A Letter written by the Prophet Lodowicke Muggleton, to one Susannah Frith, a Quaker, bearing Date the 28th of Nov. 1662, from London.

Susannah Frith,

I UNDERSTAND, that being a Quaker, you were at the writing of that letter sent unto me from Samuel Hooton, and W. S. Also I understand, that you cannot see any fruits from the believers of this commission doth bring forth, but these that were filthy are filthy still; for you see some disorderly walking in some. Also you think, that others do fashion themselves too much according to the world; and if any do walk disorderly, or live an intemperate life, it is not my desire they should do so; for I did always love a temperate life from my childhood, much more now since I came to understand truth.

Also I know that those that do live an intemperate life, by overcharging their natures, in what kind soever, they lose their peace, which they would find if it were otherwise: yet nevertheless, this is not a sin unto death, though I do not encourage any one to live an intemperate life.

Yet you may remember, that it was the practice of Christ himself, to keep company with publicans and sinners; therefore the scribes and pharisees, which were so righteous men, speak evil of Christ, saying, he was a wine bibber, and a friend of publicans and sinners; neither did Christ pronounce woes to any as he did to those that were so righteous in their own conceit; it was those that sinned against the Holy Ghost, that unpardonable sin, that will never be

forgiven in this world, nor in the world to come. And, you, by the light of Christ within you, leading you to a more preciseness of life than others, you have taken upon you to judge and speak evil of the commission of the Spirit, even as those Jews did by the righteousness of the law in them, they spake evil and blasphemed against Christ, and that Holy Spirit by which he cast out devils, by calling him a deceiver, a blasphemer, and a devil, and this was that sin against the Holy Ghost: so have you sinned that sin unto death, which is not to be pardoned; for you have not only been with others that have written and spoken evil of this commission of the Spirit, in giving countenance and credit to the evil report of others, but you have blasphemed against the Holy Spirit that sent me; by calling the commission of the Spirit a deceit, lies, and a false Spirit; which hath clearly discovered unto me what seed and nature you are of, you being one of the seed of the serpent, you have sinned against the Holy Ghost. Therefore, in obedience to my commission, I do pronounce Susannah Frith cursed, and damned, soul and body, from the presence of God elect, men, and angels, to eternity.

Perhaps you will say as you did by Samuel Hooton, and W. S. that you will not matter it; but if you can make as light of it as I do that give judgment upon you, it will be well for you; for I am well satisfied in giving judgment against any person that doth sin against the Holy Ghost, more than any one thing whatsoever. Neither am I willing that any Quaker devil, nor any other should escape, that speaks evil of things they do not know; for I am no more troubled at their condemnation than the judges of the land are, when they give judgment according to

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the law, for a man to be put to death. And if that man, so condemned, can make as light of it as the judge doth, let him if he can. So will it be with you, and many hundreds more, (flatter yourselves, and make as light of it as you will) I know it is so decreed by the Creator; neither will your light of Christ within you prevent it, because you have despised the commission of the Spirit without you.

By

LODOWICKE MUGGLETON,

One of the Two lust Witnesses and Prophets, unto the
High and Mighty God, the Man Christ Jesus in
Glory.

A Copy of a Letter wrote by the Prophet Lodowicke Muggleton, to Mr. Richard Sudbury, bearing date the 8th of December, 1662.

Mr. Sudbury,

I RECEIVED your letter, bearing date September the first, in which I perceive, that your wife and you did expect to have heard before now how I got through my journey. Also I did expect to have heard from you, or Dorothy Carter, before I did send unto you; which letter I did receive from her the day before I received yours, and she speaketh much to the same purpose as you do, expecting to hear whether I came well to London or no. And as for that, to certify you, I did come well to Barnet that Saturday night, and am well now both in body and

mind, but always meeting with opposition both in city and country; for let them be of what sort or opinion soever, though they be under the hatches of persecution themselves, yet will they be against me ; so that it may be said by me as it was said in another case by Esau, that his hand should be against every one, and every one's hand against him.

So it is with me, every opinion in the world is against me, and I against every opinion in the world. And the commission of God, which is truth, being given unto us two, shall encounter with all opinions and sorts in the world.

And whereas you say you understand more clear the Baptist's commission counterfeited, I am glad that you understand any thing that is truth. I could wish that you might understand things of a more high concernment, that are written in those books; as concerning the true God, his form and nature, the right devil, his form and nature, the persons and nature of angels, the rise of the two seeds, and the mortality of the soul, and the power of a com mission; with many other heavenly secrets, never revealed to man before, which are plainly declared in those writings, if understood. And though you do say, the Baptist commission is counterfeit, yet Iperceive you are not clear in the mortality of the soul; therefore your desire is, that I would give you the interpretation of those verses, Mat. xxvii. 51, 52, 53 verses. It is a more easy thing to read than to write, and more easy to ask questions, than it is to answer: nevertheless, I shall give you some answer to those things, though there is arguments enough in that book to prove the mortality of the soul, and that the soul doth sleep in the dust until the resurrection, to any man that hath but the least measure

of true light in him but because men read scriptures, that do seem to speak to the contrary, and they being not alive to give the interpretation and meaning of their own words, which is the cause that people read their words, and not understanding them, they go away unsatisfied, and loth they are to believe, that, God should send any messenger or interpreter of the Scriptures; but would fain find out the meaning by the reading of the dead letter, which they never can; do; no more than the eunuch could do without Philip's expounding of it unto him. Neither can any man understand the Scriptures, except there be one or more sent of God to give the interpretation of them. And as for the veil of the temple rending from the bottom to the top, and the stones cleaving asunder, I have spoken of it in the interpretation of the eleventh of the Revelations; yet, for your further satisfaction, I shall open it more particularly.

The veil of the temple, which was rent, it was an outside building, that was not so beautified as the temple; so that no man could see the glory or beauty of it but by piercing through the veil: and this temple was that which Solomon built, which was so highly esteemed by the Jews; and this veil, which was rent, did belong unto it; and those stones that clave asunder did belong to this veil or temple.

These things were done in the natural only to shew the power of Christ's death; for this temple was not far from the place where Christ was put to death, neither doth the Scripture speak of what stones, they were that clave asunder, nor where.

Therefore it must be believed, that it was those stones that did belong to the veil or temple; because they did signify in the spiritual these two things.

First, the veil being rent from the bottom to the