The lying prophet discovered and reproved in an answer to several particulars in a book called The Quakers downfal, said to be written by Lawrence Claxton ... : with several of his damnable doctrines ... : also twelve particulars which he and his companion Lodowick Muggleton uttered ... / given forth ... by a Friend of truth, John Harwood.

The Lying Prophet Discovered and Reproved.

Lawrence Claxton
BOasteth and saith, If I had not the spirit of Inspiration, or Revelation in my own Soul, not any part or portion of the Scripture would belong unto me, pag. 1.

Ans. It is the Spirit of God with which the Saints were Inspired, which unto them revealed the My∣steries and secrets of God, who as they were moved spoke, and writ forth the Scriptures, which thou dost not rightly understand, who wants the same Spirit and Life, for thy lying and boasting manifesteth thy spirit to be none of the true Spirit with which the Saints were and are Inspired; so ignorant of the Mystery and Life of them; but that part or portion of Scripture belongs unto thee, which is against blasphemers, lyars, boasters and ungodly deceivers, and to be applied to thy present condition, but the blessings and promises which appertaineth to the Elect Seed thou hast nothing to do with; And what hast thou to do to speak of the Spirit of Inspiration or Revelation in thy Soul, who said, thou hast nought of God in thee?

L. C. Also boasteth of the Spirit, To be more fully manifested in him then it was in the Saints that gave forth the Scriptures, pag. 1.

Answ. The lying spirit which was cast out of the Saints, by the power of the Spirit of truth, in a large manner is manifest in thee, as thy fruits makes it appear; and thou may be ashamed to boast thus of thy spi∣rit, who said in the hearing of séveral honest people, Thou had nought of God in thee; it is the lying imagina∣tion of thy corrupt fleshly wisdom, which thou calls the In∣spiration of the Spirit, by which thou art deceived and de∣luded, and seeks to deceive and delude others, but the E∣lect are out of thy reach, and fathomes thee.

L. C. Saith, Moses, the Prophets and Apostles never rightly understood, neither was required of them to know Christ in their Commission any other but God the Father, P. 4.

Answ. That is false, Moses knew a Prophet should arise like unto him, which the people should hear, which was Christ the Son of God; & the Prophet knew a Virgin should conceive and bear a Son, and call his Name Emanuel; and said, Unto us a Son is given, &c. and the Apostles knew the Father, Word and Spirit to be one, and there was them that were witnesses of his birth, sufferings and Resurre∣ction, which thou knows nothing of but by tradition, the Apostles were eye-witnesses of him who was born of the Virgin, and knew him in the flesh a single person, and af∣ter his death and Resurrection were to know him no more, 2 Cor. 5. Let him that readeth understand, for here hast thou manifested thy lyes and confusion, thou hast lyed of Moses, the Prophets and Apostles, and of the Scriptures their writings, as the Scripture will make plainly appear, read Deut. 18.18. Isa. 9.6. Isa. 7.14.

L. C. Affirmeth, That the wisdom of Solomon was but na∣tural, P. 5. and in the 6. p. saith, Solomons writings were no Scripture, nor the writings of Job, p. 7.

Answ. The wisdom God gave unto Solomon was pure and spiritual, it is contrary to the disposition and nature of God to give gifts unto his people, contrary to himself; that is natural in thee, which wrongs the Lord and calls Solomons wisdom (Gods gift) natural, it is manifest thou sees not with the eye of Faith as thou conceives, but art deceived by the prince of darkness the old serpent, who goes about through thy policy to turn the truth into a lye, but the serpent with all his subtilty cannot prove the wri∣tings of Solomon to be no Scripture, nor perswade such as fear the Lord to any such thing; none but such as are given up to believe lyes will credit thee, for his writings are truth, and the other Scripture is no more; And as for the writings of Righteous Job (whom thou confessest Righ∣teous) who saw the Lord of Glory; they are also to be be∣lieved (and not scrupled) to be truth given forth from the Spirit of truth; and to be as true as the writings of

the Prophets and Apostles; and thou art Judged out of the truth, in the lye, by the Righteous Spirit which was ma∣nifest in Job; who Judges with thy lying spirit all the translaters and composers of the Scriptures, who put Job & Solomons writings amongst the Prophets and Apostles.

