Jeremiah Chap. xi. 19. He fuffered for his Meffage from the Lord of Hoft, the mighty God of Jacob.

24. And my Sufferings was for my Commiffion received from the high and mighty God, the Man Chrift Jefus, in Glory, the only wife God my King and my Redeemer.

25. And as his Enemies, that caufed him to suffer, and would have had him put to death, were Princes, and great Men of the Earth; fo likewife thofe of my Enemies, were great Men, and as Princes on the Earth; and they fat upon the Thrones, as Gods on Earth, in Judgment against me.

26. And as it was with Jeremiah, fo it was with me, for I was like a Lamb, that is brought to the Slaughter, and I knew not that they had devifed devices against me, if I had, I could have prevented them. They faying, let us deftroy the Tree with its Fruit thereof, and cut him off from the Land of the Living, that his Name may be no more remembered.

27. That is, let us deftroy this Muggleton, the Tree, and the Fruit thereof; his Doctrine of the true God, and right Devil in his Writings, that none may receive his Writings more, nor believe his Doctrine, or Commiffion, that he hath power from God, to blefs, and curfe to eternity any more: This reprobate Men have practifed against me.

28. So that I have had caufe, to make my Complaint unto my God, my King, and my Redeemer the Lord Jefus Chrift, as David and Jeremiah did.

29. Oh! Lord God of Truth, that judgeth righteously, that trieth the Reins, and the Heart, let me fee thy Vengeance on them, for thou knoweft I have been faithful in executing thy Commiffion, the Burthen of the Lord, which thou did❜st lay upon me.

30. And thou knowest the unrighteous, unjuft Judgments, these wicked unjust Judges gave againft me: They were not only Enemies to me, but thy Enemies, Oh God; for they have hated me without a Caufe, and they have faid, let us smite him with the Tongue, with lies, flanders, and reproaches.

31. Therefore give heed, Oh! Lord God of Truth, and hearken

hearken to the Voice of these wicked Judges, and Jury, and all those that affented to that Judgment for harm, that contended with me: And let me fee thy Vengeance on those thy Enemies, for their Fathers did unto thee, when thou was upon Earth, as thofe do unto me.

32. Thou haft faved me from bloody Men: For they laid wait for my Soul to kill it, had the Law been provided with Strength, and not for any Tranfgreffion of any Law that I had broken, but for thy Commiffion and Doctrine thou gavest me to declare.

33. Therefore Oh Lord God of Truth! be not merciful unto any wicked Tranfgreffion, that perfecuteth only for Confcience fake; it being the Sin against the Holy Ghoft.

34. And God will let me fee my defire upon my Enemies, and bring them down, Oh Lord my God.

35. This was my fecret Supplication unto my God, when I was Prisoner in Newgate, after I had fuffered all those corporal Punishments, which they sentanced me to fuffer.

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ND a little while after thefe my Sufferings I faw my defire (in part) granted, and feveral of potent Enemies cut off this Earth by Death: As first, that certain rich Man that took away poor Widow Brunt's Ground, as is aforementioned; he was called Sir John James.

And notwithstanding I had overthrown his two Tennants in the common Law, yet when he faw that I was in Prifon, and condemn'd for thofe Books, and had fuffered as aforefaid, yet I being fined five Hundred Pounds, he thought I could not be delivered out of Prifon no more, the Fine was fo great.

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3. Whereupon he wickedly took advantage upon my Sufferings for God's Caufe, and fent a Writ of Ejectment to my Tennants, to eject me out of Poffeffion, fo my Attorney read it, and faid, I muft Anfwer to it, elfe he would eject me out the next Term, fo I was forced to employ a Solicitor to answer to it, which wickednefs of his coft me three Pounds

4. And my Lawyer went to treat with him, and this Knight was not very well, very crofs, and faid, he had turn'd his Business over to his Attorney: And his Attorney was fo full of employment that nothing could be done.

5. So I hearing by my Lawyer that he was Sick, I defired of God, that he might never come down from that Bed of Sickness, whereon he lay; and in a few Days after, it came to pafs, that he died.

6. So our Law-fuit was ended, I had been a quarter of a Year in Prison then, now I knew this Man was the Seed of the Serpent, a Devil, and will be damn'd to all Eternity.

