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Quakers above that Curfe and Sentence I have paffed upon them, as in Pag. 20. 5. Fox blames me for faying God hath made me Judge of the Quakers fpiritual Eftate; and yet, faith he, thou owns thyself to be but a mortal Man. O how Fox defpifeth that a mortal Man fhould be the Quakers Judge of their immortal Souls, as they imagine! For, faith Fox, the fpiritual Man judgeth all Things, as in Pag. 21. 6. Fox blames me for faying that the Spirit of Reafon in Man is the Devil; and Fox feems to justify the Magiftrates that perfecuted me, because I say they were reasonable Men. And Fox further blames me for fleeing from the Devil's Malice; yet he judgeth, that if those Magiftrate Devils had inflicted more corporal Punishment upon me than Imprisonment, it had been but Reafon the Devil ftill; for, faith Fox, thou canst not say it was Unreasonableness in them, according to thy own Saying, as in Pag. 23. 7. Fox calls me a lying Spirit, because I fay it doth not belong to Chrift, now being in Heaven, to interpret Scripture. For, faith Fox, doth not the Scripture fay all shall be taught of God, and that he opens, and no Man shuts? And doth not John fay, No Man was found worthy to open the Book but the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, and was not Christ anointed to preach? as in Pag. 24.

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How the Curfe of Muggleton fhall remain upon Fox to

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IRST, as for that Sentence that I have paffed upon the Quakers People and others, it is irrevocable, and will be as fure upon you as if God had faid it with his own Mouth; for, as I faid in that Book, we are as true Ambaffadors of Chrift, as Mofes, the Prophets, and Apoftles were; and if they were fent of God, we are fent of God; and if there were any Power in their Sentence and Judgment to thofe People in their Time, fo fure will the Sentence and Judgment of us, the Witneffes of the Spirit, be upon you, and as many of the Quakers People as hath, or fhall fall under it: Neither fhall that Curfe I have paffed upon you defpifing

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Quakers, return upon myself no more than the Curfe of Mofes which open'd the Ground to fwallow up wicked rebellious Men alive, for defiring the Prieft's Office: So will it be with you Fox the Quaker, in that you have rebell'd against the Meffengers of Chrift, and ftrove for to be a Minifter of Chrift, when as he never chofe nor fent you, yet you will proudly contend with those that God hath chofen, anointed, and feal'd to declare the highest Myfteries that ever was declared by Man, yet you look upon yourself to be better able to preach the Gofpel then we; you, who knoweth not the true God, nor what the Devil is, nor that your Soul must die, nor any one true Principle of Faith, yet you are taken by the People to be a Man of Knowledge, and fo you encourage yourself to be a Minister of Chrift, and yet knows not what the true Chrift is, nor where he is; and do you think that Hell fhall not open its Mouth and fwallow you up alive? Yea, I fay it will, and you fhall not efcape, for I know and fee it will be fo, and you fhall find my Words to be true, to your eternal Pain and Shame, as Corab, Dathan and Abiram did by Mofes

2. Fox faith, Thofe I have curfed are clear over my Spirit.

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How the Curfe and Sentence of Muggleton shall be over, and upon the Spirits of the Quakers to Eternity.

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Anf. TT is a marvellous Thing that damned Men should be over his Spirit that hath a Commiffion from God, to condemn Defpifers of the Holy Ghoft; it is as if a Prifoner that is condemned by the Judge for his Breach of the Law, fhould have that Curfe he pronounced upon the Man over his own Head: By Fox his Conceit the Man is in a better Cafe than the Judge, for the Man may as truly say that the Sentence and Curfe the Judge hath paffed upon him is clear over the Judge's Spirit ; as if the condemned Man were in a better Condition than the Judge; yet the one goeth to be hanged, according to the Judge's Sentence, and the Judge goeth to his Palace: So is it with you, George Fox, and many other

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of you Quakers, you must go to the Damnation of eternal Death, according to my Sentence, and I fhall enter into everlafting Life that condemned you; fo that you shall never clear yourselves from that Curfe I have paffed upon you, but it fhall be over your Spirits and upon your Spirits to Eternity. 3. Fox faith, Had the Quakers never feen Letter of Scripture, or any Man, yet, faith he, the Quakers could have spoken in the Power, and Spirit, and in the divine Light of Chrift.

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How the Law written in the Quakers Hearts, is that Chrift they could have spoken in, bad they never feen Letter of Scripture, nor Man that profeffeth it.

