and Spirit upon Earth 2. He answered and said No he could not but desired me to interprit it 3. Then said I the Interpretation is thus the Record of Water upon the Earth it was Moses and the Prophets under the Law 4. They worshiped God with divers Ceremonies of Tipes and Offerings of Bulls and Goates and sprinkled upon the Alter their Blood and upon the Flesh of the Leapers and other distempered Persons that were unclean and much Washings and Purifyings with clear Water was used under the Worship of the Law 5. Which was the Record of Moses and the Prophets it being set up by Moses and practised by the People of the Jews many Generations And this Record of Moses upon Earth is that Record of Water answering and bearing Testimony to that one God the Father and Creator of all things both in Heaven and Earth 6. This is the Interpretation of the Record of Water upon Earth and this agreeth with the Record of God the Father in Heaven 7. Now you must understand that the Record of Water upon Earth it was acted by Men as Moses and the Prophets and the high Priests in the time of the Law They all cryed with one accord This is Truth 8. The Interpretation of the Record of the Blood upon Earth it was Jesus Christ and his Apostles In that Christ came to fulfil the Law and he is said to be the end of the Law to every one that beleives and to lay down his Life for many 9. Now in laying down his Life is understood that he shed his own precious Blood Therefore it is said his Soul was heavy unto Death and he power'd out his Soul unto Death and except you eat my Flesh and drink my Blood you have no Life in you 10. That is no Man hath the Assurance of eternal Life abideing in him except he doth truly beleive that Flesh of Christ that was Crucified upon the Cross to be the Flesh of God 11. That is the Word became Flesh and dwelt amongst Men and that Blood of Christ that was power'd out unto Death to be the Blood of God Except this be beleived there can be no eternal Life abideing in Man 12. For this Blood of Christ doth purge the Conscience from dead Works to serve the living God So that Christ which is manifest in Flesh as the Scripture saith did pass through Blood 13. And his Apostles after he had given them a Commission as in the Second of the Acts they bare Testimony and Record on the Earth that Jesus was the Christ 14. And they did witness that he shed his Blood and was put to Death by the Jews and did rise again and assend up into Heaven in that same Body he suffered Death in 15. For which Record of theirs they were put to Death and their Blood was shed and so were many Beleivers in their Commission put to Death and passed through Blood for bearing Record to this Jesus which they had crusified to be the Son of God 16. And this Record on Earth was acted by Men who lost their Lives for their Record therefore it is called the Record of Blood upon Earth 17. Answerable to the Record in Heaven in that the Word became Flesh and Christ is that Word that bare Record in Heaven and became Flesh and shed his Blood And those that bare Record unto him their Blood was shed also 18. So that the Blood of Christ and the Blood of the Apostles and the Blood of Saints is that Record of Blood on Earth And this Record of Blood on Earth it was acted by Men by Christ his Apostles and Saints 19. This is the true Interpretation of the Second Record of Blood here upon Earth is it not said I. 20. They all rejoyced and said it was true so far and that they never hear'd the like 21. Now the Interpretation of the Third Record of the Spirit upon Earth You see said I that there is to be Three Records upon Earth as there is Three in Heaven Now you see there is but Two acted upon Earth as yet to wit Water and Blood 22. Now the Water Record was to witness to God the Father the Blood Record witnessed to Christ the Son and you see they were Men like your selves that did bear these Records on Earth of Water and Blood 23. Likewise you see that these Two Records on Earth they did witness to one God in Heaven Did they not said I. He answered and said They did Yet said I you see they differ one from the other in point of Worship notwithstanding they did agree to bear Record to one God in Heaven 24. Now said I as these Two Records of Water and Blood were acted upon Earth by Men so likewise must the Record of the Spirit upon Earth he acted by Men also 25. And not as People do vainly imagiin That the Two former Records were acted by Moses and the Prophets and the High Priests which were Men And the Record of the Blood was acted upon this Earth by Christ and his Apostles and Saints which were Men. 26. But you cannot conceive the Record of the Spirit upon Earth is to be acted by Men as the other Two were But you conceive that God doth act this Record upon Earth himself only by inspiring his Spirit into every Mans Heart secretly giving the Knowledge of himself 27. Two answered and said Indeed this was their Beleif 28. But said I the Record of the Spirit upon Earth must be acted by Men as the other Two were else them Words be not true That there is Three that bare Record on Earth 29. For if God which is in Heaven doth act the Record of the Spirit himself and Men acted the other Two then there is but Two Records on Earth and Four Records in Heaven 30. When they heard this they rejoyced and said to the Man that disputed with me Mr. Benet We think you have met with one that is two harde for you now CHAP. XII The Interpretation of the Third Record on Earth the Record of the Spirit and who it is acted by THEN said I The Record of the Spirit upon Earth must be acted by Men as the other Two were Now said I there must be Witnesses of the Spirit upon Earth as there was Witnesses of Water and Blood 2. And some Men must be the chief Teachers or Commissioners as he did Moses and the Prophets Christ and the Apostles these were chosen of God and happy was it for those that beleived them in their time 3. Now said I God chose John Reeve and myself by Voice of Words to the hearing of the Ear to be his Two last Prophets and Witnesses of the Spirit and he gave us Understanding of his Mind in the Scriptures above all the Men in the World at this Day 4. And this I know to be true and many that can witness the same I spake not this out of any Pride of Heart but out of perfect Knowledge for
with George Whitehead and Josiah Cole With his Sentance passed upon them both 1. WHO ever may read this Letter let them understand thus much that I never saw the Man nor he me but he reading the Book aforesaid he was moved by the Light within him to send this cursed Letter unto me Whereupon after I had read it I sent him an Answer to it with the Sentance of eternale Damnation for his cursed Blasphemy The Bearer staid for it 'till it was writen he being a Quaker would not go without it 2. But it came to pass that the same Night that this Thomas Loe received his Sentance in answer to his curled Letter he went to Bed sick and never did rise more till he was carried to the Grave which was almost Three Weeks after Which is a clear Testimony that the Curse of God the Man Christ Jesus by his Messenger doth take hold of the Quakers People and more especially of their Ministry 3. Because they are the absolute Spirit of Antichrist in this last Age which teacheth the People to deny both Father and Son to become Flesh and that the Father nor the Son hath no Person of his own distinct from Man but denyeth a personal God in form like Man his own Image 4. For which Cause hath the Wrath of this God overtaken several of these desperate Quakers even of their Ministers or Preachers hath been cut off this Earth that they might not deceive People no more nor incumber the Earth with their wicked Antichristian Spirit which defieth the living God who is in the form of Man who made Man in his own Image Lodowick Muggleton 5. Upon the Sickness and Death of this Thomas Loe Quaker after the Sentance sent him it caused several to discourse with me about it therefore I shall relate some of the most remarkable Passages and the Persons I discoursed with upon the 17th Day of October 1668. The Persons discoursed withal were George Whitehead and Josiah Cole both Speakers of the Quakers 6. Eirst The Words Cole spoke unto me are these saith he Thou sayest God is in form of a Man and thou sayest his Hand is not much biger than thine or mine and thou seest what a little this Hand will hold Yet saith he God is said to have measured the Waters in the hollow of his Hand and behold the Nations are as a drop of a Bucket 7. I answered and said Do you beleive God to be so big to hold the Waters in the hollow of his Hand That is spoken in Relation to his great Wisdom Power and Dominion as he is a Creator not relating to the bigness of his Hand but to the greatness of his Power being infinite 8. An earthly King may be said to be King of many Kingdoms and