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A52717 Several papers of confessions, prayer, and praise; by James Naylor: concerning his fall and restoration Naylor, James, 1617?-1660. 1660 (1660) Wing N316; ESTC R215561 28,774 41

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the Apostle James James 2. 5. Verse 1 2 3 4. Commands the Saints not to have the Faith of our Lord Jesus Christ the Lord of Glory with Respect of Persons And saith such are Partial in themselves and become Judges of Evil Thoughts And Rom. 13. 1 5. saith Paul Let every Soul be Subject to the Higher Powers For saith he there is no Power but of God The Powers that be are ordained of God not of Man and that whosoever Resisteth the Power Resisteth the Ordinance of God And saith We must needs be Subject for Conscience sake And therefore though the Prophets and Saints were often sent by the Lord to Pronounce Judgment against Unjust Men who had the Power committed to them and did not Judge for God but for Self-ends yet they never attempted to raise any Violence against them but used all means to Persuade them to do Justly Love Mercy and Mic. 6. 8 walk humbly with God that they might be Established and the Wrath of God turned away from them For those that be of God cannot Rejoyce in the Destruction of any but would 1 Pet. 1. 12. Eph. 4. 11. 12. have all to turn to God and find Mercy 7. Concerning the Ministry The true Ministers of Jesus Christ have always been and are still such as came not by the Will of Man but by the Will of God neither are they fitted for that Work by any thing of Man but by God alone for the true Ministry is the Gift of Jesus Christ given for the Perfecting of the Saints and needs no addition of Humane Helps and 1 Cor. 12. 7. Learning but as the work is Spiritual and of the Lord so they are Spiritually fitted only by the Lord. And therefore he chose Pet. 4. 10. 11. Gal. 11. 11 12 16. Herds-Men Fisher-men and Plough-Men and such-like and as he gave them an Immediate Call without the Leave of Man so he fitted them Immediately without the Help of Man And as they received the Gift Freely so they were to give Freely And when ever they found any of the false Ministers who Taught for Hire they Cryed out against them and Pronounced Woes against them and shewed them that they lay in Iniquity because they thought that the Gift of God could be Bought and Sold for Money And Christ calls them Hirelings Mat. 10. 8. Acts 8. 20. John 10. 13. Micah 3. 10. Jer. 5. 30. and 6. 13. Isai 56. 10 11. 2 Pet. 2. 14 15. 2 Cor. 11. 15. Jude 11. and saith they care not for the Sheep And Micah cryes out against the Priests that Taught for Hire and saith They Build up Sion with Blood and Jerusalem with Iniquity And Jeremiah cried out against the Priests in his Days that bare Rule by their means and calls it an Horrible thing and saith That from the least of them to the greatest they are all given to Covetousness And Isaiah cryed out of such in his Days and calls them Greedy Dogs that can never have enough and saith he they all look for their Gain from their Quarter And Peter saith of such in his Days as should come that they through Covetousness should make Merchandize of the People and saith They have Hearts exercised with Covetous Practises who have forsaken the right Way and have followed the Way of Balaam who loved the Wages of Unrighteousness And Jude cryes Woe unto them for they go on in the Way of Cain and run greedily after the Error of Balaam for Rewards But those that were sent out by Christ counted it their Reward to make the Gospel without Charge neither ever had they any set 1 Cor. 9. 16 17 18. 1 Cor. 4. 11. Gal. 4. 19. means but went about having no certain Dwelling Place neither were Masters but Servants to all for Christs sake Nor ever went to Law for Tythes or any other Earthly thing but Suffered Persecution and as always he that was after the Flesh Persecuted him that was after the Spirit even so it is now Now all People Try your Priests by the Scriptures whether they are of God or of the World and never think to hear the Word of the Lord from their Mouths who walk contrary to the Scriptures for such were never sent of God for had they been sent of God they would abide in his Doctrine And John 1 John 2. 3 4 5 6. Joh. 9. 10. 2 John 9. 10 11. saith such hath not God but he that abides in the Doctrine of Christ hath both the Father and the Son And if there come any to you and bring not this Doctrine you are forbidden to receive them into your Houses or bid them God Speed for if you do you are partakers of their Evil Deeds And unto the Wicked saith God What hast thou to do to Declare my Statutes or that thou shouldest Psal 50. 16 17. take my Covenant into thy Mouth seeing thou hatest Instruction and castest my Words behind thy Back and art a partaker with the Thief the Adulterer Evil-Speaking Slandering and Deceit and such as Psal 50. 