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A62893	The Muggletonians principles prevailing being an answer in full to a scandalous and malicious pamphlet, intituled A true representation of the absurd and mischevious principles of the sect called Muggletonians : herein the aforesaid principles are vindicated, and proved to be infallibly true : and the author of that libel, his scandalous title and subject proved as false to truth, as light is to darkness, and that he knows no more what the true God is, nor what the right devil is, nor any true principle or foundation of faith, for all his great learning he so much bosts of, then those Jews that put the Lord of life to death, for learned and taught reason is but natural, and so falls short of the glory of God, as will appear in the following discourse / by T.T.	Tomkinson, Thomas, 1631-1710?	1695 (1695)	Wing T1840; ESTC R18719	47,859	79

it is so with you I would advise you to leave off playing the Hipocrite and forbear telling your Hearers That any of them will be Damned For if there be but one Seed and that Seed the Seed of Adam then all will be saved so deal plainly to your People and Preach to them general Redemption and prove it from Paul's Words where he saith That as in Adam all dye 1 Cor. 15.22 so in Christ shall all be made alive But will yea or nill yea this we must tell you That there is a Seed Rom. 9.27 Mat. 9.13 namely Cain and his Off-spring that never fell in Adam but in the Serpent-Angel and so are uncapable of ever being Redeemed by Christ 2. Pet. 2.12 John 17.9 1 Tim. 2.4 Matt. 18.11 10.6 Rom. 11.26 For when on Earth he never prayed for them For tho he would have all Men saved yet it is but all those that fell in Adam that he hath any spiritual Salvation for This is that which makes that Seed fret themselves Mal. 3.15 and call it a mischevious Principle and it will prove sad to that mischevious Man that Condemns true Prophesy and the true Believers thereof as likewise Isa 5.20 that justifieth the Seed of the Wicked to be the Seed of Adam who was the Seed of God Your farther Accusation Runs thus In Pag. 20. You say That there is a Devil distinc● from Man and would seem to prove it from that Devil that tempted Christ which you would have to be a bodily-Spirit and you scoff at wicked Imagination being the Devil And from hence you query from that Scripture Mark 5.4 Saying Doth Imagination break Chains c. And that their affirming That Ely should be Christ 's Representative This you call all Fable CHAP. XI ANSWER IF you will have a Devil without a Body you must go seek out a new-found World to sind out your unknown Devil The Works of this Devil are manifest and yet you cannot know him for is there any Wickedness in this World but what flows from that Carnal Spirit of Men and Women Revel 18.2 Matt. 15.19 Gal. 5.19 who is a Kingdom of Wickedness in that Tophet or Bodies of theirs for it is the Heart where the Court is kept and is the only Nussery of all evil Spirits conciv'd there by Imagination Oh! the depth of this Imagination in this its bottomless Pit and the uncleanness of the same Do but compare Scripture Gen. 6.5 Jam. 4.5 6. Isaiah 32.6 Jer. 17.9 and in it we may find a very Pit-Devil All the Imaginations of Mans Heart saith God are Evil and continually Evil What 's that but the Devil And hath not this continual Work its first Formation in the Heart being its own Work from its own Seed and its Worke is in this manner following For this is to be minded That as the Spirit of Faith in the Heart of Man is the Womb or Mother for the Revelation of Faith to beget a Son out of the Seed of Faith So likewise the Seed of Reason is the Womb or Mother for Imagination to beget a Son or familier Spirit James 1 15. 2.15 16. James 4.1 for all evil Spirits are conceived in the Heart If Envy be conceived then Murder is brought forth if Lust be conceived then Adultery is brought forth and if a familiar Spirit is conceived then it brings forth such a Spirit as speaks forth Motional Voices Jer. 23.16 Isaiah 8.19 Deut. 18.10 and if by its Transformation into Angelical Light then as false Prophets it produces Visions Revelations and internal Voices within them Now this familiar Spirit is nothing else but a Witch so that when it Motions forth Spiritual or Religious Matters Eph. 6.12 then it becomes spiritual Witchcraft and when it Motions forth upon a Temporal Account then it becomes natural Witchcraft The one or other of these Witchcrafts almost all the World lies under Therefore it follows That this familiar Spirit that is begot by Imagination doth sometimes produce such a Voice in it self as if some Spirit without them did appear to them without Bodies and Reveal things to them 1 Sam. 28.1 as it was by the Witch of Endor and as Samuel spoke in Saul's Consience This hath been a common thing in all Ages and Gilt of Conscience can quickly quine an Object and