L. C. Likewise affirmeth, That the Scriptures were written for our learning to know God, &c. p. 11.

Answ. The Jews and Pharisees which Christ reproved had the Scriptures, the writings of Moses and the Prophets, yet knew not Christ, nor God the Father; and thou and many other have the Scriptures, and yet wants the know∣ledge of God, none knows God the Father but such as the light Christ reveals him unto; here thou contradicts the Doctrine of Christ, and seeking (with the unbelieving Jews) for the knowledge of God, the Life, in the Scrip∣tures, read Luke 10.22. John 8.19. here thou hast shewen thou knowes not the right use of the Scriptures, which are ser∣viceable in their places.

L.C. Boasteth and sayes, We write not of other mens labours, but as our Faith within us reveals unto us, p. 13.

Answ. All that reads his book may see him to be an im∣pudent lyar, for he hath written of the works of the Pro∣phets and Apostles, which are none of his; this is the false faith, which reveals such horrible lyes, and none of the Faith of Gods Elect thou boasts of to be in thee; for the true Faith is of God, his own pure gift, but thou hast said there is nought of God in thee, and the fruits of the true faith doth not appear in thee, but the contrary.

L.C. He faith, The Sun at his presence (viz. Christ Jesus in the form of man) will be put forth as the snuffe of a candle, &c. pag. 15.

Answ. The Sun, Moon and Stars receives their glory and clearness from Christ the Word, the Eternal Son of God, who was before man had a form, and the Sun is not put out at the presence of him that made it, whose presence fills Heaven & earth; this is one of thy own foolish imaginations, which thou calls the Revelation of Faith, for when the Sun shines in the fulness of the strength and glory, the most of

the presence and power of God is seen in it.

L.C. Likewise saith, The nature of our Revelation, leads us forth to no manner nor form of worship, p. 8.

Answ. Then thy revelation is contrary to the Revelation of Christ and the Saints, and here thou hast shut thy self out of their Doctrine and Practice; Christ preached and prayed, and taught to pray and to worship God who is a Spirit, in the Spirit and in the Truth; and the Saints that lived in the power of Christ, met together, and in love edified one another, Preached, prayed & prophesied as they were moved in the power of the Holy Spirit; so had a form of godliness or worship, though in the power of God, as the chosen of the Lord, who bears his glorious i∣mage have now, who are acted in the power of the same E∣ternal Spirit, who judgeth thy revelations to be foolish and vain imaginations, and out of both form and power of godliness.

L.C. Saith, That one of them (viz. the Quakers) declared, that his God was an infinite spirit, all light, life, power, that filled Heaven and earth with his glory, &c. and he likewise saith, The Spirit is nothing without a body; and a little before saith, Nei∣ther was this any God at all, p. 20.

Answ. I do bear Testimony in the strength of the Eternal Spirit of Life, unto the God that I then declared of, which is as I then affirmed, a Spirit of Light, Life, Glory, Power and infinite Wisdom, who is not to be confined or limitted to time or place, and his glorious presence doth fill Heaven and earth (though thou would limit him, and have him in Heaven above the stars and in no Creature) but accord∣ing to the Scripture, Heaven is his Throne, and the earth is his foot-stool, the Heaven of Heavens cannot contain him, who was from all Eternity, and is to all eternity before any thing was formed, by his own Power and Wisdom gave to man and every Creature his form, the nature of man and Angels, gave them not their form, as thou falsly and blasphemously affirmeth, against thee and thy imagined god I do bear witness, in the Spirit and Power if Christ, and all thy lying imaginations, who denies God to be a Spirit and to dwell in his people, contrary to the holy Scriptures,

