was put to Death, and rifen again, and afcended up to Heaven.

Now this Jefus met Saul in the Way, as he went to perfecute the Saints, and faid, Saul, Saul, why perfecuteft thou me? Saul anfwered, Lord, who art thou? The Answer was, I am Jefus of Nazareth. Will you Fox the Quaker say that this Jefus was within Paul, when he spake these Words, or without him? Sure you will not be fo wicked to say Jefus was within Paul, whatever you think: And if you grant that Jefus was without him, then Paul received his Commiffion to preach from Jefus Chrift, the only wife God, without him: For this fame Jefus faid to Paul, Thou art a chofen Veffel, and thou shall bear, or preach, my Name before the Gentiles.

Now I afk, did Paul receive his Conimiffion to preach the Gofpel of Jefus Chrift to the Gentiles, from Jefus Chrift without him, or from Chrift within him? Again, Who was that which spake to Paul, when he said, My Grace is fufficient? Was it not Jefus Chrift? Was this Chrift within Paul then? Was he not without Paul in that fame Flesh and Bone he fuffered Death in? This Flesh and Bone was fpiritual after it rife again, but ftill it kept itself an entire Body to itself: And are you Quakers fo void of Senfe as to believe that the Body of Chrift is in you, and fo reveals Things to you? So you may fee that the Apostle Paul received his Commiffion to preach from a Chrift without him, and not from a Chrift within him: And I received my Commiffion from Chrift without me, and not from Chrift within me. And Fox the Quaker faith I have manifefted my Darkness: But this Power I have received from the Perfon of Chrift without me, will be too hard for all the Quakers Chrift within them in the World.

4. Muggleton, Thou fayeft the right Devil became Flesh, and the Soul is mortal; and thou speakest of thy Knowledge of the Lord, and the Scriptures.

Fox his Words. Where do the Scriptures fay that the right Devil became Flesh, and the Soul is mortal? For God breathed into Man the Breath of Life, through which he became a living Soul; and this Breath of Life, by which Man became a

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living Soul, is this mortal? Is this thy Knowledge? Make this good by Scripture.

Sheweth bow ignorant and dark the Quakers People are in the Knowledge of the right Devil, and of the Serpent's Seed.

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Have proved thefe two Things abundantly by Scripture in my other Writings, in The Mortality of the Soul, and The Divine Locking Glafs, and in The Interpretation of the Eleventh of the Revelation, and in The Interpretation of the whole Book of the Revelation; thefe feveral Books written by us, the Witneffes of the Spirit, hath clearly opened thofe two Points as much as any one Thing whatfoever: But I perceive this Fcx hath feen none of our Books, not as to read them, but this Book only of the Quaker's Neck broken, which makes him fo ignorant of the Scriptures, and of what we have written; also it proves my Words true, that the Quakers will not bestow a Penny in any of my Writings, but their own. But because fome may fee this Anfwer to Fox, that hath not feen the other Books afore-mentioned, I fhall prove by the Scriptures again that the right Devil became Flesh, and the Soul of Man to be mortal.

First, I fhall prove the Devil became Flesh. Let the Reader mind the Interpretation of Scripture. In the firft Epiftle of John, chap. 3. verfe 8. it is thus written, He that committeth Sin is of the Devil; for the Devil finneth from the Beginning. Mark thefe Words, The Devil finneth from the Beginning: I think there is no Man fo wickedly ignorant to lay that Adam was this Devil that finneth from the Beginning, for Adam was never called a Devil, not throughout the Scriptures; for Adam is called the Father of Chrift, and there is none will dare to fay the Devil was the Father of Christ; which I fhall open more clear hereafter: But then of Neceffity there must be fome other Devil in the Beginning, which all Men are ignorant of in these our Days, but this Commiffion of the Spirit only. Now this Devil that com

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mitteth Sin from the Beginning, muft needs be that Serpent. that was called A Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, this I declare was the Devil: Now this Devil became Flefh, and after he became Flesh, then the Devil committed Sin, and this was in the Beginning of the World; for the Faith of the Scriptures goeth no further than the Beginning of the Creation of Adam. Now mind the twelfth Verfe, that proves that Cain was the first Devil in Flesh. John exhorting the Believers that they should love one another, which Commandment was from the Beginning, not as Cain, who was of that wicked one, and flew bis Brother. Here it is clear that Cain was none of Adam's Son; for Adam was never counted a wicked one by any that writ Scripture; fo that Cain's Father was the Devil, that is, he was that Serpent-Angel that deceived Eve, and Cain was the Devil manifeft in Flesh; and that Act of Murder which Cain did when he flew his Brother Abel, is that Sin which the Devil committed from the Beginning; for what the Devil did before he became Flefh, was not counted by Mofes, the Prophets, and Apostles, to be Sin; for Sin was not imputed to fpiritual Bodies, but to natural Bodies only: For spiritual Bodies are either to receive the Fruit of Happiness, or the Punishment of what they do in the natural Body of Flesh.

