this, and is a Quaker. Secondly, thy Charge is utterly falfe, and Lies, and[Slanders as to us, and the Lord will judge thee for fowing fuch Lies abroad; for we own Chrift, and none of us denies him that was prophefied of, feen by the Prophets and holy Men of God, came according to the Prophecy, and was born of a Virgin, according to the Prophecy of Ifaiah, and fuffered Death, and rofe again, according to Scriptures, the Man Chrift Jefus, who fhall judge the World in Righteoufnefs, whom God hath ordained; and we own that, according to the Flesh, he was of Abraham, and the fame that fuffered, rofe, and afcended into Heaven, and remains in the Heavens until the Reftitution of all Things; and we fit in heavenly Places in Chrift Jefus, who is the exprefs Image and Subftance of his Father's Perfon; and we own the Holy Ghoft, and we own the Father, and knows them: And as touching Chrift's Flefh, we are Bone of his Bone, and Flesh of his Flesh, and we have the Mind of Christ, and so thou Liar, let thy Mouth be ftopt.

Thirdly, Thou fayeft, If we should own Chrift to be a Perfon, then that Light of Chrift, which we so much talk of, would vanish like Smoak, and come to nothing.

Anfwer. To this we anfwer, That thou haft manifefted thy Darkness and Ignorance, not knowing Chrift, not knowing the Holy Ghoft, not knowing the Father, not knowing Chrift's Flesh, his Blood and Bone, nor Christ and the Apoftles Doctrine, nor the Law: For first, The Law is Light, faith Solomon, and the Law is in the Heart, and with the Light they faw Chrift, yea, his Flesh. Secondly, John he bare Witnefs to the Light, that enlighteneth every Man that comes into the World, which is Chrift: And Chrift faith, I am the Light; and, Believe in the Light while ye have the Light, that ye may be Children: So there is no becoming Children but by the Light of Chrift. And the Apoftle faith, God, who commanded the Light to fine out of Darkness, bath shined in our Hearts, to give us the Light of the Knowledge of the Glory of God in the Face of Christ Jefus, and that was the Treasure in earthen Veffels. So firft, thou art ignorant of this Treasure, and both thee and thy Doctrine, and thy Principle flies away

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like that Smoak thou fpeaks of, and the Light remains, which is thy Condemnation, the Witnefs in thy Confcience fhall anfwer it, which thou in thy Uncleannefs haft long rebelled against. Secondly, thou that fo rebels against the Light of Chrift we fpeak of, knows not Chrift, his Flefh nor Bone, nor the Father, nor the Holy Ghoft. As first thus: The Light that thines in the Heart gives the Knowledge of the Glory of God in the Face of Chrift, and fo without this Light they have no Knowledge of him; and this we fay to thee, and all upon the Earth, that none knows the Father, none knows the Son, none knows the Holy Ghost, none knows the Flesh, and Blood, and Bone of Christ, but by the Light of Chrift, for that reveals him, and not Flesh and Blood; for thou art like to the Jews, who ftop'd their Ears, and closed their Eyes to that of God within them, and therefore heard not, faw not, fo was not converted; and fuch profeffed a Chrift wa to come, but perfecuted him when he was come, as thou doeft now where he is made manifeft in his Light.

Fifthly, Thou fayeft, That we will have no Perfon at all.

Anfwer. This is falfe, though thou haft laid it down general; for Chrift is the exprefs Image of the Father's, Perfon we say, as in Hebrews: But thou art the Man who wilt have no Perfon at all that denies the Light, for they that was in Darkness could not fee God, nor Chrift, nor the Holy Ghoft, that hated the Light, and the Apostle, faid he, in the Perfon of Christ, which many doth witnefs now, Glory to the Lord for ever: For if thou doeft profefs them in thy Words, yet again in thy Word, thou that denies the Light, denies them, and fo Babylon, and blafphemously terms it to fmoak, and for thy Work the Lord will reward thee.

Sixthly, Thou fayeft, A great Part of us are of those wicked Ranters, that bath been given over to Blood bed with a Sword of Steel, or elfe to all Manner of Lusts of the Flefb, and now thou fayeft we think by a more precife, and Exactness of Life, to recover our Peace with God, and yet deny the very Perfou of God without us.

