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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 myself, even the Way and Path of Peace; I brought you into the Affembly of Saints, for there is no true Saints on Earth at this Day but those that are under the Prophet; I brought you with the rest of the Saints from under Mount Sinai, that is, from being under that fiery Law written in your Hearts; I led you by your Hands through the Wilderness of your Minds; I led you unto Mount Sion, the City of the living God; I fhewed you the holy Hill of Sion; the Habitation of the holy God is Mount Sion, the City of the Living, and the holy Hill of Sion fignify the holy God himself, from whence Prophets, Apoftles and Saints receive their most holy Faith, Revelation and Prophecies in the Original; alfo I brought you to the Spirits of juft Men made perfect, as Noah, a Preacher of Righteoufnels by Faith, he 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; Ifaac and Jacob, Mofes, the Prophets, David, the Apoftles, these were all juft Men, made perfect by Faith, yet feveral of thefe juft Men, whofe Spirits were made perfect by Faith, they committed Evil and Sin after the Blef fing was given of God; as, Noab he was drunken with Wine, and difcovered his Nakedness; Lot was drunken with Wine, and committed Inceft with his two Daughters; Abraham told a Lie, because of his Wife; Jacob lied to his Father, when he ftole the Bleffing; David, a Man according to God's own Heart, was guilty of Murder and Adultery; Peter, the Rock upon whom Chrift built his Church, plaid the Hypocrite, and diffembled, when he circumcifed Timothy Paul diffembled, and plaid the Hypocrite, when he pretended a Vow, and shaved the four Men's Heads. These, and feveral other juft Men, whose Spirits were made perfect by Faith, committed Evil, after the Bleffing was given them of God; but their Faith never failed, and fhould not he uphold them that bleffed them? But this Prophet is blamed for upholding smaller Sinners than fome of thofe that believe.

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Now if these Men's Spirits were made perfect by Faith, and fo faid to be the Spirits of juft Men made perfect, fo are all true Believers of this Commiflion of the Spirit, whofe Faith holds out to the End, are counted of God the Spirits of just Men made perfect by Faith, and fo may be faid to come unto the Spirits of juft Men made perfect. Alfo I led you into the Paradife of Peace, where the Thief went that Day he believed in Chrift: I brought you, with the Reft of Believers, to the Tree of Life, which stood in the Midft of Paradife; you said you saw it, and you liked it well; and if you had ftretched forth the Hand of Faith as others did, and have taken and eat of the Tree of Life, and have lived for ever, then had you not rebelled. I fhewed you the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, you faw it, and understood what you faw; I fhewed you the New Jerusalem, that came down from Heaven, and that is faid to be four-fquare, the Length and Breadth are equal. The New Jerufalem that came down from Heaven, it was when God became Flefh in the Virgin's Womb, and its being four-fquare, the Length and Breadth equal; it was when Chrift was nailed to the Crofs, his Arms being spread abroad were equal with his Head and Feet, and fo may be faid to be four-fquare, and fo is every perfect Man: And fo the New Jerufalem that came down from Heaven, the Perfon of Chrift, may be faid to be four-fquare, the Length and Breadth equal. Likewife I brought you to an innumerable Company of Angels, I fhewed you their Forms and Natures. Thefe Things I did for you, in the spiritual, and many more; and the Prophet hath not been the least beneficial to you, in the temporal; I have not been your Hindrance, but your Furtherance, in what lay in my Power; I never was beholden to you in any temporal Matters, and did not fatisfy you for what you did. did. And when feveral Believers did complain of your rude Speeches, your wrathful Words, your merciless Judgment, I have pleaded for you against them, and have upheld your corrupt Nature, elfe you would have been forfaken of feveral Believers before now; but those I have done moft for, and have been the leaft beholden unto, have lift up their Heel against me, fo that you have been

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offended against me, and rebelled against me without a Cause, which hath caufed you to be caft 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 own evil Words and defperate Wishes which you have uttered, come upon your own Head.

First, You fay, if Claxton were faved, you would be damned; how do you limit God's Mercy to your Wrath?

Secondly, You fay, that if God did not take notice of you, then would you had been a Toad, a Dog, or a Serpent, or any Thing but a Man.

