TITLE: A collection of sundry books, epistles and papers written by James Nayler : with an impartial relation of the most remarkable transactions relating to his life

AUTHOR:   Naylor, James.  

Table of Contents:

    FRONT MATTER:   A COLLECTION OF SUNDRY BOOKS, EPISTLES AND PAPERS, WRITTEN BY JAMES NAYLER; WITH AN IMPARTIAL RELATION OF THE MOST REMARKABLE TRANSACTIONS RELATING TO HIS LIFE.      Starts at - Img 2 Pg UN
  • (1)  AN EPISTLE TO THE SERIOUS READER. Containing an impartial account of the most remarkable transactions relating to JAMES NAYLER.    Starts at - Img 4 Pg UN
  • (2)  TWO SHORT PAPERS OF CONFESSIONS, &C. TAKEN OUT OF HIS OWN HAND WRITING.    Starts at - Img 20 Pg xix
    • (2.2)  TO ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE LORD, EVERY WHERE GATHERED OR SCATTERED.    Starts at - Img 25 Pg xxiv
    • (2.3)  A TESTIMONY TO CHRIST JESUS, DELIVERED TO THE PARLIAMENT, WHO PERSECUTED HIM AS A BLASPHEMER: WRITTEN IN THE TIME OF HIS IMPRISONMENT IN BRIDEWELL.    Starts at - Img 29 Pg xxviii
    • (2.4)  HIS CONFESSIONS AND ANSWER TO SOME PARTICULARS, PRINTED 1659.    Starts at - Img 29 Pg xxviii
    • (2.6)  AND IN THE DAY WHEN MY GOD LIFTED MY FEET OUT OF THE PIT WAS THIS GIVEN FORTH.    Starts at - Img 39 Pg xl
  • (3)  A COLLECTION OF SUNDRY BOOKS AND PAPERS, WRITTEN BY JAMES NAYLER.    Starts at - Img 46 Pg UN
    • (3.1)  DIVERS PARTICULARS OF THE PERSECUTIONS OF JAMES NAYLER, BY THE PRIESTS OF WESTMORELAND.    Starts at - Img 46 Pg UN
    • (3.2)  THE EXAMINATION OF JAMES NAYLER, UPON AN INDICTMENT OF BLASPHEMY, AT THE SESSIONS AT APPLEBY, IN JANUARY, 1652.    Starts at - Img 55 Pg 56
    • (3.3)  A LETTER OF JAMES NAYLER'S, TO SOME FRIENDS IN YORKSHIRE, GIVING A BRIEF ACCOUNT OF THE PROCEEDINGS AT LANCASTER SESSIONS AGAINST HIM AND G. FOX; ASIN A BOOK, CALLED, A BRIEF DISCOVERY, AND ALSO IN G. F'S JOURNAL, PAGE 90, &C.    Starts at - Img 60 Pg 61
  • (4)  TRUTH CLEARED FROM SCANDALS; BEING JAMES NAYLER'S ANSWER AND DECLARATION, TOUCHING SOME THINGS CHARGED UPON HIM IN THE LANCASHIRE PETITION.    Starts at - Img 63 Pg 64
    • (4.2)  AN EPISTLE TO SEVERAL FRIENDS ABOUT WAKEFIELD.    Starts at - Img 68 Pg 69
    • (4.3)  TO ALL DEAR BRETHREN AND FRIENDS IN HOLDERNESS AND IN THE EAST PARTS OF YOURKSHIRE.    Starts at - Img 72 Pg 73
    • (4.4)  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.    Starts at - Img 76 Pg 77
    • (4.5)  THE WAY HOW ALL FLESH COME 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.    Starts at - Img 92 Pg 93
    • (4.6)  A WORD TO THE SEED OF THE SERPENT, OR MINISTERS OF ANTICHRIST, OR MAN OF SIN, WHEREVER FOUND.    Starts at - Img 96 Pg 97
    • (4.7)  A DISCOVERY OF THE WISDOM WHICH IS FROM BENEATH, AND THE WISDOM WHICH IS FROM ABOVE: OR, THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO SEEDS, THE ONE AFTER THE FLESH, THE OTHER AFTER THE SPIRIT.    Starts at - Img 103 Pg 104