Again, that I may give the Reader a further Proof of this, mind the Scripture faith there are two Seeds, the Seed of the Woman, and the Seed of the Serpent. Now God hath put Enmity between these two Seeds : Now I would fain know of Fox from whence this Seed of the Serpent came. If he fhall fay, it came from Adam, as moft Quakers do, they blafpheme against God, that made Adam in his own Image and Likeness, both Spirit and Body, only Adam was earthly, and God was heavenly; but Adam had but one Seed in his Creation, but as Men are generated they come to have two Seeds in them; fo that this Seed of the Serpent must needs be from the fallen Angel that deceived Eve, who was called A Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil; and this Seed of the Serpent that should be at Enmity with the Seed of the Woman, it is the Devil in Flesh; for God owns the Seed of the Woman to be his own Seed, fo that Cain was the Devil became Flesh, Blood, and Bone; and that Seed of Reafon in Cain being now

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become mortal, which was immortal before Eve ate of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, it comes to commit Sin from the Beginning, and to generate and bring forth Millions of Devils of his own Seed and Nature, and fo the Enmity of the two Seeds continues from Generation to Generation to the World's End.

For we read in Scripture, that Cain is the Father of all wicked Men and Women, and that wicked Men and Women are his Children, as the Reader may fee in Matthew, how the Devil tempted Chrift, that Devil that tempted Chrift was a Man, yet called a Devil, as you may fee Deuteronomy the fixth, and the fixteenth Verfe, that the Jews that tempted God are called Devils; And when Chrift answered the Devil, and said, It is written, thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God, but him only shalt thou ferve; fo that rebellious Men are called the Devil that tempt God. And where was there ever given any other Law to any other Devil but to Man, to serve the Lord his God? So that may be clear to the Seed of Faith, that Man is a Devil, and that there is no other Devil that can, or doth tempt God, but Man.

Again, it is clear, that Men are the Children of the Devil: Now they cannot be Children of the Devil, except they be of his Seed, begotten of him; and this is clear by Scripture, as may be read, John viii. Verfe 44. Chrift faith to the Jews that were Men, who faid they were Abraham's Children; and faid they were God's Children; but Chrift faith these Men were the Devil's Children: Ye are, faith he, of your Father the Devil, and the Lufts of your Father you will do; he was a Murderer from the Beginning, and abode not in the Truth, because there is no Truth in him; when he speaketh a Lie, he fpeaketh of his own; for he is a Liar, and the Father of it. Now mind, there never was no Liar, nor Murderer, but Man, and Cain being the first Murderer and Liar from the Beginning; for when Cain killed Abel, and lied unto God, and faid, Am I my Brother's Keeper? this was the first Murder and Lie the Devil Cain committed upon Earth, after the Devil became Flesh; therefore called by the Spirit of Revelation of Faith, A Murderer and a Liar from the Beginning; for then the Devil in Flesh began to murder and lie, and fo this Sin hath run in the Line of all his Pofterity,from Generation to Generation; fo that the Reader

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may see that Men are the Children of the Devil, and that the Devil their Father was a Man, even Cain. This is the true Meaning of the Scriptures, and from this Cain did George Fox come; and this Cain is his Father, this I know for a certain Truth.

And to stop the Mouth of that Objection which Quakers and all others do make, in that Adam knew his Wife Eve, and the conceived and bare Cain, and faid, I have gotten a Man from the Lord: To this I fay, fhe was with Child by the Angel before; but after Adam and she were put forth of the Garden, that was from the Prefence of God, then it is faid, Adam knew bis Wife, and he conceived and bare Cain, and fhe faid be bad received a Man from the Lord, and yet that Cain was none of Adam's Begetting: For we never read in Scripture that ever Adam begot Cain, neither is Adam called Cain's Father; but fhe was with Child by that Serpent-Angel before Adam knew her; but he was but a Cloak to cover her Sin; as many adulterous Women have been with Child by other Men, that were not their Husbands, yet their Hufbands have been a Cloak to cover their Shame, and the Child hath been counted her Hufband's, which was nothing fo. This many can experience if they would, and that many of the Quakers too, when they were Ranters, if not fince; fo that Cain was none of Adam's Begetting, though he knew his Wife Eve.

But fome may fay, Why did not Mofes tell us these Things? To that I fay, it was not made known to him, nor to no other, till now, but to the Witneffes of the Spirit only. The Condition of Eve was much like the Condition of Mary the Virgin, fhe was efpoufed to Jofeph before fhe was with Child by the Holy Ghoft; but Jofeph never knew her before, nor after she was with Child by the Holy Ghoft, till that Child Jefus was born; therefore Jefus is called Emmanuel, that is, God with us; that is, God was born of a Virgin. Alfo Mary is faid to conceive with Child by the Holy Ghoft, yet if Jofeph had known Mary his efpoufed Wife, in the Interim of her Conception by the Holy Ghoft, it is like that Mary would have faid that she had received her Child Jefus from Jofeph her Husband, for fhe could not tell which got it, if fuch a Thing fhould have been: But it was otherwife ordered with