he would be bound in two Hundred Pound Bond for this Man's appearance He said he would 7. Then speak one of the Aldermen of the Town If it shall please your Honour Mr. Fewterer is not Capable to be his Bail why said the Judge said he Because he is an Excommunicated Person said the Judge What was he Excommunicated for said he For not coming to Church Said the Judge How long hath he been Excommunicated He said but last Sunday Push said the Judge that Signifies nothing Except it was for the cause of Adultry set him down to be Bail 8. Then the Maior Recorder and Aldermen all of them were Ashamed and vexed they could do me no further Mischeif than Imprisonment 9. And when I was Bail'd out of Prison the Maior and Constable and the rest were afraid I would trouble them 10. The Maior for Committing me to Prison without any Accusers and denying to take Bail for me and for not binding some over for to Prosecute against me which things he did not but was in danger to pay Five Pound a Day for false Imprisonment 11. And the Constable was like to suffer for Apprehending me without a Warrant 12. I was Councelled to sue them at the Law and so I would if they had put in any Indictment against me but they were afraid And did nothing but let it fall 13. So I was quit only it put me to a great deal of Charge but seeing they put no Indictment against me I let it pass and fall 14. Dorothy Carter and Mr. Sudbury were great Friends in this business both in Purss and Person because I was taken at her House and she brought me from Darby Goal to her own House again on Horse back which is 16 long Miles 15. I had the Love of all the Prisoners on that side I was put and they said they thought themselves Blessed for mysake 16. For they were every one of them that were with me free'd without any punishment only the Fees of the Prison I was in Prison in Darby Goal but nine Days but this falling out so quickly after I was Married to my Wife Mary it was some greif to her but being delivered so quickly she was pacified the better 17. This was a Year of great Trouble to me both upon a Spiritual Account as afore Written and upon a Temporal which I shall not mention 18. This was in the 13th year of my Commission and in the 54 year of my Life and in the year of the Lord 1664. 19. After this I Wrote a Book containing 32 sheets of Paper Called the Interpritation of the whole Book of the Revelations of Saint John the bigest volum of all the Books that were written by us 20. Also I wrote a Letter after that to Thomas Taylor a Quaker Containing two sheets of Paper And in the year 1665 I got them both Printed they are yet to be seen by many The End of the Third Part. The Fourth Part. From the Year 1665 to the Year 1670. CHAP. I. The Prophets Travels into Kent Of Judge Twisden and of the Prophet's Letter to him Of the increase of Beleivers 1. AFTER this I travelled into Kent to see my Wife's Friends and there I had like to have been apprehended by the Judge of the Town his Name was Twisden But I having intilligence of his wicked Intent I escaped away out of his Coasts 2. And I wrote a Letter to him forbiding him for persecuting any Man for his Conscience For tho' he was made a Judge of the Law in temporal Matters yet he was not the Judge of Conscience nor of Spiritual Matters 3. Therefore I advised him to meddle with those Things he knows as the Laws of the Land and not with those Things that belongs to God as the Conscience doth 4. For God only is the Judge of spiritual Things and them whom he doth chuse least you bring your self under the Sentance of eternal Damnation This Letter is large but not in Print but is yet to be seen in Writing 5. He was netled in his Mind at it but knew not how to help himself so he brought the Letter in his Hand to my Wife's Mother's House and asked her if she thought he should be ever the worse if he did persecute me on purpose to insnare her because she did not go to Church and was under his Power for he was the cruelest Devil to all Prophessors of Religion that did not conform to Worship as he did that was in all that Country Also he would have had a Book of her that he might have done me the more Mischief but I charged her before to let him have none nor none in that Town should let him have one 6. Also I told him in the Letter that if he would send to me at London and send Money I would let him have half a Dozen of Books several but without Money he should have none for they cost a great deal of Monies Printing But he never sent for any but threatned my Mother that if ever I came there any more to deceave People as he called it that he would do great Matters to me So he went his way and never came there more as I hear'd of 7. Now by this time there was many Men and Women that did beleive in this Commission of the Spirit and the Doctrin of the true personal God was received by several Persons of Quality so that many were aded to the Faith Some I shall name 8. First One Mrs. Feild who lived in Wales she was counted a Lady in that Country and one Mrs. Sharte a Draper's Wife in Cannon-street This Sarah Sharte she sent for me several times to speak with her but the Messenger missed of me so oft that she thought herself forsaken of God that she could not speak with me 9. For she had kept her House several years of a Weakness she had in her Body so that she could not go forth nor come to me herself So she seeing none of them she sent could meet with me she grew out of patience and could not sleep 'till she had seen me 10. So she desired her Husband to go himself in the Morning betimes before I was gon out so he did and he ingaged me to come to his Wife about Two of the Clock in the Afternoon the same Day for she had a great Desire to speak with me 11. So at the time appointed I went and she was glad to see me who had desired it a long time And when she had seen me and had discoursed with me about spiritual and heavenly Things concerning God his Form and Nature The right Devil his Form and Nature The Person and Nature of Angels The Place and Nature of Hell The Place and Nature of Heaven The Rice of the Two Seeds and of the Fall of Adam 12. And how every Man came to have two Voices or Motions speaking in Man These were all heavenly Secrets and hiden from the World which
of the Law their wonderful Acts are recorded in Scripture 12. Besides the Revelation they declared as from God which the Ages following did not see nor hear yet many did truly believe and doth truly belive and are by Faith satisfied as those that did both hear and see 13. So that the Scriptures Record is a Record of spiritual and heavenly Things and of some of those wonderful and powerful Acts of Moses and the Prophets and the righteous Fathers manifesting their great Faith in God and being in favour with God 14. Which I by Faith have found their Record true and so have many more of the seed of Faith found their Record and Revelations to be true CHAP. II. The Prophet makes a Rehearsal of the Acts of the Apostles in the new Testament and of the Lord Christ and how that they were writen for the Comfort of the Seed of Faith After which he enters upon the third Record and shows the cause of his writing some of the most principal Acts of the Witness of the Spirit under this third Record 1. ALSO we find written in the New Testament many wonderful Acts and Miracles acted by the Lord Christ and his Apostles as Matthew Mark Luke and John doth declare concerning Christ that if all the things Christ spake and Acts he did were written the World would not contain the Volume 2. That is the verge of a Man's understanding could not retain the particulars so as to tell it to his Friend the particulars would be so many 3. So likewise the Acts of the Apostles that Book hath little else in it but wonderful Acts wrought by the power of Faith in the Apostles 4. And these things were written for the seed of Faith that they might have Comfort in believing the Record that is given of the Apostles how God strengthned them in Faith and Power as by the power of Faith to work Miracles 5. Because they were chosen of God to bear Record on Earth to the Blood of the New Testament or New Covenant 6. Thus did the Apostles bear Record on Earth to the Blood as the Prophets did bear Record on Earth to the Water which signifies the Law of Moses and the Blood signifies the Gospel of Jesus Christ 7. The Scriptures are a Record that sheweth many wonderful Acts that Christ and his Appostles did when on Earth besides the heavenly Revelation 8. And it is very comfortable to the Seed of Faith true Belivers to read of the Acts of the Prophets and of the Apostles as it is of their Doctrin Revelation Prophesies Interpretations or Epistles 9. These Things I having experience of and seeing it hath been the Practice of some of the Prophets and Apostles to leave a Record behind them for after Ages to peruse of some of the most remarkable Acts done by them when they were upon Earth as a remarkable Remembrance to their Prophesies and Epistles 10. So likewise I being one of the two last Prophets and Witnesses of the Spirt being the Third and last Record from God on Earth 11. I thought it convenient and expedient to leave some Record on Earth behind me of some of the most remarkable Acts and Passages that hath been done and acted by us and to us the Witnesses of the Spirit since we were chosen of God in the Year 1651. 12. That I may leave it as a Legasy to the Seed of Faith after me who shall happen to Read and Believe those Writings of ours after I am gon 13. They may know by the Doctrin therein declared who and what we were and what God we believed in 14. Also I thought it necessary to write of those Acts my self rather then any other being acted in my sight and perfect knowledge as other Profits have done before me as Moses and others CHAP. III. Of the Birth Parentage and Trade of the two Witnesses and how the Profits Nature led them sorth to all Sobriety hateing Drunkeness and of their inclining to the Principles of those Call'd Puritans and of their being perswaded from judging Cases of Concience before they new the truth 1. BUT before I write of the Acts I shall give the Reader a little to understand what we were before God did chuse us two to be his two last Prophets and Witnesses of the Spirit 2. And of some Experince I had and Working within me before I was Chosen of God little expecting God would have chosen me for such a great Work 3. As for John Reeve he was born in Wiltshire his Father was Clerk to a Deputy of Ireland a Gentleman as we call them by his place but fell to decay 4. So he put John Reeve Apprentice here at London to a Taylor by Trade He was out of his Apprentiship before I came aquainted with him he was of an Honest Just Nature and Harmless 5. But a Man of no great Natural Witt or Wisdom no Subtilty or Pollicy was in him nor no great store of Religeon he had but what was Traditional only of an Innocent Life 6. I knew him many years before God spake to to him by Voice of Words to the hearing of the Ear three Mornings together as is declar'd in the Commission Book call'd a Trancesendant Spritual Treatise the first Book he writ 7. And I Lodwick Muggleton was born in Bishop gate-street near the Earl of Devonshire's House at the corner House call'd Walnut-Tree-Yard 8. My Fathers name was John Muggleton he was a Smith by Trade that is a Farrier or Horse-Doctor he was in great Respect with the Post-Master in King Jame's time he had three Children by my Mother two Sons and one Daughter I was the youngest and my Mother lov'd me 9. But after my Mother dy'd I being but young my Father took another Wife so I being young was Expos'd to live with Srangers in the Country at a distance from all my Kindred I was a Stranger to my Fathers House after my Mother was dead 10. But it came to pass when I was grown to 15 or 16 Years of age I was 〈◊〉 Apprentice to one John Quick a Taylor he made Livery Gowns and all sorts of Gowns for Men he made Gowns for several Aldermen and Livery Men of their Company in London 11. And he lived in this Walnut-Tree-Yard and knew my Father and Mother very well he was a quiet peaceable Man not crewel to Servants which liked me very well 12. For my Nature was always against Cruelty I could never indure it neither in my self nor in others living peaceably in my Apprentiship 13. I took my Trade well and pleased my Master better then any of his other Servants for they were bad Husbands and given to Drunkenness but my Nature was inclin'd to be sober hating Drunkenness and Lust in the time of my Youth 14. But when my time of Service was pretty far expired I grew to more understanding and hearing in those days a great talk amongst the vulger People and especially amongst Youth Boys and young Maids
