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were but the children of the flesh of Abraham, they were not children of the faith of Abraham, nor children of the promise of whom Christ came. So that Christ taking the seed of Abraham, and the faith of Abraham upon him, he clothed that faith or seed, with pure flesh. and bone; and in this sense Christ may be said to come of Abraham after the flesh and no otherwise.zo

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Pen. page 11, Speaks against interpretation of scripture from men without, may easily be deceived, but saith, 'That kept not the anointing within, may easily, be deceived.

Page 14. Pen. saith.Mind reader what is the reason he revileth us above others, meaning the Quakers;; but because he saith, We stand most in the way, be cause we cannot receive him as a law-giver to math!"

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Answer. Your saying is true, you do stand most in the way, and are the most and greatest fighters against the true God of any, and your antichristian spirit doth stand most in the way of any other people; therefore I have cut down so many of you Quakers, in less than seven years, with the two edged sword that is put into my mouth, and it would have been well for you, and many more of your brethren, if you had received me as a law-giver, as Moses was a law-giver, and all those that received him so, were happy, in so doing, in being obedient to the law-giver; but on the contrary, those people in his time, that did not receive him as a law-giver, but were rebellious against him and his laws, were they not plagued by Moses, if he spake but the word, the ground opened its mouth and swallowed up the rebellious and disobedient!ooAnd do you Quakers think to escape now? What I have said for your rebellion, a despising a personal God and me his messenger; for if you had received me you should have received him that sent me, the true Christ. And do you think that Christ within you shall deliver you Quakers from that curse I have pronounced upon you. Nay, I know hell will open its mouth and swallow you up alive, according

to the words and sentence I have passed upon you Quakers, as the ground did open its mouth and swallow those that rebelled against Moses, and then you shall know that God has made a mortal man like yourselves, a law-giver, and shall think you are damned for nothing else but for your disobedience to this law-giver you have so much despised.

Pen. saith, page 19, 'God is not known by the description of words, of the earthly wisdom, but of his own feeling spirit and life.

Answer. What pretty tricks the Quakers have, they can know God by feeling, without seeing or hearing of words of the earthly wisdom. I marvel there are so many Quakers speakers, they are but earthly words they speak to the people, earthly men; why do not you Quakers go all a feeling after Christ, and let outward words and seeing and hearing alone? for you Quakers do feel that you were in Christ before the world was, and you do feel that you were in the light before darkness was indeed. You may very well be suffered to feel after Christ, the light of heaven; for I am sure you see neither of them, neither have you ears to hear the truth when it is declared unto you and if you could not feel neither, your case would be sad indeed; for this commission of the Spirit hath smitten the Quakers stone blind in spiritual matters, as the Sodomites were smitten blind in the natural, by the two angels that came to Lot's house; so that the Sodomites did feel after the door, but could not find it, because they could not see. So it is with you Quakers in the spiritual, you feel after the truth, and true knowledge, and after the door of heaven, but the Lord's two messengers have smote you. blind in the Spirit, so that you cannot see, but have left you to feel after the door of heaven, but you shall never find it, nor get to it, no more than the Sodomites did Lot's door.

Pen. saith, page 22. The bow of the Quakers abides in strength, and the hands of their arms have been made strong.

Answer. To this, I say, their arms have been made strong against the temporal persecutions, which hath made them to increase and multiply, the sufferings of the Quakers by temporal persecutors, have mightily increased their number, and many fall to the Quakers, because of their sufferings, but can no more give a reason of the Quaker's faith and doctrine, than a Parrot, nor so much as as a Parrot can in words, though a Parrot hath no reason in him, yet he will speak better reason than many Quakers can; but this commission of the Spirit hath broken your bow in pieces, so that your bow hath little strength in it now, and your hands are become feeble and hang down, many of your valiant captains are cut down and fallen, neither are you like the people you were at first, their power and witchcraft fits are mightily abated; you Quakers can hardly now produce a witchcraft fit in you, which formerly the power of witchcraft was strong in the Quaker's people, then their bow was strong witchcraft power, but now it is made weak, and your hands feeble, by the power of two men sent from God, the true God, the Man ́ Christ Jesus. I confess you Quakers do, as it was said of Israel, increase as the sand on the sea shore, yet but a remnant of you shall be saved. And though you have multitudes that are Quakers amongst you, and when one is cut down, another is set up in his room; so that you Quakers will never want a ministry while the world do last; for if men may take up the ministry from the light within man, I am sure there never will want labourers in the vineyard; for there are too many sent forth by the light within man in these our days already as there was in Jeremiah's time, by the powers of the nation without man. And this I say, though you Quakers have defied my God of five or six foot high, and bid him stand forth, and see if he be able to defend himself and me from the stroke of their great and dreadful majesty, who hath neither form nor substance of his own, which they call God; yet this I say to you people

