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nessed upon me, and all those that believe the doctrine of the true God, declared by me; else let all the speakers of the Quakers, who have deceived many people with their great God, that cannot be known nor comprehended; I say, let them be cut off from the face of the earth. I have known several of them cut off in these six years time, and shall see many more of them cut off this earth before I depart this life, besides their eternal damnation hereafter; but I know you Quakers will believe nothing but what you see with your natural eyes, except you were served as Elijah served the priests of Baal, to cause four hundred of you to be cut off at once, visibly in the sight of other people; but I know there is more than four hundred, or four thousand either, of you Quakers, that will suffer the vengeance of eternal fire hereafter, for despising this personal God who died, and did rise again by his own power, and me his messenger; but because it is to be hereafter or after death, you make slight of it, and think there is no such thing as the resurrection of the dead with bodies; for I know you will say, as they did in Paul's time, 'With what bodies shall the dead rise? Paul answered, 'With bodies as God shall give them;' every seed its own body, the seed of reason which you call the light of Christ within you, shall rise a dark spiritual body, who did not believe that God could not, or would not raise them again; so likewise the seed of faith shall be raised spiritual bodies, light and swift able to ascend at their pleasure, every seed its own body, in that the seed of faith did believe when on earth, that God could and would raise it up at the last day, and give it a spiritual body, like unto himself.

I have viewed your book seriously over, and find that you have not been so wrathful and fiery as others of your brethren has been; you have been more moderate than many of them have, but I perceive your faith, doctrine, principle, and God is the same as the Quakers' is; also you have brought yourself within the sin

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against the Holy Ghost, as well as others, in that you have despised and spoken evil of the revelation of the Spirit, and the doctrine declared by us the witnesses of the Spirit. You have spoken evil of that God that sent us, even the man Christ Jesus, above the stars in heaven; in that you have spoken evil of the Revelation declared by me, and you have utterly denied yourself of any benefit by the death of Christ; for you say the Godhead Spirit of Christ did not die; therefore no virtue nor eternal life can be had for you by his death.

Now I shall name your words and passages in your book which make up the sin against the Holy Ghost. First, you have called the revelation of the true Spirit, a deep imagination and deceit.

Secondly, you have called that wisdom and knowledge, revealed by God's true messenger, saying, it doth not convey life but death, and poisons and corrupts the mind.

Thirdly, you say, it is dark imagination indeed.

Fourthly, you say, O cease deceit, thou hast discovered thyself to be a false witness, and that my knowledge leads not to God, but to the chambers of hell and death.

Fifthly, thou sayest, O despiser, reproacher, belier, thou art not yet cleansed from lying lips.

Sixthly, you have called the revelation of the Spirit, notions, devises, deceits, and head and root of deceit.

These I have viewed, and considered, and find these sayings of yours to be the sin against the Holy Ghost, a sin which God will not forgive.

And, inasmuch as God hath chosen me, his messenger to be the judge of blasphemy, against the Holy Ghost or Spirit.

Therefore in obedience to my commission from God, for these wicked sayings aforesaid; I do pronounce ISAAC PENNINGTON, Quaker, cursed and damned, soul and body from the presence of God, elect men and angels, to eternity.

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Now do you see, whether your God, who moved you to write against me and my God, can deliver you from this curse I have passed upon you, by a commission from a God that did die, and is alive again, and behold, he is alive for evermore.

I give not judgement upon you out of any malice or hatred, but had rather you had been quiet, and still as you have been many years since you wrote to John Reeve; neither can you say that I gave sentence against you at uncertainty; therefore you can plead no excuse for yourself; for if you had not written to me, against me, and my revelation, I should have let you alone; for I never did judge any man or woman till they did judge me first, in one kind or other; either they judge me to be a blasphemer, liar, deceiver, false prophet, deceit, deluder, or delusion; with other words of judging, before ever I give my judgment upon them. It is a marvellous thing you should be so in love with the Quakers' doctrine, that you will venture the sentence of eternal damnation upon their principles, and sandy foundation.

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