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31, Yea, faid I, I do, for you believe I speak prefumptuoufly, and I do believe you to be the feed of the Serpent, and will be damn d to Eternity.

32. Then faid he, Doft thou judge this to be a final Sentance upon me? faid I, Yea, what thould it elfe be?

33. With that Jofiah Cole rofe up with great Zeal for his God within him, and faid, I told thee before that I would try thee and thy God, faying, that they were fetting forth a Writing against me, and withal Cole pronounced many Curfes upon me, with his Eyes dazzled with the witchcraft Power in him, being disturbed with my Words, it got up into his Head.

34. So that Whitehead and he both came near me with great Threat'nings and Judgments upon me, being both so full of Curfes: Cole curfed me into utter Darkness, pit of Darknefs, chains of Darkness, blackness of Darkness, and that he would trample that God of mine, that was in the form of Man, under his Feet, as Dirt, and stamp'd his Foot upon the Ground, as the other Devil did: Cole's Curfes were much, what like Thomas Loe, his Curfes in his Letter to me.

35. But when Cole had done curfing, I faid thefe Words unto him, That this Sentance that I had paffed upon him fhould ftick by him for ever, and that he should never put it out of his Mind, neither fhould he grow mad nor diftracted to forget it, but should be fenfible all the Days of his Life.

36. And when my God, whom you trampled under your Feet, fhall raise you again at the laft Day, which will not feem to you a quarter of an Hours time, you shall remember afresh my Words, what I said unto you in this Life to Eternity.

37. Many more Words was between us at that time, but these were the Words and Paffages of moft concernment at that time, and a final Judgment and Sentance of eternal Damnation, that I gave that Day upon Jofiah Cole, and George Whitehead, Speakers of the Quakers.

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OW in fome four or five Days time after our Difpute, I heard that Jofiah Cole was fick, and going out of the Body: For the Quakers do not believe that their Souls do Die, but flips out of the Body.

2. This caufed the Quakers People to vifit him very much, to know of him, whether Muggleton's Words had taken place in him, wondering that he should go out of the Body fo fuddenly after Muggleton's Sentance, as Thomas Loe did after his Sentance. But he denyed very ftifly that my Words had no Power over him, but that he had left me in chains of Darkness.

3. Nevertheless he grew worfe and worfe, fo that the Quakers were not fatisfied, except he would go to the Peal in St. John's-street, at their Meeting-place, and give his Teftimony againft Muggleton, before the People, to fatisfy the ignorant Quakers, elfe they would judge that his Power in Loe and him, was greater than the Miniftry of the Quakers.

4. So they led him by the Arms to the place aforefaid, and Fofiab Cole wrote his Teftimony, as followeth, exactly word for word. For as much as I have been informed that Lodowick Muggleton hath vaunted concerning my departure out of the Body, because of his pretended Sentance of Damnation given against me, I am mov'd to leave this Teftimony concerning him behind me; namely, That he is a Son of Darkness, and Coeworker with the Prince of the bottomless Pit, in which his Inheritance shall be for ever, and the Judgment I paffed on him when prefent with him, ftands fealed by the Spirit of the Lord, by which I then declared to him, that in the Name of that God who fpans out the Heavens with his fpan, and measures the

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Waters with the hollow of his Hand, I bind thee here on Earth, and thou art bound in Heaven, and in the chain under Darknefs, to the judgment of the great Day thou shalt be referved; and thy Faith and Strength thou boafleth of, I defy and tram.ple under Foot. And I do hereby further declare the faid Lodowick to be a falfe Prophet, in what he faid to me at that time, who told me, that from thenceforth I fhould be always in fear of Damnation, which fhould be a fign to me that I was Damn'd; which fear I was never in, fo that his fign given by himself did not follow his Prophecy, which fufficiently declares him to be a falfe Prophet.

Jofiah Cole.

5. This was given forth word for word by Jofiah Cole, about three Hours before his departure out of the Body, the fifteenth of the Eleventh Month 68.

6. Whoever doth read this laft Teftimony of Joftab Cole, may eafily fee that the Curfe I pronounced upon him by Commiffion, received from the Man Chrift Jefus, the only wife God, bleffed for ever, in the form of a Man, whom he despised and trampled under his Feet as Dirt.

