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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A66428	A true representation of the absurd and mischievous principles of the sect, commonly known by the name of Muggletonians	Williams, John, 1636?-1709.	1694 (1694)	Wing W2735; ESTC R38943	21,260	36

their Doctrine They answer by their Commission 3. The matter of Fact is not true for there have been others before them of the same Opinion so little reason have they to claim the first discovery to themselves as I shall presently shew 4. It 's an ill sign that this should be the first discovery and that for above 1600 years the whole Christian World should know nothing of it as they themselves acknowledge III. Character or Proof of their Commission is That throughout the Book call'd the Looking-glass there is no point contradicting it self nor one another which he calls an Infallible Proof of the Truth of this Writing If there was no other proof of a Point contradicting it self than what is here asserted that is sufficient For he saith That to have no point contradicting it self nor one another in a Book is an Infallible Proof of the Truth of that Writing By which Argument every Book consistent with it self would be necessarily true whereas nothing more evident than that a Book may be consistent with it self and yet be false As for instance They say that one Bull and Varnum and others long before them have pretended to be the two Witnesses in the 11th of the Revelation Suppose we now that those two had wrote a Book as L. Muggleton has done and call'd it a True Interpretation of the 11 th of the Revelation would that have been a sufficient proof of the Truth of that Writing that there was no point in it contradicting it self nor one another I trow not and yet no one can deny but such a Book might have been so contrived And I durst have put it to the venture whether if this be true it would not have been as much a proof of their being those Witnesses and they might have alike Subscribed their Book as he doth his viz. By Bull and Varnum the two last Commissionated Witnesses And as this is not an Infallible proof of the Truth of the Writing so much less of the Divine Inspiration of it and of their Commission For a Book may in all points agree with it self and contain nothing but Truth and yet be of Humane Invention If a Book be inconsistent with it self it 's to be sure not of Divine Inspiration but it may be consistent and yet be only of Man's Composition And yet they fail in this point for it will be a difficult matter to reconcile it to it self For they say they write from an Infallible Spirit which implies the highest certainty and yet say I am perswaded in my Spirit and I do rather believe that there was seven hundred thousand than seven thousand though the Revelation of John doth express it to be but seven thousand To be perswaded and to believe a thing to be so are inconsistent with Infallibility for that admits no less than I am sure of it So again Muggleton saith of the Angel St. Matthew speaks of that perhaps it was no more to his visible sight and speaking of St. John's Revelation he explains it so it may be said Now these words perhaps and it may be said are doubtful Expressions and not reconcileable to Infallibility IV. V. VI. Suppose these Characters to be true for the matter yet that follows not that they are of Divine Inspiration and Infallible 1. Because then it would follow that all good Books and true were infallible 2. The 5th is what others have held as well as they VII If the largeness of the Book and the not looking in any Writing were Signs of an unerring Spirit then the Writings of several Quakers as Burroughs and G. Fox c. might pretend to it if they may be believed who often begin their Books with The Word of God And so would those of Jacob Behem who saith he writ without Humane Assistance And if the Purity of the Language be a Sign of Truth and Infallibility then I am sure that the Writings of these two are far from being either true or infallible This it seems was notorious in the former Edition of the Looking-glass 1656. And therefore L. Muggleton doth wisely to lay it upon the Abuse it received in the Press But if L. Muggleton was the Corrector and was to rectifie those abuses by his own unerring Spirit it would have escaped no better than his True Interpretation of the 11 th of the Revelation which abounds with false English beyond number and of which I never read a Page that wanted it And even that very Book which this is immediately spoken of viz. The Looking-glass after his Correction of it fails in the propriety of the Words the Concord the Connexion In the Paragraph just before this bold Challenge and the Appeal he makes to the Purity of its Language n 45. we find the Word Tosticated a vulgar but a much mistaken word and is for Intoxicated Where is the Concord in the Phrase Things of such Concernment requires Epistle 1. prefixed by Reeve And Men takes upon them p. 165. n. 29. My Brethren that hath p. 207. n. 8 Secrets that hath not been reveal'd p. 208. n. 17. Where is the propriety in Neither did he know not what Power he was endued with p. 127. n. 21. and confounded of Conscience p. 96. n. 18. These are passages I casually met with but if any one will have a Specimen let him read L. Muggleton's Epistle annexed to that Book and try what Purity and Elegancy is in it It 's a sign these Persons did not understand true English nor often the Sence of what they wrote that would venture upon this and produce the Purity of the Language as a Note of an unerring Spirit in the compiling of it VIII Character or Evidence is That since the Apostles Worship ceased which continued about 300 years and which was in or at the end of the ten Persecutions not a Man hath been commissioned till they were How many things are here taken for granted which there is not a Syllable of Proof for As 1. That there was a time when the Apostles way of Worship was to cease and actually ceased 2. That this time was at the end of the ten Persecutions 3. That none was Commissioned from that time 4. That J. Reeve and L. Muggleton are now Commissioned After all that has been said where is the Evidence of these Mens Commission They did wisely to lay aside Scripture and Miracles as they do Of Scripture they say The Commission of the Spirit agreeing with and explaining of the former Commissions of the Law and the Gospel differing only in point of Worship And as for Signs they are for those that are Spiritual Invisible Fire and Burning within but as for Natural Visible Signs they leave them to the first and second Commission to Moses and Christ But yet after all we think we may as well say to them as they to others If thou shalt imagine thy self fit to Minister I would fain know of