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fickness? Have you had any new Vifion, or new Revelation in thofe Witchcraft-fits fince? Yea, or nay?

I am fure it hath great Power over you Quakers, and hath put a Stop to thofe Witchcraft-fits; for I do not hear of any Quaker of late that hath any; though they were never curft by me; this Curfe hath run in the Line of the Heads of the Quakers, fo that it doth put a Stop to the whole Body; fo that none of the Members can produce a Witchcraft fit; nay the Quakers are bereft of all Revelation now, and Meffages to the Magiftrates; they have left off ftripping themselves, naked, and imitating the Prophets of old.

Do you Fox, own that Practice of Solomon Ecle the Quaker? I perceive by a Paffage in your Book you do, because Ifaiah did fo, as a Sign to the Jews; but your Prophet Solomon Ecle went in a more fhameless Manner, being fent by the Spirit of Witchcraft, than Isaiah did that was fent of God; for Ecle went ftark naked, as is reported, at Aldermanbury Church, and not only fo, but he was shamefully beshit, so that none could lay Hands on him, only the Coachman's Whip gave him a Jerk or two: This is he that went with Fire upon his Head in Bartholomew-fair, alfo he fowed his Linings upon the Peoples Communion-table, to prophane it at Aldermary Church; thefe Things were very brief formerly with the Ranters and Quakers People, they were much for Signs, though fome of them were very beaftly Signs; yet the Ranters and Quakers were well pleased with them, being moved thereunto by the Spirit of Witchcraft, to imitate Prophets of old in a more fhameless Manner.

As I could tell you fome Things of the Ranters Practice,' who would go forth as Signs: There was one his Name was Nathaniel, he was the Ranters Sign, yet pretended to be a Sign of Presbyterian Ministry, that as he did ftink in the Noftrils of People, fo fhould they; for he went always beshit, fo he was called Shitten Nat; he eat his own Dung, and stank that none would come nigh him; nay Mistress Cook, a Ranter, would lie with him in the Fields, and make Cakes of his Dung for him to eat, and he did eat his own Dung; but whether fhe did eat any with him, I cannot tell; but it was faid fhe did: Now this Sign goeth beyond the Quaker Solomon Ecle. Alfo

this Miftrefs Cook fhe went to Westminster Church to fhew the Minister a Sign, fhe ftript herself ftark naked, and went into the Church; fo fome threw a Cloak over her to cover her Nakedness, and fhe was committed to Bridewell, and there she was clothed all in white Linnen, like the Queen of Heaven; these were Ranting Signs now for you Quakers to imitate; many fuch Things were acted by that Sort of People; as that John Thomas, who danced naked before Sir Richard Brown, as he went to the Church, and being committed by him, was extreamly whipped, and when he had fuffered, and was out of Prifon, poifoned himself. Bridget Ruffell the Quaker's Wife can witness the Truth of his Nakednefs before Sir Richard Brown, for fhe went on one Side, and Mrs. Poole on the other, they were both imprisoned with him. Many more of those Ranters came to a fad End, for moft of them fell to nothing after their Head John Taney did fall, and their Principle doth ftink in the Noftrils of all civil People, even as he did that was the true Sign to that Sort of People; for he ftank in the Noftrils of all that came near him, he could not endure himself, nay, he killed himself with the Wyer of a Candlestick, thruft it into his Belly, and fo died. Do you George Fox approve of fuch fhitten fhameless Prophets, and ftinking Signs as thefe? How much Difference is there in Solomon Ecle his Sign being a Quaker, than in the Ranters ? Are not you Quakers almost ashamed of your Prophets Signs? Thefe Things hath been pretty common amongst Quakers heretofore, when the Spirit of Witchcraft reigned in them; but now the Power of Witchcraft-fits is fubdued by Reeve and Muggleton's Commiffion, neither fhall you Quakers, whom I have curfed, get above, nor over that Curfe I have paffed upon you; for it fhall be upon your Perfons, and over the Heads of your Souls to Eternity, and none fhall deliver you from it.

Thus much in Answer to George Fox his printed Pamphlet.

By LODOWICK MUGGLETON.

Here:

Here followeth the COPY of a LETTER fent to Sarah Coppin, Quaker.

