firmation and growth of your faith; so that you may receive the more full assurance here in this life, which is an hundred fold; and in the life to come, life everlasting.

No more at present, but my love to yourself.

I rest your friend in the eternal truth,

April 3, 1663.

LODOWICKE MUGGLETON.

A Copy of a Letter written by the Prophet Lodowicke Muggleton, to Mrs. Dorothy Carter, of Chesterfield, bearing date April 3, 1663.

Dear and loving Friend in the true Faith, Dorothy Carter,

I RECEIVED your letter with your daughter's inclosed, and am glad to hear you are well in health, and more especially in your faith and confidence of this commission of the Spirit; and I do find every where, both in city and country, that those that do lay the greatest weight upon this commission do find the greatest peace and satisfaction in their minds, and are the more able to encounter with opposition where they meet with it; for it is a hard matter for any of this faith to escape being opposed, because this commission and the faith of it fight against all the world.

For this being the faith of God's elect, it fights against all sects and opinions in religion in the world, and all opinions have a faith in that opinion they are of; but it is but the faith of devils, whatsoever they pretend. Why? Because there is none knows the true God, in his form and nature; and how is it possible that any man should have true faith, and yet not know the true God.

Therefore that faith which is built upon a false God must needs be no other but the faith of devils: therefore how few is there in the world at this day that can say as Paul did, I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith, and henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which God the righteous Judge shall give? Can any one fight the fight of faith, and yet not know the true God? And that is the very cause so many die unsatisfied in death; because they know not the true God, yet they despise that man that should declare him unto them; but they would have God to do it himself, and yet their God, in their imagination is so big, so infinite and incomprehensible, that he cannot be known nor comprehended by his creature. And yet they would have this unknown God to save them.

Therefore you that are enlightened in your understanding, who can by faith comprehend what the true God is, in his form and nature, you may see how the whole world lyeth in wickedness, ignorance, and darkness; neither can the world fight a good fight of faith; no, none can truly do so but those that have believed our report.

You speak in your letter of a man that came out of the North; it will be well for him if it be given

him truly to understand these things; but I have heard nothing of him as yet.

This letter of yours came when I was in Cambridgeshire; I have been little at home since Christ-tide; and the very morning that I went into Cambridgeshire, I received four letters from Mr. Hudson, two of them from Quakers there in Lancashire, which Mr. Hudson would have me send the sentence to those two Quakers and to a Presbyterian minister, which I have had no leisure to send till now: the same day as I deliver yours to the carrier, I shall send his. He is well, and remembers his love to all our friends of the faith. I have remembered yours and Ellen Sudbury's love to him.

Also I have received since I came home a Quaker's letter, and a copy of Edward Bourne's letter, of Mrs. Griffith, which I cannot have leisure to answer at present; but I do intend to send an answer the next return of the carrier. My daughter is pretty well recovered of her sickness; she received your kindness which you sent, of Mr, Griffith, and desireth to remember her kind love to you and your daughter. I think her husband doth intend to write to you himself; therefore I shall say no more, only my love remembered to yourself, Elizabeth Smith, and the rest, Mr. Frewterill and his wife, with my love to Ellen Sudbury when you can.

A Copy of a Letter written by the Prophet Lodowicke Muggleton, to Mrs. Dorothy Carter, bearing date from London, May 8, 1663.

My dear Friend in the eternal Truth, Dorothy Carter,

I HAVE had a great desire to have sent to you before now, but I have been much hindered by other occasions, but it is not for want of love that I did not write to you before now; yet I am much straitened for time as ever I was, but I having finished an answer to Richard Farnesworth's letter, and taken a copy of it, have sent it to you, with Edward Bernard's letter; so that if you think good to take a of this Richard Farnesworth's letter, you may, copy before you deliver it; it will be some labour, but it will be necessary, though it may be hereafter it may be put in print.

For there are some friends here in London, that are very desirous to have this letter of Richard Farnesworth's with my answer; and that letter of Samuel Hooton's and W. S. which they sent to me first, and my answer of the four sheets to them, printed; which, perhaps, I may trouble you for some small matter towards the printing of them: but the captain that is the most desirous to have them printed, hath a son that did own this commission, and he is dead beyond the seas, in a place called Antego, which is a great grief to his father, both in respect as he was in the faith of this commission, and in respect of his temporal estate, for he had a great charge with him of his father's.

So that I do not know how things will fall out as to that, but when such a thing is resolved upon, I shall give you notice of it.

So, being in haste I shall only remember my love to yourself, and to your daughter, and Betty Smith, and all the rest of our friends of the faith therewith, if there be any; not forgetting my dear friend in the true faith, Ellen Sudbury. I long to hear how she and her husband doth.

So resteth your Friend in the true Faith,

LODOWICKE MUGGLETON.

May 8, 1663.

I should be glad to hear from you as soon as you can. My daughter Sarah and her Husband remember their kind loves unto you, and so doth Mr. Hatter, with many other friends unknown to you, yet remember their love to you.

A Letter of the Prophet Lodowicke Muggleton's to Mr. Richard Sudbury, May 19, 1663.

Loving Friend, Richard Sudbury,

I RECEIVED your letter, bearing date the first of May, 1662.

I am glad to hear that you are in health, and more especially that you do understand something more than you did when I was with you, of the form and