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but now you have defpifed the Bleffing as Efau did his Birthright; for the Bleffing of a Prophet is a good Birthright, if it be not defpifed; but you have defpifed and difowned it, and forfaken the Bleffing of a living Prophet, and do cleave unto dead Men's Words, and to the Doctrine of those that are dead. John Reeve is dead, and those that wrote the Scriptures are dead, but he that God hath preserved alive, to be the Judge of John Reeve's Writings, and Judge of the Writings of the Prophets and Apoftles, which you never knew, neither did you ever receive any Light or Knowledge from them, but what you received from me; yet have you lift up yourself in Rebellion against me, and have defpifed the Bleffing, therefore you fhall have the Curfe of a Prophet in the room of it, and fee, if that will stick more close unto you; for this I fay, you fhall never caft that off, as you have done the Bleffing, but it shall remain upon your Spirit to Eternity; for your Condition is much like unto King Saul's: The good Spirit of the Lord departed from him, and an evil Spirit was fent from the Lord to him; that is, while he kept in Obedience to the Prophet Samuel, the good Spirit of Peace from the Lord in his Seed gave him Peace of Confcience; but his Rebellion and Difobedience to the Prophet Samuel, caused that Peace of Confcience to depart from him; and the evil Spirit in the Seed of Reason, of Rebellion, and Difobedience, was fent unto him, and that became a Worm in his Confcience, that never dies, and a Fire in his Conscience, that will never be quenched.

This will be your Condition for your Rebellion and Dif obedience unto me; for while you were kept in Obedience unto me, the Prophet of the Lord, the good Spirit of the Lord in your Seed, that believed in his Prophet, it preferved you in Peace of Confcience, in that I gave you the Bleffing; but now, through your Difobedience to the Prophet of the Lord, and Rebellion against God, for it is all one, if God himself were in my Place, you would fay as much to him as you do to me; but the good Spirit of the Lord is departed from you, and an evil Spirit, from the Lord, is fent unto you, even the Fruit of your Difobedience and Rebellion, which is the Curfe of God, you being rejected of God and of his Prophet, and

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caft out from the Society of the Faithful for ever; fo that the Worm of Rebellion will never die in your Confcience, nor the Fire of Hell will never be quenched in you; fo that you shall know this Torment is for nothing but your Difobedience and Rebellion against the Prophet.

And as for your vapouring that I, nor all the Devils in the World, cannot hurt you, and that my Power is no more feared by you than a Child of a Day old, thefe Words you have learned of Medgate, that Dragon Devil, who hath roared out his Rebellion like a mad Bull; and you have learned of him to call the Prophet of the Lord Devil, who was his Lord. and Master, and yours alfo. But for all your Vapour, you fhall find that my Power fhall reach you wherever you go; if you ascend up to Heaven in your Imagination, my Faith. and Authority hall pull you down from thence; and if you go down into Hell, I fhall find you out there, and your Act of Rebellion fhall be executed, and my Judgment fhall be executed upon you there. And if you go to the uttermoft Parts of the Earth, you fhall not flie from that Curfe that fhall follow you; fo that you fhall know that the moft High hath chofen me, and rejected you. And as for your threatning me that you will force me to answer the Affertions, if you and I live in England, and that you will bring me upon the Stage, do you not fhew yourfelf a Cain and Judas Devil; you would both betray your Lord and Mafter, as Judas did his, and kill, as Cain did his Brother, because he was accepted, and Cain rejected. So, because God hath accepted of me, and hath fet me in his Place, and hath rejected you, therefore you would betray me, to bring me upon the Stage. Your evil Spirit is willing, I perceive, but your Power is weak. And will you dare to talk of bringing a Man upon the Stage, that is freeborn, and free by Service, by you, that are a Foreigner, a Stranger, and Alien, one that is by Act of Parliament counted a Vagabond, a Runagate, a Fugitive in a Nation which is not your own, who is not free-born, nor free by Redemption; yet you will dare to bring me upon the Stage, because I condemn you for your Rebellion. And this I fay, if I were treacherous in Heart, as you are, I would quickly caufe you to be removed from Ware, if not out of England; but I fhall let that pafs;

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and I would fain know how you can force me to let you fee the Answer to the Affertions, or to bring me upon the Stage; you may do what you can now, I provoke you to it, but here you may fee the Pride and Prefumption against your own Soul, in that you have lifted yourself up against your Lord and Mafter.

