thofe Fits had been wrought by the Spirit of Chrift, and that he bad revealed great Things unto them; and because the Parties aforefaid could not produce thofe Fits in themfelves, as they faw others have, notwithstanding their melancholy Life, their framing their outward Apparel, and obferving every Motion in the Mind, according to the Quakers Doctrine, they left no Stone unturned, nor no Endeavour neglected, in the Quakers Way, that they might attain thofe Witchcraft-fits, but could not attain them, do what they could: They got the Quakers Language of Thee and Thou, but could not attain the Fits; neither would fome of thofe Quakers own one of thefe Perfons, because fhe had not fuch Fits as they had, fo fhe was forc'd to leave them. And the Caufe why thefe Perfons aforefaid could have no fuch Fits, it was because they had talked with me before they fell to the Quakers Principles, fo that no Witchcraft-fit could be produced in them, though their Endeavours were great.

Alfo I have drove the Witchcraft-power out of Quakers that have been ftrongly poffeft, fo that they have never had Fit more. And as for you, Fox, have you ever had any Witchcraft-fit fince you are damned? Did you ever fall into a Swoon, and lye as one dumb? And hath the Spirit of Reason, the Devil, which you call the Light of Chrift in you, I afk, hath he revealed any Mysteries of the Scriptures in the Time of your Fit, fince you are damned, fourteen Years ago? Is your Revelation of Reason to be feen in Writing, yea or nay.

Again, hath Samuel Hooton, William Smith, Edward Bourn, Richard Farnefworth, and many others that were damned of late Years, have they had any Witchcraft-fits fince? Or any new Revelation? If they have, let them be brought forth to the Light. Do you George Fox know any Quaker that I have paffed the Sentence upon, that can produce a Witchcraft-fit afterwards? If no Fit can be produced as formerly, then I fay no true Revelation nor Experience can arife in the Quakers Hearts: Nay, this Sentence, it puts a Stop to the Revelation of Reafon alfo, elfe why should Quakers fall fo, as you do, from your first Principle? For you are not like the People you were fixteen Years ago, there were few Quakers then but they had Witchcraft-fits, but now of late, I do not hear of any Quaker

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that hath any Fits, no, not fo much as to buz or hum before the Fit comes. But if you Fox doth know any of you Quakers that have any of thofe Witchcraft-fits as formerly, bring them to me, or let me hear of it, and I fhall caft out that Devil which caufeth those Fits, fo that they shall never have more, but fhall be fenfible and in their right Mind. So Fox, you fhall find my Words to be Truth, and no Lie, that the Quakers, after the Sentence is paft upon them, fhall never grow to have more Experience in Vifions and Revelations, but shall wither. Do not you, Fox, find this to be true? If you do not, others will witnefs unto it to be true.

But you fay, The Truth Spreads: I know the Truth fpreads, but not the Quakers Witchcraft-fits, which produced Vifions, Apparitions, and Revelations, which the Quakers thought had been produced by the Spirit of Chrift, but they were produced by the Spirit of Reafon the Devil, in themselves; and these Fits, Vifions, Apparitions, and Revelations in the Quakers, are greatly withered away of late, by that Sentence I have paffed upon the Speakers of the Quakers, and others of that Opinion, fo that thofe Fits of theirs makes most People afhamed to own them, which formerly People thought them the most knowingeft that was poffeft with a Witchcraft-fit; fo that it is plain and clear, and many that were Lovers of the Quakers Way of Worship that can, and will witness, that their Experience in Visions and Revelation are withered, and come to nothing.

But Fox thinks because a many ignorant People comes to hear the Quakers fpeak their Ninny-nonies over and over again, therefore the Truth, as he calls it, fpreads, but when it was at the beft, it was but a Lie that fpreads; indeed a Lye will fpread very faft, but Truth fpreads very flowly; for Truth was ten Years in the World, and there was not much above forty Perfons that owned it; but the Quakers at that Time had many Thousands that were Quakers, as was expreft by those five damned Quakers in Eaftcheap, mentioned in that Book called The Quakers Neck broken.

14. Page 14. Muggleton faith, He could never find any Quaker that would own God to be a Perfon in Form of a Man, which fhews the Quakers Darkness.

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Here, faith Fox, Muggleton bath fhewed his Ignorance of the Scriptures; for, faith he, the Scriptures faith, That God is a Spirit: And Chrift faith, that a Spirit hath not Flesh and Bone as I have. And, faith Fox, God fills Heaven and Earth; and berein, faith he, thou haft fhewed thy Ignorance and Darkness.

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How Spirits cannot affume what Shapes they pleafe, neither can there appear any Spirit without a Body.

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"O this I fhall make it appear to the Reader, that my Words are Truth, and that Fox hath fhewed his Ignorance and Darkness, both of God's filling Heaven and Earth, and that Fox nor the Quakers doth not believe that Chrift hath Flesh and Bone of his own diftinct of himself, and that this Flesh and Bone of Chrift is now in Heaven above the Sars.

