Blood of God to satisfy their thirsty Souls as Moses gave the People Water out of the stony Rock to drink to satisfy their natural Thirst The Prophet hath brought Believers to the Knowledge of the true God his Form and Nature he hath brought them to feed upon the Flesh of God and to drink his Blood by Faith for the Mind of Man do eat and drink as really as the natural Body doth whereby their Souls have never thirsted nor hungred more after the Forgiveness of Sins or Satisfaction of Mind as to things of Eternity Also the Prophet has been a burning shining Light in this last Age as John Baptist was in his time a Light that has discovered the Darkness of all the World in spiritual and heavenly things for it is Light that discovers Darkness and hath not the Prophet enlightened the Understanding of many that in Light they see Light he hath fed the People with the true Knowledge of God and the true Knowledge of the right Devil with the Knowledge of Scripture and all other Heavenly Secrets which are hid from all other People in the World Besides hath not the Prophet taken the People by the Hand as Moses did and pull'd them out from the Spirit of Bondage in their Minds which kept them under fear burning Brick and Clay in the fiery Furnaces of their Minds and delivered them from the Task-masters in Egypt the Prophet hath led them through the barren Wilderness of their Minds and has brought them into that Paradise of Peace where the Tree of Life standeth in the midst of the heavenly Canaan above the Stars And many of them have stretched forth the Hand of Faith and have taken of the Tree of Life and eaten and live for ever and so are set down at rest there â—nd do not all the People in the World besides perish for want of Knowledge but those few who have been led and guided by the Prophet he hath blest many of them and led them in the way of Peace a strait and narrow way that few can find and when they have wanted Comfort of Mind he hath comforted them and when they have been weak in Faith and Knowledge he hath strengthen'd them and when any of their Brethren have been to strong one for the other he hath holpen the weak up and when Brethren condemn and judge one another he would not suffer the strong to trample upon the Weak and Feeble but would lift them up and uphold them with his own Knowledge so that no People under the Sun live better for the generality than those People who are obedient to or under the Prophet Hath the Prophet been a Burden or Oppressive to any of the Faith let them speak and he will restore them two-fold or hath he favoured the Rich or oppressed the Poor nay hath he not forced the Rich to help the Poor For the Yoke laid upon the Neck of those People by the Prophet is easier and lighter both for Spiritual and Temporal than the Yoke of any other People whatsoever And now I shall speak to you in particular and ask the Cause why you rebelled against me what Cause did I give you to rebel were you offended at my Words and because I did bear with many Weaknesses of some of your Brethren in the Faith and had Compassion on them and would not suffer them to be too much oppressed in Spirit for the guilt of their own Sins and judg'd and condemn'd by their Brethren in the same Faith because they were of corrupt Natures The Prophet must bear with corrupt Natures though you cannot as well as with pure uncorrupt Natures so doth God himself Prophets are not sure that all uncorrupt Natures will believe him so that if the Prophet hath not Power to uphold some corrupt Natures that believe him to what Purpose then should God send him And will you find fault with the Prophet for being merciful to corrupt natur'd Men whose Nature is more corrupt than yours Yet the Prophet hath upheld you this many Years You may remember when you came first acquainted with me that there was some Difference between Claxton and you and Claxton was high in Knowledge at that time and you weak and low and his Faith was over you and above you and did keep you under though his wicked Life had been worse than yours yet your Legal Righteousness between Man and Man would not have delivered you from his Power had not the Prophet kept him under and when you made your Complaint to me I strengthen'd you against him and upon your Request I bless'd you and you became in my Favour and when any spoke against your Wrathful Nature Words and Actions I pleaded for you and upheld you against them Also I led you in a Way which you knew not and in a Path which was not known to any but my self even the Way and Path of Peace I brought you to the Church of the First-born of God even to the Assembly of Saints for there are no true Saints this Day on Earth but those that are under the Prophet I brought you with the rest of Saints from under Mount Sinai that is from being under that fiery Law written in your Hearts Therefore did Paul thank God that he was delivered from that Law of Sin and Death and so doth every one that is delivered from being under that fiery Law written in his Heart I led you by the Hand of Faith through the barren Wilderness of your Minds that is barren of true heavenly Peace I led you