Bone of his own) how then can he fill Heaven and Earth with his Prefence, and get into the Quakers Bodies, and all other Peoples Bodies too, and yet he is in Heaven, above the Stars, which Heaven must retain him until the last Day?

From this Body of Chrift, which is the only God, have I Power over all other Gods, or infinite Spirits whatsoever. I could fhew in what Senfe it may be faid that God fills Heaven and Earth; but it would be too large to unfold; befides, it is declared already in our Writings.

There is one blafphemous Saying of yours, through your Ignorance of the Scriptures, in this Letter of yours. You fay, that you do own Chrift, according to the Flesh, he was of Abraham; which is Blafphemy to fay, it being quite contrary to the Scriptures; for thofe Jews that perfecuted Chrift were, according to the Flefh, the Children of Abraham; and therefore it was they faid, We have Abraham for our Father, and never were in Bondage to any: For indeed, all thofe that are the Children of Abraham, according to the Flesh, are the Children of the Devil, or of the Serpent; but all those that are the Children of Ifaac, or the Children of the Promise, which is the Seed of Faith, which are the Children of Abrabam, according to the Spirit, and fo according to the Faith of Abraham, of which Chrift came; and fo the Seed of Faith may fay truly, they are Bone of his Bone, and Flesh of his Flesh; because the Seed or Spirit of Faith, which Abraham, the Father of the Faithful, had in him, liveth in our Flesh and Bone, and we may be faid indeed to be Bone of his Bone, and Flesh of his Flesh, and fo called his Brethren, because we are born, not of the Will of Man, nor of the Flefh; but of Water, and of the Spirit; which Spirit doth lie fecretly hid in the Water, is the Motions of Peace, that doth arife from the Seed which is called the Spirit.

But, on the contrary, the Quakers Chrift is according to the Flesh of Abraham; and fo indeed, they are Bone of his Bone, and Flesh of his Flesh; for indeed, they know no other Chrift, but according to the Flefh, that is, according to the Seed of Reafon : For in Scripture, the Seed of Reason is called the Flesh, from whence the Motions of Sin doth arife, which are called the Motions of the Flesh; which I have

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largely unfolded in The Interpretation of the 11th Chapter of the Revelations: For the Scripture taketh no Notice of the outward bodily Flesh, but as the two Seeds doth operate and work in Man, Reason is called the Flefh, and Faith is called the Spirit; wherefore it is faid, Let Chrift dwell in your Hearts by Faith. And fo, every one that doth truly believe in that Flesh and Bone of Chrift, to be now living, doth eat his Flesh; and fo Chrift dwells in his Heart by Faith, and not in his Perfon and Effence, as the Quakers do vainly imagine.

For they make no Diftinction between the Perfon and Effence of Chrift, and the Light of Chrift; which Light of Chrift is one Thing, and his Perfon another, as the Body of the Sun is one Thing, and the Light that fhines from it is another; and fo, according to the Flesh, that is, according to the Seed of Reafon, the Quakers are Bone of his Bone, and Flesh of his Flesh; and they being the Children of Abraham, according to the Flefh, as their imaginary Chrift is; for all Abraham's Children, according to the Flefh, are the Children of Cain, who is the Father of most Part of the Quakers; and in this Senfe, they may fay that they have the Mind of Chrift in them.

41 You fay, I write, if you fhould own Chrift to be a Perfon, then that Light of Chrift you so much talk of, would vanish like Smoak, and come to nothing.

In your Answer to this, you upbraid me with my Ignorance and Darknefs, as not knowing Chrift, nor the Holy Ghost, nor the Father, nor Chrift's, nor the Apoftles Doctrine; and for which Purpose, you quote Solomon's Writings, which is no Scripture, with fome Scriptures, to fhew my Ignorance, and that my Doctrine fhould fly away like Smoke, as I faid by yours, with many more Sayings, that would be too tedious to write.

Anfwer. If I were as ignorant, and as dark in the Knowledge of Chrift, and of the Holy Ghoft, and of the Father, and of the Apoftles Doctrine, as you are, it would be no Matter if my Tongue fhould cleave to the Roof of my

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Mouth; for your Ignorance and Darkness is plainly discovered, in that you quote Solomon to prove your Scripture, Light, and Knowledge of Chrift; that which is no Scripture no more than the Apocrypha is ; but I perceive it is as good Scripture to you as any; for you are but like a Parrot, that speaks other Mens Words, for it is Nothing to you what Chrift or the Apostles faid at that Time.

You ought to have heard what the Commiffion of the Spirit faith now, in thefe laft Days; for none can interpret Scripture truly but myself, neither doth any Man in the World truly know Chrift, nor the Father, nor the Holy Ghost, but myself, and those that believe in this Commiffion of the Spirit; for it is not with me as it is with you; for you are to be judged by the Letter of the Scriptures, but God hath made me the Judge of Scriptures, and of you also.

