WHEREAS certain Baptiſt Teachers, whoſe work is to be lie the Innocent, and to fill the peoples Ears with falſe reports; as did Jeremiah Ives, Matthew Caffin, and William Burnet behind my back at a diſpute at Chertſey in Surey, with our friend G. Whitehead, and finding my ſelf Innocent of the Accuſation; and knowing that Jeremy Ives, and Mat. Caffin, to be known Enemies to the Lord, his Truth, and his People; and for theſe ſo doing, I do here offer my ſelf in Gods behalf, and Truths behalf, and in the behalf of the People ſcornfully call'd Quakers.

I do Challenge Matthew Caffin, Jeremy Ives, and William Burnet, or any of the Teachers amongſt the Baptiſts, or Independants, or Presbiters, or Papiſts, or Jeſuits high Prieſts, and low Prieſts, for theſe are all blind Guides, and their profeſſion is rotten, their Church is Babilon, their Faith is unſound, and their Doctrine is falſe for ever; and I will maintain it by theſe two Weapons, Viz.

To Faſt ſeven daies and ſeven nights and not to Eat nor to Drink. And the next Weapon is; To Wake ſeven daies and ſeven nights, and not to Sleep till they be faithfully performed before the Lord: And the God that anſwers by Fire ſhall be the true God; and he that the Lord ſhall carry through this fiery Tryal, ſhall be counted a Worſhiper of the true God, and ſhall give him the glory and honour, and acknowledg his Power, who alone is worthy, who is over all God bleſſed for ever.

But he that tyres by the way, ſhall be counted a member of a falſe Church, and a Heretick, whoſe God is his Belly, whoſe Glory is his Shame, whoſe End is Deſtruction.

Come Papiſts with your Murthering Weapons: Will you maintain that your Church is a true Church which is eſtabliſht by Blood. Anſwer the Quaker; Was not the Devil a Murtherer from the beginning? your God is your Belly; for you pretend to Faſt in Lent from Fleſh, and yet you Eat Fiſh; and is there not a fleſh of Fiſh, as well as of Birds, wherefore I teſtifie againſt you, that your Faith is unſound, and your Church and Doctrine is falſe for ever.

Come Proteſtants, Who are call'd by the name of Presbiters, Independants, and Baptiſts, Fifth-Monarchy, Seventh day Sabbath-men, and Family of Love; the Quaker denies you all, and is come to try you; not by the tongue which is your glory, but by the belly, for that is your chief God; for of a truth, you all are Shut out of the Saints ſociety, And your book of the Practice of Piety.

Come Papiſts and Proteſtants, Gogg and Magog, will you be daunted by a Quaker? ſtand up Presbiter with your hippocritical Faſtings, who faſt for ſtrife and debate, who for matter of Perſecution there is none exceeds; you had need to be ranked next the Papiſts; for who ſo cruel as you againſt the Truth, witneſs New England, who cruelly Whipt our Friends, and afterwards hanged two Men and a Woman, who feared God, and eſchewed Evil, and ſent many into the Wilderneſs after they had been ſorely Whipt in Froſt and Snow, and we know, that if you had the Power in your hands again, We ſhould feel your cruel Weapons, and Halters, and Gibbets: We know your hippocraſie of Old, towards God and his Truth. Come go with me theſe fourteen daies journey; and after this two times ſeven is over, we will have three times ſeven more, I never knew the Quakers Conquered yet by all your cruel Weapons, therefore if ever you conquer the Quakers it muſt be by Faſting and Watching.

Come Thom. Vinſon who proffer'd the Quakers a Diſpute, but when they came, thou fell'ſt a Preaching and Praying among a rude Multitude, and preſently got away, and would not anſwer them; though a Servant of the Lord told thee, That thou didſt Preach the Doctrine of Devils: Come I have a mind to Challeng thee, and thou ſhalt ſee I will not ſlink away as thou didſt, but if thou doeſt not anſwer, if either Papiſts, or Proteſtants, Jeſuits or Prieſts are willing to anſwer this Duel: Let them name their day and time; and for what God, and for what People; and I will anſwer you, or whom you can produce: yea, I will make you in the name of the Everlaſting God that made Heaven and Earth, the Seas and Fountains of Waters, and in the behalf of his People ſcornſully cal'd Quakers, who are in the Truth and none but they; whoſe Principle is, Chriſt the true Light, that doth enlighten every man that comes into the World.

Who is in us the hope of Glory, and they that walk according to this rule, are the people of God and none elſe; and their Principle is the true Principle and none elſe, and it ſhall live, and out live all; and grow, and out grow all; for he is King of Kings, and Lord of Lords, who only hath Immortality dwelling in the Light which no man can approach unto, whom no man hath ſeen or can ſee, to him be glory Everlaſting, Amen. 1 Tim. 6. 13, 14.

Come Jeremy Ives thou falſe man, who did ſay, that that body, that hung upon the Tree, when the ſpirit was out of it, was but as an empty Trunk: Whereas thy Brethren Jo. Lukis and Robert Porter have affirmed before many witneſſes, that the Blood that followed the Sphere was the Blood of the New-Covenant; Did the Blood of the New-Covenant come out of an empty Trunk? Why doſt thou go about to overthrow the Faith of thy weak brethren; wherefore I Challeng thee, as Elias did the falſe Prophets, and thou John Brown Baptiſt Teacher, when thou waſt asked of G. W. what became of the Blood that followed the Speere, thou repliedſt and ſaid, (it ſank into the Ground; But did the Blood of the New-Covenant ſink into the Ground? You Blaſphemers come and anſwer this Duel.

Stand up you ſleepy Profeſſors, and maintain your aſſertions; Come Jeremy, I muſt not paſs thee by, for I teſtifie, thy Faith is falſe, and ſo is thy Doctrine, and thy Profeſſion is rotten, and thy God is thy Belly, and thy Faith is the Faith of Devils that purifies not the heart: And was thy heart pure Jeremy, when thou tookſt an Oath in open Court; O baſe: And yet take the Holy Scriptures into thy mouth to hold Diſputes and Janglings, and ye • the Scripture is againſt thee, and the Spirit that gave them forth, and the Saints in Light are againſt thee, and Jeſus Chriſt the King of Saints is againſt thee, who ſaid, Swear not at all: And his Apoſtle James is againſt thee; who ſaid, Above all things my Brethren Swear not at all, neither by Heaven, nor by Earth, nor by any other Oath. Mark that Jeremy.

Stand up old Thomas Lamb, of whoſe Church I was a Member; but why didſt thou take the Oath without any Mental reſervation. Come old Thomas, and young Thomas, and help your brethren Jer. Ives, and Mat. Caffin, and William Burnet; For the 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 (Whats 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, 'tis 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.