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LOOKING-GLASS

FOR

GEORGE FOX, the Quaker, &c.

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CHA P. I.

Of a Catalogue of damned Quakers.

EORGE FOX, I faw a Pamphlet of yours, entitled, Something in Anfwer to Lodowick Muggleton's Book, which he calls, The Quaker's Neck broken.

You faid well, in that you faid, Something in Answer to that Book of the Quaker's Neck broken, for it is a very little Something indeed; it is fo little a Something, that wife Men will hardly difcern any Thing in it as a direct Answer: But how comes it to pass that you make no Mention of your own Damnation in your Anfwer; you know John Reeve and myself gave you the Sentence of Damnation a matter of fourteen Years ago, when we were Prifoners in Old Bridewell; there: was you, Edward Burroughs, and Francis Howgel, you three were counted the chief Speakers of the Quakers at that Time, and you three were the first Speakers of the Quakers that were damn'd by us, the Witneffes of the Spirit; but fince. that there hath fallen a many more of your Brethren under this Sentence; but you have been Fox-like, as is your Name, fo is your Nature, you have lain ftill, and kept your Damnation to yourself, from the Knowledge of others, because

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you would not be upon publick Record as a damn'd Devil, and yet a Speaker of the Quakers.

Also you read of your Name in that Book, you say you have answer'd something, but you take no Notice of yourself, but take other Folks Parts; and if your Brethren, William Smith, Samuel Hooton, Edward Bourn, Richard Farnsworth, had not written to me, there would have been no Occafion for the Fox to come out of his Hole; and now the Fox is come out, he will be catch'd, and made manifeft to Generations to come, who pretended to be a Means of Salvation to others, and yet he himself a Caft-away, a Reprobate, a Son of the Devil, one that shall be recorded amongst the damned Crew to the World's End; and I am fure your Damnation is written in the Tables of Heaven, even as the Law of Mofes was written in the Tables of Stone; that is, thefe Men were written the Seed of the Serpent in Heaven, in the reprobate Angel, his Nature, before he deceived Evah; for you Speakers of the Quakers doth act forth the Serpent Angel his Nature, thinking yourselves wifer than God, as he did; he thought if he had been God, he could have made all thofe glorious Creatures above the Stars of nothing; even fo be you Quakers here in Mortality, you teach your Difciples to believe that God made this vaft Earth and Waters of nothing, witnefs that Thomas Taylor, Speaker of the Quakers, in his Letters to to me, which I have given Anfwer to, and join'd it to the Book call'd The Quaker's Neck broken; and you Fox, and others of your Speakers, doth the fame, for you say you were in Chrift before the World was; here you are quite miftaken, for you were in the Reprobate Angel his Seed and Nature, who is call'd a Serpent, and in this Serpent Angel you and others were recorded in the Table of Heaven for the Reprobate Seed, and to be damned to Eternity.

And as I know from whence you came, even from the Serpent aforefaid, and that you were in him before the World was, fo likewife you fhall be recorded for damned Devils here while the World is, as long as Time doth laft; therefore I fhall fet you down as followeth, you being one of the grand Devils, you shall be firft:

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George Fox, Edward Borroughs, Francis Howgal, Edward Bourn, William Smith, Samuel Hooton, Richard Farnsworth, Thomas Taylor, John Parrat, Richard Whitpane, John Harwood, Richard Huboriborn, Fox the Younger, and that great lubberdly Fellow spoken of in The Quaker's Neck broken, these were generally all, or most of them, Speakers of the Quakers, and exercised the minifterial preaching without a Commiffion from God; and not only fo, but they have been the greatest Fighters against a perfonal God in Heaven, above the Stars, of any, and have finned against the Holy Spirit that fent us, and fo have procured the Sentence of eternal Damnation upon them; and this Record is true, and it shall be recorded in the Hearts of the Saints to the World's End.

Now I fhall give you an Answer to what is needful in George Fox's Book, if there be any Thing in it that is not fufficiently anfwer'd already in The Quaker's Ñeck broken, I am willing to do it for the Sakes of fome that defire it, because I hear the Quakers are very brag of this Book George Fox hath writ against me, fo they were when Richard Farnsworth printed his Rage and Malice against me. But did he profper afterwards, when I had printed an Answer to it? For that printed Pamphlet was the Occafion of The Quaker's Neck broken being printed; and doth George Fox think to profper now he hath manifested himself what he is? And his great Wisdom, which fome thought he had, will be found but meer Foolishness.

