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A66428 A true representation of the absurd and mischievous principles of the sect, commonly known by the name of Muggletonians Williams, John, 1636?-1709. 1694 (1694) Wing W2735; ESTC R38943 21,260 36

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Lord Mayor Aldermen and Jury Bottomless Pit that is the Pit of their Imagination Shall kill them that is would have killed us if their Law would have done it V. 8. And their dead bodies shall lie in the streets of the great City which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt where also our Lord was crucified Dead Bodies that is the Letter of Scripture In the streets of the City that is the Hearts of Men. V. 9. And they of the People and Kindred and Tongues and Nations shall see their dead bodies three days and a half and shall not suffer their dead bodies to be put in Graves For the meaning of this he refers us to what was before and that I find in ch 51 52. The People that is the Jews who owned the Letter of the Law Gentiles that is those that owned the Letter of the Apostles that is the Roman Emperours which overcame the Nation of the Jews which was in the Destruction of Jerusalem which was in the ten Persecutions Three days and a half that is 1350 years for so long the Letter of Scripture lay dead Not suffer their bodies to be buried because the Jews and Gentiles knew better what to do with the Letter than the Spirit And so the Roman Catholicks and those that sprung from them have seen the dead bodies of the Scripture lie dead 1350 years V. 10. And they that dwell on the Earth shall rejoyce over them and make merry and shall send Gifts one to another because these two Prophets tormented them that dwelt on the Earth They rejoyced over the Letter of the Scriptures the Spirit and Life of them being put to Death And now they looked upon themselves as very sure because there were none left upon Earth that had a Commission to torment them V. 11. And after three days and a half the Spirit of Life from God enter'd into them and they stood upon their feet and great fear fell upon them which saw them The Spirit that is the Commission of the Spirit enter'd into the Letter of the Law and Gospel and by a true Interpretation they made the dead Letter stand upon its feet and that kills the Spirit of Reason with Death Eternal which it never did this 300 years till the year 1651. Great fear so as to convince some and make them silent Others were filled so with wrath as to be damn'd to Eternity others receiv'd it to Eternal Happiness V. 12. And they heard a great Voice from Heaven saying unto them Come up hither And they ascended up to Heaven in a Cloud and their Enemies beheld them Of this Blank Here he seems to be at a loss I shall now draw all this together and the Sum of the whole is this That J. Reeve and L. Muggleton are the two Witnesses the Olive Trees and Candlesticks spoken of in this Chapter That these two were to prophesie 1260 days beginning in February 1651. And had power to save and damn irrevocably to all Eternity c. That upon declaring this Commission the Beast out of the Bottomless Pit that is the Ld. Mayor Fowk the Recorder and Jury out of the Pit of their Imagination made War against these two aforesaid Witnesses 1653. and killed them that is the Letter of the Scripture And their dead Bodies which is the Letter of the Scripture lay dead in the streets of the hearts of Men. And the People and Kindred saw the dead Letter of the Scripture lie dead three days and a half or 1350 years and rejoyced at it But at the end of the 1350 years in which the Bodies of the Witnesses or the Letter of the Scripture had lay dead the Spirit entered into them by the Commission given to J. Reeve and L. Muggleton 1651. And so the Bodies of the Witnesses or Letter of the Scripture stood up again And it should have been added That the Witnesses ascended up into Heaven in a Cloud and their Enemies beheld them But soft for J. Reeve has been long dead Now reconcile all this who can For 1. He saith that they two are the two Witnesses and yet the Bodies of those two Witnesses are the Letter of the Scripture 2. If the Letter of the Scripture is the Body of the Witnesses and that lay slain 1300 years before these two say they receiv'd their Commission then the Bodies of them were slain before and 1300 years before these two Witnesses were in being 3. He saith The body of the Witnesses or Letter was slain 1300 years