from thence unto Mount Sion the City of the living God I shewed you the holy Hill of Sion I shewed you the Habitation of God in Heaven above the Stars I gave you the Interpretation thereof viz. The City of the Living God signifies God's reigning in all true Believers in the Kingdom of Glory as he did here on Earth in the Kingdom of Grace for all true Believers are the City of the living God and Mount Sion signifies the Habitation of God in Heaven where all true Believers shall be brought as Moses did the Children of Israel he brought them to the Temporal Mount Sion where God did use to appear and the Prophet hath brought the Believers of this Commission to that Spiritual Mount Sion where God uses to appear now And the Holy Hill of Sion which I shew'd you signifies the holy God himself in the spiritual as Moses led the People to that Holy Hill of Sion in the Temporal And the Holy Hill of Sion which I shewed you in the Spiritual signifies the Holy God himself from whom Prophets Apostles and Saints receive their most Holy Faith Revelation and Prophecy in the Original Also I brought you to the Spirits of just Men made perfect by Faith as Noah a Preacher of Righteousness by Faith built an Ark and Lot by Faith received two Angels therefore called righteous Lot Abraham by Faith would have offered up his Son therefore called
the Father of the Faithful Isaac Jacob Moses the Prophets David and the Apostles were all just Men made perfect by Faith yet several of these just Men made perfect committed Evil after the Blessing was given of God As Noah was drunk with Wine Lot committed Incest with his two Daughters Abraham told a Lye because of his Wife Jacob lied to his Father when he stole the Blessing David a Man according to God's own Heart was guilty of Murder and Adultery Peter play'd the Hypocrite and dissembled as in Acts the 2d the 12th Verse where he did eat with the Gentiles and gave way for the Gentiles to be circumcised which was unlawful for him to do he being the Apostle of the Jews nor was it his Commission to circumcise any but Jews only but he dissembled with other Brethren and circumcised Titus who was a Greek which was unlawful for which Paul withstood him to the Face Likewise Paul dissembled and play'd the Hypocrite when he pretended a Vow and shaved the Heads of four Men that were Greeks Acts. 21.18 These and several just Men whose Spirits were made perfect by Faith committed Sin after the Blessing was given of God and should not that blessing them uphold them But this last Prophet is blamed for smaller Sin than some of these that believe Now if those Men's Spirits were made perfect by Faith and so said to be the Spirits of just Men made perfect so are all true Believers of this Commission of the Spirit whose Faith holds out to the End counted of God the Spirits of just Men made perfect by Faith and so may be said to be the Spirits of just Men made perfect Also I led you into the Paradise of Peace were the Thief went that very Day he believed in Christ I brought you with the rest of Believers to the Tree of Life which stood in the midst of Paradise in the Days of Adam You said you saw it and liked it well and if you had stretched forth the Hand of Faith as others did and taken of the Tree of Life and eaten and liv'd for ever then you had not rebelled I shew'd you the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil that was placed in the midst of Paradise in the Days of Adam you said you saw it and understood it You saw I shewed you the new Jerusalem that came down from Heaven and that it was four-square the Length and Breadth were equal I gave you to understand the Interpretation thereof The new Jerusalem that came down from Heaven was when God became Flesh in the Virgin 's Womb and being four-square the Length and Breadth equal was when Christ was nailed to the Cross his Arms spread abroad his Person was four-square as thus his Arms spread abroad were equal with his Head and Feet and so is every perfect Man his Arms spread abroad four-square even as the Cross is whereon a Man is crucified just four-square the Length and Breadth were equal when he was nailed to the Cross Likewise I brought you to an innumerable Company of Angels I shewed you their Form and Nature These things and many more I did for you in the Spiritual nor hath the Prophet been the least Beneficial to you in the Spiritual I have not been your hindrance but your furtherance to what lay in my Power I never was burthensome to you in any Temporal Matter and did satisfy you for what you did and when several Believers have complained to me of your rude Speeches your Wrathful Words your merciless Judgment I have pleaded for you against them and have upheld your corrupt Nature else you would have been forsaken of several Believers before now but those I have done most for and have been the least beholden unto have lifted up their Heel against me without a Cause which hath caused you to be cast out of my Sight and out of God's Sight as Cain was and out of the Society of the Saints And now may all your wicked Wishes and evil Desires and desperate Words and Wrathful Speeches which you