tion. Fourthly, page 10, Penn saith, "To conclude, if he will interpret God's hands, arms, and span, to signify his power, as is most true; then (saith Pen) will I also explain God's image to be holiness; which (saith he) is also true.'

Answer. I do acknowledge that God's hands, arms, and span, doth signify his power, as is most true; but this I say, there can be no power without a spirit of wisdom and understanding, and, there can be no spirit of wisdom and understanding without a body, that hath hands and arms that can span out the heavens by his wisdom, and lay the foundation of the earth with his understanding; this wisdom and understanding it comes from a body that hath hands and arms. As for example: a wise builder, he layeth the foundation of a tower very strong, he spanneth and squareth out the length and the breadth of it by his wisdom and understanding, and this he doth from a body; for it is impossible for any power whatsoever to have any being at all without a body; nor for any wisdom, understanding, or sense of seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling, or spanning, to have any being at all without a body, as it is for a spirit to build a tower, city, or house, without a body gets tulemontoin beibes mi 94 au bay

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Fifthly, you say you will explain God's image to be holiness without a body; but you are not so good as your word, you do not explain it at all; but you say, if Muggleton will have it, that because God ma le man after his own image, and that a man bath head, eyes, nose, ears, hands, therefore God hath such too, therefore Penn will explain God's image to be holiness without a body, and this is all the proof he gives, indien

Answer. You know that Muggleton doth affirm, that God hath a head, ears, and hands as a man hath; but it seems Penn's God hath no head, no eyes to see, nor ears to bear, nor hands to handle; this is as true a word as ever Penn

spake in his life; his God is a headless God, without eyes, ears, nose, or hands; he is stark blind, having no eyes to see; and so thick of hearing, having no ears to hear; nor smell, because he hath no nose; therefore let Penn cry ever so loud, he cannot hear him, for his God is holiness without a body, which is nothing at all: but the true God, that made man in his own image and likeness, bath a body of his own, and hath a head as a man hath, to understand, eyes to see, ears to hear, a nose to smell, and hands to handle, therefore he is called a holy God, a righteous and just God. a merciful God; for if he had no body he could have no holiness, nor give any righteous judgment, nor show no mercy at all to sinners; if God had no body, he could not have written that righteous law in every man's heart, to accuse him when he doth evil, and to excuse him when he doth well besi les, it is a common custom with people to say, such a man is a good man, a holy, just, and righteous man: now is it not the body of man that doth act holy, just, and righteous actions between man and man? And such are called good-spirited men, and righteous before the Lord, as Noah was found righteous before the Lord; and Lot is called righteous Lot, because he entertained the two angels; so that there can be no holiness towards God, but in the body of man, which is our most holy faith; so that there can be no holy faith to believe in God, but in the body of man, neither can God be a holy God except he hath a body; so that holiness, without a body, is not the true God, but a God of man's imagination, a mere nothing at all: this is Penn the Quaker's God.

In the next place, I shall prove by Scripture, that Jesus Christ was that God that created the world in the beginning, and that made man in his own image and likeness. The first Scripture to prove Christ to be God and man, is Isa. ix. 6. For unto us a Child is born, unto us a Son is given, and the government shall be upon his shoulder, and his name shall be called Wonderful Counsellor, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. This was a prophecy that God would become flesh, and become a little child, even the

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child Jesus, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace: so likewise in Isa. vii. 14. Behold a Virgin shall conceive, and bear a Son, and shall call his name Emanuel, which is by interpretation, God with us. Here it is clear,, that the prophet Isaiah did prophecy, that God would descend from heaven into the womb of a Virgin, and take upon him the seed of Abraham, and not the nature of angels, for seed and nature is all one thing; but he took upon him the seed of David, in as much as the Virgin was of David's lineage, and God that was David's Lord, did become David's Son, in that he became a little child in the womb of a Virgin of David's seed; this was that child Jesus, the Mighty God, the Everlasting Father: this is the mystery of all mysteries, God manifest in the flesh of that child Jesus.