Reason the Raven which goeth out of the Ark the Body of Man and liveth upon the Mountains of earthly Things 24. Also the Dove that Noah sent forth of the Ark signified the Seed of Faith 25. And when Faith sends forth her motions out of the Ark her Body they are innocent as a Dove humble meek and low 26. And when she findeth the Flood and Waters of Trouble of Persecution upon the Face of the Earth the Dove entreth into her Ark her Body again and is quiet and still till the Waters of Trouble be abated 27. For the Dove cannot fly upon the top of the Mountains of earthly things as Reason the Raven can 28. The Seed of Faith the Dove can find no Rest there but when the Waters of Trouble are abated and the dry Land appeareth and the Olive Trees of Joy and Gladness are to be seen 29. Then the Dove the Seed of Faith can go out of its Body the Ark and fetch an Olive-Branch of Peace and Joy in its Mouth and return into its Body the Ark again and there remain until it is turned out of the Ark by Death CHAP. XV. Shewing how John Reeve's Revelation gave him Satisfaction and full Resolution to sit still and be quiet never medling about Religion more But contrary to the Resolutions of them both a little while after where made the greatest medlers of Religion of all the World 1. TO this purpose as aforesaid did John Reeve declare his first Revelation with a many more Expressions which he uttered at that time with great Joy of Heart he not thinking in the least nor I neither that it was a Preparation for God to chuse him nor me neither to be his two last Prophets and Witnesses of the Spirit 2. For said he unto me at that time Cousin Lodowick now I am satisfied in my Mind and know what Revelation is I am resolved now to medle no more with Religion nor go forth after any upon that account 3. But to get as good a Livelyhood as I can in this World and let God alone with what shall be hereafter 4. Now he had been with John Robins not many Weeks before he knew or had Revelation himself 5. For John Robins Knowledge and Language overpowerd John Reeve before he had this Revelation Therefore he said now he would not go forth after any upon that account no more 6. Thus when he thought to be most quiet and not to medle with any about Religion and so was I also then a little while after we were made the greatest Medlers in Religion of all Men in the World 7. Because our Faces were against all Mens Religion in the World what Sex or Opinion soever as will appear hereafter by our Writings and Speakings 8. John Reeve nor I little thought at that time that this Revelation we had given us did prepare us for a greater Work than for the Peace of our own Minds 9. But it prov'd that God prepared us for a Commission and that he did intend to chuse us two to be his last Prophets and Witnesses of the Spirit as will be seen as followeth 10. For after John Reeve had this first Revelation aforementioned it did continue and increase exceedingly that it grew very high in him for two Weeks together 11. And at the two Weeks end God speak unto him by Voice of Words to the hearing of the Ear three Mornings together as is more largely set down in his first Book he wrote Called A Trancendant Spiritual Treatis 12. Where the Words of God as he spoke to him are set down plainly as they were spoken to him the 3d. 4th and 5th Days of February 1651. and in the year of John Reeve's Life 42. and in the year of my Life 41. 13. Thus I have given the Reader a little hint whereby he may see the ground of things and the rise how these wonderful things came to pass 14. Also what we were at first and how we were acted out in the time of our Lives and of the Experience I had in the Days of my Ignorance and of my Dispute with God and my own Soul 15. And of that great Revelation I had before John Reeve had any and of the Ravelation John Reeve had before God spake to him in the year 1651. 16. And now in the Treatis following I shall only speak of some of the most remarkable Acts and Passages which hath been acted and dun by us since we received our Commission from God 17. That after Ages may see some of the Acts of the two Witnesses of the Spirit as well as their Writings and their Doctrin now in this last Age. As they have read of some of the wonderful Acts of Moses and the Prophets and the Acts of the Apostles So there will be some remarkable Acts of the Witnesses of the Spirit left upon Record Which is as followeth The End of the First Part. The Second Part. CHAP. I. Of the Commission given the Prophet Mugleton's Children blessed by the Prophet Reeve the great Wisdom given unto Sarah Mugleton 1. THE first Morning God spake to John Reeve he came to my House and said Cousin Lodowick God hath given thee unto me for ever And the Tears ran down both sides his Cheeks amain 2. So I asked him what was the matter for he looked like one that had been rissen out of the Grave he being a fresh couloured Man the day before And the Tears ran down his Cheeks apace 3. So he told me the same Words as is writen in his first Book and said unto me That God had given him a Commission and that he had given Lodowick Mugleton to be his Mouth And said at the same time was brought to his Mind that saying That Aaron was given to be Moses's Mouth 4. But said he what my Message is he could not tell But said he if God do not speak unto me the next Morning I will come no more at thee 5. Which I was in good Hopes he would not for I was willing to be quiet 6. Also he said at the same time Cousin Lodowick Thy Children are all blessed but especially thy Daughter Sarah she shall be the Teacher of all the Women in London 7. She heard him say these Words as she stood upon the Stairs for she was afraid of him that he would rather have condemned her because he never did love her so well as he did the youngest Daughter 8. But he spake not then for Affection but as the Revelation moved him 9. And she was the first Person he blessed to Eternity after God spake to him the first Morning 10. It was the more marvelous because it was never heard this many Ages that a poor Man should have that Power to Bless and Curs Men and Women to Eternity 11. And she believed him and did grow exceedingly in Experience and in Disputes with Religious People and they marvelled that one so young should have such Knowledg and Wisdom to answer
of them 21. Whereupon I pronounced him for his Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost and for Preaching without a Commission from God cursed and damn'd both in Soul and Body from the Presence of God elect Men and Angels to eternity 22. Upon this he and the rest of them said They would fetch a Warrant from General Cromwell the Counsel of State or from the Parliament to prosecute us 23. And I said That if General Cromwell the Counsel of State or the Parliament should dispise those things we have declared and sin against the Holy Ghost as these Men did That General Cromwell the Counsel of State and the Parliament would be all damn'd as you are This I did say 24. This was set down by the Clerke 25. Then said the Maior You are accused for denying the Three Persons in the Trinity You say there is but one Person Christ Jesus you deny the Father 26. No said John Reeve we owne the Trinity more than any Men both Father Son and Spirit are all but one Person and one God Christ Jesus as is declared in that Book in your Hand 27. Then the Maior said Here is several Notes from the godly Ministers which you have forbid to preach the Gospel upon pain of Damnation 28. Said John We do own these Notes sent unto them and if any of them Ministers we sent these Letters unto have preached publickly since the receipt of them they are damn'd to eternity because they preach and are not sent of God Neither do they know the true God nor can they preach the truth unto the People 29. These Words were set down by the Clerke 30. Then said the Lord Maior unto John Reeve What was it that God spake unto you 31. John related the Words God spake unto him three Mornings together the same Words that are written in that Book in your Hand CHAP. II. Shewing John Reeve's Answer to the Lord Maior's Questions and John Reeve's Question to the Maior what his God was with the Maior's Answer And John's Replycation to it Of the two Witnesses Commitment to Newgate 1. THE Lord Maior answered John Reeve and said He did beleive it was the Devil that spake to him 2. Then to this I answered and said Sir you have sin'd against the Holy Ghost and will be damn'd 3. The Maior clapt his Hand upon his Brest and said God forbid 4. Yea said I but you have then said John Reeve to the Maior Sir you say you do beleive it was the Devil that spake unto me I pray Sir tell me what your God is 5. The Lord Maior lift up himself and laid his Hand on his Brest Oh! saith he my God is an infininite incomprehensible Spirit 6. What said I without a Body or Person 7. Said the Maior God hath no Body or Person at all 8. Why said I hath God that made man in his own Image who hath a Body and Person and hath made all other Creatures with Persons and shall he that made them have no Body or Person of his own 9. Doth not the Scriptures say That Christ was the express Image and Brightness of his Father's Person and had not Christ a Body or Person in form like Man Sin excepted 10. The said the Maior unto me must I beleive you 11. Yea said I That you must or you will be damn'd 12. Then there was a Gentlewoman in the Court called out and said Mr. Reeve pray tell me what the Devil is 13. John answered with a loud Voice and said Thy own Soul is the Devil 14. Then one of the Officers said unto the Woman I think he hath met with you now 15. Then the Lord Maior asked the Accusers if they would be bound in 40 l. Band a piece to prosecute against these two Men they said They would so the Clark bound them to prosecute 16. Then the Lord Maior called for the Act of Parliament which was newly made against Blasphemy So the Maior read this Passage in it That if any man should say that he is God and that God is no where else shall be guilty of Blasphemy and shall suffer six months Imprisonment without Bail or mean prise 17. Then said I unto him Sir What have you to do with this Act you are a temporal Magistrate and ought to judg of temporal Things between man and man 18. And you are to do Justice between Man and Man in all moral and temporal Affairs which concerns you to be the Judge of and you will do well to keep there for you are not to Judge of Blasphemy against God nor those that made this act neither 19. Why said the Maior must I beleive you 20. Yea said I That you must else you will be damn'd 21. For God hath chosen us two to be the Judge of Blasphemy against God and hath given us power to pronounce Sentance of Damnation upon all those that do Blaspheme against that God which is a Person which you do deny 22. Why said he again must I beleive you 23. Yea said I else you will be damn'd 24. Many things more than what is here written was spoke at that time but these were of most concernment to take notise of 25. And when this Dispute and Examination was ended the Lord Maior asked if we would put in Bail and we said No. 26. So he gave order to his Clark to make our Mittimus and send us to Newgate and he went away out of the Court into another Chamber and the Clark carried the Mittimus into him to set his hand to it So that he came no more into the Court. 