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The prophet Muggleton's epistle to the believers of the commission, touching the rebellion occasioned by the Nine assertions.
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Muggleton, Lodowick, 1609-1698.
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1690
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Wing M3043; ESTC R214286
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it no vain thing to receive a Prophet in the Name of a Prophet and the Reward is no less than Peace of Mind here and eternal Life hereafter in the Kingdom of Glory let the World esteem of it how they will There is one thing which I shall always have a Love to thee for in that thou wast kept innocent in the Days of thy Ignorance for that was a thing which I always did Love in my self in the Days of my Youth and Ignorance and it doth yield me a great deal of Peace the Remembrance of it now because the World cannot say justly that there is any Evil found in me neither is there any blot upon my Mind for I can say truly as the Prophet did in another Cause where he saith whose Ox have I stoln or whose Ass have I taken away so I can say whose Wife have I committed Folly with or whose Daughter have I deflower'd which is a great deal of Peace to me and it may be some Satisfaction to all you that are innocent and for others of the Seed of Faith which have been guilty in the Days of their Ignorance for this I would have thee and all the Seed of Faith to mind that almost all those that have gone forth upon the Account as Prophets and Prophetesses and Speakers of every Sect they have been for the generality of them guilty of Lust many of the Baptists and Quakers have been guilty Therefore impossible they should be Messengers or Ministers of Christ's whatsoever they pretend yet we the Witnesses of the Spirit can bear with those that have been guilty but it was always my natural Temper to be more affectionate to that which hath been kept undefiled from their Childhood and as that Seed of Faith lay secretly hid in thy Nature The Declaration of the Commission of the Spirit hath brought it forth to publick View and as Nature hath beautified thy outward Form or Person so likewise hath that Grace of Faith beautified thy Heart and Mind in that your Understanding is enlightened to discern betwixt Faith and Reason God and Devil with many more Heavenly Secrets which is hid from the Eyes of the World and as thou art Partakers of the like precious Faith with us the Witnesses of the Spirit so likewise thou shalt be Partaker with us of the like Spiritual and Heavenly Glory and the stronger thy Faith is in this Commission of the Spirit the more bright will you shine in that Kingdom of Eternal Joys where Pleasure will run as a Stream or as a River out of your own Person and not only so but you shall see your God Face to Face of whose Seed and Nature we are and this will produce those Pleasures that are at his Right Hand for evermore I thought good to write these few Lines unto thee not but that I am well perswaded before of thy Eternal Happiness but only that thou mayst know that the Blessing of the true Prophet is as if God had blest thee himself and thy so receiving of it will grow to a perfect Peace here and to Eternal Happiness hereafter No more at present but my Love to your Husband and to your Mother and Goody Candy as being in the same Faith with you and your Husband's Brother Symonds I cannot enlarge because I have so many Letters to write and other Business to do because of my long Absence therefore I shall take leave and Subscribe my self your Dear and Loving Friend in the true Faith LODOWICK MUGGLETON My Daughter Sarah and her Husband with other Friends in the Faith remember their Loves to you your Husband and Mother with all the rest in the Faith with you London March 27 1663.
