lords over your brethren beating mocking imprisoning and killing them because they will not forsake the commands of Christ to be subject to your wills and heathenish customs as to bow down to you and worship you and to be silent at your will and to speak at your wills though Christ command the contrary Is this to own Christ for your King And as for your Ordinances you cry up so much are these they to set up a proud man called by you Mat. 23. 6. 10. master having the highest place in the Idols Temple preaching always from a verse of another mans condition but not fulfilled in himself raising points reasons objections and uses a divination of his own brain but not from the mouth of the Lord adding and diminishing to the Scripture sprinkling of infants and calling it baptizing into Christ singing Davids conditions in Rimes telling People of a Sacrament and Gal. 4. 10 11. observing of times doing all for Tythes or money living in pride fulness and coveteousness and many more like things never used by any that ever Christ sent And is this your Church all within such a place or Parish sprinkled when they were infants but not yet washed from sin but are still lyars swearers drunkards whoremongers covetous scorners proud wanton oppressors and such like but not one that can witness that faith which hath overcome the world sin and the devil or believes that ever they shall overcome 1 Iohn 5. 4. while they are here and is this the Church of Christ which is his body which are limbs of the devil and serve him at his will And is this the Saints practise you speak of to exalt your selves one above another to sue one another to accuse falsly to be proud and covetous to live in the lusts Mat. 20. 26 27. of the flesh sporting and gaming and calling it recreation living in excess of apparel and diet spending the creatures on Gal. 5. 24. your lusts when your brethren want food and raiment causing others to labour in wants that they may bring it to you to spend on your lusts and vanity And when you should hearken to the light of Christ in your conscience then you joyn with the deceit to make covers for your iniquities and say it is but as your place and estate requires as though God had given out his Law with respect of persons and had given you Jam. 5. 1 2 3 4 5 6. a toleration to abuse the creature and live in your lusts more then others because you have more of the earth or a greater power committed to your charge amongst men then others Mat. 20. 25 26 27. not considering that the Heathen exercise these things but the Saints the greater power the more humble and the more Luk. 22. 26. carefull to walk as examples to others that so they may exalt him alone whose Ministers they are and not themselves in pride and this is to be truly honorable and herein have all the faithfull been honoured but you who seek for the worlds honour are not of the faithfull for saith Christ how can you believe that seek for honour one of another now you Joh. 5. 41. 44. that talk of the Saints practise own it in your selves and it will take you off from these and many more vanities you live in God will not be mocked you hypocrites be not sayers but doers And you talk of the Scripture being a golden Rule but your ways prove how little you are ruled by it Do ye seek to be perfect for God is perfect holy as he is holy do ye love God above all and your neighbours as your self when you make them your footstool do you to all as you would be done by have you forsaken the world and the love of it Is the lusts and affections of your flesh crucified having Heb. 13. 5. food and rayment are ye therewith content Do you live 1 Tim. 6. 8 9. by faith not taking thought for tomorrow not what to eat Mat. 6. 25. to the end and what to put on Do you live as the Lords Lilies Do you feed the hungry and cloath the naked and let the oppressed Iam. 2. 1 9. go free Are ye no respecters of persons in all your dealings Are you brought to yea and nay in all your communication Mat. 5. 37. without any more which comes of evil Do you suffer Mat. 5. 11. and are hated and have all manner of evil spoken on you falsly for the name of Christ Are you brought out of all the Luk. 6. 22. customs of the heathen and are conformable to Christ in his life and sufferings prove your selves if you be what you profess in truth that you be Saints sanctified and