27. For John Reeve intended to give the Sentance of eternal Damnation upon him both Body and Soul in the open Court it being full of People 28. But he came no more out until we were led away by the Marshal and his Men to Newgate there to remain Prisoners till the nex Sessions 29. This Commitment was the fifteenth Day of September 1653. CHAP. III. Shewing how the Prisoners brought Irons Required Mony of the two Witnesses they having none took one of their Cloaks for a Pledg How long they were Prisoners The Bordes were their Bed And of the Wickedness of some of the Prisoners which had a Design to have hanged them and how Providence preserved them 1. NOW we being Prisoners in Newgate Goal I shall speak of some Passages that hapend there 2. As soon as ever the Keeper had put us in and shut the Gate upon us the Prisoners brought to each of us a pair of Irons to put on our Leggs except we would lay them down three Shillings and Six Pence a piece 3. Also they said they must have Mony for Garnish which did amount to five Shillings a piece in all 4. I said we have no Money about us but however if they pleas'd they might put the Irons upon our Legs and I held out my Leg for them to be put on I was very free to wear them for Truths Sake though it was a
Book he wrote the Title is called A Dialogue between Faith and Reason Which is in print at this Day 7. The forth Book he wrote is called A Wonder of Wonders Which is in print at this Day 8. After this he grew so Proud and Lording over the Beleivers saying That no body could write in the vindication of this Commission now John Reeve was dead but he And to that purpose he wrote another Book Intituled The lost Sheep found It is in print to this Day 9. Wherein he had proudly exalted himself into John Reeve's Chair exalting John Reeve and himself but quite excluded me in all the Book 10. So many of the Beleivers complained to me of his lording over them and that he had excluded me quite in this last Book 11. Whereupon I read the Book over and found the Report was true 12. Whereupon I put him down for ever writing any more and I wrote to the Beleivers in Cambridge shier and else where that he was put down for his Pride and Covetousness for ever writing any more upon that account 13. And the Beleivers did obey my Voice every where 14. He continued thus four Years after John Reeve dyed until the year 1661. and in a while after Laurance Claxton humbled himself to me and acknowledged his Fault and I forgave him and took him into my Favour but ty'd him not to write any more 15. So he continued several years afterwards justifying his Faith and Confidence in this Commission of the Spirit 16. But it came to pass when the Fire destroy'd the Citty of London he to get a Livelyhood did ingage to help Persons of Quality to borrow Mony to build their Houses again 17. But the Persons that had the Mony did run away and left Claxton in the Lurch the Debt was one hundred Pounds 18. So he only was Arrested and put in Ludgate Goal for this Mony He lay there a whole year and dyed there 19. But he gave a very good Testimony of his Faith in the true God and in this Commission of the Spirit and of that full assurance of eternal Happiness he should enjoy to eternity after his Death 2. Insomuch that all the Prisoners marvelled and were sorry they had opposed him so when he was alive CHAP. VII Shewing how the Prophet caused The Divine Looking-Glass to be Reprinted Of the Prophets printing a Book of the Interpretation of the 11th of the Revelations And The Quakers Neck broken Of his Travels to Nottingham and the Transactions that passed there And then to Chesterfield 1. THE first thing I did after Claxton was put down I caused the Divine Looking-Glass to be new printed 1661. Which was done very handsomly and is now to be seen 2. After this I wrote a Book containing Twenty four Sheets of Paper Intituled The Interpretation of the 11th Chapter of the Revelations by St. John and got it printed in the same year 1662. Which is yet to be seen Never was such a thing extant in the World before 3. After this I wrote a Book called The Neck of the Quakers broken containing Tenn Sheets of Paper and got it printed in the same year 1663. Which is yet to be seen 4. After this it came to pass that several in the North Country hearing and seeing these Books had a great desire to see me and especially one Ellin Sudbury at Notingham and one Dorothy Carter of Chesterfield in Darbyshier 5. These and others were very desirous to see me but they could not tell how for they thought it would be too much Charge and Labour for them to come to London to me so far for they were loath to put me to so much Charge to come to them yet Ellin Sudbury her desiers were so strong that she could not be satisfied except she did see me So she wrote a Letter unto me that I would come into those Parts and that the Sosiety should bare the Charge 6. Now I marvelled what that Society should be but it was the Beamonists mix'd with the Quakers as I found afterwards But this being in the Winter I sent word I would come and see her in Summer 7. And accordingly it came to pass that one Thomas Hudson a Friend of ours at London had occasion to see his own Relations in Lancashire and Notingham and Chesterfield being in his way he was willing to travel with me to see those Friends we had never seen before 8. And when we came to Notingham Elin Sudbury was glad to see us and so was her Husband also but at that time he was upon the Beamonist score so there came several of the Beamonists People to discourse with me and some of the Speakers of them and Mr. Sudbury he thought they would be able to dispute with me though he could not 9. But he saw they were more weak than himself to maintain their Principles of Religion so that he disliked them and said That their was no true knowledge of the Scriptures amongst them Also he heard me pass the Sentence of Damnation to eternity on four of them 10. And one of these was very much troubled and asked Elin Sudbury whether she did beleive he was damn'd because I had passed the Sentance upon him only to insnare her she being but weak and had never heard such a thing before 11. But I to free her from that Bondage in her Minde for I knew she had not Confidence enough at that time to say she did beleive he was damn'd And if she should say no then she would loose the assurance of her own Happiness in beleiving me to be a Prophet of the Lord and had Power to give Sentance of Blessedness to one and Cursedness to the other So I knew the Woman was in a strait what to say and he urged her for an Answer 12. But I said she shall not give you her Judgment at all to insnare her Mind I have passed the Sentance upon you and I do beleive without doubting That you are the Seed of the Serpent and will be damn'd to eternity and it matters not if all the People in the World should beleive to the contrary yet my Faith shall be stronger than all to keep you down 13. Then they grew angree and threatned to prosecute me but could not tell how to state a ground of Prosecution 14. After Thomas Hudson and I went from thence to Chesterfield which was Twenty Miles further to Dorothy Carter's House a Widdow she had one Daughter her Name was Elizabeth that was a true Beleiver and a young Maid that was Servant to Dorothy Carter her Name was Elizabeth Smith a true Beleiver also 15. And there was in that Town a Man his Name was Edward Fewterer a Chirurgeon that was a true Beleiver also These Four were glad to see me for they had never seen me before 16. But the Professors of Religion in that Town hearing of me there came several to dispute with me but some of them blasphemed and dispised what
of the Place nor of the Man 22. So all Intents were frustrated which caused trouble of Mind to us all for no People have greater Love to one another than those of this Faith 23. We were in this jorny going and coming and at Friends Houses about five Weeks CHAP. VII The Prophet's House searched for Books The Sercher's Civility The Prophet acknowledges their Kindness and after sent them a Gratuity A second search for Books where several were taken Of a great Rebellion that hapened upon the Prophet's Absence 1. AFTER this in the same year 1669. I wrote two Books the one of them was an Answer to Esq Penington a Quaker who wrote a Book against me And the other Book was the Interpretation of the Witch of Endor and other Witches and in the Winter I did endeavor to get them printed and had agreed with two several Printers 2. But it came to pass that the Answer to Penington was taken in the Press through some Neglect of the Printer when half a Sheet had been printed but the Searcher of the Press he being a violent Man he made a great adoe about it and troubled the Printer and put him to the Charge of Seven Pounds and me Five Pounds to pacify the matter But the Interpretation of the Witch of Endor escaped in the other Printer's Hands and is now in Print and giveth great Satisfaction to many in that Point 3. After this it came to pass in the year 1670. before Midsumer there came Fourteen Men to search my House for unlicensed Books these Men were informed by the Printer but they would not connfess who sent them There was Three or Four of the King's Messengers and the Warden of the Stationer's Company and Printers and Booksellers 4. The Warden was very surly when my Wife asked what he would have He bid her open the Door else he would break it open She said She would not unless he would tell his Business So he made no more adoe pulled the Hatch and wrenched open the Spring-Lock and came runing up Stairs so sudainly that no Door in the House could be locked 5. And being so many of them they ran into every Room in the House and they came into the uper Rooms where I was and there they seized upon Ten Poundsworth of Books and were binding them up to carry away 6. I said I hope you are civil Gentlemen there is nothing in the Books that is against King or State and some