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Anf. ERE Fox fheweth plainly that the Quakers Light of Chrift within them is nothing else but the Law written in their Hearts, their Thoughts accufing and excufing, as the Heathen have, the Apoftle fpeaks of, and no divine Faith of Christ at all. Mind! the Scripture faith, By Faith we know the World was made, and by Faith Abraham offered up his Son Ifaac, and Faith is the Evidence of Things not feen; and the Apoftles preached the Word of Faith, and this I say, no heavenly, fpiritual, or divine Light can be truly underftood but by Faith.

And this I fay further, that the Letter of the Scriptures were spoken by the Word of Faith, and by faithful Men; for there is no Writings under Heaven that are the Ground of Faith, nor doth give Satisfaction to the Mind of Man, as to his eternal Salvation, as the Letter of the Scripture doth, if understood and believed by Man. How could Man have known the Creation of the World, and how God appeared to Noab before and after the Flood? Or whether there were any Flood or no, but by Faith? Or how can any Man know that God appeared to Abraham, Ifaac, and Jacob, and gave them to prophefy fo many hundred Years before of God becoming Flesh, and that he fhould fave Men from Sin by his Death, even as many as should believe in his Name, with great and mighty Things that hath been done by the Power of Faith, which the

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Letter of the Scriptures doth relate, which no Man could comprehend nor know, but those that have Faith in the Letter of the Scriptures; yet Fox the Quaker he could have spoken in the Power and Spirit of the divine Light of Chrift, though the Quakers had never feen Letter of Scripture nor Man. Here the Reader may plainly fee that the Quakers Christ within them, is no other but the Law written in their Hearts, as the Heathen had as aforefaid; their Thoughts accufing and excufing, this is that Chrift within them they fo much talk of, and this is that Power and Spirit, and divine Light of Chrift, the Quakers could have fpoken in, had they never feen Letter of Scripture, nor Man; this is the fame the Heathen had in them, and this I fay had the Quakers never seen Letter of Scripture, nor Man that profeffed the Letter of the Scripture, I fay the Quakers would have talked nor fpoke no more of a Chrift within them, than curfed Cain and his Pofterity did, or the old World that was drowned, or Sodom.

These wicked People never faw no Letter of Scripture, nor Man, that had Faith, not as they knew, yet they had the fame Chrift within them as the Quakers have by the Law written in their Hearts, and might have spoken in the Power and Spirit of the divine Light of Chrift as the Quakers do, had they feen the Letter of the Scripture and Men that believes them, as the Quakers do. So that it may be clear to thofe that have the true Light of Faith, and of the Interpretation of the Letter of the Scripture, that the Quakers Principle of the Light of Chrift within them, is no other but the Light of the Law written in their Hearts, as the Heathen had before any Scriptures were written, and by this Law are they judged in themselves; and this is their Chrift within them, and this is that Power and Spirit, and divine Light of Chrift they could have fpoken in, had they never seen Letter of Scripture, nor Man that profeffeth Scripture; and that they do fpeak now they have feen Letter of Scripture, and Men that profefs it, and believe it, I fay is the very fame; for the Quakers have no more Faith in the true Chrift, than if they had never feen Letter of Scripture, nor any Man that believes them; what they have is meer traditional, even the Faith of Devils; for the Law written in their

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their Hearts is the only and alone Chrift the Quakers have to fave them; and this Chrift is indeed within them, and will never go out of them, but torment them to Eternity.

4. Fox gives Glory to his God and Chrift within him, who bath, as he faith, fet him and other Quakers above that Curfe and Sentence I have passed upon them.

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How their Confidence will fail them in the Day of Trouble.

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OUR Glory to your God and Chrift within you will fail you in the Day of Trouble, neither will, nor can deliver you from that Curfe and Sentence I have paffed upon you, and others of your Brethren; neither will you ever be fet above it, but fhall be kept under it to Eternity: Flatter yourself as much as you can, you shall not be delivered, neither by your Chrift within you, nor by the true Chrift without you; this I know.

5. Fox blames me for faying God hath made me Judge of the Quakers Spiritual Eftate, and yet, faith he, thou owneft thyself but a mortal Man; For, faith Fox, the fpiritual Man judgeth all Things.

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How Fox fhall fee no other God or Judge, but that Sentence Reeve and Muggleton bath passed upon him.

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ID you Fox ever fee any Man condemned to die, either natural Death, or eternal Death, by a fpiritual Man without a Body? Are not all Men condemned, both na tural and spiritual, by mortal Men like themselves? Was not Mofes a mortal Man? Did not he condemn and judge many to die? He faid but the Word, and it was done: And did not Eliab call for Fire from Heaven, and destroy two Captains and their Fifties? With many other ftrange Things he did, whereby many were judged by him and killed, yet he was but a mortal Man, and fubject to Infirmity, as mortal Men

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