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 ( 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 for 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 .