These are desperate Words, and it will be a Wonder if you have not Cause indeed, to wish yourself a Toad, Dog, or Serpent, rather than a Man.

Thirdly, You call the Prophet, Devil; Peter might as well have called Christ Devil, for calling him Sathan; for Peter's Offence was out of Love and Pity to Chrift, but your Offence to me, was out of Pride and Rebellion; for I was your Mafter and Judge, as Chrift was Peter's.

Fourthly, You flighted the Bleffing from the Prophet, and in a rude and uncivil Language, faid, you cared not a Fart for it.

Fifthly, When Burton bid you burn the Affertions, and humble yourself to the Prophet, as he did, you faid you would perish first.

Sixthly, You defpifed the Government of the Commiffion of the Spirit, faying, it is poorly and weakly managed.

These are desperate Words against God, and against the Prophet, and high Rebellion; I do not think it could be paralelled, not by all the Prophets and Apoftles, fince the World began. And if this Rebellion be forgiven, then let it be faid, that this laft Prophet and Witnefs of the Spirit had Power

Power to do more than any Prophet or Apostle ever did in the Time of their Commiffions.

Written by

LODOWICK MUGGLETON,

One of the two laft Prophets and Witnesses of the Spirit unto the High and Mighty God, the Man Chrift Jefus in Glory. Amen. In the Year 1671.

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A LETTER written by the Messenger of God, Lodowick Muggleton, to Walter Bohenan, of Condemnation for Apoftacy, January 23, 1671.

Walter Bobenan,

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HIS is to let you know, that I have feen three of your rebellious Letters, for which Cause I was not willing that any Rebel fhould fee the Answer to thofe Affertions laid down by William Medgate, that grand Rebel. Your Letters

are full of Nonfenfe, and not good English; and you have laid down the Affertions falfe Lies, and not true. Thofe nine wrote by Medgate were well laid down, and I own them all to be true as they are laid down; and I have given an Answer to them all, but no Rebel fhall fee them if I can help it.

But it seems that you have undertaken, not only to answer the Affertions, but to give Judgment upon them; and not only fo, but you vapour and threaten me, that you will force me to give Anfwer to them, as if fo be you were commiffioned to judge me. I shall not speak of many of your wicked, nonfenfical, rebellious Words; it would be too tedious, only these few:

First, You fay you do believe that I, and all the Devils in the World, cannot hurt you; for my Power, you fay, you

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are not afraid of it, no more than of a Child of one Day old.

Secondly, You fay, That if I do give Sentence upon you before I have answered the Affertions, you fay you will force me to it, if you and I do live in England; and that you will bring me on the Stage. This is Judas like.

Thirdly, You fay, You have more Ground to be offended with me than I have to be offended with you: For, fay you, I do affirm that you are fallen from the Truth, and have gone about to overthrow John Reeve, and have contradicted myfelf: This is Devil like, to judge his Lord and Master.

Fourthly, You, fay you, will make me believe a Lie, and more than one, but many Lies, contrary to all the Prophets and John Reeve's Writings. Here is the Mark of a Reprobate, to charge his Teacher with Lies from dead Men's Writings; these are but a few of the Fruits of your Rebellion, but there is enough to condemn one Rebel to Eternity, if there were no more; but this I fhall fay unto you, that you have fhewed yourself a right Scotchman, a diffembling falfe-hearted Man, of the Scottish Nature. And it would be a rare Thing to meet with a true-hearted Scotch-Man or Woman, that is upright in Heart, either to God or Man: For I have been in this Commiffion almoft twenty Years, and I never knew but two, one a Scotchman, and a Scotch-Woman, that made a Profeffion of this Faith, and they proved both falfe-hearted, both to God and Man; for the Woman did fall from John Reeve in his Time, for which he branded her with a Title of falfe-hearted Scot, and you, the Man, is fallen from that Faith, you once had in me, to Rebellion, for which I fhall brand you with the Mark of Reprobation, for you have fhewed yourself a Reprobate, a falfehearted Man, a Caft-away. Did you not fay, that you did believe that I had Power to give a Bleffing unto you of eternal Happiness, elfe you would not have asked it of me.

And upon your Requeft, faying you did believe that I had fuch Power, I gave you a Bleffing, and you continued in my Favour, and in the Favour of many Believers, for a While;

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