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Now this Son of Man which John fpeaketh of, was no other but Christ himself, and this Christ is the very God, and he is that Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, he that was dead, and behold he is alive for evermore; and this two-edged Sword that came out of his Mouth, he hath put into my Mouth, and that was when he faid, I have put the two-edged Sword of my Spirit into thy Mouth, to pronounce Bleffing and Curfing to Eternity: Now God having put the two-edged Sword of his Spirit, which came out of his Mouth, and hath put it into mine, how will you Quakers, or any others do, to deliver yourfelves from it? For it is a two-edged Sword, it cuts down the Seed of Faith, as the Wheat in Love, and makes it obedient unto the Commiffion of the Spirit, and fo they are gathered as God's Wheat into his Barn, which Barn is the Commiffion of the Spirit; for every Commiffion is a Shelter, or as a Barn, to keep the Wind, Storms, and Rain off from the Wheat: But on the contrary, the other Edge of this Sword, which is put into my Mouth, it cuts down the Tares: The Tares is the Seed of Reason, which are bound in Bundles, and caft into the Fire; for this Edge of the Sword, which is the Sentence of Condemnation, it cuts down many Bundles of the Seed of Reason for the Fire of Hell, to one Sheaf of the Seed of Faith which is gathered into God's Barn, that is, to believe the Commiffion of the Spirit. Now the Quakers, and all other Sects, the Speakers of them, and many Hundreds of their Believers befides, are thofe Tares which this Commiffion of the Spirit hath cut down by the Edge of this Sword, which fhall be as Bundles of Tares, fit for nothing elfe but for that eternal Fire, because they have despised that their Fellow-creature should have Power to bless and curse, though God will have Men and Women juftified and condemned, no other Way but by Man like themselves; for it was always God's Practice to give Authority to Men that are mortal, to judge and condemn according to the Tenor of their Commiffion, whether it be for a temporal Death, or an eternal Death: And this Power hath God given unto me, and in this Regard I am the only and alone Judge what shall become of Men and Women after Death; neither fhall those that are damned by me, fee any other God or Judge. but me, or that Sentence which I have paffed upon them: But

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the Bleffed fhall fee that God, Face to Face, which hath set me as an Ambaffador in his Room, and this Power, I know, God will never take from me, whatsoever you Quakers deny or testify againft.

5. There is little in this Particular alfo, but my Words repeated; only this, there is fomething concerning Dorothy Carter, whereas I neither fay that Dorothy Carter, nor no Man upon the Earth can, or ought to judge of the Doctrine of a Prophet, that hath a Commiffion from God, there being none in the World at this Day but myself.

Anfwer. Who do you, blind Quakers, think fhould be the Judge of a Prophet that hath a Commission from God? Is not a true Prophet the Law giver, and ought not every one to fubmit unto his Laws? Hath not a Prophet a prerogative Power as a King hath? Doth not a true Prophet ftand in the King of Heaven's Room, as an Ambaffador doth in the Place of an earthly King? And fhall thofe that are to be fubject to the Laws of the King, go to try whether the King's Laws be good or juft? Nay, thofe that are the King's Friends, ought not to try whether the King's Laws or Declarations be jut, because his Friends Happiness lieth in yeilding Obedience unto it; and if his Friends ought not to try the King, much lefs his Enemies: So I fay, though Dorothy Carter be a Friend to the Prophet of the Lord, that it lieth not in her Power, neither is it for her to try the Doctrine of a Prophet, but to fubmit unto the Doctrine and Power of a Prophet; for therein lieth her, and all others Safety. And whereas you fay, that I have excluded Dorothy Carter, and all other Men upon Earth, from Salvation, I do here testify, that he is one of the Bleffed of the Lord, with many others in the World at this Day; though I will not allow Dorothy Carter, nor no other, to have Power to try a true Prophet's Doctrine, though they be Believers of it, that doth not exclude them from Salvation, but gives them the more Affurance of it, in that they fuffer themselves to be try'd by a Prophet, and his Doctrine; therefore I do exclude Dorothy Carter, and all Men upon Earth, in Point of Tryal or Judgment of the Doctrine of a. Prophet that hath a Commiflion from

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God, as I have; and if thofe of the fame Truth with a Pro phet, may not try a Prophet, how will you do that are Enemies, to try his Doctrine? For it is not your quoting of the Letters of the Scriptures, as you have done in two Places, nor the Light of Chrift within you, that can try me; for I being one of the laft Witneffes and Prophets by Commiffion from God, I am made Judge of the Scriptures, and Judge of the Light of Chrift within you: And how will you do, or by what will you try my Doctrine and me, feeing I am made Judge of the Scriptures, and of your Light of Christ, and your Light of Nature, and all that is within you and without you both? It is all to be condemned by me. By which Way then can you come to try me, and to make me appear to be a falfe Prophet, as you fay is apparent enough?

The fixth and feventh Things that you upbraid me with, that I fay there is no eternal Life to be had but in the Faith of this Doctrine; and that I do prefume, under Pretence of my Commiffion of the Spirit, to rob Christ of his Office, which the Father hath committed unto him, as chief Judge ordained of God; with many other Sayings of mine, which hath been expreft in a Letter of mine unto Samuel Hooton and W. S.

