her than it was with Eve; for Adam knew Eve as foon as the Angel had entered into her Womb, and then Adam knew his Wife after they were put forth from the Presence of God; fo that Eve did not know which he was with Child by, the Serpent-Angel, or her Husband Adam; fo that the might well fay, she had received a Man from the Lord: But if Eve had not enticed her Hufband to know her, that was, eating of the forbidden Fruit, fhe would have brought forth according to the Time of Life that very fame Devil Cain, Flesh, Blood, and Bone, as she did, if Adam had never known her in that Time; even as the Virgin Mary did the blessed Jefus, the God and Saviour of the Seed of Adam, with Flesh, Blood, and Bone; fo that the Reader may fee clearly, that Adam was not Cain's Father, neither did he beget him, for Cain was the Devil became Flesh; and this is the right Devil, and you Fox the Quaker are one of his Sons, begotten by him.

But to make it more clear that Adam was not Cain's Father: He could not be Cain's Father, and Chrift's Father alfo. Now we find by the Scriptures that Chrift doth own Adam to be his Father, and the Scriptures doth own Cain to be the right Devil, and the Father of all other Devils, as I have fhewed before, and that Adam is called the Father of Chrift, read Luke the Third, to the laft Verfe in the Genealogy, Which was the Son of Enos, which was the Son of Seth, which was the Son of Adam, which was the Son of God: So that God was Adam's Father, as he was God; and Adam was Christ's Father, as he was Man; therefore calls himself The Son of Man.

What do you Quakers think the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was, and that Serpent that beguiled Eve? Do you look upon it to be fome Apple-tree, and the Serpent to be an ugly Snake ? and fo this Snake crept up the Tree, and got an Apple in his Mouth, and the Woman took the Apple out of the Snake's Mouth, and fo eat of it, and gave her Hufband to eat, and fo brought themselves into this Mifery, and all Mankind? Do you teach your Hearers this? What is it you teach, that your Hearers are fo ignorant of the Knowledge of the true God, and the right Devil, and of the Scriptures? This is the Faith that other religious Men do believe concern

ing the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, and of the Serpent: But you Quakers carries it in an Allegory, so that nothing can be made of it, neither one Way nor other. But all Profeffors of the Scriptures do own that the Tree of Life was Christ, and I suppose you Quakers do so too.

If you grant that the Tree of Life was Chrift, then this Tree of Life could fpeak: Now if the Tree of Life did peak, why should not the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil fpeak alfo? If Chrift, the Tree of Life, because he gave Life to every Thing in Creation, fo why pray not the Angel be called a Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil? Or a Serpent, which brought Death and Mifery upon the whole Creation?

And we read that the Serpent fpake wife Words, who faid to the Woman, They should become as Gods, knowing Good and Evil. Did ever any Snake, we call Serpents, fpeak fuch a Language? Surely no. I marvel People are fo unwilling to believe that the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil should be an Angel, and yet fpeak fuch God-like Wisdom, and hath brought fuch woful Mifery upon all the Earth! and very many Men and Women do eat of the fame forbidden Fruit now, as Adam and Eve did then.

And as the Tree was pleasant to the Eye, and good to make one wife, is it not fo now with luftful Men and Women? Doth not their Fancy to one another feem pleasant to the Eye? and acting together hath been pleasant to the Tafte: This makes many to know Good and Evil by woful Experience, for this Sweetness of Sin is but for a Seafon; for I have known many in my Days that have eaten of the forbidden Fruit, Men and Women both, that have wafted their Eftates, which was good and comfortable to them; but now the Want is evil to them; they have spoiled their Bodies with Excefs of Luft, they have made their good healthful Bodies rotten with the Pox, fo that their good healthful Bodies are become evil and loathfam to their Friends; and that which is worst of all, the eating of this forbidden Fruit, they have loft the Peace of Conscience, which was very good, and instead thereof, they have had an evil Confcience, as King Saul, Cain, and Judas had, always tormenting of them with Fear, Horror, and the Torments of Hell; and thus Men and Women have known Good and Evil by eating of the forbidden Fruit of Luft.

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This many Ranters were guilty of to my Knowledge, neither is your Quakers People free; for I know of those that have fallen to the Quakers, thinking to find Ease there, but they will find the Quakers Principle but a broken Reed. Thefe Things concerning the Tree of Life, and Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, are opened more at large in The Interpretation of the Eleventh of the Revelation, so I shall conclude this Point.

2. I am to make good by Scripture that the Soul of Man is mortal. This is one of the easiest Points that is to prove by Scripture and Experience. These are the Words that George Fox doth ground the Immortality of the Soul upon, as followeth. Saith he, For God breathed into Man the Breath of Life, through which he became a living Soul. And then George Fox afketh, Is this Breath of Life by which Man became a living Soul, mortal? And faith, Is this thy Knowledge? as if it were impoffible for me to answer, or to make good by Scripture.

How the Soul of Man is mortal, and doth die, yet Fox thinks it impoffible to prove by Scripture.