that he hath brought the People of those Kingdoms to Obedience to his Law By the strength of his own Arm for Power or Strength is the right Hand of an earthly King 9. Yet the King doth not hold all the People under his Arm nor in the hollow of his Hand but the People may be said to be under his Hand and that he holds them in the hollow of his Hand because his Power and Laws doth protect them and keep them within Bounds for a prerogative Power is great but the Hand of a King is no biger than the Hand of another Man that hath no Power at all 10. So it is Gods prerogative Power that is above all Law in seting Bounds to the Waters and keeping the Waters within Bounds in the deep Places of the Earth and so may be said that God doth hold the Waters in the hollow of his Hand that is they are confined to a little place of his Power in his Creation 11. Also I said that I that am but a mortal Man hath Power over such a great God whose Hand is so big for that God whose Hand is much biger than thine or mine I have Power to Condemn This was passed by and no Reply made by them 12. Then spake Whitehead and said He did hear that I had cursed a Man and he changing his Aparel came afterwards and did procure a Blessing and that this Man or some other did smite a Pewter Pot upon my Head 13. This I said was false for never did any Man strike me over the Head with a Pot in all my Life it was that reprobate Pope that damd'd Devil that hath reported that he was Blessed after he was Cursed It is a false Report and he hath reported it several times amongst the Ranters and Quakers 14. This Pope was a Ranter then when he was Cursed which was about fifteen Years ago in John Reeve's time and he is a worse Ranter now than he was then and that you Quakers know very well and what a wicked lustful Life he liveth now in and yet you will rather beleive the damn'd Devil and wicked lustful Person than beleive me who have been kept innocent from the breach of any Law from my Childhood to this Day 15. But I know you Quakers being of the same Nature and Seed of the Serpent as those Jews were in Christ's time who desired of Pilate that a Thief and a Murtherer should be delivered from Death rather than Jesus the Saviour of all them that beleive in him 16. So is it with you for you had rather beleive this Pope this notable Sinner than to beleive me who am the Prophet of the most High God the Man Christ Jesus in Glory and have Power given of God as Moses had to set Life and Death before you but I know you do say in your Hearts tho not with your Lips as those Jews did by Christ Away with this Muggleton let us have Pope that wicked lustful Man that we might hear and inquire of him 17. Then said Josiah Cole Thou saist thou art an Embassador in God's steed and thou standest in his stead said he I would willingly do anything that I might be saved 18. Then I answered him and said I will tell thee what I will say unto thee if thou wilt but deny and forsake the Quakers Principles and beleive me I will assure thee thou shalt as certainly be saved as ever any Prophet or Apostle ever was 19. Then Cole fell into a Fit and waited upon his own Thoughts what to answer and I waited for his Answer 20. But George VVhitehead perceived that Cole was in a strait he came unto me and spied a Knot of Ribon upon my Coat Sleeve and said unto me VVhy dost thou wear this Vanity and touched the Ribon with his Fingers 21. I answered and said I know a piece of Ribon is a great Sin in a Quaker's Eye But said I VVhy dost thou wear silk Buttons on both thy Coats He said they were necessary I said No thou mightest wear Hooks and Eyes Clapses or Eyletholes That was past by 22. But then I will tell thee why I do wear Ribon it is on purpose that I might not
Slanders and Judgments threatned against me I did not matter For this I know the Quakers do beleive that Loe and Cole's Souls is not dead but slipt out of their Bodies and gon you know not where and into a Power you know not what 10. But I said their Souls is where you laid their Bodies they both came into this World together they both dispised the Truth together they both Bodies and Souls received Judgment and Condemnation together and both dyed together and were both Soul and Bodies buried together and shall both rise again spiritual dark Bodies and Souls together 11. Every Seed it s own Body that Seed of Reason which was their Life which they thought was the divine Nature of God but it was the Nature of the Devil and Serpent 12. And the Law writen in their Hearts which you Quakers call the Light of Christ or Christ in you which is no other Christ or Light but the Law writen in your Hearts And the Light of the Law which doth accuse and excuse the Conscience of every Man you call the Light of Christ yea Christ himself 13. For this Light of the Law writen in your Hearts is that which doth cause your Thoughts to accuse when you do evil and to excuse when you do well And when God shall raise them again that Seed of Reason shall rise and bring a spiritual dark Body with it And that Law which was writen in their Hearts here in this Life shall quicken again in that new dark spiritual Body 14. And then shall they and you dispisers of a personal God know that your own Souls which you thought was the Life of God but it was the Life of the Devil and that your selves were Devils and that Law writen in your Hearts which you in this Life called the Light of Christ and that was no other God or Christ but this Light within you 15. But when this Law doth quicken again as I said before it will prove the only and alone Devil to torment you to eternity because you made the Light of this Law in your Hearts to be your only God and by this Light of the Law you do fight against the true personal God who created Man in his own Image and Likeness and hath trampled him under your Feet as Dirt. 16. These things may seem strange and as a Riddle unto you and as a thing impossible but with God all things is possible which his own Will moves him unto 17. And this I say as it was possible for God to write the Law in the Angels Natures and by his secret Determination suffer one of these Angels to become very Man and so the Angels Seed and Nature having conjunction with the Seed and Nature of Eve which was of Adams Nature and so by Generation the Law comes to be writen in every Man's Heart in that ever Man and Woman that is born into this World is partaker of the Angel's Nature of Reason and so comes to have this Law writen in every Man's Heart 18. Man finds it there accusing of him but knows not how it came writen there 19. So it is as strange for you Quakers to beleive that God will raise your Souls again that were dead how they should quicken out of Death by the Power of that God that made all Souls to live at the first In as much as he made all things by the power of his word in the Beginning 20. So by the same power of his word he shall quicken the Souls of Men and Women again out of Death to Life again at the last day and the Law that was writen in them shall quicken also and be alive again in you to torment you to eternity 21. For the Law and your Souls shall never part one from the other for as the Law is secretly writen in your Hearts but originally in the Reprobate So by Gods secret Decree and Power he will revive that Law again in that Reprobate Seed of Reason as in Thomas Loe Josiah Cole George Whitehead William Pen and many of you Speakers of the Quakers and others of your Bretheren who are under the Judgment and Sentance of this Commission of the Spirit You shall find my words to be true upon you and over you to eternity neither shall you be delivered from it 22. For if I had but any thought of Compassion towards you in my Mind it was answered me That there is a necessity that there should be Enmity between the Seed of the Woman and the Seed of the Serpent which hardened my Heart against all Dispisers of a personal God in the form of Man Lodowick Muggleton 23. After this in the same year came another thundering Letter from a Lyon like Quaker being a learned Man brought up at the University his Name is William Pen Here is the Copy of it verbatim LOdowick Muggleton having had a deep and serious Sence of thy insulting Spirt over the Death of that valiant and painful Servant of the most high God Josiah Cole as if it were the ephect of thy solely Curse who alas for these Twelve Years hath in these Nations and Iles abroad in all Straits Difficulties and hard Sufferings been an incessant Labourer for the Lord and so impared his Health that within these Twelve Months or little more have I known him Five times sick and Three even unto Death before he had ever seen thy Face I say being sensible of thy Vaunts And it now being laid upon me Therefore once more I come in the Name and Authority of that dreadful Majesty which fils Heaven and Earth to speak on this wise Boast not thou Enemy of God thou Son of Perdition and Confederate with the unclean croking Spirits reserved under Chains to eternal Darkness for in the everlasting glorious Light thou dispiseth thou art seen Araigned Tryed Condemned and Sentanced for a lying Spirit and false Prophet who having counterfited the Commission and Sceal of that God whom the Heaven cannot contain hath bewitched a few poor silly Souls But their Blood Oh! Muggleton lies at thy Door and the Wrath of the Almighty is kindled against thee and his eternal Power in his Servants the Quakers came whom thou hast past thy envious Curse shall suddenly grind thee to Powder and as formerly so again on the behalf of the God of the Quakers whom I worship I boldly challinge thee with thy Six foot God and all the Host of lucepherian Spirits with all your Commissions Curses and Sentances to touch or hurt me practice your Skill and Power behold I stand in a holy Defiance of all your Enmity and Strength And this know Oh Muggleton with thy God art chained by the Spirit of the Lord and on you I trample in his everlasting Dominion and to the bottomless Pit are you sentanced from whence you came and where the endless Worm shall knaw and torture your imaginary Soul to eternity Written Signed and Seal'd by Commission receiv'd about the First Hour
