The answer to William Penn Quaker, his book, entituled, The new witnesses proved old hereticks Wherein he is proved to be an ignotant [sic] spater-brain'd Quaker, who knows no more what the true God is, nor his secret decrees, then one of his coach-horses doth, nor so much; for the oxe knoweth his owner, and the ass his masters scrip, but Penn doth not know his maker, as is manifest by the Scriptures, which may inform the reader, if he mind the interpretation of Scripture in the discourse following. I. That God was in the forme, image and likeness of mans bodily shape, as well as his soul from eternity. ... VIII. What is meant by the armour of God, the wilderness, and the wilde beasts I fought with in the wilderness. / By Lodowick Muggleton.

CHAP. IX. (Book 9)

3. AGain it is said Gen. 5.22. Enoch walked with God, 24. verse, And Enoch walked with God, and he was not, for God took him, so Gen. 6.6. It repented the Lord that he had made man on the Earth, and it greived him at his heart.

Here the Reader may see, that God is no great vast Spirit without body, which can walk and talk with man: neither can a Spirit without a body be capable to repent, nor to have any such passion as to be capable of grief of heart; why, because a Spirit with∣out a body hath no heart, to be sensible of wrath and anger, with that which it hath made, because of its disobedience, nor pleased with those Creatures, which do obey his Will, why? because a Spirit without a body hath no heart, nor will to be pleased or offended, nor capable to walk or talk with man; neither can a Spirit without a Body be capable to repent, these things belong only to such a God that hath a Body of his own, and the true God being a spiritual Body in Form like man, he seeing the wickedness of man was so great, more great then he thought it would be, when he suffered the Serpent to beguile Eve, in that the Seed of the Serpent, men and women should Act such things as were unnatural, as ••••e People in the old World did; and now God by experience, saw that the wickedness of man was so so great beyond what he expected, that it repented him that he had made man upon the Earth, and he was greived to the heart; by this the Reader may observe, that God did not know all things past, present, and to come: ne••th••r is that infinite that doth, for if God should know all things past, p••esent and to come, then there is nothing more for ••••d to know; therefore his knowledge must be finite, but the nature of infiniteness is to increase in new K••••••••edge, n•••• Joys, and new Glo••i•• ••••ernal∣ly; so that when God saw the wickedness of ma•• •• s so great,

beyond what he expected as aforesaid, it repented him that he had made man upon the earth, a••d it gri•• •••• him to the heart: So that now God is resolv••d in himse•••• 〈…〉〈…〉ew res••lut••••n, to destroy the thing which he had made, 〈…〉〈…〉 th•• world by water. So that God hath a progit〈…〉〈…〉nsel•• to increase in knowledg and understanding and w〈…〉〈…〉w knowledg doth arise in God, he knoweth how to ••xpo•••• 〈◊〉〈◊〉 for his own glory, both in the preserva ion and exal a•• o of what creatures he pleases, and in the abasement an•• dest ••••c ion of others of his creatures. And this is the nature of I••••••niteness, and of a Progitive Power, which is above all Law; and this In∣finiteness and Progitive Power is in the body of God, even he that created man in his own Image and likeness.

So that Enoch being an holy man, in that he believed in God, and in that he was a righteous man, and did nothing contrary to the Law written in his heart. God loved his holy Faith, being his own nature, and his obedience to the legal Law written in his heart; so that God walked with Enoch, and revealed his secrets unto him, and shewed unto him that God was in the form of man from Eternity, and Enoch walked with God, in that he did believe God was in a glorious form like man from Eternity, and in that he did obey Gods Law written in his heart; so that his righteousness did exceed all men that were upon the earth at that time; so that God revealed unto him glorious things, in that he gave him to know that God was in the form of man, a spiritual body; and gave him the spirit of prophecy, that this spiritual body should be transmitted into a pure natu∣ral body, so that God should be upon this earth, and eat and drink with man as a man. This, and many other wonderful things did Enoch prophecy of concerning God in the books of Enoch, which Noah, Abraham, Lot, Isaac, and Jacob, and the twelve sons of Jacob did read, as may be seen in the testimony of the twelve sons of Jacob, and in the Scriptures, that maketh mention of Enoch, and how he was translated.

Observe his Body was translated and immortallized as well as his Soul, and his Body went to Heaven as well as his Soul; for this I say; there n ver was any soul or spirit that went to heaven without a bo••y since the world began, nor ••ever will to the worlds end. For if the soul goeth to heaven, the body goeth to heaven also; for God will not endure to have spirits in Heaven

without bodies, because his spirit cannot be without a body himself, nor no other creature he hath made in heaven nor in earth; so that what spirits soever goeth to heaven without bo∣dies, God will surely cast them out of heaven for ever. So that it may be clear to the Reader that hath Faith to understand the Scriptures, that Enoch did know and believe God to be in the form of mans bodily shape, a spiritual body, and that this spiri∣tual body would transmute it self into a pure natural body, which was Christ, and that this Christ should be the very God that should eat and drink with man as man, and that the seed of the Serpent should put him to death. Now if the man Christ Jesus his body and soul was the Lord of Life, as the Scripture saith; then certainly he was God when he was upon earth, and his soul suffered death, as the Scriptures are full to prove: But I shall speak more fully to this hereafter. Likewise it may be clear to the Reader, that no soul nor spirit can go to heaven without its body, and that Enoch his body was translated with his soul, and so went both to heaven, being but one personal substance, neither can they be seperated one from the other. This is a standing truth, but few understand and believe it.

4. See Gen. 6.8. But Noah found grace in the eyes of the Lord, and Noah was a just man, and perfect in his generation, and Noah walked with God. So Gen. 8.20. And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord, and took of every clean beast, and every clean foul, and offer∣ed burnt offerings on the altar. And vers. 21. And the Lord smelled a sweet savour, and the Lord said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for mans sake.

Here the Reader may see, that Noah was a just and perfect man in his generation, in so much that he found grace in the eyes of the Lord, in that he walked with God. So that God revealed himself to him, because he had Faith to believe God, and he acted the righteousness of the Law written in his heart towards man. For this is to be minded, that God always chuse such men, and revealed himself unto them that were righteous in their generation; and if Reeve and Muggleton had not been innocent and free from the breach of the Law written in our hearts, and righteous in our generation in these last times, when so much wickedness hath been acted by the Professors of godliness in these times; God would never have chosen us,

nor have revealed himself unto us, as he hath, though de∣spised by the seed of the Serpent, such as Penn the Quaker, and others.