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fmote upon my Head and Neck with their Fifts a while, and then run to John Reeve, and ftruck up his Feet, and he fell upon the Gravel, which made his Hands bleed; fo he lay upon the Ground, and People came thick about us, to know what was the Matter; but the Woman came in whofe House I was pulled out of, and fhe knew these two Men that pursued us in the Fields, fo they left off, and flank away, left fhe fhould have had the Law of them for abufing us in her House: There was about a Hundred of them in her House and Garden when they pulled me out, these were unreafonable Men, fuch as Paul met withal, which he defired to be delivered from. Several times hath John Reeve and myself been in Danger to be abused and spoiled by unreasonable Men, and it was upon the fame Account as Paul was.

For he was served fo for declaring Jefus Chrift to be the Soni of God, and that he was a Meffenger to declare it; and we for declaring Chrift Jefus to be the only God, and ourselves to be commiffionated from him, to blefs the Seed of Faith, and curfe defpifing Spirits to Eternity.

So that I am not unacquainted, nor ignorant of Paul's Words for it hath been always my Defire ever fince to be delivered from the rude Multitude, who doth not go by the Law of Reason, but doth act as Brute-Beasts, who have no Reason in them, therefore called unreasonable Men. This is a true Diftinction and Interpretation what the Devil is, even the Spirit of Reafon in Man, and how Reafon always killed the just and righteous Seed of Faith, and what the Apostle meant when he defired to be delivered from unreasonable Men, and who may be faid to be unreasonable Men. Much more might be faid in this Point, but I fuppofe there is enough written to fatisfy and inform any Man that hath true Light of Faith in him, or hath but moderate Reason.

Only this may be minded by the Reader, that the Scriptures never called distracted Men, nor Mad-men, nor Fools, nor diftempered brained Men are never called Devils, though thefe Men are poffeft with Devils; that is, with Distempers of Nature, these are Devils that are produced through Accidents of Nature, through fome extraordinary Grief, Fright, or Loffes, and fuch like, hath broke the Brain, and fo the

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Seat of Reason is quite out of Order, and makes them more ftrong than when their Reason was in Order, and fo come to be poffeft with Devils; thefe Devils are produced by Accidents in Nature, as I faid before.

So not thofe Devils the Scriptures fpeak of: We never read that any Prophet, Apostle, or Chrift himself did ever condemn or judge fuch Perfons, but rather pitied them, and healed them, and caft those Devils out, as may be read in Scripture; nay, the civil Magiftrate doth not regard what a Mad-man faith, whofe Reason is out of Order; therefore it may be clear that the moft wife, prudent Men, who have the greatest Measure of Reason in them, are those Devils the Scriptures calls Devils, therefore more fit to be Politicians both in Church and State; neither could unwife Man in Reafon govern this World as it is at this Day.

So that it may be clear to thofe that are inlightned, that the Spirit of Reafon in Man is the Devil that killed the Righteous and the Juft, for Cain was a high Pitch of Reafon when he killed righteous Abel, for Cain had the Fulness of the reprobate Angels Spirit of Reason, it dwelt in Cain bodily; and Efau had much Reason, and Judas, and that Devil that tempted Chrift, was a Man, and had a great Measure of the Wifdom of Reafon in him; and thofe Chief-priests and Elders that Chrift called Serpents, Devils, that tempted him, were indued with a great Measure of Reafon; they were wife, fenfible, fober, learned Men, yet Devils, and the Spirit of Reafon in them was the Devil that tempted Chrift, and perfecuted him, and killed him that was the juft One, even the Saviour of the World, of the elect Seed; so that the Spirit of Reason in Man is the Devil the Scriptures condemn, which commits Murder for Confcience-fake, or otherwife, and is that Devil that is to be damned to Eternity, &c. So that the Devil, fo much spoken of in Scripture, and condemned by Chrift, it was fenfible, wife, prudent Men, indued with a high Pitch of Reafon, and not unreasonable men, nor mad, frantick, diftracted Men, as People do vainly imagine, as Fox and most of the Quakers do.

18. Muggleton faith, it was the Godhead-Life that fuffered Death.

Fox calls this Darkness alfo; For, faith he, Christ be fuffered in the Flesh; but he did not die, as he was God.

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How the Soul of Christ died, and the Ignorance of the Quakers difcovered in the Death of their own Souls.

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ERE Fox hath discovered his allegorical Cheat, as

Anf. I have made appear before; for, faith he, in the fourteenth Particular of this Book, the Quakers own the Son of God who was crucified, and laid in the Grave, and rofe again, and fits at the Right-hand of God, yet Fox faith, the Godhead life did not die. Here Fox hath manifefted his great Ignorance of Life that died; alfo he hath cut himself off from having any Part or Portion in the Death of Chrift, for God and Chrift is all one undividual, or undivided Effence, Person, and Substance; fo that when Chrift died, God died; and when Chrift's Blood, or Soul, was poured out unto Death, the Soul of God was poured out unto Death also, Chrift being God and Man.

