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Excerpt from An Answer to Isaac Pennington, Esq.: His Book Entituled, Observations on Some Passages of Lodowick Muggleton's Interpretation of the 11th Chapter of the Revelations
Quakers, nor what doctrine they ought to cleave unto, than a child of eight years old. You did express in a letter to John Reeve, these, or the like words as follows: lWho knoweth 1 say youl the vast Spirit of the Lord which, taketh all things into itself. Certainli, say you, heaven and hell were at union in the root. Thence, say you, they come, thither they shall return again. This was an high language, but it was the depth ofsatan that is the depth of reason, the devits imagination; it is as much as to say, that God and devil were friends in the root, though there be some difference, between them here in their fruit; one brings forth good fruits, and the other bringeth forth evil; but the vast Spirit of the Lord taketh the evil spirit to itself again, r.s you imagined at that time from whence it came: for say you, thence they came, thither they shall return: so that by consequence, the spirit of reason, the devil, came out of God and shall return into God again: This is the foundation of the Quakers faith; but it was not set to be made public to all, but I perceive your mind is changed to bring forth better fruit now than you did then; yet the root of your spirit I perceive is the same, and doth think that your spirit of reason came out of God, and so it shall return to God again. But I say, no; your spirit never came out of God neither shall it return to God again, no, nor see God to eternity, and as for your travels towards the Holy Land in the days when you were a Puritan, which you speak of in the latter end of your book. I do approve of your experience in that condition very well, for it is much like the experience which I had myself when I was a Puritan, so caled, in ie.
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