called Quakers, if there were as many of you as would stand six abreast, between York and London, yet I myself, which am but one man and there is not another, nor never will be, with the help and faith I have in that God, who is in the person of a man of five or six foot high, whom you Quakers have defied, shall be too hard for you all, and cut you down, even as the uncircumcised Philistines were destroyed, and scattered before David, when he slew ten thousand to Saul's one thousand; sỐ have many of your champions and valiant men been slain by the two-edged sword of the Spirit, from that litthe God who is but the stature of a man, and the rest of you will be scattered in your principles, as chaff before the wind. This I know will come to pass among you Quaker's people.

Pen. proves, that God abides in himself; from that saying, God spake to Moses when he went to the Israelites in Egypt, God saith, I Am hath sent thee to them. Did the Israelites, or any Quakers in these our days, know ever the more what God is in his form and nature, or how he abides in himself for reading those words? No but now I do clearly see, that saying of the prophet Isa. justified in these my days, as it was in Christ's time, that God hath blinded the eyes of all you Quakers, and made your ears deaf as adders, and hardened your hearts, lest you should believe the true doctrine of Christ's death, resurrection and ascension, de clared by the two last prophets and witnesses of the Spirit, and be converted and saved, as many can witness at this day; indeed you Quakers have eyes and see not, and ears, but hear not; you have hearts but understand not. The Lord made your hearts fat with a conceit of a light of Christ within you; and this I plainly see, and know that the Quaker's people are to finish the mystery of iniquity, or the mystery of Babylon, in opposition to the mystery of God declared, and will be finished by us the two last witnesses of the Spirit. And further, khave seen and do know, that the wrath and vengeance of

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this personal God have fallen upon you Quaker's people more than upon any others, and his vengeance will yet fall upon you Quakers, more than any other, even in this life, besides your damnation hereafter; because you Quakers have defied the living personal God, even Christ Jesus, who is now in the form of a man in heaven, in the same stature, height and bigness, as he was when he was on earth, which is judged to be about five or six foot high; this God have several of you Quakers defied, even as Goliah did the God of Israel, when David slung a stone into his forehead; so have several of you Quakers defied and trampled, as they said, and bid him stand forth, if he be able to deliver himself; these things I have in writing to shew from you Quakers; as for this thing I ask, hath the stone of God's vengeance smote the foreheads of your eminent Goliahs; for defying the living God in the person of a man, and more of you will feel his stroke e'er long, and perhaps may come to public view hereafter, that the generations to come may see what a wicked principle you Quakers

Pen. page 20, saith, O thou despiser, reproacher, and belier of the work of God in the hearts of his Children. Because I have discovered the true righteousness that cleanseth the Quaker's hearts, and their perfection they glory in ; as may be read in Thomas Taylor's letter sent unto him.

Pen saith also, I am not yet cleansed from lying lips; for he saith, 'he doth own the death of that body which the Father prepared for his Son, which suffered without the gates of Jerusalem. See here the gross darkness of the Quaker's principles, that a wise man hath shewed himself more dark in this point than the rest of his brethren. I ask, did that body of Christ suffer death without life or soul? Did that body do the will of his Father, without life or soul? Are bodies capable to suffer the pains of death without lives? is it not life that suffers pain? Is it not the soul that sins

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