before and yet makes it slain again by the Ld. Mayor And if it was slain in his time then the three days and a half was to begin after his time and a new 1350 years was to follow 4. Observe That in the Revelation the two Witnesses had their Commission before the Bodies were slain but if the Bodies of the Witnesses is the Letter of Scripture and was slain 1350 years ago then they were slain so long before these had their Commission which was not till 1651. It 's plain this Shifter knows not where to fix He would fain like Simon Magus be accounted some great One and he and his Partner would set up for Broachers of New Doctrines how sordid and contradictious soever but he wants the skill to patch things cleverly together they are at the best but tatters and can never be brought into one intire piece And this Exposition of his is so sorry and pitiful an attempt that he might as well have undertaken to have proved himself and Reeve to be the two great Lights in the Heavens and to as good purpose have in like manner wrote an Exposition on the first Chapter of Genesis To conclude If confusion and self-contradiction may pass for Exposition if confidence and self-assuming may pass for Inspiration if nonsence and obscurity may pass for Illumination if cursing and damning others may pass for Charity if Blasphemy may pass for Religion then these two may be allowed to be what they pretend But if these things will not pass among Mankind then they will no more be Prophets and Witnesses from God than they will ascend into Heaven in a Cloud in the sight of their Enemies FINIS See Letter to Ld. Mayor and the Remonstr Remonst p. 4. Transcend Spir. Treat p. 6 7. True Interpret of Revelat. ch 75. n. 3. 5. Look glass Ch. 22. n. 15. Ch. 27. n. 38. Look glass p. 60. n. 36. Look glass p. 60. n. 37. n. 38. n. 39. p. 112 n. 46. Joyful News p. 49. See Transcendent Spir. Treatise §. 1. p. 4. 5. Quakers neck p. 67. Look glass p. 111. n. 43. Revelat. p. 40. n. 21. Look glass 1 Epist and p. 112. 117. 168. n. 8. 169. n. 15. 195. n. 34. 197. n 34. 2 Peter 2. 17 18 19. Remonst p. 9 11 12. Transcend p. 3 6 8 9 41. Letter to Ld. Mayor p. 3. Look glass p. 42. n. 10. Transcendent p. 41. Revelat. p. 158. ch 77. n. 1. Muggleton's Epist to Look glass p. 3. Look glass p. 111. n. 43. 167. n. 1 2. Transc p. 7. Revel p. 156. n. 2 3. p. 157. n. 1 2 4. 158. n. 3 4 5. Look glass p. 168. n. 11 12. 171. n. 33. Transcend p. 7. Transcendent p. 41. Look glass p. 92. p. 93. n. 25. 99. n. 37. Transcend p. 7. Remonstr p. 4. Look glass p. 99. n. 37 38. Look glass p. 99. n. 6. Look glass p. 14. n. 29. Revelat. p. 143. n. 11. Revelat. chap. 60. n. 8. 15. 19. Epist prefixed to it See p. 76. n. 2 4. p 92. n. 21. p. 108. n. 3. Look glass p. 98. n. 31. Transc p. 6. p. 18. Title page to the Looking-glass Transc p. 4 5 6 41. Look glass p. 158. n. 24. 186. n. 33. Revelat. p. 162. n. 4. Joyful News p. 51. Transcend p. 9. Joyful News p. 40 43. Muggleton's Epist to Look Glass Look glass p 185. n. 26 c. Remonstr p. 7. Transc p. 14. Look glass c. 18. n. 9 10. Look glass p. 195. n. 34. Transcend ibid. Look glass p. 79. n. 25 31. p. 49. n. 13 14. Look glass p. 12. n. 11. 81. n. 14. Look glass p. 36. c. 9. Rev. p. 164. n 4. Look glass p. 2. n. 10. Transcend p. 2. 11 23 26 28 29. Letter to Ld. Mayor p. 23. Transc p. 41. Gen. Epist p. 5. Look glass p. 64. n. 27. a Trans p. 31. b p. 35. c p. 36. d Revel ch 60. n. 10. e Trans p. 35. f p. 36. 31. g Revel ch 59 n. 3. 5. h Trans p. 31. Revel ch 60. n. 4. i Trans p. 37. k p. 38. l p. 35 c. Look glass p. 96. n. 18. Look glass p. 9. n. 3. Look glass p. 8. n. 8. p. 130. n. 4. Quakers neck n. 14. Transc p. 21. Look glass p. 130 n. 5. 134. n. 26. 153. n. 15. Transc p. 21. Look glass p. 154. n. 22 23 c. p. 156. n. 34 c. n. 44. Trans p. 25. Remonstr p. 8 Look glass p. 147. n. 21. 27 148 n. 31. Trans p. 50. 54. Look glass p. 100 101. Joyful News p. 10 12 13. Look glass ch 30. n. 25 p. 126. n. 15. 128. n. 30 31. Look glass p. 5 6 28 29. John 1. 14 18. John 5. 37. 14. 6. 1 John 2. 1. John 14. 28. John 5. 22. 1 Cor. 15. 24. John 5. 18. Look glass p. 158 n. 5● Look glass p. 42. n. 11. Transcendent Spir. Treat Remonstr p. 5. Remonstr p. 6. Transcend p. 6. Look plass p. 194. 28. Ibid. p. 198. n. 15. Revelat. c. 59. Revelat. ch 9. n. 8. Revel ch 63. 5. See pag. 20. Revelat. ch 53. n. 4. Look glass p. 41. n. 2. Look glass p. 33. n. 50 58. Ibid. p. 34. n. 59. Ibid. p. 31. n. 34 35. Ibid. p. 31 32 33. Interpret of the Revelat. c. 79. n. 1. c. 82. n. 7.