Yet nevertheless, because you are not under the Sentence of this Commiffion already, and for the further Information of other Quakers that are not under it, and for others that shall come to hear or fee this Anfwer, I shall trouble myself so far as to give Answer both to the railing Part of your Letter, and (if your Queries be worth the answering, which is not already anfwered in fome of our Writings) I fhall fay fomething to them, for fome of thofe ScriptureTexts which you quote, is not worth the answering: And thofe that are of moft Concernment are interpreted, and unfolded very plainly, in that Treatife of the Interpretation of the 11th Chapter of the Revelation of St. John; that is to fay, Concerning the Tree of Life. The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. Of the Serpent. Of the Woman that fled into the Wilderness. What that Wilderness is. What the Time and Times, and half a Time is. What the Dragon is. What the Beast out of the Bottomlefs-Pit is. What the State of Adam was in his Creation, with the Perfón and Nature of Angels, and the Mortality of the Soul, with many other deeper Secrets, then thofe Texts of Scripture which you mention, doth or can bear; which Books that are written by us the Witneffes of the Spirit, fuch Devils as you are not worthy to look into.

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But to give Anfwer to the railing Part of your Paper, which hath very little elfe in it, and if there be any Thing in the Queries worth the anfwering, which is not answered already in fome of our Writings, I fhall do it, not rendering railing for railing, but I fhall fpeak what I certainly know concerning you two, and the Ministry of the Quakers, and all those that believe them, which continue in that Faith, after they have heard of this Commiffion of the SpiI know what I fpeak to be Truth, as with Relation to your Principles, and to your eternal Estate.

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1 Answer. The firft Part of your Paper hath little in it but railing against me only, where you fay, that I am in the bigbeft State of Inchantment, in that I have flandered the Children of the most high God.

First, I declare, as I am a Prophet and Meffenger of the true God, that the People called Quakers are not the Children. of the Moft High God, but, for the Generality of them, they are the Children of the Devil, and are the very Seed of the Devil, and were begotten by him: And I (as I am an Embaffador ordained of God by Voice of Words) can as truly fay that they are of the Seed of the Serpent, and fo the Children of the Devil, as Chrift did to the Jews, when he faid, that they were Serpents, yea Devils, and the Devil was their Father; fo can I fay by you Quakers, and many Thousands more as well as you, that you are the Children of the Devil, that were begotten by him, and not begotten by Adam, who never came through the Loins of Adam, though they came though the Womb of Eve: For this I know, that Cain was the Firftborn of the Devil, and Adam had no Part in the Begetting of him. And from this Cain came thofe Jews that Chrift called Serpents and Devils.

And the Quakers People, which you call the Children of the Moft High God, are the Children of Cain, who was that Angel or Serpent that beguiled Eve, which became Flesh, Blood and Bone, and fo begat Millions of Men and Women which are his Children, whereof most of the Quakers are: Therefore do not you fay that I flander them in saying that they are led by the Spirit of Antichrift, and that they are the worst of all in Point of Doctrine, though the best of all in Practice of Life. For what I have faid of them will prove no Slander nor ill Report, but Truth itself: Neither can any Quakers Principles comprehend me, nor the Doctrine declared by us the Witneffes of the Spirit.

And as for that high Inchantment, which you fay I am in, and those you call Fools which believe it, fhall find it the Power of God unto Salvation. But on the contrary, you that despise it, shall find it the Power of God, to your eternal' Condemnation; which many of the Speakers of the Quakers, and other Opinions, with many Hundreds of private Perfons befides, fhall not deliver themfelves trom the Sentence, which. we the Witneffes of the Spirit have declared, through a true Difcerning, which you call Enchantment: But it is the Commiffion and Power of God which fhall war with the Quakers,

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and all other Opinions in the World; because it is the two. edged Sword of the Spirit which is put into our Mouths. And this which we have faid against you Quakers, will be no Slander or Reproach, but as true as any Word that ever was fpoken by Mofes, the Prophets and Apoftles, or Christ himfelf: For we are the Witneffes of the Spirit, which is the Spirit of Truth, which hath made us Judge of the World in fpiritual Matters, concerning the eternal Eftate of Mankind: And what Person foever we determine Judgment upon, it is fo, and there is no revoking of it.

You have written that I fay, you that are called Quakers are guided and led by the Spirit of Antichrift:

This is as true a Saying as ever was spoken by Prophet or Apoftle, that the Quakers are led and guided by the Spirit of Antichrift; for they are not in Chrift, neither is Chrift in them; yet fay they, we are in the Spirit of Chrift before Antichrift was.

