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knock them down into that Bottomlefs-Pit, where fhall be weeping, and gnashing of Teeth for evermore; and do you rage and rail, and flight, and do what you can, you fhall not be delivered from that Sentence and Curfe which I have pronounced upon you; neither is the Doctrine of this Commiffion any Deceit, neither is it Pride and Presumption in me, in what I have faid concerning you, but as true Judgement as ever was paft upon any Man, by any Prophet or Apostle, or by any true Judge of the Land, without Envy or Malice, but in true difcerning and Knowledge of the fpiritual Law of the Scriptures, have I given Judgment upon you and others, whereunto I fhall fet my Hand and Seal, and if the Law can do it, feal it with my Blood.

LODOWICK MUGGLETON.

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LETTER

SENT TO

Thomas Taylor, Quaker,

In the Year 1664,

In Answer to many blasphemous Sayings of his in feveral Pieces of Paper, and in the Margin of a Book.

Amongst many of his wicked ignorant Sayings, I have given an Answer to fome of the chief and main Things of Concernment for the Reader to know: The particular Heads are Seven.

I. That Chrift could not make all Things of Nothing.

II. That Earth and Waters were eternal, and out of that Matter God created all living Creatures.

III. That there was a Place of Refidence for God to be in, when be created this World.

IV. How all Children are faved, though the Seed of the Serpent, if they die in their Childhood.

V. Of the Difference between the Fruit of the Womb, and the Fruits of the Flesh; and how they are two several Trees, and two feveral Fruits.

VI. How the Seed of Faith, the elect Seed, did all fall in Adam, and therefore made alive in Chrift; and how the reprobate Seed did not fall in Adam, so not made alive in Chrift; and what it is that purifies the Quakers Hearts.

VII. How Adam and Eve were not capable of any Kind of Death before their Fall: And bow their Fall did procure but a temporal Death to all the Seed of Adam; but the Fall of the Serpent did procure an eternal Death to all bis Seed, who live to Men and Womens Eftate, and more especially to thofe that doth deny the Perfon and Body of Chrift to be now living in Heaven, above the Stars, without a Man, as all the Speakers of the Quakers do.

By LODOWICK MUGGLETON.

Re-printed in the Year M.DCC.LVI.

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LETTER

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SENT TO

THOMAS TAYLOR, Quaker.

Thomas Taylor,

Understand that Thomas Barnet, and others that are Wellwishers to this Commiffion of the Spirit, have lent you a Book of our Writings, who are the chofen Witneffes of the Spirit, namely, John Reeve, and Lodowick Muggl ton. I fuppofe you have had it fome Time to perufe, elfe you would not have fcribbled and defaced the Book fo much as you have, befides your Papers within the Book; yet nevertheless, I could have wifhed thofe Friends had lent you The Quakers Neck broken, rather than that, it being the moft fitteft Book for Quakers to look into; the other being too heavenly and divine for Quakers to look into. But in The Quakers Neck broken, I have met with fuch Antichriftian Spirits as you are, who have railed and blafphemed against the Doctrine of the true God, and the right Devil, and the Commiffion of the Spirit, as you have done; neither have I let them go unrewarded for their Pains, as you may fee in that Book: Neither fhall you go unrewarded for your wicked and hard Speeches, Railings, and Blafphemies against the Doctrine, contained in that Book: For your Wickednefs is fo much, and your Blafphem.es and Revilings fo many, that it would be too tedious to relate; yet, for the Satisfaction of others that fhall come to fee this Writing, I fhall relate fome of them, and speak a little to a few of the main Things of moft Concernment.

You fay, Thy Chrift, that could not make all Things of Na thing, is a falfe Chrift.

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1. Here you have blafphemed against the true Chrift; for John Reeve doth own no other God, or Chrift, but that Chrift that was put to Death by the Jews, and judged by Pilate to be crucified. By him the Worlds were made, but not of Nothing; for God never did fay, neither doth the Scriptures affirm any fuch Thing, that God made the Earth and Waters of Nothing; fo that you fhew yourself a blafpheming Devil.

2. We do know and affirm, that Earth and Waters were eternal, and that Darkness was over the Face of the Deep, and in the Creation, the Spirit of God moved upon the Waters; fo that Waters were before the Creation, elfe how could God's Spirit move upon the Face of the Deep, had there been no deep Waters before? And fo likewife, if the Earth were not eternal, why is it faid by Mofes, That the Earth was without Form and Void, and Darkness was over the Face of the Deep? The Meaning is this, that the Earth was in being before God did create it, and Darkness was upon the Face of the Deep; fo that there was deep Waters before God's Spirit did move upon them. And as for the Earth being without Form and Void, the Meaning is this, the Subftance, Being, and Matter of the Earth, it was eternally fo; but it was void of all Form and Beauty, not fit for any of God's Creatures to live in it, until God in the Beginning created it: For when God's Spirit moved upon the Waters, the Meaning is this, he commanded the Waters to be gathered into one Place, and the dry Land did appear. So likewife God made two great Lights, The one to rule the Day, and the other to rule the Night: That is, the Sun fhould rule and govern the Earth, and give Life to the Herbs, and Trees, and Fruits of the Earth, and the Moon fhould give Life to the Waters, and rule them: And in this Manner God created the Earth, and the Waters; but all this while God had Matter to make these Things of, for Earth and Waters were before.

1. He did not make the Sun, Moon, and Stars, and the Hoft of Heaven of Nothing; for of Nothing comes Nothing, though you fay, It is an heathenish Saying: Let it be the Saying of a heathen Man, it is a true Saying, a Saying that

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