21. do these things think God to be like themselves But I will Reprove thee and set them in order before thine Eyes J. N. 1653. The Condition and Portion of the People of England who have long Flattered themselves with the Church-Ministry and Ordinances but upon Tryal are found to be the Synagogues of Satan Persecutors of the Truth and Enemies of the Gospel of Christ The Lyon hath Roared Tremble all you Beasts of the Field The Trumpet hath sounded let the Beast prepare himself to Battle for the great Day of Sions Recompence is at hand and Woe to all her Enemies I Have heard a Voice of Woe and Terror to come upon all the Inhabitants of the Earth Repent all you Inhabitants of the Earth the Sword of the Lord is Furbished against you to make a grievous Slaughter Howl Woe and Misery all sorts of People who have preferred your own Wills Lust and Pleasures before the pure Law of God Howl you Sodomites and Belly-Gods of the Earth who have given up your selves to Fulness of Gluttony and all Excess of Riot Feeding without the Fear of God Sporting in the Day Time Living like fed Horses spending the Creatures upon your Lusts which were never made for that end Woe unto you you Fat Swine the Sins of Sodom are found among you and the Plagues of Sodom are nigh at hand Woe unto you for now is the Lord come to Require his Corn and his Wine which he gave to Feed the Poor and Hungry which your Lusts have Devoured the Wants of all Poor in the Nation cry out against you you have exceeded all that ever went before you and you shall exceed in Misery Woe unto you Proud Lustful and Lofty ones that are lifted up in your own Eyes and have set your selves above the Fear of God which Teacheth Humility you plainly appear to be Children of the Devil who is the
Condition you are my joy in the Lord let my bowels be refreshed to hear of your Stedfastness and Growth in the Truth Take heed of propounding ends to your selves in any thing for that leads out of the way of God and gives way to your own Wisdom and so you seek to preserve that Alive which is appointed for Death and so you maintain War against God and know it not and in this condition you can have no Peace while the Enemies are in Arms against your Peace Oh! dear Friends you are in my Heart my Prayer to God for you is that you may be kept blameless to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ blessed for Ever My fellow Prisoner and dear Companion in the Lord Salutes you F. H. all Cease not to Pray for us that we may be kept to his Praise who hath counted us worthy to Suffer for his Name we are well and in great Peace kept in our Father's Love above all we are often brought to stand and wonder how we are kept in the midst of the Fire and not Consumed and the more that the Enemy Rages the more are we kept in Peace within Here are strange Devices used to insnare us to get ought against us true or false but all is ordered by a power the World knows not God is our Strength Rejoice with us all dear Friends and Praise his Name for Evermore for he is worthy for his Mercy endures for Ever JAMES NAYLOR A Prisoner at Appleby in Westmoreland for the Truths sake 1653. To all Dear BRETHREN and FRIENDS in Holderness and in the East Parts of Yorkshire DEAR Friends I Rejoice in you as you are entred into the Love of the Truth and have owned the Voice that calls out of the Darkness that is over all the Earth to set your Faces towards Sion the City of Everlasting Light And now mind your Way and the Light that is given to Guide you in the Way to keep your Eye to the Light that it may lead you through all the Visible things of the World and as you pass through you may stand single in the Mind unto God not turning to the right or left Hand where lies the Temptation nor looking back which lays you open to be Assaulted afresh by those Evils you had once escaped from but keeping the Eye towards the Mark pass on leaving and forgetting what is behind and Treading and Trampling under your Feet what the Enemy shall lay as stumbling blocks in your way which your Carnal Eyes or Ears or Hearts would be closing with for the Temptation lies in the Carnal things and there is the Bondage of the Creature to things that are Corrupt from which Bondage from Sin and Corruption the Lord is now Appeared that in the Light he may Redeem and lead out of it all that will own and follow him and this Light and Redemption is in his Son whom he is about to Exalt in which Exaltation a strange and mighty Work is to be brought to pass whereat all that stand not in his Counsel and Fear and to whom he shall not Reveal his Secrets shall be offended for all that is exalted shall be laid low and debased the Wisdom of the Wise shall come to nought and the Understanding of the Prudent ones shall be hid Riches and Honours shall fall to Dust from whence they came and the Worship of the World shall become Filthiness the Gods of the Heathens shall be Famished with looking for Worship but shall get none and the strongest of them shall not be able to deliver himself for the Lord will bring down all Heights and Mountains into the Valleys for in the Valley of Jehosaphat he will plead with all Flesh which hath scattered the Seed of the Covenant And now dear Friends here is your Peace and Blessedness that you Silence all Flesh and cease from your own Wisdom and give over your Imaginations about the things of God come out of the Love of the World and arise out of all Visible things and prepare to meet the Lord cast off all your Idols that have had your Hearts and put off the stumbling blocks of your Iniquities from before your Faces and give up all that will not that he should