produce a motional Voce thinking it is without the Body whenas all is but from the Familiar Spirit And when this Familiar Spirit or new begot Wisdom is quickened in the evil Heart Exod. 1.10 Jer. 4.22 it grows from Strength to Strength from one degree of Knowledg to a further degree of evil Knowledg and evil Wisdom Creating to it self such things as God never Created as an immortal Soul or Spirit without a Body And it hath made it so as that it can appear in any Shape Form or Likeness whether it be God Man Devil or Angel All are made Spirits without Bodies Also it hath Created to it self such a Devil as can whip into Man and out of Man at his Pleasure And when Sin is Commited then all the Evil is charged upon that boddilis Devil And yet Men must be hanged for Murder whenas they say it is a bodilis Devil that is the Murtherer or temps to Murther And more then this the Devil must be chained in Hell-fire and yet a bodilis Spirit and in all places at one time where he can tempt all the World to Sin and yet no body can see him and yet he is in Hell-fire in Chains but may be called out at the Pleasure of a Witch This is the Worlds Bugbare Devil and the pitchy Darkness all the World lies under Thus we see what Fruits the Imagination of Reason brings forth And whereas you scoffingly ask Mark 5 4. whether Imagination breaks Chains pointing to that saying of the Gospel Here you shew your Ignorance that cannot distinguish between Devils in Nature and Devils produced by Accidents in Nature Nay you know nothing at all of neither the one nor the other and so make no difference of their Actions For tho Distempers in nature are devilish yet not damned Devils For this we sind that Christ never called distracted or mad Men Devils for these may come through some extraordinary Fright Grief or Loss and in some may increase to that strength as to break Iron Chains For having broke the Brain the Seat of Reason is quite out of order and so makes them more strong then when their Reason was in Order And Christ never Judged and Condemned these but cast those fiery Distempers and divilish Diseases out and restored them to their right Mind So that it is not the Distracted or Unreasonable that Christ Condemned but the Learned and Sensible and Prudent Man even such as commit Murder for Conscience sake and condemn true Prophesy from their conceated Wisdom of high-flown piercing Reason This is evident throughout all the Scriptures especially

behold him as he is in his full Glory Deut. 10.6 If God was willing at any time that some of his Servants the Prophets should behold him he was compelled to vale his Glory so as that their frail Nature might be in a capasity to behold him And this we further affirm That we can sooner find in Scripture that our God hath and ever had a distinct Body of himself than you can find in Scripture a Trinity of Persons in one Godhead for if you find Three distinct Persons then you must find Three Bodies and where then is your Spirit God become 4. Again is not the Scriptures clear That the Fathers of old did see God Gen. 17.3 Exod. 24.10 Isa 6.5 John 35.9 Exod. 33.23 and ever beheld him in Form and Shape of a Man Will you say that God assumed that Shape and yet had no Shape of his own this is to make God a Conniver It is no wonder as I said before that you dispise John Reeve for saying that the Lord spake to him to the hearing of the Ear for you do not believe that God hath any Tongue to speak at all For say you a Spirit hath no Flesh and hath no Body For say you Body and Spirit are Two contrary things As the Scripture saith that God hath a Body Dan. 7.9 Revel 10.1 1.14 John 6. ● Psal 94.9 N●m● 12.8 Isa 6● 5 so it attributes to this Body Hands Eyes Face Nose Mouth Ears Arms Leggs Breast Heart Back c. And yet must he have never a Body this is clearly to deny Scripture for the Scripturian saith That God hath a Body but the Antescripturian saith That God hath neither Body Parts or Shape but yet is an infinite vast God filling all things and is in all Places at one and the same time and so can neither Assend nor Descend Come nor Go but is everywhere at once as your great Augustin saith This is yours and the Worlds monstrous God Are those the Men that are so capable of Argument if we should be as ignorant in the Scriptures as you it were no matter if our Tongues should cleave to the Roof of our Mouths I wonder you are not ashamed to pretend to Scripture do you believe the Scripture Certain I am that there are many Doctors of your Church that doth not believe them at all for instance hereof there is one of your Doctors namely Dr. More This Man in one of his Books called his Cabila doth little less than give the Scripture the Ly for treating upon the Creation of Man by Moses saith That the Scriptures doth not always speak according to the exactness of Truth but according to their Appearance in Sense and the vulgar Opinion and