This Lie exceedeth other Lies, for Antichrift hath been in the World ever fince Cain was born, of whofe Seed and Nature they are; and Chrift came into the World when Abel was born, then was the Seed and Nature of Adam, which is the Spirit of Faith, which is called by the Apoftle, the Spirit of Chrift; and whoever is Partaker of the Seed Adam, may be faid to have the Spirit of Chrift in them, and their Spirits to be in him, that is, Chrift dwells in their Hearts by Faith.

But on the contrary, the Quakers being the Seed and Nature of the loft Angel, whofe Nature was before his Fall pure Reason, and Cain being the Firft-born of the Devil, the Fulness of the Angels Godhead dwelt bodily in him, and Cain having Copulation with the female Sex, Millions of Men and Women have been brought forth of his Seed, which is Reason fallen; and this Seed of Reason in Cain and his Seed, is that Spirit of Antichrift, and this began to act itself forth when Cain and Abel began for to worship God, and ever fince the Spirit of Antichrift hath remained in its Seed, which brake forth in this latter Age, in a more eminent Manner in one particular Perfon, namely, John Robins, that feemingly carried a more pure God-like Power, than any other Antichrift which went before him. And the Quakers have the very Influence of

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John Robins his fpiritual Witchcraft power upon them. And fo indeed it may be truly faid that the Quakers are led and guided by the Spirit of Antichrift, and fo their Spirit is in him, and his Spirit in them; fo that they cannot be in Chrift, nor Chrift in them; for they are not of that Seed that should have made them the Children of the most high God, though I know they cannot help it, yet it is fo decreed by the Creator, and he hath been pleafed to make it known unto me; and though you fay I bear Witnefs of myfelf, yet is my Witnefs and Judgment in thefe Things true.

Whereas you rail in that I faid the Quakers are the worst of all, and moft curfedst of all in Point of Doctrine, &c.

2. Anfwer. As to the Slander and Lies you fpeak of, I shall let them pafs, for I have fpake enough of them before; but as for that Saying of mine aforefaid, That the People called Quakers are the worst of all, and the most curfedft of all in Point of Doctrine, that is as pure a Truth as ever was spoken with Tongue, neither do you know the Doctrine of Chrift, neither can you do his Will.

How can you know the Doctrine of Chrift? When as your Christ hath never a Body, for you have got your Christ all within you, as I fhall make more appear hereafter.

And as for my wandering up and down to make Sects, it is those of the Quakers that wander up and down. As those that went to New-England, and John Parrot unto Rome, to get the Pope and his Bishops to be Difciples of Chrift, and there to be punished in his Body, and when he came Home again to be damned to Eternity by me for his Pains, because he went by the Light within him, and was not fent by Voice of God without him. Therefore eternal Damnation will be his Reward, for going without a Commiffion from God, and fo will all the Minifters of the Quakers, and all other Minifters too, for going Embaffadors for Chrift, when as he fent them not.

Though they preach from the Letter of the Scriptures, or from a Light within them, though the Devils be cast out, and much Good done thereby, yet it will be but as a Work of Iniquity, because they went before they were fent. C

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O how willingly is Reafon the Devil to be an Embaffador for Christ, when as Chrift will not accept of him, therefore Reason the Devil goes of himself, thinking to have a Reward in Heaven; for he will fay, Lord, have not we preached in thy Name, and prayed in thy Name, and caft out Devils in thy Name? And the Lord will fay, Depart from me you Workers of Iniquity.

So that what Man foever that preacheth or pretendeth to be a Minifter, an Embaffador of Chrift, without a Commiffion from him, it will be charged upon him as a Work of Iniquity.

Indeed there are too many Meffengers and Ministers of Chrift to be true, for indeed the World can hardly bear with one true Meffenger at a Time, this I can truly speak by Experience, because I am the laft Man that God will give a Commiffion unto, until Time be no more: Yet never was there any Prophet, or Apoftle, or Meffenger of Chrift, but they have travelled up and down more than ever I did, almost these eleven Years, fo that I have not travelled up and down as the Quakers have, for to get either Wife or Fools to believe me: Yet this Commiffion hath gone through more Parts of the World than any Quakers ever did; but that is a Thing I do not much

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You Quakers say that my Mouth is full of Curfing, and that I fhall reap of the fame: Likewife you fay that I am out of Chrift's and the Apostles Doctrine, that faid, Blefs and curfe not, with many other Sayings, which will be too tedious for me to write.

As for my Mouth being full of Curfing, that is my Commiffion; neither do I curfe any but Devils which are appointed for it of God, and there is never a one that I have curfed that fhall efcape that Curfe which I have denounced upon them, neither will any God deliver them from it; for I do curfe none but the Seed of the Serpent, who had his Curse denounced upon him and his Seed at the Beginning by God himself.

Now, in this laft Age, God hath given me Power, and Discerning, to determine and give Judgment upon Men and Women, according as I do difcern by their Words, and I thereby also know what Nature and Seed they are of, and accordingly