Sarach Coppin,

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OU may remember about fourteen Years ago, in the Year 1653, that you did feem to receive John Reeve and Lodowick Muggleton as Meffengers and Prophets of the Lord, or as Witneffes of the Spirit; and further, you did fhew much Kindness unto us upon that Account, for there could be no other Inducement in us at that Time to invite any to fhew Kindness unto us, but that Doctrine declared by us concerning the true God, as our Writings did declare, which you did feem to own. Alfo you may remember your great Zeal you had for us when we were Prifoners in Old Bridewell, your Zeal carried you out fo far for us, to deliver a Writing of ours unto Oliver Cromwel, who was then chofen Lord Protector; this you did yourself in Zeal and Love to this Commiffion of the Spirit, as we the Witneffes of the Spirit thought, and I fuppofe yourself did think what you did in that Kind, it was in Sincerity of Heart alfo, and we took it fo, and had a Love for you as to your eternal Happiness; but your Faith was not truly grounded, neither upon the Doctrine of the true God, nor the Commiffion of the Spirit, as it is manifeft fince. Also you may remember one Joan Bishop, a Maid, that was the Occafion of bringing you acquainted with us, and that you had been very religiously given before you met with us, even fo much that you were almost distracted about your Salvation, in that none of the Preachers of the Nation could fhew you the Way to rest for your Soul, they having no true Reft themfelves; yet you may remember your receiving us upon that Account as Pr phets of the Lord, who had put down John Taney, John Robins, and many others that went as Prophets and Propheteffes, and pretended great Revelations and Visions from the Lord, and yet knew not what God is: These all have been brought down by us the Witneffes of the Spirit, these Things you know in Part.

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Alfo your Acquaintance with us, it cured you of that diftracted Condition you were in before you knew us, and you were clothed in your right Mind, and was able to give a fenfible Answer to any that did oppofe you: But I know you cannot do fo now you are turned to the Quakers, though you are become a Speaker amongst them. I know your Pride, and Ambition of your Heart, that loveth to be efteemed of People: What, a Woman Preacher ! You think this to be a great Glory to you; but the greatest Shame that poffible may be, will be the Effects of it; for it is not your many fenfelefs Speeches, without Form or Order, produced by a Witchcraft Spirit within you, which you call the Light of Chrift; I fay, this you have gloried in will be your endless Shame, for your latter End will be worse than your Beginning; for you are become an abfolute Apoftate, who hath back flided, and fallen from the Truth, and turned to the Quakers, the moft Antichriftian Principle of all the feven Churches, and the greatest Fighters against a perfonal God without Man, of any; fo that you are an abfolute Apoftate, and impoffible to be renewed by Repentance; for you are fallen from Truth to a Lie, for you are as fome were in the Apoftles Time, as Heb. iii. 6. who were enlightned, and had tafted of the good Word of God, and the Powers of the Life to come; that is, they were enlightened by the Commiffion of the Gospel committed to them to preach, they tafted that good Word of God, even the Doctrine of Chrift, which was Life and Salvation to them that truly believed: But feeming Bevers tafted of this good Word of God, which the Apostles preached, and rejoiced in it for a Seafon, as Herod did; and as for the Powers of the Life to come, they had Peace in their Minds, and Hope of eternal Life by the Apotiles Doctrine, fo long as they stood by Faith; but when they fell away from that Faith they once profeft, they could not be renewed again by Repentance; fo that all that Light and Word of God they tasted of, and Peace, and Hope, which is the Powers of the Life to come, it all withered and died within them; fo that they were not fenfible of the Light of Heaven, nor any Goodnefs of God's Word they preacht, nor any Peace, or Hope, they ever found by owning the Apostles Doctrine; fo it is

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with you as it was with thofe Apoftates that did fall away from the Apostles Commiffion, after they had made a Profeffion to own and believe it, and had received many Refreshments in their Minds, and had tafted of the Joys of Heaven; but in that they did fall from it to fome other Opinion, as to the Worship of the Law, as the Galatians did, who were bewitched, as Paul faith, fo that their latter End was worse than their Beginning. For before a Man join with Truth, though he doth not believe it for the prefent, yet it is poffible he may be renewed in his Mind, and come afterwards to believe, and be faved; but if any fhall profefs Truth, and rejoice in it for a Seafon, and afterwards fall away, it is impoffible for fuch a one to be renewed by Repentance, as aforefaid. And this is your Condition, for you rejoiced in this Commiffion of the Spirit for a Seafon, and did many good Acts for us, which did manifeft that you had a Love for this Declaration of John Reeve and myself; and yet afterwards to fall away from the Belief of it, and not only fo, but to speak evil of us the Witneffes of the Spirit ; in that you faid you knew John Reeve, and Lodowick Muggleton very well, and that we were the greatest Deceivers that ever was, and that as foon as ever you met with Truth, meaning the Quakers, then you forfook us; thefe, with fuch like Words, and more than I mention here, did you fay; which is clear to me that you are not only fallen from Grace, but you have trampled the Blood of the Covenant under Foot, and counted it an unholy Thing, even that whereby you should have been fanctified by Faith; had you held out to the End, you should have been faved by this Commiffion of the Spirit; for there is no Salvation under Heaven to be found in these Days, but in the Belief of this Commiffion of the Spirit given of God to John Reeve and myself: For our Commiffion is as true as the Apostles Commiffion was at that Time, and we as true Prophets as they were Apostles; fo that whoever fhall make a Profeffion of this, and fall away afterwards, and speak evil of that they once owned, I say they trample the Blood of the Covenant under Foot now, as they did in the Apostles Time, and do count that an unholy Thing that should have given them the Affurance of everlafting Life; but it is impoffible for such to

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