he quotes Chrisostim Bernard and Aquinus as holding the same things and instances it as to the Creating of Adam and Eve Saying thus God hath no Figure or Shape altho Moses saith he hath he only permits the Ignorant and Vulgar People to Believe so it being his Prudence and Policy so to do Now is not this Odious for what Prudence is it to Flatter Dissemble and Deceive the People for must Gods Prophets be but like Polititians of State pretending one thing and acting another Again this Man brings in Moses speaking thus God took of the Dust of the Ground wrought it with his Hands into such a temper that it was fit to make the Body of a Man which when framed then comes near to it with his Mouth and breathed into his Nostrils the Breath of Life And when God had made a Woman of one of Adam 's Ribs he takes her by the Hand and brought her to Adam so when Adam was awaked Ge● 2● 21 he found his Dream to be true for he dream'd that God took a Woman out of him for God stood by him with a Woman in his Hand Now it is true says this Doctor Moses spakes in this manner to satisfy the rude Multitude who was ever ready to think that God was in Forme and Shape as they were and thus Moses complyed with their Humour and permited them to belive so yet saith he it is a Contradiction to the Idia of God to have Figure and Shape Now what say you to this is not this giving Moses the Lie Moses you see would permit People to believe That God was in the Form of a Man Now why will not you permit us to believe so Moses did not count this Doctrine a mischievous Principle as you do but you with this Man set your selves against Moses and against the Scriptures they are counted no other than a Lie with you Now it is clear by this that many of you Doctors are stark blind Athists your Protestant Church is now grown as blind with Age almost as your Fathers the Papists and as Atheistical as one of the Popes who said That that Fable of Jesus Christ had brought their Church great Riches And one of that Church said to me that the Scriptures were but balderdash Stuff Now as to that saying of Christ's to his Disciples That a Spirit had not Flesh and Bone as he had it was only to inform them that there was no such Spirit as the World imagined that could be seen that had no Body for Eyes of Flesh must have a Substance for its Object Therefore said Christ handle me and see for I have a Body a Substance of very Flesh and Bone John 20 2● and they felt and believed him to be their Lord and God For Christ from hence would have them for ever after to know that all Spirits whither of God Men or Angels are always invisible for it is the Body that is visible for the Soul that is in it is always invisible which Spirit comprehends all visible things yet cannot Live Act or Operate without its Body And so much for that Principle Again Page 19th you Representor object against that most divine and misterious Principle of God the Fathers becoming Flesh and call this a Doctrine quite contrary to Scripture and produce those Scriptures for Proof against us namely that God sent his Son made of a Woman And the Word was made Flesh but say you there is not one Word That the Father was made Flesh CHAP. VIII ANSWER IT is confessed by us Gal. 4.4 John 5.26 10.18 Epb. 5.2 that the Scripture saith That God sent his Son as also that Christ came of himself and that he laid down his Life of himself Now if he laid down his Life of himself then where was the Father but in himself for it was his divine Spirit that was the Father by which he could lay down his Life by that self and by that self could take it up again For God transmuteing his spiritual Body into Flesh so gained the Godhead and humane Nature together Heb. 1.3 and so hath a Twofold Self Humane and Divine Therefore when he saith he hath Power of himself to lay down his Life Titus

many as believed in him shall Reign with him at that time And all faithful Men shall rise again and the Residue to Shame because they believed not in God that came in the Flesh to deliver Thus it is made Clear That God the Father became Flesh but one Evidence more from John befor I conclude this Point He in Admiration of his Lords Love cryed out saying 1 John 3.1 O What Love the Father hath bestowed upon us but the World knoweth him not but we know him Now who was this Father of Love was it any other but the Apostles Jesus his following Words doth shew it as clear as the Light saying thus We who are his Apostles do know him and we further know that when He doth appear we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is That is Psal 3.21 when he comes to change our vile Bodies and make them like his own glorious Body then shall we see him as he is in himself one personal God Cloathed with Flesh and Bone as a Garment of eternal Glory This is the Faith saith John That maketh Pure and he whose Faith abides in Jesus Christ that came by Water and Blood