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A Letter from James Naylor, by which the then present state of his spirit is represented.
There is a Spirit that I feel, that delights to do no evil, nor to revenge any wrong, but delights to endure all things, in hope to enjoy its own in the end: Its hope is to out-live all wrath and contention, and to weary out all exaltation and cruelty, or whatsoever is of nature contrary to its self, it sees to the and of all temptations: as it bears no evil in it self, so it conceives none in thoughts to any other; for its ground and spring is the mercies and forgiveness of God: its Crown is meekness, its Life is Everlasting Love unfeigned, and takes its Kingdom with intreaty, and not with contention, keeps it in lowliness of mind; in God alone it can rejoyce, though none else regard it, or can own its life. It’s conceived in sorrow, and brought forth without any to pity it, nor doth it murmur at grief and oppression; it never rejoyceth but thorow sufferings, for with the worlds joy it is murthered; I found it alone, being forsaken, I have fellowship therein with them that lived in Dens and Desolate Places in the Earth, who through Death obtained this Resurrection and Eternal holy Life. Thou wast with me when I fled from the face of mine Enemies, then didst thou warn me in the night; thou carriedst me in thy power, into the Hiding Place thou hadst prepared for me, there thou coveredst me with thy hand, that in time thou mightst bring me forth a Rock before all the world. When I was weak thou stayedst me with thy hand, that in thy time thou mightst present me to the world in thy strength; in which I stand and {Page 22} cannot be moved. Praise the Lord, O my soul. Let this be written for those that come after, Praise me Lord. XR4867
J.N. and J.P. though dead yet speaketh, who declared they were to cease from words even of truth (spoken from the comprehending part of mans understanding) and from (thus) speaking in set Meetings; and so to give way for a greater glory: viz. The Spirits teaching, leading, and speaking in the Saints. Hallelujah.
Also they declared that they had recieved greater wounds from the house of their Friend, than from the house of their Enemies.. R.R.
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