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
they contradicted one another in Point of Judgment and Appearance None but Devils did find Fault and cavil with them when they were alive And so it is now with John Reeve and me none but Devils would have made a Fraction or Disturbance among the Believers about John Reeve's Writing Error for this I must tell you no Man on Earth is to judge what is infallible and what is not but the Prophet only that is alive and if Men will not take things upon his Word and Judgment whoever refuseth it upon his bare Word will perish to Eternity Therefore the Spirit of Rebellion hath deceived you and made you forsake the Prophet that is now alive and cleave to John Reeve that is dead and to trust to the Scriptures that were not spoken to you nor given to you but those People to whom they were spoken did receive Benefit by them if they did believe in that time when that Faith was in being And John Reeve's Writings nor the Scriptures will do you no good now you have rebell'd against the Prophet now alive nor will that Faith in them deliver you at all from those Eternal Torments nor will those dead Prophets deliver you from your Rebellion nor help you to the Knowledge of Truth now they are all dead but this Prophet alive shall torment you and those dead ones shall not deliver you from my Power And as you have walked in the Steps of Korah Dathan and Abiram who rebelled against Moses and Aaron And what was the Fruits of their Rebellion Did not Moses the Prophet of the Lord cause the Ground to open and swallow them up alive for their Rebellion And this you shall know though I cannot cause the Earth to open its Mouth as Moses did yet this I can do by the Commission of the Spirit I can open Hell's Mouth and that shall swallow you up alive and keep you there Eternally for your Rebellion for where your Worm of Conscience shall never die and the Fire of Hell shall never be quench'd that you may know to your endless Pains and Shame that you rebelled and forsook the true Prophet alive on Earth at this Day and clave unto John Reeve and those Prophets that are dead which you never knew And for all your Pride Presumption and Boasting and lifting up your self against the Lord's anointed and chosen Prophet it will be a Wonder if God's Vengeance will not make you an Example in this World to be a Fugitive and Vagabond on the Face of the Earth before you die besides your Damnation hereafter for Sins of this Nature are punished with greater Punishment than any other Sin whatsoever but Murder and it would have been good for you and Meadgate if you had never been born Therefore in Obedience to my Commission for this your Wickedness in falling from the Faith you once had in the Prophet now alive to Rebellion against God and him and for many base proud presumtious Speeches in your Letters I do pronounce you Cursed and Damned in Soul and Body from the Presence of God Elect Men and Angels to Eternity And do you see if God will take Notice of you to deliver you or whether he will own you or me or whether your Faith be stronger than mine or whether you have declared Truth or I nor shall any of this Faith eat or drink with you or trade any more with you if I can help it for you are cast out of God's Sight and out of the Prophets Sight and out of the Assembly and Society of Believers for ever And now you may seek new Acquaintance in the World and see if you can find a better sort of People than those you find Fault with and you need not fear as Cain did that every one that meets with you will kill you but your own evil deceitful Heart to your own Principle and rejected Spirit will meet your Conscience and kill the Peace of it Written by LODOWICK MUDDLETON January the 23d 1671. A Copy of a Letter written by the Prophet Lodowick Muggleton to Colonel Phaire and the rest of the Believers of the Commission of the Spirit living in the Kingdom of Ireland dated in London February the 16th 1680. Loving Friend in the true Faith ROBERT PHAIRE I Having the Opportunity to send to you by our Friend Mary Stone the Daughter of Mrs. Penson who came on purpose as she saith to see me and Saddington therefore it was necessary that I should write a few Lines unto you upon her Request to signifie unto you that she hath been with me which Lines unto you are as followeth I have had great Experience of your stedfast Faith in the true God and in this Commission of the Spirit ever since you first heard of it even above twenty Years you have been as it were the Corner Stone that was laid in that Kingdom of Ireland which many have stumbled at and have dashed their Foot against a Stone and others again have built there House upon this Stone as upon a Rock so that no Winds nor Storms of Persecutions Reproaches Slanders and Lies could make it fall or shake this Doctrine of the true God in his Form and Nature and of the right Devil in his Form and Nature which Reeve and Muggleton have declared in our Writings which I perceive you and others are very well satisfied in do truly understand and believe for there can be no true Faith in the Heart except the Understanding be enlightned first And these two Forms and Natures are two Pillars the one Pillar bears up Heaven and the other bears up Hell now God's Form is Spiritual Heavenly and Glorious yet in the Form of Men and his Nature is all pure Faith which is all Power therefore all true Believers do partake of the Divine Nature of God even the Seed of Faith which is but as a Grain of Mustard-Seed a very small Seed yet it is able to remove that Mountain of Ignorance Darkness and Unbelief that lyeth before the Understanding of every Man by Nature so that by Faith we come to know the Worlds were framed by the Word of God that is by the Power of Faith in God and by Faith in these our mortal Bodies we come to know God in his Form and Nature and by Faith we see God here in Mortality as in a Glass as the Apostle saith and when this Faith is immortalized in the Resurrection then shall our vile Bodies be made like unto his Glorious Body then shall Immortality appear and shall see the Immortal God in the Form of Man Face to Face even as we are seen of him according to our Faith here in this Life shall it be unto us Further more by Faith we do feed upon the Flesh of God and drink his Blood as Christ said when on Earth except you eat my Flesh and drink my Blood you have no Life in you for his Flesh is Meat indeed and his Blood is Drink indeed And this I
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