and denies the Words of Christ, who saith in John 4. God is a Spirit, and a spirit hath neither flesh nor bones, and the flesh profiteth nothing, it is the Spirit that giveth life, and the Spirit is the true God, which thou sayes is no God, whose dreadful Judgements thou must one day know to thy pain and torment, for thy blasphemy against him and his Tabernacle which is with men, who dwell and walks in his people, though thou would exclude him from thee and all other; who said, there was naught of God in thee nor in any man, which words preceeded from thee, as se∣veral can and will witness that heard thee, which makes it appear thou denies the Scripture, which saith, I in them and they in me, and I will dwell in them and walk with them, saith the Lord; yet thou brings scriptures in a pre∣tence to prove thy Imaginations, but all thy covers are too narrow to hide thee, they sleights, errours, lyes and blas∣sphemies are seen, and thy wicked unclean spirit which vents all these abhominations is eternally Judged, and condemned by the Spirit and Power of the eternal un∣changeable God; and for all thy craft and subtilty thou shalt be bruised and crushed, the rod is over thee, it is not saying as thou said unto me, Thou art damned to all Eter∣nity (or words to the same effect) that will save thee from the wrath of the Almighty (Jehovah our God) which with∣out mixture will be poured forth upon thy head, and all like-minded with thee shall partake of the same; and this was one of thy subtil Evations, when any hard question was asked thee, which thou couldst not or durst not for shame answer, thou art damned already I will not answer thee, and so put things by which came near thee, though several times thou was taken in horrible lyes, and spoke divers times unto us after thou hadst denied it, which manifested the true. God thou puts far from thee that should have guided thee, to have spoken the truth, unto which thou appears a strong enemy; Therefore L.C. thou may expect the just judgements which is pronounced against thee, to come speedily upon thee, and the unreasonableness is in thy self and in thy Companion, and the rage and wickedness; though thou

would falsly charge us with such like stuffe as you trade with, but by us it is denied and returned into your own bosoms, into its proper center; And as for thy saying, a Spirit is nothing without a body, herein also thou mani∣fests thy ignorance, concerning the devine eternal un∣changeable substance, the Spirit which gives every thing its being, body or form, and the body without the Spirit is dead, according to Scripture, though thou would have the form, the body, to be the substance of the Spirit; what a mist of thick darkness is over thee, that thou vents such cursed doctrine; where dost thou read in the Scripture that the Spirit is nothing without a body, or who ever durst be so impudent as to broach such a blaspemous doctrine? I never read that the Papists for all their blindness ever held forth such a doctrine, here the Idolaters may Judge thee, and thy cursed opinion; yet the Spirit hath a body, but according to thy own confession thou art none of the Mem∣bers of it; but such as are baptized with it knows his bo∣dy, nature, vertue and life, who was before man was for∣med; Learn what that means, the bodies of the Saints are the Temple of the living God, and prove thy God (which thou sayes is a man above the stars, no where else in no Creature, nor in this world) by plain Scripture, or con∣fess thy gross ignorance and darkness, for I utterly deny thy meanings and corrupt imaginations; and if thy God be so far from thee, thou hast a great way to go for Coun∣sel; but Moses said, the Word was nigh in the hearts of Israels Children; and likewise Paul to the Romans; and the Word was God saith John; so that thy doctrine and the Saints that gave forth the Scripture accord not, which clearly evidenceth a contrary spirit in thee, if thou hadst not confessed there were nought of God in thee; so that thy commission, the voice of words, which thou pretendest is also judged and denied, being seen by the light of devine glory in us, to be deceit and hypocrisie, and the de∣lusion of Satan which thou professest, who hast uttered such abhominable filthy blasphemies, and railing speeches against the Lord and his onely people, which will hasten

thy downfal and destruction, but our foundation stands sure, not to be shaken or moved, mark that, and the sen∣tence of eternal Condemnation, which thou sayes five of us came under, we stand clear from, and under it thou thy self and thy Companion art, and the great darkness you are in (who deny and oppose the light of Jesus Christ within us) in the reprobate state, who know not the light Christ Jesus within you, whom we confess in us (as the Saints did) the hope of our eternal glory, and witness him against you, the world, and all men upon the earth who stand up against him, who is our life, rock, refuge, and the horn of our Sal∣vation, and the Condemnation of all that deny and op∣pose his light within.

L. C. Thou sayes in the 20 and 21 page, Both Angel and man hath forms sutable to their natures, and that it was their na∣tures that gave them their form; and after thou sayest towards the latter end of the 21 p. God created man in his own Image; and likewise sayes, God hath the same form that man hath, and yet one is spiritual and the other natural, &c.

Answ. Mark, The heap of confusion he has compacted by his confused sensual wisdom, which he calls the Seed of Faith; if God created man, then his nature gave him not his form, but God; and if by the word speaking, came forth both Angel and man, as thou sayes, then their nature gave them not their form, but God that spoke the word; and if God hath the same form as man hath, the not ano∣ther as thou falsly affirment; Is there no difference be∣twixt a spiritual and a natural form? Herein thou hast contradicted thy self, that all who have a true understand∣ing may see thy darkness and confusion.

L. C. Thou also sayes, When thou believest him onely an infi∣nite Eternal spirit, then thy faith is wavering like unto the God, for a spirit without a body cannot be known, &c. p. 22.