7. For this very Sin, did this curfe of this God pronounced by me, take effect upon him and Thomas Loe, immediately after their curfed Blafphemy against the true God.

8. I was zealous in giving Sentance upon them, in that I heard the true God was trampled under their Foot as Dirt.

9. As for their Reproaches, Lyes, Slanders, and Judgments threatened against me, I did not matter: For this I know the Quakers do believe, that Loe and Cole's Souls is not Dead, but. flipt out of their Bodies, and gone you know not where, and into a Power you know not what.

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But I faid their Souls is where you laid their Bodies, they both came into this World together, they both defpifed the Truth together; they, both Bodies and Souls received Judgment and Condemnation together, and both Died together,

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and were both Soul and Bodies buried together, and fhall both rife again fpiritual dark Bodies and Souls together.

11. Every feed its own Body; that feed of Reason which was their Life, which they thought was the divine Nature of God, but it was the Nature of the Devil and Serpent.

12. And the Law written in their Hearts, which you Quakers call the Light of Chrift, or Chrift in you, which is not other Chrift or Light but the Law written in your Hearts; and the Light of the Law, which doth accufe and excufe the Confcience of every Man, you call the Light of Christ, yea Chrift himfelf.

13. For this Light of the Law written in your Hearts, is that which doth caufe your Thoughts to accufe when you do. evil, and to excufe when you do well: And when God fhall raife them again, that feed of Reafon fhall rife and bring a fpiritual dark Body with it: And that Law which was written in their Hearts here in this Life, fhall quicken again in that new dark spiritual Body.

14. And then fhall they and you, defpifers of a perfonal God, know that your own Souls, which you thought was the Life of God, but it was the Life of the Devil, and that yourfelves were Devils, and that Law written in your Hearts, which you in this Life called the Light of Chrift, and that was no other God or Chrift but this Light within you.

15. But when this Law doth quicken again, as I faid before, it will prove the only and alone Devil to torment you to Eternity; because you made the Light of this Law in your Hearts to be your only God; and by this Light of the Law you do fight against the true perfonal God, who created Man in his own Image and Likeness, and hath trampled him under your Feet as Dirt.

16. These things may feem ftrange, and as a Riddle unto you, and as a thing impoflible, but with God all things is poili-. ble, which his own Will moves him unto.

17. And this I fay, as it was poffible for God to write the

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Law in the Angels Natures, and by his fecret Determination fuffer one of thefe Angels to become very Man, and so the Angels Seed and Nature having conjunction with the Seed and Nature of Eve, which was of Adam's Nature, and fo by Generation the Law comes to be written in every Man's Heart; in that every Man and Women that is born into this World, is partaker of the Angel's Nature of Reason, and fo comes to have this Law written in every Man's Heart.

18. Man finds it there accufing of him, but knows not how it came written there.

19. So it is as ftrange for you Quakers to believe, that God will raife your Souls again that were Dead, how they fhould quicken out of Death, by the Power of that God that made all Souls to live at the firft: In as much as he made all Things by the Power of his Word in the Beginning.

20. So by the fame Power of his Word he fhall quicken the Souls of Men and Women again out of Death, to Life again at the laft Day; and the Law that was written in them shall quicken alfo, and be alive again in you, to torment you to Eternity.

21. For the Law and your Souls fhall never part one from the other; for as the Law is fecretly written in your Hearts, but originally in the Reprobate; fo by God's fecret Decree and Power, he will revive that Law again in that reprobate feed of Reason, as in Thomas Loe, Jofiah Cole, George Whitebead, William Pen, and many of you Speakers of the Quakers, and others of your Brethren, who are under the Judgment and Sentance of this Commiffion of the Spirit. You fhall find my Words to be true upon you, and over you, to Eternity; neither fhall you be delivered from it.

22. For if I had but any thought of Compaffion towards you in my Mind, it was anfwered me, That there is a neceffity that there fhould be enmity between the feed of the Woman, and the feed of the Serpent, which hardened my Heart against all defpifers of a perfonal God, in the form of Man.

Lodowick Muggleton.

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