Bone of their Bodies, they count Chrift's Body; and fo when their Souls flip out of their Bodies, and goes into God, as they imagine, their Bodies goes to the Earth; and fo Christ's Body goes to the Earth, and his Spirit that is in them goes into God's vaft Spirit, that taketh all Things into itself; and according to 'Squire Pennington's Saying unto John Reeve, but it was when he was upon the ranting Principle; but fince that he is turned Quaker; for the Quakers Principle is but the Ranters refined into a more civil Kind of Life.

For the Ranters were fo grofly rude in their Lives, that spoiled their high Language, and made People weary of them; but the Quakers that were upon the Rant are the best able to maintain the Quakers Principle of Christ within them, than any other Quakers that were not upon the Rant; as William Smyth, and 'Squire Pennington, and others as I know. So that People may plainly fee, that the Quakers are led and guided by the Spirit of Antichrift, that will not allow Chrift's Body of Flesh and Bone to be distinct from his Saints, but would have the Quakers Bodies to be Chrift's Flesh and Bone. This is that Spirit of Antichrift that denied Christ come in the Flesh, as John in his Epiftle faith; for whoever denies Christ come in the Flefh, and that Flefh he is come in to be diftinct of itself from all other Flesh, and from all other Creatures both in Heaven and in Earth, I fay is the Spiris of Antichrift, which I am fure the Quakers are, and do more than the Pope; fo that the Spirit of Antichrift reigns in the Quakers People more than in the Pope and his People; the Pope indeed is more fuperftitious than the Quakers, but the Quakers are far more antichristian than the Pope, in their Doctrine.

16. Page 15. Muggleton faith, this Body of Chrift is the only God.

This Fox calls Darkness, and faith, God is a Spirit, and God is in Chrift, who prepared Chrift a Body: There cannot be, faith he, Chrift without God; and, faith Fox, the Quakers do know Christ in the Flesh, and faith, he feels me.

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HAT is as true a Saying of mine, as ever was fpoken with Tongue, that the Body of Chrift is the only God, and they are Reprobates who dares deny it; yet this Devil, Fox the Quaker, calls it Darkness, and faith, God is a Spirit, and God is in Chrift. What Ignorance of God doth this Fox manifeft; if God be in Chrift, and that Body of Christ was God's Body, which was prepared for the Spirit of God to be in, then must Christ's Body needs be the only God.

For if God was in Chrift, and Fox faith there cannot be Chrift without God, then that Body of Chrift had the Spirit of God in that Body; then I fay Chrift's Body muft needs be the only God; for God and Christ, faith Fox, cannot be one without the other; then I fay, where Chrift's Body is, there is God's Body.

For if the Spirit of Chrift, and the Spirit of God be all one Spirit, as I think no Men dares deny, then I fay, if the Spirit of Chrift and the Spirit of God be all one Spirit, then I fay one Body was prepared for this one Spirit, even the Body of Chrift his own Flesh and Bone; fo that this Body of Chrift and the Spirit of God is in that Body; fo that Body of Christ being God and Man, that Body may be called, and is the only God; and whoever prayeth to any other God, he prayeth to a God of his own Imagination, as all you Quakers do; yet Fox calls this Darknefs, to fay Chrift's Perfon, Body, and Spirit is the only God; yet he faith God and Chrift cannot be one without the other; but he will not acknowledge Chrift's Body of Flesh and Bone to be fo honoured, as to be called the Body of the only God. How confufed is this Fox in Distinction concerning God and Chrift, they must be both one, and they muft not be both one; one of them must have a Body prepared, but the other muft be a Spirit without a Body; this is the Quakers confufed Nonfenfe.

But I know Fox his Juggle; he means, as I faid before, that the Quakers Bodies are Chrift's Body and fo Chrift's Spirit

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and God's Spirit being all one, the Spirit of Chrift is in the Quakers Bodies, whom he calls Saints, and the Saints Bodies are called by the Quakers the Body of Chrift, that is prepared for the Spirit of Chrift and God, which is all one, to be in.

And this is the Chrift the Quakers own to have within them, this is the Quakers Mystery of Iniquity to fhuffle off the Belief of the Body of Chrift without them, diftinct from them, even at fuch a Dittance as Heaven and Earth, for his Body of Flesh and Bone is in Heaven above the Stars, but the Quakers Bodies are here on Earth, and must rot in the Earth; but Chrift's Body doth live for ever and ever: So that the Quakers Bodies are neither Members of Chrift's Body, nor the Body itself, which is prepared for the Spirit of Chrift, the Spirit of the only wife God, to dwell in; for in Christ's own Body of Flesh and Bone did the Fulness of the Godhead dwell bodily in him, that is, all the Fulness and fpiritual Substance, and Effence, and Being of the Godhead Spirit, dwelt in Chrift's Body of Flesh and Bone, when he was upon Earth, and in no Man's Body else; and this Body, who had the Fulnefs of the Godhead in it, I call the Godhead Spirit, and that Body together the only God; and this Body and Spirit of Chrift is both diftnct from the Quakers Bodies, and all Mens Bodies elfe.