have uttered out of your Mouth come on your own Head First You have said if Claxton were saved you would be damn'd How do you limit God's Mercy to your Judgment and Wrath. Secondly That if God did not mind you at all then would you had been a Toad a Dog a Serpent or any thing but a Man these are desperate Words and desperate Wishes and it will be a Wonder if you have not Cause indeed to wish your self a Toad a Dog a Serpent rather than a Man Thirdly You called the Prophet Devil Peter might as well have called Christ Devil for calling him Satan for Satan is a Devil so that Christ called Peter Devil for a smaller Offence than you have committed for he spake those Words to Christ out of Love and Pity saying Master pity thy self for which Christ called him Devil but you out of Rebellion Wrath and Envy called me the Prophet of the Lord Devil and said you would justify these Assertions to be contrary to all Truth and against all sober Reason for which I said you were a Devil for I was your Master and Judge as Christ was Peter's Fourthly You have slighted the Blessing from the Prophet in a rude and uncivil Language and said you cared not a Fart for it Fifthly When Burton bid you burn the Assertions and humble your self to the Prophet as he did you said you would perish first Sixthly You despised the Government of this Commission of the Spirit saying it is weakly and poorly managed These desperate Words which with several others you have uttered against God and against the Prophet in high Rebellion I do not think can be parallell'd by all the Prophets and Apostles since the World began and if this Rebellion be forgiven than let it be said that this last Prophet and Witness of the Spirit had Power to do more than ever any Prophet or Apostle did in the time of their Commission Written by LODWICK MUGGLETON one of the two last Prophets and Witnesses of the Spirit to the High and Mighty God the Man Christ Jesus in Glory In the Year 1671. Here followeth the Copy of a Letter to Walter Bohenan a Scotchman another Rebel in the same Conspiracy with the rest in Answer to his Rebellious Letter viz. Walter Bohenan THIS is to let you understand that I have seen three of your Rebellious Letters for which Cause I was not willing that any Rebel should see the Answer to those nine Assertions laid down by William Meadgate that Grand Rebel Your Letters are full of Nonsense and no good English and you have laid down the Assertions false Lyes and not true those nine Assertions written by Meadgate were well laid down and I own them to be all true as they were laid down and have given Answer unto them all but no rebel shall see them if I can help it But it seems you have undertaken not only to answer the
is free-born and free by Service you that are a Foreigner and an Alien One that is by act of Parliament counted a Vagabond a Runagade and a Fugitive in a Nation which is not your own who are not free born nor free by Redemption yet you will dare to bring me upon the Stage because I condemn you for your Rebellion And this I say if I were as treacherous in Heart as you are I could quickly cause you to be remov'd from Ware if not out of England but I shall let that pass And I would fain know how you would force me to let you see the Answer to the Assertions or to bring me upon the Stage you may do what you will now I shall provoke you to it But here you may see the Pride and Presumption against your own Soul in that you have lifted your self up against your Lord and Master And whereas you say and affirm That I am fallen from the Truth are not these the Words of a Rebel that learnt and was taught the way of Truth and what Truth and who Truth is by me nor have you any Light of Truth at all but what you received from me your Lord and Master and yet the Spirit of Rebellion is grown so wise to judge your Lord and Master that taught you to be fallen from the Truth so that you know how to teach your Master better than he can teach you but how can I expect any better from the Spirit of Rebellion Also you say I would make you believe Lyes who made you a Judge what are Lyes and what is Truth you say I go about to overthrow John Reeve and that I would make you believe many Lyes contrary to all the Prophets and John Reeve's Writing As to this I say what have you to do with John Reeve's Writings now he is dead nor have you to do with the Prophets or Apostles Writings they are all given into my Hands that am alive and you all ought to be taught of me that am alive else you cannot be taught of God and whereas you say I contradict John Reeve to this I say I have Power so to do and I had Power to do so in some things when he was alive and I did contradict him in some things when he was alive and John Reeve did write some things were Error to me and Error in themselves for which I did oppose him to his Face and he could not deny it yet notwithstanding John Reeve was infallible and did write by an unerring Spirit this will seem a Riddle unless it be unfolded then thus As to the Doctrinal Part contain'd in our Writings The Six Principles they were written by an unerring and infallible Spirit in John Reeve