ing of them with Oil, and praying over them, and fuch like, they have cured, as they fay, Difeafes, and caft out Devils, and other wonderous Things, and which I never heard that any Quaker ever did: The greatest Things, that ever I have heard the Quakers do, is to find Fault with a Piece of Ribbon, or Gold-button, or a Bandftring, and fuch like, and to poffefs themselves with a melancholy Spirit of Witchcraft, and fo fall into witchcraft Fits, to lie humming and groaning, which doth fright the Beholders; fo instead of those merry Devils which they had upon the Ranting-fcore, where all was good, lying with their Neighbour's Wife, deflouring Virgins, couzening and cheating, and deftroying every one in their outward Eltate, which did entertain them, and now that Devil is caft out, now they are grown in as much extream on the other Side; for now they are grown fo precife and exact for Apparel and for Words, no Word must be plac'd out of Joint, so that no Man can almoft tell how to deal with them; and this melancholy Devil hath caft out the ranting Devil, which makes them fo proud and ftiff-necked, thinking themselves that they are better than other People, when as they are worse, for they are poffeft with the Spirit of Witchcraft, which makes them a twofold more the Children of the Devil than they were before, which none can discover but this Commiffion of the Spirit; neither did I ever hear by any which hath heard the Quakers fpeak, that they did ever preach any found Doctrine, but only exhort People to hearken to the Light within them, which is a very low and eafy Thing for every ordinary Understanding to comprehend; and that is the Cause there is fuch a Multitude of Men and Women fall into it, which if they were sent of God, there would but few understand their Doctrine, nor bear their Words; for no Quaker need fuffer any Thing for his Doctrine, for that is but like other Mens; nay, there is not fo much in their Doctrine, as there is in the Priests of the. Nation's Doctrine, therefore the Quakers are not fent of God, no more than the Priests of the Nation, or any other Sect is; for the Priests of the Nation, they preach from the Light of the Scriptures, and from the Power of the civil Magiftrate, and the Quakers they preach from the Letter of the Scriptures, and from the Light of Chrift within and though Devils be caft

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out by you both, and much Good be done by you both, yet neither of you are fent of God; because neither of you, nor no other, is fent by Voice of God without you; so that I have not cleared the Quakers from being the Serpent's Seed, neither have 1 confuted myself, neither will my Judgment prove falfe, concerning you Quakers, but you will find it to as much Purpose as if God had faid it himself, notwithstanding you call it falfe Judgment, Pride, and Prefumption, and Error in Judgment, and therefore undone, and holden for nothing by you Quakers, and fo forth.

Now I have given an Answer to as many Paffages in your Paper as is neceffary. I have been fomething larger than I did intend; but, because others may be benefited by it, it may be worth the Labour; for had it been no more for others Benefit than for yours, I would only have fent the Sentence unto you, and no more; but I having read and viewed your Paper over with ferious Deliberation, I find very little Matter or Substance in it, but the repeating of my Words; but for that which is your own, the most of it is in fpeaking Evil of thofe Truths, which you have read out of thofe four Sheets which was fent Samuel Hooton and W. S. and in that Letter to Edward Bourne, which is a clear Difcovery to me, that you are the Seed of the Serpent, and that you have finned the Sin against the Holy Ghoft; for that is a Thing which most Quakers do; for I find in your Paper a Multitude of blafphe' mous Speeches against this Commiffion of the Spirit, by calling of ti Errors, falfe Judgement, Delufion, Pride, and Prefumption, with many more fuch like Expreffions, almoft at the End of every Sentence, which is enough to damn a thousand Quakers, if they fhould fpeak but the fourth Part as you have done: Therefore, in Obedience unto my Commiffion, I do pronounce Richard Farnefworth, for this his curfed Blafphemy against the Holy Spirit that fent me, curfed and damned, both in Soul and Body, from the Prefence of God, elect Men and Angels, to Eternity.

For God hath made me the Judge of the Light of Chrift within you, and of that infinite Spirit, which you call God, without you; for though Chrift be the true Way, yet I am, as John the Baptift was, the Meflenger, to prepare the Way,

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and to make his Paths ftraight; and though Christ be the Truth, and the Life, yet I am the only Declarer what this Truth and Life is; and though Chrift be the Door, yet I have the Key given me to open the Door to Life eternal; and this Commiffion of the Spirit is that Key of David, which openeth, and no Man fhutteth; and though Christ be the true Shepherd, which hath laid down his Life for his Sheep, yet I must be, as Peter was, I muft feed his Sheep, and feed his Lambs, with that green Pafture, which is the Doctrine of Truth, whereby they may lie down, in perfect Reft in their Minds, and rejoice in God their Saviour; fo that they may leap for Joy, as the young Lambs do upon the green Hills: And though Chrift be the only true God, the King of Heaven, yet I am his only Ambaffador; fo that there is no coming to treat with him, but by receiving his Ambassador, this Commiffion of the Spirit being it.

