here is say they to him the three Persons thou dreams of which thou wouldst divide out of one like a Conjurer What you foul-mouthed apostate Qâ—â—kers is the affirming that there is three Persons in the Unity of the sacred Godhead like the coâ—juration by the Devil Into what corner of Hell will you flie next for further directions do you not know that God the Father who is and ever was totally spiritual and never took upon him any Person of humanâ— nature as God the Son hath done that notwithstâ—nding God the Father is by his own Spirit in his holy Scripture set forth to be a spiritual Person where it is said in plain and full effect That God the Son is the express image of his Fathers person And if you Qâ—â—kers be not afraid that the holy Spirit doth inspire his holy servants to conjure like the Devil then you may venture upon it to read the 1 2 and 3 verses of Heb. 1. and there you may see that God the Father is affirmed to be a Person God is called Christ's Father often in Scripture And do you not know that the tide Father cannot possibly be rightly applied to a bare denomination or title onely without a Person must not any one be a Person first before he can be a Father methinks you might understand something aright And now concerning the holy Ghost Do not you know that out blessed Saviour doth often call the holy Ghost He where he saith But the Comforter which is the holy Ghost whom my Father will send in my Name He shall teach you all things John 14.26 He shall testifie of me John 15.26 And if you Quakers dare venture further then you may read John 16.13 14 15. Hah what 's that you Quakers say doth the Father send the bare name or title of the holy Ghost to teach men without a spiritual Person can the expression He be by our Saviour so often given to a bare name or title onely without a Person As for God the Son you do acknowledge that since his incarnation he is a Person but know you further That Christ is called God's Son long before he took upon him a Person of humane flesh which you may see in full effect in Psalm 2. So is proved That there was a Trinity of Spiritual Persons in the Unity of the sacred Godhead even from Eternity before Christ was born of the Virgin Mary and a bare name cannot be a Son though you Quakers blasphemously account the three Persons in blessed Unity of the sacred Godhead to be like the conjuration by the Devil And your hellâ—sh language breaketh out still more largely by your telling of Mr. Townsend in full effect therewith in the same page 10. That he is shut up with the three Persons in perpetual darkness for the lake and pit What is in this your language any less then if you said That the three Persons are shut up with Mr. Townsend in perpetual darkness for the lake and pit it can be no less Oh horrible to what blasphemous height of iniquity against the holy Trinity will you Quakers mount And yet further to avoid conjuration you do pervert the Scripture to uphold your dreamed delusions for whereas God saith Behold I am against the Prophets saith the Lord that steal my word every one from his neighbour Jer. 23.39 this place you produce as if all men that are not taught by enthusiasms without the Scriptures which with you are counted immediate Revelations from God and you cite this place as if all men that are not so taught as you are do steal their Doctrine which they teach from their neighbours onely whereas it is evident in that chap. Jer. 23. even against all contradiction that God therein reproveth the Prophets that say I have dreamed I have dreamed and then to plant in their dreamed delusions into their neighbours hearts they craftily did as you quakers do steal God's true Words from their neighbours but not to teach others therewith but to make room in their neighbours hearts to settle in their dreamed prophetical delusions and this proveth to be your diabolical conjuration And wereas you say in your first page That Moses wrote forth Scripture and not Letter but the Word Herein I have taken you in a notable lye also for could Moses write Scripture without Letters or Characters but Moses five Scripture-books written with Letters proves all your four quakers lyers Thus every way by James Naylers sentence you abide not in the truth but are of the Devil and not of Christ And as for your frequent maundring to exclude the Scriptures from being the Word of God Because say you they are not that Word which was God and because God spake to his Saints of old immediately or before Moses and the Letter was Are these good Arguments you quakers to prove that the Scriptures are not the Words or Word of God But see your wilful ignorant folly in this also for we are taught that the Scriptures are the Word of Christ who is God and that so they are the Word of God undeniably except you dare deny that Christ is God Construe this place you quakers Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs Col. 3.16 Can you not see that it is not here said Let Christ the Word God and Man dwell in you personally as you quakers falsly say in full effect that Christ doth so dwell in your bodies but contrarily the Scripture-exhortation even by the inspiration of God is this you quakers Let the word of Christ it is not Let Christ the Word dwell in you personally but Let the word of Christ dwell in you and it is in the same place of Scripture shewed what that Word of Christ is viz. psalms and hymns and spiritual songs And those spiritual