Answ. The Faith God hath given me, by which I see and know him to be an Eternal Spirit, a devine substance is not wavering, but sound and stedfast; neither is God the infinite Eternal spirit wavering as thou falsly affirmeth, but stands and remains in his own being, nature and life for ever;

and the Saints knew God to be a Spirit, as also Jesus Christ hath declared and confessed him, and unto their Testimo∣ny I do bear witness against thy lyes and confusion; and God who causeth light to shine forth of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give us the knowledge of his glory in the face of Jesus Christ; so that we know God to be a Spirit of infinite power by his light in us, as the Saints did that gave forth the Scriptures, which knowledge thou and all the world wants who contemns and opposeth his light within; And is not this the blaspemy against the holy Spirit, to deny God to be a Spirit, hast not thou here brought thy self under Eternal Condemnation, is not this the unpardonable sin? But we do not deny that God was in Christ, and that in his body the fulness of the God∣head dwells, Christ is the same for ever; now in his Saints, and God in him, the Father and Son we do not deny, but confess to be one, and he that hath the Son hath (the life) the Father also, but thou hast excluded him from thee, who sayes, there is nought of God in thee, and Christ hath but one Body, one Church, one Temple, and yet there are ma∣ny Members; but thy corrupt sensual wisdom cannot see into this divine Mystery, though the Scripture in plain words declare it; So that for ever thou may stop thy mouth, for boasting of thy knowledge in the Scriptures.

L. C. Who sayes, Because we witness Christ manifest in us, that he is but in one of us, unless we can make it appear, that Christ hath so many bodies as there is Quakers, &c. p. 25.

Answ. We do say and testifie in the fear of the Lord, with a true and perfect understanding, (notwithstanding thy reviling) that the true light Christ the spiritual body, or Divine substance, is manifest in us; and also do bear witness of his descending, and ascending for above all hea∣vens, and it was the same which ascended, that descend∣ed, according to the Scripture; and do thou prove the de∣scending of a body of flesh, blood and bones; flesh and blood enters not into the Kingdom of heaven, learn what this meaneth, the word was made flesh, and the flesh suffered without the gate at Jerusalem, but the life God died not, which was in the body of flesh, but entered into glory, into

the same glory it was in before the world was made, whose glory and presence filleth all things, and is amnifest in us, his beauty, his presence and power is seen known, and right∣ly understood; and his spiritual body, his pure Divine pre∣sence is but one, yet in thousands it is manifest, glory to his eternal name (Jehovah) for ever; but this is beyond the reach of thy devilish sensual wisdom, this secret is hid from the Magicians of Egypt, the worlds wise men, who want the pure wisdom and reason; And this I affirm, he hath no true ground for his faith, so out of the true faith; but what hast thou to do to boast of thy faith or speak of it, who denies the true light Christ to be in thee; and sayes there in nought of God in thee, is not the true light Christ the Authour of faith? so he that hath not Christ the power of God, the ground of faith, which faith stands in, his belief or faith stands in the wrong ground, in the wisdom of mens words, and this is the false faith, the faith of the whorish wo∣man the false Church, the worlds faith, and the faith which L.C in acted in, which all along in his book he boasts of, who denies the true light Christ within, the ground and Author of our faith.

L. C. In the 17. p. It is said; Look into thy own body, there thou shalt see the Kingdom of heaven, &c. and in pag. 25. he saith Christ is in heaven and in no creature.

Answ. The Kingdom of heaven being in man, if Christ be in heaven he must needs be in man, would thou exclude Christ from his Kingdom, or can it be properly or truely said to be a Kingdom without a King? but here thou hast manifested thy ignorance of the Reign, Government, King∣dom and power of Christ which is in the Saints, and that another King (the Prince of darkness) hath the Govern∣ment in thee.

L. C. He also goes about, through his subtilty, to strengthen the hands of the wicked persecutors, the enemies of God and his people in New England and other. Nations, saying that the suffering of the Quakers in New England or in any other Nation is not for righ∣teousness, &c. p. 44.