hath the everlasting Father and he that holdeth this Faith sineth not That is he sineth not to Act he may have the motion to Sin but it preserveth from the Act for that golden Grace of Faith crusheth that Cokatrice Egg of the Motion of Sin before it become a stinging Serpent and so Conquers and Overcomes This is the Doctrin of the Gospel and he that Imbraceth it hath the Father and the Son 2 John 10.9 where and to whom the Blessing and the Salvation of God-speed is given This is the true God and the Amen 1 John 5.20 Revel 3.14 and all other Gods are Idols This is the Muggletonian's Principle which the Ante-Scripturian calls a mischievious Principle Thus you curse the true God and defy the Holy one of Israel chusing to your self a God of your own lying Imagination In Page 19. you further Object against that Principle how that the God-head dyed This say you is quite contrary to Scripture which saith God is Immortal and that he hath Immortality 1. Tim. 1.17 6.16 Also you say That Muggleton teacheth That the Soul of Man is Mortal and turns to Dust To this say you the Scripture tells us That the Souls of Men are alive after their Death Matt. 22 32. And that God is said to be their God after they are Dead Matt. 10.28 And that we are not to fear them that can kill the Body and not the Soul And that Lazarus when he dyed went to Heaven and Dives to Hell Luke 16.22 CHAP. IX ANSWER The Scriptures Acts 20.28 say that God purchased the Church with his Blood Now the Blood of Christ was no other but the Blood of God and when he power'd forth that Blood then did he power forth his Life for Life lay in that Blood Therefore it is said That he powered forth his Soul unto Death Isaiah 53.12 Heb 9.14 and that he offered up himself through the eternal Spirit What is that but that the eternal Spirit entered into Death or passed through Death in a Moment into eternal Life Death being too weak to keep him under Coll 2.9 1 Cor. 15.54 so that whatever Life was in Jesus did enter into Death Therefore he that was the Alpha and Omega Revel 1.18 the First and the Last was Dead but is now Alive and behold he now lives for ever more and is that immortal only wise God blessed for ever So that we do affirm 1 Tim. 6.16 2 John 7. Revel 1.18 That God is immortal and we also know that Eternity did become Time for Flesh was in Time and Time did become Eternity again Now in that you Teach That God cannot dye it is evident that you do not belive that Christ was any God at all so that you Trenitarians Arians and Socinians you are all a like and that you are no more Christians then they For it will necessarily follow That if it were nothing but humane Nature or Life in Christ that died then the Death of any other Man had been equevolent to Christ's Sufferings and as Meritorious as his and so your Spirit God without a Body might have saved you by sheding of any other Man's Blood But the true Christian doth know that no Blood can make Attonement for Sin but the most precious and unvaluable Blood of a God to believe this John 6.54 is to drink his Blood And to believe that that blessed Body of his was no less then the very body of God this is to eate his flesh so that whosoever eats his flesh and drinks his blood so hath by so doing gained the full assurance of Eternal Life this is a standing Truth and shall prevail But how is it possible you should believe this when as you cannnot believe that any Life dies at all for say you The Soul of Man is alive after Death here your Ignorance appears very great for all your Learning Where did you ever find by Scripture That the Soul of any man was ever alive without its body The Scripture no where affirms it if rightly understood they are but old Wives Fables or Monks and Fryers Forgeries and heathenish Principles from their own blind Imaginations As for those Sayings concerning Dives and Lazarus 't is but a Parable Luke 16. and so must have a Spiritual meaning for Souls without Bodies have no Tongues nor Eyes nor Bosoms as that Parable speaks of but that Parable was only to set forth the two Seeds here in Mortality which is largely opened by this Commission of the Spirit And as to Christ speaking of God being the God of the living and not of the dead it was spoken to the Saduces who denyed the Resurrection therefore Christ shews that there was a necessity of a Resurrection Act 2.31 and 13.36 seeing that Abraham Isaac and Jacob and the rest of the Prophets were dead and their Sepulchres are with us at this day and if God do not raise them again to that Glory their Faith was pitch'd upon then was he the God of the dead and not of the living in that all dyed to him instead of living to him And as to that saying Fear not them which can kill the body c. That is fear not him that may kill both Soul and Body by a natural death but rather fear him that hath an absolute power in himself to slay both Soul and Body with an Eternal or second Death Moreover when the Scripture saith the body dies doth not that include the soul or natural Life What have you your natural Learning for but to understand the natural sence of words Do you not find that that which our Translation calls body the Greek calleth souls as Numb 6.6 there it is said That he shall come at no dead body in our

