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A52229 News from the sessions house in the Old-Bayly being a true account of the notorious principles and wicked practices of that Grand Impostor Lodowick Muggleton, who has the impudence to stile himself one of the two last commissioned witnesses and prophets of the Most High God, Jesus Christ : collected out of his own writings, for which damnable heresies being bound over, he made his appearance at the sessions this 14th of Decemb. and gave fresh security in order to his future tryal. 1676 (1676) Wing N1018; ESTC R31093 3,813 10

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Blasphemies his whole Volume is nothing but a promiscuous composition of Heresie Delusion irreligion and Blasphemy Himself a person who for this 20 years and upwards has shaken hands with Morality Discretion and Pitty who for that inconsiderable Pelf Honor and respect he dayly receives from the hands of his poor deluded and without sudden conversion I fear miserable Disciples willingly surrenders his interest in Heaven and as if he had too advantagious an exchange throws the wretched Souls of his friends and acquaintance into the Bargain I would earnestly desire the Reader if he be not yet established in opinion to endeavour to seek a settlement therein first by his prayers to almighty God to that purpose and after by the healing advice of some learned Divine from whom he will certainly find more sollid satisfaction than he can ever expect from these Quacks and Empricks in Divinity who handle the soul as others do their body not so much for the patients good as their own Interest Who if they can make aseasonable approach to a Death bed there by a pretended commission wheedle the departing Disciple into a belief that they have received the Keys of Heaven Can turn who they will into everlasting Joys and hurry who they please into eternal Blis● if by the charming Rhetoricks of a Gray head comely Visage demure Countenance and plausible tongue he can but once perswade them to fall out with the World and surrender these temporial blessings in hopes of those spiritual ones of which these sort of men make such large promises there is none of them but will gladly part with all their pretended Keys of Heaven for one real one which unloks to a hundred a year upon Earth or that would scruple to give a man a note of their hands for the securing his eternal bliss provided the other would requite him with a considerabled Lease to bestow among his sanctified children Whether Muggleton and his Brethren have ever received any of these soul feeling blessings I leave it to his and their consciences and did I know it to be true I should scarcely put my self to the charges of a Tear to bemoan the cheat for indeed who can seriously pitty those persons who having been Educated in the wholsome principles of the Church of England when he shall see them like Bastards and not Sons forsake those Teats whereout they often have and still might suck such nourishing milk when he beholds them runing after a nonsensical Impostor frought up with nothing but interest and Impudence a kid-napper of Souls who would sell them for less mony to the Devil than the other do Children to Barbados a fellow who if a man can find any connextion in his writings it runs directly Diamiter to those of the Holy Scriptures a wretch so arragant that he dares to pretend a greater power than ever was delivered to any of the Prophets or Apostles that denies both the real existance and absolute and by all undoubted ubiquity of his Creator pag. 34. pag. 23. That Nulls the Vallidity of several Texts of Scripture and particularly denies Solomon to be endued with the Spirit of God when he writ the Book of Proverbs And in short is so rediculous both in Divinity and Philosophy as to define God to be a corporeal Essence exactly in the shape of man that his influence is confin'd within the narrow circuit of the upper Heavens only And lastly which is enough to give any intelligible Reader a surfeit both of him and his Doctrine he affirms his writings are in themselves more excellent and ought to be by all men more respected and regarded than the Holy Scriptures The said Notorious Blasphemer being of late taken notice of by authority has been prosecuted in the Ecclesiastical Court and also committed to New-Gate but after some days imprisonment got bail for his Appearance at the Sessions in the Old-Bayly 14 th Decem. and gave fresh security and we doubt not but will shortly be brought to Condigne punishment according to his demerits FINIS