Thirdly, in Matt. i. 23. Behold, a Virgin shall be with child, and shall bring forth a Son, and they shall call his name Emanuel, which being interpreted, is God with us. So Luke

i. 35. And the Angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee; therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee, shall be called the Son of God.

Reader, observe here the prophecy of Isaiah was fulfilled, that God should descend from heaven into the womb of a Virgin, and become a Son of David, and Son of God, and very God, even the child Jesus, the Mighty God and Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace; he is called a Son, because he was born of a Virgin now mind who it was that begot this child Jesus in the womb of a Virgin; it was the Holy Ghost, and the power of the Most High, was the Holy God himself, and he descended from heaven into the womb of the Virgin, and transmuted his spiritual body into a pure natural body, and so became a Man Child, a Son, a Saviour; the plain meaning is this, that God the Father and Creator of all things begot himself into a Son in the womb of a Virgin, and so changed all his titles as he was God the Creator, to the titles of Sonship, as he was God the Redeemer; so that when Jesus Christ was upon earth, then was Emanuel, which,

being interpreted, is God with us; so that whoever doth truly believe and understand that Jesus Christ was both Father, Son and Holy Spirit, may say that God is with us; and to satisfy the reader, why Christ is called the Son of David, it is this, he is the Son of David by the mother's side, and by the father's side the Son of God, because the Virgin, in whose womb he conceived himself, taking her seed upon him, she being of David's seed and tribe; and David being of Abraham's seed, and he taking this seed upon him in the womb of a Virgin, he became very man; so that by the mother's side he was David's Son, and very man, but by the father's side he was very God; and in this sense Christ was very God and very man; and he that was David's Lord, and Creator of heaven and earth, is now become David's Son; and in this sense Christ is called the Son of David. If any man hath ears to hear, let him hear and understand this great mystery of God manifest in the flesh, and it will be for his good.

Fourthly, this will appear to be truth, John i. 1. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. Ver. 2. The same was in the beginning with God. Ver. 3. All things were made by him, and without him was not any thing made that was made. Ver. 4. In him was life, and the life was the light of men. Ver. 6. There was a man sent of God whose name was John. Ver. 7. The same came for a witness, to bear witness of the light, that all men through him might be saved. Ver. 8. He was not that light, but was sent to bear witness of that light. Ver. 9. That was the true light, which enlighteneth every man coming into the world, and the world was made by him, and the world knew him not. Ver. 14. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt amongst men.

These Scriptures are remarkable, to prove that Christ was the eternal God, and that it was he that created the world in the beginning, and that made man in his own image and likeness; for he was in the beginning the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, and all things were made by him, that is, by Christ, and without him was

nothing made that was made; so that Christ by the power of his word in the beginning made all things that are made;} so that Christ was in the form, shape, and likeness of man's bodily shape, before he made all things, else he would never have taken that form and shape of man, had he not had that before he took it; likewise, we see by this Scripture, that in the beginning this Christ was God, the Father and Creator of all things; and that it was this Jesus Christ that created man in his own image, for this Christ was in the beginning the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God, and there was nothing made that was made, but what this Word did make, and this Word made man in his own image and likeness; so that it may be clear by these Scriptures, that Christ was and is that God that created man in his own image and likeness, and that Christ, the only God, had that image and likeness, before it came into his heart to create this world, or man in his own image; but this twofold condition in God, transmuting his spiritual body into a pure natural body, it hath confounded the wisdom of reason, the fallen angels' nature, in all men in the world.

Likewise, in Christ was life eternal, and his life was the light of men, and John Baptist was sent to bear witness of the light, that all men through him might believe. Now John pressed no man to believe in any other God, but this Jesus Christ, that was the true light, that enlighteneth every man that cometh into the world. Now who can enlighten all men that cometh into the world, but he that is the only God? And this God was in, the world, and the world knew him not, and the world was made by him. Now who could make the world but God, therefore Christ must needs be God as well as man; he that made the world, and was in the world, and the world knew him not; so that the world could not know Christ to be God and man, but some few he chose out of the world did know that Christ was God and man, and that he only had the words of eternal life; and further, they did know that this Christ was that Word that was made flesh and dwelt among them, and they saw his glory but as the glory of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth. Thus the reader may see, that doth