apropriates David's Key to belong to it Psal 149.4 which Key lyes in such and the like Sayings The Lord takes Pleasure in his People he will beautifie the Meek with Salvation this is the Key that opens Heaven And as follows Let the high Praises of God be in their Mouth and a two-edged Sword in their Hand and then with the other Key and Sword To execute Vengance upon the Heathen and Punishments upon the People To bind their Kings with Chains and their Nobles with Fetters of Iron To execute upon them the Jndgment written And this is the Key that opens and none can shut and shuts and no Man can open Psal 149.9 This Honour saith David belongs to all living Saints For these Keys and Sword belongs to all Saints Isa 54.17 57.4 and David himself in those and the like Sayings had flung into the Fire all that dispised his Spirit of Prophesie of his God's becoming Flesh and Sealed them up in these Words Saying divide their Tongues Psal 55.9 for I have seen Violence in the City Cast them down in thy Anger Consume them in Wrath Psal 59.13 let not them come into thy Righteousness blot them out of the Book of Life and let them not be written with the Righteous Psal 140.10 Let burning Goals fall upon them let them be cast into the Fire The Prophet Jeremiah likewise meeting with the Seed of the Serpent opposing his spiritual Declarations concerning God's becoming Flesh and his Sufferings by that Seed Seals them up to Death Eternal for they were for devising Devises against that Doctrine of his therefore he powereth forth these Imprecasions against them saing O Lord Jor. 18.23 29.22 forgive not their Iniquity neither blot out their Sin from thy Sight c. And then changing his Words he speaks in the Person of God saying Jer. 23.14 They are all unto me as Sodom So that we see that the Prophit's Curse is God's Curse Jer. 6.30 And further saith he The Saints shall call them Reprobate Silver This is Gospel Power the Lawes Curse penetrades down into the Grave Ez●k 32.24 26.27 29. the first Death but the Gospels Power and Curss raises it again from the first Death into a second and eternal Death being a living Death and dying Life And thus we see that every true Minister hath Power to set Life and Death before 〈◊〉 And that Ministry that hath not that Power Mark 16.16 John 3.18 is no true Ministry Now what a blind Guide is this that connot see these plain Scriptures but cries out Prove this by Scripture Woe be to all such as are led by these blind Guides Oh that all the Elect were but delivered from their Captivity and Bondage under their Formalities and might come to hear of Truth that their Joy and Peace might abound being the Seale of eternal Life But it is a wonderful thing that such Preachers as those who cannot Believe that any Prophet hath Power as aforesaid and yet they themselves shall take upon them to Judg Mans Faith and Condemn him for it so is it not a wicked thing to deny the Prophets and Apostles Power of the Keys of Heaven and Hell and yet presume to do that thing themselves whilst they acknowledg themselves but falible Men Doth not this Make you justly damned in your selves But it is no wondring at it for what saith the Scripture He hath blinded their Eyes John 12.40 they Stumble at Noon-Day They have all the Spirit of Slumber And now I shall return to Answer this Misrepresentor's false Reflections upon our main Principles yea such as the very Scriptures stands upon and on which eternal Life wholy depends In Page the 18th you bring in John Reeve sciteing him thus Saying God is not a Spirit but hath a Body Your Reflections are thus The Accusation The Scripture makes a Body and a Spirit Tow opposite things so that a Body is not a Spirit nor a Spirit a Body Eccles. 12.7 A Spirit hath not Flesh and Bone Luke 24.37 The Scripture calls God a Spirit but never a Body God is not in form of a Man but is invisible and no Man ever Saw him or can CHAP. VII ANSWER 1. Your Citation is false For John Reeve's Words are thus That God is not a Spirit without a Body By your false Citation you would have your worldly Disciples to think That he affirms That God is a Body without a Spirit But to come to the Point I must tell you That the Body and Soul are not Two contrary Things and if your Solomon Eccles 3.19 told you so with one Breath he tells you the quite contrary in another but many times wise Solomons Verse 20. do not know the meaning of their own Sayings Solomon was a wise Man 1 Kings 3.12 12 24 11.4 but the Wisdom which he craved and that God gave him was but natural so that Solomon's