For my Commiffion and the Doctrine of it is as true as the Prophets and Apoftles Commiffions were in their Time; nay, it is of a more higher Nature than theirs were: For we the Witneffes of the Spirit do know more than Moses, the Prophets, or Apoft les did, Things of more higher Concernment,

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To know the Form and Nature of the true God before he became Flesh. The Form and Nature of the right Devil, before he became Flesh. The Perfons and Nature of Angels. The Rife of the two Seeds. What Knowledge can exceed, or go beyond the Knowledge of the true God and the right Devil, many other deep Secrets, which hath been declared by this Commiffion of the Spirit, which the Prophets and Apoftles were but dark in, in Comparison of the Witneffes of the Spirit.

If fo, how fhould you Quakers come to understand any Thing concerning Chrift, the Father, and the Holy Ghoft, who have nothing but the dead Letter of other Mens Words, whofe Light was but dark, in Comparison of that Light that comes by this Commiffion of the Spirit; fo that you can never know Chrift, nor the Father, nor the Holy Ghoft, by the Words of the Scripture, nor by the Light of Chrift within you, without an Interpreter, there being none in the World at this Day but myself,

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Can your Light within you make these three you speak of, Chrift, the Father, and the Holy Ghoft, to be but one Perfon, and particular Body of Flesh and Bone in the Form of a Man? If you can, then may you truly fay that you know the Father, Chrift, and the Holy Ghoft; which I know no Quaker or other doth, or can know at this Day, but this Commiffion of the Spirit only; neither can any Man, by the Light of Chrift within him, come to know thefe Things aforefaid, but by believing of him that's fent by Voice of Words from a God without him.

But the Quakers were never fent from a God without them, but only from a Light within them; and though it be the Light of Chrift, yet will it not give a Man the Knowledge of the true God, but will perifh; and he that hath it, except it be grounded by Faith to believe that God fpake to fuch a Man to the hearing of the Ear, and then the Light of Chrift in a Man being grounded upon that Voice, he fhall come to know the Father, Son, and Spirit, to be but one perfonal Glory in the Form of a Man, which no Quaker in the World doth, therefore cannot know the Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft by that Light within them, which they talk fo much of: For a Child that anfwers from his Catechifm-Book would have faid as much from the Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft, as thefe Quakers do; for a Boy could have rehearfed thefe Places of Scripture, and have made as good a Confeffion of his Faith, as any Quaker doth. But let that pafs, and come to the

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5. You fay further, that I have written, The Quakers will have no Perfon at all.

The Words in your Letter to this is not worth a Reply; for there is little in it but the repeating of Scripture Words, and what the Apoftle faith of Chrift, being the exprefs Image of the Father's Perfon; which if it were but opened, it would utterly deftroy their own Principles of the Light of Chrift within them, which they are very angry with me for faying, that the Light within them will vanish like Smoak, which they will find to be true; but I fhall go to the next.

6. You fay I write, that a great Part of you are of those wicked Ranters that have been given over to Blood-fhed with

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a Sword of Steel, or elfe to all Manner of Lufts of the Flesh; and now I fay you think by a Precife and Exactness of Life to recover your Peace with God, and yet deny the very Person of God without you.

Your Anfwer to this Sentence of mine is fomething large, but most of it railing, and rehearfing the fame Words as were fpoken before; for you make a great deal of do about knowing the Father, and the Son, and the Holy Ghost, and keep a Stir about Chrift's being the exprefs Image of the Father's Perfon, and yet all this while you cannot find out any Perfon of God at all; only you have gotten Paul's Words, and run away with them, as a Dog doth with a Bone; for the Letter of the Scriptures is caft down as a Bone by the Prophets, Apoftles, and Chrift himself; for how would Quakers have done to have found out these Words, That Chrift is the exprefs Image of the Father's Perfon, if Paul had not faid fo? I marvel how they would have known that Chrift enlighteneth every Man that cometh into the World, if they had not found fuch Words in Scripture.

But thofe Men that fpake the Scriptures know what the Light of Chrift was, thefe can only fpeak of it, but know nothing truly what the Light of Chrift is, nor from whence it doth arife.

There is one Expreffion in this Part of your Letter which would make one laugh, which is this, Doth the Devil rage in me because fome who have been Ranters, and used outward Weapons formerly, now they are turned from thefe Things, and urned unto God, and Chrift, the exprefs Image of the Father's Perfon?

As for thofe Ranters, that are turned to God and Chrift in the Quakers Way, they had better have kept themselves where they were; for before they were in the Wilderness, but are now turned back into Egypt, and fo are further off from entering into the Land of Canaan, that is, a Place of Rest for their Souls, than they were before: So that the State of the Quakers is more uncapable to be faved than the Ranters; for if they turn a right Quaker after they have been at the Rant, there is no Poffibility for them to be faved, for they are twofold more the Children of the Devil than they were before :

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