was done in England before I stood Bareheaded upon the Pillory which no Cheat ever did but were suffered to weare a Cap of Steel under another Cap. 13. I was set as a Mark for every one to Throw a Stone at me 14. My Books were offered up in Three Burnt offerings unto the Unknown God as Three Sacrifices before my Face the smoke of them asscended into my Nostrells which caused me to Cry to Heaven for Vengeance upon those Great Men of the Earth that were the cause of those Burned-offerings unto Devils 15. And my self was Offered up as a Sacrifice Three times to the Rude Multitude For the People came from the Four Winds or from the Four Quarters of the Citty and Subburbs round about they were for Multitude without Number 16. I was maul'd by the People some cast Dirt and Mudd out of the Kennel at me others Rotten Eggs and Turnâ—â—s and others cast Stones at me some Stones weighed a Pound and out of the Windows at the Exchange they cast down Fire Brands Pieces of Billits with Fire upon them at my Head which if they had lighted upon me would have done the Work as they desired 17. I was Bruised and Battered and my Innocent Blood was shed tho' not unto Death for Gods Cause for that the Blood of the last True Prophet and Witness of the Spirit hath been shed by this Bloody Citty for my Testimony to the Commission of God put upon me 18. And it was the wonderful Providence of God my Life was preserved for I was delivered into the Hands of unreasonable Men the rude Multitude by the Hands of Rainsford Davis and Jefferies Judges of the Law of Reason and Jury these were the Men that were Guilty of my Innocent Blood 19. I was willing to be stoned to Death by the rude Multitude and would have gone off the Pillory to be stoned to Death but the Officers would not let me come down when this was over my Wounds and the Blood stanched I was put into the Cole Cellar again the same Day at Night I went Three pair of Stairs high to my Lodging 20 And the next Day I would willingly have kept my Bed but the Keeper said If I would not come down into the Cellar in the Afternoon they would put me in the Common Side so I was forced into the Cellar who had more need to have kept my Bed 21. But there is no mercy in Prison therefore it may well be compared to Hell for in Hell there is no mercy but Justice only neither is there any mercy in Prison Keepers at all without profit 22. After I had suffered these things I was put into Prison again for the Fine of Five Hundred Pounds that was laid upon me to Pay but I did lye in Prison Six Months after I had suffered these things aforesaid 23. And now in my Imprisonment I considered that my sufferings were much like unto the sufferings of the Prophet Jeremiah Chap 11.19 he suffered for his Message from the Lord of Host the mighty God of Jacob. 24. And my sufferings was for my Commission received from the high and mighty God the Man Christ Jesus in Glory the only wise God my King and my Redeemer 25. And as his Enemies that caused him to suffer and would have had him put to Death were Princes and great Men of the Earth so likewise those my Enemies were great Men and as Princes on the Earth and they sat upon the Thrones as Gods on Earth in Judgment against me 26. And as it was with Jeremiah so it was with me for I was like a Lamb that is brought to the Slaughter and I knew not that they had devised devices against me if I had I could have prevented them They saying Let us destroy the Tree with its Fruite thereof and cut him off from the Land of the Living that his Name may be no more Remembered 27. That is let us destroy this Muggleton the Tree and the Fruit thereof his Doctrine of the True God and Right Devil in his Writings that none may receive his Writings more nor believe his Doctrin or Commission that he hath Power from God to Bless and Curss to Eternity any more This Reprobate Men have practised against me 28. So that I have had Cause to make my Complaint unto my God my King and my Redeemer the Lord Jesus Christ as David and Jeremiah did 29. Oh Lord God of Truth that Judgeth Righteously that Tryeth the Reins and the Heart let me see thy Vengeance on them for thou knowest I have been Faithful in Executing thy Commission the Burthen of the Lord which thou didest lay upon me 30. And thou knowest the unrighteous unjust Judgments these wicked unjust Judges gave against me They were not only Enemies to me but thy Enemies Oh God for they have hated me without a cause and they have said let us smite him with the Tongue with Lyes Slanders and Reproaches 31. Therefore heed O Lord God of Truth and harken to the Vioce of these wicked Judges and Jury and all those that assented to that Judgment for harm that contended with me And let me see thy Vengeance on those thy Enemies for their Fathers did unto thee when thou was upon Earth as these do unto me 32. Thou hast saved me from Bloody Men For they laid wait for my Soul to Kill it had the Law been provided with Strength and not for any Transgression of any Law that I had broken but for thy Commission and Doctrine thou gavest me to declare 33. Therefore Oh Lord God of truth be not merciful unto any wicked Transgression that Persecuteth only for Conscience sake it being the Sin against the Holy Ghost 34. And God will let me see my desire upon my Enemies and bring them down Oh Lord my God 25. This was my secret Supplication unto my God when I was Prisoner in Newgate after I had suffered all those Corporal Punishments which they Sentanced me to Suffer CHAP. V. Shewing how that the Prophet in a short time saw his desire unto God in part fullfilled 1. AND a little while after these my Sufferings I saw my desire in part granted and several of my Potent Enemies cut off this Earth by Death As first that certain rich Man that took away poor Widdow Brunt's Ground as is aforemention'd he was call'd Sr. John James 2. And notwithstanding I had overthrown his two Tenants in the common Law yet when he saw that I was in Prison and Condemn'd for those Books and had suffered as aforesaid yet I being Fined Five Hundred Pounds he thought I could not be delivered out of Prison no more the Fine was so great 3. Whereupon he wickedly took advantage upon my sufferings for God's Cause and sent a Writt of Ejectment to my Tenants to Eject me out of Possession so my Atturney Read it and said I must answer to it else he would Eject me out the next Term so I was forced to Imploy a
