6. We fhewed him that Holinefs and Righteoufnefs had no Form nor Image without a Body; nay it is nothing at all in itself, but as it is acted forth by a Eody.

7. For it is a Body that acteth holy, good and righteous Things, therefore it is we call fuch a Man a holy Man, a good Man, a righteous Man: Now if God made Man in his own Image an holy, upright Man, could he be faid to be Man, except he had a Body.

8. Neither could them Words be proper to fay, God made Man in his own Image and Likenefs, if Man was made with a Pody to act holy and righteous Things, and God that made him had never a Body himself.

9. How then could Man be faid to be made in the Image and Likeness of God, when as there is no Likenefs at all between them; for the one hath a Perfon, Form and Body, and the other hath none.

10. And if you fay Holinefs and Righteoufnefs is the Image and Likeness of God, we pray will you fhew us the Form and Likeness of the Image of Holiness and Righteousness, diftinct of itself from a Body.

II. Then wherever we fee Holinefs and Righteoufnefs distinct of itself, then we shall know God, and that Holiness and Righteousness is the Image and Likeness of God without a Body. And when we fee this, we will worship Holinefs and Righteousness for God without a Body, if you can fhew us the Form of it by itself.

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13. Then the Prieft grew Angry, and called it Blafphemy, to fay God was a Form or Perfon, and said we were Deceivers, with many other railing Speeches.

14. Whereupon John Reeve pronounced him Curfed and Damned both Soul and Body, from the Prefence of God, elec Men and Angels, to Eternity.

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God in the Life to come, but the Sentance he had paffed upon him.

16. Then the two Soldiers were very Angry to fee the Prieft Damn'd, and they would have fallen upon us to beat us, and one of them took up a great Stool to knock John Reeve on the Head.

17. But Captain Stafy held him, and perfwaded him, then they faid they would have a Warrant for us, either from General Cromwell, or the Council of State, or from the Parliament.

18. John Reeve anfwered, and if General Cromwell, the Council of State, or Parliament fhould defpife those things we declare as you have done, and as this.Prieft hath done, I would pronounce them Damn'd as I do you.

19. So with a great many Words more, at that time, between them and us, and Threat'nings wherewith they threatned us, we parted.

And Captain Stafy feemed to be forry that they were no more Civil, but he was glad the Prieft was Damn'd, because he was a great Enemy to the Clergy.

The End of the Second Part.

The

The Third Part.

From the Year 1653, to the Year 1665.

CHAP. I.

Shewing how five Men got a Warrant from the Lord Mayor, and brought the two Witnesses before him: Of their Accufation: Of their Examination: And of their Anfwer to it with Boldness.

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UT a little while after this, as is aforefaid, it came to pass, that thefe Men did get a Warrant from the Lord Mayor of London, because we lived in the City of London, it was under his Jurifdiction.

2. So this Priest, and the two Soldiers, and Ebb the ExcifeMan, and another Salefman, his Name was Chandler, a Damn'd Man; he lived near me in Great Trinity Lane.

3. Thefe five join'd all together to Profecute us, and having a Warrant from my Lord Mayor they came to my House, and they brought the Marshal of the City of London, and his Men, to apprehend us, and bring us before the Lord Mayor.

4. And they came up to the Chamber where John Reeve and I was; and the Marshal and his Men took us before the Lord Mayor to be examined.

5. And when we came before him there were feveral Acufations against us, befides what these five Men did accuse us of. 6. First,

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6. First, That Book intituled, A Tranfcendant Spiritual Treatife; the Lord Mayor had this Book in his Hand. Secondly, There was a Pamphlet by one Needham, fent to the Lord Mayor, of his own Damnation.

7. And several Letters we had fent to the Prefbyterian Minifters in London, and about London, to lay down their Preaching, (because they had no Commiffion from God to Preach) upon the Receipt of this Letter, upon pain of eternal Damnation : These Letters were in the Lord Mayor's Hands alfo.

8. And there came one Minifter forty Miles, to accufe us before the Lord Mayor; he came Riding all Night, and came in great Fury and Rage, at the very time the Lord Mayor called for us to examine us.

9. But the Lord Mayor did not mind this raging Priest at all, notwithstanding his great Journey,

10. But he minded these five Men that joined in the Warrant, and set them together by themselves, and us two by ourfelves.

11. The Lord Mayor's Examination of us the two Witneffes, and our Anfwer to him, as follows.

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He asked the Accufers what they had to fay against thefe two Men; one of them anfwerd and faid, that John Reeve did fay, That he was their God.

13. The Lord Mayor faid to John Reeve, Did you fay fo? He anfwered and faid, No. What did you fay? faid the Lord Mayor.

14. Said John Reeve, Thefe Men defired to have Difcourfe with us about Spiritual Matters, and when I had declared the Truth to them, they called it Blafphemy, Delufion, and Lyes.

15. Whereupon I did pronounce the Sentance of eternal Damnation upon them, in that they had finned against the Holy Ghoft, which the Scriptures faith, fhall never be forgiven, in this World, nor in the World to come.

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16. And that they should fee no other God in the World to come, but that Sentance which I had paffed upon them: This I did fay, and this his Clerk fet down.

17. Another of the Accufers faid, that John Reeve should fay, That General Cromwell, the Council of State, and the Parliament, were all Damn'd.

18. Did you fay fo? faid the Lord Mayor; No, faid Jobn Reeve.

19. What did

you say? faid the Lord Mayor,

20. John Reeve answered, That we were in a Place where one Captain Stafy invited us, and thefe Men, being Strangers to us, they would needs propound Queftions to us, concerning God and the Scriptures, because this Minister was among them, and he was the greatest Blafphemer of Truth of all of them.

21. Whereupon I pronounced him (for his Blafphemy againft the Holy Ghoft, and for Preaching without a Commiffion from God) Curfed and Damn'd, both in Soul and Body, from the Prefence of God, elect Men and Angels, to Eternity.

22. Upon this, he and the reft of them faid, They would fetch a Warrant from General Cromwell, the Council of State, or from the Parliament to Profecute us.

23. And I faid, That if General Cromwell, the Council of State, or the Parliament, fhould despise those things we have declared, and fin against the Holy Ghoft, as thefe Men did, that General Cromwell, the Council of State, and the Parliament, would be all Damn'd as you are? This I did say.

24. This was fet down by the Clerk.

25. Then faid the Mayor, You are accufed for denying the three Perfons in the Trinity: You fay there is but one Perfon Chrift Jefus, you deny the Father.

26. No, faid John Reeve, we own the Trinity more than any Men, both Father, Son, and Spirit, are all but one Perfon, and one God Chrift Jefus, as is declared in that Book in your Hand..

27. Then.