songs or hymns are Scriptures and they are herein in full effect affirmed to be the Word of Christ and Christ is God therefore the Psalms or Scriptures are hereby proved to be the Word of God though the Spirit of Satan in you quakers will not say Amen to that truth because he feels that that Word of Christ the Psalms or Scriptures will and must destroy his Kingdom of deluding quakery and therefore you his servants in ordinary must though there be three sorts or several dispensation of God's minde to the sons of men in three several ages of the world that is to say First by his immediate words to his Servants until his Scriptures were written during which time his Servants declaring what God spake immediately to them was mediately their preaching of the Word of God Secondly by God's commanding Moses and his other holy Prophets to write what was his minde towards men which is the scope of Rom. 16.25 26. during all which time the Prophets declaring in writings what God spake immediately to them is the mediate Word of God Thirdly by Christ the Son
his power say they no mortal can take out of our hands neither will our God any more give such power to men while the world indures These be their words They say also That they were sent to New-gate by the then Lord Major of London in Sept. anno Dom. 1653. And I finde that they have their wandring walking disciples to carry abroad their doctrine and books for by that means these two books came to my hands even as the wandring quakers do disperse abroad their doctrines and books and those two pretended witnesses of God their doctrines are also fearfully blasphemous though they are no quakers but for brevity sake I shall give but a hint of them they affirm in very plain and full effect That God the Father came down with his Son Christ unto the earth and abode with him upon the earth during all the time of his continuance thereon and that the personal presence of God was all the time of his Sons being on earth wholly absent from the Angels whom he left in the heavens above the stars All which is flat contrary to John 4.9 and John 5.37 therein being said That God sent his Son into the world which proves fully against them that God the Father did not come in his spiritual personal essence with his Son unto the earth and they also thereby do fight against the truth of Mat. 10.32 and Mat. 12.20 where our Saviour even when he was on the earth even then said My Father which is in heaven which firmly proveth again That God his Father was not in his spiritual person with Christ his Son upon the earth And they say That God the Father whilst he was absent from the Angels in heaven did then give the Prophet Elias a commission to represent the glorious person of the Creator in heaven whilst he was with his Son on earth which their saying doth audaciously affront Isa 42.8 where God saith he will not give his glory to another It 's marvel that they do not imagine with their moon-eyes that the man said to be in the Moon is God and they in very full effect say accordingly That Jesus in all his extreamities cried to the Prophet Eliah he being then an immortal God and Father in glory and that the Prophet Eliah as a faithful Steward with Moses did from the Throne of Glory minister consolation unto his Lord and Saviour in mortality and that the whole Godhead was dead and buried for a moment and that if any man prayes unto any God or Father but unto the Man Jesus he prayes unto his own lying imagination which is the Devil which is a desperate contradiction against the blessed Man Jesus his own commands John 16.23 and John 15.16 wherein our Saviour doth not direct men to pray to himself the Man Jesus but he doth direct men to ask of his Father in his Name And they say That there is no Creator nor God nor never was but the Man Jesus which their saying is a blasphemous denial of the Holy Trinity and is flat contrary to Gen. 1.26 wherein it 's said in the plural number Let us make man in our image And truely beloved I finde little or none other Doctrine in their two books but such brain-sick fantastical stories which proveth to veiw that the aforesaid Witnesses John Reve and Lodowick Muggleton are the Devils and not Gods Witnesses And my beloved I think it not fit to set any more of their noysome silthy stuff before thee onely I shall give thee a little notice how far the two Witnesses Doctrines are making open wars against the quakers teachings 〈…〉 the two Witnesses say That heaven is beyond the stars and so without men but the quakers do in their doctrines affirm the flat contrary and do say therein That heaven is not without men but is in mens bodies the two Witnesses do affirm that the Man Jesus in his body of flesh and bone is ascended far above all heavens Angels and men but the quakers in their doctrines do deny that and do affirm in full effect to the flat contrary that Christ is not ascended into any heaven without men but that Christs person of flesh is in mens bodies God and Man And I could shew many other ways how punctually those two Witnesses do prove the quakers to be deluding lyers and how expressly the quakers do affirm that those two witnesses are lying deluders And truely beloved I would not have done so much as once to have put pen to paper aboâ—â— these two frantick pretended Witnesses of God but only because that there is not in the whole Christian world that I 〈…〉 any other people that say they are taught immediately by