23. After this, in the fame Year, came another thundering Letter, from a Lyon-like Quaker, being a learned Man brought up at the Univerfity; his Name is William Pen; here is the Copy of it verbatim.

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ODOWICK MUGGLETON, having had a deep and ferious fenfe of thy infulting Spirit, over the Death of that valiant and painful Servant of the most high God, Jofiah Cole, as if it were the effect of thy folely Curfe; who, alas! for these twelve Years, hath in thefe Nations and Ifles abroad, in all Straits, Difficulties, and hard Sufferings, been an inceffant Labourer for the Lord, and fo impaired his Health, that within these twelve Months, or little more, have I known him five times Sick, and three even unto Death, before he had ever feen thy Face: I fay being fenfible of thy Vaunts, and it now being laid upon me,

Therefore once more I come in the name and authority of that dreadful Majefty, which fills Heaven and Earth, to speak on this wife Boaft not, thou enemy of God, thou Son of Perdition, and Confederate with the unclean, croaking Spirits, referved under Chains to eternal Darkness; for in the everlasting glorious Light thou defpifeft, thou art feen arraigned, tryed, condemned and fentanced, for a lying Spirit, and falfe Prophet, who having counterfeited the Commiffion and Seal of that God, whom the Heaven cannot contain, hath bewitched a few poor filly Souls; but their Blood, Oh! Muggleton, lies at thy Door, and the wrath of the Almighty is kindled against thee, and his eternal Power in his Servants the Quakers came, whom thou haft past thy envious Curfe, fhall fuddenly grind thee to Powder; and as formerly, fo again, on the Behalf of the God of the Quakers whom I worship.

I boldly challenge thee, with thy fix-foot God, and all the Hoft of luciferian Spirits, with all your Commiffions, Curfes. and Sentances, to touch or hurt me; practice your Skill and Power! Behold I ftand in a holy Defiance of all your Enmity and Strength And this know, Oh! Muggleton, with thy God art chained, by the Spirit of the Lord, and on you I trample

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in his everlasting Dominion, and to the bottomlefs Pit are you fentanced, from whence you came, and where the endless Worm fhall knaw and torture your imaginary Soul to Eternity.

Written, figned, and fealed by Commiffion, received about the first Hour of the eleventh Morning, of the twelfth Month 16-8, from the glorious Majefty of the moft high God, who fills Heaven and Earth, that lives in his Servant,

William Pen, Junior.

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The Anfwer of Lodowick Muggleton to William Pen, Quaker ; bis proud, presumptuous and blafphemous Letter.

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WILLIAM PEN, I have perufed your proud, prefumptuous, blafphemous Letter, against the true God; how hath your Learning lifted up your Heart with Pride, to fight against the true God, and to bid him defiance to his Face, and let him ftand forth and fee if he can deliver himself from your bodilefs God, that gave you a Commiffion, as you say.

You know that Reeve and myfelf have declared in all our Writings, that the Lord Jefus Chrift is our God, and that the Worlds were made by him, and that nothing was made in the Beginning, but what was made by him, as the Scripture faith.

3. This Man Chrift Jefus was in the form of Man, a fpiritual, heavenly and glorious Body, before this World was.

4. And in the beginning, this glorious, fpiritual Body made Man in his own Image and Likenefs, the form of Man; elfe Mafes's Words were not true; do you difprove it if

you can.

3. Only the Man Adam, his Body was earthly, and made of the Earth; but God's Body was fpiritual and heavenly, yet in form like Adam; and Adam was a Man, which none can deny that owns the Scriptures.

6. And in procefs of time this God became Flefh, and dwelt among Men, and that he took upon him the form of a Servant, and was in all things like unto Man, Sin excepted, and made himself capable to be put to Death, by the feed of the Serpent, his own Creatures; his Blood was poured out unto Death, for the Redemption of the feed of Adam, to make good that promife to Adam in Paradice, That the feed of the Woman fould break the Serpent's Head; which was fulfilled when he fuffered Death upon the Crofs.

7. And when he quickened out of Death into Life again, then was that faying fulfilled, Oh! Death, I will be thy Death, Oh! Grave, I will be thy Victory. And that other faying, I am Alpha and Omega, the First and the Laft; he that was Dead, and behold I am Alive for evermore.

8. This Alpha and Omega was Chrift, and he was God; and this Chrift was the Lord from Heaven, a quickening Spirit. And was there any other God, or Alpha or Omega that Died, but Christ! And did any quicken out of Death to Life again but he! And did any God become Flesh and dwell with Man, but Christ.

