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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

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 Twenty-fifth of January 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 Licensed according to Order Quarto containing six Pages printed at London for B. H. in 1676. LOdowick Muggleton was born of poor though honest Parents living at Chippenham within fifteen Miles of Bristol His Relations having but little Means and a great Charge of Children to maintain they were forced to send their Daughters to wait on their neighbouring Gentry and to place their Sons to such Trades as cost little Binding them Apprentices but amongst all the rest of those of this worshipful Brood they were blessed withal they might have observed even in his cunicular Days in this Lodowick Muggleton an obstinate dissentious and opposive Spirit which made them desirous to settle him at some Distance from them and also to bind him to such a Trade and Master as might curb him from that Freedom which the Moroseness of his coarse Nature extorted from his too indulgent Parents By which Means as soon as he had made some small Inspection into his Accidence without any other Accomplishment besides a little Writing and Casting of Accompts he was hurried up to London and there bound Apprentice to one of the cross-legged Order but of an indifferent Reputation in the Place where he lived though by Trade a Taylor We will pass over the Parenthesis of his Youth in Silence therein being nothing but usual Waggeries which generally recommend to our Expectation something remarkable when the useful Extravagancies shall be seasoned with Age. When the Time of his Apprenticeship grew near its Expiration so that he was admitted more Liberty than formerly was granted him he was observed to be a great Haunter of Conventicles insomuch that there could not a dissenting Nonconformist diffuse his Sedition in any obscure Corner of the City but this Lodowick Muggleton would have a Part of it by which Means continuing in the same idle Curiosity and taking great Observation on that unknown Gain many of that canting Tribe got by their deluded Auditors he proposed to himself a certain and considerable Income to be got by the same Means by which he had observed many of those great Pretenders gull both himself and others For a rooked Conventicler like a bankrupt Gamester having for some Time been cullied out of his Money learns the Trick sets up Hector and trades for himself Thus did Lodowick Muggleton by sliding out of one Religion into another so dissatisfy his Judgment and run himself from the solid Basis of his first Principles first degenerating from the orthodox Tenets of the Church of England to Presbytery from thence to Independency thence to Anabaptism thence to Quakerism and lastly to no Religion at all When Men have thus once fooled themselves out of Religion and a good Conscience it is no Wonder that their secular Interests draw them into all Sorts of Impiety and Profaneness as it has done this Lodowick Muggleton who though in himself a poor silly despicable Creature yet had the Confidence to think he had Parts enough to wheedle a Company of silly credulous Proselytes out of their Souls and Estates And indeed he has had such admirable Success in that wicked Enterprise that tho' we cannot absolutely conclude that he has cheated them of the first yet we can prove if Occasion were that he has defrauded them of the latter as has been often told him since the first Day of his Standing in the Pillory It has been told already how this impious Impostor lays Claim to a counterfeit Commission whereby he has infected the Truths of many honest ignorant People with an extraordinary Power that was delivered to him by as infamous a Blasphemer as himself John Reeve who as he formerly rivalled Muggleton in Impiety had he been yet living should certainly have clubbed with him in his deserved Punishment It is about twenty-one Years since this impudent Creature began his Impostures who knowing himself as defective of Reason as of Religion made it one of the grand Maxims of his Policy That his Proselytes should be fully persuaded contrary to all Sense or Probability Reason was that great Beast spoken of in the Revelation and consequently not to be consulted withal as to the Examining of any fundamental Point in Religion whereby he secured both himself and his shallow Disciples from all those frequent Disputations and Arguings which otherwise must necessarily have diverted them from adhering to his damnable impious and irrational Tenets which I purposely omit as being too unsufferably profane for the modest Ear of any sober well-meaning Christian But we may judge a little of the Theorick by the Practick I mean of his Principles by his Practices and of the Soundness of his Doctrine by those Duties he held himself and his Followers obliged to in the Performance of it which indeed were none at all it being his usual Custom when they met on the Sabbath-day to entertain them with a Pig of their own Sow I mean with Wine strong Drink or Victuals which either they sent in before-hand or brought along with them allowing them to be as licentious as they pleased in all Things that might gratify or indulge their Senses A Friend of mine was one Sunday walking in the Fields and meeting there an old Acquaintance of his who was lately turned Muggletonian with a young Baggage in his Hand which he did more than suspect was light he could not forbear Expressing his Admiration to this Muggletonian himself in these or such-like Terms I cannot but wonder to see you my old Neighbour who have for these many Years busied yourself in the Study of Religion and was not long since like to have gone mad because you knew not which Opinion to stick to I say I cannot but wonder to see you Abroad on the Sabbath-day in this brisk Posture you are altered both in Countenance Apparel and Manners so that I almost doubt whom I speak to Ah answered the Muggletonian you know Friend how I have heretofore troubled myself about Religion indeed insomuch that it had almost cost me my Life but all in vain till about six Weeks since at which Time I met with Lodowick Muggleton who has put me into the easiest Way to Heaven that ever was invented for he gives us Liberty provided we do but believe in his Commission freely to launch into all those Pleasures which others less knowing call Vices and after all will assure us of eternal Salvation Behold Reader what a sweet Religion here is like to be But as Muggleton was liberal in the Freedom