Christ himself without the mediate use of Christs inspired Scriptures but these two sorts of people only the two witnesses and and the quakers and yet they one contradicting another and proving one another in full effect to be devil-like deluders they both confirming that to be true of one another by both their hellish doctrines which doubtless for hellishness cannot be fully sampled by any other people but they the witnesses and quakers onely in the whole Christian world and they both have blasphemously fathered their Satan-like doctrine and hellish lyes upon our blessed Saviour Christs own immediate teaching though they are both so flat contrary one to the other in falsbood thereby they both rendring up in full effect our blessed Lord Christ to be the supreme Author of confusion and the chiefest Father of hellish lyes All which shews plainly beloved by the Devils over-ruling both these sorts of people being both for immediate enthusiasms how exceeding dangerous it is for any man to trust to immediate revelations not issuing from the mediate use of Gods Word the Scriptures for by that his teaching the Devil hath provided the quakers false Christ in men and the two Witnesses false Christ without men to please every mans palate what he can thereby to lay his hellish snares the more numerously abroad to destroy eternally as many people as he possibly can who are seeking to enjoy the heavenly benefits of our blessed Christ And now the good and gracious all-seeing God of heaven and earth in mercy preserve all tender-hearted seeking unsettled Christians out of these manifold eternally destructive secret snares of the Devil the inveterate enemy of God and all his Servants FINIS
his inspiring his holy Servants his Apostles to write his minde to men during which time also even unto the worlds end those his holy Servants his Apostles declaring in writings what Christ spake immediately to them concerning men is the mediate Word of Christ the Son of God and God and so in truth are the Words or Word of God And fourthly God's book of his glorious creatures continuing even from the creation of the World to the end thereof being subservient unto all those three dispensations of God's minde to the sons of men to make up a sweet harmony in visibly declaring of God's incomprehensible Glory Majesty Power Providence Mercy and Goodness even throughout the whole World yet notwithstanding all this though the Spirit saith in Scripture Let the word of Christ dwell in you and do not say Let Christ the Word dwell in you personally and though the Psalms or Scriptures are set forth to be the Word of Christ and though it be not said as you quakers dream That Christ the Son in his established ordinary way doth now teach men by his immediate words without the Scriptures and though it be said God who at sundry times and in divers manners spake in time past unto the Fathers by the Prophets hath in these last days spoken to us by his Son note it is not said God doth speak to us by his Son as your tenents falsly say he doth now speak to men immediately but it is said God hath spoken to us by his Son Heb. 1.1 2. intimating plainly thereby That the Sons immediate speaking his minde to men in his established ordinary way of teaching them is gone and past and though it be said therewith to confirm that truth That the great Salvation at the first began to be spoken by the Lord and was confirmed to us by them that heard him which can be no otherwise since the Apostles deaths but by their Scripture-writings and though our Saviour did not say Father I pray not for these alone but also for all them that shall believe on me through mine own immediate words spoken by me to them as your quakers fantastick brains imagine but not so though that false sense is the quakers killing livelihood but according to Heb. 1.1 2 3. so also Christ the Son saith in his prayer Neither pray I for these alone but for them also which shall believe on me through their words John 17.20 so not through the Sons immediate words but through theirs his Apostles or Disciples words who at first heard the Son speak immediately to them who are to confirm those the Son's words to us which did not hear the Son speak immediately to them And fifthly though it be so that if the Apostles confirming of the Son 's immediate words to us be not taken to be by their Scripture-writings left to us that then the whole world of men that have lived ever since the Apostles died are totally deprived of the Apostles confirmation of the Son's words to us who heard not the Son speak immediately to them and so those vast multitudes of people have not had nor have not any means to know the great Salvation which the Son at first began to speak or teach to them his Apostles immediately for them to confirm to us mediately by writings which considered sheweth the vanity of the quakers deluded fancies And sixthly though St. Paul who affirmeth That he did not receive his Doctrine from man but by the Revelation of Jesus Christ Gal. 1.12 and so being an Apostle that heard the Son speak immediately at first to him also and so was one of them that did confirm those the Son's words to us in writing I say Though even he that great Apostle saith to the Thessalonians For this cause thank we God without ceasing because when ye received the word of God ye heard of us then not immediately of the Son not so but the word of God ye heard of us to wit of those that heard