messenger of the most high God, for these your blasphemies against God, and your cruel murdering desires, and your wicked speeches against me, without a cause as aforesaid, I do pronounce this Mr. Fletcher cursed and damned, both in soul and body, from the presence of God, elect men and angels, to eternity... This is the sentence of the Lord God upon thee, and because it shall surely come upon thee, neither shall you escape what I have said, for thy wickedness is great, and thy sin is gone up to heaven, and crieth for vengeance; therefore I say unto thee, God be judge between me and thee in this matter, and let God do so unto me, and more also than I have said to thee, if I shall do this without a commission from God; or if this thing doth not come to pass, which I have said unto and upon thy person, body and soul, then let it be upon me, that you and others may know that God hath honoured a man so far as to give sentence of eternal damnation upon the souls and bodies of reprobate devils, who speak evil things they know

not.

LODOWICKE MUGGLETON,

duch of the onо B ZAGHI #1994 9751 I know you would gladly have something to accuse me of by the law of the land; but I would have lyou to know, that I cannot break any of the laws temporal; so that I suppose the judges of the land will not meddle with things that do not belong to the law, that is, with things spiritual, for that belongeth to God, and to those whom he will chuse for spiritual commissions are quite different from temporal bommissions; and as judges of the land have bommissions from the king, so God's messengers are judges, and have their commission from heaven; and the judges

of the land, they judge according to the tenor of their commissions; so God's messengers, who are judges, they judge according to theirs, and they both have a rule to judge by; and you see, that when men have committed such things as the law saith, whosoever doth them shall die: you see likewise the judge giveth sentence for the man to die. Is it the judge that puts that man to death? Surely no; it is the man's breach of the law that puts him to death; so that the judge is not to be blamed, but to be honoured, for giving sentence according to law: so likewise it is with God's messengers, for they are judges of spiritual things. Now, if a man shall sin against the Holy Ghost, or shew himself to be of the reprobate seed, if God's messengers shall give sentence of eternal dam` nation upon such a man, shall the man so condemned by God's messenger, fly in the man's face, and say it was the messenger of God that condemned him to eternal death? No, it was the man's sin that condemns him to eternity; the messenger doth but give sentence according to the demerit of the sin, just as the temporal judge doth in the case beforesaid.

So I say, as certain as you Fletcher and Pittman have seen many a one put to death, or hanged after the judge hath given sentence upon them, so certain do I and others see that you must to the damnation of hell. Now the sentence is passed upon you, deliver yourself if you can.

But because it is not executed upon you immediately, you may think there is nothing in it, but you will find it soon enough; for if such as you had lived in Moses time, you would have been cut off presently; for Moses did not stay long when the ground opened its mouth, and swallowed up those rebellious devils, such as you are; so those Elijah destroyed with fire

from heaven, were such as you are; so Elisha, Isaiah, and other messengers of the Lord, and the apostles, as Peter, the sentence of these messengers of God, they were immediately executed; and had you lived in that time, you would surely have gone to the pot immediately with them; but your damnation doth neither slumber nor sleep.

Also, I understand you do intend to have the Lord Chief Justice's warrant for me, and that you have a great many of the damned crew to witness against me. Indeed they may truly witness they are a company of damned devils, that have sinned against the Holy Ghost; and for my part, I shall witness before the justice, the thing is true, they are damned indeed; only I would desire you, when you go to the Lord Chief Justice for a warrant, that you will present this letter of your damnation to his honour, and see if his honour will give you any encouragement to prosecute me upon this account. I believe his honour will do, as other judges have done, he will say it doth not belong to the law.

How will such devils as you do then, for such matters as these do not belong to the law. It will be your best course to take Mr. Dagget along with you, for he and you have been brethren together in iniquity in this business of Mrs. Butier's and Pittman's, notwithstanding I did advise him to the contrary; but I perceive he hath ventured his eternal damnation upon Pittman; so according to what he hath done in relation to that letter, let it be unto him: but this I must say of Mr. Dagget, he is a far more moderate devil than thou art, for he acts more serpent like, but thou acts like a fiery dragon devil; but God will, by his mighty power of faith in me, see his vengeance brought upon the dragon, and upon

the serpent; so I shall stand still, and wait upon my God, and in a little time I shall see the downfal of most, or some of these my confederate enemies; so I shall see what you can do according to the laws of the land.

I have been more large than I did intend; but because these lines may be seen by more than the party himself, it was necessary people should understand the ground of things, so they may the better judge of these things.

June 25, 1666,

LODOWICKE MUGGLETON,

The true Messenger of Jesus Christ.

A Copy of a Letter written by the prophet Lodowicke Muggleton, to Mr. Harrison, called Minister of Blithfeild, in Staffordshire, dated from London, October 6, 1666.

Sir,

I UNDERSTAND you took a book from Joseph Whithworth, entitled, The Interpretation of the 11th of the Revelation; but I suppose it was by the justice's order that you had it to peruse, the jus tice conceiving that you were better able to judge of it than himself, you being a clergyman, or a pretended minister of the gospel; for pretended ministers of Christ, or false priests, having no commission from

God for such a great work, they always become enemies to true prophets, apostles, and to Christ himself; none so great enemies and persecutors of truth as false priests, and false ministers. This the Scripture doth witness for truth.

Also I do understand that you did call the doctrine and interpretation of that book blasphemy and deceit, and a lie, with divers other wicked speeches against the doctrine contained therein; and not only so, but you did rail against me, the author of it, calling me a blasphemer, and a deceiver, and that you did believe that I was a Jesuit; and that you did believe I had received orders from the pope to divulge these things to deceive people withal, in regard my name was unknown unto most people, it being not a common name. These, and such like words, have proceeded out of your mouth, which doth discover unto me what your heart is also I do see further into your heart, in that you did breathe forth threatnings of persecutions against me, in that you said I deserved fire and faggot, with other cruel punishments, as if you did not know what punishment was great enough for me. These, and such like words of yours, they shall be a witness against you in your own conscience, and God, angels, and men shall witness against you, that you have sinned against the Holy Ghost, as those Scribes and Pharisees did, which called the spirit and power by which Christ wrought those wonderful miracles, they called it a devil, so they sinned against the Holy Ghost. In the same manner have you sinned that unpardonable sin, which will never be forgiven you in this life, nor in the life to come, for you are the absolute seed of the serpent, a son of the devil. This I do certainly know, for none but that reprobate seed, whom God hath blinded their eyes, lest they should