Writings are but the Operations of his natural Reason and from sum intrigate Sayings of his Father David So they are no Scripture for he was no Prophetical Man Matt. 12.42 2. Again If the Body and Soul are two contrary things as you say and in Oposition to each other then was the Body and Soul of Christ at variance with it self and in Oposition with each other and so two oposite Things If so then Christ's Body did not go to Heaven nor never would And belike you do not belive that Christ's Body is in Heaven any more than the Quakers and I know not how you should believe it because your God hath never a Body So Christ is none of your Fatherly God if he have a Body Can a Spirit live and subsist without a Body where do the Scriptures say That God is a Spirit without a Body Did not you learn your own Catechise or if you did have you forgotten doth it not teach saying to your Pupils That God is a Spirit Or a spiritual Substance most Holy Wise Just and Infinite Now if it be so that God hath a Substance then he must on necessity have a Body And if he be Holy Wise and Just he must have a Person to possess his ravishing Glory in and yet to be of uncompounded Purity Exod. 15.3 Is it not said That God was a Man of War that shews that he is in the form of a Man Also Christ told the Pharises Ma●● ●● 17 Josh 9.1 3. That there was no Man perfectly Good but one which was God 3. Moreover if your Soul can be more Wise Just and Holy without your Body then turn it out of the Body and see what Holiness and Justice it can Act without its Body 1 Cor. 6.19 But the Truth of Scripture is That God had a Body and Person from all Eternity R●vel 21.23 1.14 10.1 a spiritual Body brighter than the Sun more clear than Christial and that is the Reason why Mortality cannot

Bible but after the Greek your own Doctors read thus He shall come at no dead Soul Is it not said Gen. 2.17 That man was made a living soul And was not the threatning charge given out That that soul that sinned Ezek. 18. vers 20. that soul should dye and yet say you the soul cannot dye Now that which the National Ministry do make a ground of the Immortality of the soul is to all spiritual wise men an evident proof of its Mortality as where it is said so such a one dyed and was gathered to his people now whether is it that they were gathered but into the grave As for instance see 2 Kings 22.20 If the Soul can enjoy Heaven without its body Col. 3.4 1 Thes 4.14 what matter of a Resurrection but it is certain that the Scriptures affirms the contrary and that there can be no Salvation without a Resurrection When God shall raise the dead Mat. 13.41 c. 24.31 c. 25.31 John 5. ●8 c. 11.43 he hath his Angels attending to gather the Saints together as God raiseth them neither God nor his Angels doth not bring their Souls from Heaven to ●●ume their dead bodies but our God raiseth Soul and Body together out of the Grave by a word speaking as he did the Body and Soul of Lazarus Again on the other hand 1 Revel 20.13 Isa 66.24 must all the damned Souls come from Hell to fetch up their cursed bodies What Hell do they come from but out of the Grave Soul and Body out of the Grave and when the Soul and Body rises Jer. 17.13 Mich. 7.71 Ex●d 10.21 Revel 10.10 then the Devil rises to his eternal Punishment and this Earth will be the place of the Devils Torment where he acted all his Lies and Cruelty there shall he suffer eternally after the Elect Men and Angels are assended with their God into Eternal Glory the Plagues of Egypt were a Tipe of this These things will be so in their time And so much in answer to this Principle In pag. 20th you oppose John Reeve for saying How that but one Angel fell from his Created Purity and Glory This Doctrine say you The Accusation is quite contrary to Scripture which tells us in Jude That the Angels fell and this say you cannot be apply'd to Kain and his Posterity For they say you by our own words never fell And as for Kain say you He never was from that fallen Angel but was of Adam's begetting as well as Seath. And again you affirm also That all Kain's Offspring nerished in the Floud CHAP. X. ANSWER IF that Offspring of that Serpent-Angel that was cast from Heaven could know it self Isa 29.10 John 12.40 Rev. 11.7 then you might know that these Angels spoken of in Jude were the Offspring of Cursed Kain the Serpent Angel transmuted into Flesh and reserved in Chains of Unbelief and the Darkness of Ignorance For Jude spoke of no other Devils but what were clothed in Flesh and it was they that were the Devils ordained to condemnation And therefore mind for he brings in Sodom and Gomorrah and the Rebellious Jews against Moses and those upstart Hypocrites who denied the Lord to be the only and alone true God and yet pretended his Name All these saith he were ordained to condemnation in that Serpent-Angel aforesaid being reprobated in the Seed and Kain was that Seed And