The new witnesses proved old hereticks, or, Information to the ignorant in which the doctrines of John Reeve and Lodowick Muggleton, which they stile, mysteries never before known, revealed, or heard of from the foundation of the world, are proved to be mostly ancient whimsies, blasphemies and heresies, from the evidence of Scripture, reason and several historians : also an account of some discoourse betwixt L.M. and my self, by which his blasphemous, ignorant and unsavory spirit is clearly and truly manifested, in love to the immortal souls of those few, who are concern'd in the belief of his impostures / by a living true witness to that one eternal way of God, revealed in the light of righteousness W.P.

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The new witnesses proved old hereticks, or, Information to the ignorant in which the doctrines of John Reeve and Lodowick Muggleton, which they stile, mysteries never before known, revealed, or heard of from the foundation of the world, are proved to be mostly ancient whimsies, blasphemies and heresies, from the evidence of Scripture, reason and several historians : also an account of some discoourse betwixt L.M. and my self, by which his blasphemous, ignorant and unsavory spirit is clearly and truly manifested, in love to the immortal souls of those few, who are concern'd in the belief of his impostures / by a living true witness to that one eternal way of God, revealed in the light of righteousness W.P.
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Penn, William, 1644-1718.
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[London :: s.n.],
1672.
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Reeve, John, 1608-1658.
Muggleton, Lodowick, 1609-1698.
Muggletonians.
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"The new witnesses proved old hereticks, or, Information to the ignorant in which the doctrines of John Reeve and Lodowick Muggleton, which they stile, mysteries never before known, revealed, or heard of from the foundation of the world, are proved to be mostly ancient whimsies, blasphemies and heresies, from the evidence of Scripture, reason and several historians : also an account of some discoourse betwixt L.M. and my self, by which his blasphemous, ignorant and unsavory spirit is clearly and truly manifested, in love to the immortal souls of those few, who are concern'd in the belief of his impostures / by a living true witness to that one eternal way of God, revealed in the light of righteousness W.P." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A54177.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 6, 2024.

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Contradiction IX.

Moreover, You may know, That those Men, called, Independents, Ana∣baptists, Presbyterians, are the Literal Apostolical Jews. D.L.G. p. 191.

Furthermore, Those Ana∣baptist, Independent, Pres∣byterian Men, which hold it Lawful to Persecute Men, in their Persons and Estates, upon a Spiritual account; I say from the Eternal Spirit, That they are for the most part, the Off-spring of those Bloody-minded Jews that Crucified the Lord of Glory upon the account of Blasphemy, D.L.G. p. 192.

Animadversion IX.

That Exception should have been made before: for, if those that are called Independants, Presbyterians and Anabaptists, are Apostolical Jews, and yet such as are for Persecution for Con∣science, are of their Race that put Christ to Death, then they are not of the Apostolical, but Mosaical Jews: But how can they make that hold together? The Apostolical Jew, is one, not out∣ward in the Letter, but in the Heart, and in the Spirit; if so, either they are Independents, Presbyterians or Anabaptists; or else those three Opinions are come to be of theirs, since at the Distance they stand, they cannot be under the same Covenant and Cir∣cumcision. But to be short, By their declaring them (whilst not their Followers) Apostolical Jews, we may conclude, That Reeve and Muggleton count themselves none of them, but Men of another Dispensation; and therefore not of the Circumcision in Heart, which is not according to the Letter, but the Spirit; beyond which Dispensation, all other Pretensions are Imaginations and vain Exaltations.

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