Quakers people being of a more Anti-christian spirit, and fighters against God, a personal God, than any others whatsoever, therefore the curse I have pronounced upon the Quakers people, it hath taken more visible effect upon them than any others; for the Quakers God and Christ is all within them, and from this God within them do they fight with my God which is without me, even the man Christ Jesus in that body that was nailed to a tree, as the Scripture saith, which is without me. For at what time did any man ever hear any that professeth the Scriptures, or the Christian religion, to say they would trample Christ Jesus, my God and me, under their feet as dung, and despise a God of five foot high, as you Quakers have done; for you Quakers know that I own no other God but the man Christ Jesus in glory, and he to be both God and man in one single person; yet you defy this God of mine, and say you would trample him and me under your feet as dirt, for which things hath the wrath of this God fallen upon you Quakers, and the curse pronounced by me, his messenger, hath taken place in some of the eminent Quakers; for the curse pronounced by me, God's messenger, is to part your Christ within you one from another; for you Quakers do not die, as you say, you do but go out of the body; but sure, when you do go out of the body, your Christ within you, sure your soul and he doth part one from another, and never shall see one the other more to eternity; and this hath been the effect of the curse upon some of you Quakers, only to separate Christ's spirit from yours, that you may never see one the other more to eternity. And seeing these things have fallen out in these my days, and that God hath chosen me to stand as a wall of brass against all Anti

christian spirits, for every hypocritical spirit to shoot their arrows at me; but none can hurt me, nor make any entrance into me, because the whole armour of God is put upon me; my feet are shod with peace, my breast with the breast-plate of righteousness, and upon my head is set the helmet of salvation, and in my left hand is put a shield of faith, and in my right hand is put a two-edged sword, so that no fiery dart of the devil, man or woman, can enter me, or hurt me ; and with this two-edged sword in my right hand have I fought with many men devils, and have overcome them, and yet received no wound myself. And now, last of all, there is a woman devil, namely, Elizabeth Hooton; she hath shot forth her poisonous arrows at me in blasphemy, curses, and words, thinking herself stronger than her brethren, that if happily her poisonous arrows might pierce into me; seeing that so many of her Quakering brethren to fall before me, she was moved with great wrath against me, and zeal for her God and Christ within her, and madness, that some of her brethren, the Quakers, after the curse pronounced upon them for their blasphemy, they went out of the body, or laid down their bodies, as Thomas Leigh did. This moved her to pour out the poison that was in her heart, with her tongue set on the fire of hell against me, in curses and blasphemy, thinking her poisonous arrows and venomous tongue should have took hold or place in me, more than her brethrens curses did before; but as the men devils your brethren the Quakers, were made partakers of God's vengeance by the curse of his messenger, in that they blasphemed and despised the true God as aforesaid, in that they are damned to eternity, besides their going out of the body here as you think, so will

the same curse follow you for your wicked, proud, presumptous speeches, in that you, being a woman, will undertake to pronounce woe and curses to one that hath a commission from God; yet you, from a light within you, and a Christ within you, a sandy foundation one, a puff of wind from a true prophet will lay it level to the earth: and would it not have been great pity, that such a she devil as you are should have escaped the sentence of eternal damnation? Surely it would; and because you shall know for what you are damned, I shall rehearse some of your wicked speeches, curses, and blasphemy, which have proceeded out of your mouth,

First. You say, woe unto thee, Muggleton, thou child of the devil.

Secondly. You say, I have opened my mouth in blasphemy and cursing.

Thirdly. You say, I am cursed in my going out, and in my coming in.

Fourthly. You say, I shall roar in hell, and all such as be of my spirit.

Fifthly. You say, the same hand as cut off my brother Reeve, and shortened his days, the same will cut off me.

Sixthly. You have called me sorcerer, because I have cast the devil and witchcraft spirit out of some of you Quakers, and bound some quaking devils, unclean spirits, in chains of darkness and fetters of death, that shall never be let loose to eternity.

These things have been wrought and much more, by the commission of God in me, for which you call me sorcerer, as those devils did say by Christ when on earth. He cast out many devils and unclean spirits out of men and women, and they said he did it by Belzebub, the prince of devils. So say you Quakers

by me; and you, Elizabeth Hooton, Quaker, have, in a high manner, like them, also sinned against the Holy Ghost that sent me, with great pride and high presumption, as may be read before.

Therefore, in obedience to my commission from the true God, the man Christ Jesus in glory, in heaven above the stars, I do pronounce Elizabeth Hooton, Quaker, for these horrid blasphemies and hard speeches against the truth, cursed and damned, both in soul and body, from the presence of God, elect men and angels, to eternity.

Your own body shall be your hell, and your proud raging spirit shall be your devil; the one shall be as fire, and the other as brimstone, burning together to all eternity. Your Christ within you cannot, nor God without you will not, deliver you from the sentence I have passed upon you.

Written by

LODOWICKE MUGGLETON.

One of the two last Prophets and Witnesses of the Spirit unto the High and Mighty God the Man Christ Jesus in Glory.

January 26, 1668.

The Copy of a Letter written by the Prophet Lodowicke Muggleton, to Mrs. Parker, May 25, 1668.

Loving Friend, Mrs. Parker,

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I HEAR by Mrs. Sudbury that you have been very ill, else you would have written to me yourself; I should have been glad to have received a few lines from yourself, if you can write, though it may be may think you cannot express yourself as you would, yet let not that be any hinderance to you, for it is not the wisdom of placing words that I mind, but the sincerity of the heart; for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh, or writeth, whether it be in things that are good, or in things that are evil. I confess I do not know you by the sight of the eye, nor by writing; but I have heard a good report of you by others, as one that doth truly believe the truth, especially by Mrs. Sudbury. She giveth a good character of you, as one grounded in the true faith; as if your knowledge did arise very high, in believing all things declared by me, and that you have a good understanding in the rise of the two seeds, and how God became flesh, with other things; and that you have received much peace and satisfaction in your mind, since you believed in this commission of the Spirit. I do not in the least question the report that is given you by others, but am altogether inclined to believe it, especially from such persons as have experience in themselves, they can judge of the experience in others also; there are few persons that have a love for me,