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And was not Chrift in the form of Man when on Earth! did not he retain the fame form when he afcended up to Heaven, and doth retain the fame Form now he is glorified, and is, in the fame Glory which he had before this World was.

10. Oh! Pen, How is it that you cannot understand that Eternity did become Time, and Time is become Eternity again. That is, that fpiritual and glorious immortal Body of God, that was eternal before Man was made; but in the fulness of time, this glorious immortal Body became a pure mortal Body, even Jefus Chrift, capable to Die, fo Eternity became Time; and in that he quickened out of Death into Life again; Mortality became Immortal again, and Time became Eternity again.

II. This great miftery, That God became Flefh, is hid from the Eyes of the feed of the Serpent, fuch as William Pen the Quaker is, and revealed unto us unlearned Men.

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12. And this is that God that Reeve and Muggleton hath declared in our Writings, and this God we received our Commiffion from, and that Power to blefs and curfe to Eternity.

13. This God you have proudly and blafphemously defied and trampled under your Feet as Dirt; alfo you have boldly challenged the true and living God, that is in the form of Man, to touch or hurt you, and ftand in a holy defiance of me, and my God's Strength, and that me and my God is chained, and on me and my God you trample, and to the bottomlefs Pit you have fentanced us, both me and my God: And if this be not high Blafphemy, Pride and Prefumption, against the living God, there never was any.

14. Oh! Pen, Did you never read how Goliab defied the living God, the God of Ifrael; and how David flung a Stone into his Forehead and flew him, for defying the living God, the God of Ifrael. For David knew the God of Ifrael was in the form of a Man, but Goliab his God was the fame God, as the Quakers God is, a bodilefs God, so vast and so big that he cannot be confined, neither to the vaft Heavens above, nor in this vaft Earth below, but he must fill the Air also, and all Places at one and the fame time. This is the Heathens God, and the Quakers God alfo.

15. Did you never read of Korab and his Company, Captains of Rebellion and Confpiracy against Moses and Aaron, and against God that chofe them to teach the People; neither would God fuffer any other Men to do it but them he chose; therefore it was the Earth clave and fwallowed them all up alive.

16. Now you Pen, and many of you Quakers have practifed the fame thing against Reeve and Muggleton, whom the God of Heaven hath chofen in particular, and no other Man upon Earth at this Day, to fet Life and Death before Men.

17. Now hath not you, and your Captain Teachers of the Quakers, railed, reviled, reproached, and condemned Reeve and Muggleton, and our God the Man Chrift Jefus in Glory, because we had our Commiflion from him to open Hells Mouth, and fwallow up fuch Rebels as you are, into thofe eternal torments,

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where the Worm of Confcience fhall never Die, nor the Fire of Hell never go out, for your defpifing the living God in the form of a Man; which you Quakers have done, and are more guilty than any People in the World.

18. Neither are you fenfible of the great effects that this Commiffion God gave to Reeve and Muggleton hath wrought; how many of your valiant Captains, and mighty Men of War have fallen by the two-edged Sword of the Spirit put into my Mouth, even the Commiflion God put upon me.

19. Do not you of the Quakers? What is become of William Smith, Samuel Hutton, Thomas Taylor, Richard Farnesworth, and many more I could name here of late Years? Do you not mifs Thomas Loe, and Jofiah Cole? Thefe were valiant Men, like yourself, to reproach and defy the living God.

mifs many of your Captains and Leaders

20. Are you not fenfible how the curfe of God took hold of them fuddenly, after they had defied the living God, in the form of a Man.

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And now, laft of all, you come like Goliak the Philiftine, with a Commiffion from a great bodilefs God, that can neither be found, neither in Heaven, nor in Earth, nor no Place elfe; figned and fealed, to defy the living God that made Man in his own Image and Likeness.

22. As, firft, you have proudly challenged me and my fix foot God, with our Commisions, to touch or hurt you. Secondly, You fay you ftand in a holy Defiance of all our Strength. And Thirdly, You fay, know, Oh! Muggleton, with thy God art chained, and on you I trample, and to the bottomlefs Pit are you fentanced, where the endlefs Worm fhall knaw and torture your Soul to Eternity.

23. For thofe wicked, proud, prefumptuous, blafphemous Speeches, not only against me, but again't the living God, as your two Brethren did before you; therefore in Obedience to my Commiffion from the true God, I do pronounce lam Pen, Quaker, curfed and damn'd, both Soul and Body, from the prefence of God, elect Men and Angels, to Eternity.