and he doth it not their Condision is worse than the VVicked Which thing I was afraid to think of 13. Also I was afraid to question or doubt of Gods Prerogative Power in raising the Dead at the last Day or performing his Promise to Abraham Isaack and Jacob and the rest of the Seed of the Lord But I could have been glad if there had been no Resurrection at all neither of the Righteous nor Unrighteous 14. But thought I what is that to me if I be raised to Hell-Fire Then I reasoned in myself saying It is above Five Thousand Years since the Creation of this World and perhaps it may last Five Thousand Years more then shall I ly still in the Earth a great while before I am raised So that I shall escape the Torments of Hell for a long time thinking to have Hope in this Argument 15. But I was thrown out here immediately and my Hope cut-off for the Answer said VVhat if it should be Five Thousand Years before thou art raised again consider it will not be a quarter of an Hours time before thou art raised again 16. For there is no time to the Dead all time is to the Living for it will not be thought a quarter of an Hour by Adam the first Man when he is raised from the Dead he shall not think he hath been in the Grave one quarter of an Hour 17. Then I conceived if a Man slept a sound Sleep three Days that is no time to him Time is known to him that was awake that three Days 18. So this yielded me no Comfort but increased my Fears of Hell the more 19. One Argument more I had arising in me thinking to have got some Ease and Hope here Thought I this World hath been so many Thousand Years already and may be as many more for ought I know 20. And there hath been many Millions of People since the Creation more than can be numbered and more than be numbered hath been drowned in the Sea and other places 21. Sure said I in myself God cannot remember every perticular Person since the Creation thereof Thought I perhaps God may forget me and not raise me again then shall I ly still and be quiet and be as happy never to be as those that are raised to eternal Joys 22. But the Answer to this speak with a strong motional Voice saying How wilt thou know whether any is missing when God doth raise the Dead How canst thou tell whether any perticular Person is wanting by Sea or Land that is not raised 23. But however said the Voice if there be any wanting that is not raised God will be sure to raise thee 24. Then had I no more to say nor to plead for myself but must yield and submit to the prerogative Will of God if he would save me he might if he would damn me he might I could no ways prevent his Will 25. And this was my Resolution seeing the Case in matter of Salvation so with me that it lay in God's prerogative Will only I was resolved to seek after him in Forms of Worship no more 26. But as I had been always kept innocent and upright in Heart towards that God I knew not and Just between Man and Man and never had committed any deadly Sin to trouble my Conscience so I was resolved to keep myself free from Sin to the end of my Life 27. Thinking that if I were damned meerly by Gods prerogative Will my Torment would be the more easy 28. Here a secret Voice said Tho thy Torment may be easier than others yet it is eternal 29. This Word Eternity caused my Heart to fail within me yet I resolved in myself to live justly and get as good a Livelyhood as I could in this World and let God do what he would with me after Death 30. All this Dispute which I have written before and a great deal more it was in one Day CHAP. XIII The Prophets submitting to Gods prerogative Power immediately wrought in him Peace and Quietness of Mind even to all admiration in Wisdom and ravishing Excellencies 1. IN the next place I shall give the Reader a little account of the Ephects of this Dispute as follows 2. When I had done this I was quiet and still in my Mind but very Melancholy and faint and sickly with the Trouble of my all Day in this Dispute which was in my Mind 3. Neither could I quiet my Thoughts untill I did submit to God's prerogative Power 4. There was abundance more of motional Voices spake in me that Day besides what I have here set down but these were the most remarkable to be taken notice of by the Reader yet it was a blessed Day to me as it will appear hereafter by that which followeth 5. After this that very same Night the Windows of Heaven were opened to me and the Fountains of the Water in Heaven were broken up and the Water of Life run down from Heaven upon me 6. And the Spirit of Faith in my Heart here on Earth did arise up with sweet Waters of Peace so that I said in myself as Peter did in another Case It is good for me to be here for I was in the Paradice of Heaven within Man upon Earth neither could I desire any better Heaven 7. Then was the Scriptures opened unto me so swiftly and more swiftly than my Understanding could receive it and the Waters of Life run down from the understanding of the Scriptures abundantly And the knowldge of the Scriptures flowed in upon my Understanding faster than I could receive it and yet I thought my Mind was very swift 8. Then was no saying of Scripture too hard for me to understand Then I saw that the assurance of eternal Life here on this side of Death it lay in understanding the Scriptures 9. Then I marvelled no longer at the Fathers of Old in their expressing their Faith in God and depending upon Gods Promises to them 10. Also I saw the Excellency of the Prophets Prophesies Neither did I wonder any more at Paul's Expressions when he was wrapt up into the third Heaven and saw things unutterable 11. Neither could I utter the Revelations of the Scriptures as was poured upon me at that time nor the Joy and Peace I received from the Revelation of the Scriptures 12. For it brought unto my Mind all my Experience I had formerly and shewed what did uphold me at that time even a single upright Heart before God and Man 13. Then the assurance of eternal Life cast out all Doubts and Fears of Condemnation neither did I ever doubt of that more after that day 14. Then I praised the Scriptures highly which I had laid aside several years before 15. Then did I see it was not in vain to submit to Gods prerogative Will and to wait in patience 16. Here was that saying of Scripture fulfilled in me Isaiah 42.16 And I will bring the Blind by a Way that they knew
I declared unto her so that she was very well satisfyed in her Mind and she desired that I would come often to her which I did always when she sent for me not else And she was a true Beleiver afterwards and lived in the full Assurance of her eternal Happiness after Death all the Days of her Life 13. And she had a Kinswoman a Virgin that waited upon her by reading of the Books her Aunt had of mine by stelth she became a true Beleiver her Name was Ann Loe and in process of time this Ann Loe married one William Hall a true Beleiver of this Commission of the Spirit 14. And she did grow in Wisdom and Knowledge in spiritual and heavenly Knowledge and Experience and strong in Faith more than her Aunt before her and she was a great preserver of me from the Hands of my Enemies when the King's Messengers sought after me as will more appear hereafter CHAP. II. Of one Captain Wildye an honourable Man And of one Mrs. Cowlye of her Faith and Obedience of her Husband and of her Son a University Scholar and of his Convinement by the Prophet both as to the Ministry Law and Phisick 1. ALSO there was one Captain Wildye he was one of the Masters of Trinity-House an honourable Place For that Trinity-House is a Court for the ordering of Shiping and Seamen This Captain Wildye became a very true Beleiver of this Commission of the Spirit and he shewed a great deal of Charity to several poor Beleivers of this Faith more than any perticular Person in his time 2. Also he was the occasion of bringing to this Faith one Ann Cowlye a Gentlewoman at Mile-End-Green She was carried through several Principles of Religion as Independant Quaker and Virgin-Life-People She was zealous in all things she clave unto being very desirous to be saved and afraid to be damn'd 3. She was in the Principle of a Virgin-Life and would not let her Husband know her in Twelve years before she saw me notwithstanding she had born several Children by this Man and had one Son and one Daughter living by him 4. But after she came to be acquainted with me I convinced her both by Scripture and Reason of the unlawfullness of a married Wife to live a Virgin-Life and that she could not possibly have Peace as to another Life in that Practice And I advised her to give herself up to her Husband else I could not give Judgment of Blessedness upon her to Eternity 5. She being troubled at this saying of mine was forced to yield to her Husband which thing she thought an Angel from Heaven could not have perswaded her to do 6. But the Words of a Prophet was of great Power whose Word she could not resit but obeyed his Voice and had Peace of Minde and the Blessing of eternal Life in her Self and she grew very zealous for the Commission of the Spirit and contended for the Faith very much and this thing wrought upon her by the Word of a Prophet 7. This caused her Husband to beleive also and he was a very Wife and Prudent Man of the Independant People who had been a Preacher among them he became a very knowing Man in the Faith also his Son and his Daughter became both true Beleivers of this Commission of the Spirit 8. His Son John Cowlye was well bread he was brought up at the University of Cambridge his Learning cost his Father many hundred Pounds and when he was to receave some Benefit or Livelyhood for the future for all the cost past the Benefice was to be ordain'd a Minister or a Doctor of Phisick or a Lawyer These Three be the most honourable Things in this World 9. But when he came to speak with me I convinced him of the Unlawfullness of all the Three for any Saint or Gods Elect to undertake that Practice 10. The Seed of the Serpent were the fitest Men to