bound altogether; the price is eleven shillings, and some friends will have two of them to help me away with them, for I do intend to sell no more of the three great volumes not single; that is to say, The Divine Looking-Glass, The Eleventh of the Revelation, and The Whole Revelation, but what are bound altogether; so that the believers may do me a great pleasure to take some of them off my hand, and do themselves no great harm; for the time may come, ere long, that they may have more for them than they give me; but, however, as the old proverb is, they will eat no bread, it will be only so much money lie dead: so that if you be free to take one, and send eleven shillings by my wife, and she shall bring one to you.

So resteth your friend in the true faith,

LODOWICKE MUGGLETON.

Postern, May 16, 1673.

A Copy of a Letter wrote by the Prophet Lodowicke Muggleton to John Harriot, bearing date from London, July 16, 1673.

John Harriot,

YOU may remember that I did send to my cousin Elizabeth White, two books, the one was concerning The Mortality of the Soul, and the other

was The Interpretation of the 11th of the Revelations; it was many years ago, I suppose nine or ten years ago, since I sent them to my cousin White, but I could never hear that they were received by her, or no other; but now of late I am informed, that you her son-in-law, that married her daughter, did receive them, and not only so, but you have burned them. I do remember that you, and Samuel Butler the tanner, had some discourse with me and Mr. Hudson at that time; you did then a little shew yourself what seed you were of at that time, even the seed of the serpent; yet for cruelty's sake, because you married my cousin's daughter, I did take little notice of your words at that time; likewise you were desirous that I should send your mother-in-law those books, because she could not read, that you might read them 'to her; but it seems that you were so offended at them, that you burned them: you should have burned that which was your own, you never paid a penny for them, neither were they sent to you, but to my cousin, and if you had not liked them, you should have given them to others, or have sent them to me again, then should you have escaped that unpardonable sin against the Holy Ghost, which God will not forgive in this world, nor in the world to come : for you have done despite unto the Spirit of Grace, in that you burned those writings that were penned by the Revelation of the Holy Spirit of God in us. I know would have burned me as you did them, if you could with as much ease as you did them; also I know you would have done as much by Christ himself, if he were upon the earth, as you do by me; and in burning those books, you have committed high blasphemy against the Holy Ghost, a sin that will never be forgiven, neither in this world, nor

you

in the world to come; and it would have been good for you if you had never been born: but you have shewed yourself of the reprobate seed of the serpent, appointed for eternal damnation; therefore, in obedience to my commission received from God, for this your wicked, envious, malicious burning those books without any cause, I do pronounce you cursed and damned, in soul and body, from the presence of God, elect men and angels, to all eternity. And you shall remember in your death, and in the Resurrection, that you were told so by one of the two last Prophets and Witnesses of the Spirit; neither will God deliver you from this curse which I have pronounced upon you, but it shall be as sure upon you, as if God himself had spoken it; for God always gave his Prophets and Apostles power to bless and curse to eternity, that is, to forgive sins, and retain sins; and this sin and blasphemy against the Holy Ghost, in burning those books, that you have committed, is that unpardonable sin, which Christ saith will never be forgiven in this world, nor in the world to come: besides, sins of this nature doth seldom escape a double curse, even crosses and poverty in this life, besides your damnation hereafter. Your sin hath lain hid a long time, but now is brought to sight. Furthermore, I understand, that Samuel Butler, and Mr. Smith the minister, were confederates with you in advising and counselling you to burn them; for I perceive you three are all of the Presbytery religion, and you three are in union, and do rule the whole town in matters of religion, if not in temporal affairs, because you three can prattle upon the letter of the Scriptures than any others in the town, yet more blind and ignorant in the knowledge of the true God, and all heavenly and spiritual knowledge, than the

ignorant men of the town that is in his right senses; but because you think, and say within yourselves, you see, therefore your sin of blasphemy and blindness of mind doth and shall remain upon you; and as to Samuel Butler, I shall say this, that if he were confederates with you to burn them, or any other way, or had any hand in it whatsoever, I do pronounce Samuel Butler cursed and damned, soul and body, from the presence of God, elect men and angels, to eternity; but if he be innocent, and not guilty in no kind whatsoever, then this curse shall take no place in him, nor be of no effect; but if guilty, then it shall remain upon him to eternity, as aforesaid. Likewise if Mr. Smith, your minister, hath been confederates with you in burning those books, in giving his advice or counsel, or persuading you, or had any hand whatsoever in your burning those books, then I do pronounce Mr. Smith, your minister, cursed and damned, both in soul and body, from the presence of God, elect men and angels, to eternity; but if he be innocent and guiltless of this crime, then this curse shall be of no effect upon him; but if he be guilty of the burning of those books in any kind whatsoever, then shall this curse remain upon him to eternity. Furthermore, if any other persons, either men or women, that had any hand, or gave their consent willingly to the burning of those books, whoever they be, they are cursed and damned, both in soul and body, from the presence of God, elect men and angels, to eternity.

Written by

LODOWICKE MUGGLETON.

July 16, 1673.

A Copy of a Letter sent by the Prophet Lodowicke Muggleton, to Cork, in Ireland, being the sentence of damnation upon twenty-six Quakers there.

Cork, in Ireland, the 11th of July, 1673.

AT the quarterly meetings of Quakers, they have drawn up a declaration, or testimony, in the behalf of all the Quakers, against John Reeve and Lodowicke Muggleton; whereunto six and twenty Quakers have set their hands, as a testimony against Reeve and Muggleton.

The true Copy of this Testimony, as it came to my hands, is as followeth, viz.

The God of eternal glory, who, by the arm of his living power, hath in these latter days of the world, gathered a remnant to himself, and brought them into fellowship and acquaintance with him; in whom he hath poured out of his Holy Spirit, according to his promise, as the prophets and the holy men of God in ages and generations past, whereby they are enabled, with an infallible discerning, (as in his holy covenant and council they abide) to try the spirits that come into the world, whether they be of God

or not.

And whereas there is a spirit, that hath come forth into the world, and lain lurking in secret places for a season, and now begins to enlarge itself, by the erroneous doctrines of John Reeve and Lodowicke Muggleton, setting forth themselves to be the two