Spirit; and can do no less than cry, Oh! thou Blafphemer, thou Enemy of God, and of all Righteousness; thou Son of Perdition and Child of the Devil, bow haft thou laboured to pervert the right Way of God, in fpeaking of the blessed Truth.

And, Ob! thou feed of the Serpent, and old Sorcerer, how haft thou belyed, flandered, wickedly and fafly accused and condemned the Fuft? And now, be it known unto thee, That thy false Judgment and wicked Envy, both in speaking and writing against the Servants of the living God, is returned back upon thy own Head; and thee, with it, will God in his Fury and Indignation, fink in the pit of Darkness, from whence it hath rijen. And in the great and mighty Power of God and Chrift, I Reprove, Judge, and Condemn thee, which fhail Stand upon thy Head; and thy Power, thou boasteth jo of, shall not reverse it. Oh! ignorant Sot, how canft thou confider tky Blafphemies, and not be ashamed. This is a Teftimony in the Power and Spirit of God, against thee, and all thy Wickedness, by a Servant of Felus Chrift, who am a Witness of the Spirit and Power of God, with many others.

CHA P. III.

The Prophet's Answer to Thomas Loe's Letter. His Sentance, with the Effects of it. The Prophet's Difpute with George Whitehead and Jofiah Cole. With his Sentance passed upon

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Hoever may read this Letter, let them understand thus much, that I never faw the Man, nor he me; but he reading the Book aforefaid, he was moved by the Light within him to fend this curfed Letter unto me; whereupon, after I had read it, I sent him an answer to it, with the Sentance of eternal Damnation for his curfed Blafphemy. The Bearer ftaid for it 'till it was written, he being a Quaker, would not go without it.

2. But it came to pafs the fame Night that this Thomas Loe received his Sentance, in anfwer to his curfed Letter, he

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went to Bed fick, and never did rife more till he was carried to the Grave, which was almoft three Weeks after; which is a clear Teftimony that the Curfe of God, the Man Chrift Jefus, by his Meffenger, doth take hold of the Quakers People, and more especially of their Ministry.

3. Because they are the abfolute Spirit of Antichrift in this laft Age, which teacheth the People to deny both Father and Son to become Flesh, and that the Father, nor the Son, hath no Perfon of his own diftinct from Man, but denyeth a perfonal God in form like Man, his own Image.

4. For which cause hath the Wrath of this God overtaken feveral of these defperate Quakers, even of their Ministers or Preachers, hath been cut off this Earth, that they might not deceive People no more, nor incumber the Earth with their wicked Antichriftian Spirit, which defieth the living God, who is in the form of Man, who made Man in his own Image.

Lodowick Muggleton.

5. Upon the Sicknefs and Death of this Thomas Loe, Quaker, after the Sentance fent him, it caused feveral to difcourfe with me about it, therefore I fhall relate fome of the most remarkable Paffages, and the Perfons I discoursed with upon the 17th Day of October 1668. The Perfons difcourfed withal were George Whitebead and Jofiah Cole, both Speakers of the Quakers.

6. First, The Words Cole fpoke unto me are thefe, (faith he) Thou fayeft God is in form of a Man, and thou fayeft his Hand is not much bigger than thine or mine, and thou seeft what a little this Hand will hold. Yet (faith he) God is faid to have measured the Waters in the hollow of his Hand, and behold the Nations are as a drop of a Bucket.

7. I answered and faid, Do you believe God to be fo big to hold the Waters in the hollow of his Hand? That is fpoken in relation to his great Wisdom, Power and Dominion, as he is a

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Creator, not relating to the bignefs of his Hand, but to the greatnefs of his Power, being infinite.

8. An earthly King may be faid to be King of many Kingdoms, and that he hath brought the People of thofe Kingdoms to Obedience to his Law, by the ftrength of his own Arm; for Power or Strength is the right Hand of an earthly King.

9. Yet the King doth not hold all the People under his Arm, nor in the hollow of his Hand; but the People may be faid to be under his Hand, and that he holds them in the hollow of his Hand, because his Power and Laws doth protect them, and keep them within Bounds, for a prerogative Power is great, but the Hand of a King is no bigger than the Hand of another Man, that hath no Power at all.

10. So it is God's prerogative Power that is above all Law, in fetting Bounds to the Waters, and keeping the Waters within Bounds in the deep Places of the Earth; and fo may be faid, that God doth hold the Waters in the hollow of his Hand, that is, they are confined to a little Place of his Power in his Creation.