Answ. Here thou joyns with Cains generation, the perse∣cutors

of the innocent, and manifesteth the linage and stock thou art of; where or when did any of the seed of faith per∣secute any for conscience sake, were not the righteous seed sufferers in all ages? blush and he ashamed of thy wicked∣ness; what unrighteous action canst lay to the charge of of any one of these thou calls Quakers in New England, that so cruelly suffered by that bloody generation; their innocent sufferings and the patient suffering of those called Quakers in other Nations, shall stand a witness against all Gods enemies there and else where, to the honour of the righteous God, & to their eternal shame and confufion, and Gods judgements is nigh to come upon that bloody genera∣tion in New England and else where, who have drunk the blood of the innocent; and all that joyn with them a∣gainst the Elect seed called Quakers, shall partake of the wrath and indignation of the Lord God, which upon them will speedily be poured forth except they repent, and they and thou, shall know one day the ye have wronged the righteous seed, to your sorrow and torment, who for the innocent truth, and for righteousness have suffered long and cruel imprisonments, stockings, stonings and cruel scourgings, the spoiling of their goods, and the losse of some of their members which Cains generations must an∣swer for, every drop of innocent blood they must give an account for; the Lord of hosts will avenge the blood of his people, who will render to every one a just recompence of reward according to their works, wo, wo to the merciless, for they shall have no mercy.

L. C. Rages against us and sayes, You Quakers are not Commissionate so counterfeits, yea guilty of spiritual Treason; and would have us deny the Lord Jesus within us, &c. pag. 45.

Ans. Our Authority and Commission stands in the power to Christ Jesus manifest in within us, unto whom we do bear witness in the power of his own spirit and life, as therein we are moved (as the Saints in all ages did) and his voice we know and hear, (which thou art a stranger unto) and his Counsels and commands, through the vertue of his power we are and have been subject unto, thorow the

which many times, by Cains generation, we have suffered much; but it is thy self and thy generation which are guilty of high spiritual treason, that denies Christ within, and would have us to do so too; but we deny thy cursed Counsel and Doctrine and know one day that thou shalt answer for all these things at the Bar of Divine Justice, and thy Commission, the voice of words thou speaks of, is seen with the eternal light, and judged to be delusion, and thou proved thy self to be the counterfeit.

L. C He affirmeth in p. 26. that God or Christ is not in this world, neither in Prophet nor righteous; And also that the seed or nature of God is in all true believers.

Answ. Here thou would devide God from his seed or na∣ture, which is inseparable, and would exclude God from the world, believers and righteous; what confusion is this, who begets the Seed or nature of God in man, and how is it generated or begotten, or how comes the seed or nature into man, if God be not in man, by his own power to generate it; and what makes a man righteous if the righteousness of God be not in him? here thou hast writ∣ten thou knows not what, uttered words without under∣standing.

L. C. Also faith, The seed of the woman is faith, and the seed of the Serpentine Angel is Reason, &c. and this Serpents seed Reason put to death Jesus and his Apostles, and that reason hath power to put to death the seed of faith.

Answ. The seed of the woman is Christ, and the seed of the Serpent is sin and iniquity, they were unreasonable men that murdered the just and innocent, such as thou art, but the seed of faith shall never die; he that believes in me shall never die, never perish, never be confounded, but shall live for ever, have everlasting life, it is the Serpents seed, the ungodly, the unrighteous, the blasphemers and lyars, that dies and eternally perishes, and the seed of faith is not out of the pure reason, but in it; Reason, doth not destroy but preserveth; the persecutor, the devourer is out of reason, unreasonable.

Several particulars which L.C. in his Book hath asserted, desired to be proved, by plain Scripture, or otherwise they will stand upon record, as lying forged imaginations and no true Revelations.

• 1. That Faith shall die in the heel, and reason in the head.
• 2. That the Angel did descend into the womb of Eve.
• 3. That a spirit cannot live without a body, p. 28.
• 4. That we and our God are cursed to all eternity, pag. 28.
• 5. That Christ or God is above the Stars with a body of flesh and bones.
• 6. That God that Christ said was a spirit, the meaning of his Revelation was, that his invisible soul was that God or spirit abiding onely in his person. p. 29.
• 7. That Reason is the seed of the Serpent.
• 8. That by faith, reason shall be kept in Eternal death.
• 9. That God gave faith, Reason, and sence but once.
• 10. And that faith reason and sence have in all genera∣ted, in its kind form and nature as in p. 40.
• 11. That the Devils Kingdom, and reasons Kingdom are one.
• 12. That God doth damn as well as save, and that not for any evil thing done, as he hath asserted in p. 58.
• 13. That we acknowledge no other God but what is within us.
• 14. And that we conceive this God was an infinite no∣thing, and so made all things of nothing.
• 15. That the light in us is darkness.
• 16. That an infinite spirit without a body is nothing.
• 17. That we say God hath no form.
• 18. That all the time Paul was clothed with a corrupt persecuting spirit he was a vessel of honour in the account of God.

