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Alfo I would ask Fox, or any other, where the Soul of Lazarus was, thofe four Days his Body was in the Grave? I believe Fox will fay it was in Heaven: To this I fay, that Lazarus's Soul was in the Grave, where his Body was; his Soul was dead, elfe Chrift did not raise him from the dead, if his Soul were not dead. Mind, if his Soul departed out of his Body, as moft People imagine, and went to Heaven or Hell, then I fay Chrift would have called to Heaven, for his Soul to come down, and go into the Body again: If it fhould be fo, then Chrift did not raise the Dead, but brought two Friends together, that were separated one from the other.

This is the Quakers Faith, and many others befides; but the Faith of God's Elect doth ftedfaftly believe, that Lazarus his Soul was dead, and there in the Grave, and that by the Power of Christ's Words and Groans, they entered into that dead Soul in the Grave, and made it quick and live again.

Here you fee, Fox, that the Soul of Adam, the first Man, did die; and alfo you may fee, that the Soul of Chrift did die, and that Lazarus his Soul was dead, and all Mens Souls elfe fince, that are dead, becaufe they were mortal. This the Scriptures prove as much, or more, than any one Thing whatsoever; and this is my Knowledge of Scripture:

And are you, George Fox, convinced yet that your Soul muft die? For die you must, even two Deaths, a Death mortal, and a Death eternal for you, that count it a Lie to fay the Soul is mortal, and must die, you shall taste of two Deaths; but I fhall tafte but of one: This I know to be true, and you fhall find my Words to be true alfo.

5. Muggleton, thou fayeft, thou aceufest no Man of Sin, yet faith Fox, in a few Lines after, thon acousest oba Quakers of Sin and Blafphemy.

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CHA P. VII.

How it was no Lie to accuse the Quakers of Sin and Blafphemy.

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OU told a Lie, to fay I accuse the Quakers of Sin and Blafphemy a few Lines after; for I do accuse the Quakers of Sin and Blafphemy against the Holy Ghost, a few Lines before. I said, I accufe no Man of Sin; but because you began to write against me backwards, you began at the last Side of my Book, and fo answered this backward. I fhall bear with that Lie, and look upon it as no heinous Crime in you; but if you had found fuch a Mistake in me, you would have triumphed, as if it had been the greatest Sin in me to tell fuch a Lie; you would have thought it worse than the Sin against the Holy Ghost, which you Quakers do commit.

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But whoever reads that Book, may fee that I have faid nothing but Truth, in what I have written of the Quakers. 6. Page 5. Fox faith, The Scriptures Speak of the wicked One, and wicked Men; but where, faith he, doth the Scriptures fpeak of a right Devil?

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OTH the Scriptures fpeak of a wrong Devil? There must needs be either a right Devil or a wrong Devil, elfe the Scriptures would never have spoken fo much of a Devil, if there had been no Devil at all: For you, Fox, neither declares what the right Devil is, nor what the wrong Devil is; fo that no Man can tell where, nor what the Devil is.

It feems Fox, the Quaker, thinks it a hard Thing to prove by the Scriptures a right Devil: Do you not read in Scripture that Cain is called a Devil, who was a Murderer and a Liar from the Beginning? And the Devil was thofe Pharifees that difputed with Chrift; the Devil was their Father, Chrift faid.

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And was not Cain their Father a right Devil? Is there any Sin committed, but it is the Devil commits it? As John faith, He that committeth Sin is of the Devil; and if he that commits Sin be of the Devil, then his Father that begat him muft needs be a right Devil. Was not Judas, that betrayed his Lord, was not he a right Devil? Sure, if he had not been a right Devil, he would never have done that Wickedness: And you, George Fox, had not you been a right Devil, you would never have blafphemed against the Holy Spirit that fent me, as you have; but you being ignorant who was your Father, even Cain; you know not what yourfelf is, and that you are the Son of a right Devil, and fo, in Procefs of Time, you yourself are become a right Devil; and you shall be recorded fo by the Commiffion of the Spirit of Truth, to the World's End.

7. Page 7. Fox faith, The Quakers do not deny Christ's Flesh and Bones, who remain in the Heavens until the Reftitution of all Things.

CHA P. IX.

How the Quakers are mistaken in the Flesh and Bone of Chrift. ERE People may fee the Confufion of the Qua

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Fox faith, the Quakers own the Flesh of Chrift that fuffered.