Let the Reader mind the Words of Chrift: His Difciples fuppofed they had feen a Spirit, thefe Difciples were ignorant at that Time as moft People, thinking that Spirits might walk without Bodies, or that Spirits might affume Bodies, and appear to Men: This ignorant Opinion was in the Difciples of Chrift, before they were endued with Power from on high, and this is the general Opinion of all Men, but thofe that have a Commiffion from God; for if God had never chofen Prophets, and Apostles, and Witneffes, to enlighten the Underftanding of People, all People in the World would have believed fo: Therefore it was that Prophets caused Kings to put to Death all Witches and Wizards that dealt with familiar Spirits, as Samuel did, and King Saul, out of Ifrael; but all the Nations of the Earth befides did practice Witchcraft, and dealing with familiar Spirits, and did believe that Spirits might, and did walk without Bodies, and could affume what Shapes they please. The fame Opinion is now all the World over, and in the Quakers alfo; and the Difciples of Chrift at that Time had a Smatch of the Heathen Opinion in them, which made them, through their Ignorance, to fuppofe they had feen a Spirit without a Body, to walk before them: But Chrift, willing to con

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vince them of that vain and lying Opinion, faith to his Difciple, Feel me, and handle me, for a Spirit bath not Fefb and Bone as I have; as if he fhould fay, No Spirit can appear without a Body, for a Spirit without a Body is a meer Shadow, prefented to your Fantafy through your Ignorance; as if Chrift fhould fay, do not believe that Spirits can walk without Bodies, there is no fuch Thing, it is but a meer Shadow you suppose to be a Spirit, but come to me, and feel me, and handle me; fora Shadow, as you take or think to be a Spirit, hath no Flefh and Bone, nor is of no Substance, as I am. This was after Chrift was rifen from the Dead, and before the Apoftles had received Power from on High, fo that the Reader may fee that Christ had Flesh and Bone after he was rifen from the Dead: Now I would fain know of the Quakers what became of this Flesh and Bone of Chrift, where it went, or where it is now? Sure you Quakers will not fay this Flefh and Bone of Chrift is within you, neither will you acknowledge that the Flesh and Bone, which is the Body of Chrift rifen from the Dead, to be now in Heaven above the Stars diftinct of himself: For that Body of Chrift, which was felt and handled by his Difciples, was that Body that was prepared for the God-head Life to dwell in, and to fuffer; and when that Body of Chrift afcended to Heaven, the God-head Spirit afcended with it also.

So that there is but one God, and one Body of God; so that Chrift is God embodied with Flesh and Bone in all Things like unto Man, Sin excepted, as the Scriptures faith; fo that Chrift cannot be in the Quakers, neither in his Body nor his Spirit; neither are they Members of his Body, not by Union of Faith, as true Believers are; for then Chrift hath never a Body, neither within them, nor without them; for if they should believe that Chrift hath a Body diftinct of his own, at such a Distance and Residence above the Stars, then I fay, the Quakers Principle of Chrift within them would vanifh like Smoak indeed, as it doth with many true Believers that were of the Quakers Faith, before they came to know the true God, and the right Devil: But the Quakers are in black, pitchy Darknefs, fo that it is a vain Thing to talk to them of heavenly Myfteries, as the Mystery of the true God, and the Mystery of the right Devil, and how they became Flefh; for the Qua

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kers have got, as they imagine, God and Devil, Hell and Heaven, Refurrection, and all within them, fo they cannot tell where to find any God without them, but an infinite Spirit without a Body; alfo their Devil is a bodilefs Spirit, they know not from whence he came, notwithstanding he

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How the true God is no bigger than the Compafs of a Man, and no Spirit without a Body, as the Quakers doth vainly imagine.

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LSO Fox faith, God fills Heaven and Earth. Here he repeats Scripture Words, but never gives any Interpretation: He hath repeated many Words of the Prophets, Apoftles, and the Words of Chrift, he hath named their Words to prove me a Liar; but he gives no Interpretation, no not one Text that he hath brought against me: I do think he never did interpret any Scripture Words in his Life. I marvel how the People called Quakers are fatisfied with their Bibble-babble, that never tells what the Senfe of fuch Words of Scripture are as they fo much talk of; but I cannot expect no other from Quakers, for they are all alike.

So William Smith, Samuel Hooton, Richard Farnefworth, they named many Places of Scriptures, which were other Men's Words, against me, as Fox doth, but never did interpret any. But Fox, do you conceive that God is fo big a Bulk, that he fills Heaven and Earth with his Bignefs? How comes it to pass then that the Quakers Bodies and others are fo empty? For if God be fo big to fill Heaven and Earth, methinks the Quakers Bodies are but little Veffels in Comparison of Heaven and Earth, they are great Veffels, and doth certainly hold God and yet many vaft Places in the Earth, where God is not at all, and I know many Quakers and others, that God is not in them at all; how is it then that God fills Heaven and Earth? Oh this blind Fox! it is the Nature of Foxes to be cunning and fubtile, but this Fox is ignorant and fimple, to repeat Scripture Words and give no Distinction, that is the

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