And whereas you fay and affirm that I am fallen from the Truth, is not this the Word of a Rebel, that learned and was taught the Way of Truth, and what Truth is ; neither had you any Light or Truth at all, but what you received from me, your Lord and Mafter; and yet the Spirit of Rebellion in you is grown fo wife to judge your Mafter that taught you, to be fallen from Truth, fo that you know how to teach your Mafter better than he can teach you. But how can I expect any better from the Spirit of Rebellion? Alfo you fay, I would make you believe Lies: Who made you a Judge, what is a Lie, and what is Truth? You fay, I go about to overthrow John Reeve, and that I would make you believe many Lies, contrary to all the Prophets and John Reeve's Writings:

To this I fay, What have you to do with John Reeve's Writings, now he is dead? Neither have you to do with the Prophets nor Apoftles Writings; they are all given into my Hands, that is alive, and you ought all to be taught of me that am alive, or elfe you cannot be taught of God. whereas you fay, I contradict John Reeve:

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To this I fay, I have Power fo to do, and I had Power fo to do when he was alive, and did contradict him in fome Things, when he was alive; and John Reeve wrote fome Things that was Error to me, and Error in itself, which I did oppofe him in to his Face, and he could not deny it. And yet notwithstanding John Reeve was infallible, and did write by an unerring Spirit. This will feem a Riddle, except it be unfolded thus: As to the doctrinal Part contained in our Writings, the fix Principles were written by an unerring and infallible Spirit in John Reeve, and the Interpretation of Scripture written by him was infallible; but John Reeve's Experience and Apprehenfion of God's taking immediate Notice of every Man was Error; and that God did fupply every Man

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and Woman immediately from his own Perfon, this was Error in John Reeve's Judgment and Experience, as I did prove to his Face; but the Things being written before, and they were of no Confequence as to eternal Happiness, they were let pass. Befides none can judge of a Prophet's Writing or Judgment, but he that is equal in Power and Judgment with him. Being chofen of God, I had Power to contradict him in his Judgment; and though it was Error, it would have been Rebellion in any Believer to do as I did. And now, I being the last Liver, it is Rebellion in you to call any Thing Lies or Error that I do justify to be true; for none is to call me to an Account, or to refift my Judgment in fpiritual Things or Matters, but God only. And I am fure he hath and will justify me in what I have done, and in what I do of this Nature. Befides, where Men are chofen equal in Power, they may contradict one the other in fome Things, and yet both infallible Men in Doctrine, but not in Judgment and Practice.

As for Example, Peter was an infallible Man, and did write by an infallible and unerring Spirit, as to the Doctrine of Christ, yet he erred in his Judgment and Practice, and circumcifed Timothy, contrary to his Commiffion from Christ; and it was a great Error in Peter, and Paul being an Apostle, and in equal Power, withstood him to his Face, and reproved him of Error and Diffimulation. Now fhould any Believer of Peter's Doctrine have faid to Peter, thou art a Liar, and no true Apostle, nor hath not an infallible Spirit, but art in Error, if this fhould have been spoken by any private Believer, as it was by Paul, who was equal in Power, I would not have been in that Believer's Condition for all the World.

Again: Did not Paul write by an infallible Spirit? As to the Doctrine of Chrift, Peter and he did agree in that; but Paul committed an Error in his Judgment and Practice, when he pretended a Vow; this was a great Error in him, it had like to have coft him his Life. And fhould any dare to say that he wrote his Epiftles by an erring lying Spirit? So likewife Paul and James do abfolutely contradict one another: Paul faith, Rom. iii. 28. You fee then by Works a Man is juftified, and not by Faith only. Here is a quite Contradiction to Paul. And fhould any Believer, in their Time, dare to say,

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that either of thefe did write 'Error and Lies, and that they were not infallible Men, in their Doctrine of Christ, because they differed in Judgment, in Point of Faith and Works; this was much like John Reeve's believing God did take notice of every particular Man, and my Judgment that God did not.

Now fhall any dare to fay, that either of us are Liars, because we differ in Judgment in fome Things? Befides, this is a common Thing in the Scripture, for Prophets and Apostles to differ in Judgment and Practice, but not in Doctrine; as the four Evangelifts, they contradict one another very oft, and the Words of Chrift himself contradict one the other, in many Places, which would be too tedious to name now. Now becaufe Chrift's Words do contradict one the other, shall any dare to say he fpake Lies, and taught Error, and that which he fpake was contrary to all Truth, or that he was not a true Chrift? None but Devils did fay fo, when he was upon the Earth. And should any, in the Apostles, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John's Time, dare to say that any of them wrote Lies and Errors, because they contradicted one another, in point of Judgment and Experience? None but Devils did find Fault and cavil with them, when they were alive. And so it is now, with John Reeve and me; none but Devils would have made a Fraction and Disturbance amongst the Believers, about John Reeve's writing of Error; for this I must tell you, that no Man upon Earth is to judge what is infallible, and what is not, but the Prophet only that is alive; and if Men will not take Things upon his Words and Judgment, whoever refuseth it upon his bare Word, will perish to Eternity; therefore the Spirit of Rebellion hath deceived you, and made you forfake the Prophet that is alive, and to cleave unto John Reeve, that is dead, and to truft to the Scriptures, that were never spoken to you, nor given unto you; but thofe People they were spoken unto, did receive Benefit by them, if they did believe in Time, when that Faith was in Being. But John Reeve's Writings, nor the Scripture, will do you no good, now you have rebelled against the Prophet that is alive; neither will that Faith in them deliver you at all from those eternal Torments, neither will thofe dead Prophets deliver you

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