last witnesses of the Commission of the Spirit; the former of which is dead, and the latter, named Lodowicke Muggleton, surviving, hath presumptuously arrogated to himself the power of blessing and cursing, and that, irrevocable to all eternity. Also that he, the said Ludowicke Muggleton, is the only interpreter of Scripture in the world, and the only and alone judge what shall become of men and women after death; neither shall they whom he damns, see any other God or judge but himself. And that he knows more of spiritual things, than ever prophet or apostle did since the beginning of the world; and some of whose principles, exactly taken out of some of their own books, hereafter follow viz. John Reeve sets forth in his book, called Transcendent Spiritual Treatise, that, Feb. 3, 4, 5, 1651, God, whom he saith is above the stars, spake to him by voice of words, saying, I have given thee understanding of my mind in the Scriptures above all the men in the world; and also said, I have given thee Lodowicke Muggleton to be thy mouth. And page the 5th, the said Reeve, page 32. Elias was exalted upon the throne of glory for a moment, to represent the person of God the Father, and he was made the protector of my God, when God became a child. And it was Elias that filled the Lord Jesus with those great revelations of his former glory, that he possessed in the heavens, when he was the eternal Father. And it was Elias that spake those words from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son. And the said Reeve affirms, that if a man had no sin in their bodies, they might live and die, and naturally rise again by their own power, and in their own time, as the Lord of life did. Page 33, John Reeve and Lodowicke Muggleton, in their book called, A Divine Looking-Glass, on that Scripture, saying, The Lord said unto my Lord, sit thou on my right hand; and that is to say, then the everlasting Father spake to himself. Page 46, Lodowicke Muggleton, in his book called, The Neck of the Quakers broken, saith, you can never know Christ, nor the Father, nor the Holy Ghost, by the words of Scripture, nor the light of Christ within you, without an interpreter, there being none in the world at this day but myself, as in page 25. Page 45, saith, I am sure I do know more in spiritual things than ever prophet or apostle did since the beginning of the world. And, page 47, he saith, I am the only and alone judge what shall become of men and women after death; neither shall those that are damned by me see any other God or judge but me. Page 15, he saith, and what person soever we determine judgment upon, it is so, and there is no revoking of it. Page 53, he saith, though Christ be the truth and the life, yet I am the only declarer what this truth and life is: and though Christ be the door, yet I have the key given me to open the door to life eternal. And forasmuch as a false rumour hath been spread abroad, that we, or some of us, whose names are hereunto subscribed, have received the doctrines and principles of the aforesaid Reeve and Muggleton ; whereby some honest-hearted may seem to stumble and startle: we therefore, the people of the Lord, called Quakers, at a general meeting in Cork, for the province of Munster, have very seriously, in the council of God, weighed and considered the principles and doctrines of the aforesaid Reeve and Muggleton, and the Spirit from whence they flow, and do, in the name and authority of the Holy Spirit of Truth, deny that spirit, as the spirit of error, and give our testimony against the same, warning and admonishing all people in the fear and dread of the Lord God of Heaven and Earth, to turn from it, and avoid it. The 19th day of the fourth month, 1673. Let this be read in the publick meeting in the City of Cork, and the same to be recorded in a book to stand as a testimony against this blaspheming spirit, for ages and generations to come. The Names of those that subscribed to this Paper, are as followeth, viz. WILLIAM MORRIS, THOMAS ALLEY, WILLIAM EUD, TIMOTHY THOHOYMOUTH, RICHARD BERRY, ARTHUR JOHNSON. The Answer of Lodowicke Muggleton, to this Paper as followeth. I SHALL separate the Quakers words in their paper from those words of Reeve and Muggleton, which they have picked out of our books, being all in print already, it will be needless to repeat them over again. Therefore I shall only give answer to those words of the Quakers, which these twenty-six persons abovewritten, have subscribed their names in the behalf of all the rest at their general meeting at Cork. The words of concernment in their paper I have divided into six heads, which are all their own words; but as for the rest of their paper, being Reeve's and Muggleton's words, as they have picked out of their books already, and will remain upon record to the world's end, and to eternity, both upon the souls and bodies of them which truly believe in this commission of the Spirit, who are blessed, and upon the souls and bodies of all those that have actually despised and blasphemed against the doctrine and commission of the Spirit, declared by Reeve and Muggleton, who are cursed by them. Therefore I shall direct my words only to the twenty-six persons above written, that have subscribed their names to this paper, and not to the whole assembly that professeth to be Quakers, though you say you subscribe your names in the behalf of all the Quakers. But I shall deal more justly in my judgment than you Quakers do in your judgment; for Penn, and other Quakers have not only given judgment against me, but upon all those that believe me. But I shall do by you as I have always done, set my face against none but those that are found in actual transgression of blasphemy against the Holy Ghost; for whoever despiseth us, the Witnesses of the Spirit, despiseth God that sent us. And if you had lived in the days when Christ was upon earth, you would have said as much to him as you do to me. 1. First. The Quakers say, the God of eternal glory, who, by the arm of his living power, hath, in this latter age of the world, gathered a remnant to himself, and brought them into fellowship and acquaintance with him; in whom he hath poured out of his Holy Spirit, according to his promise, as the prophets and the holy men of God in ages and generations past, whereby they are enabled, with an infallible discerning, (as in his holy covenant and counsel they abide) to try the spirits that come forth into the World, whether they are of God or not. Muggleton's reply. That the God of eternal glory is not the Quaker's God? Why? Because he hath a spiritual body, form and shape, like man, therefore said to make man in his own image and likeness; therefore it is that angels, and all other creatures in heaven, do give glory, praise, and honour to the person of God their creator. For this I say, there is no honour, praise, and glory can be received by the creator, except he hath a body distinct of his own; neither can any creature, that hath life in the body, ascribe honour and glory, but to a personal God, that hath a body of his own. But the bewitched Quakers, through their ignorance and blindness of mind, do praise and magnify an infinite spirit without a body, that cannot be seen, nor comprehended by angels, nor man, nor no other creature. So that the Quakers are the absolute one alone people, that are led and guided by the spirit of Anti-Christ in this last age, who deny both Father and Son to have a body; for they have imagined the Spirit of God and the Spirit of Christ to be all one Spirit, as is most true; they are but one Spirit: but they have imagined likewise, that this one spirit hath never a body of its own; therefore the Quakers people are absolutely of the Anti-Christian spirit, that denieth the Godhead Spirit to have a body of its own. 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