7. After this, there was another great Enemy, his Name was Garret, he was one of thofe that broke open my Houfe, and ftole my Books, and was a Witness againft me in the Court: He brought the Books to the Court, for the common Hang-Man to burn, every Day I ftood upon the Pillory, my Wife Mary gave him the Sentance of Damnation to Eternity, and he died fix Weeks after.

8. The third Perfon was Judge Rainsford, Chief Judge of England, he was an implacable Enemy to me, but in a little time after his Judgment upon me, before I was delivered out of Prison, he was put down from his feat of Juftice, and all his temporal Power taken from him by the King; and another put in his Place: And the King would give no reason for it, but his own will.

9. So that his great Power, Honour, and Glory, was departed from him, and he had not fo much Power as a common Juftice of Peace, he was in the fame Condition as King Saul was, the good spirit of Power of giving righteous Judg

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Which troubled his Soul, fo that in a little time after he Died, and went to the fame Place, as King Saul did, that did enquire of a Witch that was rejected of God, and not of his Prophet Samuel. And I am fure he fhall be rejected of God, even this Rainsford, and rejected of me, the laft true Prophet of the Lord, and that he will be damn'd to all Eternity.

II. And he shall remember in the Resurrection, that his Damnation is the very fame which he call'd horrible Blafphemy, which he judged me for, and faid, he was forry the Laws of England were fo unprovided, to punish me no worfe than they did.

12. And as he had no Mercy for me when he was in Power, neither have I any Mercy for him: and I am fure God will have no Mercy for him, but hath provided a Law to punith him for his Envy against me, who did him no wrong.

13. And his Blafphemy against the Holy Ghoft, which God hath faid, and made it a Law (never to be altered) that fhall never be forgiven in this World, or in the World to come: This is the Law that God hath provided for us, the two laft Prophets and Witneffes of the Spirit, to judge by; fo that I know the hotteft of Hell Fire will be his Portion and Reward, for his Sin against the Holy Ghoft, to Eternity.

14. The fourth great Enemy to me was Sir ! bomas Davis, then Lord Mayor, he being a Stationer himself, he was confederate with the whole company of Stationers and Book fellers, and Jury, to fight against the Lord and his chofen Prophet, and Witnefs of the Spirit, which did incenfe the Court and Jury, that I might antidate that Book 13 Years ago, and yet publish it this Augu; even against his own Confcience.

15. Wherein he fhewed himself of that wicked, reprobate feed of the Serpent, a Son of the Devil; and I certainly know him to be a Devil, and that he will be damn'd to all Eternity.

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16. And about two Years and a half after he judged me, he Died, and paffed through this first Death, which is Natural, into the fecond Death, which is Spiritual and Eternal.

17, These great Enemies, I have lived to fee them cut off from the land of the Living; with many others, more inferior Devils, which were my Enemies, have I feen cut off by Death, and fome to Poverty.

18. There is one more that is yet alive, that I defire of God to have executed fome vifible Vengeance at my ryal; his Name was Jefferies, Recorder of London. He was the Man that fat in the Judgment Seat, and gave fentance against me: He used feveral fcurrilous and difdainful Expreflions, in the fentance he gave upon me.

19. He was a Man, whofe Voice was very loud, but he is one of the worst of Devils in Nature; for he is not only an Enemy to God and all righteous Men, but an Enemy to all moral Juftice and Equity.

20. For if a Man's Cause be never fo juft, except he be employ'd in it, he will be fure to baffle and make quabbles, and wrangle out the jufteft Caufe that is, and will make that which is unjuft itself, to be right by Law; were it not for more jufter Judges, that have a more juft Confcience then he hath, elfe the Innocent would always loofe his juft Right, if he be against him.

21. But that which I have against him is, for his Blafphemy against the Holy Spirit that fent me, and his wicked Malice and Envy against me, when he fat in Judgment against me; that he faid, he was forry the Laws of England were fo unprovided to punish Crimes of this Nature; he was forry the Laws could not impower him to give fentance of Death upon me: This I know was the defire of his Heart.

22. And as he was forry the Laws of England were fo unprovided to punifh me, fo in like Manner, am I glad that the Laws of Heaven is always provided to punish him with Eternal Torments, which is a living Death, and a dying Life; it is well for me, and all the Elect, that God's Laws are always

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