Customers to the Bookfellers: I fuppofe Jacob Bebmont's Books were the chief Books that the Quakers bought, for there is the Principle or Foundation of their Religion; for they cannot go beyond that, but there they build, this I know by William Smith's Letters to me: And you George Fox are far below William Smith in the Knowledge of Jacob Bebmont's Writings; and as for what Books elfe that you Quakers have bestowed Money upon fince you were Quakers, I think the Stationers will neither juftify, neither can you fhew none of any Value: But it is not much Matter whether you did or did not, I am fure that Saying of mine is true, that you will not bestow a Penny upon my Writings, though they coft much Pains the writing, and much Charge the printing: This you Fox doth not deny, fo that Part of my Words are true by your own Acknowledgment; fo that it is but half a Lie that you charge me with, in Cafe the Words be taken in your Senfe, yet you charge this Half Lie to be feven Lies. So much for that. 2. L. Muggleton faith, It is a vain Thing to talk of any heavenly Secrets to Quakers, for they will not bestow a Penny of them. George Fox calls this a Lie alfo, and faith, heavenly Secrets are esteemed of by them, fcornfully called Quakers, and faith that Muggleton's heavenly Secrets are Money worth, and may be bought with a Price, and complains against me, because fome of the Believers of this Commiffion would not lend George Fox a Book of ten Shillings Price, to perufe, to rail against, and faith the Quakers, as I call them, are free with their Books to give them to any one to read: But faith, It is a bard Thing to get any of my Books; and faith, that I would not let them be brought forth unto Light, left my Deeds, Curfes, and Lies, as he calls them, fhould be made manifeft; for the Quakers, faith he, in the divine Light, Power and Spirit of Christ Jefus, do comprehend thy Spirit and Scoffs, at the divine Light of Christ Jefus within. С НА Р. CHA P. III. How the Quaker People are altogether ignorant of heavenly THIS I do know, it is a vain Thing to talk of any heato the venly Secrets to Quakers, neither do the Quakers efteem of heavenly Secrets at all, but doth altogether defpife and hate them; for what need the Quakers and I conteft fo one against the other? Or why fhould I have curfed fo many Quakers as I have? If the Quakers had esteemed heavenly Secrets, then should we the Witneffes of the Spirit never have been fo contrary to them, as now we are; for the Quakers have defpifed heavenly Secrets more than any other Sect whatfoever. Is not this a heavenly Secret, to declare what the true God is in his Form and Nature: Alfo this is a heavenly Secret, to fhew what the right Devil is in his Form and Nature. It is a heavenly Secret to know the Place of Hell, and the Manner of Torment, It is a heavenly Secret to know the Residence of Heaven, and Affurance to poffefs the Joys thereof to Eternity. It is a heavenly Secret to know really that the Soul or Life of Chrift did die, and that a Man's own Soul or Spirit muft, and doth die. It is also a heavenly Secret to know the Perfons and Nature of Angels. These all are great heavenly Secrets, with many more heavenly Secrets declared in our Writings, which dependeth upon thefe aforefaid; but the Quakers defpifeth every one of these heavenly Secrets; fo that you Quakers cannot efteem of any heavenly Secrets; fo that I know it is a vain Thing to talk of heavenly Secrets to Quakers. For I will appeal to the greatest Enemies I have of another Opinion, that differs from the Quakers, that if all their Writings which they have all writ ever fince they were Quakers, if they were brought together, there is not one heavenly Secret in them all; nay, if it were poffible, that all the Quakers Speakings were bound in a Bundle together, I know there would not be one heavenly Secret, or true Principle, to be found amongst them all: They are worfe as to that than Sodom was, for there was one righteous Perfon found in those B 2 two two Cities, and but one, even righteous Lot; but let our Writings and Speakings be put in a Balance, and yours in another, and let mine Enemies judge, though I know People will be more angry at my heavenly Secrets I have written, than they will of thofe heavenly Secrets you Quakers esteem of; for those heavenly Secrets the Quakers do efteem of, they are fo groundless, that a Man can difcern no Heavenliness in them at all. And as for thofe Books my Difciples, as you call. them, would not lend you, I will give the Fox a Reason for it. The Reafon is, I did defire thofe that had those Books, who believed the Matter contained in them, I would not have them lend them to Quakers; for one Thomas Barnet, formerly a' Quaker, but afterwards believed thefe Writtings, and he bought one bound together, and he out of Love to Thomas Taylor, Quaker, this faid Thomas Barnet did lend him his Book, thinking he might receive it as he did; but this Thomas Taylor despised it, and not only fo, but did abuse the Book very bafely by writing upon the Margent, which Thing procured Thomas Taylor's Curfe; fo others of our Friends have lent Books to Priefts, and they have abufed them in like Manner; fo that I was not willing that Friends fhould