    • (4.8)  A DISCOVERY OF THE WISDOM FROM BENEATH, AND THE WISDOM FROM ABOVE.    Starts at - Img 103 Pg 104
    • (4.9)  HOW THE SUBTILITY OF THE SERPENT WORKS IN THE CHILDREN OF DISOBEDIENCE; AND HOW HE RAGES WHERE HE SEES THE IMAGE OF THE PRINCE OF PEACE APPEAR, TO SMOTHER AND STRANGLE THE HOLY CHILD JESUS CHRIST.    Starts at - Img 114 Pg 115
    • (4.10)  THE CURSED CONDITION OF CONCEITED ONES, WHO ARE WISE IN THEIR OWN EYES.    Starts at - Img 129 Pg 130
    • (4.11)  A LAMENTATION BY ONE OF ENGLAND'S PROPHETS, OVER THE RUINS OF THIS OPPRESSED NATION.    Starts at - Img 133 Pg 134
  • (5)  A FEW WORDS OCCASIONED BY A PAPER LATELY PRINTED, STYLED A DISCOURSE CONCERNING THE QUAKERS. TOGETHER WITH A CALL TO MAGISTRATES, MINISTERS, LAWYERS AND PEOPLE, TO REPENTANCE.    Starts at - Img 141 Pg 142
    • (5.2)  A CALL TO MAGISTRATES, MINISTERS, LAWYERS, AND PEOPLE TO REPENTANCE.    Starts at - Img 161 Pg 148
    • (5.3)  THE STUMBLING BLOCK REMOVED FROM WEAK MINDS.    Starts at - Img 172 Pg 173
    • (5.4)  CHURCHES GATHERED AGAINST CHRIST AND HIS KINGDOM: OR, A PETITION ANSWERED.    Starts at - Img 175 Pg 176
    • (5.5)  TO THE SUPREME AUTHORITY OF THIS NATION, THE PARLIAMENT O- THE COMMONWEALTH OF ENGLAND: THE HUMBLE PETITION OF DIVERS CONGREGATED CHURCHES IN THE NORTHERN COUNTRIES,    Starts at - Img 175 Pg 176
    • (5.6)  THE ANSWER TO THE FOREGOING PETITION.    Starts at - Img 179 Pg 180
    • (5.7)  A WORD TO THOSE TO WHOM THE FORMER PETITION IS PREFERRED.    Starts at - Img 190 Pg 191
    • (5.8)  TO ALL THE WORLD'S PROFESSORS AND PEOPLE, THAT YOU MAY SEE WHERE YOU ARE, AND REPENT.    Starts at - Img 198 Pg 199
    • (5.9)  A BRIEF MANIFESTATION OF THE GROUND UPON WHICH WE STAND, TO THOSE WHO DESIRE TO KNOW IT, WITH A DECLARATION, WHY WE CANNOT REPAIR THE IDOLS TEMPLES, NOR GIVE DAY-WAGES TO A CLERK.    Starts at - Img 201 Pg 202
    • (5.10)  CONCERNING THE REPAIR OF IDOLS TEMPLES.    Starts at - Img 202 Pg 203
    • (5.13)  A WORD TO YOU MAGISTRATES WHO SHOULD RULE FOR GOD IN THIS NATION; WHICH YOU SHALL WITNESS AT THE DREADFUL DAY OF ACCOUNT, TO BE LOVE TO YOUR SOULS.    Starts at - Img 209 Pg 210
    • (5.14)  THE ROYAL LAW AND COVENANT OF GOD, WHAT, AND WHERE IT IS, AND WHO ARE IN IT; AND WHO ARE REPROBATE TO THE FAITH.    Starts at - Img 211 Pg 212
    • (5.15)  TO ALL VAIN JANGLERS, IMITATORS, AND LICENTIOUS PERSONS, WHO ARE NOT GUIDED BY THE SAME SPIRIT THAT GAVE FORTH THE SCRIPTURES, THE OLD SERPENT'S VOICE, OR ANTICHRIST DISCOVERED, OPPOSING CHRIST IN HIS KINGDOM.    Starts at - Img 213 Pg 214
    • (5.16)  THE OLD SERPENT'S VOICE; OR, ANTICHRIST DISCOVERED, OPPOSING CHRIST IN HIS KINGDOM.    Starts at - Img 217 Pg 218