of them were printed before the King came into England and if you will be pleased to ask what Mony you will for your Pains and Civility I will give it you 7. Then said one of them Do you think we will be bribed Then said I Who is the chief among you that I may appeal to him for Relief when you have taken them away Said they here is Mr. White the Warden of the Stationers Company he hath the Warrant and is chief and he liveth in St. John's on Clarkinwell-Green Then said I take them away and I helped them to Strings to ty them fast 8. And when they saw this that I was so fair and gave them goodly Words not in the least charging them with Folly or Unrighteousness they went from me into another Room and whispered among themselves and said one to another These Books are most of them against the Quakers and some Printed long ago we had best only take one a piece single and one bound alltogether and leave the rest till we have read them over to see what is in them So they agreed thus among themselves 9. Then Mr. White the Warden came to me and said Mr. Muggleton you shall see that we will be civil we will only take one of these bound alltogether and of each single and let the rest be forthcoming when we shall call for them 10. I thanked him for his Civility So they departed away at that time only one of them took one of the Books bound altogether under his Coate more than was agreed by themselves and it was well I escaped so And about Four or Five Days after I sent a Letter to Mr. White the Warden praising him and the Gentlemen with him for their Kindness and Civility and withal I sent him Two Guinea Pieces of Gold by my Wife to drink with the Gentlemen and prayed him to accept of them and if I were a Man of Ability I would have given a great deal more 11. For civil Kindness ought to be respected for I know you had Power to have taken them away and that if you would be pleased to send but one of those Books bound again by my Wife that I might know by that you have accepted of that small Token of my Love for your civil Usage 12. The Letter was more large but Mr. White read the Letter twice and said to my Wife Indeed one of the Men did take a Book under his Coat but said he shall restore it again for it is your Husband 's and as for the Two Guinea's said he let them alone 'till you hear further from me for it doth not ly altogether in my Power to accept of them So he would not receive the Two Guineas 13. So my Wife brought them again and I waited expecting to hear from him but did not for I perceived he had turned the Power over to the King's Messengers as I found afterwards for I heard by one that belongs to the Law that saw my Name in a Warrant in the Office to take my Person and to bring me before the Councel of State so he gave me Intilligence of it 14. So I went from my own House and lodged at a Friends House in Waping Three Quakers of a Year and a Week after I was gon came the King's Messenger with his Warrant but I being not at home he lost his Labor He came Three times and saw he could do no good he gave over coming for a long time 15. After this in the same year no sooner out of one Trouble but into another about the Month of October a little before the Parliament sate there came Eight or Tenn Men of the Stationers and other Officers to my House to search for Books 16. But it hapened that my Wife was newly gon out else they would have taken away many Books to a considerable Value but she being not at home went away very angry saying they would take some other Course but after this I took and got all the Books out of my House By this means I prevented them from taking away any more for many years 17. These Troubles and many more I went through in the year 1670. and in the year of my Life 60. And in the 19th year of my Commission 18. And while I was in these Troubles and absent from my own House even as a Prisoner for Three Quarters of a year there did arise a great Rebellion and Conspiracy amongst the Beleivers of me which was like the Conspiracy and
to make and Excite discord between the King and his Subjects and to bring into Odium and Disgrace his said Majesty's Kingdom as to Eclesiastical Matters 4. He the said Lodowick Muggleton on the 30th of August in the 23d Year of His Majesty's Reign in St. Giles's Parish without Cripplegate London aforesaid by force and Armes did Unlawfully Wickedly Maliciously Scandalously Blasphemously Seditiously Scismatically and Heritically Write Print and Sell Utter and Publish a certain Malicious Scandalous Blasphemous Seditous and Heritical Book Intituled The Neck of the Quakers Broken 5. In which Book Written to Edward Burne are contained these Unlawful Blasphemous Seditious Heritical and Scandalous Sentences following viz. I Write these Lines unto you Edward Burne knowing you to be the Seed of the Serpent 6 There was repeated out of this Book much more as Page the 18 31 and 54. That whosoever Reads that Book may see those Blasphemies these Quakers did first Judge me with so that I had cause enough given me to Pronounce those sad Sentences of Damnation upon them and those Books was known to the Powers of the Nation many Years before and the Powers of the Nation took no notice of it because that and all others were Pardoned by the King and Act of Parliament till within three Years and that Book was Printed 13 Years before 7. Yet these wicked Judges and Jury and others Conspired together to perswade the Court that this Book was Antidated 13 Years ago yet Published this August 30th 1676 that it might come within the Act of three Years 8. Now these words that were taken out of this Book made some of the Judges Mad with Envie and grin'd their Teeth and their Counsel said it made his Hair stand on an End he was so Affrighted which caused one of the Judges to belch out of his Mouth saying it was to the great contempt and Scandal of their said Lord the King of His Crown and Dignity 9. When as that Book did not meddle with their Established Religion at all neither was it any dishonour to the King but rather an honour if he had but Read it over but Truth doth alwaies offend the reason of Man as is seen by what a Multitude of Hellish Expressions and Palpable lies uttered in their Indictment being patch'd up with Reproaches and Slanders against the purest Truth that ever was spoken by Prophet or Apostle 10. I shall now Record now unjustly Judge Rainsford dealt with me before the Tryal The Sessions before I was Tryed the Bill of Indictment was Read in Court and I answered not Guilty and said unto Davis then Lord Mayor that I would Traviss the Indictment and put in Bail to the Indictment 11. So Davis asked whither I could put in three Sufficient Men that could Swear they were worth Two Hundred Pounds a Man he would Accept of Bail thinking I could not have procured such great Security And Judge Rainsford Sate at the Right-Hand of the Mayor and I heard Judge Rainsford say to the Lord Mayor that it was pitty but I should be Burn'd I heard by his Words and saw by his Countenance that he was and would be a Deadly Enemy 12. But the Mayor could not deny Bail nor to Traviss the Indictment by the Laws of England so the Men were called and the Mayor being Envious asked one of them if they were of my Gang one of them answered and said thus Sr. We do not come here to be Examin'd whose Gang we are of but we came to be Bail for this Man for Six Hundred Pounds for his Appearance the next Sessions The Mayor said no more but Accepted it 13. And when the time drew near I did according to Law with my Lawyer go to this Judge Rainsford and got his Clerk to draw up a Sessarary which was to remove it out of that Court into the Court of Kings-Bench and this En vious Judge being Judge of the Kings-Bench-Court and we could not have a Sessarary in any Court else which he knew well enough which caused his Envie to act so wickedly and unjustly towards me 14. For when his Clerk and my Lawyer had Drawn up the Writing and had recived their Money near Forty Shillings they went into the Judges-Chamber for him to set his Hand to it to remove my Cause into his own Court which was but Law but he made them answer and said he would not set his Hand to it but would hear the Tryal himself at the Sessions 15. So I was Cheated of my Money by his Clerk and he knew it and he deprived me of it and of the just Law which is the Birth right of every free born Man of England 16. But now as to the Tryal I shall in the next place Record some of the most remarkable Words and Passages of the Judges and the Counselors and the Witnesses against me in the Tryal Upon the 17th of January 1676 first the Indictment was Read and the Cryer of the Court said Are you Guilty or not Guilty 17. I answred not Guilty but desired the Court to let my Counsel Plead the Cause because I knew they would have taken hold of my Words and made them a more horrible Crime then the Book it self which Judge Rainsford readily granted and asked Who was my Counsel I said Mr. Gener. 18. And he received a Breviat of the Cause shewing the Wrong I had received by their breaking open my House and taking away my Goods contrary to the Laws of England Also I gave into my Counsels Hands the Kings Gracious Act of Pardon That whosoever did Sue any Man for what was Pardoned in that Act afterwards that the Partie so Sued should Plead the General Issue and should Recover Ten Pound a Man of those his Adversaries 19. This Act was given into my Counsels Hands to Plead and that Book that stated the Indictment out of was given into his Hand which Book was Pardoned by that Act being Printed 13 Years ago all was Pardon'd till within Three Years 20. Also their Counsel I know not his Name had one of the Boâ—oks with the whole Volumn bound and Clasp'd which they stole from me in his Hand I saw the Chief Judges were bent upon Mischeif against me 21. Therefore I was resolved to follow the Practice of Christ when Examined by the high Priests Rulers and Counsel gave them no answer neither before Pilate for he knew they watched to catch Words out of his Mouth that they might have some what to Accuse him of to make his Cause worse then what his Enimies did Accuse him with as may be Read Luke 22.70 where Christ held his Peace and answer'd nothing 22. Then said they all Art thou the Son of God and he said unto them Yea say that I am and to this they said What need we any further Witness for we our selves have heard out of his own Mouth so Mark 14. and in verse 62 Jesus answered and said to his question I am the Son of God
