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become difeafed with her Difeafe, even with the Pox; fo that these are become double Flesh of one another's Flesh, by that Union they had with each other. Tacfe Things I have

known by Rauters and others.

Now mind the Distinction: A Child that a Man begets of his Wife is more Flesh of his Flesh, and Bone of his Bone, than his Wife is: Why? Because the Child is indeed Flesh of his Flesh, and Bone of his Bone; because Children came out of the Man's Loins, as the twelve Patriarchs came forth of Jacob's Loins: Now these were really Flesh of his Flesh, and Bone of his Bone, naturally fo, and not by Union; as a Man and his Wife, that were two, are by Union made one Flesh.

So likewife the Scriptures fpeaks of two Sorts of Bodies as that in 1 Cor. xv. 44. There is a natural Body, and a Spinitual Body, a celeftial Body, and a terreftrial Body: Now thefe Bodies cannot go one into another, but mortal Bodies may be made spiritual Bodies, and fpiritual Bodies may be made mortal Bodies, by the Power of the Creator, as it were by the Serpent-Angel; he was a fpiritual Body, when he deceived Eve; but when he was made mortal, he was called curfed Cain: So the Lord from Heaven was a spiritual Body before he over-fhadowed the Virgin Mary; but afterwards this fpiritual Body was a pure mortal Body, and that mortal Body was called a bleffed Jefus. This is the great Myftery to the World, and this Jefus is that God that prepared a pure mortal Body for himself, that he might be capable to be put to Death in this Body, to redeem the loft Seed of Adam; and this is that Body, I fay, is not in the Quakers, neither are the Quakers of Chrift's Body by Union, nor Flesh of his Flesh, nor Bone of his Bone, not by Union; and those Believers were, the Apostle writ unto; for the Apoftle was chofen of Chrift without him, and had a Commiffion to preach Chrift to others; and those that did believe his Commiffion were one in Faith with him; and fo they, by Faith, might know that Christ was in them, except they were Reprobates, that is, except they were unbelieving; for if they had Faith in the true Chrift, which he had taught them, then Chrift did dwell in their Hearts by Faith, and they should know, by Faith in themselves,

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themselves, that they were not Reprobates; and by the Union they should have with Chrift by Faith, they fhould become Members of Chrift; yea, they fhould be counted Flesh of his Flesh, and Bone of his Bone. This is the true Meaning of the Scriptures.

But the Speakers of the Quakers have no Commiffion from Chrift to preach, as the Apoftles had, neither have the Believers of the Quakers any true Faith in Chrift's Perfon, or Body, without them; and fo the Speakers and Hearers are both in the State of Reprobation, neither doth Chrift dwell in their Hearts by Faith; for true Faith they have none, but the Faith of Devils: And that which they call the Light of Chrift in them, is nothing else but the Light of the Law written. in their Hearts, for true Faith in Chrift's Perfon they have none; fo they call the Light of the Law in them, the Light of Chrift, because the Law convinces them of Sin.

Now this Law written in the Quakers Hearts, is the Light of Chrift's Creation, and this Light of the Law. that Chrift hath written in the Heart of Man, it is written in the Heart of every Devil, and fo in the Heart of the Speakers of the Quakers, and they teach their Difciples to hearken to the Light within them, and faith Chrift is in them. But this is no faving Light, neither is Chrift within them, neither are the Quakers Members of Chrift's Body, nor Bone of his Bone, nor Flesh of his Flefh; for they have no Faith in his Perfon without them; fo that Fox his Cheat and Deceit is made manifeft by the Scriptures being interpreted.

11. Page 11. Fox is very angry with me for faying, Reafon is the Devil And yet, faith he, thou givet a Reason for what thou doeft: And becaufe I give a Reafon of my Doings, therefore, faith he, I am judged out of my own Mouth, to be the Devil Reafon.

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How Fox is proved a Devil, because he cannot give a Reafon that he is no Reprobate.

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ERE Fox the Quaker hath fhewed himself an ignorant Devil, that cannot give a Reason of the Hope that is in him; but for Fear he fhould be counted a Devil, takes up other Men's Words, and the Scriptures must give a Reason for Fox, how that he is no Reprobate, be cause the Scriptures faith to Believers in that Time, Know ye not that Chrift is in you, except ye be Reprobates? And be ready to render a Reafon of the Hope within you: But Fox himfelf hath no Knowledge but that he is a Reprobate; but I perfectly know that Fox is a Reprobate, and I can give a Reafon why he should, and will be damned to Eternity, though Fox can give no Reafon for it. What would Fox have done if he had not had other Men's Words to prove Chrift within, and to give a Reason of the Hope they had in Chrift; for Fox hath no Intereft in the Scriptures. But I fhall open this Point fomething more hereafter, where he fpeaketh of Reason, in the 19th Page of his Pamphlet.

