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Question: What say you to the third (3) Question: That the Scripture[s was Antichrist?]
Smith: He asked me what the Word was: I had a Bible in my han[d], and
he said that was Antichrist.
Atkinson: He affirmed that the Scriptures were carnal, and that it was Antichrist.
Thomas Rawlinson: He said the Bible was a declaration of God.
Smith: He was condemning and calling me ‘Devil’; and I asked him,
‘How comes thou to judge so?’, and he said, ‘I am the Judge of the World’;
Riii) and at that I was much troubled within me.
Judge Fell: And thereupon you would take away his life?
Smith: I said if I had had power in me I would have made him to have
renounced these words which were spoken.
Judge Fell: What say you to that, that he was as upright as Christ?
Smith: That he said that he was as upright as Christ.
Judge Fell: You are a single witness to that; that ‘God taught deceit’, you are
but single to that.
So three — here’s a single witness only.
George Fox: That was not so spoken, that I was equal with God, he that
sanctifieth, and he that is sanctified are one [Hebrews 2:11], they are one
in the Father and the Son, of his flesh and of his bone; this the Scripture
doth witness, and ‘Ye are the Sons of God’ [1 John 3:1; Romans 8:14], and ‘The Father and
the Son are one’ [John 10:30] &c.
Judge Fell: Equality shows two distinct.
Doctor Marshall: But he saith, ‘They are one, they are equal’.
Judge Fell: But he doth not say that he is equal with God.
Doctor Marshall: But he saith, he that sanctifieth and them which are sanctified are one:
they are equal.
Judge Fell: I cannot tell what you should make of that, the same thing
cannot be equal.
Doctor Marshall: Many may be one.
Judge Fell: But they are not equal; oneness argues unity, there’s
an unity with God, and where there is an unity, there may be equality.
Answer to the Question, That God taught deceit.
George Fox: That is false, and was never spoken by me: God is pure.
Question: What say you to that, that the scriptures are Antichrist?
George Fox: That is false. But they which profess the Scriptures, and live
not in the life and power of them, as they did that gave them forth, that
I witness to be Antichrist.
Question: That he was the Judge of the world.
Answer: George Fox: ‘The saints shall judge the world’ [1 Corinthians 6: 2], the Scriptures witness
it, whereof I am one, and I witness the Scriptures fulfilled.
[Que]stion: That he was as upright as Christ.
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