  • (6)  A SALUTATION TO THE SEED OF GOD:    Starts at - Img 227 Pg UN
    • (6.2)  A SALUTATION TO THE SEED OF GOD, &C.    Starts at - Img 227 Pg UN
  • (7)  LOVE TO THE LOST, AND A HAND HELD FORTH TO THE HELPLESS, TO LEAD OUT OF THE DARK.    Starts at - Img 265 Pg UN
    • (7.2)  LET HIM THAT READS UNDERSTAND.    Starts at - Img 266 Pg 267
    • (7.8)  CONCERNING, ERROR, HERESIY, &C.    Starts at - Img 285 Pg 286
    • (7.14)  CONCERNING GOVERNMENT, AND MAGISTRACY.    Starts at - Img 303 Pg 304
    • (7.17)  CONCERNING ELECTION AND REPROBATION.    Starts at - Img 313 Pg 314
    • (7.19)  CONCERNING THE BAPTISM OF CHRIST FROM WHAT THE WORLD SO CALLS.    Starts at - Img 320 Pg 321
    • (7.20)  CONCERNING THE LORD'S SUPPER.    Starts at - Img 329 Pg 330
    • (7.22)  CONCERNING JUSTIFICATION, SANCTIFICATION, AND MORTIFICATION    Starts at - Img 339 Pg 340
    • (7.25)  CONCERNING THE MINISTRY OF CHRIST.    Starts at - Img 350 Pg 351
    • (7.27)  CONCERNING THE RESURRECTION.    Starts at - Img 356 Pg 357
    • (7.28)  HOW SIN IS STRENGTHENED, AND HOW IT IS OVERCOME.    Starts at - Img 360 Pg UN
  • (8)  THE LAMB'S WAR AGAINST THE MAN OF SIN.    Starts at - Img 373 Pg UN
    • (8.4)  WHAT THEY ARE TO WAR AGAINST.    Starts at - Img 375 Pg 376
    • (8.6)  AND THESE FRUITS ARE HIS COLOURS HE HOLDS FORTH TO ALL THE WORLD, IN SUCH AS HE REIGNS IN.    Starts at - Img 377 Pg 378
    • (8.8)  A WARNING TO SUCH WHOSE HEARTS ARE PREPARED TO RECEIVE INSTRUCTION, TO LEAD OUT OF THE WAYS OF DEATH.    Starts at - Img 391 Pg 392
  • (9)  A MESSAGE FROM THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH, UNTO THE HOLY SEED, Who are chosen out of the world, and are lovers and followers of the LIGHT. By James Nayler.    Starts at - Img 402 Pg 403
  • (10)  A MESSAGE FROM THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH, UNTO THE HOLY SEED.    Starts at - Img 403 Pg 404
  • (11)  WHAT THE POSSESSION OF THE LIVING FAITH IS, The fruits thereof, and wherein it hath been found to differ from the dead faith of the world, in the learning and following of Christ in the regeneration, with an opening of light to all sorts of people that wait for the kingdom of God, and a candle lighted, to give the sight of the good old way of God, from the ways that now ensnare the simple.    Starts at - Img 417 Pg UN
    • (11.1)  HEADS OF THE PARTICULARS CONTAINED IN THE ENSUING TREATISE.    Starts at - Img 417 Pg UN
    • (11.2)  WHAT THE POSSESSION OF THE LIVING FAITH IS, AND THE FRUITS THEREOF, &C.    Starts at - Img 418 Pg 419
    • (11.3)  WHO THEY BE THAT ARE UNDER THE LAW, AND WHO THEY BE THAT HAVE MADE VOID THE LAW AGAINST THEMSELVES, AND WHO THEY BE THAT ARE UNDER GRACE.    Starts at - Img 443 Pg UN