take them Practices upon them because all the Kingdoms of this World is given into the Hands of the Seed of the Serpent as the Devil said to Christ 11. And these Three sorts of Men are reputed by the Seed of the Serpent the most honourable Men of all and are reverenced and subjected unto both by Princes and common People yet the greatest Cheats that is in this World as will appear 12. First I shewed him how dangerous a thing it was to take upon him to be a Minister of Christ without a Commission from God it would be counted by him spiritual High Treason For Ministers are in more Danger of eternal Damnation than any other Men for going to Preach and are not sent of God 13. For when they shall say in the Conscience at that Day Lord we have preached in thy Name and prayed in thy Name and cast out Devils in thy Name 14. The Answer of God in the Conscience will say Depart from me you workers of Iniquity I know you not And why did not God know them because he did not send them So that preaching and praying as a Minister without a Commission from Christ is counted but a Work of Iniquity 15. And as for the Doctors of Phisick they are the greatest Cheats upon a natural Account that is in the World They cheat the People of their Money and of their Health for they are in the original but atheistical Witches and it would be good if there were never a Doctor of Phisick in the World People would live longer and live better in Health 16. For God never appointed any Doctor of Phisick but he appointed Nature to preserve Nature 17. But through the wicked intemperate Life of Man it hath brought a necessity of Doctors of Phisick 18. But those People that go to a Doctor of Phisick to get Health he goeth to a Witch to seek his Health even as a Man that is troubled in Mind seeketh unto a Witch that hath a Familier Spirit for satisfaction as did King Saul 19. But when the Conscience of the Doctor of Phisick shall be opened at the last Day he shall say Lord we did not think that there were any God at all but Nature only therefore our Minds fed upon Gold and Silver that groweth in the Earth that we might Cloath our selves in rich Apparel that might make us honourable among great Men of the Earth and reverenced by the Poor not thinking in the least that there was any better Heaven hereafter or any Punishment after Death for practiseing this Cheat that is Autherised by the Powers of the Nations 20. And tho' we have done a great deal of Hurt yet Lord we have done some good we have cast out many Devils in Drunkards and Whoremasters and Whores who by their Wickedness have procured that Pox which no righteous Man could cure we have made them leave off that Practice by our Medicines and Advice and from Drunkenness and have lived a sober Life afterwards and many divilish Diseases have we cast out by our Spirits of
Rebellion of Corah Dathan and Abiram against Moses and Aaron 19. The Heads of this Rebellion were these William Medgate the elder Scrivner Thomas Burton a Flax Man Mr. Witall Brewer Walter Bohanan Scotchman 20. These drew a many Beleivers to side with them for a Season Some of these Rebels Two of them I did excommunicate and the other Two I gave Sentance of Damnation to eternity 21. And gave Charge to all those that sided with them in their Conspiracy not to Trade nor Eate nor Drink with those Men any more upon the pain of being Excommunicated out of my Presonce which the People did obey and were setled in Peace again 22. Likewise one of these Conspiritors namely Thomas Burton came and humbled himself and acknowledged his Fault and I forgave him and received him into my Favour again 23. There is the whole Relation left upon Record in Writing in a Volume by it self Which is as followeth 24. William Medgate in his Rebellion sent unto me Nine Assertions as he calls them being contrary to all Truth as he saith and against all sober Reason being verbatim as follows 1. That God taketh no Notice of his Saints nor doth not mind them at all 2. That you are not to mind God at all but by the Prophet only 3. You must pin your Faith upon the Prophet's Sleeve or else you can have no true Peace 4. Altho the Saints give Sentance against Blasphemy if the Party comes to the Prophet he can take it off 5. Altho a Man have a corrupt Nature and defraud and deceive all Men yet if the Prophets Love be in him he will uphold him 6. Tho false Worship be an Idol yet with the Prophet's Leave he may go to that Worship blameless 7. To whom the Prophet gives the Blessing it shall support him altho his Life and Conversation be wicked 8. If the Prophet should disown the Commission of the Spirit all those that beleives it should be damn'd 9. And lastly That after the Blessing is given to any by the Prophet yet though they walk contrary to the Commission yet they shall be damn'd but to the Graves Mouth William Medgate CHAP. VIII The Three first Assertions Answered 1. NOW these Assertions seemed very strange to many of the Beleivers as they were laid down together but being interpreted apart they became easy to the understanding of all as may appear As First of God's taking no Notice of his Saints 2. For if God did take Notice of all Actions there would be a present ephect of Blessing and Cursing as in times past neither can either Saint or Devil prove he doth take any Notice of him at all but as he doth vainly imagin because his Thoughts doth sometimes accuse him when he doth evil and excuse him when he doth well 3. But thus far I do acknowledge that God doth take notice and minde particular Saints here on Earth that is when God hath any Work to do for a perticular Saint or any perticular Devil then God taketh perticular notice of Saint or Devil if it be one or more according to the pleasure of his Will 4. But no Man now upon Earth can truly say that God hath minded or taken notice of him but my self only Also I do acknowledge that God doth take notice and minde every perticular Saint and every perticular Devil in the Original as will appear thus 5. God hath written the Law in every Man's Heart both Saint and Devil and this Law is God's Watchman and stands in God's Place and Stead both to acquit and condemn the Conscience of every Man and where this Law doth acquit God doth acquit and where this Law doth condemn God condemns yet God's Person minds it not but leaveth the whole Power to the Law to justify or condemn only God's Power is to be seen and to be taken notice of when he shall raise the Man again and that Law in his Heart shall quicken again by Gods Power and shall stand as God to judge to justify or condemn the Conscience of every Man 6. So that if a Man have not true Faith in his Heart to justify his Person in the sight of God while on Earth to free him from that Law of Sin and Death writen in his Heart then in the Resurrection that Law writen in his Heart shall quicken again and shall stand as God and Judge to condemn him to eternity 7. Therefore I may say unto you Rebels as God did unto Cain If thou dost well shalt not thou be rewarded and if thou dost Evil Sin lyeth at the Door of thy Conscience for the Law said in his Heart Thou shalt not kill And shall not your Act of Rebellion ly at the Door of your Consciences as sure as Cain's Murther lay at the Door of his Conscience 8. Therefore it was that Paul did thank God that he was delivered from the Law of Sin and Death and so doth every Man that is delivered from that Law writen in his Heart And John saith If thy Heart condemn thee not then hast thou Confidence to the Throne of Grace but if thy Heart condemn thee God is greater than thy Heart and knoweth all things That is if the Law writen in a Man's Heart do condemn a Man worthy of eternal Damnation God is greater than this Law and knoweth how to raise you again and to condemn you to eternal Torments 9. Thus in the Original God taketh notice and mindeth Saints and Devils here on Earth by the Law writen in their Hearts and if the Saints grow in Faith Love and Knowledge of the true God then is Conscience justified in the Sight of God because the Prophet and Messenger of God justifies the Saints Faith to be true Faith 10. But if the Prophet doth not justify a Man's Faith to be a true Faith nor him to be a true Saint neither will God do it and that Man's Heart will condemn him also 11. For it is a true Prophet or true Minister that maketh a Saint one or more for a Saint cannot maketh a true Prophet nor true Minister but a Prophet may make a wicked Sinnor a glorious Saint as I have done several As Christ he could make simple ignorant Men Apostles but Apostles could not make him their Christ so that no Prophet no Saint 12. They may be elected Vessels but not Saints for no Man can probably be said to be a Saint except they come actually to beleive in a true Prophet true Apostle or true Minister of Christ 13. And further I say whoever doth not stand in Awe and Fear to offend that Law of Conscience as if God himself did stand by and take notice of all his Actions so he doth well because God's Eye is over him else not I say all such a Man's Doings is but Eye Service and respected of God no more than the cuting of a Doggs Neck and that Man is in the depth of Darkness but such a Man if he doth Evil then he desires
