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continued many of them in their Practice of Luft, till many of them were weary of it, as Solomon was when he was old, and then they left off that Practice, and turned Quakers, and fo fell to be the greatest Idolaters of any, as Solomon did to his heathenifh Wives, drew his Heart away from the Worship of Mofes, to worship Idols.

So is it with thofe Ranters that are turned Quakers, they are become abfolute heathen Idolaters; for when they were Puritans, fo called, they were zealous for the Letter of the Scriptures, and did practice a good Life as near as they could to the Letter; but after they fell to the Practice of Luft, being encouraged by Solomon's Writings, they left that legal Worship and civil Practice the Law tied them unto, and followed Solomon's Practice of Luft.

And now they being turned Quakers, are fallen to heathen Idolatry; that is to fay, the Quakers they worship an unknown God, a Spirit without a Body; they adore a Chrift within them, and never minds a Body of Chrift without them at a Distance; they believe their own Spirits to be immortal, and cannot die; they believe their Spirits go to God, or into God, again, according to Solomon's Words; they believe God's Spirit being an infinite Being without a Body, and that this infinite bodilefs Spirit taketh all Things into itfelf, and fo their Spirits being immortal, they go into God when they die; they will not acknowledge that Life or Soul doth die, but departs out of the Body, they know not where, notwithstanding the Scriptures are fo full to prove the Soul that fins fhall die, and Experience fhews it doth die.

So that the Quakers are become the greatest spiritual Idolaters of any, and the greatest Fighters against a perfonal God of any; for as Solomon did fall to worship the heathen Womens vifible Images, or Idols, fo do the Quakers worship invisible Idols, as a Spirit without a Body; and that their own Spirits may fubfift without (Bodies, and that Spirits may be capable of Happiness or Mifery without Bodies, this is the heathen Philofophers Opinion, they brought into the World that Principle of the Immortality of the Soul, and that Spirits might go to Happiness or Mifery without Bodies.

And the Quakers hath got the heathen Principle to a Hair,

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therefore become Heathen Idolaters, as Solomon was; for the Scriptures declares another Thing. Where doth the Scriptures fay that God is an infinite Spirit without a Body? The Scripture faith, God is infinite, and fo he is; alfo the Scripture faith, God is a Spirit, and will be worshipped in Spirit and Truth: But it is not faid, God is a Spirit without a Body; for this I fay, that if a Man may worship God in Spirit and Truth in this natural Body, as the Difciples of Chrift did in their natural Bodies, and as I myself do in my natural Body, then of Neceffity it will follow that God hath a spiritual Body, whereby I may worship him; elfe I fhall worship I know not what, as you Quakers do.

And because God's Body is a spiritual Body, therefore Christ faid, when on Earth, God is a Spirit, and will be worShipped in Spirit and Truth; he knowing that Body of his, that was then a pure natural Body, fhould, by his Death and rifing again, be made a fpiritual Body, and then all true Believers fhould worship him in Spirit and Truth, here in this natural Body And fo true Believers have worshipped Chrift, the only God, in Spirit and Truth in the Apostles Commiffion, and fo do we now worship God in Spirit and Truth; for there can be no worshipping God in Spirit and Truth, without a true Preacher fent of God, as the Apostles, John Reeve, and myself were. And in this Senfe, God may be faid to be a Spirit, because he is a fpiritual Body, and not a bodiless Spirit, as you Quakers do vainly imagine; elfe why may not God be worshipped in Spirit and Truth without a Body, as well as God to be a Spirit without a Body? You Quakers do not do well, in that you do not turn your Souls out of your Bodies, they being, as you conceive, immortal. Methinks you might fometimes let your immortal Souls flip out of your Bodies, and go into that infinite Spirit without a Body, and worship in Spirit and Truth, and then come into those Bodies again; for I fee you have, by your own Words, got into Christ's Perfon, and you have got into Solomon's Spirit; and why can you not get your immortal Souls into God's infinite Spirit without a Body?

By this the Reader may fee, that the Quakers Principle is built upon the Heathen Philofophers, and not upon the Faith

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of the Prophets and Apoftles, who writ the Scriptures; for the Heathen Men were the arft Broachers of the Immortality of the Soul, and of God being an infinite Spirit without a Body, and fo the greatest Idolaters; for thofe that writ the Scriptures never intended any fuch Thing, but altogether the contrary; but the Quakers do cleave to the Heathen Principle, as, God being a Spirit without a Body, and the Immortality of the Soul; and so they become with the Heathen, the greateft fpiritual Idolaters of any People under the Sun; for I am quite out of Solomon's Spirit indeed, and am glad I never was in it.

21. Page 27. Muggleton, thou condemneft our Chrift and Light; and Muggleton faith, the Quakers think to have eternal Life in the Scriptures.

