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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43051	The lying prophet discovered and reproved in an answer to several particulars in a book called The Quakers downfal, said to be written by Lawrence Claxton ... : with several of his damnable doctrines ... : also twelve particulars which he and his companion Lodowick Muggleton uttered ... / given forth ... by a Friend of truth, John Harwood.	Harwood, John.; Muggleton, Lodowick, 1609-1698.	1659 (1659)	Wing H1103A; ESTC R40951	15,593	23

the true light Christ to be in thee and sayes there in nought of God in thee is not the true light Christ the Authour of faith so he that hath not Christ the power of God Heb. 12.2 the ground of faith which faith stands in his belief or faith stands in the wrong ground in the wisdom of mens words and this is the false faith the faith of the whorish woman the false Church the worlds faith and the faith which L.C in acted in which all along in his book he boasts of who denies the true light Christ within the ground and Author of our faith L. C. In the 17. p. It is said Look into thy own body there thou shalt see the Kingdom of heaven c. and in pag. 25. he saith Christ is in heaven and in no creature Answ The Kingdom of heaven being in man if Christ be in heaven he must needs be in man would thou exclude Christ from his Kingdom or can it be properly or truely said to be a Kingdom without a King but here thou hast manifested thy ignorance of the Reign Government Kingdom and power of Christ which is in the Saints and that another King the Prince of darkness hath the Government in thee L. C. He also goes about through his subtilty to strengthen the hands of the wicked persecutors the enemies of God and his people in New England and other Nations saying that the suffering of the Quakers in New England or in any other Nation is not for righteousness c. p. 44. Answ Here thou joyns with Cains generation the persecutors of the innocent and manifesteth the linage and stock thou art of where or when did any of the seed of faith persecute any for conscience sake were not the righteous seed sufferers in all ages blush and he ashamed of thy wickedness what unrighteous action canst lay to the charge of of any one of these thou calls Quakers in New England that so cruelly suffered by that bloody generation their innocent sufferings and the patient suffering of those called Quakers in other Nations shall stand a witness against all Gods enemies there and else where to the honour of the righteous God to their eternal shame and confufion and Gods judgements is nigh to come upon that bloody generation in New England and else where who have drunk the blood of the innocent and all that joyn with them against the Elect seed called Quakers shall partake of the wrath and indignation of the Lord God which upon them will speedily be poured forth except they repent and they and thou shall know one day the ye have wronged the righteous seed to your sorrow and torment who for the innocent truth and for righteousness have suffered long and cruel imprisonments stockings stonings and cruel scourgings the spoiling of their goods and the losse of some of their members which Cains generations must answer for every drop of innocent blood they must give an account for the Lord of hosts will avenge the blood of his people who will render to every one a just recompence of reward according to their works wo wo to the merciless for they shall have no mercy L. C. Rages against us and sayes You Quakers are not Commissionate so counterfeits yea guilty of spiritual Treason and would have us deny the Lord Jesus within us c. pag. 45. Ans Our Authority and Commission stands in the power to Christ Jesus manifest in within us unto whom we do bear witness in the power of his own spirit and life 2 Pet. 1.21 as therein we are moved as the Saints in all ages did and his voice we know and hear John 10. which thou art a stranger unto and his Counsels and commands through the vertue of his power we are and have been subject unto thorow the which many times by Cains generation we have suffered much Col. 1. but it is thy self and thy generation which are guilty of high spiritual treason that denies Christ within and would have us to do so too but we deny thy cursed Counsel and Doctrine and know one day that thou shalt answer for all these things at the Bar of Divine Justice and thy Commission the voice of words thou speaks of is seen with the eternal light and judged to be delusion and thou proved thy self to be the counterfeit L. C He affirmeth in p. 26. that God or Christ is not in this world neither in Prophet nor righteous And also that the seed or nature of God is in all true believers Answ Here thou would devide God from his seed or nature which is inseparable and would exclude God from the world believers and righteous what confusion is this who begets the Seed or nature of God in man and how is it generated or begotten or how comes the seed or nature into man if God be not in man by his own power to generate it and what makes a man righteous if the righteousness of God be not in him here thou hast written thou knows not what uttered words without understanding L. C. Also faith The seed of the woman is faith and the seed of the Serpentine Angel is Reason c. and this Serpents seed Reason put to death Jesus and his Apostles and that reason hath power to put to death the seed of faith Answ The seed of the woman is Christ and the seed of the Serpent is sin and iniquity they were unreasonable men that murdered the just and innocent such as thou art but the seed of faith shall never die Joh. 6.47 Joh. 3.15 he that believes in me shall never die never perish never be confounded but shall live for ever have everlasting life it is the Serpents seed the ungodly the unrighteous the blasphemers and lyars that dies and eternally perishes and the seed of faith is not out of the pure reason but in it Reason doth not destroy but preserveth the persecutor the devourer is out of reason unreasonable Several particulars which L.C. in his Book hath asserted desired to be proved by plain Scripture or otherwise they will stand upon record as lying forged imaginations and no true Revelations 1. That Faith shall die in the heel and reason in the head 2. That the Angel did descend into the womb of Eve 3. That a spirit cannot live without a body p. 28. 4. That we and our God are cursed to all eternity pag. 28. 5. That Christ or God is above the Stars with a body of flesh and bones 6. That God that Christ said was a spirit the meaning of his Revelation was that his invisible soul was that God or spirit abiding onely in his person p. 29. 7. That Reason is the seed of the Serpent 8. That by faith reason shall be kept in Eternal death 9. That God gave faith Reason and sence but once 10. And that faith reason and sence have in all generated in its kind form and nature as in p. 40. 11.