lend Books to Quakers or others, only the Quaker's Neck broken, I was always free thy fhould be lent to Quakers or others: But it was a Book all bound together, where the heavenly Secrets are declared, that you fent your Friend to borrow, and because the Believers would not lend them, you upbraid me, as if I were unwilling my Curfes and Lies, as you call them, should be brought to Light. But if you Quakers would have made my Curfes and Lies, as you call them, manifeft, and that you Quakers could comprehend me, you should have bought one of them, and have made it your Church Bible, and taken your Text out of it every Time you meet; your Hearers would have edified more by your reading a Chapter in that when you meet together, than by all the Speakings that ever they heard in their Lives; it would have coft you but ten Shillings; you might have had it out of the Church-Stock, and have let it to have been publick to all Quakers and others to fee, and fo you might have made me manifeft indeed; but if you should do fo, what would become of you Speakers of the Quakers? Then Then your Light within, and your Chrift within you, would come to nothing, and fo you would cheat the People no longer with your Ninny nonies and fenfeless Words, to stand prattling every Week, of Words over and over forty Times together, The Word of the Lord, and Hearken to the Light within you, or the Light within you. Cannot you, when the People meet, speak thefe Words forty Times over, and fo difmifs them; then they would understand what you mean; but you deliver a great Deal of Non-fense over and over again; fo when the People are difmifs'd, they go away with their Hearts full of Non fenfe, and by the next Week they will be emptied again; and these are the heavenly Secrets the Quakers feed the People with. 3. Muggleton, Thou fayest thou hast a Commiffion from without thee to preach. Here Fox hath belied my Words, and left out fome Part; for these are my Words; I do fay that I have a Commiffion from God without me to preach: This I own to be true. Here Fox faith, I have manifested Darkness: And, faith he, is there any Commiffion from God, but the Understanding of it is given to Man by the divine Light within? CHA P. IV. A Difcovery of the Quakers Blindness, which cannot difcern whether a Man that preaches the Gospel ought to have his Commiffion from Chrift without him, or from a Chrift within him. TH HIS Fox calls every Thing Darkness, though it be as clear a Light as the Sun at Noon-day; for whoever fhall read the following Words in that Book, may clearly fee that the Light of Chrift within a Man is not a fufficient Commiffion to authorize a Man to be a Preacher of the Gospel, though a Man may have Understanding in him to do it, yet for Want of Authority from a God without him, he will be punished for going to preach before he is fent: This may be experienced by all Men in Temporals; we fee a petty Constable, and other Officers more inferior, dares not execute their Office upon any Man, if it be but to whip Beggars, not with out a Commiffion from fome Perfon, one or more, without him; and fo it is in all Places, both high and low, upon the Face of this Earth. It is not the Understanding within that will authorize Men to fupply fuch and fuch Places, but it must be Authority without a Man; for many Men that are in greatand honourable Places, have lefs Wisdom and Underftanding to manage their Places than other Men; yet he that hath a Commiffion from others without him, will commend him that hath a better Understanding within than himself; yet you Quakers will undertake to be Preachers of the Gospel without a Commiffion from God without you, or without a Commiffion from Man without you: And because I durft not preach without a Commiffion from God without me, and not by the Light of Chrift within me, though I had the Light of Chrift within me more than any Quaker in the World hath at this Day, before I had a Commiflion from God without me; and if God without me had not forc'd me to take this Commiffion upon me, I had remained quiet and ftill, and had let Quakers and all other Opinions in Religion alone; for I was of Jonas his Mind, willing to fit ftill and be quiet, for I minded no Body's Happiness but my own: For I was willing to go to Tarshish, to fit down in quiet, but I was forced by the Lord God to go to Nineveh, amongst all Opinions of Religion, that I might be envied, hated, and perfecuted of Quakers, and all other Opinions whatsoever; and this I have found true by Experience, and all this came upon me from a Commission of the true God without me, and this you Quakers call manifefted Darkness. The Apoftle might truly fay, when it pleased the Father to reveal his Son in him, he preached him; but what is this to Fox the Quaker? The Father hath not revealed the Son in him; for Fox doth not know what the Son is: But the Apostle that had the Son revealed in him, had a Commiffion from that Son without him: For fure you Quakers will not be fo wicked as to fay that Paul received his Commiffion to preach within him, when he breathed out Threatnings against the Church of Chrift, and went with Letters and Commiffion from the High-Priefts, to perfecute thofe that believed in Jefus, that was |