• 19. That God is all Faith and no Reason; and that Rea∣son is of the nature of the Devil, p. 31.
• 20. That it was the wisdom of the flesh that made a chief Magistrate, as in p. 36.

This and much more of the like nature hath proceeded from the imagination of thy sensual wisdom, which thou calls the Revelation of thy generated faith, and many rail∣ing & reviling expressions against us wch thou calls Quakers, wch I shall pass by, as not being worth mentioning, but for all these things thou must give an account, and terrible and dreadful will the day day of account be unto thee, who hath uttered so many horrible blasphemies, lies and false accusa∣tions against the God of life, (who is a spirit) and against his people, and also goes about in thy sensual wisdom, to make a difference amongst believers, as if God answered some and not others.

L. C. pag. 41. thou sayes that thou canst not find that ever God did hear or give an answer to any private believer?

Answ. Which is false; for God hears and answers all be∣lievers, it is the lyar and unbeliever that God neither hears nor answers; The whole houshold of faith, who are the family of heaven, of one heart, one soul and one spirit, in and thorow faith have all accesse to him and acceptance with him, all heard and answered by the Lord God who is near unto them (even in their hearts) to hear their re∣quests and to answer their demands, and also to relieve their necessities, and there is no difference in true believers, the devisions and differences are amongst the unbelievers and the wicked: it were in vain for such as thou calls pri∣vate believers to pray or believe, if God shall neither hear nor answer them, in this all the whole houshold of faith will deny thee & witnes against thee, who have all been heard and answered of God; in this also hast thou discovered thy folly.

L. C. Likewise sayes in the 42. p. I shall reveal unto you the difference of a Commissionate faith from a generated faith, and how the one is ceased, the other not, &c.

Answ. Where dost thou read of a commissionate or a ge∣nerated Faith in the holy Scriptures? here thou art not guided by the Scripture, nor the Spirit that gave it forth;

Faith is but one, the gift of God, not to be devided, the My∣stery held in a pure Conseience, by which all Gods chil∣dren had and have victory over the world, its nature and life, and in it reigned over the prince and power of darkness, as all who be in the Faith will witness, one Faith, one Lord, one Baptism, and that it is not ceased, nor never cea∣seth, but remaineth and endureth in the Church of God, the Assembly of the first-born, his Elect in which they have all access to and acceptance with God; but this Faith and charity thou art out of, which is manifested inthe Saints, by which they live and please-God.

L.C. He saith, The nature of Reason is to cheat, injure and persecute his neighbour, &c. p. 47.

Answ. That is false, It is the nature of Reason to do the thing which is reasonable, it is contrary to Reason to cheat, lye and persecute, such are out of pure Reason that do such things, unreasonable men like thy self.

L.C. Likewise saith, For as the Law was made for the lawless, viz. The Seed of Reason, &c. p. 49.

Answ. This is also false, The law is not made for the Seed of Reason, which is added because of transgression, and made for the lawless, the Law is grounded upon pure Reason, and the lawless and transgressors are out of the Reason in the unreasonableness; So the Law hath power over them to condemn them; pure Reason is Law, and what is contrary is no Law, and in this also hast thou ope∣ned thy folly.

L.C. Also saith, Blasphemy is matter of Conscience (as you call it) so in Christs Kingdom, &c. p. 50, 51.

Answ. This is another of thy horrible lyes; Blaspemy, er∣rour, deceit, lyes and iniquity is in the Devils kingdom, in which thou art, and not in the peaceable Kingdom of Christ into which no unclean thing can enter, blaspemers are shut out of it, and hath no part in it.

L.C. Doth likewise say, The blind Quakers are labouring through the fire of their own Righteousness, intending to find rest but cannot, &c. p. 53.

Answ. The fire which they have laboured in, is a mystery to thee, if ever thou come to know it, and feel the heat of it,

it will be a dreadful time unto thee, and our own righte∣ousness and unrighteousness, in the Lords fiery furnace is consumed (and consuming) and the righteousness of the Lord is our covering, which can stand in the everlasting burnings, and in it many of us can witness true peace, rest and sweet comfort, which is satisfactory to our Souls, not∣withstanding thy lyes and false accusations, which cannot touch us to hurt us, glory to our God for ever; but they will one day come heavy upon thee and be thy burthen.