say none upon Earth this Day doth eat his Flesh and Drink his Blood but those that do truly believe the Doctrine of this Commission of the Spirit Why because no Man hath Faith to believe that God became Flesh and dwelt amongst Men here upon Earth who doth not believe that the Flesh of Christ was the Flesh of God and the Blood of Christ to be the Blood of God and who hath not Faith to believe that the Godhead Life died when Christ was offered up unto Death through the Eternal Spirit No not any but those that believe our Report therefore it is that all Religious Men perish for want of Faith in the true God they cannot eat the Flesh of God that is Meat indeed to satisfy there hungry Souls neither can they Drink the Blood of God which is Drink indeed to quench the thirsty Soul of Man but blessed are your Eyes that see and Ears that hear and have Hearts that understand the things that belong to your Peace for God hath given you his own Flesh to eat and his own Blood to Drink which hath assured you that you shall Drink of those new Joys and new Pleasures and new Glories in the Kingdom of Eternal Glory this is that Wine that Christ our God our King and our Redeemer will drink a new with his Apostles and us the Witnesses of the Spirit and you the Believers in the Kingdom of Eternal Glory And this I say all those or all us that have eat of the Flesh of God and drank his Blood by Faith here in the State of Mortality we shall be gathered together in the Resurrection as the Fowls to fly in the midst of Heaven being immortalized shall come to the Supper of the great God that we may eat of the same Flesh as he eateth of which is the Flesh of persecuting Kings and the Flesh of Captains and the Flesh of Mighty Men even of Judges and the Flesh of Horses and of them that sit on them and the Flesh of Freemen and Bond-men and of small and great that is all wicked Reprobate Men both small and great that have persecuted and hated the Lord's Prophets Apostles and Messengers which he sent into the World Oh how blessed are we that shall sup with the great God of Heaven in the Destruction of our Enemies for as God was hated when he was on Earth so are we for his sake and as God is pleased to make his Supper with the Destruction of the Souls and Bodies of the Seed of the Serpent to Eternity and hath invited us the Fowls of Heaven to sup with the great God why should not we rejoyce in this Supper which the great God hath made even in the Destruction of this wicked World for this Earth is a Habitation of Devils while the World doth endure and for my Part I could willingly sup with the great God of Heaven that hath redeemed my Soul in the Destruction of this Word that I might eat the Flesh of mighty Men Mayors Judges Juries small and great Devils that have hated me without a Cause Oh how happy are we that shall sup with the great God that is in the Assurance we have that God hath ordained wicked persecuting Kings and high Captains and Judges and Mighty Men and all other inferiour Devils both small and great more than the Sand of the Sea-shore which cannot be numbred to be damned to Eternity to suffer those Eternal Torments These I know shall be cast alive into a Lake of Fire burning with Brimstone to all Eternity and we the Fowls of Heaven shall eat or feed upon the Miseries of these mighty Men as in a Supper with the great God praising and magnifying him that Redeems us with his own Blood from being Devils Incarnate or Devils in Flesh and in this we shall eat the Flesh of Kings and the Flesh of high Captains and the Flesh of mighty Men Devils and the Flesh of small and great Devils And this Supper I know we shall have with the great God in the Resurrection when we shall ascend in the Clouds of Heaven and meet the Lord in the Air and leave the Devils the Serpent and his Seed here upon this Earth where they shall be tormented Day and Night for ever and ever more even to Eternity this is the true Interpretation of John's Words in the 19th Chapter of his Revelation concerning the Supper of the great God and the Fowls of Heaven for God hath sowed in this World the Seed of Faith which is counted the small Seed even as one Grain of Mustard Seed which indeed as Christ saith Matth 13th and 32d is the least of all Seeds but when it is grown it is the greatest amongst Herbs and it is a Tree so that the Birds of Heaven came and built in the Branches thereof So in Mark the 4th and 31st the Kingdom of God is compared to a Grain of Mustard-Seed which when it is sown in the Earth is the least of Seed but after it is sown it groweth up and is greatest of all Herbs and beareth great Branches so that the Fowls of Heaven may build under the shadow of it So in Luke 13th and 19th then said he what is the Kingdom of God like it is like a Grain of Mustard-Seed which a Man took and sowed in his Garden and it grew and waxed a great Tree and the Fowls of Heaven made Nests in the Branches thereof This small Grain is the Grain of Faith that was in God from Eternity by which he created the Heaven and the Earth and all Creatures else in both Worlds by this little Grain of Faith no bigger then a Mustard-Seed hath he done all his Wonders by this Grain of Faith did he sow himself in this Earth or Garden which was in the World which was in the Virgin 's Womb and brought forth himself a Man Child in pure Mortality and this Grain of Faith that was sown in the Field of this World it grew up to be a Tree that is a Man whose Branches spread themselves forth so thick that the Fowls of Heaven doth make their Nests in the Branches thereof This Tree of Faith which is compared to a small Grain of Mustard-Seed was Christ the only God become Flesh when he was in the Glory of the Father he was the Man that sowed that Grain of Faith in the Field of the World or in the Garden of Eden when he breathed into Adam and Eve the Breath of Life and they became living Souls then was the little Grain of Faith no bigger than a Grain of Mustard Seed sowed in the Field of the Elect World so that all that are Partakers of this little Grain of Faith they build their Nests in the Branches of this Tree by having Peace Salvation and Life Eternal abiding in them These are the Fowls of Heaven that build their Salvation upon Christ's Death and Resurrection and Ascension which none in this World doth at this Day but those