A VOLUME OF SPIRITUAL EPISTLES: BEING THE Copies of several Letters WRITTEN BY The two last PROPHETS and MESSENGERS of GOD, JOHN REEVE AND LODOWICKE MUGGLETON; CONTAINING Variety of Spiritual Revelations, and deep Mysteries, manifesting to the Elect Seed the Prerogative Power of a true Prophet; who, by Virtue of their Commissions, did truly give Blessings of Life Everlasting to those that believed their Declarations; and to all despising Reprobates the Curse or Sentence of Eternal Damnation. COLLECTED BY THE GREAT PAINS OF ALEXANDER DELAMAINE, THE Elder, A true Believer of God's last Commission of the Spirit. INTENDED At first only for his own spiritual Solace; but finding they increased to so great a Volume, he leaves it to his Posterity, that Ages to come may rejoice in the comfortable View of so blessed and heavenly a Treasure. TRANSCRIBED FROM ALEXANDER DELAMAINE'S ORIGINAL COPY BY TOBIAH TERRY, A true Believer of the like precious Faith in the true God the Man Christ Jesus, which most holy Faith the reprobate World despises. PRINTED, BY SUBSCRIPTION, IN THE YEAR 1755: RE-PRINTED, BY SUBSCRIPTION, IN THE YEAR 1820, BY W. SMITH, KING STREET, LONG ACRE. PREFACE. IN this paper book is contained several writings and letters to several particular persons; some to the believers of this commission of the Spirit, and others to unbelievers that were moderate, and some to those that were despisers, as will be seen in those that read them. These writings and letters were written by John Reeve and Lodowicke Muggleton, the two last Witnesses and true Prophets that God will ever send, to the end of the world. These writings and letters were gathered from many parts of England, and copied out of the original letters sent by John Reeve and myself, by a true believer, and one of the blessed of the Lord to eternity, namely, Alexander Delamaine the elder. He hath taken a great deal of pains to gather these letters from all parts, and to copy them out in this book, and to send the originals to the parties again. These writings and letters are distinct from all that have been printed, and never was public to the world, although we have printed and published many books to the world, wherein life and death hath been set before all people. And some few hath chosen life rather than death, and hath believed our report concerning those two great mysteries, how God became flesh, and how the devil became flesh. Upon these two dependeth salvation and damnation of men and women; which multitudes of people, who hath seen these books, and heard of them, their eyes being blinded, and their hearts hardened, hath gone that broad way of despising the mystery of God, and the mystery of the right devil, and so hath gone the broad way into eternal destruction, and hath chosen death rather than life. And though there is enough printed to make the man of God perfect, as to life and salvation, to eternity; yet, after my decease, whoever shall come to hear these letters read in this book, if they have any true light of faith in them, will see how the blessing of heaven did run in the days of a prophet, and how happy were those persons that were under it; and shall wish they had lived in those days, and shall rejoice they are counted worthy to hear these letters that never were printed. LODOWICKE MUGGLETON. Peruse with Joy, my Friends, the sacred Lines E v'n now made publick to the faithful eye, By Friends† these Letters together were collected, Y ea then transcrib'd, and now in Print perfected. S uch wasthe soul's desire of a dear friend that sleeps||, * In the hands of Mr. Cook, Distiller, at Vauxhall, Surrey. + Alexander Delamaine and Tobiah Terry. # Thomas Tompkinson, in his preface to the Acts. |