A Copy of a Letter written by the Prophet Lodowicke Muggleton to Mrs. Dorothy Carter; being a relation of some Passages in a Discourse with George Whitehead, and Josias Cole, two Speakers of the Quakers, in the Year 1668; as also some relation of that cursed Devil Thomas Loe, Speaker of the Quakers, and how the Effects of God's Vengeance did seize upon him, immediately after the Return of an Answer to his cursed blasphemous Letter sent to me, and in less than three Weeks after was dead and buried.

1. THE first question or words Cole spake to me, as near as I can remember, were these: saith he, thou sayest God is in the form of a man, and thou sayest his hand is not much bigger than mine or thy hand; and thou seest what a little this hand will hold; yet, saith he, God is said to have measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and behold the nations are as the drop of a bucket.

Why, said I, do you believe God to be so big to hold the waters in the hollow of his hand? That is spoken in relation to his great wisdom, power and do. minion, and not relating to the bigness of his hand; for a king may conquer many kingdoms by the power of his sword, which his people have put into their hands by his command; and the king may say he hath won these kingdoms, and reduced them to obedience to his laws by the strength of his own hand; yet the king's hand is no bigger in bulk and bigness than another man's hand is also I said, that

I that am but a mortal man, have power over such a great God, whose hand is so big; for, said I, that God, whose hand is much bigger than thy hand or mine, I have power over to condemn. This was passed by, and no reply from them.

2. Whitehead said, he did hear one say that I had damned, that I should say I was as glad I had given judgement and sentence of damnation upon him, as if one had given me forty shillings.

This I did acknowledge to be true, for I have said so by several desperate devils, and I am justified in the sight of God, and in my own conscience, for so doing.

3. Whitehead said, that he did hear that I had cursed a man, and he changing his apparel, came afterwards, and did procure a blessing; and that this man, or some other, did smite or knock a pewter-pot upon or over my head.

This I said was a lie, and false, for never did any man strike me over the head with a pot in all my life; and as for that report which Pope, that damned devil, in saying he was blest after he was curst, it is a false report, and a lie, that he hath reported several times amongst ranters and Quakers; for this Pope was a ranter when he was curst, which is about fifteen years ago, and is a worse ranter now than he was then, and that you Quakers know very well what a wicked piece he is, and the wicked lustful life he liveth now in; yet you Quakers will rather believe this damned devil, and wicked lustful person, than believe me, who have been kept innocent from the breach of any law, from my childhood to this day; but I know you Quakers, being of the same nature and seed of the serpent, as those Jews were in Christ's time, who desired of Pilate, that a thief and

a murderer should be delivered from death, rather than Jesus, the Lamb of God that taketh away the sins of the world: so it is with you Quakers, you had rather belive this wicked lustful devil Pope, who hath from his youth, till now, had sin and wickedness reigning as lord and king in his mortal body: I say, you had rather believe him, even this notable sinner, than to believe me, who am the Prophet of the most high God, the man Christ Jesus in glory, and have power given of God, as Moses had, to set life and death before you; but I know you will say in the thoughts of your hearts, though not in words as those Jews did by Christ, away with Muggleton, let us have Pope, that wicked lustful man, that we might hear and inquire of him.

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4. Whitehead espied a knot of ribbon upon the sleeve of my coat, and said, Why doest thou wear this vanity? Also I said to Whitehead, why doest thou wear silk buttons upon both thy coats? said they were necessary; and I said no, he might wear hooks and eyes, or ilet-holes; so that was past by.

Again, I did say I did wear ribbons on purpose that I might not be taken or thought to be a Quaker, for I do hate the Quakers' principles; with that Whitehead said, that thou hatest all righteousness, and spake as if himself and Cole were writing against me, in answer to mine against George Fox, and some other things or words they had catched from me in discourse to make me manifest: also one ugly flighting word did Whitehead speak against the personal God, which I do own, that he would trample him and me under his feet as dirt, with some other words of flighting and undervaluing my power; whereupon I did pronounce George Whitehead cursed

and damned, in soul and body, to eternity: also I said his God within him is cursed, and that God he believed or trusted in without him was damned with him, and so ceased discourse with him.

5. When Cole had heard me speak thus unto Whitehead he was stiil, till I had ended with Whitehead, but I saw his eyes dazzle, and his spirit working within him, so immediately after he uttered these words, or such like: saith he, I have heard of several thou hast cursed, but, said he, I did not believe, had I not heard and seen, that a man could have spoken so presumptuously.

Then said I unto him, dare you say that I have spoken presumptuously? He said, he did believe it was presumption; then said I, on the contrary, I do believe thou art the seed of the serpent, and wilt be damned; and now see whose faith will be strongest, yours or mine; for my faith shall keep you down or under for ever. Under what? Said he. I said, under eternal damnation. Then said. he, doest thou ground thy sentence upon my belief? I said yea I do, for you believe that I spake presumptuously, and I do believe you to be the seed of the serpent, and will be damned to eternity. Then said he, doest thou judge this to be a sentence upon me? Yea, said I, what should it be else? Then Cole rose up with a zeal for his God within him, and said, I told thee before that I would try thee and thy God, saying, they were setting forth a writing against me; and withal, Cole pronounced many curses upon me, with his eyes full of dazzled babies in them; and Whitehead, he came with great threatening of judgements upon me, they being both so full of curses together, that I can hardly tell what they said, their curses were so many and so

various, so that I could not tell which curse of them both did most concern me to take notice of, only one passage I do remember Cole said, that Í should sink in the pit of darkness, and such like words; he used the word darkness many times, but their words were both together, so that their words took no place in me, no not so much as to remember what they said; but I perceive Cole's curses were much like unto Thomas Loe's curses in his letter to me.

Many words more there was between us at that time, but these are the words and passages of most concernment at that time, and of a final judgement and sentence of eternal damnation, that I gave that day upon Josias Cole and George Whitehead, speakers of the Quakers.

This I do discern and observe in these two men, first, that Josias Cole is of the Spirit of the Sadducees, and more fit to tempt, being more moderate in his words than the other was; for that devil that tempted Christ, spoken of Matthew, Chapter iv. was a Sadducee, yea a wise and prudent man, whose wisdom of reason is more qualified with moderation in discourse than the Pharisee is, so more fit to tempt than the Pharisee is; so I know that devil that tempted Christ was a man that was a Sadducee in his spirit, whatever he pretended to the rulers of the Jews, therefore more fit to propound questions to Christ than the Pharisees were; likewise I do know that Josias Cole sprang from that Sadducee that tempted Christ, and so was the more fit to tempt me, and I did like his spirit of moderation well, and was not offended at his temptations nor his questions until he called that presumption I said unto Whitehead. Also this I know, that George Whitehead,