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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B08930	A dialogue between Lod. Muggleton and the Quakers: Shewing forth the damnable blasphemies of that impudent impostor, collected out of their own printed letters. To undeceive the people. ...	Muggleton, Lodowick, 1609-1698.	1677 (1677)	Wing D1315; ESTC R171768	4,035	11

A DIALOGUE BETWEEN LOD. MUGGLETON AND THE QVAKERS Shewing forth the Damnable Blasphemies of that Impudent Impostor collected out of their own Printed Letters To Vndeceive the People Licensed according to Order London Printed for J. C. 1677. A Dialogue c. IT is very observable that when Men have once shaken hands with the Ancient Orthodox and undoubted Principles of the Church of England they soon after bid Adieu to Morality Manners and Discretion and suffering themselves to be hurried on by the impetuous Blasts of giddy headed Frenzy stop not till they are plunged in those ominous Quagmires of Atheism Irreligion or Heresie whose fatal Effects the yet yawning Wounds of many hundreds of Families in this Nation do but too recently declare It is no small Grief to the Conscientious and Learned to see the Profane and Ignorant make a Trade of their Professed Christianity and reckon to themselves some Hundreds per annum upon the Invention of some innovated or unheard of Doctrine But above all whoever attempted any thing in this kind I think this Muggleton to be most notorious However these Seducing Impostors like Jealous Harlots are by reason of their Secular Interests rendred uncapable of living near one another without Railing insomuch that if the Devil were of so morose a Constitution as that Philosopher who never laugh'd but when he saw a Mare mumbling of Thistles he would surely have stretched his Spleen in deriding at those Illiterate Disputations have passed between Muggleton and the Quakers Which because I have here undertaken to summe up and to shew the unacquainted Reader the Ridiculousness of the one as well as the Prophaneness of the other I think fit to let him understand that the Quakers having been several times baffled out of their principal Tenets were at length no longer able to maintain their invented Fopperies but by running to Enthusiastick Sanctuaries amusing their most Rational Opponents with an Harangue of those extraordinary Gifts of the Spirit and that unusual Light within which they pretended was committed to their charge Now this Lodowick Muggleton being destitute of many of those natural Endowments as well as artificial Acquirements which have given some colour to the Errors of more Learned Men builds upon the Quakers Foundation and talks as far beyond them of Visions Revelations Commissions and Enthusiasms c. as they did to others before in the same kind as you shall hear by this ensuing Dialogue collected out of both their Letters sent to each other and now printed and bound up together in a Book of Muggletons called The Interpretation 〈◊〉 ●he Eleventh Chapter of the Revelations Rich. Farnsworth Quaker pag. 4. Lodowick Muggleton thou pretendest to have received a Commission by a Voice from God whereby thou becomest Judge Accuser and Witness to curse and bless according as thou pleasest and whosoever thou dost bless or curse it is not in the power of Men nor Angels no nor in the Almighty himself to revoke from Eternal Damnation Muggleton pag. 40. My Commission of the Spirit is as true as ever Moses or the Prophets were and of as great nay greater Authority then theirs and given by the same Spirit Quaker pag. 41. But thou art singular in thy Doctrine Knowledge Judgment c. and under pretence of a Commission from God hast presumed to exalt thy self above God and Christ in affirming thy Sentence if once past unrevokable even by the Almighty himself Muggleton pag. 43. You would have said as much of Peter if you had lived in those days and yet you see God gave that power to Man to keep tbe Keys of Heaven and Hell pag. 44. and as he had power to bind and loose to remit or retain so likewise hath the same God given me to bless and curse Men and Women to eternity pag. 45. I do neither bless any out of Affections neither do I curse any through Envy or Malice but it is either because they have sinned against the Holy Ghost or else I do know them to be of the Reprobate Seed Quaker How dare you exclude all other Ministers and Messengers by this pretended Power and onely assume that Commission to your self Muggleton pag. 46. As true as God is Truth there is no true Messenger Minister or Embassador of God in the World but my self neither shall there be any sent of God after me to the Worlds end pag. 47. For it is Gods practice to give Authority to Men that are mortal to condemn according to the tenor of their Commission whether it be for a Temporal or a Spiritual Death and that you and such as you shall find to your eternal sorrow make as light of it as you will Quaker If thou art so great a Prophet as thou pretendest to be why is not thy Name inserted in the Holy Scriptures as other Prophets were Muggleton pag. 149. If you had lived in Christs days when he was upon Earth you ●ould hardly have found his Name recorded in the Law and the ●rophets nay it is more probable that I am ordained the Chief ●udge because my Name is not recorded in Scripture If there had been such a Name written in Scriptures that he should be the ●●st Prophet in the World many would have named their Sons Lodo●ick Muggleton and that is the cause there is so many Johns Tho●asses and Jeremiahs c. Furthermore in Sam. Hooton's and W. Shepherd's Letter to Mug●eton pag. 7. wherein they begin thus Friend for so we can call thee as Christ did Judas here is some Queries for thee to answer in writing or else for ever stop thy mouth ●r what reason did Christ come into the world Muggleton's Answer Christ came into the world to destroy the Devil which is the Spi●● of Reason of which Spirit most of the Quakers are of Quakers Is the Spirit of man mortal or not Muggleton It is Mortal and doth and shall dye with the body Quakers How camest thou by this pretended Commission or how canst thou give 〈◊〉 any reason to beleive it Muggleton pag. 67. That I have this Commission I prove thus Because I do know by 〈◊〉 revelation of Faith that God did speak to John Reeve three morn●●●s together distinct words and sentences to the hearing of the ear 〈◊〉 51. Feb. 3 4 5. and gave him a Commission as he did Moses And as ●●ron was given to be Moses's mouth so was Lodowick Muggleton ●●●en to be John Reeve's mouth so that John Reeve being the chief ●●●ilst he was living but since the Burden or Commission of the Lord ●●●h been laid upon me as Elisha had a double portion of Elijah's ●●rit so have I had a double portion of Revelation of the spirit since ●●●n Reeve departed this life Quakers By what rule or method dost thou judge and pass condemnation on thy ●●●w creatures Muggleton pag. 70. 〈◊〉 go by as certain a rule as the Judges of the Lord do when they give judgement according to the Law only I have no