yet we shall be sav'd by believing in John Reeve's Writings now he is Dead 14. This is just like the Faith of all the World that believeth the Prophets and Apostels that are Dead many hundred Years before they where Born but would not have believed them when they where alive No more then their Fathers did For it is the Nature of Reason to believe dead Prophets rather then living Prophets and it is the Nature of Faith to believe live Prophets rather then dead Prophets for a living Faith believeth a living Man but a dead Faith believeth a dead Man and thus the Seed of reason dealeth by me 15. But to this I say this Faith will not save you nor do you little good in the Day of Trouble why because God did not chuse John Reeve Singuler but God chose us two Joyntly so that there could be no seperation but by Death and seeing God hath Honoured me to be the longer Liver he hath given me a double Power as he did to the Prophet Elisha when Ely's Mantle fell upon him 16. So that God hath seated and established the Commission wholy upon me so that the Prophet now alive doth stand in God's place and doth Represent his Person to make Peace with Men neither can any Man have true Peace in his Soul but by casting himself by Faith wholy upon the Prophet that is now alive 17. Now if it where possible for this live Prophet to disown the Commission of the Spirit but it is not possible then should he be found a false Prophet and will be Damned then all that believes him will be Damned also this must be ventured by all Men and Women that are saved by Faith in a Commission 18. But as Christ spake many hard Words which made many forsake him So likewise the Prophet hath spoken many hard Words as those Assertions where by some that where his Disciples were offended at him and forsooke the Prophet and followed him no more this hath been the practice of some in all Commissions 19. But Woe will be to all that set the Hand of Faith to the Plow of Obedience to the Prophet and look back as Lots Wife did or draw back unto perdition whose Faith doth not hold out to the end that they might be said 20. And in this Sence if the Prophet should disown the Commission of the Spirit all those that believed him would be Damned 21. As to the Ninth Assertion in answer thereunto behold the Power of a Prophets blessing that though a Man walke contrary to the Commission his Faith is in Yet the Condemnation of his Conscience it shall not Reach unto Eternity but unto the Graves Mouth why because the Rememberance of the Prophets blessing is in him and doth uphold him else his Sin might make him despair of Eternal happiness and fear Eternal Torments 22. Also the Prophet cannot call back his blessing again though the Man doth walk contrary to the Commission whereby his own Conscience is Wounded and the Prophet Dishonoured Yet the Man keeping to the Prophets blessing not Rebeling against him the Prophets Faith and Love abideing in him will uphold him so that the fear of Eternal Death shall not surprise him 23 So that all his Condemnation he hath in his Conscience and disgrace he hath received in this World it shall end in Death and shall never be remembered in the Resurrection all his misdeeds shall be buried in the Grave and never rise again and that Faith he had in the Prophets blessing and the Prophets blessing shall be raised again to the Glorious Estate of Saints and Angels 24. And there shall be no Remembrance in the Resurrection of any Failings on this side of Death but the Faith he had in the Prophet's Blessing only shall uphold him and free him from eternal Torments and this is more than any legal righteous Man can attain unto though his Nature be ever so pure 25. So that a Prophet's Blessing is of no small weight nor of any small concernment but as the Blessing of Almighty God for whoever receiveth a Prophet that is true receiveth God and what is the Blessing of a Prophet but everlasting Life 26. And shall not this support and uphold a Man above all the Frailties of Nature 27. And in this Sence he that keeps the Prophet's Blessing tho he be subject to many Frailties of Nature which is contrary to the Commission yet his Condemnation of Concience shall extend no further than the Graves Mouth 28. Thus I have given Answer to all those Nine Assertions which VVilliam-Medgate hath drawn up as a Charge against me saying they are contrary to all Truth and against all Sober Reason The End of the Forth Part. The Fifth Part. CHAP. I. Of one Sr. John James's Opression of Widow Brunt and of her Death The Prophet left her Executor and how he would not sell his Birthright but Arrested Sr. John James's Tenants Of his great Troubles and Tryals 1. AFter this it came to pass that in the Year 1675 and 1676 that great Troubles did persue me both upon a Natural and a Spiritual Account through the Envy of wicked Men as will appear by what doth follow 2. There was a certain rich Man being covetous and cruel he was a Knight his Name was called Sr. John James he through his cruelty and covetousness did take away a matter of 30 Foot long and 4 Foot broad and a brick Wall that closed in this parcel of Ground and a Pump that stood in this Ground to considerable Vallue the Womans Name was Deborah Brunt and this he lett to another Tenant of his to make his Yarde wider 3. Also this Knight did lett another part of his Yarde to a Timber-Merchant and this Tenant of his did stop up the Light of the poor Widow's House with his Timber insomuch that it was a great Hindrance and Loss to the Widow in that no Tenant would live in it This rich Man did and she could no way deliver herself but her Right was clearly taken from her for ever for this rich Man had stated it upon his Two Tenants and they enjoyed it for a Season 4. It came to pass in a while after this Widow Brunt dyed and I was her Executor and I performed her Will in every particular according to the Laws of England and I knowing this rich Man had taken away these Things before mentioned from the poor Widow that was her Right which Widow I had been as a Father unto several Years before and did more for her than her Husband could do for her had he lived 5. So that I thought in myself I would not like prophain Esau to sell my Birthright for a Mess of Pottage but would gain that the poor Widow had lost wrongfully whereupon I did according to Law arest these two Tenants for Trespass and Damage 6. The Men I went to Law withal were Three one was Denis Swenye a notable wicked Devil the others were Charles
c. 23. Then the high Priests rent their Cloathes and they all Condemned him to be guilty of Death so likewise I did perceive that if I had pleaded my self I should have Justified my Commission from GOD and that he gave John Reeve and my self that Power and Authority to give Sentance of Damnation to all that Blaspheme against the Holy Ghost as they did as are Writen in that Book 24. These Words would have Enraged the Judges and Jury and the People more then that Book so that they would have said by me as the Priests Scribes and Pharisies said by Christ as aforesaid The angrey and Malicious Judges and Envious Jury and Ignorant Officers and People in the Court would have rent their Hearts with Madness against me and said What need we to mind this Book or Indictment or Witness against him for you hear his horrible Blaphemy out of his own Mouth therefore what think you so that they all would have Condemned me to greater Torments than they did 25. Considering this I held my Peace and speak not one word which prevented the Expectations of Thousands which thought to have had a large Relation of the Matter 26. So that I left the Book that was Pardoned Act and Indictment and Witnessess for them to Judge and Condemn me by So they had no farther Matter from me at all which did frusterate their Expectations and Moderate their Punishment as the Reader may perceive by what doth follow CHAP. III. The Counsel against the Prophet Pleads with fear and horrour The Prophets Counsel Pleads and through fear did wrong his Cause 1. UPON the 17th of January 1676 after the Indictment was read my Counsel Pleaded to it proving that this Book the Indictment was ground upon it was Pardoned by the Kings Gracious Act being Printed 13 Years ago neither was this Book Published nor Sold in any Shop or to any Person in publick as can be proved but were locked up in Cheasts c. This with many other Words according to the Laws of England This my Counsel pleaded and my Counsel Sate under Judge Atkins 2. And their Counsel