not left judgment to God. These things aforesaid are the most considerable passages in your large letter to your brother Alexander, and the very quintessence of your knowledge in the letter of the Scriptures, wherein you have taken up dead mens words, to fight with a man that is alive; you do as if a man should take the sheath of a sword in his hand, to fight with him that hath a glittering sword in his hand, with two edges, which cuts every way; for the letter of the Scriptures is but the sheath for the two-edged sword of the Spirit to be in: and God hath drawn forth this glittering sword with two edges, out of the letter of the Scriptures, and hath put it into two single men's mouths, and hath given us power to bless and curse to eternity: so that it doth not peculiarly belong to God but unto man; and had you believed in me, you should have believed God that sent me; but in that you have despised that two men should know more of God than all men in the world, you have despised God also, and have sinned against the Holy Ghost, and God hath made me your judge in his stead.

The blasphemies you have spoken are these:

1. That the letter of the Scriptures ought to be credited as if God did speak himself.

2. You prefer the words of Peter and Paul, being dead so many hundred years, to be of more consequence now than the voice of words God spake to John Reeve.

3. You call the commission of the Spirit a supposed commission and imagination.

4. You call the commission your brother owns

and believes, error, and strong delusion, and high impostures, and pretended revelations and commissions.

5. You utterly deny the body, or person of Christ Jesus, to be Father, Son, and Holy Spirit: this you say is utterly false.

6. You say, the distinction your brother giveth of Christ being Father, Son, and Spirit, in plain terms, is a piece of nonsense.

7. You call the talk of this commission of the Spirit a whimsey of the brain, and no less than delusion.

8. You call the doctrine of this commission of the Spirit a new-broached light.

These things being considered, I thought it something necessary to answer the things of most note in your letter to your brother Alexander; for in that you despise his advice and counsel, and doctrine and commission he owns, you have despised me and my doctrine. So I have collected the most wickedest speeches of yours out of your letter, wherein you may plainly see the cause of your condemnation is just upon you, in that you think you have free-will to save yourself from eternal damnation; yet your free-will could not preserve you from the sin against the Holy Ghost, notwithstanding you saw Noble, the Baptist-preacher, damned before your face, for the same sins; yet he spake but few words to what you have done in your letter.

These things considered, in obedience to my commission from God, I do, for these your wicked speeches afore-written, pronounce Edward Delamain, Baptist-preacher, cursed and damned, both in soul

and body, from the presence of God, elect men, and angels, to all eternity.

And it will be a marvelous thing if you do escape a very mean, low, even almost a vagabond condition in this life, besides your damnation hereafter; for this I must tell you, that sins of this nature seldom escape a double curse. But now you may go see if you can preach and pray this curse off you again; and if your will had any power in it, now you had best bestir yourself

Written by

LODOWICKE MUGGLETON,

One of the Lord's two last Witnesses and Prophets unto the High and Mighty God, the Man Christ Jesus in Glory.

A Copy of a Letter wrote by the Prophet Lodowicke Muggleton, to Mrs. Mary Parker, August 13, 1668.

Loving and kind friend, Mary Parker,

I RECEIVED your letter inclosed in Mrs. Sudbury's letter, and I find in your letter many excellent expressions, and words of faith and confidence in those truths declared by this commission of the Spirit as in that great mystery, that God became flesh, and God did die to redeem the elect seed, the seed

of faith, from eternal death and in that you have believed the report of us the witnesses of the Spirit, and have cast yourself wholly upon this commission of the Spirit, the arm of the Lord's saving health is revealed unto you in a measure already, in that you have found light and life in believing; and the salvation of the Lord shall be revealed unto you more and more, even from strength to strength, until a perfection of faith in you, so that no doubt shall arise in your heart as to your eternal happiness; but the light of faith in you, built upon this rock you have cast yourself upon, it will shew you how all the world doth lie in wickedness, ignorance, and darkness; nay, all religious, righteous, and good-natured people are in darkness, and ignorant altogether of this great thing, that God should become a child, and grow to a man, and eat and drink with man, and so suffer death by his own creatures, in that he poured out his soul unto death, in that he poured out the Godhead life, that was in the blood; therefore, the blood of Christ was no less than the blood of God; and whoever doth believe this, doth really and truly, by faith, drink the blood of God, and hath eternal life abiding in them; that is, the full assurance of eternal life abides here in them in this life, and so enters into eternal glory, when this natural life shall die; for there is no time to the dead.

I confess, I do not know that ever I did see you in my life; but your letter doth shew to me what your heart is, as I shall add this to your further confidence of faith and comfort of heart, that I do declare you are of the blessed of the Lord both in soul and body to eternity; in that I perceive you have received in your heart a prophet in the name of a prophet, you

shall have a prophet's reward, which reward is no less than the blessing of eternal life.

So resteth your friend, though unknown by sight, but known by truth in the eternal truth,

LODOWICKE MUGGLETON.

Postern, August 13, 1668.

A Copy of a Letter written by the Prophet Lodowicke Muggleton, to Mr. Thomas Tompkinson, bearing date from London, September 21, 1665.

Loving and kind Friend, Thomas Tompkinson,

I UNDERSTAND by Elizabeth Bootham, that you have not received those books that came out of the press last, in answer to George Foxe; also I heard Mr. Delamaine's letter you sent to him, and you made no mention of the receipt of the books, which I did much marvel at; but I perceive by your letter to Elizabeth Bootham, that you have not received them yet; therefore I thought good to let you understand, that I did send five books to you; it is now almost six weeks since: also I sent a letter with them, and another enclosed from your maid, but it seems you have received none, which is a very base thing of the carrier, that could not have conveyed the letter to you before now; but I perceive it was partly your maid's fault, for she and my wife went together,