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Judges are chofen by him, as it is with other Judges in the temporal, as aforefaid.

This I fhall make more appear by Scripture, as Matt. xix. 29. where Chrift faith to his twelve Apoftles, You, faith he, fball fit upon twelve Thrones, judging the twelve Tribes of Ifrael. Now let the Reader mind: These twelve Apoftles had the Keys of Heaven and Hell given them here, and they had Power to remit Sins, and to retain Men's Sins; that is, they had Power to forgive Sins, and Power to retain Sins; that is, they had Power to justify that Man or Woman that believed their Doctrine, and they had Power to condemn those that defpifed, and did not believe their Doctrine : Now these People fo juftified and condemned by these Apostles and true Preachers, they did appear before the Judgment-feat of Chrift, for they were appointed Judges in his Stead; and that the Reader may understand how these Apoftles fhould judge the twelve Tribes of Ifrael, I declare unto you thus.

That thefe Twelve hath their Commiffion from Chrift to preach the Gospel of Chrift, unto the twelve Tribes of Ifrael, though many Gentiles believed alfo, yet Paul was chiefly fent unto the Gentiles, and chosen of Chrift, to preach him unto the Gentiles; but the other twelve Apostles, their Meffage was chiefly to preach Chrift unto the twelve Tribes of Ifrael, which were the Jews in their Time, and as many of those Jews as did believe in thefe twelve Apoftles Doctrine, concerning Chrift's Death, Refurrection, and Afcenfion, and other Things belonging thereunto, which they preached, I fay, the Apostles had Power to give Sentence of Bleffedness upon those which did truly believe their Doctrine, and that their Sins were forgiven them, and fo they came to be justified in their own Confciences, juftified before God, and fo had Peace with God.

So on the contrary, thofe that did not believe the Apostles Meffage, but rather defpifed it, fpoke evil of it, and perfe cuted it, calling it Blafphemy, Herefy, Deceit, and Lies, which many of thofe Jews did, the Apoftles had Power to pronounce and condemn those unbelieving Jews, who defpifed and fpake evil of the Doctrine of Chrift: Alfo they had Power to retain their Sins, fo that God should never forgive them,

them, fo that they fhould never be forgiven in the Confcience, nor forgiven of God: So that thefe twelve Apoftles doth judge the twelve Tribes of Ifrael here in this World; fome they have judged eternally happy, because they believed their Report; others they judged eternally damned for their Unbelief and Defpifings, as aforefaid; fo that the Apoftles did judge the twelve Tribes of Ifrael in their Time, as aforefaid; and this Judgment of theirs is the Judgmentfeat of Chrift, and thefe twelve Tribes were before the Judgment-feat of Chrift fo long as the Apoftles Commiffion lafted, which was a Matter of three hundred and fifty Years after Chrift's Death: So that thefe twelve Apostles may be faid to judge the twelve Tribes of Ifrael here in this Life, by their Doctrine of Chrift.

Alfo it may be faid that the twelve Tribes of Ifrael did appear before the Judgment-feat of Chrift, for many of them were juftified by Faith in Chrift, and many were condemned by Unbelief in Chrift; fo that every one had the Sentence in themfelves by the Apoftles judging, whether happy or unhappy; and for this faithful Service the twelve Apostles have done in this Life, in judging according to their Commiffion, they fhall fit upon twelve Thrones of Glory in the Refurrection, and fhall give the fame Judgment upon the twelve Tribes there, as they did here: That is, they will juftify the fame Sentence of Salvation and Damnation upon the twelve Tribes of Ifrael, as they gave here in Mortality; they will justify the fame before Chrift their King, when they do fit upon twelve Thrones of immortal Glory; and many that believed them here, fhall fee them in that Glory; and many that were condemned here, fhall fee in their own Consciences that their Sentence was true, even as the rich Man did that was in Hell.

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A further Interpretation concerning the Judgment-feat of Chrift.

likewife Mofes and the Prophets were Judges, and did judge thofe that believed their Report to be happy; and thofe which did not, unhappy; as you may fee John v. 25. In that Chapter the Jews do upbraid Chrift, as if he did accufe the Jews worthy of Condemnation, for not believing in him; But, faith Chrift, do not you think that I will accufe you to the Father, there is one, faith he, that accufeth you, even Mofes, in whom you trust; for, faith he, bad you believed Mofes, you would have believed me, for he wrote of me. The Meaning is this, That feeing their Fathers did not believe Moses, neither obeyed they him, but murmured against him, and tempted God at the Waters of Meribah, and at several other Times, whereby their Carcafes fell in the Wilderness, by their provoking the Lord to Anger, in murmuring against Mofes and Aaron; and thefe Jews in Chrift's Time being the Children of those that tempted God, when they tempted Mofes, they being Devils that tempted Mofes, yet he being dead, thefe their Children put their Truft in his Writings, and condemns their own Fathers, faying, Had we lived and feen thofe Things, and great Wonders our Fathers faw Mofes and the Prophets did, we would never have murmured against Mofes, nor have perfecuted the Prophets, as our Fathers did: But when the greatest Wonder of all that ever God did for the Satisfaction of Man's Mind, was done upon Earth, that is, God manifeft in Flesh, the God and Saviour of the World become very Man, so that Men might talk with God in Flesh, as a Man talketh with his Friend.