the Son speak to them immediately ye received it not as the word of man or our words but as it is in truth the word of God 1 Thes 2.13 And seventhly though Moses that admired pen-man of God's Works for us and minde to us hath discovered in his Scripture-writings the particulars of God's wonderful Works which he wrought in his first five days-works of Creation which were all past before any man had any being or before man was and therefore could not possibly be taught to Moses by any man but onely by God's teaching of him and though all this of God's immediate teaching Moses appeareth in his recorded written Scriptures yet even yet I say notwithstanding all these and many more such-like infallible inspired Scripture-Testimonies of God which do firmly prove That the holy Scriptures are in truth the mediate Word of God to us yet say by experiences which God hath formerly for my humiliation and instruction permitted Satan to act in my body for a time even the same strong delusions in kinde which Satan acts in your quakers bodies though my heavenly Father in great mercy hath delivered me from them yet I know that your quakers diabolical spirit in you will not permit you to acknowledge that truth though he doth give you leave frequently to affirm That the Scriptures are true as the Devil of old spake some truths to usher in his manifold deceits even so he over-powers you quakers though you say the Scriptures are true yet to deny the Scriptures to be any help in saving teachings and are led to deny in that respect the second dispensation of God's minde to men declared in the writings of his holy Prophets and also God's third dispensation of his minde to men by his inspired writings manifested by his holy Apostles And as he thereby limits the supreme holy One so he over-rules you to acknowledge but one dispensation of God's minde unto the sons of men And that by this his first dispensation of his minde to men by his immediate words that so the devil the father of lyes by his servants quakers may make elbow-room for his enthusiasms to teach men crafty devices closely contrived both to deceive themselves and others also and that his freedom in this destructive way may not be disturbed by the contradiction or controle of holy Scriptures he hath taught you the â—eâ—diest way to please him and you as cheerfully imploy your selves in his business And thus you four principal quakers have made your spiritual pestilential infectious black spots appear upon you to publick view and your brother quaker James Nayler's condemning Law aforesaid looks very fiercely upon you I 'll warrant you to justifie that you all are of the devil and not of Christ And herewith know you quakers That we your Opposers do not trust to nor expect to be taught by the Letter of the Scriptures written with ink on paper as you shrawme out against your Opposites but by the Spirit of Christ
therewith and thereon attending even on his Scriptures to convey his minde therein recorded into the hearts of all tender-hearted contrite humble persons that do abidingly wait upon his teachings for Christ said to his Disciples Go ye and teach all nations baptizing them in the Name of the Father and of the Son and of the holy Ghost though you quakers account this Doctrine to be like conjuration by the devil but Christ did then promise them saying And lo I am with you alway even to the end of the world And it is well known That Christ was with them personally but a small time and their action of verbal ministration died with their bodies therefore Christ's promise is by his Spirit to be with their Scripture-written-Ministration always even to the end of the world which teaching of Christ's Spirit in and with those sacred Scriptures is our rejoycings though you quakers to advance your enthusiasms do turn that kinde of teaching into your own everlasting destruction And now considering it is your strongest refuge to lurk in to defend your satanical immediate enthusiasms without the Scripture frequently to cry down the teaching-use of the Letter of the Scriptures to which frantick end you in the 7 pag. of Saul's Errand do affirm That the Letter of the Scripture is carnal and the Letter is death and killeth and in this your saying you make no distinction in the Scripture-Letter but that all of it is carnal and death and killeth and yet you affirm constantly that the Scriptures are true and so hereby you do affirm That the truth is carnal and is death and killeth And now what other non-sence will you spatter out next in the tail of this And in the 21 p. of your Satan's Design you to defend your lye do say the truth That the Apostles was not Ministers of the Letter but of the Spirit But why so you brain-sick quakers but onely because you are falsly given to understand out of the Air by your high immediate enthusiasms that all your affirmed true Scripture-Letter is all of it carnal-letter and is death and killeth But now with amazement do all you quakers behold even to your everlasting shame and perdition That God's own inspired Word his holy Scriptures do as it were fiercely flie at your impudent faces rebuking you and telling you plainly That there is no Scripture-Letter that is called the Letter that is carnal and death and killeth but onely and alone the letter of the moral Law which was written and engraven in stone and that Law-letter onely and none other Scripture-Letter whatsoever is called the Letter that is