to wit, the Knowledge of the true God, and the right Devil, with many other heavenly Secrets hinted at in the Scriptures; which to know is as a Fountain of Water of Life, to those that understand them.

7. We do confefs that Adam and Eve were not capable of any Kind of Death, until they were both defiled with the finful Nature of the angelical Serpent.

To which, this T. T. faith, To the Glory of Truth, that feeing Chrift came to reftore us that which Adam and Eve loft, with Advantage, it must needs follow that the true Believers, who are become, even now, whilft upon the Earth, freed from all Kind of Death, and fe are not capable of any Death in their Souls, no more than Adam and Eve was in their Innocency; because the Scripture faith, that he that believes in Chrift is paffed from Death unto Life, and fuch as abides in that Faith shall never die, but the Spirit of Life is in him.

Anfw. Here this Man fhews his grofs Darkness and Ignorance of the fpiritual Meaning of the Scriptures; for obferve what is faid before, that Adam and Eve had no Kind of Death in them before their Fall, yet this let the Reader mind, that the Death they did procure by their Fall, it was but a temporal Death, and that Death God threatned them with, it was but temporal, though the Fear of eternal Death might be in them by Reason of the Fall; but the Death itself which God threatned upon them, was but a natural Death, neither did God take off, or free them from it: For Adam and Eve did die, yet they had the Promise of Chrift made fure to them more than any Quaker ever had: And yet this Promise of Christ, to bruise the Serpent's Head, it did not free Adam and Eve from this firft Death, but it freed them from the Fear of the fecond Death, and from the fecond Death itself, even that eternal Death. But as for a natural Death, Adam and Eve, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the Prophets, Apostles, and Chrift himself tafted Death: For this first Death enters upon all, both Man and Beast; but the fecond Death, which is eternal, it enters upon none but upon the Serpent and his Seed: And this eternal Death is that which N 2 they,

they, Adam and Eve, and their Seed, are delivered from, by believing in Christ.

And thus we that are found in the fallen State of Adam, are reftored by Chrift, that is, we are reftored to a better and a more glorious State and Condition than that of Adam in the State of Innocency. But you Quakers do expect no higher Salvation than that of Adam, but you will not pass thorow Death to it, but you will attain it a more eafy Way: For you say, It muft needs follow that the true Believers who are become even now, whilft upon the Earth, freed from all Kind of Death, and fo are not capable of any Death in their Souls.

To this I fay, that Chrift never faid that he would free Mankind from a natural Death, nor restore Man to the State that Adam was in, but he came to fave Mankind from eterna, Death; therefore he faith, He that believeth in me shall never die. And of that Saying, He is passed from Death to Life, that is, he shall never die a fpiritual and eternal Death; for he is paffed from the Fear of this first Death, to the Affurance of eternal Life: For Affurance in Scripture is many Times taken for the Thing itself; but Chrift never freed his Difciples from a temporal Death, notwithstanding they had eternal Life abiding in them. And that Apoftle who faid, We are passed from Death to Life, did die a natural Death himself, and fo did the Prophets of Old, as in the As it is faid by Peter to the Jews, Which of the Prophets have not your Fathers perfecuted, and have flain, which fhewed of the Coming of the Just One? And was not Stephen ftoned to Death, a Man full of the Holy Ghoft? Yet his Soul was put to Death, and Peter himself, and the rest of the Apostles, and those that believed their Doctrine, did not they die, or else were put to Death? Yet these were all paffed from Death to Life, yet they all died a natural Death, or was put to Death: For it cannot properly be faid to die, if the Soul flips out of the Body, and leaves the Body behind, as you Quakers and many others do vainly imagine: So that your Ignorance in the fpiritual Meaning of the Scriptures is bewrayed; for you Quakers are the darkest Pieces to interpet Scripture, of any other Opinions in the World; for you will name Places of Scripture, but never interpret any; that makes all the Quakers fo dark; for ask them a

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Question in Scripture, they will give you no Anfwer, but perhaps, bid them mind the Light within them; or else say, it is the Flesh that afks, or fuch like Sayings: So they baffle and trouble ignorant People, which knoweth not their Principles, nor the Meaning of the Scriptures.

I thought good to answer these few Particulars, they being of fome Concernment for thofe to know, who are not well grounded in the Doctrine contained in those Books you fo much vilify and fpeak Evil of; for I would have others to fee this Writing as well as yourfelf; for you Speakers of the Quakers feldom let any of your Believers fee my Writings, left you should lose them by it, or your Antichriftian Spirit be discovered by them: For none can difcover the Quakers Cheat and Deceit, but us the chofen Witneffes of the Spirit; for your Doctrine is altogether Antichriftian, which doth deny both the Father and the Son to be in the Form, or Perfon of a Man in Heaven above the Stars, distinct of himself from Angels and Man, and any other Creature. And if you look but into The Neck of the Quakers broken, you may see what you are, for that is the fitteft Book for Quakers to look into ; there I have had to do with fuch like Spirits as you are, who have gone in the fame Steps of defpifing and blafpheming against the Doctrine of the true God, declared by us the Witneffes of the Spirit, as you have; for you have most wickedly spoken Evil of as pure Truths as ever was spoken or revealed by Prophet or Apoftle; for God hath chofen us by Voice of Words, as he did them, and hath given us the Spirit of Revelation and Interpretation, as he did them; and whoever defpifeth the Doctrine of us the Witneffes of the Spirit, defpifeth him that fent us, even Jefus Chrift the living God, who hath chofen us to pull down, and cut in funder fuch Antichriftian Devils as you are, who owneth no other God but what is within you, which hath caufed you to blafpheme against the Perfon of God without you, even the Man Chrift Jefus in Glory; for thofe Books of John Reeve's Writing do own no other God but the Man Chrift Jefus in Glory, who fpake to him three Mornings together to the Hearing of the Ear.

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First, you have called that Voice, A Dream; you have called that God or Chrift, that could not make all Things of Nothing, A false Christ, a Devil: You have called the Doctrine of the true God, A Lie, a Deceit, Error, Darknefs, Blafphemy, with many other wicked blafphemous Speeches in the Margin of the Book, too tedious to relate; therefore, for these your wicked Blafphemies against the holy Spirit of Chrift that fent, and revealed thofe Doctrines unto us, I do pronounce Thomas Taylor, Quaker, curfed and damned, both in Soul and Body, from the Prefence of God, elect Men and Angels, to Eternity: Neither fhall the Light within you, nor infinite Spirit, which you call God, without you, deliver you from that Curfe I have pronounced upon you; but you fhall know that God, the Man Chrift Jefus, hath given Power unto his Meffengers and Witnesses to curfe you to Eternity. Deliver yourself from it if you can. And if you do but read The Quakers Neck broken, you may fee others of your Brethren, who have walked in the fame Steps of Blafphemy as you have, and will have the fame Reward with you. That Book would have been as a Looking-Glafs for you, to fee what your Principles are in the Root, and what will be the Fruit of them.

Written by Lodowick Muggleton, one of the two laft Prophets and Witnees unto the High and Mighty God, the Man Christ Jefus in Glory, in Heaven above the Stars.

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