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Anfwer. Here again thou adds Lie unto Lie, but who is the Father, is known by us the Children of the Moft High; and what doth the Devil rage in thee, because fome that hath been Ranters, and used outward Weapons formerly, now they are turned from thefe Things to God and Chrift, the exprefs Image of the Father's Perfon, and comes to live in Chrift, and ferve him in a new Life, therefore doeft thou rage They do not own their former Principles that comes amongst us, but doth judge them, and deny them, and all the Lufts of the Flesh; and doth their Exactnefs of Life, and good Converfation judge thine, that makes thee fo fret and chafe thyfelf, and fcoff, and calls it precife? And to this thou adds a Lie, and faith, we deny the very Perfon of God without us: But to this we fay, God fills Heaven and Earth, and Chrift, the express Image of the Father's Perfon, is manifeft within us, and thou who rails at this, doth manifeft thyfelf a Reprobate," one in whom God and Chrift is not, and an Antichrift, and a falfe Witness, and a lying Spirit; for Chrift, faith he, would, dwell in the Saints, and God would dwell in them, and walk in them: And hath the Devil made thee fo blind and ignorant of the Letter of the Scripture, who art given up to believe Lies, and who makes Lies thy Refuge? And haft thou no other Refuge but Lies, who by this manifefts thyfelf to all fober People what thou art, and from whence thou cómés? And is not Repentance hid from thy Eyes? It is manifelt by thy Spirit; yet we muft fay this to thee, thou art in the unclean Flefh, and hath an unclean Body; thy Flefh burns with thy Heat of thy Lufts, and therefore thou haft uttered forth thy Ruin; nevertheless, here is fome Queries for thee to answer in Writing, elfe for ever ftop thy Mouth.

1. Is there any fuch Thing as Sin, and what is Sin in itself, and whether thou canst act any Sin, and exprefs what is a 'Sin to thee?

2. If thou doest acknowledge Sin, then shall a Man, while he is upon Earth, be made free from Sin, and come into the State that Adam and Eve was in before they fell, while they'

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be upon the Earth, and come to Chrift, a State that shall never fall while he be upon Earth?

3. For what End did Chrift come? Doth Chrift enlighten every Man that comes into the World with a faving Light, and a condemning Light, yea, or nay? Is there any true Prophecy, Knowledge, Revelation, or Witness feen or known, but by the Light of Jefus Chrift?

4. What is the Soul, is it mortal or immortal? What is Confcience, and where is it feated in Man? What are the Angels, and the Worshippers of Angels? What is the Worfhip of the Beaft and the Dragon? And what is the Whore that fits upon the Beaft, which all Nations drink her Cup? And what is her Cup?

5. What is the Woman that fled into the Wilderness? And what is the Wilderness? And what are the Times, and Time, and half a Time, that fhe was to be fed there? And what

was the Number of the Beast, which is the Number of a Man? And what is the Number of a Man?

6. What is the Serpent? And what is the Tree of Knowledge? And what is the Tree of Life? And what is the flaming Sword? And what is the Body of Death? And the Body of Sin, is it a Man's outward Body, yea, or nay?

7. Shall a Man be made free from Sin and Death whilst he be upon Earth, and be made perfect?

8. Dare thou fay, that thou haft the fame Spirit and Power as Chrift and the Apostles had?

9. Haft thou heard the Voice of God and Chrift immediately from Heaven? Haft thou feen the Shape of God? 10. What is the firft Principle of the pure Religion? And what is that which leads to Repentance? is that which gives the Knowledge of God, and of Christ? And whether it be within Man, or without Man?

11. What, and where is the Church of Chrift?

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12. Doeft thou fin, or canst thou fin? Or haft thou any Guilt for Sin?

13. Hath every Man the Spirit of God?

14. What is the Honour that is from above? And what is the Honour that is from below?

15. Doeft not thou continue in the highest Strain of

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Ranters, feeing thy Mouth is full of Curfing, and yet thou art finding Fault with thofe that be changed from it?

16. What is Evil? And what is Good? And what is Light? And what is Darkness? And how doest thou know them, and diftinguish them in thyself? And if thou can diftinguish the one from the other, then what is it to be baptized for the Dead? (Mark) We ask thee what this Baptifm is for the Dead, and what is the Dead?

17. What is it that leads Nature out of its Courfe? And what is it that defaces the Glory of the firft Body? And what is the Glory of the firft Body? And what is it that leads Nature in its Courfe? And where is it?

18. What is Self-Righteousness, and its Ground? And what is the Gospel? And what is Election? And what Reprobation? And what is Cain's Mark?

Answer these Things in Writing, and fend them to Thomas Hyfield, at Nottingham.

Lodowick Muggleton's Answer to Samuel Hooton, and W. S.

Samuel Hooton, and W. S.

Received a Paper from you two, being Quakers, wherein I find your Spirits much moved to Wrath and Railing, because I have told the Truth to one John Levens, formerly a Sword-Man in the Army, but now turned Quaker, in a Letter to him. It doth concern all the Quakers all the World over; and through fome Paffages in that Letter you have been moved by that Light within you, to fend a long railing Letter unto me, with fome Propofitions from Scripture Texts for me to answer; which railing Letter of yours is fo much, and your Questions fo many, that it would take up a Volume to apfwer.

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