carnal and death and killeth See this firmly proved against you quakers even by your own chosen place of Scripture which you have cited you endeavouring thereby to prove your great hellish lye aforesaid to be true and this your pick'd place is Heb. 7.16 and is written of Christ saying in the 15 vers That after the similitude of Melchisede◠there ariseth another priest and then in v. 16. which is the verse by them cited it is said Who is made not after the law of a carnal commandment And it is further written thus For the law made nothing perfect but the bringing in of a better hope did by the which we draw nigh unto God vers 19. So herein we have set forth plainly to our view that the Law onely is there called the Commandment that is carnal and that other Scriptures is in plain and full effect said to be the bringing in of a better hope testified in the Scripture by and in the Letter of the New Testament or Gospel of which the Apostles were made able Ministers as is shewed in full effect in the 2 Cor. 3.6 and not of the Letter of the Law or carnal Commandment aforesaid For there is verily a disannulling of the commandment going before for the weakness and unprofitableness thereof Heb. 7.18 which is the very next verse but one to the quakers cited verse So that hereby the devil your Tutor as it appeareth after he hath hoodwink'd you then according to his own habitual deceitful tricks he hath led you as it were by the nose to spie out that place Heb. 7.16 and to make use of it to shew against your selves to your perpetual shame that the Letter of the Law onely includes the Commandment which is in Scripture called carnal Thus far concerning your affirming That the Letter of the Scripture without distinction is a carnal Letter which by your own proof is proved to be a hellish lye And now again you quakers concerning your other false words affirming That the Scripture-Letter is death and killeth and to prove these to be as false also I shall further note what is written where it 's said Who also hath made us able ministers of the New Testament not of the letter of the law of a carnal commandment as before but of the spirit for the letter the law of the carnal commandment killeth but the Spirit giveth life 2 Cor. 3.6 And now here again that saying of yours you quakers is brought upon the tenter-hooks where though you say That the Apostles were not Ministers of the Letter but of the Spirit and that 's true But here 's your torment augmented by your tormenting the truth of that verse by your thereby signifying That the Apostles were Ministers to teach men onely to look for the immediate speakings of the Spirit to and in them and so you would repeat over again your old satanical superstitious Beads to destroy the third dispensation of God's minde by his inspired Scriptures written for mens mediate teachings by his Apostles which their writings do contain in them literally the Letter and Letters of the New Testament or Gospel of which the Apostles were able Ministers and upon which the Apostles written Testimonies Christ by his Spirit by his own promise is alwayes with them even to the end of the World to convey the benefit of that written New Testament unto all humble waiters upon him therein which is before lately proved and your old hellish long now repeated against God's third written dispensation is also in this my fourth Discourse by Scripture-truths totally confounded And now to prove even against all denial That the Devil your Tutor befools your understandings to make use of that saying Not of the letter for the letter killeth as if thereby were declared That the whole Letter of the Scriptures is carnal and death and killeth but to confound that also it is proved plainly and firmly that next after it is said God hath made us able ministers of the New Testament not of the letter for the letter killeth then to shew even to publick view distinctly and apparently what that letter is that is death it is written immediately thereto in the very next verse thus But if the ministration of death written and engraven in stone was gloriou◠〈◊〉 And it is well known you silly quakers That the Letter of the
1 Tim. 2.9 And now my beloved ones consider seriously that the Devils instruments can by the Devils power and permission work deceitful miraculous signs and wonders even as is deceitfully wrought at the quakers meetings and preachings even so powerful beloved as shall deceive if it were possible the very elect And now my Reader I pray thee to note seriously that in James Naylers before recited severe sentence of condemning all Christians that have any sin to be found in them in these words of his But who says they know Christ and are redeemed and commit sin not keeping his commandments is a lyer and so abides not in the truth and anoynting and so is of the devil and not of Christ These be his words And now I pray thee observe that he is led not onely according to his use falsly to add words to that Text 1 John 2.4 but also although our Saviour Christ hath made a cleer distinction betwixt his Gospel-commands and his Fathers moral Law-commands where he saith If ye keep my commandments ye shall abide in my love even as I have kept my Fathers commandments and abide in his love John 15.10 and although this distinction sets forth a true abiding in the Doctrine of Christ as but for brevity sake I could by Scripture shew much more largely yet James Nayler as aforesaid is