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. XIII. (Book 13)

9. THat made man in his own Image and likeness in respect of his body as well as his soul, this was the God that the righteous Fathers of old did serve and believe in, as I have shewed before; neither is there titles of honour attributed but to a person; and though we do know, and believe the everlast∣ing God, who made man in his own Image and likeness to be a spiritual body or person; yet this spiritual body its clearer than Christal, brighter than the Sun, sw••fter than thought when he please, yet a body. This Penns imagination cannot compre∣hend; this is that God of Jeshu••un that rideth upon the heavens, and in his excellency on the sky, and sitteth upon the circle of the Earth; he being a spiritual body, he rideth upon the wings of the wind, in that he hath made the clouds for the pavement of his feet; and he hath commanded the winds to drive the clouds which way he please, even as a King doth his Charet upon earth. He maketh the Clouds to descend from H••aven to Earth with his person in it, when he please; and he command∣eth the cloud to ascend from earth to heaven again when he please.

And when he please he rideth in a Cloud about the Circle of the Firmament of Heaven, and overlooketh the Circle of the Earth, yet his bulk and bigness but the dimention of a middle statured man, yet his body being of that clearness, and brightness, and swiftness, the Clouds can carry a spiritual body with ease, and can ascend and descend, as we read that God did ascend and descend in the Pillar of the Cloud when he spake to Moses and Aaron in Mount Sina; likewise we read that God set a Ladder on the Earth, which the top reached up to Heaven: This Ladder was for the Angels, being spiritual bodies, to descend and ascend, and this Ladder was made of the Clouds; and the steps of the Ladder that reached from Earth to Heaven, were but three steps, to signifie the three Commissions, or three Re∣cords,

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