therefore Jude pronounces the Woe unto them as the Off-spring and Seed of Kain v. 11. to whom Eternal Torment doth belong Again Rev. 12.7 where it is said that there was a war in heaven Michael and his Angels fighting against the Dragon and his Angels That Michael was the Spirit of the Lord Jesus in all his Angelical Believers and the Dragon was the Spirit of Cursed Kain in all his Seed This War was on Earth tho' said to be in Heaven because the Original of both Seeds came from Heaven for there never was any actual Rebellion in Heaven but that Angel-Serpent aforesaid being cast out all his Seed fell in him and was cast out with him and so actual Rebellion took place And therefore said John Wo to the Inhabitants of the Earth for the Devil not Devils is come down amongst you Verse 12.17 And it was this Devil that brought the Wo both to Saint and Serpent in this Warfare doth these Two Woes take place to them Two Seeds one in this Fight having his Heel bruised Gen. 3.15 Rev. 13.7.10 which is in Persecution loss of Goods and Death natural the other having his Head bruised by the Saints Weapons of War which reacheth to a second Death And this Devil that was cast down 1 John 3.12 was the Father of Cain from whence all Wickedness and Cruelty hath flown for Cain was the very First-born of that Devil and the fulness of that Serpent-Angel's God-Head lived Boddily in Cain and such of his Seed that have in them a great Share of that piercing Reason or God-head-power became potent Angels Lords and Governours of this World it being given to that Seed and they labour in this their Kingdom to imitate the grandure of that Glory their Father the fallen Angel had before his Fall and to come as near to it as possibly they can And here it is Ezek. 29.3 That the Prophet Ezekiel compares Pharaoh King of Egipt to the great red Dragon And the Assirian Monarch was said by the Prophet to be in Dignity Power Glory and Buty like unto his Father the Angel before his Transmutation into Flesh Chap. 33.3 when he walked once in the Garden of Eden being greater than several others of his Father's Children The great Kings of Babilon were said to be from Lucipher and therefore were called after his Name Lucipher the Sun of the Morning And they are said by the Prophet Isaiah Isa 14.12 To be cast down from Heaven which could not be if they had not proceeded from the fallen Angel And as they were cast down from Heaven in that Angel even so they were for exalting their Thrones above the Stars and to be like unto God which doth shew That they were evil Kings and evil Beasts For good Kings and such as proceed not from Cain they are not for exalting themselves so high as to that Heavenly Throne of judging of Mens Faith and Conscience neither will they tiranise over their Subjects but do Justice according to the Law But to the Matter aforesaid The great King of Tyrus Ezek. 28.3 seems to out-top all the foregoing Kings with Angelical Perfection for he is said to be the very anointed Cherub himself he having as great a Share of that lost Glory as his fallen Nature could afford him for that Angel that he proceeded from was a Church which was the highest Order of Angels and this King was of the highest Degree of Wisdom Buty and Glory And therefore his Perfections was such Verse 13.14 as that he

in the Learned Scribes and Pharisees Mark 2.6 Luke 20.20 Matt. 26.3 Luke 20.5 Who held a Counsel and Reasoned in themselves how they might intrap Jesus in his Words And that Devil that tempted Christ he was one of them and no such bodilis Devil as your Reason hath created to it self that should carry Christ up to the Pinacle of that outward material Temple in Jerusalem no no But against all your Wisdom of Reason we affirm That he was a Man-Devil being a Learned Scribe well Read in Scripture and could argue the same from this Pinacle of his subtil Pate but Christ repulsed his Scripture Argument with Scripture again saying It is written thou shalt not temp the Lord thy God but him only thou shalt serve Now where was this Scripture written was it not in Deut. 6.13 16 And was it not writen to Men indued with the Wisdom of Reason It was not writen to a bodilis Devil for bodilis Devils do not commit Murder Adultery or tempt God it is Man that doth all this and it was to Man that the Law was given Exod. 20. Deut. 4.13.15 Psal 78.18 41.56 and so the Law saith Thou shalt not Tempt the Lord thy God as your Fathers tempted him And again You shall not corrupt yourselves Now from what is here said James 1.14 4.1.2.7 Compared it must needs follow that if Pride Envy Lust Covetuousness and Hipocrisy be the Divels in Men are not Men and Women those Devils that are brought under the Power of those Evils When the Apostle said That the Devil should cast some of them Saints into Prison Revel 2.10 the Saints were not cast into Prison by Devils that had no Bodies Therefore lay not your Brats at other Mens Dores John 6.70 8.44 Acts 1● 10 Isaiah 3.9 but charge your own Souls home with the Evil you do For as it is Man 's own Soul that Sins so it is his own Soul that must suffer This will prove true and so will that of Moses and Elias altho you call it all Fable For why will you ty God up to your Imagination of cursed Reason Is anything too hard for God to do Gen. 22.16 when his divine Wisdom moves him to it Did not he Swear by himself to himself what he proposed to do Psal 8.5 Phill. 