L.C. Blasphemously sayes, This I know God could die, &c. p. 58.

Answ. This is horrible blasphemy, to say that the ever∣living God could die, who is eternal life, remains the same in substance, nature, life and being to all eternity, who was before death was, before any thing had a form, gives every thing its form, life to every thing that liveth, and is the Spirit and life of all flesh, never slumbers nor sleeps, im∣mortal, eternal, unchangeable; if he dyes, he changes, and lives not ever; Thou sottish man, how doth thy sensual wisdom blind and deceive thee, can the unchangeable God dye, who can change all things in a moment, in the twink∣ling of an eye, which is changeable? But in this as well as be∣fore he hath largely manifested his ignorance concerning the immortal unchangeable God, in whom there is no va∣riableness nor shadow of turning; but the death and suf∣fering of Christ in the flesh we believe, own and bear witness unto, according to the Scripture of Truth?

And likewise at Richard Whitpans house in East-Cheap in London, in a discourse with some of us, this ensuing confu∣sion proceeded from the mouth of this lying prophet (and his companion) who stiles himself the alone true and faith∣ful messenger of Christ; but the understanding Reader may easily discern whose messenger he is, by his Message, unto which I shall refer thee, which is as followeth; taken from their own mouthes, as it was uttered by them at the same time.

• 1. L.C. Said he would prove God to be a man, flesh and bones as we are.

• 2. Lodowick, Mugleton his companion, that he had more knowledge in the Scriptures, then they that gave them forth.
• 3. L.C. Said he had nothing of God in him.
• 4. L.C. Said he would prove nothing, and before said, he would prove what their God was.
• 5. L.C. Said, The Devil was the Author of this light in the world, (and Christ saith I am the light of the world, &c)
• 6. He said he would never eat nor drink with George Fox Ju. for he was damned to all Eternity, but shortly after said he would drink with him to morrow.
• 7. He also said he was the judge of the Scriptures, and all must believe the meanings he gives unto them, yet would shew no reason for it.
• 8. L.C. Likewise said he had damned the Lord Mayor seven or eight years ago and 1000 more within this eight years, and that he had justified forty or fifty.
• 9. He pronounced damnation to George Fox Ju. and to John Harwood, and said several times he would speak no more to them, yet after did, and said also he would answer no question, but after did.
• 10. He said his God was in heaven above the Stars and no where else a man or person.
• 11. He said the words in the Scripture, in the 4. chap. of John doth not prove God to be a Spirit, where Christ said God is a spirit, yet be pretended to own the Scriptures.
• 12. One of them said that a spirit hath flesh blood and bones contrary to Christs words.

WE whose names are here subscribed were pre∣sent in the Chamber when these last twelve Particular passages were spoken by Lawrance Claxton and Lodowick Mugleton, and much more of the like nature, not worth the mentioning, and this is pub∣lished for no other end but the manifesting of de∣ceit and deceivers, and the clearing of the innocent truth and the witnesses of it,

• Richard Whitpain.
• Alice Whitpain.
• William Sympson.
• George Fox Jun.
• John Harwood.

Notes

• Acts 3.15
• 1 Kings 3.12.
• 1 Kings 3.28.
• Job 42.5.
• John 1.1.
• Luke 11. Matth. 6.1 Thes. 5.11
• 2 Cor. 3.17 John 4.24.
• Isa. 66.
• 1 Kings 8.27.
• 2 Chron. 6.18.
• 2 Cor. 6.19.
• Luke 24.39.
• Reu. 21.3.
• 2 Cor. 6.16.
• Jam. 2.26.
• 2 Cor. 6.16
• Gen. 2.7. John 1.
• John 4.
• 2 Cor. 4.6
• Joh. 16.23
• Colos. 1. 2 Cor. 13.5 Eph. 4.10. 1 Cor. 15.50.
• John 1 14.
• Eph. 4.10
• 1 Cor. 1.21.
• Heb. 12.2.
• 2 Pet. 1.21.
• John 10.
• Col. 1.
• Joh. 6.47. Joh. 3.15.
• Eyb. 4.5
• John 5.4.
• Gen. 21.33
• Deut. 33.27.
• Mal. 3.6.
• Jam. 1.17.