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A66428 A true representation of the absurd and mischievous principles of the sect, commonly known by the name of Muggletonians Williams, John, 1636?-1709. 1694 (1694) Wing W2735; ESTC R38943 21,260 36

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Lord Mayor Aldermen and Jury Bottomless Pit that is the Pit of their Imagination Shall kill them that is would have killed us if their Law would have done it V. 8. And their dead bodies shall lie in the streets of the great City which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt where also our Lord was crucified Dead Bodies that is the Letter of Scripture In the streets of the City that is the Hearts of Men. V. 9. And they of the People and Kindred and Tongues and Nations shall see their dead bodies three days and a half and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in Graves For the meaning of this he refers us to what was before and that I find in ch 51 52. The People that is the Jews who owned the Letter of the Law Gentiles that is those that owned the Letter of the Apostles that is the Roman Emperours which overcame the Nation of the Jews which was in the Destruction of Jerusalem which was in the ten Persecutions Three days and a half that is 1350 years for so long the Letter of Scripture lay dead Not suffer their bodies to be buried because the Jews and Gentiles knew better what to do with the Letter than the Spirit And so the Roman Catholicks and those that sprung from them have seen the dead bodies of the Scripture lie dead 1350 years V. 10. And they that dwell on the Earth shall rejoyce over them and make merry and shall send Gifts one to another because these two Prophets tormented them that dwelt on the Earth They rejoyced over the Letter of the Scriptures the Spirit and Life of them being put to Death And now they looked upon themselves as very sure because there were none left upon Earth that had a Commission to torment them V. 11. And after three days and a half the Spirit of Life from God enter'd into them and they stood upon their feet and great fear fell upon them which saw them The Spirit that is the Commission of the Spirit enter'd into the Letter of the Law and Gospel and by a true Interpretation they made the dead Letter stand upon its feet and that kills the Spirit of Reason with Death Eternal which it never did this 300 years till the year 1651. Great fear so as to convince some and make them silent Others were filled so with wrath as to be damn'd to Eternity others receiv'd it to Eternal Happiness V. 12. And they heard a great Voice from Heaven saying unto them Come up hither And they ascended up to Heaven in a Cloud and their Enemies beheld them Of this Blank Here he seems to be at a loss I shall now draw all this together and the Sum of the whole is this That J. Reeve and L. Muggleton are the two Witnesses the Olive Trees and Candlesticks spoken of in this Chapter That these two were to prophesie 1260 days beginning in February 1651. And had power to save and damn irrevocably to all Eternity c. That upon declaring this Commission the Beast out of the Bottomless Pit that is the Ld. Mayor Fowk the Recorder and Jury out of the Pit of their Imagination made War against these two aforesaid Witnesses 1653. and killed them that is the Letter of the Scripture And their dead Bodies which is the Letter of the Scripture lay dead in the streets of the hearts of Men. And the People and Kindred saw the dead Letter of the Scripture lie dead three days and a half or 1350 years and rejoyced at it But at the end of the 1350 years in which the Bodies of the Witnesses or the Letter of the Scripture had lay dead the Spirit entered into them by the Commission given to J. Reeve and L. Muggleton 1651. And so the Bodies of the Witnesses or Letter of the Scripture stood up again And it should have been added That the Witnesses ascended up into Heaven in a Cloud and their Enemies beheld them But soft for J. Reeve has been long dead Now reconcile all this who can For 1. He saith that they two are the two Witnesses and yet the Bodies of those two Witnesses are the Letter of the Scripture 2. If the Letter of the Scripture is the Body of the Witnesses and that lay slain 1300 years before these two say they receiv'd their Commission then the Bodies of them were slain before and 1300 years before these two Witnesses were in being 3. He saith The body of the Witnesses or Letter was slain 1300 