was neceffary that I fhould write a few Lines unto you, upon her Request, to fignify unto you that she hath been with me; which Lines unto you are as followeth :

I have had great Experience of your stedfaft Faith in the true God, and in this Commiffion of the Spirit, ever fince you first heard of it, even above twenty Years; you have been, as it were, the Corner-ftone, that was laid in that Kingdom of Ireland, which many have ftumbled at, and have dashed their Foot against a Stone; and others again have built their House upon this Stone, as upon a Rock, fo that no Winds nor Storms of Perfecutions, 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 fatisfied in, do truly understand and believe; for there can be no true Faith in the Heart, except the Understanding be enlightened firft. 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 fpiritual, heavenly, and glorious, yet in the Form of Man, 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 Muftard Seed, a very fmall Seed; yet is able to remove that Mountain of Ignorance, Darknefs, and Unbelief, that lyeth before the Understanding of every Man by Nature; fo 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 thefe our mortal Bodies, we come to know God in his Form and Nature; and by Faith we fee God here in Mortality, as in a Glafs, as the Apoftles faith; and when this Faith is immortalized in the Refurrection, then fhall our vile Bodies be made like unto his glorious Body, then fhall Immortality appear, and shall fee the immortal God in the Form of Man, Face to Face; even as we are feen of him, according to our Faith here in this Life, fhall it be unto us. Furthermore, by Faith we do feed upon the Flesh of God, and drink his Blood, as Chrift faid, when on Earth;

Except you eat my Flefh, and drink my Blood, you have no Life in you; for his Flefh is Meat indeed, and his Blood Drink indeed.

And this I fay, None upon Earth, at this Day, doth eat his Flesh, and drink his Blood, but thofe that do truly believe the Doctrine of this Commiffion of the Spirit: Why? Because no Man hath Faith to believe that God became Flefh, 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 Chrift 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 perifh for Want of Faith in the true God, they cannot eat the Flesh of God, that is Meat indeed, to fatisfy their hungry Souls; neither can they drink the Blood of God, which is Drink indeed, to quench the thirsty Soul of Man. But bleffed are your Eyes that fee, 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 affured 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 Chrift, our God, our King, and Redeemer, will drink a-new with his Apoftles, and us the Witneffes of the Spirit, and you the Believers, in the Kingdom of eternal Glory.

And this I fay, all thofe, or all us, that have eat of the Flesh of God, and drank his Blood by Faith here in the State of Mortality, we fhall be gathered together in the Refurrec tion (as the Fowls) to fly in the Midft of Heaven, being im mortalized, fhall come to the Supper of the great God, that we may eat of the fame Flesh as he eateth of, which is the Flesh of perfecuting Kings, and the Flesh of Captains, and the Flesh of mighty Men, even of Judges, and the Flesh of Horfes, and of them that fit on them, and the Flesh of all Free-men and Bond-men, and of Small and Great; that is, all wicked reprobate Men, both small and great, that have per

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fecuted and hated the Lord's Prophets, Apoftles, and Meffengers, which he fent in this World.

Oh! how bleffed are we that shall fup with the great God of Heaven, in the Deftruction of our Enemies; for as God was hated when he was on Earth, fo are we for his Sake; and as God is pleafed to make his Supper with the Deftruction of the Souls and Bodies of the Seed of the Serpent, to Eternity, and he hath invited us, the Fowls of Heaven, to fup with the great God, why fhould not we rejoice in this Supper which the great God hath made, even in the Deftruction of this wicked World; for this Earth is a Habitation of Devils, while the World doth endure. And for my Part, I could willingly fup with the great God of Heaven, that hath redeemed my Soul, in the Destruction of this World, that I might eat the Flesh of mighty Men; Mayors, Judges, Juries, fmall and great Devils, that have hated me without a Caufe. Oh! how happy are we that shall fup with the great God, that is, in the Affurance we have, that God hath ordained wicked perfecuting Kings, and high Captains, and Judges, and mighty Men, and all other inferior Devils, both fmall and great, more than the Sand of the Sea-fhore, which cannot be numbered, to be damned to Eternity, to fuffer those eternal Torments.

These I know fhall be caft alive into a Lake of Fire, burning with Brimftone, 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, praifing and magnifying him that redeemed 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 Refurrection, when we fhall afcend 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 evermore, even to Eternity. This is the true Interpretation of John's Words, in the xixth 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

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the fmall Seed, even as one Grain of Mustard Seed, which indeed, as Christ saith, Matt. xiii, and 32, is the least of all Seeds; but, when it is grown, it is the greatest among Herbs. And it is a Tree, fo that the Birds of Heaven came and built in the Branches thereof: So in Mark the ivth, and 31ft, the Kingdom of God is compared to a Grain of Muftard Seed, which, when it is fown in the Earth, is the leaft of all Seeds; but after it is fown, it groweth up, and is greatest of all Herbs, and beareth great Branches, fo that the Fowls of Heaven may build under the Shadow of it. So in Luke xiii, and 19, then faid he, What is the Kingdom of God like? It is like a Grain of Muftard Seed, which a Man took and fowed in his Garden, and it grew and waxed a great Tree, and the Fowls of Heaven made Nefts in the Branches thereof.

This fmall Grain is the Grain of Faith that was in God from Eternity, by which he created the Heaven and the Earth, and all Creatures elfe, in both Worlds, by this litle Grain of Faith, no bigger than a Muftard Seed, hath he done all his Wonders. By this Grain of Faith did he fow himself in this Earth or Garden, which was in this 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 fown in the Field of this World, it grew up to be a Tree, that is, a Man, whofe Branches fpread themselves forth fo thick, that the Fowls of Heaven do make their Nefts in the Branches thereof.

This Tree of Faith, which is compared to a fmall Grain of Mustard Seed, was Chrift, the only God, become Flesh; when he was in the Glory of the Father, he was that Man that fowed that Grain of Faith in the Field of this 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 this little Grain of Faith no bigger than a Grain of Mustard Seed, fowed in the Field of the elect World: So that, all that are Partakers of this little Grain of Faith, they build their Nefts 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 Chrift's Death, Refurrection, and Afcenfion, which

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none in this World doth at this Day, but those that truly believe this Doctrine declared by Reeve and Muggleton. We are the Fowls of Heaven in this laft Age, that have received a Measure of this Grain of Faith, which doth caufe us to make our Nefts, and reft quietly in the Branches of God's free electing Love, in his Redemption and Salvation.

Thus I have given you the true Interpretation of the Excellency of this little Grain of Faith, as fmall as a Grain of Mustard Seed, which you, that have but a Measure of it, can experience the Truth of it. Therefore I fhall fay no more at prefent, but remember my Love to yourself and good Wife, your Sons, and Daughters, that are Partakers of this precious Faith, and to all the Reft of our Friends in the true Faith, in that Kingdom, I take Leave, and remain,

Your Friend in the eternal Truth,

Feb. 16, 1680.

LODOWICK MUGGLETON.

A COPY of a LETTER written by the Prophet Lodowick Muggleton, to Mr. Edward Fewterell of Chesterfield, bearing Date from London, March 29, 1660.

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Friend,

Received your Letter, wherein I perceive you are a Man that hath been led through feveral Opinions, yet not fuffered to join with any, but have been made to wait upon Jefus Chrift, the only God, for Satisfaction; and now it hath been his great Love, which he hath loved you, to let you have a Sight of those infinite Truths written by the Hands of his two Witneffes, and Lawrence Claxton, which Writings of ours, I

perceive,