Anf.TH HIS Point hath been proved by Scripture in all our Writings as aforefaid, and that Book of the Mortality of the Soul, the chief Subject it treats upon, is to prove the Soul mortal; but all thefe Things will do Fox no good, nor convince him of his Ignorance in this Point. Fox had hard Luck that he could fee none of these Writings, for nothing_might have better informed him in thefe Things, but the Book of The Quaker's Neck broken only, that makes Fox fo ignorant of all Things; for that Book doth but name the Heads of these Things; but in the other Writings aforefaid, they are more largely expounded. But to give a little further Anfwer to this Point here.

First, I fhall prove that Breath of Life God breathed into Adam to be mortal, and doth die. Let the Reader mind, I do acknowledge that Breath of Life God breathed into Adam, which made him become a living Soul, it was immortal

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when it came from God, but it was breathed into an earthen Veffel; Adam being of the Earth, he was earthly, and fo capable to be overcome by Temptation from a heavenly Body, viz. the Serpent-Angel: Now Chrift being the Lord from Heaven, therefore he was not capable to be overcome by the Temptations of earthly Bodies, viz. the Serpent-Angel, his Seed in Mortality.

Mind alfo, this Breath of Life, which God breathed into Adam, wherein he became a living Soul, it was immortal fo long as he stood in Obedience to God, and no Death could have touched him: But this I must tell the Reader; Adam could no have had other Heaven than this World, he being made of this Earth, he fhould never have gone higher, to the Place where God is, the holy Angels, and all fpiritual Bodies are, there Adam fhould not have come.

But this I fay, Adam fhould have been freed from all Sicknefs, Diseases, and Death, and fhould have lived a paradifical Life of Peace upon this Earth for ever, if he had kept that State he was created in. I confefs this was a State that I was always defirous to get into, and I did endeavour much. after it, but could not attain unto it; but when the Revelation of Faith did arife in me, the Spirit of Faith, which I call the Spirit of Chrift, or God, fhewed me what the State of Adam was, in the State of Innocency, and the paradifical Heaven, here upon this Earth; but when the Spirit shewed me the Form of God, Angels, and other Creatures, in a celestial State, in the celeftial Heavens in all Glory, I thought then that this earthly Paradise, though it had beeen for ever, very inferior and below that which I am fure I fhall poffefs.

But, to the Matter in Hand. I fhall make it appear, that Adam's Soul did die, though it was the Breath of God made it live; yet, by difobeying the Command of God, this Life muft die, as in Gen. ii. 17. For in the Day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt furely die. Is not this plain, that Adam's Soul did die, notwithstanding the Breath of Life God breathed into him? This became mortal and did die. If you, Fox, fhall fay the Soul departed from the Body, and the Body died this is the Opinion of moft People; but it is an ignorant, dark Opinion, contrary to Sense, Reason, or Faith; for if the Soul

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flip out of the Body, or depart from it, that cannot be faid to die, but to part one from another for a Seafon; befides, the Body is a dead Lump, fit for no Ufe without a Soul. Alfo the Scripture faith, The Soul that fins fhall die. The Scriptures doth not fay, the Soul fhall flip out of the Body that fins, but ball die: It is that which fins that muft die; and did you, Fox, ever know a Body commit Sin without a Soul? If you did not, methinks you might be convinced of your Ignorance, and teach the People no more that Lie.

Where do you read in Scripture, that ever any Bodies were condemned to die? We read in Scripture, in many Places, of Souls that fhall die, and of Souls that shall be cut off from the Land of the Living; but never of Bodies.

Again, it is faid that Christ poured out bis Soul unto Death. Will you, Fox, be fo wicked to fay that Chrift did not die? He poured out bis Soul unto Death: Death took Chrift's Soul into itself, that is, Death fwallowed up his Soul. It is not faid he gave his Body for a Ranfom for Sin; but He gave his Soul a Ranfom for Sin. How fhould any Man be faved from eternal Death, if Chrift's Soul did not die.

But I know the Quakers look for no Benefit from the Blood of Chrift; all their Happiness it must come from the Law written in their Hearts, that they call the Light of Christ in them; for they know no other Chrift, neither within them, nor without them: For this I fay, they that cannot believe that their own Souls fhall die, cannot believe that the Soul of Chrift did die; and fo they can receive no Benefit by the Death of Christ.

The Reader may fee the Nonfenfe in the Quakers Writings. Fox faith, He doth believe in Christ, that fuffered, rofe again, and afcended; and yet Chrift's Soul did not die, according to the Quakers Faith; for if they do acknowledge that Chrift's Soul did die, they must needs acknowledge their own Souls muft die alfo; and if Fox had believed the one, he would have believed the other, and never have put me to this Trouble, to answer that difficult Point, as Fox thinks, to prove from Scripture, that the Soul of Man is mortal. If there were no Scripture at all, Experience would prove that every Day, we fee it with our Eyes.

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