years before and yet makes it slain again by the Ld. Mayor And if it was slain in his time then the three days and a half was to begin after his time and a new 1350 years was to follow 4. Observe That in the Revelation the two Witnesses had their Commission before the Bodies were slain but if the Bodies of the Witnesses is the Letter of Scripture and was slain 1350 years ago then they were slain so long before these had their Commission which was not till 1651. It 's plain this Shifter knows not where to fix He would fain like Simon Magus be accounted some great One and he and his Partner would set up for Broachers of New Doctrines how sordid and contradictious soever but he wants the skill to patch things cleverly together they are at the best but tatters and can never be brought into one intire piece And this Exposition of his is so sorry and pitiful an attempt that he might as well have undertaken to have proved himself and Reeve to be the two great Lights in the Heavens and to as good purpose have in like manner wrote an Exposition on the first Chapter of Genesis To conclude If confusion and self-contradiction may pass for Exposition if confidence and self-assuming may pass for Inspiration if nonsence and obscurity may pass for Illumination if cursing and damning others may pass for Charity if Blasphemy may pass for Religion then these two may be allowed to be what they pretend But if these things will not pass among Mankind then they will no more be Prophets and Witnesses from God than they will ascend into Heaven in a Cloud in the sight of their Enemies FINIS See Letter to Ld. Mayor and the Remonstr Remonst p. 4. Transcend Spir. Treat p. 6 7. True Interpret of Revelat. ch 75. n. 3. 5. Look glass Ch. 22. n. 15. Ch. 27. n. 38. Look glass p. 60. n. 36. Look glass p. 60. n. 37. n. 38. n. 39. p. 112 n. 46. Joyful News p. 49. See Transcendent Spir. Treatise §. 1. p. 4. 5. Quakers neck p. 67. Look glass p. 111. n. 43. Revelat. p. 40. n. 21. Look glass 1 Epist and p. 112. 117. 168. n. 8. 169. n. 15. 195. n. 34. 197. n 34. 2 Peter 2. 17 18 19. Remonst p. 9 11 12. Transcend p. 3 6 8 9 41. Letter to Ld. Mayor p. 3. Look glass p. 42. n. 10. Transcendent p. 41. Revelat. p. 158. ch 77. n. 1. Muggleton's Epist to Look glass p. 3. Look glass p. 111. n. 43. 167. n. 1 2. Transc p. 7. Revel p. 156. n. 2 3. p. 157. n. 1 2 4. 158. n. 3 4 5. Look glass p. 168. n. 11 12. 171. n. 33. Transcend p. 7. Transcendent p. 41. Look glass p. 92. p. 93. n. 25. 99. n. 37. Transcend p. 7. Remonstr p. 4. Look glass p. 99. n. 37 38. Look glass p. 99. n. 6. Look glass p. 14. n. 29. Revelat. p. 143. n. 11. Revelat. chap. 60. n. 8. 15. 19. Epist prefixed to it See p. 76. n. 2 4. p 92. n. 21. p. 108. n. 3. Look glass p. 98. n. 31. Transc p. 6. p. 18. Title page to the Looking-glass Transc p. 4 5 6 41. Look glass p. 158. n. 24. 186. n. 33. Revelat. p. 162. n. 4. Joyful News p. 51. Transcend p. 9. Joyful News p. 40 43. Muggleton's Epist to Look Glass Look glass p 185. n. 26 c. Remonstr p. 7. Transc p. 14. Look glass c. 18. n. 9 10. Look glass p. 195. n. 34. Transcend ibid. Look glass p. 79. n. 25 31. p. 49. n. 13 14. Look glass p. 12. n. 11. 81. n. 14. Look glass p. 36. c. 9. Rev. p. 164. n 4. Look glass p. 2. n. 10. Transcend p. 2. 11 23 26 28 29. Letter to Ld. Mayor p. 23. Transc p. 41. Gen. Epist p. 5. Look glass p. 64. n. 27. a Trans p. 31. b p. 35. c p. 36. d Revel ch 60. n. 10. e Trans p. 35. f p. 36. 31. g Revel ch 59 n. 3. 5. h Trans p. 31. Revel ch 60. n. 4. i Trans p. 37. k p. 38. l p. 35 c. Look glass p. 96. n. 18. Look glass p. 9. n. 3. Look glass p. 8. n. 8. p. 130. n. 4. Quakers neck n. 14. Transc p. 21. Look glass p. 130 n. 5. 134. n. 26. 153. n. 15. Transc p. 21. Look glass p. 154. n. 22 23 c. p. 156. n. 34 c. n. 44. Trans p. 25. Remonstr p. 8 Look glass p. 147. n. 21. 27 148 n. 31. Trans p. 50. 54. Look glass p. 100 101. Joyful News p. 10 12 13. Look glass ch 30. n. 25 p. 126. n. 15. 128. n. 30 31. Look glass p. 5 6 28 29. John 1. 14 18. John 5. 37. 14. 6. 1 John 2. 1. John 14. 28. John 5. 22. 1 Cor. 15. 24. John 5. 18. Look glass p. 158 n. 5● Look glass p. 42. n. 11. Transcendent Spir. Treat Remonstr p. 5. Remonstr p. 6. Transcend p. 6. Look plass p. 194. 28. Ibid. p. 198. n. 15. Revelat. c. 59. Revelat. ch 9. n. 8. Revel ch 63. 5. See pag. 20. Revelat. ch 53. n. 4. Look glass p. 41. n. 2. Look glass p. 33. n. 50 58. Ibid. p. 34. n. 59. Ibid. p. 31. n. 34 35. Ibid. p. 31 32 33. Interpret of the Revelat. c. 79. n. 1. c. 82. n. 7.