12. Page 11. And Muggleton faith, he rejoiceth in bis Curfings, and them that he doth curfe and fentence, fball never fee any other God, or Judge.

But, faith Fox, bow now Muggleton, art thou become God, and Judge? Muft not all appear before the Judgment-feat of Chrift, to have their Sentence and Reward from him, whether they have done Good or Evil?

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CHAP. XIV.

An Explanation bow George Fox and other Quakers may be Jaid to appear before the Judgement-feat of Chrift.

Anf. Do you Fox, and the Speakers of the Quakers, in

deed believe that you fhall appear before the Judgment-feat of Chrift, to receive the Reward of Deeds done in your Bodies, whether good or evil? If you do, I fhali fay this unto you, that when you do appear before the Judgmentfeat of Chrift, John Reeve and myself shall be there alio, and look what Sentence and Judgment we have given upon you and others here upon Earth, the fame Sentence will Chrift give when you appear before his Judgment-feat; and look what Blafphemy against the Holy Spirit you have committed in this natural Body you now have, you fhall have the Punishment of that Blafphemy against the Holy Ghost that fent us, punished in that fpiritual dark Body you shall have, when Christ doth raise you again; and then you shall know that you did appear before the Judgment-feat of Chrift, when you appeared to refift the Holy Ghoft in us the Witneffes of the Spirit, and look what Judgment and Sentence we the Witneffes of the Spirit have given you here in this World, the fame Judgment and Sentence fhall be upon you in the World to come, even to Eternity. And when you Fox appeared before us, to refift the Holy Ghoft in us, then did you appear before the Judgment-feat of Chrift; and look what Judgment I have given you and others, it may be faid to be the Judgment and Sentence of Chrift, and that you appear before the Judgment-feat of Chrift.

As it is in all Courts of natural Juftice, when Men are condemned by the Judge for the Breach of the Law, doth not fuch an one appear before the Judgment-feat of the King? What are all Courts of Juftice, but the Judgment-feat of the King? And whofoever is juftified or condemned by the Judges of thefe Courts, they may be faid to be justified, or acquitted; or judged, or condemned before the Judgment-feat of the King.

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In like Manner it is with the Judgment-feat of Chrift, Christ is the chef Judge and King of Heaven and Earth, yet he hath given Power to his Prophets, Apoftles, and Witneffes of the Spirit, to be Embaffadors and Judges in his Stead, as it is with earthly Kings; fo that who ever appears before the true Embaffadors of Chrift, they do appear before the Judgment-feat of Chrift; and look what Judgment the Embaffadors, who are Judges, do give upon a Man; if juftified, then Chrift juftifies; if condemned, then condemned, and there is no appealing to any other; fo that you Fox, you have appeared before the Judgment-feat of Chrift already, and have received your Judgment and Sentence already, but the Execution of it is not yet come; and when you appear before the Judgment feat of Chrift as you mean, and I shall be there alfo, and look what Sentence I have paffed upon you and others here, the fame fhall I pafs upon you. When Christ, which is my life, doth appear, then shall I appear with him in Glory, and fhall fit upon a Throne of Glory, and shall judge you wicked Defpifers of a perfonal God, with the fame Sentence of eternal Damnation, as I did when I was here in Mortality; and then fhall you Fox know, to your endless Mifery, that God gave Power to a mortal Man like yourfelf, to give Judgment and Sentence of eternal Damnation upon you, though you defpife and fcorn that a mortal Man fhould give Sentence upon you Speakers of the Quakers and others; but you fhall find the Sentence of a mortal Man as really true upon you, as if the immortal God himself had paffed it upon you. But the Reader may find this more largely opened in The Quakers Neck broken.

But to make it appear more plain to the Reader, that the Judgment-feat of Chrift is in this World, as well as hereafter, and that all Prophets, Apoftles, and true Meffengers and Minifters of Chrift, if they be chofen by him, they are Judges, and those that do appear before them, or any of them, they may be faid to appear before the Judgment feat of Chrift, and look what Judgment Chrift's Judges, which he hath chofen, and given them a Commiffion, doth give Sentence either of Juftification or Condemnation, they received this Sentence before the Judgment-feat of Chrift, because these

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