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A51576 A letter sent to Thomas Taylor, Quaker, in the year 1664 in answer to many blasphemous sayings of his in several pieces of paper and in the margent of a book ... / by Lodowick Muggleton. Muggleton, Lodowick, 1609-1698. 1665 (1665) Wing M3044; ESTC R28839 13,397 17

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with others that can for the Scriptures being truly interpreted discovereth the Quakers Principles to be the greatest cheat and deceit and more Antichristian than the Pope or any other Sect whatsoever in matter of Religion 6. You do upbraid John Reeve and my self because we are in the fallen state of Adam but you Quakers do not acknowledge your selves in that fallen state you are not willing to be found in that state for you look upon your selves so purifi'd by the light of Christ within you that you are become perfect in your own conceit but you know not what that perfection is the Scriptures speak of for I am your sure hearts are not purified by faith How can your hearts be purified by faith when as your faith hath never an object for your God nor Christ hath never a body nor person of his own but he must be beholding to every Quakers body to reside in and he is every where besides therefore what faith can you have to purifie your hearts when as no God can be found but what is within you But I shall shew what it is that purifies your hearts and what sins you are cleansed from that which purifies your hearts is the Law written in your seed and nature even the same as was written in the Angel-serpents nature before his fall which is no other but the nature of reason So the Angels nature being in you and the Moral Law being written in it it hath the same workings in you as the heathens had the Apostle speaks of to wit your thoughts accusing and excusing and the motions of this Law arising in your minds you call the light of Christ when indeed it is nothing but the light of the Law for if it were the light of Christ it would make you to own the person and body of Christ without you as well as to own Christ within you and if you Quakers should do so your Principles would quickly fall And as for the sins your hearts are cleansed from they are no other but such like as these that is to say to keep the Hat on the Head before a Magistrate and to finde f●●lt with Gold-lace and a piece of Ribbin a Band-string and a gold Button and to rend and tear Gold-lace and other Lace off their Clothes and burn it and to use the language of Thee and Thou He or she that gets thee and thou perfectly is a very good Quaker they are gotten half way to the Quakers heaven These and such like righteousness is the Quakers perfection and all the cleansing of heart they have this I know to be true for I know they have no faith to purifie their hearts neither can they be justified by faith and have peace with God For how can they have peace with God when as they own no other God in a body but what is within them but they will finde that God within them to be the greatest tormenting devil of all Again I marvel how you Quakers came to make it such a great sin for a man put off his Hat to a Magistrate I do not remember any place of Scripture that it was the practice of Prophets Apostles or Saints Surely your Teachers might have given their disciples a little more liberty than they have for you Quakers do not read that the Prophets when they went with Messages from God to the Kings and Rulers of Israel I say we do not read they went before the Chief Magistrates with their hats on their heads Likewise the Apostles when they were brought before the Rulers of the Jewes we do not read they went with their hats on their heads Are you Quakers certain that Paul had his hat on his head when he spake for himself before King Agrippa and Noble Festu● sitting in the Judgement seat Neither did Paul use the word thee and thou altogether to them but gave them civil respect titles of Honor one Noble Festus and the other Oh King Agrippa according to the places of honor they had in this world So that the Apostles did not tye the Believers of them to the hat on and to thee and thou Magistrates as you Speakers of the Quakers do Besides if it could be proved that Prophets and Apostles did keep the hat on and thee and thou Magistrates yet would it be no ground for you Quakers to do so for God never chose nor sent you as he did them God never bestowed so much honor upon any of you to make you Messengers to Kings or Magistrates for you are but private men not chosen of God as all true Prophets Apostles and we the Witnesses of the Spirit were yet you by the light within you will imitate those that are chosen by voice of words from a God without us nay you are more impudent in your way than ever any Prophet or Apostle was who were chosen of God and made equal with Kings in power from on high yet have given civil respect unto Kings and Magistrates they being as Gods on this earth as the Scripture saith But seeing the hat put off to a Magistrate is such a great sin to a Quaker I shall let him alone in his righteousness and let him see if that righteousness will deliver him in the day of trouble I have spoken something more of the hat than I thought to do onely to inform those that shall see it that the Scriptures doth no ways justifie such a practice but it is one of the Quakers main points of doctrine they hold forth and if that and such like things will not save them they must be damned for their righteousness is as much in the hat as in the heart for I am sure they have no true faith in their hearts nor in the true personal God the Man Christ Jesus in glory in heaven above the stars And as for us being in the fallen state of Adam I do acknowledge and confess it therefore we are redeemed by Christs death for all that are in the fallen state of Adam are made alive by Christ and all that are not found in the fallen state of Adam will certainly be damned to eternity for they that did not fall in Adam did fall in the l●st Angel and so have no benefit in Christs death because that Christ took not on him the nature of Angels but the seed of Abraham and Abraham was the seed of Adam in the fallen state and Christ redeemed him by his death and all his seed I mean by his death without me and not of his death within me as the Quakers do vainly imagine for they own no other death of Christ but what is within them what ever they pretend by using the words of the Scripture because they so frequently speak of Christs death but they own no other death of Christ nor benefit by it but what they have within them resurrection is all within them I marvel why you Quakers should talk of Christ loving his Church and that by one