II. Alfo I faid, that I that am but a mortal Man hath Power over fuch a great God whofe Hand is fo big; for that God, whofe Hand is much bigger than thine or mine, I have Power to Condemn. This was paffed by, and no Reply made by them.

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Then fpake Whitehead, and faid, He did hear that I had curfed a Man, and he changing his Apparel, came afterwards and did procure a Bleffing; and that this Man, or fome other, did fmite a pewter Pot upon my Head.

13. This, I faid, was falfe, for never did any Man ftrike me over the Head with a Pot, in all my Life; it was that reprobate Pope, that damn'd Devil, that hath reported that he was bleffed after he was curfed: It is a falfe Report, and he hath reported it several times amongst the Ranters and Quakers.

14. This Pope was a Ranter then, when he was curfed,

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which was about fifteen Years ago, in John Reeve's time, and he is a worfe Ranter now than he was then, and that you Quakers know very well, and what a wicked, luftful Life he liveth now in, and yet you will rather believe the damn'd Devil, and wicked, luftful Perfon, than believe me, who have been kept innocent from the breach of any Law, from my Childhood to this Day.

15. But I know, you Quakers being of the fame Nature and Seed of the Serpent, as thofe Jews were in Christ's Time, who defired of Pilate, that a Thief and a Murtherer fhould be delivered from Death, rather then Jefus, the Saviour of all them that believe in him.

16. So is it with you, for you had rather believe this Pope, this notable Sinner, than to believe me, who am the Prophet of the most high God, the Man Chrift Jefus in Glory, and have Power given of God, as Mofes had, to fet Life and Death before you; but I know you do fay in your Hearts, tho' not with your Lips, as thofe Jews did by Chrift, Away with this Muggleton, let us have Pope, that wicked, luftful Man, that we might hear and enquire of him.

17. Then faid Jofiah Cele, Thou fayeft thou art an Embasfador in God's ftead, and thou ftandeft in his ftead; faid he, I would willingly do any thing that I might be faved.

18. Then I anfwered him and faid, I will tell thee what I will fay unto thee: If thou wilt but deny and forfake the Quakers Principles, and believe me, I will affure thee thou fhalt as certainly be faved, as ever any Prophet or Apoftle ever was. 19. Then Cole fell into a Fit, and waited upon his own Thoughts what to anfwer, and I waited for his anfwer.

20. But George Whitehead perceived that Cole was in a ftrait, he came unto me, and fpied a Knot of Ribbon upon my Coat Sleeve, and faid unto me, Why doft thou wear this Vanity and touched the Ribbon with his Fingers.

21. I answered and faid, I know a piece of Ribbon is a great Sin in a Quaker's Eye: But, faid I, Why doft thou wear filk Buttons on both thy Coats? He faid, they were neceffary: I faid, No, thou mighteft wear Hooks and Eyes, Clapies or Eyletholes; that was paft by.

22. But then I will tell thee why I do wear Ribbon, it is on purpose that I might not be taken, or thought to be a Quaker, for I do hate the Quakers Principle.

23. With that Whitehead faid, Thou hateft all Righteoufnefs, and fpake as if he himself, Cole and Fox, and others of the Quakers were writing a Book against me, to make me manifeft, which in a little time after it was fet forth by William Pen, a Quaker; and further faid, that they would poft me up, and he flighted my Power and my God, and faid, he would trample my God and my Power under his Feet as Dirt, and taped his Foot upon the Ground.

24. Whereupon I did pronounce George Whitebead curfed and damn'd Soul and Body to Eternity, and that God within. him, which he trufted in, was curfed alfo, and fo I ceafed Difcourfe with him.

25. All this while Cole was in his Fit, and faid not one word, but immediately after he uttered thefe Words, faith he, I have heard of feveral thou haft curfed; but faid he, I did not believe, had I not heard or feen, I could not have believed that a Man could have spoken fo prefumptuously.

26. Then faid I, dare you fay that I fpeak prefumptuously, to George Whitehead, he faid, he did believe it was Prefumption. 27. Then faid I, on the contrary, I do believe that thou art the feed of the Serpent, and wilt be Damn'd; and now fee whofe Faith will be ftrongeft, yours or mine; for my Faith fhall keep you down for ever.

28. Under what laid Cole?

29. Under eternal Damnation, faid I.

Then faid he, Doft thou ground thy Sentance upon my 31. Yea,