Even that Prophet that should be raised up like unto Mofes, whom Mofes advifed the Generations to come to hear him, and all the Prophets foretold of him, yet when he was come, thefe Jews did not believe him no more than their Fathers did believe Mofes, but they tempted him as their Fathers tempted Mofes Neither did Chrift accufe, nor judge thefe Jews, nor their Fathers for Unbelief, but leaves them to Mofes in whom

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they trufted; fo that Mofes and the Prophets fhall be the Judges of all thofe that put their Truft in their Writings; and whoever did, or doth truly believe their Writings concerning Chrift to come, or truly believe when he was come, they are all juftified, and fhall be faved by the Writings of Mofes and the Prophets.

So on the contrary, all thofe Jews that read Mofes's Writings, and the Prophets, and profeffed Obedience unto them, yet did not truly believe them, but rather defpifed and perfecuted thofe that foretold of a Chrift the Saviour; and the Children of thofe Jews perfecuted the Saviour himself: These, I fay, are all to be accufed and judged by Mofes and the Prophets, for they made a Profeffion of their Writings, but underftood, nor believed nothing of them; fo these Jews have appeared before the Judgment-feat of Chrift, and they will have no other Accufer or Judge but Mofes, in whose Letter Men put their Truft: So that Mofes will be always fpeaking in the Confcience, as the Blood of Abel did in Cain's Confcience, Fear and Horror: And this is the Judgment-feat of Chrift, that thefe Men aforefaid fhall, and hath appeared before; for Mofes and the Prophets were Judges in Chrift's Stead.

So that all commiffionated Men, whom God hath chofen to reveal the Mysteries of the Kingdom of Heaven to Mankind, they are all Judges, and are in Chrift's Stead, and what Judgment they give in fpiritual Matters, Chrift doth own as his own Judgment; fo that whoever is judged by any of these Judges, they may be faid to be judged, whether it be the Sentence of Juftification, or Sentence of Condemnation, to Eternity; and that they received this Sentence before the Judgment-feat of Chrift.

Alfo thefe Judges fhall fit upon Thrones of immortal Glory, in the celeftial Heavens, being faithful here upon Earth, as Mofes was in his Houfe, that was in his Commiffion of the Law, and the Apoftles in the Gofpel, and we the Witneffes of the Spirit, according to the Tenor of our Commiffion, have been faithful alfo; fo that Mofes, the Prophets, and Apostles, and we the Witneffes of the Spirit, fhall fit upon Thrones of Glory as Judges in the Prefence of Chrift, our

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God, our King, and our Redeemer, in the highest Heavens. So much concerning the Judgment-feat of Chrift.

13. The fame Page Muggleton faith, Because he hath paffed Sentence upon the Quakers, they fhall never grow to have more Experience in Vifions, and Revelations, but fhall wither.

Here, faith Fox, are more of Muggleton's Lies, for, faith he, the Truth Spreads, yea, and will spread, over the whole World, more and more.

CHA P. XVI.

How the Sentence and Curfe have fubdued thofe Witchcraftfits in the Quakers.

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Do know and affirm, that thofe Speakers of the Quakers, and others whom I have paffed the Sentence of eternal Damnation upon, that they have not, nor do grow in any Experience nor Revelation, fince the Sentence of Damnation was paffed on them, as Experience doth plainly manifeft, and many will witnefs unto it. And as for Fox himself, what Experience and new Revelation of Scripture have you had fince you were damned a Matter of fourteen Years ago? Have you published any other Things but what you did at the firft? No, not fo much as you did at the firft; for then it was your Principle of Zeal to fall into Witchraft-fits, fuppofing it was the Spirit of Chrift that moved you to foam at the Mouth, and figh, and groan, and fwell with Spiritual Witchcraft, and howl and groan. as if Hell were like to burft in you; and perhaps a while after your Spirit would break forth into a many non-fenfical Words, as if the Devil had broke forth out of Hell. Was not this your Practice? And were not these the most eminent Quakers counted amongft you, who had thofe Witchcraftfits? For the Quakers Revelation doth arise in them only when the Witchcraft-fit is upon them; nay, I have known fome that have followed the Quakers, defiring to be of them, and earnestly defiring in their Meetings to have thofe Fits as other Quakers had; for they thought fuch Perfons, who had those Witchcraft-fits, to be much in the Favour of God, and that

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