and the Interpretation of Scripture written by him was infallible but John Reeve's Experience Judgment and Apprehension of God's immediate taking Notice of every Man was Error and that God did supply every Man and Woman immediately from his own Person was Error in John Reeve's Judgment and Appearance as I did prove to his Face But the things being written before our Discourse and considering they were of no great Consequences to Eternal Happiness they were let pass Besides none can judge of a Prophet's Writing but he that is equal in Power with him I being chosen of God had Power to contradict him in his Judgment though it was Error it would have been Rebellion in any to do as I did And now I being the last Liver it is Rebellion in you to call any thing Lies and Error that I do justify to be true for no Man is to call me to Account as to resist my Judgment in spiritual Matters but God only and I am sure he hath and will justify me in what I have done and in what I do of this Nature Besides where Men are chosen equal in Power they may contradict one another in some things and yet both infallible Men in Doctrine though not in Judgment and Practice as for Example Peter was an infallible Man and did write by an infallible and unerring Spirit as to the Doctrine of Christ yet he erred in his Judgment and Practice and gave way to circumcise Titus Gal. 2 3. who was a Greek contrary to his Commission from Christ and it was unlawful and a great Error in Peter for which Cause Paul an Apostle being equal in Power withstood Peter to his Face and reproved him sharply of Error and Dissimulation Now should any Believer of Peter's Doctrine have said to Peter thou art a Lyar and no true Apostle and hast not an infallible Spirit but art in an Error if this should have been spoken by any private Believer as it was by Paul who was equal in Power I would not have been in that Believers Condition for all the World Again did not Paul write by an infalliable Spirit as to the Doctrine of Christ's Death Resurrection and Ascension Peter and he did agree in that but Paul committed an Error in his Judgment and Practice as well as Peter when he pretended a Vow and shaved the Head of four Greeks which was unlawful for him to do it was Error and Dissimulation in him yet no private Believer durst reprove him for it though it was a great Error in his Judgment and Practice and had liked to cost him his Life yet should any dare to say he wrote his Epistles by an erring lying Spirit So likewise Paul and James two Apostles equal in Power did contradict one another in Judgment for Paul Rom. 3.28 saith Therefore we conclude that a Man is justified by Faith without the Deeds of the Law and James 2 24. saith You see then by Works a Man is justified and not by Faith only here is quite a Contradiction to Paul's Judgment and should any believe in their time dare to say that either of these wrote Error or Lyes or that they were not infallible Men in their Doctrine of Christ because they differed in Point of Faith and Works This is much like John Reeve's believing that God did take Notice of every particular Man and my Judgment that God did not take Notice of every particular Man Now shall any dare to say that either of us are Lyars because we differ in Judgment in some things Besides 't is a common thing in Scripture for Prophets and Apostles to differ in Judgment and Practice but not in Doctrine As the four Evangelists contradict one another very oft and the Words of Christ himself contradict one another in several Places which would be too tedious to name Now because Christ's Words do contradict one another in some Places shall any dare to say he spoke Lyes and taught Error and that which he spoke was contrary to all Truth or that he was not a true Christ none but Devils did say so when he was upon Earth and should any in the Apostles Matthew Mark Luke and John's time dare to say that any of them wrote Lyes or Errors because
say none upon Earth this Day doth eat his Flesh and Drink his Blood but those that do truly believe the Doctrine of this Commission of the Spirit Why because no Man hath Faith to believe that God became Flesh and dwelt amongst Men here upon Earth who doth not believe that the Flesh of Christ was the Flesh of God and the Blood of Christ to be the Blood of God and who hath not Faith to believe that the Godhead Life died when Christ was offered up unto Death through the Eternal Spirit No not any but those that believe our Report therefore it is that all Religious Men perish for want of Faith in the true God they cannot eat the Flesh of God that is Meat indeed to satisfy there hungry Souls neither can they Drink the Blood of God which is Drink indeed to quench the thirsty Soul of Man but blessed are your Eyes that see and Ears that hear and have Hearts that understand the things that belong to your Peace for God hath given you his own Flesh to eat and his own Blood to Drink which hath assured you that you shall Drink of those new Joys and new Pleasures and new Glories in the Kingdom of Eternal Glory this is that Wine that Christ our God our King and our Redeemer will drink a new