Here Fox faith, The Quakers doth not deng Chrift's Flesh and Bones, who remain in the Heavens until the Restitution of all Things. But this the Reader may mind, the Quakers do not believe that Chrift's Flesh and Bone is now in the Heavens, tho' Fox doth not deny it, because the Scriptures are fo full to prove the fame. For if the Quakers fhould really believe it, their Principle of Chrift within them would quickly fail and vanish: For I never knew none that would avouch that Chrift's Flesh and Bone was in them, neither will any of the Quakers avouch that they do believe Chrift to be a Perfon now in Heaven above the Stars, in that fame Flesh and Bone he fuffered Death in; if they fhould do fo, how then would all the Quakers do to get Chrift within them? There could 'but one Quaker get Chrift in him at a time, and when Chrift comes out of one, he must go into another.

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But the Quakers Chrift is nothing elfe but an Allegory, and fo Fox fhews in his following Words: For, faith he, we are Flefb of his Flefb, and Bone of his Bone: So that Flesh and Bone of Chrift that was referved in the Heavens, which Fox doth not deny in the Words before, but in the latter Words, the Quakers Flesh and Bones are become Chrift's Flesh and Bone; fo that Chrift hath no Flesh and Bone of his own, but what Flesh and Bone Chrift hath of the Quakers. But I fhall speak of this more in another Page; but the Reader may a little fee Fox his allegorical Juggle.

8. Page 6. Fox calls me a lying Spirit, because I curfed fome Quakers for the Sin againft the Holy Ghoft, and faith, Chrift faid, Blefs, and curfe not, who is the Chief Judge.

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Do acknowledge that Chrift is chief Judge both of Quick and Dead; but Chrift hath chofen me to be chief Judge in his Stead here upon earth in fpiritual Matters, and I had my Authority from Chrift, the only God without me, and not from Chrift within me; and by this Authority from Chrift without me, who is now in Heaven above the Stars, in that fame Flesh and Bone he suffered Death in, only that Flesh and Bone is fpiritualized and glorified, have I Power over you Quakers, and that Light of Chrift within you alfo; and look what Judgment I have given upon you Quakers and others, it will furely come to pass upon you; neither can you, nor your Chrift within you, deliver you from it.

And as for that Saying of Chrift, who faid to his Difciples, Blefs, and curfe not, this will not deliver you Quakers at all from what I have faid. But for the Reader's Satisfaction, I fhall open thofe Words of Chrift more plain hereafter.

9. Page 7. Fox is very angry with me, because I fay that Cain was not begotten of Adam, but was begotten by the Reprobate Angel; but I have fufficiently opened and proved

this Thing by the Scripture before, fo I fhall fay no more of it here.

10. Page 10. Fox, after he hath railed at me, because I say the Quakers Christ hath never a Body; and Fox knowing it to be true, thought he should bring himself into a Premunire, if he should deny Christ's Body without him, the Scriptures being fo clear for it, Fox doth confefs Christ hath a Body; For, faith he, that which defcended, afcended; and, faith he, the Quakers are of his Body; and as the Scripture faith, a Body hast thou · prepared.

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Sheweth that the Body of Christ's Flefb and Bone is distinct of itfelf, and not in the Quakers Bodies, neither are they Members of bis Body.

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ERE Fox fhews himfelf a meer Juggler, for he

confeffes Chrift hath a Body, but never confeffes that this Body of Chrift is at a Distance from the Quakers, neither doth Fox acknowledge that Chrift's Body is in a distinct Place by himself; For, faith he, that which defcended, afcended; and, faith he, the Quakers are of bis Body, as the Scrpitures faith, a Body bast thou prepared me.

Mind: Fax doth not say, that which defcended was a Body, nor that which afcended neither; for Fox his meaning is myftical, and fo he thinks the Quakers are Flefh of Chrift's Flefh, and Bone of Chrift's Bone, of Chrift's myftical Body, as they conceive; fo Fox owns Chrift to have a mystical Body, and fo the Quakers comes, as they fay, to be Bone of his Bone, and Flesh of his Flefh; and fo that Body, which was prepared for Chrift, the Quakers believe their Flesh and Bones is that Body which the Spirit of Chrift doth dwell in, and that is that Body the Scriptures faith is prepared.

So that the Quakers do deny that Chrift hath a Body of Flesh and Bone diftinct of his own, at a Distance from them; for if they fhould acknowledge, as I faid in The Quakers Neck broken, that Chrift hath the fame Flesh and Bone that fuffered, ftill distinct of himself, though glorified Flesh and Bone, yet

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