see the truth, when true light shineth before them, would have said as you have done; for this I must tell you, whosoever despiseth an embassador of Christ, despiseth him that sent him, and sinneth against the Holy Spirit that sent him, as you have done, in that you have blasphemed against as pure a truth as ever was spoken by prophet or apostle; for the same God that gave them authority to write the Old and New Testament, the same God gave me authority to write those things you have so much despised, and you shall find your blasphemy against those things punished with the same punishment as those that sinned against the Holy Ghost, when the prophets, apostles, and Christ were in being upon the earth.

This is not all, for you have shewed what a murdering devil you would be, if it did lie in your power; no less than burning at the stake, or some greater punishment, would satisfy your devilish spirit, could you accomplish it; just as the old serpent devil Cain, your grandfather; and bloody Bonner, your father; you know my meaning. But this I say, though you cannot accomplish your will, yet I know your desire is set on the fire of hell; therefore, according to your desire to me, it shall be done unto you; and look what measure you would have meted unto me, it must and shall be meted unto you again; for you have committed high blasphemy against the Holy Spirit that sent me, and in calling the doctrine contained in that book blasphemy, deceit, delusion, and a lie, with other wicked speeches against things you know not, which books such devils as you were not worthy to look into; and also for your serpentine nature, that would, if it were possible, persecute me to the death as aforesaid, a man that never did you any wrong, nor never saw you in my life to my knowledge; but

by your own words you shall be justified, and by your own words you shall be condemned; therefore in obedienee to my commission received from God, I do, for the aforesaid blasphemies against the Holy Spirit that sent me, and what measure you would have meted unto me if you could, the same shall be meted to you again, as burning and the like, I do pronounce Mr. Harrison, minister of Blithfeild, in Staffordshire, cursed and damned both in soul and body, from the presence of God, elect men and angels, to eternity. Your body, which is now your heaven, shall be your hell, and your proud and envious spirit shall be your devil; the one shall be as fire, and the other as brimstone, burning together to all eternity.

This is the sentence of the Lord's messenger upon thee, and thou shalt remember that thou wert told so by a true prophet. Deliver yourself from it if you

can.

LODOWICKE MUGGLETON.

To satisfy your evil mind that I have no orders from the pope, you may know that I was never above twenty miles by water in all my life, and that I am no Latin scholar at all, only I can read English, but not so perfect as many others can, yet God hath given me more knowledge in the Scriptures of the true sense of them in the English sense than any man in the world, so that I need not travel to the pope to learn knowledge from him. It was never the practice of prophets and apostles to seek after learned men for heavenly knowledge, for prophets and apostles were taught heavenly knowledge of God; so it is with me, my knowledge

man.

is of God, and not by education and learning from Also I am a freeborn Englishman, and a freeman of London by birth, and born there, and never was out of England in all my life: also I am known by person to thousands, and by name to hundreds, and to many that never saw me; so that you need not so much wonder at the strangeness of my name. Also I have been in three several prisons upon this account, and have had many persecuting enemies, and in every persecution against me there was a priest, or that you call a minister, with others that persecuted against me, but they got but little by it, but procured their further damnation; for what hath the law to do with mens damnation? The law cannot justify that which God condemns, for a sentence of damnation cometh not within the compass of the law. And so it was said by one of the judges of the land when I was tried; the judge said, the matter did not belong to the law, so I was quit: besides, I have had to do with a many of your priests, both episcopal and presbytery, and all other speakers; so that I have not been so obscure, but have been known to all sorts of people, though not to every particular man; so that you need not to question what I have said concerning you, for I shall justify that sentence upon you, and others of your coat, before any authority whatsoever, as I have done in former times.

I thought good to write these few lines, to satisfy your malicious spirit in that matter, concerning my going to the pope, (as you did suppose) and what I am, so that you may doubt no more of that matter; so that you may turn your persecuting spirit some other way, if you can tell how to state the malice of

your heart according to law; you may do it, and see if that will ease you of your eternal damnation.

October 6, 1666.

LODOWICKE MUGGLETON.

The prophet Lodowicke Muggleton's Blessing to Mrs. Anne Lowe, now the wife of Alexander Delamaine, senior. Given to her July 5, 1667.

Dear Friend in the eternal Truth, Mrs. Anne Lowe,

ACCORDING to your request I shall write these lines as followeth: first, I looked upon you to be one of the blessed of the Lord, and seed of faith, before your aunt died; but I knew the seed was smothered and stifled in you through some temporal occasions, which could not be avoided, so that the seed of faith in you could not grow to perfection; no, not so much hardly to be seen; yet I saw, in that time of darkness, that there was a love in you unto the truth, though your knowledge and experience was very weak, yet I had a good opinion of you, that in time the seed of faith in you would spring forth, and appear in its own likeness; and, according to my thoughts of you, it is come to pass, which I know your own experience can judge of it; for now you can tell, in some measure, what difference there is between light and darkness, and between ignorance and knowledge.

Secondly, I do perceive, within a short time, even since your aunt died, that your faith hath grown very much, to receive a prophet in the name of a prophet, else would you not have requested such a thing at my hands; and because you would be sure you would not be satisfied with a word from my mouth, but would have it under my hand-writing, though the word of a true prophet is as powerful to the party concerned, either in blessing or cursing, as writing is, only the party concerned cannot look upon words when they please; neither can they shew them to others, as they can writings, when I am dead and gone.

Therefore, to satisfy your request in this thing, I shall say this unto you, that I have so much discerning of what seed you are of, even of the seed of the woman, which is the seed of faith, that blessed seed, and not of the seed of the serpent, which is the seed of reason, that cursed seed; so that I am fully assured in myself, and do steadfastly believe, and my faith hath no doubt in it, neither in the blessed, nor in the cursed. Therefore, that you may be assured of your eternal happiness and salvation, without any doubt, I do, by virtue of my commission from God, and the faith I have in your eternal happiness, I do pronounce thee, Anne Lowe, one of the blessed of the Lord, both in soul and body, to all eternity; so that you need not fear, as Jacob did, when he received the blessing of his father Isaac, he feared a curse instead of a blessing, because he stole the blessing; yet, being blessed by the father that had power to bless, he was blessed, and it could not be taken off him again so I say by you, being blessed by the last true prophet of the most high God, who hath power