Thefe Things being fo, how is it poffible that you Quakers and others, that have despised the Commiffion of the Spirit of Truth, fhould efcape the Damnation of Hell?

Written by

LODOWICK MUGGLETON,

One of the two laft Witnesses and Prophets unto the High and Mighty God, the Man Chrift Jefus in Glory.

Lodowick Muggleton's Reply to Richard Farnefworth's printed Pamphlet.

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Saw a printed Pamphlet of Richard Farnefworth, called, Truth afcended: Or, The Anointed and Sealed of God defended, as a Teftimony, as he faith, against a counterfeit Commiffion, as he calls it, meaning Lodowick Muggleton.

I had thought not to have printed no more; but feeing this Quaker hath put Something in Print against me, he thinking thereby

thereby to make me the more odious unto the World, and to lie the more open to the Magiftrate, he hath printed this Pamphlet against me; and because the Quakers fhall not boat, as if they had fet out fuch a Thing that could not be answered, I am moved in my Mind to put thofe Letters of the Quakers to me, and my Answers to them, with my Answer to this printed Pamphlet, into the publick View, that their Deceit may be the more discovered to the World, and that I am not ashamed to own thofe Letters which I fent to them, nor that Sentence and Curfe which I have pronounced upon them and others, let the Effect be what it will.

And whereas Richard Farnefworth doth fay, that he is bold in the Behalf of the Lord, once again to bear his Testimony againft, as he calls it, my pretended Commiffion, and the Doctrine thereof, I marvel what Lord it is the Quakers are bold in! A true Prophet may blow their Lord away with the Breath of his Mouth, for they have no other Lord or God, nor Christ, but what is within them; for their God nor Chrift, they so much talk of, hath never a Body nor Substance of his own, as those Letters afore-written of mine doth more fully discover, wherein the Quakers are discovered to be led and guided by the Spirit of Antichrift, which doth deny God come in the Flesh; that is to fay, that the Flesh and Bone of Jefus Chrift, which he fuffered Death in, is not now living in Heaven, diftinct of himself from Man, This I fay is the Quakers Faith, and Principle, and Antichriftian; this I know to be true, as will be read in those Letters of mine unto them: And from this Body of Jefus, which they deny, I have Power to blow Richard Farnefworth's Lord which he is bold in, away; for they own no other Lord but what is within them; fo that all Quakers in their Conceit are Gods; but I fhall fay no more of that, but fhall proceed to answer thofe Things which are of the most Concernment, and most needful in his printed Pamphlet, for the fatisfying of all People who fhall come to read or hear it, which is as followeth :

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HAT I have written in a Sheet of Paper to Edward Bourne, and also those four Sheets to Samuel Hooton and W. S. which was directed to Thomas Highfield at Nottingham, and I do own to be as true as the Prophets and Apoftles Wri

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tings, were to thofe People in their Time, neither shall they be delivered from that Sentence which I have declared or pronounced upon them: Alfo I was in fome Hopes that you would have put them Letters, with that which I fent to you, in Print; as they were written to them, and you, it would have faved me that Charge and Trouble which now I fhall be put unto; for I will, if I can, get them printed, that they may come unto publick View, with your Letters to me without any Alteration, but as you have written them to me; fo that my Prefumption, Pride, and falfe Doctrine, as you call it, and your Deceit and antichriftian Spirit, may be difcovered unto the World, that the People may be no more cheated with your hypocritical Shew of Holinefs, which never could have been discovered by any but by this Commiflion of the Spirit which God hath given to John Reeve and myself,

And whereas you R. F. doth fay, that you are bold on the Behalf of the Lord, once again to bear your Testimony against my pretended Commiffion, and the Doctrine thereof, and that you fhall make it appear that it ought not to be entertained by any Man or Woman upon Earth, because, say you, it is contrary to Truth, and that my Judgment ought by all to be reverfed, undone, and made void; because, say you, it is erroneous and false; for, fay you, that I am no chofen Witness of the Spirit of Truth; neither have I, fay you, received any Commiffion from Chrift, to whom all the Prophets gave Witnefs, as hereafter appears.

L. M. Here the Reader may fee how fimply he proves that I have no Commiffion from Chrift, and that I am no chofen Witnefs of Christ.

R. F. 1. He tells me, that there were chofen Witneffes of Christ, to whom all the Prophets gave Witness: This he proves out of the Acts of the Apostles in divers Places.

2. That they had a Commiffion from Chrift, to whom all the Prophets gave Witnefs, or that he commanded them to preach to the People. This he proves like wife out of the Acts of the Apostles.

3. They who were chofen Witneffes of Chrift, whom God the Father anointed, fealed and fent, and had a Commiffion from the Spirit and Power of Chrift, to whom all the Pro

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