dust until the resurrection, when God shall raise that dead soul and body out of the dust again, then shall that dead soul bring forth a new life, or new soul, with a new body, that shall be capable of eternal happiness, or eternal misery, because their bodies shall be spiritual and not natural bodies, nor natural souls, as now neither shall that new life lie in the blood as it doth now in our natural bodies; neither shall that new soul and body that is raised in the resurrection be capable of ever being annihilated by death, as this natural soul and body is, but shall endure to eternity.

Also this is to be observed by the reader, that Penn doth not understand that a man may worship God in spirit and in truth, in these natural souls and bodies, that may and doth turn to dust, but when the spirit is slipt out of this natural body, and gone to God, that is a spirit without a body, as he doth vainly imagine, then their spirits without any body shall worship him in spirit and truth without bodies. This is the Quaker's vain imaginations. Again, if Abel's blood did cry from the ground for vengeance upon Cain, as is plain by the words he did, yet Penn saith, Cain did not kill Abel's soul, but his body only, then that sentence God gave upon Cain seemeth something cruel, because from Penn's assertion, Cain did not kill his brother Abel's soul, he did but part his soul from his body, he did but send his soul to God but a little before its time; he did not kill his soul; for Penn saith, Life as it is life, cannot die; so Cain did but separate his soul from his body: and was that such a heinous crime that Cain should be so punished, as to be a fugitive, vagabond, and renegade upon the face of the earth all his days, and be damned to eternity afterwards? Surely no; I speak this that men might be ashamed of the Quaker's faith; but to conclude, it is clear, that Cain did kill the life and soul of Abel, and it is as clear that the lives and souls of those saints that were slain under the altar for worshipping the true God cry unto him to avenge their blood upon these persecuting devils that dwell upon the earth; so that it may be clear to those that are not stone-blind, that the soul of Iman is mortal and doth die; and this is the true interpretation and meaning of John in this place, om et asta 2.

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bag ylistymi teil on gusto dmow 9d3 ai snod bus Penn saith, that this is in three particulars highly incon sistent with Scripture: I prove first, saith Penn, God did not so transmute his divine nature into fleshly mortal nature; and the Scripture he brings to prove this is John viii, 56, 57, 58. The words are these: Your father Abraham 957, rejoiced to see my day; then said the Jews unto him, thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, before Abraham was, I am.

Page 24. Penn's argument to this Scripture, saith he, If that which was before Abraham, and yet then in being, the same was God, as none that own the Scriptures do deny then, saith he, because that outward visible body was not before Abraham, that was not God; and saith, I hope none will believe the eternal Deity was transmuted or transbu stantiated into that visible body. And in Penn's second argument he saith, then that fleshly body, meaning Christ's body, was not God, or the eternal God was not substantially transmuted into that fleshly body of Christ of her to? bind 62 bus, but an oil 2 Esni Lit Es ni Lybod healt In page 28. Penn saith, it was impossible for God, to transubstantiate himself from an immortal Deity to a mortal man. In page 30, Penn saith, that the immortal God could

never die or cease to be, is manifest, and the contrary saith he, blasphemously false." These are Penn's own words, and chief arguments, and Scripture, he doth alledge against that admirable secret or mystery of God manifest in flesh, as was spoken of by his servants the prophets, and now de declared more plainly by Reeve and Muggleton.

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Je Mind, reader, that God did descend from heaven in that spiritual body he had when he created man in his own image into the womb of the Virgin, and transmuted that spiritual body he had from eternity into a pure natural body, in all things like unto man, sin excepted, which was Jesus Christ; this was God became flesh, and dwelt among men; this was that child, Isaiah, by the spirit of prophesy, called, The Mighty God, the Everlasting Father, the Prince of Peace. This is he in whom all the fulness of the Godhead dwelt bodily; this Christ was he Paul speaketh of, Gad manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into gloryse This is that Alpha and Omega, the first and the last, the beginning and the end; this is he that was dead, and is alive, and behold he lives for evermore. This is he that said when he was upon earth, I have power to lay down my life, and I have power to take it agains I lay it down of myself, no man Makesh it from wet This is be that made his soul an offering for sin. This is he that poured his soul unto death, by which the became a conqueror over sin, death, and hell. This is he that hath washed my soul, and the souls of all others, that liave, fiith in his blood; this is he that did rise again from death to lifts this is the Lord from heaven who is that quickening Spirits, this is he that, shall, judge the quick and the dead; this is be that shall raise the dead at the last day eid And the dead souls in the graves, shall hear his voice, and shall come t of the graves, some to the resurrection of eter nal glory, and some to the resurrection of eternal damnation. as I am sure Penn is one of those that shall receive the sentence of eternal damnation in the resurrection, as hath been given him here by me, because he hath trampled the blood of Christ under foot, as an unholy, unprofitable and useless thing; in that he saith the soul of Christ did not die, with other base undervaluing expressions against God's person and bodily form, but hath adored in his imagination a formless confused spirit that hath neither form nor shape, to be above the

Lord of life, that never was without a form. This Jesus "Christ is he that is King of kings, and Lord of lords, even the mighty God of Jacob. This is he that was before Abraham in a spiritual body in form like man: this is he that transmuted his spiritual body into a pure natural body, even the body of Christ, in the womb of the Virgin, as aforesaid. This is he that said to the Jews, Before Abraham was, I am. These places of Scripture do clearly prove, that God did transmute his spiritual body into a pure natural body, even the body of Christ, and that Christ must needs be God and man, therefore called God our Saviour. Much more might be said in this point, but there hath been sufficient proof of this before in this treatise and elsewhere that may satisfy the soul of any that hath the true light of faith in them

But I know many Scriptures may be alleged against these Scriptures I have named, which would be too tedious to answer or to interpret; for the Scriptures, without an interpretation and meaning, do contradict one the other more than any writings whatsoever; therefore there is a necessity that people should believe the interpreter, else the Scriptures will be of little benefit to any man.

There are several arguments more that Penn hath raised out of the imagination of reason, the devil in him, against this point: but they are so confused and unprofitable, that it would not be worth the while to disprove; for he raiseth several arguments against Elias, representing the place of God the Father, while God went that journey in the flesh, thirtythree years, was Elias in the throne of the Father; but this hath K been so publicly proved by Scripture already many years since, so that I shall not give any answer to those arguments here; but this is to be considered by the reader, that one while Penn will have the eternal God to be so big, that he cannot be subscribed to any particular place, and another while he doth ride upon the sky, and upon the circle of the earth, which, if God filled all places at one time, and could not be subscribed or contained in no particular place, then he could not stir no where, for all places in heaven and earth are full with his omnipresence; so that it would be impossible

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