have fed you with loaves to the fill; for I know your desire of heart is only to labour for the meat which perisheth, and not for the meat which endureth unto everlasting life; which all those that do truly believe my commission and doctrine do eat of, and are satisfied, in the assurance of everlasting life, which God shall give them in the resurrection at the last day, which will not be a quarter of an hour after their death; for there is no time to the dead; time belongeth only to life. 7. You say, now it is in your heart further to declare, that you do for ever judge and condemn that spirit of darkness that did lead you from the light (as you say) to join with Lodowicke Muggleton. You say you do also believe that Lodowicke Mug gleton is a false prophet, and seducer, and a blasphemer of the living and true God, who is an infinite and unchangeable Spirit, and lives and walks in his people, meaning the Quakers. Here you have brought death and destruction upon your own head. You have sought after eternal death as for hid treasure, in that you, being an ignorant sottish woman, should undertake to judge a prophet, whose revelation and knowledge of God's mind in the Scriptures is beyond the knowledge and revelation of all the men in the world at this day, as my writings do declare. You, who have not the common knowledge and learning of women, and that without a cause, did never persuade you to believe me, or my doctrine. I never gave you any enticing words to encourage you to believe me. Were not the books lent you freely? they cost you nothing was there not the wine, milk, and honey of heaven given you, without price, without money; yet your full stomach loathed the honey-comb of heaven. Were not you left to your liberty to eat or not to eat, to chuse or to refuse; but you must take down into your stomach that which could not be digested, which caused you to vomit up such blasphemy against that holy Spirit that sent me, and against me that God sent. First. You have called the holy Spirit that sent me, a seducing spirit, which leads to death and destruction. Secondly. You call that book that was lent you, a wicked book. Thirdly. You do judge and condemn that spirit that wrote that book, which had almost persuaded you to be a true Christian, to be the spirit of dark ness. Fourthly. You say you do believe that Lodowicke Muggleton is a false prophet, and that he is a seducer and a blasphemer. In these words you have blasphemed against the holy Spirit that sent me. And seeing such sins as these are unpardonable, both in this world and in the world to come; therefore what measure you have met, shall be met to you again, in that you give judgment first; therefore what judgment you have judged you shall be judged with. Therefore, in obedience to my commission from God, for this your blasphemy against the Holy Ghost aforesaid, I do pronounce Isabella Malum aforesaid, cursed and damned, both soul and body, from the presence of God, elect men, and angels, to eternity. Your body shall be your hell, and that spirit of reason in you, which you call the light of Christ, shall be your devil; shall be as fire to torment you to eternity. And while you are in this world, you will hardly escape the exemplary judgment of God in this life, besides your damnation hereafter; neither can that infinite spirit without a body (which you call God, which lives and walks in you, as you imagine) deliver you from the curse a mortal man hath passed upon you. Written by LODOWICKE MUGGLETON. London, October 1, 1674. I did not write this so large only for your sake, but for the sake of others that shall come to see it or hear it read, because it shall be recorded for the age to come. A Copy of a Letter wrote by the Prophet Lodowicke Muggleton to John Gratton, of Derbyshire, bearing date October 8, 1669. John Gratton, I UNDERSTAND you sent a letter to Thomas Page; I perceive you are the man that lives in Derbyshire, and was acquainted with some of my friends there; which thereby you came to see some of my writings, for I think you never bought any but what you borrowed: also I remember you writ a letter to me then, to answer some questions you propounded; and you pretended to our friend at that time, as if you did believe many things in the book; to which I sent you an answer, that you deserved the curse rather than an answer to those questions: this is many years since; I have not heard any thing of you since till now; and not only so, but you are turned Quaker, and a speaker of the Quakers, so that now you are a two-fold child of the devil more than you were; before you were a child of the devil, when you writ to me, and you turning Quaker made you a two-fold child more than what you seemed to own my writings; for being a speaker of the Quakers, it is impossible for you to repent, or to be saved; for God hath given you up to a reprobate mind, in that you did not like to retain your true God, who hath both form and nature; I say you did not like to retain him in your knowledge, therefore he hath given you up to a reprobate mind, to be a Quaker, to believe that there is no God, but what is in you; and that the light that is within you, that convinceth you of sin, is the very God, and very Christ; so that your God hath never a body, nor your Christ hath never a body neither; this is the absolute spirit of Antichrist in this last age; so that I perceive by your letter, that you have not only slunk away from that doctrine which you did once seem to like, but have spoken evil of that, and me also, and your letter is a sufficient witness against you to to me, that you are the seed of the serpent, a reprobate, who is given over to a strong delusion to believe a lie, that there is no God but what is within you; who denies God to become flesh, and that all the fulness of the Godhead dwelt in him bodily, as saith the Scriptures: this is denied by you anti-christian Quakers; for which thing sake hath the wrath of the true God fallen upon many of your leading Quakers. And now you have taken upón you to be a teacher, or leader of the anti-christian army of Quakers, so that you may expect the same wrath that your brethren have undergone before you; for this your wickedness beforesaid, I do pronounce John Gratton cursed and damned, both soul and body, from the presence of God, elect men and angels, to eternity. Your light of Christ within you, nor that God within you, shall not deliver you from that curse a mortal man hath passed upon you; and you shall know, to your endless pain and shame, that Muggleton's words will reach your life, which you say is in God; so that your God and your life shall perish together; and my God, which you say will be found no God, shall keep you and your imaginary God, a spirit without a body, in utter darkness to eternity. Written by LODOWICKE MUGGLETON. From the Postern-gate, A Copy of a Letter written by the prophet Lodowicke Muggleton to Mr. Thomas Tompkinson, of Sladehouse, in Staffordshire, dated from London, July 1, 1675. Loving Friend in the true Faith, Thomas Tompkinson, THIS is to certify you, that I received your letter, dated June 17, 1675; as also to let you know, |