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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A89212	A Modest account of the wicked life of that grand impostor Lodowick Muggleton wherein are related all the remarkable actions he did, and all the strange accidents that have befallen him, ever since his first coming to London to this 25th of Jan. 1676 : also a particular of those reasons which first drew him to these damnable principles : with several pleasant stories concerning him, proving his commission to be but counterfeit, and himself a cheat, from divers expressions which have fallen from his own mouth.		1676 (1676)	Wing M2350; ESTC R42785	3,939	4

he gave his Adherents so he was always careful to avoid the Prohibitions of the Law he generally appointed his Bubbles to meet in the Fields where he also permitted them to humour their Sensualities with any Recreation not excepting Uncleanness itself for which Profaning the Sabbath he was in Oliver Cromwell's Time committed to Newgate where he had like to have been so dealt withal then that Tyburn had saved the Pillory this Trouble now But that perfidious Usurper ● conscious to himself that Muggleton could not be a greater Impostor in the Church than he was in the State upon the Consideration of Fratres in malis restored him to his Liberty Howbeit a little before Oliver's Death Muggleton by continual Flatteries had got into his Books and amongst other Prophecies concerning him had declared that Oliver should perform more wonderful Actions than any he had yet atchieved before he died But he happening to depart this Life before he had done any Thing else that was remarkable Muggleton was demanded Why his Prophecy proved not true He answered very wisely and like himself viz. That he was sure Oliver would have performed them had he lived long enough But since his Gracious Majesty's Return he has driven on a much more profitable theological Cheat having assumed the Liberty not only of infusing what Doctrine he pleased into the Minds of his ignorant deluded Followers but writ several profane Books which to his great Advantage he dispersed among them poisoning their Minds thereby with a Hodge-podge of rotten Tenets whereby they are become uncapable of relishing the more sound wholesome and undoubted Principles of the Church of England I shall conclude with one Story more concerning Muggleton and so leave him to the Censure of the ingenuous Reader A timish Gentleman accoutered with Sword and Peruke hearing the Noise this Man cause in the Town had a great Desire to discourse with him whom he found alone in his Study and 〈◊〉 Advantage of that Occasion he urged Muggleton so far that knowing not what to say h● falls to a solemn Cursing of the Gentleman who was so inraged thereat that he drew hi● Sword and swore he would run him through immediately unless he recanted the Sentence o● Damnation which he had presumptuously cast upon him Muggleton perceiving by the Gentleman's Looks that he really intended what he threatened did not only recant his Curse but pitifully intreated him whom he had cursed before by which we may understand the Invalidity both of him and his Commission Thus whoever considers the Contents of Muggleton's whole Life will find it in toto nothing but a continued Cheat of above twenty-one Years long which in the Catastrophe he may behold worthily rewarded with the modest Punishment of a wooden Ruff or Pillory his grey Hairs gilded with Dirt and rotten Eggs and in fine himself brought by Reason of his own horrid and irreligious Actions into the greatest Scorn and Contempt imaginable by all the Lovers of Piety Discretion or good Manners ●…vp your Harts rejoyce in him For Work of his owne Hand For I of happy Tidings mean To let you vnderstand Whiche cheerful wil be sure to all Of faithful Englishe Blood Whose Harts did neuer hate the Truthe Nor Gospel yet withstood A Man there was a quondam great Of Might of Pomp and Praise Of Englishe Blood though Englishe Loue Were small in all his Wayes As did appeer by Roomishe Acts Proceeding from his Hight Whiche prooude him not an Englishe Man But sure a Romain right For neuer faithful Englishe Hart Was Foe to natiue Soil Yet hee in natiue Land did seek Christ's faithful Flock to spoil An● also then he wrought much Wo To England's chiefest Stayes By seeking of their Death and Losse Which lov'd Christes Testament And more then so of woorthy Wights Of whom bereft are wee Whiche left their Welth their Ease and Life That Christe might gayned bee And yet not so this * Cyrus left Muche humain Blood to spil And so ceace his devouring Rage And moste blasphemous Wil. But more and more he sought Outrage As all his Mates were bent By Lies and Tales and Popish Toyes Gods Gospel to preuent As one in Place by Sathan sent Gods Instrument of Ire To daunt the Pride of England then Which did it much require And so no dout this † Bonner did He spared no Degree Ne Wise ne Graue ne Riche ne Poor Be pitied no Man hee 〈…〉