OF THE TRIAL AND SUFFERINGS OF LODOWICK MUGGLETON, One of the two last Prophets and Witnesses of the Spirit, LEFT BY [NATHANIEL] OUR FRIEND POWELL, WHO WITNESSED THE TRIAL AND ALL HIS SUFFERINGS,, THEREFORE He gives a more full and particular Account of the Whole Proceedings than the Prophet has left on Record, WHICH IS THE CAUSE OF MY PRINTING IT, That Believers may see how patiently our Prophet bore those Sufferings on Truths Account. Knowing when Time is ended, he should meet his God, his King and Redeemer, with all those that truly believe Jesus Christ, that was Crucified, was the only and alone eternal God, one glorious distinct Person in the form of a Man, who now reigns in the highest Heavens, where we shall behold his glorious Face, to live with him, and praise his Holy Name Printed for T. FEVER---1808. OF THE Prophet MUGGLETON's Sufferings, IN THE YEAR 1676, As related by our Friend, Mr. POWELL, THE 17th of January, 1676, it was one of the dismal days that has appeared this 1350 years, to any one who hath the true light of life eternal abiding in them, and then to behold the greatest of commissionated prophets brought to the bar of justice, nay, to the bar of injustice, and there to be arraigned for being robbed, and his robbers to be his accusers; I would humbly desire of any impartial hearer of his trial to tell me, soberly, whether he in his own days, or in any record he has read, and found such inhumanity, that burglary should be committed against a man by a fraternity of robbers, and the robbers sue the robbed, and denied the benefit of the laws, which is a security for the offended and scourge to the offender, and the robbers that robbed him to be his his accusers, in a plea of trespass in the Court of Arches of Canterbury, which Lodowick Muggleton being the offended, went there to answer, by express from the Court in person; by this means the robbers got the Lord A Lord Chief Justice's warrant, and apprehended Lodowick Muggleton therewith, and brought him before Sir Thomas Davis, (then Lord Mayor of London) who committed him prisoner to Newgate, for owning the writing of a book, written against some Quakers, in the year 1663, and from thence bailed out to answer to an indictment, at the Old Bailey, for writing the said book; then Mr. Muggleton took out a sesarary to remove his trial from the Old Bailey to the King's Bench, yet, notwithstanding the Lord Chief Justice Rainsford, after he had taken Lodowick Muggleton's money for the sesarary, very unjustly and arbitrarily supercedes it, contrary to all law and justice; and the liberty of the subject commands him to take his trial at the Old Bailey, and there to answer to an indictment, as follows: 'Lodowick Muggleton, thou standest here indicted for writing a blasphemous heretical seditious book, and to which indictment thou pleadest not guilty; what sayest thou for thyself?" Lodowick Muggleton made no answer, only desired the liberty of a counsel, which was granted; but before Lodowick Muggleton's counsel began to speak, his adversary's council opened the cause, and said, My Lord, I am counsel for the King in this cause, and I think his crown and dignity was never so abused before;' and taking one of the books by one of the clasps, said. My Lord, here is a book contains the horridest blasphemy that ever was spoke or written before, a book that makes me tremble to hold it in my hand, I did read one side of |