For no Man can truly fay Chrift was God and Man, except he were God as well as Man; for if there be another God befides Chrift, or above Chrift, then Chrift is not God as well as Man, as People do vainly imagine. Now we read that Chrift poured out his Soul unto Death, and will any dare to say that the Soul of Chrift was not the Soul of God? It is high Blafphemy to affirm the contrary; befides, it cuts a Man off from all Benefit of the Death of Christ, for no Blood but the Blood of a God can fpeak Peace to the Soul of Man, therefore it is the Blood of Chrift fpeaketh better Things than the Blood of Abel, because Abel was but a faithful Man.

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But Chrift was God as well as Man, yet this Godhead-life did die, and quickened again by its own Power, which Abel's Life could not do, being but a Man. But what should I talk to Quakers of thefe Things, for they do not believe that Souls die, no not their own, they all flip away, and leave the Body to fuffer fo Fox faith Chrift fuffered in the Flesh, but his Soul did not die, but flipt out of his Body; for he doth

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not own that Chrift's Soul died, neither as he was God, nor as he was Man. But this is opened more large concerning the Godhead-life dying, in the Interpretation of the whole Book of the Revelation.

But what think you, Fox, did Cain kill the Soul or Life of Abel, or no? Or did he only drive his Soul or Spirit out of his Body? Surely if Cain had not killed Abel's Soul, his Blood would never have cried for Vengeance in God's Ears, and in his own Confcience, as it did, if his Life had not been killed.

What do you think, Fox, that Judas did by his Soul when he hang'd himself? Did he only hang the Body that his Soul might flip away, and leave his Body to fuffer? What, do you think the Sufferings that all Quakers of late, and others have undergone in Imprisonment and Banifhment, fome have died. by Reafon of thofe Sufferings, but you Quakers do believe it was nothing but their Bodies that fuffered, their Souls fuffered nothing, they flipt out of their Bodies, and went some where, you know not where.

So your Perfecutors did you no great Hurt, only turned your Souls out of your Bodies before the Time, as a Landlord doth a bad Tenant, turns him out of his Houfe for not paying his Rent, he never kills him: So the Quakers Souls are never killed, they are only separated from the Body, so that there is no great Harm done by the Perfecutors, they do but only feparate Soul and Body one from the other, they do not kill Life in the Quakers, for Life cannot die; the Body indeed may fuffer, but Life cannot die.

This is Fox the Quaker's Faith, and all Quakers elfe that I have talked with; and were not the Quakers blinded and hardened, they would be afhamed to own fuch a Principle; for all true Believers are afhamed of the Quakers Faith in this Point, nay; Men that are meer moral Men, that have no Light but the Dictates of Nature, do know by Experience, that the Spirit and Soul of Man doth die, for nothing can be capable of Pain but Life, nor nothing can be capable to die but Life; yet thefe blind Quakers cannot believe that Life can die, as afore faid.

19. Page 21. Muggleton faith, God the King of Heaven is not in this World at all,

Fox calls this Lies alfo; For, faith he, thou dost confefs that Cbrift is God; and John faith, he was in the World, but the World knew him not. Allo Fox faith, the true Prophet faith be fills Heaven and Earth; but, faith Fox, the falfe Prophet faith God the King of Heaven is not in this World at all.

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It is proved that Christ, the only God, is not in this World at all, in bis Perfon or Effence.

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HAT Saying of mine is Truth, that God the King of Heaven is not in this World at all, not in his Perfon and Effence, or Substance, as is clearly opened in The Neck of the Quakers broken, which whofoever doth read that Book may fee every one of thofe Sayings of mine more clearly opened than in this Treatife; yet George Fox calls them all Lies, and Darkness, and fuch like, though what I have written in that Book is as true as any Writings of the Prophets or Apostles, and are of as great Authority, and will prove as true in the End as theirs.

But to give the Reader a little Light to fee the grofs Darknefs of this Fox and his Subtilty: Fox brings the Words of John, and faith, Chrift was in the World, but the World knew him not. Mind! Did I ever deny in all my Writings that Chrift never was in the World? I always in all my Writings juftified more than any Man living, that Chrift the only God was in this World in the State of Mortality, which the Apostles did Witnefs unto; therefore it is that John faith, Christ was in the World, but the World knew him not, which doth imply that Chrift was not in the World in his Perfon at that Time when John writ thofe Words; if he had, John would have faid, Chrift is now in the World, but the World knows him not.

So that it is clear to thofe that know the Scriptures, that Chrift the only God was not in this World at all in the Apostles Time: He was in the World before he fuffered Death, and the World knew him not; but after he was afcended he hath not been in this World never fince, and this John and the reft

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