Soliciter to answer to it which wickedness of his cost me three Pounds 4. And my Lawyer went to Treat with him and this Knight was not very well very Cross and said he had turn'd his Business over to his Atturney And his Atturney was so full of Imployment that nothing could be done 5. So I hearing by my Lawyer that he was Sick I desired 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 pass that he Dyed 6. So our Law Suite 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 those that broke open my House and Stole my Books and was a Witness against me in the Court He brought the Books to the Court for the Common Hang Man to Burn every Day I stood upon the Pillory my Wife Mary gave him the Sentance of Damnation to Eternity and he Dyed Six Weeks after 8. The third Person 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 Seat of Justice and all his Temporal Power was 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 so much Power as a common Justice of Peace he was in the same Condition as King Saul was the good Spirit of Power of giving Righteous Judgment in Temporal Things according to Law was departed from him and an Evil Spirit of Shame and Disgrace was sent unto him 10. Which Troubled his Soul so that in a little time after he Dyed and went to the same 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 sure he shall be rejected of God even this Rainsford and rejected of me the last True Prophet of the Lord and that he will be Damn'd to all Eternity 11. And he shall Remember in the Resurection that his Damnation is the very same which he called horrible Blasphemy which he Judged me for and said he was sorry the Laws of England were so unprovided to Punish me no worse 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 sure God will have no Mercy for him but hath provided a Law to Punish him for his Envy against me who did him no wrong 13. And his Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost which God hath said and made it a Law never to be altered that shall never be forgiven in this World or in the World to come This is the Law that God hath provided for us the Two last Prophets and Witnessess of the Spirit to Judge by so that I know the hottest of Hell Fire will be his Portion and Reward for his Sin against the Holy Ghost to Eternity 14. The Fourth great Enemy to me was Sr. Thomas Davis then Lord Mayor he being a Stationer himself he was Confedrate with the whole Company of Stationers and Booksellers and Jury To Fight against the Lord and his Chosen Prophet and Witness of the Spirit which did Incense the Court and Jury that I might Antidate that Book 13 Years ago and yet Publish it this August even against his own Conscience 15. Wherein he shewed himself of that wicked reprobate Seed 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 16. And about two Years and a half after he Judged me he Dyed and passed through this first Death which is Natural into the second Death which is Spiritual and Eternal 17. These great Enemies I have lived to see them cut off from the Land of the Living with many others more Inferiour Devils which were my Enemies have I seen cut off by Death and some to Poverty 18. There is one more that is yet alive that I desire of God to have Executed some vissible Vengeance at my Tryal his Name was Jefferies Recorder of London He was the Man that sate in the Judgment Seat and gave Sentance against me He used several Scurrilous and Disdainful Expressions in the Sentance he gave upon me 19. He was a Man whose Voice was very lou'd 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 Justice and Equity 20. For if a Mans Cause be never so just except he be Imploy'd in it he will be sure to baffel and make quabbles and wrangle out the justest Cause that is and will make that which is unjust it self to be right by Law were it not for more juster Judges that have a more just Conscience then he hath else the Innocent would always loose his just right if he be against him 23. But that which I have against him is for his Blasphemy against the Holy Spirit that sent me and his wicked Malice and Envy against me when he sate in Judgment against me That he said he was sorry the Laws of England were so unprovided to Punish Crimes of this Nature he was sorry the Laws could not Impower him to give Sentance of Death upon me This I know was the Desire of his Heart 22. And as he was sorry the Laws of England were so unprovided to Punish me so 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 Gods Laws are always provided to give Sentance of Eternal Damnation upon all such dispising persecuting Blaspheming Devils as this Jefferies 23. I knew he was a Reprobate and appointed of God to be Damn'd before But this Tryal of mine hath given Testimony to me and all that truely believe me that he is an absolute Devil in Flesh and his Sin doth cry to Heaven for Vengeance 24. And look what measure he would have measured unto me in that he would have slain my Innocent Blood unto Death the same measure shall be measured to him again because the Laws of Heaven are always provided and hath Impowered me to give Sentance and Judgment upon him for I know by Revelation of the Spirit of God that he is Recorded in the Tables of Heaven for a Reprobate Devil and he shall be Recorded here on Earth to the end of the World for a Damn'd Devil 25. For that Body of his which is now his Heaven which Cloathed it self
THE Acts of the Witnesses OF THE SPIRIT In Five Parts By LODOWICK MVGGLETON One of the Two Witnesses and True Prophets of the only High Immortal Glorious God Christ Jesus Left by him to be publish'd after 's death In the latter days two Bright Stars shall arise raising up men being dead in their sins which shall resist the Beast and the Waters of the Dragon testifying and preaching the Law of the Lamb and the Destruction of Antichrist and shall diminish his Waters but they shall be weakened in the Bread of Affliction and they shall rise again in stronger force and after Truth shall be revealed and the Lamb shall be known After this shall be but a small Space Fox in his Book of Marters LONDON Printed in the Year of our Lord God 1699. THE EPISTLE DEDICATORY TO all True Christian People that do or shall hereafter come to believe in this Third and Last Spiritual Commission is this ensuing Treatise directed with love and peace to you be multiplied It being a Legacy left you by the Lords last True Porphet for your further establishment in Truth As also it is left for a Convincement of the Seed of Reason when he is in the dust that by these Acts they may see how he hath been slandred reproached and belied persecuted and imprisoned without a Cause For how many Lying Reports hath been not only flung upon them but also upon the True Believers of them saying That we own neither God nor Devil Heven or Hell and all because they see us use no outward glittering shew in fruitless Forms of Worship whilst we worship an invisible Spiritual yet personal God in Spirit and Truth which the World knows nothing of For this we know and affirm that the Doctrine of this Commission of the Spirit is of as great purity and power as to Godliness as ever any was and as they were themselves ever kept innocent from the breach of the Morral Law as to Act Even so the Fruits of their Doctrine is of the like efficacy in the knowing seed of Faith by which they have dominion over Sin as in respect of Act. And altho' this last Prophet in his Answer to the Nine Assertions hath shewed his great mercy and clemency to some corrupt Natures yet it is but to such who act not so far as the breach of the Morral Law as to borrow Money and not to pay it again or to be passionate and hasty natur'd overcome with Strong Drink or the like and tho' these are evil yet reach but to the Borders of the Law being Frailties in Nature which disturb the peace of the Mind for in such things as the Apostle James saith We offend all But where there is true Faith it prevents the Act as this Prophet saith in one place among many his Words are these Faith saith he overcomes all Sin Death and Hell within a man's self and that none but such shall be admitted into the Kingdom of Heaven And the Prophet Reevâ—s Doctrine is thus saying All those that are led by the Voice of the holy Spirit of Jesus do work Righteousness in their bodies whereby they die unto Sin Again saith he in another place The Light of Christ in man doth convert from the Ruling Power of Sin And in a Third Place which is not yet printed saith That they that are led by the Spirit of Faith are kept from the commiting of sin I do not say saith he that they have no Motion to sin but the Spirit of Faith purifies their hearts giving them power against those Motions that they commit not the Act and from hence it is that all that are born of God know the Voice of God and hath this Power over Sin as I have declar'd said he These Doctrines of the Prophets are absolute and possitive and do give great light into several Scriptures as Matt. Chap. 5. ver 28. 1 John chap. 3. ver 9. and ver 15. in these places we are to distinguish between the Motion and the Action of Sin This may also give light into Rom. chap. 7. how that Paul spake there as to his state by Nature as also of the strife and strugle between the two Seeds of Faith and Reason until the Law of Faith was quickened and power by it attain'd and then had he dominion over Sin as Chap. 8. and so came to have peace with God and with his own Conscience and Assurance of Eternal Life And from hence comes the Grounds of true Worship and flows forth all spiritual Praise as David said O how sweet is thy Law This sweet Law is the Law of Faith and he or she that is truly possessed hereof can seal to those words of the Prophet Reeve which saith That he that is born of God his Language and Practice is such as speaks forth the Power of Godliness to the confounding of all glittering Tongue Hipocrites and Faithless Formalists Now let all True Believers know that under every Commission this is made the ordinary way of Life and Salvation yet to prevent an objection this is confessed by us That tho' there is this power in Faith as aforesaid yet the Lord for the Tryal of his Creature may suffer some of his Chosen Ones to fall in the time of a Commission and for the prâ—ise of his Free Grace may grant them our Repentance or sâ—â—â—nd Free Pardâ—n for thus writes the Prophet Reeve in a Writinâ— not yet printed The Lâ—rd saith he leaves some to their own strength through which he rebels against the Light that is in him to the wounding of his own Soul to the end that he may learn that the power by which he is preserved from the 〈◊〉 of Sin and so from eternal ruin is not in himself but in the Living God that made him Therefore the Scripture here and there pâ—iâ—teth fâ—rth one that the Lord hath left for a seas n to manifâ—st his Prerâ—gative Power ovâ—r his Creatures and afterwards doth his God head Spirit move him to a second Free Pardâ—n wherein he raiseth that Soul to a highâ—r and greater measure of Grace Wisdom and Humility than it had before which fulfils that Saying of Paul Where Sin abounded there Grace did superabound And this was fulfilled both by David and Paul Here we see that if an Elect Vâ—ssâ—l should once fall after his knowledge and belief in Truth that his second Pardon doth raise him to a higher degree of Grace Wisdom and Humility then he had before This by the Prophet is made a true Tryal to know whether a repentance or conversion from the Act of Sin committed be real or fained as also that a second fail or relapse will prove dangerous because it is rare to find a Third Pardon and a Third increase of Grace to that Pardon Thus it is made clear that the Doctrine of this Commission of the Spirit it hath power of Purity in it and n ne that is truly born of God can dispute against it but
