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The Quakers challeng, at two several weapons To the baptists, presbiters, papists and other professors.
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Eccles, Solomon, 1618-1683.
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Quaker denies your Church and is come to the true Church which is the Pillar and Ground of Truth and the true Faith that overcomes the World is known and the Rock of Ages is known and the Ancient of daies is come and the Tabernacle of God is with Men again Glory over all be unto our God that sits upon the Throne and to the Lamb for evermore Amen Come Will. Burnet What 's thy Faith good for who saist in thy 15 page That the Light that is in every man is neither God Christ nor Spirit and then thou saidst thou shalt indeaver to shew what that Light is in every Man and thou goest to prove it to be Conscience and cites 2 Rom. 4. 5. But doth not the thoughts in the mean while accuse or excuse and what is that which shews unto Man his thoughts is it not the Lord God of Hosts Amos 4. 15. Isa 42. 6. 7. Isa 49. 6 8. Thou falss Messenger for the true Prophets and Messengers of Truth Condemns thee Jo. 1. 1 15. And that of God in thy Conscience shall one day awaken in thee and Condemn thee and then thou shalt read me who does bear witness to that which is the Light of Christ in thy Conscience which was before Conscience was Yea is not all that made manifest made manifest by the Light Eph. 5. 13. O People hear him no more for he that denieth the Father and the Son yea he hath denied God and the Father and Christ First he hath denied God read for God who Commanded the Light to shine out of darkness hath shined in our Hearts to give the Light of the knowledg of God in the face of Jesus Christ Cor. 2. 4 6. Again John the Divine will tell your Messenger W. Bur. That he is a false Messenger for this is the message that we have received of John and deliver unto you That God is Light and in him is no darkness at all Jo. 1. 1. Whose Messenger is W. B stop thy mouth for shame and thou hast denied the Father For every good and perfect gift cometh from the Father of Lights Jerem. 4. 17. And he hath denied the Lord Jesus Christ as all that pass by may read John 8. 12. 9 5. Therefore I Challenge thee for a false Profit and an accuser of the Brethren Come Baptists Independants and Presbiters and Papists you talk of Moses Elias and Christ who fasted forty Daies and forty Nights and the Apostle of Christ did exercise himself much in Fasting and Watching 2 Cor. 6 5. Let none of you say that it is a tempting of God to cease from Sin for Peter saith They that suffer in the Flesh cease from Sin And John Wiggins the Blasphemer hath left behind him a Writing though he be gone to his long home yet in his Book he saith That Christ the Light that lighteth every Man that comes into the World is an Idol Let the Reader read Jo. 8. 12 9. 5. And he saies in his Book That Christs Blood was not shed for all but John the Divine bears Witness against him Jo. 1. 1. Rev. 19. 13. all these make against him and yet this man went for a Minister of the Gospel but he hath left a stink behind him and better had it been for him That a Milstone had been hang'd about his neck and cast into the Sea than ever he should have opened his mouth against the Saints in Light or their Principle Come forth you Jesuits and Papists and Monkes and Friers and Star gazers and Monthly-Prognosticators and Astrologers and all the Devils Conjurers will you not find a man to answer the Quaker If you do find a Man let him be known who he is and for what God and for what People and let him send one to me to see me perform my Challenge and I shall send one to him to see him perform his Answer Or we will be shut up togeter in one Room Stand up Muggleton the Sorcerer whose mouth is full of Cursing Lies and Blasphemy who callst thy last Book a looking-glass for G. Fox whose name thou art not worthy to take into thy mouth who is a Prophet in deed and hath been faithful in the Lords business from the beginning It was said of Christ That he was in the World and the World was made by him and the World knew him not So it may be said of this true Prophet whom John said he was not but thou wilt feel this Prophet one day as heavy as a Milstone upon thee and although the World knows him not yet he is known Thou saist in thy 84 page of thy Pamphlet that that Christ the Quakers are in I that am but a man have seperated their Christ from them and one from another This is fourteen years ago thou cursed them and they are Blest for ever An. Those that went out from the Truth were separated from Christ before they came to thee and were never joyn'd