So that the Quakers Chrift within them is a meer imaginary Chrift, which the Spirit of Reafon the Devil, the Antichristian Spirit, hath produced in them, and not the true Chrift; fo that the Quakers knoweth no other Chrift in the Flesh but that Chrift within them, and their Bodies is this imaginary Christ's Body; this is the Quakers Chrift Spirit and Body they fo much talk of; this I know to be true; for, as I said before, and in the Neck of the Quakers broken, that is, if the Quakers should own that Body of Chrift, Flesh and Bone without them, at fuch a Distance as above the Stars, to be the only God; then I fay the Quakers Principle of Chrift within them would vanish like Smoak.

And for this Caufe have I paffed the Sentence of eternal Damnation upon fo many Quakers, for denying that Flesh and Bone of Chrift without them to be the only God; for the Quakers are the greatest Fighters against a perfonal God

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Here Fox faith he feels me: That faying of Fox is true, I know you do feel me, and you fhall feel me to Eternity, and fo fhall more of you Quakers feel that Sentence of eternal Damnation that I have paffed upon you; fo that your Chrift within you cannot, nor God without you will not, deliver you from that Sentence and Curfe I have paffed upon you; it will and fhall be written and ingraven upon, and in your Hearts of Stone, even as the Law that Mofes gave was written in Tables of Stone to fignify the Law written in the Seed and Nature of Reafon in the Reprobate Angel before his Fall, from whom all Men received that Seed of Reason, and so the Law written in it.

So that as you feel the Motions of that Law written in your Hearts, your Thoughts accufing and excufing, fhewing the Law written in your Hearts, fo fhall that Sentence I have paffed upon you be printed in your Memory, always judging and accufing of you for your Blafphemy againft the Holy Ghoft, and defpifing the Meffengers of the Holy Spirit, and you fhall remember you were told fo by a true Prophet.

So that you fhall feel me indeed to your endless Mifery; and if you do not find this to be true as I have faid, then let the fame Evil I have judged upon you, let it be upon me; or if God will not own what I have faid unto you defpifing Quakers, or if I judge thus without a Commiffion and Authority from the true God, let God judge me with the fame Judgment I have judged you and others with: This is as much as can be faid by Man.

17. Page 19. Muggleton faith, the Devil fo much spoken of in Scripture, is nothing but the Spirit of Reason in Man that killed the Righteous; allo it was the Spirit of Reason the Devil that killed the Juft.

Here Fox blames my Judgment, and pleads for Reafon, as if all reafonable Men had Faith from thofe Words of Paul, who defired to be delivered from unreasonable Men; For, faith Paul, all Men have not Faith; fo that Fox looks upon the Devil to be nothing else but Unreasonableness.

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That which killed the Righteous and Juft, it was the Spirit of Reason, the Devil in Man, that always did it.

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Ans. ERE Fox fhews his Ignorance and Darkness both of the Devil, and of the Meaning of the Scriptures, and of the Apoftle's Words; the Want of Diftinction, and the Want of the Gift of Interpretation, is the Caufe the Quakers are fo ignorant of every true Principle of Faith. For the Speakers are the worst of all Men in that, for they never give Meanings of Scripture, nor interprets any.

Look into all the Quakers Writings, and they give no Meanings, nor Interpretations of any; for no Interpretation can be given but there must be a Meaning, as there was by Philip to the Eunuch; but the Quaker names the Scripture Words that are for his Purpose, and though there be three Places against that he names to prove to the contrary, the Quaker will give no Meanings nor Diftinctions, but say, it is the Flesh that afks Questions; and this is the Cause the Quakers are so unable to difpute, or to answer Queftions, or interpret Scripture; indeed I cannot fee how they fhould, their Foundation is fo fandy, one Puff of Wind from a true Meffenger or Minifter of Chrift will blow down all the Quakers Building; for they have none of the true Corner-ftone to build upon, nor that Rock which is Chrift without them, but a fandy Foundation of a Christ within them.

Yet because I would not have the Reader unfatisfied that the Spirit of Reafon in Man is the Devil, and that it was the Spirit of Reason in Man that always killed the Righteous, and the Spirit of Reafon that killed the Juft, I fhall prove it by Scripture, and fhall explain thofe Words of Paul, who defired to be delivered from unreasonable Men, for all Men have not Faith.

I know it is a vain Thing to interpret Scriptures to Quakers, or to give Meanings of Prophets, or Apoftles to Quakers ; but for the Sake of others that hall read this Epiftle, I fhall open this

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