Schollar and with him an Excise Man his Name was Ebb and the Priest's Name was Goslin and there was with them two Souldiers 4. These Men being at Dinner with us Captain Stasy put the Priest upon Discourse and Dispute with us 5. So we disputed with him concerning God and when we came to prove by Scripture that God was a form like Man according to those Words in Geneses God made Man in his own Image and Likeness the Priest pleaded that was Holiness and Righteousness 6. We showed him that Holiness and Righteousness had no Form nor Image without a Body nay it is nothing at all in it self but as it is acted forth by a Body 7. For it is a Body that acteth holy good and righteous Things therefore it is we call such a Man a Holy Man a good Man a righteous Man Now if God made Man in his own Image an holy upright Man could he be said to Be Man except he had a Body 8. Neither could them Words be proper to say God made Man in his own Image and Likeness if Man was made with a Body to act holy and righteous Things and God that made him had never a Body himself 9. How then could Man be said to be made in the Image and Likeness of God whenas there is no likeness at all between them for the one hath a Person Form and Body and the other hath none 10. And if you say Holiness and Righteousness is the Image and Likeness of God We pray will you show us the Form and Likeness of the Image of Holiness and Righteousness distinct of it self from a Body 11. Then where ever we see Holiness and Righteousness distinct of it self then we shall know God and that Holiness and Righteousness is the Image and Likeness of God without a Body 12. And when we see this we will worship Holiness and Righteousness for God without a Body if you can show us the form of it by it self 13. Then the Priest grew angry and called it Blasphemy to say God was a Form or Person and said we were Deceavers with many other railing Speeches 14. Whereupon John Reeve pronounced him cursed and damn'd both Soul and Body from the Presence of God elect Men and Angels to eternity 15. And further said that he should never see any other God in the Life to come but the Sentance he had passed upon him 16. Then the two Souldiers were very angry to see the Priest damn'd and they would have fallen upon us to beat us and one of them took up a great Stoole to knock John Reeve on the Head 17. But Captain Stasy held him and perswaded him then they said they would have a Warrant for us either from General Cromwell or the Councel of State or from the Parliament 18. John Reeve answered and if General Cromwell the Councel of State or Parliament should dispise those things we declare as you have done and as this Priest hath done I would pronounce them damn'd as I do you 19. So with a great many words more at that time between them and us and Threatnings wherewith they threatned us we parted 20. And Captain Stasy seemed to be sorry that they were no more Civil but he was glad the Priest was damn'd because he was a great Enemy to the Clergy The End of the Second Part. The Third Part. From the Year 1653 to the Year 1665. CHAP. I. Shewing how five Men got a Warrant from the Lord Maior and brought the two Witnesses before him Of their Accusation Of their Examination And of their Answer to it with boldness 1. BUT a little while after this as is aforesaid it came to pass that these Men did get a Warrant from the Lord Maior of London because we lived in the City of London it was under his Jurisdiction 2. So this Priest and the two Souldiers and Ebb the Exciseman and another Salseman his Name was Chandler a damn'd Man he lived near me in great Trinity Lane 3. These five joyn'd all together to prosecute us and having a Warrant from my Lord Maior they came to my House and they brought the Marshal of the Citty of London and his Men to apprehend us and bring us before the Lord Maior 4. And they came up to the Chamber where John Reeve and I was and the Marshal and his Men took us before the Lord Maior to be examined 5. And when we came before him there were several Accusations against us besides what these five Men did accuse us of 6. First that Book intituled A Transcendant Spiritual Treatis the Lord Maior had this Book in his Hand Secondly there was a Pamphlet by one Needham sent to the Lord Maior of his own Damnation 7. And several Letters we had sent to the Presbyterian Ministers in London and about London to lay down their Preaching because they had no Commission from God to preach upon the receipt of this Letter upon pain of eternal Damnation These Letters were in the Lord Maiors Hands also 8. And there came one Minister forty Miles to accuse us before the Lord Maior he came rideing all Night and came in great Fury and Rage at the very time the Lord Maior called for us to examin us 9. But the Lord Maior did not mind this rageing Priest at all notwithstanding his great Jorny 10. But he minded these five Men that Joyned in the Warrant and set them together by themselves and us two by our selves 11. The Lord Maiors Examination of us the two Witnesses and our Answer to him as follows 12. He asked the Accusars what they had to say against these two Men one of them answered and said that John Reeve did say That he was their God 13. The Lord Maior said to John Reeve Did you say so He answered and said No. What did you say said the Lord Maior 14. Said John Reeve These Men desired to have Discourse with us about Spiritual Matters and when I had declared the Truth to them they called it Blasphemy Delusion and Lyes 15. Whereupon I did pronounce the Sentance of eternal Damnation upon them in that they had sinned against the Holy Ghost which the Scriptures saith shall never be forgiven in this World nor in the World to come 16. And that they should see no other God in the World to come but that Sentance which I had passed upon them This I did say and this his Clerke set down 17. Another of the Accusers said that John Reeve should say That General Cromwell the Counsel of State and the Parliament were all damn'd 18. Did you say so said the Lord Maior No said John Reeve 19. What did you say said the Lord Maior 20. John Reeve answered that we were in a place where one Captain Stasy invited us and these Men being Strangers to us they would needs propound Questions to us concerning God and the Scriptures because this Minister was among them and he was the greatest Blasphemer of Truth of all
thing unusual for it was the first time that ever I was in Prison before in all my Life 5. The Prisoners seeing us so willing they said they would trust us for Tenn Shillings upon this condition that we would give them one of our Cloaks for a Pledge we said do take which you will 6. So they looked on John Reeve's Cloak and said it was not worth Tenn Shillings Then they looked upon my Cloak and took it off my back and said This will do this is a good Cloak it is good fine Cloath said they We will keep this Cloak till you pay Tenn Shillings 7. And in Five Days after my Daughter Sarah brought Tenn Shillings and I gave it them and sent my Cloak home by my Daughter for I durst not keep it there for fear I should loose it though I had need enough of it for the Weather was cold at that time for it was the 15th of September 1653 we were commited and we were there Prisoners until the 17th of October 8. And the Bordes was our Bed we had no Sheets only a poor Flock-Bead upon the Ground and one thin Blancket at top and we paid seven Groats a Week for this Lodging and thought our selves very well used in a Prison which thing we was never acquainted with before 9. But we were more perplex'd with the Prisoners within than with the Imprisonment it self 10. For there were three Highway-Men and they were very malitious against us especially one of them that if I went to the Grate when any came to speak with us he would lay his Leg in the dark for me to stumble at and strike me in the Neck with his Fists thinking to throw me down 11. And if I were but walking in the Hall he would come and drive me out and strike at me and say You Rogue you damn'd Folks And so it was with the Boys that were Prisoners that when I went to the Grates to speak with any they would snatch off my Hat and paun it for half a Duzen of Drink So the Boys did 12. And I gave them Six-pence every time they did it to please them 13. So that other Prisoners said it was not fit I should be so abused and wished me to complain to the Keeper and he would punish them 14. No said I It is not for Prisoners to complain of prisoners 15. And when these three notable Thieves saw they could not provoke me no ways so much as to say why do you so 16. Then they thought upon another way and wrote a Letter to John Reeve with the Sentance of Damnation to us both thinking to have provoked John Reeve to have given Sentance of Damnation to Eternity upon them that they might have had wherewith to have done him a Mischiefe 17. But he gave them no Answer at all 18. When they saw this would not do they came into our Room where we lay with a Rope in their Hands to measure how high the beam was that they might hang John Reeve in the Room 19. And as it happened there was four condemn'd Men in Newgate at that time and these Men were our greatest Friends to protect us from the Violence of other Prisoners 20. And these two that lay in our Room they pulled out those Men by Head and Sholders that came to measure the beam Those condemned Men had great Respect for us because we gave them many times Victuals and Money 21. Also we gave seven Prisoners at one time twelve Pence a piece so that we found Favor in their Eyes for the Loves sake 22. There was one Prisoner that begged at the Grate and when he was drunk he would trouble John Reeve to bless him So one day when he was very drunk he broke into John Reeve and kneeled down upon his Knees before him and held his Hands together and said for Jesus Christ sake John Reeve bless me for I am a wicked Sinner 23. And John went from him and prayed him to be quiet but he was so much the more earnest for him to bless him 24. He was so troublesom to John Reeve that he could not tell how to be delivered from him 'till one of them that lay in our Room came and pulled him out by Head and Shoulders and turned him down Stairs 25. Those convicted and condemned Men were made under Keepers which did help the uper Keeper to shut up the Prisoners every Night These were the Preservers of us from the Violence of the Prisoners all the while we were in Newgate 26. And while we were in Newgate John Reeve wrote a Letter to the Lord Maior Alderman Fooke who commited us to Prison And one Jeremiah Mount a Friend to us got it Printed at his own Charge against the Day of Tryal 27. There was in it the Sentance of Damnation upon the Lord Maior and they were given to the Recorder Steele and several other Officers in the Court That Letter was Printed in the year 1653. and in the Third year of our Commission 28. There is many Beleivers of this Commission of the Spirit that hath them Letters in Print at this Day but none will part with them at any Rate not now CHAP. IV. Of the Two Witnesses being brought to their Tryal How John Reeve would not suffer the Maior a damn'd Man to speak How the Jury brought them in guilty and of the Recorder's Sentance upon them And of several other Transactions 1. AND when the day of Tryal came we were brought before the Court and the Accusers stood all Five before us but the Court asked the Accusars not one Question neither did the Accusars speak one Word before the Court. 2. But when the Lord Maior the chief Judge of that Court began to speak against us 3. John Reeve said with a loud Voice That he would not hear a damn'd Man speak neither will answer to anything But Mr. Recorder we will hear you 4. So the Lord Maior sat down and said never a word more 5. Then John Reeve called to the Recorder for our Examination before the Lord Maior for that will shew all things and that we will stand to 6. But there was no Examination could be produced by the Lord Maior notwithstanding John Reeve called for it three times but they gave no Answer at all therefore no need for the Witnesses to accuse us for the Examination answered to all that the Accusars could say against us 7. But the Court waved them and tryed us only by that book John Reeve first printed in which book Christ is proved to be the only God So they judged it Blasphemy to deny the Trinity of Persons 8. Therefore the Recorder asked John Reeve what Father it was that Christ prayed unto in his Agony 9. John Reeve answered and said It was to his representitive Power in Moses and Elias that he prayed unto as you may see said he when he said Ely Ely Lama sabatheny my God my God why hast thou forsaken me You may
