After this battle with the young serpent, being in the wilderness near to the waters of Jordan, the serpents, vipers, and all manner of wild beasts were very brief, that I could have very little respite for fighting with one or other of them; for they were more numerous in this part of the wilderness than in all the rest which I travelled through; so I being weary, was willing to rest myself awhile, before I journeyed any further; but as soon as I was laid down to rest, there came forth of the thick bushes in the wilderness an old shespeckled serpent, and I heard her hiss very loud as she crept out of the bushes before I saw her; so I armed myself ready, but when I saw her I marvelled, for I did not think that sheserpents had such long fiery poisonous stings; it was more long and poisonous than any he-serpent I met with before; but that I knew she was the mother of another he-serpent spoken of before, I should have rather taken her for an old she-bear robbed of her whelps; for after she had first hissed aloud, afterwards she roared and spit poison out of her mouth; the poison lay upon the top of her tongue like soap-suds, and a sharp sting like a needle stuck out a pretty way beyond the poison; so I viewed her as she crept near me, and as she lifted up herself, standing as it were upon her tail, she put forth her tongue with a sharp sting like a needle, and the poison like soap-suds upon it, so I viewed it well, I smote her upon her poisonous tongue with the edge of the sword, and cut the sting and venom quite out, so that she is disabled for ever doing any more hurt with her sting; this she-serpent was Elizabeth Hooton, the mother of Samuel Hooton, a she-Quaker; her letter is to be seen, and my answer to it.

And immediately after the battle was ended with this sheserpent, there came forth out of the wilderness, being angry that this she-serpent was so disabled by my sword, three mad bulls, they roared upon me, I heard their noise, for they roared all together, but I saw none of them, for they would not appear because I should not see what colour they were of, nor smite them with the edge of the sword in my righthand; but I suppose they were all Quakers; they sent a large letter to me with never a name but letters only. Several

other serpents and wild beasts in the wilderness have I fought with this year 1668, but these mentioned are the most eminent to be upon record. Thus, after the manner of men, I have fought with several sorts of beasts in the wilderness, as Paul did in his time, In hope of the resurrection of the dead, some to everlasting glory, and some to endless misery. 1 Cor. xv. 32.

By LODOWICK MUGGLETON.

FINIS.

ANSWER

TO

ISAAC PENNINGTON, Esq.

HIS BOOK ENTITULED,

'OBSERVATIONS ON SOME PASSAGES OF LODOWICK MUGGLETON'S INTERPRETATION OF THE 11th CHAPTER OF THE REVELATIONS.'

ALSO, SOME PASSAGES OF THAT BOOK OF HIS

ENTITULED,

'THE NECK OF THE QUAKERS BROKEN.'

AND IN HIS LETTER TO THOMAS TAYLOR.

Whereby it might appear what Spirit the said LODOWICK MUGGLETON is of, and from what God his Commission is. As by what authority his Spirit is moved to write against the people called Quakers.

Written to inform those that do not know the Antichristian spirit of false Teachers, in these our days,

BY LODOWICK MUGGLETON.

WRITTEN IN THE YEAR 1669.

London:

PRINTED BY SUBSCRIPTION IN THE YEAR 1719;

And Re-printed in the Year 1831, by R. BROWN, 26, St. John-street, Clerkenwell.

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