    • (11.4)  OF THE WAY OF LIFE, FROM THE KNOWLEDGE THAT DEVOURS THE LIFE.    Starts at - Img 444 Pg 445
    • (11.5)  AN OPENING OF LIGHT TO ALL SORTS OF RULERS AND PEOPLE THAT WAIT FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD, THAT YOU MAY NOT OPPOSE HIM IN HIS APPEARANCE, NOR SET UP ANOTHER TO REIGN UPON EARTH IN HIS STEAD.    Starts at - Img 446 Pg 447
    • (11.6)  A CANDLE LIGHTED, TO GIVE THE SIGHT OF THE GOOD OLD WAY OF GOD AT HIS COMING, FROM THE WAYS THAT NOW ENSNARE THE SIMPLE.    Starts at - Img 462 Pg 463
    • (11.7)  THE LIVING GOD GLORIFIED IN HIS TEMPLES, THE TRUE WORSHIPPERS, THAT WORSHIH HIM IN SPIRIT AND IN TRUTH.    Starts at - Img 471 Pg 472
    • (11.9)  DECEIT DISCOVERED BY ITS FRUITS.    Starts at - Img 482 Pg UN
  • (12)  A DOOR OPENED TO THE IMPRISONED SEED; OR, CAPTIVE SOULS IN THE WORLD:    Starts at - Img 492 Pg UN
    • (12.2)  A DOOR OPENED TO THE IMPRISONED SEED IN THE WORLD, AND THE WAY OF FREEDOM BY THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH, SENT INTO THE WORLD IN LOVE TO THE SHEEP THAT HAVE LONG BEEN LOST.    Starts at - Img 492 Pg UN
    • (12.3)  NOW ALL THAT DESIRE TO BE SET FREE FROM THIS BONDAGE BEFORE-MENTIONED, AND FROM THAT LAW OF SIN AND DEATH THAT HATH ITS STRENGTH IN THE FLESHLY PART, DILIGENTLY MIND TO FEEL IN YOURSELVES, AS FOLLOWETH.    Starts at - Img 501 Pg 502
    • (12.4)  THE FRUIT OF THE FREE-BORN CLEARED FROM LEGAL PERFORMANCES, AND THE CHILDREN OF BONDAGE SHEWED THE NATURE OF THEIR WORKS.    Starts at - Img 527 Pg UN
    • (12.5)  CHRIST JESUS KNOWN TO BE KING IN HIS TEMPLES, THROUGH THE POWER OF THE HOLY GHOST, AND SWORD OF THE SPIRIT, LIFTED UP AGAINST THE MAN OF SIN IN TRUE JUDGMENT.    Starts at - Img 538 Pg UN
    • (12.6)  GRACE RECEIVED, AND GRACE REJECTED.    Starts at - Img 542 Pg 543
  • (13)  A FEW WORDS IN ANSWER TO THE RESOLVES OF SOME WHO ARE CALLED INDEPENDENT TEACHERS, Whose gospel and ministry appears to depend upon tithes; or as full a maintenance secured to them by a carnal law, as appears from their own mouths, in their judgments, and desires to the present rulers, delivered as followeth. By JAMES NAYLER.    Starts at - Img 545 Pg UN
  • (14)  TO THE GATHERED CHURCHES.    Starts at - Img 553 Pg 554
    • (14.2)  TO THOSE WHO WERE IN AUTHORITY, WHOM THE LORD IS NOW JUDGING, THAT THEY MAY REPENT AND FIND MERCY FROM GOD.    Starts at - Img 570 Pg 571
  • (15)  A LETTER TO KING CHARLES II.    Starts at - Img 575 Pg 576
  • (16)  AN ACCOUNT FROM THE CHILDREN OF LIGHT, (TO THEM THAT ASK)    Starts at - Img 581 Pg UN
    • (16.2)  AND FIRST, AS TO THOSE THINGS WHICH SOME CALL CIVIL.    Starts at - Img 590 Pg 589
    • (16.3)  NOW TO THOSE THINGS WHICH SOME CALL RELIGIOUS.    Starts at - Img 600 Pg 599
  • (17)  PART OF HIS ANSWER TO THE BOOK CALLED THE FANATIC HISTORY, (SO FAR AS CONCERNS HIMSELF)    Starts at - Img 621 Pg UN