Translated who the Scripture saith died and was buried Deut. 34. 5 6. 2. Muggleton supposes Matthew to have seen the Angel at our Saviour's Resurrection and gives it as a Reason why he speaks but of one saith he perhaps he was no more to his Matthew 's Visible Sight 3. He saith that the Souldiers did see the natural Vail of the Temple rent from the bottom to the top Whereas the Vail was in the most inward part of the Temple and the Souldiers were at Mount Calvary watching the Body of Jesus 4. He saith we read not of Cain in the Genealogy from Adam to Jesus forgetting that Jesus was not descended from Cain but Seth. 5. We may add to this gross Ignorance when he affirms that the Apostles Epistles were written either in Hebrew Greek or Latin and for the most in Greek and Latin Revelat. ch 52. n. 6 7. Whereas those Epistles were written in Greek only 6. He affirms That the Roman Catholicks were the first Professors of the Faith of Christ and of the Apostles Whereas it is notorious in Scripture that the Jews Converted were the first Professors of it and then the Gentiles in Judea Let us proceed to another sort of mistakes 1. They say The first sort of Persons that affirm the Holy One of Israel to consist of three Persons are Athanasius Socinus alias John Biddle As if Athanasius and Socinus were of the same Opinion whereas Athanasius was a zealous Assertor of the Trinity and Socinus and Biddle Oppugners of it And as for Socinus he would not allow the Holy Spirit to be a Person at all and Biddle would have him only a Created Angel and so not God 2. They affirm that no one ever taught their Principles as that God the Father died and that God had a Body and was in the form of a Man c. Whereas there is hardly any thing new but that there have been some as wild and fanciful as themselves in past Ages As 1 The Anthropomorphites and Audians and Manichees held that God had a Human body 2. That there was but one Person in the Deity only called by different Names so held the Noetians Colarbasians and Sabellians 3. That the Father suffer'd so the Cataphrygians Sabellians called therefore Patropassiani and that the Divinity of Christ suffer'd so the Theopaschites 4. That the Soul died with the Body and that there was no Resurrection of the Body so the Valentinians Manichees c. 5. That the Wicked are of the Posterity of Cain So the Valentinians and Sethites Without raking farther into this matter this is sufficient to shew that they are not the first Broachers of these Doctrines 3. They affirm That the Reason of the Eclipse of the Moon is through her near Conjunction with the Sun whereas it 's manifest that it is when it 's opposite to the Sun and that the Earth is between them 4. They affirm That no Man can know the time of Eclipses but by Inspiration whereas they may be as well foretold as the time the Sun will rise at to Morrow 5. He positively affirms from God That the Bodies of the Sun Moon and Stars are in compass not much bigger than they appear to our natural sight whereas it's evident on the contrary that every thing diminishes in its appearance according to the degree of its Elevation And consequently those Heavenly Bodies being vastly remote from the Earth must be vastly greater than they appear to the Eye 6. He affirms That the Sun Moon and Stars neither borrow nor lend light to one another Whereas we see plainly that the Moon borrows light from the Sun and that according as the Earth is between it and the Sun so it 's proportionably obscured 7. He affirms positively from the Lord That the Sun Moon and Stars are only in one Firmament Whereas it's evident on the contrary 1. That the Moon is in an Orb lower than the Sun and both of them lower than the Stars 2. That there are different motions a slower and swifter in the Planets and that those called fixed Stars only move all alike and are in the same Firmament Whether these are Errors or no let all Men judge and if so what becomes of their Infallibility what of their pretence to Divine Illumination CHAP. II. IT remains now to proceed to to the second Question viz. Q. Whether J. Reeve and L. Muggleton are the two Witnesses spoken of in the 11th of the Revelation This they both do avow and L. Muggleton has wrote a Comment upon that Chapter in his way foolish and absurd enough to try how he can work it to his purpose But like one that is not in himself over confident of his performance he sometimes shrinks from it and comes off with a may be as We may be said to be those two Olive trees and the two Witnesses may be said to have finished c. Now what more sneaking and pitiful After they have boldly challeng'd this Character to themselves to give it over again and retire from it as if they fainted under a distrust and the fear of inconsistencies in it As a Specimen of which I shall compare the Text of Scripture and his Exposition together Revelation Ch. 11. TEXT Chap. 78 c. EXPOSITION Ver. 3. I Will give power unto my two Witnesses and they shall prophesie one thousand two hundred and sixty days cloathed in Sackcloth V. 4. They are the two Olive-trees and the two Candlesticks standing before the God of the Earth WE J. Reeve and L. Muggleton shall prophesie concerning the Spiritual Estate of Mankind to Eternity and of the end of the World Olive trees because of the Oyl of Joy in our Doctrine Candlesticks because God hath put the Commission of his Spirit into us which is Light V. 5. If any man will hurt them a fire proceedeth out of their mouth and devoureth their Enemies and if any man will hurt them he must in this manner be killed Fire proceedeth to pronounce blessing and cursing to Eternity V. 6. These have power to shut heaven that it rain not in the days of their prophesie and have power over waters to turn them into blood and to smite the earth with all plagues as often as they will To shut heaven that is the Heaven of Mens hearts That it rain not that is after the Sentence of Eternal death it prevents the motion of the Spirit Turns water into blood that is the motions of peace and hope of Mens Souls which are as water to drink into wrath and so it becomes a Spiritual Plague V. 7. And when they shall have finished their Testimony the Beast that ascended out of the Bottomless Pit shall make War against them and shall overcome them and kill them Finished their Testimony that is the Doctrine of Truth which is that Jesus Christ is God the Father Son and Spirit c. The Beast that is the Spirit of Reason in the