But, faith Fox, our eternal Life is in Chrift, before Scriptures were. And Fox faith, Page 29. Thou exaltest thyself above Chrift; for he is a Man; and faith, The Man Chrift Jefus will bruife me to Pieces, which is manifeft in his People, meaning the Quakers.

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A great Stir the Prophet Muggleton bath, to keep the Quakers Spirits out of Chrift.

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'Anf. S for my Words, they are more largely opened in The Quakers Neck broken. Alfo this Saying of Fox, That the Quakers had eternal Life in Chrift, before Scriptures were. To this I fay, How comes it to pafs that Chrift hath turned George Fox Quaker, and many more of them out of him, now the World is? Nay, Chrift hath turned them over, to be judged and condemned by me to eternal Damnation. Certainly if Fox had eternal Life in Christ, before Scriptures were, Chrift would have revealed it unto me, now the Scriptures are in the World; for the Scriptures are given into my Hands; and I find by the Scriptures, that George Fox, and many other Quakers, were never in Chrift at all, neither before Scriptures were, nor now the Scriptures are in Being.

But I find in the Book of the Scriptures, that George Fox,

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and other Quakers, were in the Serpent that beguiled Eve, and had eternal Death in their Seed, before Scripture were; but it was not vifibly known till now; for this I certainly know, that you, Fox, and many more of you, came out of the Serpent's Loins, which was Cain's Father, and you being the Children of Cain, may be faid to be in the Serpent-devil before the Scriptures were: And as fure as Cain, the Father of all the Damned, fhall die an eternal Death, so I am certain that you, George Fox, with many other of your Quakers People, hall be eternally damned. Deliver yourselves from it if you can.

2. Fox faith, Pag. 29. That thou exalteft thyself above Chrift, for he is a Man: And faith, the Man Chrift Jefus will bruife me to Pieces, which is manifeft in his People, meaning the Quakers.

I cannot get Fox the Quaker and the Man 'Chrift Jefus to part; for wherefoever Fox doth own Chrift Jefus to be a Man, then prefently this Manhood of Chrift gets into the Quakers Bodies, and fo Chrift is manifeft in them. Now I would very fain have Chrift's Manhood by itself, and the Quakers by themselves; but Fox will by no Means part with Chrift, that he might be spoken with alone; but Chrift being fo much manifeft in the Quakers Bodies, fo that no Quaker can find any Chrift to be a Man, but what is manifeft in their Bodies.

And this Chrift, that is manifeft in them, I fuppofe is he that will bruife me in Pieces; but that Man Chrift Jefus that I believe in, hath given me Power 'to condemn and judge that Man Chrift Jefus that is manifeft in the Quakers People; for I know that Chrift Jefus, that is manifeft in them, is nothing elfe but the Seed of Reafon the Devil, that is manifeft in 'them; for I know they have no Faith in the true Chrift, but the Motions of Reafon working in their Minds, taking Occafion by the Law written in their Hearts, it doth cleanse them from the outward Pollutions of the World, and from the Breach of fome outward Laws; and this is that Chrift they 'fo much talk of within them, and this is that Man Chrift Jefus manifeft within them. This is a true Defcription of the Quakers Chrift manifeft within them.

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HESE are the moft confiderable Things for the Reader to take Notice of in George Fox his Book, fo that the Reader may mind the Anfwer and the Interpretation I have given to thofe Scriptures which Fox the Quaker brings against me; but he leaves the Words of the Scriptures more dark to the Reader than they were in themselves, but I have given the Interpretation of thofe Scripture Words which Fox could not do, and what I have written in this Treatife is for the moft Part left out in The Neck of the Quakers broken, because in that Book, all these Things in which Fox doth rail and revile at me in, as he calls it, An Anfwer to the Neck of the Quakers broken; but that Book of mine doth explain the Quakers Principle more plain and clear than this Treatife doth; for he that would have read that Book and Fox his Answer to it, would have seen all thofe Things which Fox doth alledge against me, more fully answered than he or any other Quaker could have queftioned; fo that had it not been for the Sake of others, and for the Ages to come, there need not have been any further Discoveries of the Antichriftian Spirit of the Quakers concerning their Chrift within them, but that Book: As alfo, there is some Things in this Treatife for the Information of the Reader, which was never printed before.

There is many other Sayings in Fox his Pamphlet which doth rail and revile, both against my Commiffion of the Spirit, and that Sentence I have paffed upon many of the Quakers People: As firft, Fox faith, He believes that my Sentence will return back upon myself, as in Pag. 6. 2. Fox faith, That thofe I have cursed are clear over my Spirit, as in Pag. 12. 3. Fox faith, Had the Quakers never feen Letter of Scripture, or any Man, yet, faith he, the Quakers could have spoken in the Power, and Spirit, and in the divine Light of Christ, had he never seen Letter of Scripture, nor Man, as in Pag. 18. 4. Fox gives Glory to his God and Chrift within him, who hath, as he faith, fet him and other

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