But to the Matter in Hand. The firft Accufation that I am accused with, is as followeth: That I fay in The Quaker's Neck broken, that the Quakers will not beftow a Penny in any Writings but their own, let it cost them never fo much Pains the writing, and Charge in printing.

This George Fox faith is a Lie, known to the Printers and Stationers, and Bookfellers at London; and George Fox hath called me a Liar feven Times for this one Lie, as he calls it; yet I fhall make it appear I told no Lie in thofe Words, to say the Quakers will not bestow a Penny in any Writings but their own, let them coft ever so much Pains the writing, and Charge the printing.

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CHA P. II.

LODOWICK MUGGLETON's Answer.

Sheweth the Ignorance and Foolishness of George Fox.

IRST, I would have the Reader to mind the Igno

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rance and Foolishness of this George Fox; he undertakes to answer fome Things in my Book, called, The Quaker's Neck broken; and the firft Thing he begins to anfwers, is the last Thing in my Book, for it is the last Page of my Book, and it is a Point of the least Concernment to a Man's eternal Happinefs of any in that Book; but George Fox hath made it of the greatest Concernment of all the reft; therefore he begins with that first, and fets it in the Fore-front of his Pamphlet, to fhew his Mafter-piece; for he hath fet the Cart before the Horfe, for he begins at the latter End of the Book, and fo goes backwards towards the Beginning, and charges me with a lying Spirit feven Times in this one Thing, as if this was the moft heinous Sin of all other Sins, that to fay the Quakers would not bestow a Penny upon any Writings but their own, this is counted a feven-fold worfe Sin, than any other Sin whatsoever; Let the Reader but minds thefe Things aforefaid, and what I fhall fay in Answer to George Fox his printed Pamphlet.

First, George Fox hath gone on like an unwife, fimple, foolish Man, no ways in Order, but confused, to begin at the latter End of a Book, and end at the Beginning, and catch a Bit here, and fnap at a Bit în another Place, and wrong the Words, and write fome Part of a Sentence, that ferves his Turn, and leaves the other Part out, that would make against him, or clear the Matter, this he leaves out. Now I do commend William Smith and Richard Farnsworth, though they are damned Devils, yet they went orderly to work, they named my Words right as they were fet down, and they railed against me in Order, and fo went on from Point to Point in Order: But you, George Fox, your Answer is confused, for the aforefaid Quakers had a great deal more Wisdom in their Wri tings against me than you have. Because I speak of Order, you

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Quakers may think I mean good Order, and fo the aforefaid Men were good Men, [no] but they went in the Method and Order of Reason the Devil; in the Wisdom of Reafon did they write to me, and I was well pleased with it, because I knew well enough how to answer Reafon the Devil in his beft and orderlieft Wisdom he hath, as is now extant in The Quaker's Neck broken; but you, if you have not attained that Wisdom of Reason the aforefaid Quakers your Brethren have attained, for you that are the old Fox is become more ignorant and foolish in fpiritual Matter, than the aforefaid that are younger.

And as for that Saying of mine, that you make the greatest Sin of all, in that I belye the Quakers, to fay they will not bestow a Penny in any Writings but their own, that Saying of mine is very true; for my Meaning was, the Quakers would not bestow a Penny upon any of my Writings, though they coft never fo much Labour the writing, and Charge the printing; and fo the following Words doth clear my Meaning; but George Fox hath catcht at that Word of mine [of any other Writings but their own] here was a Word out of Joint, and that the Fox was glad of; for if I had made a Diftinction between my Writings and others, as my Meaning was, and as my Words following did imply, then the Fox would have had no Hole to have crept out at, nor to have called me a Liar seven Times for one; but as for the Quakers not bestowing a Penny upon my Writings, though they coft ever fo much Pains the writing, and Coft the printing, that is very true; for I do not know any Quaker, that is an abfolute Quaker, that ever did buy any: Alfo it is credibly reported to me by fome that have been Quakers, but fallen from them, that feveral of the Quakers have given a Charge to others of their Acquaintance that had a Mind to buy, to fee what was in them, the Rumor was fo great; but the Quakers charged those that had a Mind to buy, not to buy any, not to bestow a Penny on them, except it were to burn them; faying, that if they had any of my Writings they would burn them, and thefe were Quakers that faid this; fo that this proves my Sayings to be true, both by Experience and Witnefs. But George Fox hath got the Printers and Stationers, and Bookfellers in London, to prove me a Liar, as if the Quakers had been great

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