Witchcraft which we have given them to drink 21. But the Answer in the Conscience will say Inasmuch as you fhrsake me the living God and creator of all things and said in your Hearts There is no God then you gave your selves up to natural Witchcraft diving into the nature of the Planits and Stars and into the Spirit of the Herbs of the Field so that you became absolute Witches your selves and you have caused Thousands of Men and Women to be bewitched by you both in their Bodies Souls and Estates 22. Therefore depart from me you atheistical workers of Iniquity into utter Darkness where is weeping and knashing of Teeth for evermore 23. And as for the Lawyers they keep the Keys of the Knowledge of the Law and will neither enter into Truth and Honesty themselves nor suffer others to enter in that would 24. For no Man can do anything in his own Cause but as his Lawyer instructs him for he is sworn when he enters into that Practice he hath a Commission to keep the knowledge of the Law from his Clyant so that the Clyant being ignorant how to proceed in Law Step by Step the innocent Clyant his Clause is many times put off and neglected by his Lawyer to the great Discontent and further Charge of the innocent and just Cause 25. And as for the Poor that can have no Law at all tho his Cause be ever so just no Judge will hear him nor no Lawyer will give him any Councel except he hath Monies in his Hand nor no Judge will do the Poor any Justice except he go in the way of the Law and that the Poor cannot do 26. So that if the Birthright of the Poor be ever so great or just it must be lost for want of Monies to fee Lawyers Besides where Monies is to be had let a Man's Cause be never so unjust yet Lawyers will undertake it though they know certainly that their Clyant will be overthrown before they took it in hand This is Wickedness in a high degree so contrary to the Law writen in Man's Heart To do as he would be done unto 27. But the Government of this World hath brought a necessity of the use of Lawyers but it is not expedient that any Saint should take that Practice upon them there is enough of them in the World it being the Devil's Kingdom 28. But when the Book of Conscience the Law writen in the Lawyer 's Heart is opened at the last Day what can they plead for themselves 29. They will say Lord we thought because it was the Government of the Nation and that learning of the Knowledge of the Law it made us rich and honourable among Men it made us Companions for the wise and great Men of the World the Knowledge of the Law it made us Atornies Councellors and Sarjants at Law honourable Places and by degrees we came to be Judges of the Land 30. So that Kings and Princes have asked Councel at our Lips we have Cloathed our selves with fine Scarlet and white Robes signifying Justice and Mercy to the People We have been as Gods upon the Earth and we have done justice to some in all our Degrees tho we have failed in others therefore hope for Mercy 31. But the Answer in the Conscience will say In as much as you have fed upon Riches and Honour all your Days and have not walked by the Law written in your Hearts To do as you would have been done unto had you been in their Condition and they in yours but you have the Penny of this World Riches and Honour your Hearts Delight Therefore depart you wicked Lawyers workers of Iniquity into utter Darkness where is weeping and gnashing of Teeth for ever more 32. This I know will come to pass in these Three sorts of Men in that Day when God shall raise the Dead 33. When the young Man heard these Things he left all Preferment that way for Truths sake and became a stedfast and true Beleiver and he being a Scholar was mighty able to oppose the Learned 34. Also there was one Robert Phare he was Governor of the City of Corke in Ireland he was inclineable to be a Quaker but after he saw me and had read our Writings he became a true Beleiver of this Commission of the Spirit and so did the Lady his Wife She became the chief Champion in this Faith of all the Women in that Nation 35. Also he had Four Sons and Daughters that were true Beleivers He was the cause of many Persons of Value in that Kingdom of Ireland that did truly Beleive as one Captain Moss and his Wife and Doctor Moss his Son and Captain Gaill and Major Denson and George Gamble and Mr. Rogers Merchant And several more which I omit to name because it would be too tedious that were true Beleivers in that Kingdom of Ireland 36. After this it came to pass that I wrote a Book in answer to George Fox Quaker containing Twelve sheets and a half of Paper and got it Printed in the Year 1668. and in the Seventeenth year of my Commission and in the year of my Life 58. 37. This Book caused the Quakers to be exceedingly angry at me and several Speakers of them to write cursed Letters unto me and some of them came to discourse with me and a woful Ephect did befal some of them a little while after as is expressed in the Writing following The Coppy of Thomas Loe a Quaker's Letter Dated London 16th of the 7th Month 1668. LOdowick Muggleton having seen some of thy Writings more especially thy Book Intituled A Lookinglass which I have looked in and do clearly see thy wicked abominable and antichristian Spirit and can do no less than cry Oh! thou Blasphemer thou Enemy of God and of all Righteousness thou Son of Perdition and Child of the Devil how hast thou Laboured to pervert the right Way of God in speaking of the blessed Truth And Oh! thou Seed of the Serpent and old Sorserer how hast thou belyed slandered wickedly and falsly accused and condemned the just And now be it known unto thee That thy false Judgment and wicked Envy both in speaking and writing against the Servants of the living God is returned back upon thy own Head and thee with it will God in his Fury and Indignation sink in the Pit of Darkness from whence it hath risen And in the great and mighty Power of God and Christ I Reprove Judge and Condemn thee which shall stand upon thy Head and thy Power thou boasteth so of shall not reverse it Oh! ignorant Sot how canst thou consider thy Blasphemies and not be ashamed This is a Testimony in the Power and Spirit of God against thee and all thy Wickedness by a Servant of Jesus Christ who am a Witness of the Spirit and Power of God with many others CHAP. III. The Prophets Answer to Thomas Loe's Letter His Sentance with the Ephects of it The Prophet's Dispute
Mall and William Picke they were Three inveterate Devils being incouraged by this rich man Yet notwithstanding I proceeded on in the Law and when they saw they were in danger to be overthrown they used all ways possible to defer the Cause 7. And when they Saw that would not do but that I would bring it to Tryal They consulted together and Summon'd me into the Spiritual-Court thinking to have me Excomunicated that I might not have the benefit of the Law against them But I spent Money in that Court and kept off their Excomunication and proceeded in the Common Law towards a Tryal 8. And when they Saw that would not do then they Conspired and Consulted with the Wardens of the Company of Stationers to Search my House for Unlicenced Books upon which the Wardens brought many Booksellers and Printers and Three of the Kings Messingers with them and because my Wife denied to let them come up Stairs they Immediately with a Weapon they had broke open Four Doors that were Lock'd and Boulted Contrary to the Laws of England and they took away Four Hundred Books great and small from me of a considerable Value 9. After they had done this they Consulted with the Bishop of London to put me into the Spiritual Court and Sue me there for Blasphemy and get me Excomunicated that I might not have the Benefit of the Law against them neither for breaking open my House and Stealing away my Goods 10. And for that purpose they got the Lord Chief Justice Rainsfords Warrant for to take me he was a deadly Enemy to me as will appear in that he would have taken away my Life if he could but I defended the Spiritual-Court from being Excomunicated and from his Warrant being Executed or Served upon me until these two Tryals in the Common Law against these two Tenants of the rich Mad were ended 11. I was forced to be absent from my own House for above a Quarter of a Year I was Entertained by that ever honoured and true Believer that young Widdow Ann Hall I was Entertained by her as an Angel of God when other Believers durst not I was kept at her House in Obscurity from Friends and Enemyes not knowing where I was yet I Employed my Lawyers to manage my Business in both Courts and in my absence they overthrew my Adversaries in the two Causes aforementioned in the Common Law and I received again that which the rich Man had taken away with some of my Charges again 12. But the Wardens of the Stationers Company because they could not catch me though they hunted after me as Blood-Hounds but could not find me out to Serve their Warrant upon me then they pressed hard in the Spiritual-Court to get me Excomunicated they fearing I might Overthrow them in the common Law for breaking open my House and taking my Goods for they had committed an absolute Burglary and Fellony by the Laws of England 13. But I being pressed so hard upon in the Spiritual-Court that it came to this Resultation in the Court that if I did not Personally appear the next Court Day then I should be Excomunicated and being advised by him that managed my Business in that Court to appear he saying he thought there would be no Danger 14. Now by his words I was perswaded to appear though against my own Mind for I did fear I should be Trappan'd and as I fear'd it came to pass and it proved of woeful Consequence to me as will appear by what doth follow 15. To omit many Circumstances I shall Record the Heads and Substance of the whole matter and as I did appear in the Spiritual-Court to prevent my self of being Excomunicated The Court had little to say unto me only asked me if I did own that Libel which they knew I denied by my Procter before 16. This was only to Deliver me into the Temporal Magistrates Hand for the Wardens the Lord Mayor the Lord Chief Justice together with the Spiritual-Court were agreed together to Proceed against me this way otherwayes they could never have catched me while they Lived nor have brought me under their Law 17. Therefore the Wardens