Sate under Judge Rainsford and he did hold up the Book in open Court which Book was the whole Volumn bound and Clasped He held one of the Claspes between his Finger and his Thumb up in the open Court in oppossition to my Counsel 3. And he expressed these Words and said with a loud Voice That he did Read one Leaf of this Book and turn'd over another But said he it was so full of Horrible Blasphemy that he durst not Read any further for the Blasphemy was so great that it made his Hair stand an end and his Heart to tremble with other Expressions of Dread and Fear 4. As if the very Reading of it would have caused God to have parted the Heavens assunder and have Rained down Vengance upon him for Reading it if he had Read any further For said he It was impossible for any Man to Write such a Horrible Blasphemous Book in Assuming the place of God upon him Except he went to the bottom of Hell for said he it is so cunningly contrived that it confounds all the Reason in Man with many other hedious expressions which I cannot remember 5. He spoke truth but knew it not for the Spirit of Revelation doth descend to the bottom of Hell else we could not tell others where it is and prevent others from falling into it and as Christ himself Descended into Hell and quickened again out of it so hath the Spirit of Revelation in me descended into the bottom of Hell a Thousand times and hath quickened out of it again and hath forewarned many from going into that Place but I know this Counseler shall go into Hell that hath no bottom called a Bottomless Pitt and he shall never come from thence to Eternity 6. Likewise indeed the Revelation of Faith in me hath confounded all the Reason in Man as to Spiritual and Heavenly matters 7. After this my Counsel pleaded again to the same purpose as he did before but he through extream Fearfulness did wrong my cause in two things First in that he made no mention of the Wardens breaking open four Doors contrary to the Laws of England which was by the Law absolute Burglary and the taking away the Books was absolute Fellony 8. This was in the Forefront of his Breviat and I had reposed the Business to him because I would not plead my self but he like a deceitful Knave and fearfull Fool did not speak one Word of it before the Court which if he had it would have put these Envious Judges and Jury to a Nonplush how they could have brought me in Guilty so he spoyld my Cause 9. For after he had Pleaded the Kings Act of Grace as aforesaid he said these Words that he had Pleaded so far as the Law would bear him out but as for the Words and cause of Indictment he was ashamed of it 10. Upon these Words did Judge Rainsford say unto the Jury You see that his own Counsel is ashamed of his Cause 11. Here the Reader may see those Words verified as I have Read for my Counsel did do at my Tryal those things which he ought not to have done and he left undone those things which he ought to have done for he ought to have Pleaded the Breaking open of so many Doors but he left that undone and to say he was ashamed of my Cause he ought to have left those Speeches undone and not to have spoken them being not forced by the Court. 12. And for a Man to take Forty Shillings to Plead a Man's Cause and to say he is ashamed of his Clyants Cause what Man that hath but Moral Reason and Sense in him but will say such a Counseler hath no Truth in him 13. But Judge Atkins siting over my Counsel might see the Breviat in my Counsels Hand which caused him to ask one of the Witnessess his name was Garat how did he come by those Books he answered that he did Seize them as they use to do the Judge asked how many there were of them he said a Porters Load The Judge asked him where the Books were he answered at the Bishop of Londons House 14. The Judge asked him again if they were all of a sort or all of a bigness he answered no some were great ones and some lesser some three or four bound together and some single He was asked how many of them great Books that were in the Court he answered Six of them he was asked what was the Price that great Book was sold for He answered Twelve or Fourteen Shillings 15 Now when the two Counsels had done Pleading and the Witnesses Examin'd the aforesaid Judge Atkins stood up and said Gentlemen of the Jury you see that the Book which the Indictment was grounded upon was Printed 13 Years ago and is Pardon'd by the Kings Gracious Act Therefore said he I cannot
Soliciter to answer to it which wickedness of his cost me three Pounds 4. And my Lawyer went to Treat with him and this Knight was not very well very Cross and said he had turn'd his Business over to his Atturney And his Atturney was so full of Imployment that nothing could be done 5. So I hearing by my Lawyer that he was Sick I desired of God that he might never come down from that Bed of Sickness whereon he lay and in a few Days after it came to pass that he Dyed 6. So our Law Suite was ended I had been a quarter of a Year in Prison then now I knew this Man was the Seed of the Serpent a Devil and will be Damn'd to all Eternity 7. After this there was another great Enemy his Name was Garret he was one of those that broke open my House and Stole my Books and was a Witness against me in the Court He brought the Books to the Court for the Common Hang Man to Burn every Day I stood upon the Pillory my Wife Mary gave him the Sentance of Damnation to Eternity and he Dyed Six Weeks after 8. The third Person was Judge Rainsford Chief Judge of England he was an Implacable Enemy to me but in a little time after his Judgment upon me before I was delivered out of Prison he was put down from his Seat of Justice and all his Temporal Power was taken from him by the King and another put in his Place And the King would give no Reason for it but his own will 9. So that his great Power Honour and Glory was departed from him and he had not so much Power as a common Justice of Peace he was in the same Condition as King Saul was the good Spirit of Power of giving Righteous Judgment in Temporal Things according to Law was departed from him and an Evil Spirit of Shame and Disgrace was sent unto him 10. Which Troubled his Soul so that in a little time after he Dyed and went to the same place as King Saul did that did enquire of a Witch that was rejected of God and not of his Prophet Samuel And I am sure he shall be rejected of God even this Rainsford and rejected of me the last True Prophet of the Lord and that he will be Damn'd to all Eternity 11. And he shall Remember in the Resurection that his Damnation is the very same which he called horrible Blasphemy which he Judged me for and said he was sorry the Laws of England were so unprovided to Punish me no worse than they did 12. And as he had no Mercy for me when he was in Power neither have I any Mercy for him and I am sure God will have no Mercy for him but hath provided a Law to Punish him for his Envy against me who did him no wrong 13. And his Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost which God hath said and made it a Law never to be altered that shall never be forgiven in this World or in the World to come This is the Law that God hath provided for us the Two last Prophets and Witnessess of the Spirit to Judge by so that I know the hottest of Hell Fire will be his Portion and Reward for his Sin against the Holy Ghost to Eternity 14. The Fourth great Enemy to me was Sr. Thomas Davis then Lord Mayor he being a Stationer himself he was Confedrate with the whole Company of Stationers and Booksellers and Jury To Fight against the Lord and his Chosen Prophet and Witness of the Spirit which did Incense the Court and Jury that I might Antidate that Book 13 Years ago and yet Publish it this August even against his own Conscience 15. Wherein he shewed himself of that wicked reprobate Seed of the Serpent a Son of the Devil and I certainly know him to be a Devil and that he will be Damn'd to all Eternity 16. And about two Years and a half after he Judged me he Dyed and passed through this first Death which is Natural into the second Death which is Spiritual and Eternal 17. These great Enemies I have lived to see them cut off from the Land of the Living with many others more Inferiour Devils which were my Enemies have I seen cut off by Death and some to Poverty 18. There is one more that is yet alive that I desire of God to have Executed some vissible Vengeance at my Tryal his Name was Jefferies Recorder of London He was the Man that sate in the Judgment Seat and gave Sentance against me He used several Scurrilous and Disdainful Expressions in the Sentance he gave upon me 19. He was a Man whose Voice was very lou'd but he is one of the worst of Devils in Nature for he is not only an Enemy to God and all Righteous Men but an Enemy to all Moral Justice and Equity 20. For if a Mans Cause be never so just except he be Imploy'd