2.7 8. And may he not by the same Rule change his own glorious Condition into Flesh and having humbled himself to himself John 17.5 19. Matt. 27.46 2● 2 Luke 24.4 Acts 1.10 Revel 22.9 may he not cause his Humanity to Pray and Cry unto his Divinity within him or to his spiritual Charge committed unto his Angels without him for a further Manifestation of his unserchable Power in Shame and Weakness as well as in Power and Glory Is it not writen How that his Angels had given them a Charge to watch over him And did not Moses and Elias do so from his Birth to his Assention Also is it not written Luke 1.17 Matt. 4.5 M●●● 4.5 Matt. ●7 12.3 That John the Baptist came in the Spirit and Power of Elias Which is plain that John the Baptist had his Commission from Elias for there was none greater in Heaven then Elias was at that time for God was then on Earth eating and drinking with Man as Man as was before said Thus much may serve to satisfy all sober Men who will not violently oppose plain Scripture Again you further object against that Saying of theirs where they affirm That no one ever did declare the Knowledge of the true God in his Form and Nature as they have done Now in Answer to this say you There was Sabulus and Noetus held but one Person in the Diety called by different Names These you Representor call Broachers of our Doctrin which you judg so mischevious CHAP. XII ANSWER IF these Bishops of Sabulus and Noetus taught so they were in the right of it and they might hint at Truth but they wanted a full Revelation for it was not Revealed to them as it is now and these Two Prophets never read any of their Writings neither do I think that there is any of them that are truly theirs in being We have the Prophets and Apostles Writings through Providence to shew that Christ was the only God altho they were very sparing in their Proof how God became Flesh to what this Commission doth and wherefore why because the Mistery of God was not to be finished according to John until the Days of the Voice of the Seventh Anty-Angel's sounding of his Trumpet or Ministry Revel 10.7 namely the Quakers And Sabalus and Noetus were before the sounding of the First Anty-Angel the Papist with Power Sabalus the Bishop being about Two hundred Years after Christ and Noetus was Contemporary with him so that this being in the time of the Ten Persecutions there was Truth then in the World and a Trinity of Persons in one Godhead had not got Footing at that time during the Ten Persecutions But after Religion was set up by Emperial Power then Bishops were chosen out of Learned and Philosophical Men and Churches as they called them builded and Riches given for their Support then were Sinods and Counsels called to establish Error and formal Worship and to suppress Truth That was ever without outward Pomp and Glory Thus was Noetus and Sabalus's Doctrin Judged Heresy both by Trenitarian and Arian and tho they Cursed Excommunicated and Condemned each other by several Counsels as if Hell was broke loose and so it was for the Thousand Years time after Satan's Binding was ended Revel 20. as soon as the Ten Persecutions were over for then the Devil went forth to deceive the World with false Worship as John declareth The Arian being but as a Branch sprouted out of the Roman Catholick altho in Constansius's Days and some time after a very great Branch insomuch that the Catholicks could not then bost of Number for in the Counsel of Ariminum and Selencia there was 560 Bishops the greatest Convention that ever was known and yet they Decreed the Arian Faith So that will you Catholicks say That Number is an Argument of Truth But whichsoever of them that got the Emperor of their side gained Power over the other so that both of them altho they persecuted each other with deadly Hatred as they got upermost in Power nevertheless they could agree together to kill Christ in his Members and to tread the Holy City under Foot of innocent minded Men and Women Revel 11.1 by their Penal Laws that could not bow down to their outward Formalities and Antichristian Principles These were as Two Thieves that Trtuth was Crusified between Matt. 27.38 Now these Catholicks prevailing and they having not only the Scriptures order'd by the Emperor Constantine to be Translated into their Tongue but likewise their learned Counsels collected and gathered into a Heap and all the other Writings of preceding