Reign over them that his Enemies may be your Enemies for in Judgment and Righteousness is he come out to be Avenged upon the Unrighteous Seed and now stand in the Light that a seperation may be made in you the Precious from the Vile that a true savour may arise that you may know your Calling and Election what is called and what you are to come out of lest you stay in any of that to which the Plagues is for this is the cause of your Suffering not discerning in the pure Wisdom what that Antichrist or exalted Spirit is that is got into the Seat of God and shews himself to be as God whose Kingdom stands in the Wisdom Glory and Riches of the World whereat all that knows not the true God in Spirit ask Counsel therefore dear Friends look not out into the Visible things for there he is ready to present to you false Voices and Visions Lying-wonders to lead out the vain Mind into the Liberty and Boasting of high things in Words without Power but while such speak of Liberty they are in Bondage in Mind to Corrupt and Fading things and while these are Head in the Creature there is not Redemption For the Bonds of Iniquity are unloosed and the pure seed is oppressed and the Plagues must pass upon that Nature therefore sink down into the Sufferings and Death that you may find the Door whereat to Enter for there is a Vale of Tears to pass thorow you shall find your Well-springs in him where you shall drink of the Water of Life and find Refreshment and grow from Strength to Strength till you come up to Sion Stand fast take heed of Words without Life spoken from the Comprehensions for that Feeds not the pure Seed but Feeds the Wisdom which is above and the Itching Ears and so the pure is covered with Earth and the Fowls of the Air is fed and no Fruit is brought forth to Perfection and take heed of that Nature that would know more than God is willing to Reveal for you shall find that unwilling to obey what it knows and take heed of that which desires to appear before Men to be commended for that seldom deserves Praise of God and let a Godly Conversation declare what is within and know one another in Spirit and not in Word and meet often together and wait upon God for his Teaching alone in a Cross to your own Wills for therein is the Secrets of God Revealed Let Love abound in you one towards another without being Partial and I beseech you by the Love of God that you halt not between God and the World but as you Profess that you are not of the World so let your Conversation be out of its Fashions Customs and Traditions and Covetous Practises that it may appear you are marked out for the Lord's and that you are not ashamed to own that which differs and so walk as not to cast an offence on the Gospel that you become not a scorn to Fools but let Wisdom be justified of her Children and take heed of that which would be exalted above others Teaching and Talking of things without Life and you that would be counted somebody let such first learn to wash the Feet of them they would be above and he that would be Greatest let him be Servant to all for it is the Humble and not the High Spirits that are Taught of God and such so walk as their Lives and Practises Teach and Judge all Vain Light and Heighty Spirits and mind how you grow out of the Earth and out of that which is in the Enmity and until you be brought out of the Love of all Visible things and wholly infolded into the Love of God you cannot witness Redemption nor receive the true Joy that ariseth in the Manifestation of the Love for it is only he that is brought up out of the Death to Reign over it whose Heart is come out of the Unrighteous Mammon who is entred into the Kingdom of Righteousness Joy and Peace and as you arise out of the Earthly Bondage you shall witness the glorious Liberty and so come to know your own Measures every one in particular to improve it and not to boast above it in another Man's Line and so you will come to see by what Power you stand in your Warfare how far you are Conquerors and who is your Enemy at present and so be able to give an Account in your selves of your Faith and how you grow from Faith to Faith And dear Friends watch over one another Ex●ort Reprieve Admonish in pure Love and Meekness of Spirit least you also be Tempted and all know that you are set as a City on a Hill as Signs to this Generation therefore lift up your Light to all the World that all Mouths may be Stopped and Hearts Convinced so that all that see you may see you to be Children of Light and being Judged by you may be ashamed of their deeds of Darkness for great is the work of the Lord and Blessed are they that are found Faithful in it in what is committed to them Farewel dear Hearts and the Lord God Almighty Bless Prosper and Preserve you Pure and Clear unto his Kingdom Amen My Love in the Lord Salutes you all and if my Father please I shall be glad to see your Faces in the Flesh but his Will is my Peace who is Blessed for Evermore Written from Nuby the last Day of the Seventh Month 1653. A Lover of your Souls JAMES NAYLOR The Work of the Lord is great in those Parts and he carries it on with a High Hand having got himself the Victory Praise the Lord with us all that know him who is worthy even him alone for Ever FINIS Printed in the YEAR 1654.