A Copy of a Letter written by the Prophet Lodowicke Muggleton, to Mrs. Priscilla Whitehead, containing her Blessing, bearing date from London, September 24, 1685.

Dear friend in the eternal Truth, Priscilla Whitehead,

I RECEIVED your letter dated September 11, 1684, wherein your request and petition, as you say, unto me, is, that I would be pleased to give you the blessing of eternal life with my own hand writing. You do by me as Hezekiah the King, did unto the prophet Isaiah, when the prophet told the king, that the Lord had added to his life fifteen years more, which pleased the king very well, that his life should be preserved fifteen years longer; but this did not well content him, but the prophet must shew him a sign, else he could not be contented; then the prophet must propose what sign he would have, whether of these two, whether the sun should go ten degrees faster in the dial of Ahaz than was its usual course, or ten degrees backwards; the king was sure to ask the hardest sign; therefore the prophet said, thou hast asked a great thing, yet, notwithstanding, it shall be granted thee; so likewise I do partly remember, that I did once already declare you one of the blessed of the Lord to eternity by word of mouth, and you were well pleased and satisfied with it; but since that, I perceive you have read at Mr. Delamaine's in that you call the book of life, where several of the saints are recorded to have the blessing of eternal life and salvation pronounced upon them by me; so that now you are not contented with the blessing of everlasting life

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and salvation by word of mouth, but doth sue and petition, as it were, for a sign; I may say for a sign, and that an hard one two, because it is not usual for me to give the saints a blessing by word of mouth, and writing too; but, however, your petition shall be granted you. I do perceive, that though you have the assurance of eternal life and salvation abiding in yourself by your faith in the first blessing, in that you are recorded in the book of life in heaven. When that book is opened at the resurrection, you are written one of God's elect; but I perceive your desire is to have your name written in the book of life here on earth, that is, to have your name recorded amongst the blessed of the Lord, that the age to come that shall believe, shall call you blessed. You have given in your letter sufficient testimony of your faith to be true and strong in the true God, and in this commission of the Spirit; therefore, to grant your request, I do pronounce Priscilla Whitehead one of the blessed of the Lord, both in soul and body, to eternity., of

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One of the two last Prophets and Witnesses of the Spirit that God will ever send to the end of the World with my love, and my wife's love remembered unto you.

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A Copy of a blessing wrote by the Prophet Muggleton, to Mrs. Mary Whitehead, of Braintree, bearing date from London, June 1, 1686.

Dear Friend in the true faith, Mary Whitehead,

THIS is to certify you, that I received your letter, dated May 18, 1686, written with your own hand, and with your own heart hath indited it, wherein you have expressed the sincerity of your heart, which I do believe: a child, as I may call you, so young, or as a tender plant that is watered with the dew of heaven, which makes you grow in faith, and in the knowledge of the true God, as you say, doth cause you to increase every day more and more. I am glad to hear that there is that well of the water of life digged in your heart, that will spring up in you unto eternal life, so that you may not go to draw any water out of the world's well, that is, the world's doctrine and worship, to satisfy your soul as to things of eternity. Besides, this I can say, as Christ did when on earth, in another case, concerning children, That of such is the kingdom of heaven; so I do say by you that do believe, even in your nonage as it were a child, so I say that of you and such as you are, is the kingdom of heaven prepared for. Likewise you say you long to be with me, and that you could live with me night and day; as to that, I perceive your love is great toward me, and other friends here in London, but I perceive it is not expedient at present; but wait a-while, and who knows but that good providence of God may bring things to pass in time, that may satisfy your desire in

the natural; but this I can assure you, in things spiritual and eternal, that you shall live with me, where there is no night at all, but all day; that is, an eternal day, or a day that shall never end; then shall you live with me, and with all true believers of this commission of the Spirit, in that boundless kingdom of glory, which no mortal eye can see, only the eye of faith doth see it at a distance here in mortality; but when our God shall change these our vile bodies, and make them like unto his own glorious body, then shall we see as we are seen of God, that is, when our bodies are spiritualized and immortalized, then shall we see spiritual bodies, as spiritual bodies doth see us, so that my faith here in mortality is the only evidence of those things we shall see in the state of immortality and glory, which will be fulfilled, when our God shall raise the dead; and we that die in this faith, doth die in the Lord with all the elect, God will raise first before he doth raise any one reprobate. This may seem to the reason of man at a great distance, and impossible to be done; but to a strong faith, without doubting, it is possible and easy for God to do; for the act of faith, without doubting, always taketh God's part, knowing that their is no time to the dead therefore when you and I am raised again, we shall live eternally together; and, as you being but a child in age, yet a woman grown in faith and experience, as you have expressed, that your knowledge in the true God doth increase in you every day more and more, so that your faith is always working, so that your mind is of that world to come. These things I have considered, and of your great love to me as the prophet of God, it doth proceed from a true heart, being but a child for age, and an Israelit e,'inwhom here is no guile; therefore, that the grace of God, which you

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have received already, may increase in you more and more, to the full and perfect assurance of everlasting life abiding in you, I do pronounce you, Mary Whitehead, one of the blessed of the Lord, both in soul and in body, to eternity.

Written by your friend in the eternal truth,

LODOWICKE MUGGLETON,

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

London, June 1, 1686.

A Copy of another Letter wrote by the Prophet Lodowicke Muggleton to Mrs. Anne Delamaine, Widow of Mr. Alexander Delamaine, Senior, bearing Date from London, February 3, 1687.

· Dear Friend in the eternal Truth, Anne Delamaine,

THIS is to certify you, that I received your letter, and your kind token, by the hand of our friend Thomas Ladd. I am very glad to hear from your own hand-writing, but should be far more glad to see your face, and enjoy your good company at your own house again, and so would many friends more here at London; but seeing it cannot be as yet, we may bear it more easy with patience, seeing you do bear it so patiently yourself, that is more concerned in it than we are. Faith and patience are two great virtues, which doth enable a man or woman to go through great troubles; faith makes a man to remove mountains of troubles, that is many great troubles, and pa