with his Apostles and us the Witnesses of the Spirit and you the Believers in the Kingdom of Eternal Glory And this I say all those or all us that have eat of the Flesh of God and drank his Blood by Faith here in the State of Mortality we shall be gathered together in the Resurrection as the Fowls to fly in the midst of Heaven being immortalized shall come to the Supper of the great God that we may eat of the same Flesh as he eateth of which is the Flesh of persecuting Kings and the Flesh of Captains and the Flesh of Mighty Men even of Judges and the Flesh of Horses and of them that sit on them and the Flesh of Freemen and Bond-men and of small and great that is all wicked Reprobate Men both small and great that have persecuted and hated the Lord's Prophets Apostles and Messengers which he sent into the World Oh how blessed are we that shall sup with the great God of Heaven in the Destruction of our Enemies for as God was hated when he was on Earth so are we for his sake and as God is pleased to make his Supper with the Destruction of the Souls and Bodies of the Seed of the Serpent to Eternity and hath invited us the Fowls of Heaven to sup with the great God why should not we rejoyce in this Supper which the great God hath made even in the Destruction of this wicked World for this Earth is a Habitation of Devils while the World doth endure and for my Part I could willingly sup with the great God of Heaven that hath redeemed my Soul in the Destruction of this Word that I might eat the Flesh of mighty Men Mayors Judges Juries small and great Devils that have hated me without a Cause Oh how happy are we that shall sup with the great God that is in the Assurance we have that God hath ordained wicked persecuting Kings and high Captains and Judges and Mighty Men and all other inferiour Devils both small and great more than the Sand of the Sea-shore which cannot be numbred to be damned to Eternity to suffer those Eternal Torments These I know shall be cast alive into a Lake of Fire burning with Brimstone to all Eternity and we the Fowls of Heaven shall eat or feed upon the Miseries of these mighty Men as in a Supper with the great God praising and magnifying him that Redeems us with his own Blood from being Devils Incarnate or Devils in Flesh and in this we shall eat the Flesh of Kings and the Flesh of high Captains and the Flesh of mighty Men Devils and the Flesh of small and great Devils And this Supper I know we shall have with the great God in the Resurrection when we shall ascend in the Clouds of Heaven and meet the Lord in the Air and leave the Devils the Serpent and his Seed here upon this Earth where they shall be tormented Day and Night for ever and ever more even to Eternity this is the true Interpretation of John's Words in the 19th Chapter of his Revelation concerning the Supper of the great God and the Fowls of Heaven for God hath sowed in this World the Seed of Faith which is counted the small Seed even as one Grain of Mustard Seed which indeed as Christ saith Matth 13th and 32d is the least of all Seeds but when it is grown it is the greatest amongst Herbs and it is a Tree so that the Birds of Heaven came and built in the Branches thereof So in Mark the 4th and 31st the Kingdom of God is compared to a Grain of Mustard-Seed which when it is sown in the Earth is the least of Seed but after it is sown it groweth up and is greatest of all Herbs and beareth great Branches so that the Fowls of Heaven may build under the shadow of it So in Luke 13th and 19th then said he what is the Kingdom of God like it is like a Grain of Mustard-Seed which a Man took and sowed in his Garden and it grew and waxed a great Tree and the Fowls of Heaven made Nests in the Branches thereof This small Grain is the Grain of Faith that was in God from Eternity by which he created the Heaven and the Earth and all Creatures else in both Worlds by this little Grain of Faith no bigger then a Mustard-Seed hath he done all his Wonders by this Grain of Faith did he sow himself in this Earth or Garden which was in the World which was in the Virgin 's Womb and brought forth himself a Man Child in pure Mortality and this Grain of Faith that was sown in the Field of this World it grew up to be a Tree that is a Man whose Branches spread themselves forth so thick that the Fowls of Heaven doth make their Nests in the Branches thereof This Tree of Faith which is compared to a small Grain of Mustard-Seed was Christ the only God become Flesh when he was in the Glory of the Father he was the Man that sowed that Grain of Faith in the Field of the World or in the Garden of Eden when he breathed into Adam and Eve the Breath of Life and they became living Souls then was the little Grain of Faith no bigger than a Grain of Mustard Seed sowed in the Field of the Elect World so that all that are Partakers of this little Grain of Faith they build their Nests in the Branches of this Tree by having Peace Salvation and Life Eternal abiding in them These are the Fowls of Heaven that build their Salvation upon Christ's Death and Resurrection and Ascension which none in this World doth at this Day but those