tures, but also against his Holy Spirit of divine Faith or Truth, in all the elect loft Sons and Daughters proceeding from the Loins of Adam: So that their eternal perishing by the fecret Decree of God, being hid from them by his Wildom, they might juftly be damned in themselves from the everlafting Remembrance not only of all their Actions of vainglorious Hypocrify, but unmerciful Cruelties.

This will be that gnawing Worm of Confcience which never dieth, and that fiery Curfe of the Law, of the Wrath of God in Mens Souls, that never goeth out.

And fo much concerning that everlafting Word of Truth that was spoken by the glorious Mouth of the everlasting God, that Man Chrift Jefus, upon the Throne of all immortal Crowns of Glory and Majefty, far above all Heavens, Angels, and Men.

Yours, who love the Lord Jefus, more than this

perifbing World.

JOHN REEV E.

A Copy of a Letter written by the Prophet LODOWICK MUGGLETON, to ANN ADAMS of Orwell, in Cambridgeshire, bearing Date from London, March the 27th, 1663.

My Dear and Loving Friend, Ann Adams, the Wife of William Cakebread, my Love remembered unto you.

HESE are to certifie you, that I came well Home, therefore I thought it convenient to write these Lines unto you, as followeth: Firft in that thou waft honoured of God to be an Handmaid or Guide unto a Prophet, unto John Reeve, when thou waft but in thy Infancy concerning the

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Knowledge of Things of Eternity, but the Seed of Faith which was in you, though it was but fmall, yet it hath taken deep Root downward in the Heart, and hath brought forth Fruits of Faith and Love upwards; for thou haft and fhall find it no vain Thing to receive a Prophet in the Name of a Prophet, and the reward is no less than Peace of Mind here, and eternal Life hereafter in the Kingdom of Glory, let the World esteem of it how they will.

There is one thing which I fhall always have a Love to thee for, in that thou waft kept innocent in the Days of thy Ignorance, for that was a Thing which I always did love in myself in the Days of my Youth and Ignorance, and it doth yield me a great deal of Peace, the Remembrance of it now; because the World cannot fay juftly, that there is any Evil found in me, neither is there any Blot upon my Mind, for I can fay truly as the Prophet did in another Caufe (where he faith) whofe Ox have I stolen, or whofe Afs have I taken away; fo I can fay whofe Wife have I committed Folly with, whose Daughter have I deflowered, which is a great deal of Peace to me, and it may be fome Satisfaction to all you that are innocent; and for others of the Seed of Faith, which have been guilty in the Days of their Ignorance; for this I would have thee, and all the Seed of Faith to mind, that almost all those that have gone forth upon the Account of Prophets, and Propheteffes, and Speakers of every Sect, they have been for the generality of them guilty of Luft, many of the Baptists and Quakers have been guilty. Therefore impoffible they fhould be Meffengers or Minifters of Chrift's whatfoever they pretend, yet we the Witneffes of the Spirit can bear with thofe that have been guilty; but it was always my natural Temper to be more affectionate to that which hath been kept undefiled from their Childhood, and as that Seed of Faith lay fecretly hid in thy Nature.

The Declaration of the commiffion of the Spirit hath brought it forth to publick View; and as Nature hath beautified, thy outward Form or Perfon, fo likewise hath that Grace of Faith beautified thy Heart and Mind, in that your Understanding is enlightened to difcern betwixt Faith and Reafon, God and Devil, with many more heavenly Secrets which

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which is hid from the Eyes of the World; and as thou art Partaker of the like precious Faith with us the Witneffes of the Spirit, fo likewife thou fhall be Partaker with us of the like fpiritual and heavenly Glory; and the ftronger thy Faith is in this Commiffion of the Spirit, the more bright will you fhine in that Kingdom of eternal Joys, where Pleasure will run as a Stream or as a River out of your own Perfon, and not only fo, but you fhall fee your God Face to Face, of whofe Seed and Nature we are, and this will produce thofe Pleasures that are at his right Hand for

evermore.

I thought good to write these few Lines unto thee; not but that I am well perfwaded before of thy eternal Happiness, but only that you mayft know that the Bleffing of the true Prophet is as if God had bleft thee himself; and thy fo receiving of it will grow to a perfect Peace here, and to eternal Happiness hereafter.

No more at present but my Love to your Hufband, and to your Mother, and Goody Candy, as being in the fame Faith with you, and your Hufband's Brother Symonds.

I cannot enlarge, because I have fo many Letters to write and other Bufinefs to do, because of my long Abfence; therefore I fhall take leave, and fubfcribe myself your dear and loving Friend in the true Faith.

LODOWICK MUGGLETON.

My Daughter Sarah, and her Husband with other Friends in the Faith, remember their Loves to you, your Husband, and Mother, with all the reft in the Faith with you.

OR, A

DIVINE APPENDIX;

BEING

A COLLECTION

OF

SEVERAL TREATISES,

EPISTOLARY and PUBLICK.

Originally Written above Fifty Years fince,

By the Lord's laft Immediate Messenger

JOHN RE E V E.

AND NOW,

After careful Examination by the most correct Copies, communicated for the Confolation and Establishment of the Church of Chrift, by their Brethren, whofe Faith in these, and all other his irremandable Declarations, doth (and by Divine Protection will) remain unfhaken to Eternity.