Also, I perceive by your letter, that your faith is strong in this commission of the Spirit, and that, by your faith in us, the witnesses of the Spirit, you do in believing know those divine secrets, and heavenly revelations, which are hid from all the world besides, and revealed to none, but those few that believe our report to them few is the arm of the Lord's saving

health revealed.

Again, I do discern by your letter, that your faith is strong in those words I spake unto you when you were at London; and that they were as a seal in your forehead, sealed up unto the great day of God Almighty, unto eternal happiness in the kingdom of glory, in that world above the globe, where the person of God himself, and angels in the persons of men, do inherit; ascending and descending to one another with messages, and praises, and thanks, glory and honour, unto God the Creator eternally. And we that are his chosen prophets, and you his saints, ever since the creation of this world, shall sing the song of Moses, and the song of the lamb of Moses, and the song of the lamb unto our God, and our Redeemer, hallelujah, salvation, and glory, and honour, and power, be to the Lord our God, as he is our Redeemer. And the holy angels shall ascribe all honour, glory, and praise unto the same God, as he was their Creator, but not as their Redeemer, because God redeemed none but the seed of Adam fallen into mortality, and into death. So that by the death of God, and his quickening into life again, he hath redeemed us, not only from this natural death, but from eternal death. And as he quickened himself out of death, and made his pure natural body in the quickening, a spiritual body, to live eternally;

and by the power of this quickening Spirit will he raise our souls; and our bodies that were natural, shall rise in the quickening spiritual bodies, capable of ascending in the clouds of heaven, to meet the Lord in the air.

This is the power of our God, as he is our Redeemer.

This is a great mystery, hard to be understood but by the spirit of faith, which is the evidence of things, which the spirit of reason cannot see. For this I

say, that the spirit or seed of faith in me hath been carried up into the third heaven, where God, and the holy angels were resident; where I saw things unutterable. And when the spirit of faith descended upon earth, it brought the abundance of Revelation with it, as hath been declared by word and pen in a great measure, as many can experience and witness it this day. And many that are fallen asleep in the experience and faith of these great mysteries, which have been declared by the abundance of revelation that hath proceeded from the spirit of faith, which did first arise in me in the beginning of the year 1651, which is thirty years ago.

I would not have you think, because I speak thus, that I would lay any burthen upon you, or any other believer of this commission of the Spirit, as to expect that every one should have such a measure of faith as I speak of; but that you may by these lines grow and increase in the knowledge of these heavenly mysteries, according to the measure of faith in you.

Thus I have written these lines to answer your desire, and more than I did intend, because I know you will let other friends there with you, see it or

hear it. So I shall take leave, and rest, and remain with my love, and my wife's love unto yourself,

Your friend in the true faith in Jesus Christ, the only wise God, blessed for ever,

LODOWICKE MUGGLETON.

My love is remembered to Mr. Whitehead, and his wife, and Father Nicolls, John Lad, Goodman Thorndike, with all the rest of our friends unnamed, as those named.

A Copy of a Letter written by the Prophet Lodowicke Muggleton to Mrs. Mary Scott, of Bristol, bearing date October 12, 1681.

Dear Friend in the true Faith, Mary Scott,

I RECEIVED a letter as from you, written to Mr. Jenkins, dated the 8th instant, 1681, concerning your son John being troubled in mind concerning his future state and condition; and that he cannot by no means be satisfied about it; therefore you desire me to send down my answer concerning it, to satisfy your son thereabout; wherein you desire me, and all our friends, to put up our petitions to the Lord for him.

As to this, your request is a thing something contrary to the practice of this commission of the Spirit,

for me to send an answer, or to take off the trouble of a man's mind, which I have had no experience of his practice of life, nor of his faith in the true God, nor in me, the messenger of God, neither do I know what is the cause of his trouble of mind, whether it be for some sin he hath committed, even some actual sin, for actual sin hath the sting of eternal death in it; for the sting of death is sin, and the strength of sin is the law, as the apostle saith; or whether this trouble of mind doth arise from his own ignorance in the knowledge of the true God, and the right devil, fearing God's prerogative power in election and reprobation; and that he may be a cast-away by God's prerogative will and pleasure; and who shall gain say it?

These two things are the cause of all men's trouble of mind in this world, both saint and devil: but actual sin is most generally the cause of despair, which doth wound the spirit of men, which is more than he can bear.

So that I cannot give any judgment upon him, neither good nor evil; not absolute good, because he hath not believed our doctrine nor commission ; nor evil, because he hath not despised any thing declared by me. Yet this I will say for his comfort, that if sin be the cause of his trouble of mind, let him confess it to you his mother, as in the presence of God, and forsake it, and act it no more, and he shall find mercy and peace in his soul. And if the trouble of his mind doth arise from the other thing aforesaid, or any other cause but sin, then I would desire him to submit to God's prerogative power, to do what he will with him after death; do righteous and just things between man and man, and do not trouble himself what shall become of him after

death; and I do assure him he shall have peace of mind for the present, and may come hereafter to the knowledge of the truth, will give him the assurance of everlasting life in himself, as you his mother, and many others, have at this day.

These lines will prove a good prayer unto him, if he do but believe and do it.

This is as much as I can say, in answer to your letter, and as to your son; and I wish my words may take place in him, then will salvation encrease in his soul.

So I shall take leave and remain your assured friend in the eternal Truth,

LODOWICKE MUGGLETON.

London, October 12, 1681.

A Copy of a Letter wrote by the Prophet Lodowicke Muggleton to Mrs. Dorothy Carter, of Chesterfield, in Derbyshire, bearing date from London, February 1, 1682.

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Dear Friend in the true faith, Dorothy Carter,

I HAVE seen two letters, which our dear friend Elizabeth Marsden (whom I always loved well ever since she was a child, in comparison of age) sent to our friend Mrs. Griffith, which two letters are in your be