    • (17.2)  IN ANSWER TO THE EPISTLE DIRECTED TO KING CHARLES.    Starts at - Img 621 Pg UN
  • (18)  IN ANSWER TO THE BOOK.    Starts at - Img 626 Pg 625
  • (19)  MILK FOR BABES, AND MEAT FOR STRONG MEN TREATED OF.    Starts at - Img 640 Pg UN
  • (20)  AN EPISTLE TO FRIENDS.    Starts at - Img 666 Pg UN
    • (20.2)  HIS LAST TESTIMONY, SAID TO BE DELIVERED BY HIM ABOUT TWO HOURS BEFORE HIS DEPARTURE OUT OF THIS LIFE; SEVERAL FRIENDS BEING PRESENT.    Starts at - Img 669 Pg 668
  • (21)  SEVERAL EPISTLES AND PAPERS TO RULERS, PRIESTS AND PEOPLE, NEVER BEFORE PRINTED.    Starts at - Img 671 Pg UN
    • (21.1)  TO THEM OF THE INDEPENDENT SOCIETY,    Starts at - Img 671 Pg UN
  • (22)  HIS EPISTLES TO FRIENDS.    Starts at - Img 677 Pg UN
    • (22.1)  EPISTLE I. TO FRIENDS AT LINCOLN.    Starts at - Img 677 Pg UN
    • (22.2)  EPISTLE II. TO ALL FRIENDS AT LONDON.    Starts at - Img 678 Pg 677
    • (22.3)  EPISTLE III. TO THE CHURCHES OF CHRIST IN THE NORTH.    Starts at - Img 680 Pg 679
    • (22.4)  EPISTLE IV. FOR FRIENDS IN THE CITY OF YORK    Starts at - Img 681 Pg 680
    • (22.5)  EPISTLE V. FOR FRIENDS TO WAIT TO KNOW BREAD IN THEIR OWN HOUSES, THAT THEY MAY LIVE THEREBY.    Starts at - Img 682 Pg 681
    • (22.6)  EPISTLE VI. TO THE CALLED OF GOD WHO BELIEVE IN THE LIGHT TO WALK THEREIN.    Starts at - Img 685 Pg 684
    • (22.7)  EPISTLE VII. TO FRIENDS, TO BE DILIGENT IN MEETINGS.    Starts at - Img 687 Pg 686
    • (22.8)  EPISTLE VIII. CONCERNING LOVE AND JUDGMENT.    Starts at - Img 688 Pg 687
    • (22.9)  EPISTLE IX. TO SOME THAT WERE BACKSLIDDEN.    Starts at - Img 692 Pg 691
    • (22.10)  EPISTLE X. FOR FRIENDS TO BE TENDER AND COMPASSIONATE ONE TO ANOTHER.    Starts at - Img 696 Pg 695
    • (22.11)  EPISTLE IX. NOT TO STRIVE, BUT OVERCOME BY SUFFERING.    Starts at - Img 700 Pg 699
    • (22.12)  EPISTLE XII. EXHORTING TO MERCY AND FORGIVENESS.    Starts at - Img 703 Pg 702
    • (22.13)  EPISTLE XIII. TO SOME FRIENDS IN THE NORTHERN PARTS.    Starts at - Img 705 Pg 704
    • (22.14)  EPISTLE XIV. EXHORTING TO WATCHFULNESS.    Starts at - Img 706 Pg 705
    • (22.15)  EPISTLE XV. TO WATCH AGAINST THE ENEMY'S WILES, AND BE FAITHFUL TO THE END.    Starts at - Img 708 Pg 707
    • (22.16)  TO THE PARLIAMENT OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF ENGLAND.    Starts at - Img 719 Pg 718
    • (22.17)  A WARNING TO THE RULERS, IN THE YEAR, 1659. WHEREIN A JUST LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE IS PLEVDED.    Starts at - Img 730 Pg 729
  • (23)  A TABLE OF THE BOOKS, EPISTLES AND PAPERS CONTAINED IN THIS VOLUME.    Starts at - Img 738 Pg UN
    • (23.2)  HIS EPISTLES AND PAPERS NEVER PRINTED, BEFORE THE YEAR. 1716.    Starts at - Img 741 Pg 740