to the Truth nor owned of us therefore such may easily become thy Disciples being gone from God his Truth and his People and given up to believe lies and so they have found out Lodwick Muggleton the lying Prophet Thou saist thou hast Power over the Quakers Christ within them and that Judgment thou hast given upon the Quakers will surely come to pass Neither can you nor your Christ within you deliver you from it An. Thou Fool The Quakers Christ within them Is the Corner-Stone which shall bruise thee to powder neither shall any deliver thee out of his hand who is the true Light that lightens the Gentiles and Gods Salvation to the end of the World but thou hast no share in these sayings Thou saist The Quakers Principle within them shall vanish like smoke An. The Quakers Principle will shake thy Foundation and all the Foundations of Men it is the Foundation of many Generations and can never be moved Thou saist When I am dead many of the seed of the Serpent shall have regard to my Writings page 61. An. Who should else For thou art a Messenger of the Old Serpent therefore needs must his Seed have regard to thy Writings But why dost thou say when I am dead who is dead already unto God but alive to Sin and Blasphemy but when thou art dead as thou saist thou shalt be dead indeed to God but alive to the Pain by the Worm that shall never dye and forever to be tormented Neither shalt thou be able to shut out the sence of the Torment but the smoak of thy Torment shall ascend for ever and ever and thy pain shall have no end in the flame that cannot be quenched And then thou shalt know that thy Soul is Immortal and cannot Dye and then thou shalt feel what thou hast done against God his Truth and his People unto which place thou art hastening Now in the mean time I Challeng thee or any of thy Disciples and will maintain that thou art an Epicure whose God is thy belly and thy end shall be everlasting Destruction from the presence of God The mouth of the Lord hath spoken it and Repentance is hid from thy eyes Though thou didst tell me that I was Damned Body and Soul to all Eternity thy blessing and thy Curse is all one to me thou saist That God is no biger than a Man and yet Job saith God is greater than Man Job 33. 12. And again thou saist That thy God is a Man and had Arms and Shoulders as I had but according to Job I shall answer thee That God is not a Man as I am Job 9. 32. Now all may see That Muggleton is a false Prophet For God himself saith I am God and not Man the holy one in the midst of thee Hosea 11. 9. And thou hast often said That thy God is a God of Flesh Blood and Bones But Christ saith God is a Spirit and hath not Flesh and Bones John 4. 24. Cor 2. 3 17. Luke 24. 39. Come forth Robert Porter thou shouldst answer this Duel for art not thou the cause of this quarrel and hath opened the mouth of Gods enemies against the Truth and his People but is not thy God thy Belly as the rest of thy lying Brethrens Come forth 't is but fourteen dayes and if I fall by the way then maist thou say the Lord never sent me Stand up all the Armies of the Beast Papists Jesuits Presbiters and Baptists and all the false Prophets of the Nation Come Gloucester Professors to whom I writ a Challenge once but none would answer me come William Shepard the Lawyer and Thomas Marriot Come William Jordan the Presbiter who said thou wouldst fast with me 39 dayes and I could never get thee to fast one O ye Presbiters are horrible lyers but this is my Councel to you all you that have had a hand in speaking against the Quakers Principles Houle you Papists and Jesuits Houle houle yea Presbiters houle yea Baptists for the Woes Judgments Plagues and Torments will assuredly come upon you suddenly as a Woman in pain of travel and you shall not escape the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it O Woe will be to every one that hath spoken against the Light and hath lifted Tongue or Pen against the Lords Heritage Well shall it be with that Man that can say God bethanked I never spake against the Light nor the People that walk therein yea though they cannot be excused for other Sins yet they shall be glad that they did not meddle with such weighty things but all they that have so done shall weep bitterly and gnaw their Tongues fot pain Oh I say again Repent spedily before it be too late that ever you lifted up a Tongue or Hand or Pen against the Light of Jesus Christ which doth enlighten every man that comes into the World or against his only People for never did any thrive that spake against the Quakers I am a Friend to all the upright in Heart and one who loves the appearance of Jesus Christ Who do write my Name Solomon Eccles. The 17 of the Nineth Month 1668. THE END