satanically overpowered to confound into one law the Fathers killing moral law written on Mount Sinai and Christs mount Sinai's healing Gospel-law of life which runs in this and the like gracious tenure He that believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly his faith is counted for righteousness Rom. 4 5 But as James hath done so whilst he remains a quaker he must confound the Gospel-law and the moral law into one and the same law or else as quakery cannot stand so James Nayler and the quakers could not so easily make choice of moral law works to be wrought in mens bodies for their saluation and so also the devil would fall short by his quakers to declare that they themselves are notorious sinners and yet do deny the Gospel-imputation and that so they themselves are of the Devil and not of Christ FOURTEENTHLY My fourteenth Discourse is directed to all the quakers for you quakers considering the plain evidences that your quakish conducters have published by their as it were throwing filthy stinking mire and dirt in the very face of all quakery Now you quakers haue a just cause not onely to howl but to howl out loud for it appears that you quakers are very expert in howling for John Gilpin in the 3 pag. of his book â—â—e calls the quakers shaken printed London 1655. affirmeth that whilst he was a quaker he was constrained to fall down on his bed where he howl'd in a terrible and hiddeous manner to the great astonishment of his family which he also there saith is usual with them to wit the quakers and also Mr. Samuel Clark in his 461 pag. of his book he intituled A Mirror or Looking-glass doth declare That in anno Christi 1653. there came some quakers out of the North into Wales to win some Professors to their party boasting themselves were perfect and without sin which some of the principallest quakers here have affirmed of themselves in my hearing and he declareth That at those quakers meeting there after long silence had such risings and swellings in their bowels sending forth such shreekings yellings and howlings as not onely affrighted the Spectators but caused the dogs to bark the swine to cry ond the cattel to run about to the astonishment of all that heard them but it can no ways be proved that people have shreeked as Night-Owls yelled as infernal Syirits and have howl'd as devoured dogs and wolves at peoples meetings at the preachings of the true Gospel of our blessed Christ and far much more less that dogs and swine and other cattel are then are thereby forc'd into such a violent distempered rage nor that little children who are utterly uncapable to understand either what is done or said at the preaching of the true Gospel do fall down and roar and their bellies swell and foam at the mouth then and thereby as appears that besides men and women so tormented that even little children also are in that manner fearfully tormented at the quakers meetings or preachings of quakery which the quakers do not deny though it be charged upon them which appears in Saul's Errand And I now acknowledging my self to be really a very unworthy Servant of my blessed Lord Jesus Christ yet I remain unto all true Gospel-believers and considers in my blessed Lord Jesus his death and precious blood shed without men and also to all them that do desire so to believe Their affectionate and officious Servant in Christ Christopher Wade POSTSCRIPT NOte That all James Nayler's proud Luciferian behaviours all his disciples blasphemous exaltations of James Nayler at Bristol even with no less then divine titles as appears in print are all of them strong confirmations of the justness of all the accusations that are charged upon the quakers in this precedent Treatise And it is to be marvelled at That considering the Scriptures do fight so fiercely against all your quakery that you quakers do not quite forsake all and any use of the Scriptures to support you and why you do not act from your enthusiasms only and alone and in your wandring courses to knock your hand upon your brest and say Here here 't is and then continue to tell the people a long story that you are sent from heaven and are taught from heaven but then it will be also to be wondred at how exceeding ignorant those people must be that will believe you And concerning your Mystery you so much boast of know all you quakers That the Mystery of God's will concerning men is not lock'd up in quakery but is made manifest by the Scriptures of the Prophets Rom. 16.25 26. and is also made manifest by the Apostles see Ephes 3.7 9. Ephes 1.9 Col. 1.26 but you quakers know it not And now my Reader thou mayest take notice conveniently That since my finishing of this my foregoing Treatise there is by providence come to my hands two short books printed both of them appearing to be composed by the joynt consent of two men whose names are as they therein say John Reve and Lodowick Muggleton who say That they are taught by immediate revelations from Christ himself as appears without God's mediate help by his Scriptures even as the quakers do in full effect say they pretend also that they onely are the two Witnesses of God mentioned in the Re elations they do say That their commission is to this effect they saying God hath chosen us two onely and hath put the two-edged sword of his Spirit into mouths that whom we are made to pronounce blessed are blessed to eternity and whom we are made to pronounce cursed are cursed to eternity and