Anfwer. That there is no eternal Life to be had now in these Days, but by Faith in the Doctrine of this Commiffion of the Spirit, that is Truth, and many there is that can witness the fame, I mean in those that have heard the Sound of it, and it will be found to be fo by you Quakers, and many Hundreds of other Sects befides. And as for my Saying that God hath made me the chief Judge in this World at this Day, that is true: alfo, notwithstanding Chrift's having all Judgment put into his Hands by the Father; for that is nothing to you what is fpoken of in Scripture, that will do you no good: For this Chrift which the Scripture fpeaks of, is God the Father, and this God hath chofen and ordained me to be the chief Judge in fpiritual and eternal Things: Alfo he hath made me Judge of the Scriptures, as I faid before; neither have I taken the Office from Chrift, but he hath given it unto me, and hath invested it upon me; neither will he take it away from me,

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and that you, and fuch as you are, fhall find, to your eternal Sorrow, make as light of it as you will, you shall not be delivered.

The latter Part of your Letter hath little in it but repeating of Scripture-Texts, and fome Paffages or Words of mine, which you do invade against me. There is one Thing would make one fmile, and that is this, because it is not written in the Scriptures of Truth that I Lodowick Muggleton art ordained of God to be the chief Judge in the World in thefe laft Days, will it follow therefore that I am not the chief Judge, because my Name is not recorded in Scriptures? If you had lived in the Days when Chrift was upon Earth, you would hardly have found his Name recorded in the Law and the Prophets; nay, it is the more probable that I am ordained the chief Judge, because my Name is not recorded in Scripture; for if there had been fuch a Name written in Scriptures that should be the last Prophet in the World, many Men would have named their Sons Lodowick Muggleton; and that is the Cafe there is so many Johns and Thomaffes, and Jeremiahs, with many other Scripture Prophets and Apostles Names; but there is never a Lodowick Muggleton in all the Scriptures, and yet God hath ordained him to be the Judge of Quakers and all other defpifing Spirits. And though there be a general Day of Judgment, that is, a general Day of Execution, when Men fhall receive the Poffeffion of eternal Happiness, or eternal Mifery, and this may be called the Day of Judgment, which Chrift fhall judge the World with, when as it fhall be faid, Come you blessed, and Go you cursed; but the Judgment and Sentence they have in this Life by thofe Prophets, Minifters and Meffengers of Chrift, which he hath made Judges for that Purpose, it is just like a Goal delivery. The Judges many Times condemns Men to die, yet the Execution is not immediately done, but at the Day appointed it is: So it is with all true Prophets, who are made Judges of the fpiritual and eternal Eftate of Mankind; they have their Judgment in this Life, and in the Day of Death it is put in Exection by Death; for there fhall be no more pleading with God; but this will be all that God will fay in the Refurrection, Come you bleffed, and Go you curfed: Neither fhall you Quakers and others have any other Sentence but what I have paffed upon you; and when Death feizeth upon you, then fhall you enter into

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the Poffeffion of it by paffing through this first Death, and fo enter into the second Death, where you fhall remain for ever and ever.

In the laft Place you fay, that I accufe the Quakers to be of the Nature and Seed of the Serpent; alfo I do fay that the Quakers do preach from the Scriptures and Light within, and that Devils is caft out, and much Good is done by them.

And from thefe Words of mine you fay that I confute and contradict myself, for this Quaker would fain prove, that because they preach from the Scriptures, and Light within, therefore they are fent of God; for how fhall they preach, faith he, except they be fent? And by Vertue of their preaching, and the Power they have received of God, Devils are caft out, and much Good is done by them; and fuch, faith he, are not of the Nature and Seed of the Serpent.

Anfwer. As for you Quakers being the Nature and Seed of the Serpent, that is certainly fo, and can be no other Ways, because you are the very Influence of John Robins fpiritual witchcraft Power upon you, and the very Spirit of Antichrift doth run thorough the Bodies of the Quakers, for they do all of them deny a perfonal God without them, they do all of them deny also the Refurrection of a Body, fo that they are the greatest Fighters against God of any; for they having got Chrift all within them, they are fuch a proud, conceited, ftiffnecked People, that no Body can deal with them, but this Commiffion of the Spirit; and this I will fay to you, that there is never a Quaker that is a Speaker, neither Man nor Woman, that liveth and dieth in that Principle, that can poffibly be faved, no more than Cain and Judas is faved, think of yourselves what you will. And do not you Quakers think, because you, by the Letter of the Scriptures, and by the Light within you, do caft out Devils, and much Good is done thereby, that you are ever the lefs the Serpent's Seed, neither doth that prove that you are sent of God, but rather the contrary; for the Priefts of the Nation, and all other Sects of Religion, doth the fame Things; for the Papift Miniftry by report hath done. more wonderous Things in that Kind than any, Quaker ever did, by the laying on of the Hands of the Elders, and anoint

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