that hath a melancholy troubled spirit, to give her physic, or let her blood. It was the only means to procure an absolute despair, and to procure madness of. That is the cause the keepers of Bedlam doth practise to every person that is distempered in the brain; by physic and letting of blood, they make the spirit of the person so weak, that they can never get strength in the brain more to the day of their death. But if you had given her nothing but kitchen physic, that is, all kinds of broths, or spoon-meats, your sister's spirits would have been strengthened, and have been made strong, to reason out those melancholy thoughts yet, notwithstanding, if your sister's trouble of mind doth arise from either of those two causes aforesaid, or any other cause whatsoever, let her confess it to you, her sister; and if she can but believe that I am a true prophet of the Lord, and hath power to bless some to eternity, and to curse some to eternity, as yourself and several others hath believed, and are blessed both in soul and body to eternity; and you have assurance of eternal life abiding in yourself, by the blessing and faith you have in me that God hath sent; for without faith in God's messengers it is impossible to please God: therefore I shall say this unto your sister, though unknown unto me, that if she doth declare the true ground and cause how this melancholy did first arise in her thoughts to you, her sister, Mary Gamble, and to nobody else, it shall be as well as if she had declared it unto me myself. And let the cause be what it will, I will assure her, if she can but believe my words in this letter, that her sins are forgiven her, and that her faith in me shall give the assurance of everlasting life that shall abide in herself. Thus, with my love remembered to your

sister unknown, and unto you, Mary Gamble, and to your husband in particular,

So resteth your friend in the true faith of the true personal God, the Lord Jesus Christ, upon his throne of glory,

LODOWICKE MUGGLETON. And if your sister can read print-hand, let her read our books, and if she doth but understand what she reads, it will be great satisfaction to her mind, and cast out all evil thoughts, and will settle her mind in peace.

August 29, 1687.

A Copy of a Blessing wrote by the Prophet Lodowicke Muggleton to Mrs. Mary Whitehead, the Wife of Mr. James Whitehead, of Braintree, bearing date from London, November 17, 1687.

Dear friend in the true faith, Mary Whitehead, the Wife of James Whitehead,

I UNDERSTAND by your husband that you are not satisfied with the blessing which I gave unto you by word of mouth, except I give it you in writing, as I have to several others of this faith. I had thoughts never to have given the blessing in writing to any person more, which had received it by word of mouth before; for that blessing by word of mouth will be as sure and true as the other, in case they that have it by word of mouth, doth hold out in their faith to the end of their lives, and not rebel against it, as some which you know have done; but indeed I never did knew any person, neither man nor woman, that did

revolt or rebel, which had the blessing by me in writing, not this five and thirty years; but because you made your husband your advocate unto me in this thing, I having no writing nor request from your own hand, nor your own mouth, as I have had from all others, I may say, as one did in the Scriptures, thou hast asked a great thing, yet, notwithstanding, your request shall be granted in this thing. I always had a respect for you in the days of your ignorance, because you did not speak against this commission of the Spirit, though you could not truly believe it; but since you have truly believed the doctrine declared by this commission of the Spirit, wherein you have received in your understanding the knowledge of the true God, in his form and nature, and the right devil, in his form and nature, with many more heavenly mysteries and secrets of God's dealings with mankind; and in that you have believed my report, and have owned me to be the last true prophet that God will ever send to this bloody unbelieving world, while this world doth endure, and that I have power to give you a blessing of everlasting life, both by word of mouth, and by writing, by this I do know, that do set to your seal that I have that power from the true God, as I have declared in all my writing; therefore your request in this thing shall be granted you. This is all I shall say unto you, my dear friend Mary Whitehead, the wife of James Whitehead, I do declare you one of the blessed of the Lord, both in soul and body, to eternity.

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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, November 17, 1668.

A Copy of a Letter written by the Prophet Lodowicke Muggleton to Mrs Sarah Delamaine, Daughter to Mr. Alexander Delamaine, Senior, Wife of Robert Delamaine, bearing date December 14, 1691.

Dear and loving friend in the eternal Truth, Sarah Delamaine,

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YOUR desire it was to me to give you blessing of everlasting life in writing, notwithstanding I have given you the blessing by word of mouth many years ago, which I was unwilling to do; but you being so urgent upon me to do it, made me promise to give you the blessing in writing; so that I have considered that you have read in that book which your own father did send for, those letters that were sent to me for the blessing of everlasting life to eternity in many parts of England and Ireland, and many other parts of this world, which many of them never saw me in all their lives, yet were satisfied in their minds, and had the assurance of eternal life abiding in themselves while in this natural life, by believing in this commission of the Spirit, which is the last commission that God will ever send unto this bloody, unbelieving world, while this world doth last; and that book which your husband hath, it was your father's care and charge, and your mother-in-law's too, to get it recorded for the ages to come after my death, and it will be found at the last day as a book of life to all those whose names are recorded therein, to be the blessed of the Lord, because they shall have their part in the first Resurrection, so that the second death shall have no power over them; for God will raise the saints and the elect of God first, before he

doth raise one reprobate or devil. And this I do know, that your own father and own mother, and your mother-in-law, and your own brother, Alexander Delamaine, and your own husband, Robert Delamaine, will all be saved, being all blessed of the Lord to eternity, in that they truly believed in this third and last commission of the Spirit which God will ever send, when they were alive, while this world doth last or end.

And you, Sarah Delamaine, the only daughter of your father Alexander Delamaine that is alive, doth truly believe in this commission of the Spirit, and that God hath given me power to pronounce you blessed to eternity, as I have done to many others; and your desire is, that I would give you the blessing in writing, that you might be numbered amongst the blessed of the Lord; therefore, to satisfy your desire, and in obedience to my commission, I pronounce you, Sarah Delamaine, blessed, both in soul and body, to all eternity.

Written by me,

LODOWICKE MUGGLETON,

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

London, December 14, 1691.

FINIS.

Printed by W. SMITH, King Street, Long Acre.