in it he will be sure to baffel and make quabbles and wrangle out the justest Cause that is and will make that which is unjust it self to be right by Law were it not for more juster Judges that have a more just Conscience then he hath else the Innocent would always loose his just right if he be against him 23. But that which I have against him is for his Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit that sent me and his wicked Malice and Envy against me when he sate in Judgment against me That he said he was sorry the Laws of England were so unprovided to Punish Crimes of this Nature he was sorry the Laws could not Impower him to give Sentance of Death upon me This I know was the Desire of his Heart 22. And as he was sorry the Laws of England were so unprovided to Punish me so in like manner am I glad that the Laws of Heaven is always provided to Punish him with Eternal Torments which is a Living Death and a Dying Life it is well for me and all the Elect that Gods Laws are always provided to give Sentance of Eternal Damnation upon all such dispising persecuting Blaspheming Devils as this Jefferies 23. I knew he was a Reprobate and appointed of God to be Damn'd before But this Tryal of mine hath given Testimony to me and all that truely believe me that he is an absolute Devil in Flesh and his Sin doth cry to Heaven for Vengeance 24. And look what measure he would have measured unto me in that he would have slain my Innocent Blood unto Death the same measure shall be measured to him again because the Laws of Heaven are always provided and hath Impowered me to give Sentance and Judgment upon him for I know by Revelation of the Spirit of God that he is Recorded in the Tables of Heaven for a Reprobate Devil and he shall be Recorded here on Earth to the end of the World for a Damn'd Devil 25. For that Body of his which is now his Heaven which Cloathed it self
in Scarlet and sat on the Judgment Seat against me shall be in Hell And that lofty bauling Spirit of his shall be his Devil the one shall be as Fire and the other as Brimstone Burning together to all Eternity 26. And he shall remember in the Resurrection when he is Raised again that he gave Judgment upon me for Writing this Sentance to others and I am sure the God of Heaven will not deliver him from those Eternal Torments 27. There is a Necessity that these Men of all others should be Damn'd to Eternity For there was more Enemies against me then could be Numbered through the Occasion of these Five Men aforementioned 28. And I could freely forgive the rude Multitude for they knew not what they did but there is no forgiveness of these Five Men nor Jury nor Judge nor Officers that gave their consent to that Judgment that was passed upon me the 27th of January 1676. 29. Therefore I have left these Five Men upon Record that the Age to come may see the wickedness of them and take heed how they Persecute Innocent Men that doth not break any Temporal Law And especially such Men that hath a Commission from God to give Sentance of Eternal Damnation upon them least they come under the same Condemnation as these Men are under 30. This I have left upon Record for the Age to come after my Death some of the most Remarkable Sufferings which I have passed through in the Year 1676. CHAP. VI. Of the Prophets deliverance out of Prison of the Price and Vallue that was made of him The Rewards to the two Seeds at the last Day 1. NOW having given an Account of my Sufferings it will be necessary to give an Account of my deliverance out of those Troubles 2. While I was in the Press-yard Prisoner the Sheriffs did send several times by the Goal keepers to see what I would do about the Fine but they were at no certainty what they required At last the Clerk of Newgate said they would take the 5th Part which was one Hundred Pound 3. I was unwilling to give so much I let it alone a quarter of a Year longer for some Reasons I had in my self after that time I sent a Letter to Treat with them about the Fine The Sheriffs Names was one Sr. John Peak Sheriff of London the other was Sr. Thomas Stamp Sheriff of Middlesex 4. But they were very high and would not abate one Shilling of one Hundred Pound and the cause why was because some of the Goal Keepers had Proffered one Hundred Pound for me to keep a Prisoner for ever or else to have a large Summ of Money for my Ransome 5. I perceive had not the Shreiffs Honour layn at the stake I had been Bought and Sold as Joseph was in Egypt for a Prisoner during Life or till such Ransome was Paid It would have been a great Disparragment to the Sheriffs if they had Sold me such as was never done in England before 6. But they having an Eye to Credit and somewhat to Conscience they would not do such Wickedness but however it caused them to abate nothing of one Hundred Pound neither would they give any time but Pay down presently 7. So We Borrowed an Hundred Pound the next Day and gave to them upon the 19th Day of July 1677 and the same Day at Night I was Released out of Prison and many of the Believers do keep that Day as a Feast Day every Year in Remembrance of my Deliverance out of Prison 8. For I was Prized at a goodly Price far Higher than the Lord of Life when he was on Earth He was valued at but Thirty Pieces of Silver the Thirty Pieces of Silver was Thirty Pound but they valued me at a Hundred Pieces of Silver for the Thirty Pieces of Silver they valued Christ at must be so much else it would not have Bought the Potters Field 9. Now the cause why they valued me at such a High Price above my Lord and Master it was because they knew I had some Interest in this World And many followers of me therefore they valued me at such a High Price as 100 Pieces of Silver 10. And as the Thirty Pieces of Silver was the Price of Innocent Blood therefore not fit to be put into the Treasury to be Expended upon any Holy use or to Relieve the Poor and the like but to Buy a Potters Field to Bury the Stinking Carcasses of strangers Thieves and Murderers insomuch that the Thirty Pieces of Silver was bestowed on the basest way suitable to the Purchase being the Price of Innocent Blood 11. So likewise the Hundred Pieces of Silver they valued me at it was the Price of Innocent Blood also tho' not unto Death as our Lord was a very Goodly Price 12. And this Money will not be put into the Treasury to repair Churches or Relieve the Poor but will be spent basely in Lust and Drunkenness and in Volumptiousness suitable to the Purchase of it being the Price of Innocent Blood 13. Thus I have left upon Record the substance of the whole matter as short as I can both of my Sufferings and my Deliverance out of all those Troubles that hath happened upon me in the Year 1675 and in the Year 1676 and 1677 and in the Year of my Life 67. 14. This is the 5th part of the Acts of John Reeve and Lodowich Muggleton the two last Prophets and Witnesses of the Spirit from the Year 1651 to the Year 1677 I have been preserved and had Experience of the Truth of all these things 15. And wonderful Revelations and passages and Acts that are Writen in these Five Parts that I might leave it as a Legacy for the Age to come upon Record that the unbelieving World may be convinced when I am turned to Dust as my Father Adam is that I was Slandered Reproached Belyed Persecuted Imprisoned and Pilloried without a Cause 16. But I shall be raised again by the Power of that God the Lord Jesus Christ in whom I Believed that he was Dead even the Alpha and Omega and is Alive for Evermore 17. And it will not seem a quarter of an Hours time to me from my Death to my Rising again For there is no time to the Dead Time belongs to the Living 18. And this I know that as the 12 Apostles in the Resurrection shall Sit upon Thrones and Judge the 12 Tribes of Israel those that Believed them when they were upon the Earth They were Judged with an Eternal Blessing of Life Eternal and those that Dispised and Persecuted them when on Earth are Judged by them to be Cursed and Damn'd to Eternity which is a Second Death which is Eternal 19. So shall Reeve and Muggleton in the Resurrection Sit upon Thrones and Judge all True Believers of our Docterin and Commission of the Spirit when we were upon Earth to be Blessed both in Souls and Bodies that were Mortal when they believed us but now Immortal to Eternity 20. And we shall Judge all those Wicked Despisers and Persecutors of us when we were upon Earth with the same Judgment in the Resurrection as we did here on Earth 21. That is they are Cursed in that Soul and Body they shall have in the Resurrection to Eternity and shall remain in utter Darkness here upon this Earth Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth for Evermore Writen by Lodowick Muggleton one of the two last Witnesses and Prophets of the Spirit unto the High and Mighty God the Man Christ Jesus in Glory FINIS