And though you are come to the purest life in respect of righteousness towards men, which may give some peace, because every action hath its reward in it, whether it be good or evil; but as for the true righteousness of faith, you have not as yet tasted of it, because you have no true foundation as a rock to set your faith upon; for the Quakers principles is but a sandy foundation for a man's eternal happiness, as well as the others, because there is no true spiritual principle declared nor believed by none of the ministry of the seven churches, because there is none of the ministry of the Quakers, nor none others that hath a commission from the true God; therefore they cannot declare and make known what the form and nature of the true God was before he became flesh, nor now that he is become flesh, nor the form and nature of the right devil, before he became flesh, nor what he is now, though no man can see any other devil or devils, but man and woman, that is cloathed with flesh and bone; neither doth any of the ministry know the place and nature of heaven, nor the place and nature of hell, with the persons and natures of angels, nor the mortality of the soul. Those six principles, or grounds of faith, is all that is necessary unto salvation, in which all the teachers of the world are ignorant of, but this commission of the Spirit only.

And as the Quakers ministry is the seventh and last angel that will sound, till time be no more, therefore it seemeth to carry the purest show in righteousness of life, but the most cursed of all in point of doctrine; and the spirit of it is the absolute spirit of Antichrist, which doth deny both the Father and the Son; for though they do confess a Christ within them, yet they deny the very person or body of

Christ without them. This I know by experience, for which, at a dispute in East-Cheap, there was five of them damned to eternity, whereof George Fox the younger, and John Harwood, were two of them; and as for Fox the elder, he and Francis Hewgill, and James Burroughes, were all of them damned devils eight years ago; and not only those, but many more of the Quakers, and many other opinions whatsoever; and as the Quakers are the last angel will sound, so is the third and last commission of the Spirit come forth upon the earth, which is to finish the mystery of God, and to encounter and oppose all spiritual counterfeits, whether it be in Quakers, or any others whatsoever, because there is none that hath a commission from God but us two; neither can any man truly interpret Scripture but us two only, neither hath any man the knowledge of those things aforesaid, because we two are to finish the deep and secret mysteries of God's becoming flesh, which Moses, the prophets and apostles so much hinted at, up and down in the Scriptures, so that there cannot be the assurance of eternal happiness but in the belief of a commission.

Therefore, think you what you will of yourself, and of the Quakers principles, it is not all the sanctification of life which you or they can do that will procure your peace with God, except you, that are not under the sentence of this commission, do come to own the doctrine of the true God, and the right devil, which is held forth by this commission of the Spirit, and then your sanctification of life will add to your comfort here, and to your glory hereafter.

I write not this unto you as expecting you to be a disciple of this commission, but because you shall understand that there was a true prophet in these

latter days, as well as there was in former times, which you do so much honour, because they are all dead, and that now the deepest mysteries of the true God, the right devil, with many other heavenly secrets which lay hid from the foundation of the earth, but now revealed both by word and power by this commission of the Spirit, or spiritual commission, which you, and many thousands more, cannot be ignorant of, and say that you did never hear of it; but if there be not that in your seed, that should lay hold of life when it is set before you, then the seed is appointed unto cursings; for this commission doth set life and death before men, as truly as Moses did set life and death before the people of Israel.

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These lines I have written unto you, that you might, if it be possible, understand truth, that is now alive in the world, and not to depend upon the dead letter of the Scriptures, nor upon the lying imaginations of the Quakers, which bids you hearken to the light within you, but denies the person of the true God without them.

So resteth the last true witness and prophet unto the true God, the man Christ Jesus in glory,

LODOWICKE MUGGLETON.

A Copy of a Letter from the Prophet Lodowicke Muggleton, to Mr. Richard Sudbury, dated Nov. 3, 1662.

Friend Richard Sudbury,

I RECEIVED your letter, bearing date October the 7th, with the two inclosed letters, and am glad to hear that you are so far enlightened as to understand any of these things; for these things which the commission of the Spirit hath declared are not common, or easy to be understood, but must be comprehended by the single eye of faith, and not by the right eye of reason; for if your right eye offend, pull it out: this right eye is the reason of man, the left eye is the faith of man, and these two eyes do see, and the sight doth arise from these two seeds; so that if your eye be single, your whole body will be full of light; but if you look upon spiritual things with both eyes, is double, and not clear sighted, for reason can see the things of this world better than the things of eternity: and the eye of faith doth see the things of God better than it can the things of this world; therefore it is called a single eye; and the more faith you have in this commission of the Spirit, the more clear you will see in what condition the whole world is in, and how it lieth in darkness, being totally ignorant of the knowledge of the true God, and of the right devil; and being ignorant of these two, they miss of all other heavenly mysteries which flow as a fountain from those two heads; for what knowledge can go beyond the knowledge of the true God and right devil? Have not many men, philosophers and others, lost their wits, nay, their

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lives, to find out God, and yet could not do it; for if they could have found out God, they would easily have found out the right devil; but because they sought to find out God by the right eye of reason, and not by the single eye of faith, therefore they lost their wits in seeking after God.

I received the Quaker's letter you spoke of, from Dorothy Carter, and I have prepared an answer unto it; I do intend to send it to Chesterfield, for she doth desire me to let her have the reading of it to a Quaker there also: I would have her, or Mr. Frewterill, to take a copy of it, before it comes to you to Nottingham; for it must be delivered to one Highfield, at Nottingham; and when it comes from Chesterfield to you, if you will be at that trouble to take a copy of it, you may; but you must make as much haste of it as you can, for it will be some labour, for it is something large, it is almost four sheets of paper. It will be your best course to let your wife, or somebody, read it as you write it, or else it will be too tedious. I do intend to send it to Dorothy Carter on Friday next. I did think to have written a few lines to your wife, in answer to her letter, for her further confirmation; for I am very joyful to hear of her increase in faith, and assurance of eternal life; for I know that letter was her heart, though not her hand; therefore I shall only remember my love to her at this time, expecting to hear from you and her so soon as you can, after you have received and delivered this Quaker's letter.

No more at present, but my love to yourself and all friends with you, which are few.

Your friend,

LODOWICKÉ MUGGLETON.

I have never heard from Mr. Hudson since Mr. Frewterill and I parted from him there in the country.