Merne and Clark they got the Lord Chief Justice of England's Warrant with a Constable ready and as soon as I was Discharged in the Spiritual-Court at Docters-Commons that curssed Court is meerly to betray People into the Hands of their Enemies and to ruin the Estates of the Poor People for it is of no more Consequence for the good of the Nation then to throw Stones against the Wind. 18. For the Wickedness and Envie of the Ignorant People is such because they cannot be revenged of the Innocent and Just by the Temporal Laws of the Land then they Cite the Innocent that cannot Bow Down to their Worship into the Spiritual Court which I have had great Experance of this curssed Court which did betray me into the Hands of wicked envious Magistrates as will appear 19. For as soon as I was coming out of the Court the Constable served the Lord Justice Rainsford's Warrant upon me Then was I delivered into the Hands of Satan to be plain into the Hands of Devils 20. And I was led to Guild-Hall before the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen the Mayors Name was Thomas Davis a Stationer by Trade a deadly Enemy to me and to all Moral Justice and a Man made up more of Mallice and Ignorance of the Law of the Land than Ntural Wisdom or Moral Knowledge And as to Spiritual Knowledge he was as Blind as a Beetle 21. The Constable gave Judge Rainsford's Warrant into the Lord Mayor's Hand and the Wardens gave the whole Book bound into his Hands and the Lord Mayor asked me whither I did own this Book I said I did 22. Then he commanded me to withdraw into another Room and I did so with an Officer with me I stay'd a little while and the same Constable brought my Mittimus from the Lord Mayor to carry me to the Geoal of Newgate until the next Sessions 23. So I being carried to Prison I was Bailed out until the 17th of January in the Year 1676 then did Merne and Clark draw up an Indictment against me but out of one of those Bookes they stole from me called The Neck of the Quakers Broken CHAP. II. Of the Bill of Indictment and of the Cruelty of the Judges 1. NOW followes the Bill of Indictment as I was Condemn'd for The Persons or Jury Sworn for our Lord the King gave in that Lodowick Muggleton late of London Labourer being a Man Pernicious Blasphemous Seditious Heritical and a Monster in his Opinions 2. Pretending that he the said Lodowick Muggleton is one of the two last Witnesses of Almighty GOD and devising and intending to Spread Abroad his Pernicious Blasphemous Seditious and Monstrous Opinions and to disturb the Peace and quiet of this Kingdom of England and dispise and debase the True Religion Established and Exercised therein 3. As also
c. 23. Then the high Priests rent their Cloathes and they all Condemned him to be guilty of Death so likewise I did perceive that if I had pleaded my self I should have Justified my Commission from GOD and that he gave John Reeve and my self that Power and Authority to give Sentance of Damnation to all that Blaspheme against the Holy Ghost as they did as are Writen in that Book 24. These Words would have Enraged the Judges and Jury and the People more then that Book so that they would have said by me as the Priests Scribes and Pharisies said by Christ as aforesaid The angrey and Malicious Judges and Envious Jury and Ignorant Officers and People in the Court would have rent their Hearts with Madness against me and said What need we to mind this Book or Indictment or Witness against him for you hear his horrible Blaphemy out of his own Mouth therefore what think you so that they all would have Condemned me to greater Torments than they did 25. Considering this I held my Peace and speak not one word which prevented the Expectations of Thousands which thought to have had a large Relation of the Matter 26. So that I left the Book that was Pardoned Act and Indictment and Witnessess for them to Judge and Condemn me by So they had no farther Matter from me at all which did frusterate their Expectations and Moderate their Punishment as the Reader may perceive by what doth follow CHAP. III. The Counsel against the Prophet Pleads with fear and horrour The Prophets Counsel Pleads and through fear did wrong his Cause 1. UPON the 17th of January 1676 after the Indictment was read my Counsel Pleaded to it proving that this Book the Indictment was ground upon it was Pardoned by the Kings Gracious Act being Printed 13 Years ago neither was this Book Published nor Sold in any Shop or to any Person in publick as can be proved but were locked up in Cheasts c. This with many other Words according to the Laws of England This my Counsel pleaded and my Counsel Sate under Judge Atkins 2. And their Counsel Sate under Judge Rainsford and he did hold up the Book in open Court which Book was the whole Volumn bound and Clasped He held one of the Claspes between his Finger and his Thumb up in the open Court in oppossition to my Counsel 3. And he expressed these Words and said with a loud Voice That he did Read one Leaf of this Book and turn'd over another But said he it was so full of Horrible Blasphemy that he durst not Read any further for the Blasphemy was so great that it made his Hair stand an end and his Heart to tremble with other Expressions of Dread and Fear 4. As if the very Reading of it would have caused God to have parted the Heavens assunder and have Rained down Vengance upon him for Reading it if he had Read any further For said he It was impossible for any Man to Write such a Horrible Blasphemous Book in Assuming the place of God upon him Except he went to the bottom of Hell for said he it is so cunningly contrived that it confounds all the Reason in Man with many other hedious expressions which I cannot remember 5. He spoke truth but knew it not for the Spirit of Revelation doth descend to the bottom of Hell else we could not tell others where it is and prevent others from falling into it and as Christ himself Descended into Hell and quickened again out of it so hath the Spirit of Revelation in me descended into the bottom of Hell a Thousand times and hath quickened out of it again and hath forewarned many from going into that Place but I know this Counseler shall go into Hell that hath no bottom called a Bottomless Pitt and he shall never come from thence to Eternity 6. Likewise indeed the Revelation of Faith in me hath confounded all the Reason in Man as to Spiritual and Heavenly matters 7. After this my Counsel pleaded again to the same purpose as he did before but he through extream Fearfulness did wrong my cause in two things First in that he made no mention of the Wardens breaking open four Doors contrary to the Laws of England which was by the Law absolute Burglary and the taking away the Books was absolute Fellony 8. This was in the Forefront of his Breviat and I had reposed the Business to him because I would not plead my self but he like a deceitful Knave and fearfull Fool did not speak one Word of it before the Court which if he had it would have put these Envious Judges and Jury to a Nonplush how they could have brought me in Guilty so he spoyld my Cause 9. For after he had Pleaded the Kings Act of Grace as aforesaid he said these Words that he had Pleaded so far as the Law would bear him out but as for the Words and cause of Indictment he was ashamed of it 10. Upon these Words did Judge Rainsford say unto the Jury You see that his own Counsel is ashamed of his Cause 11. Here the Reader may see those Words verified as I have Read for my Counsel did do at my Tryal those things which he ought not to have done and he left undone those things which he ought to have done for he ought to have Pleaded the Breaking open of so many Doors but he left that undone and to say he was ashamed of my Cause he ought to have left those Speeches undone and not to have spoken them being not forced by the Court. 12. And for a Man to take Forty Shillings to Plead a Man's Cause and to say he is ashamed of his Clyants Cause what Man that hath but Moral Reason and Sense in him but will say such a Counseler hath no Truth in him 13. But Judge Atkins siting over my Counsel might see the Breviat in my Counsels Hand which caused him to ask one of the Witnessess his name was Garat how did he come by those Books he answered that he did Seize them as they use to do the Judge asked how many there were of them he said a Porters Load The Judge asked him where the Books were he answered at the Bishop of Londons House 14. The Judge asked him again if they were all of a sort or all of a bigness he answered no some were great ones and some lesser some three or four bound together and some single He was asked how many of them great Books that were in the Court he answered Six of them he was asked what was the Price that great Book was sold for He answered Twelve or Fourteen Shillings 15 Now when the two Counsels had done Pleading and the Witnesses Examin'd the aforesaid Judge Atkins stood up and said Gentlemen of the Jury you see that the Book which the Indictment was grounded upon was Printed 13 Years ago and is Pardon'd by the Kings Gracious Act Therefore said he I cannot
see by the Lawes of England how you can possibly bring this Man in Guilty therefore Jury look to it 16. Then stood up Judge Rainsford and said That if it was not Law we will make it Law and further said who knoweth but this Raskal might Antidate the Book 13 Years ago and Publish it this 30th of August last past 17. The Envy of this wicked Judge made him speak against his own Conscience for he knew it was impossible for me to do such a thing as to get it Printed so lately for he knew it were those that Stole my Books published them 18. And further this Rainsford vented his Envy exceeding high and called me Incorrigable Rogue that should Assume to himself to be in Gods place a Man Pernicious Blasphemous Seditious Heritical and a monster in his Opinions Pretending himself one of the two Witnessess of Almighty God to the great Scandal and Contempt of our Lord the King his Crown and Dignity as also the Religion of this Kingdom rightly Established And further said he was Sorry that the Laws of England were so unprovided to Punish Crimes of this Nature 19. And further he goeth on in his Rage against me and saith Gentlemen of the Jury if you do not bring this Man in Guilty you will be pertakers with him in all his Horrible Blasphemy and grand Apostisie 20. Many more hateful Words with the Fire of Hell that proceeded from his Heart and did appear in his Face his Zeal was great to have me Punished Nay he thought in his Heart that Hanging was too good a Death for me for said he This Crime of horrid Blasphemy as he accounted it was worse than Murder Fellony or Treason and was Sorry that the Laws was so unprovided to punish such Crimes 21. I was so moved in my mind to hear this Cursed Devil to Blaspheme against the Holy Spirit that sent me and gave me Power to give Sentance of Eternal Damnation upon such Blaspheming Devils That I could have wished that God would have Executed some vissible Vengeance from Heaven upon this Blasphemous Judge to have smote him with a natural Blindness for I knew he was Spiritually Blind for I had done wrong to no Man 22. Only I had Executed the Commission of God faithfully in giving Sentance upon all dispising Devils who sinned againg the Holy Ghost This was that Sin the high Priests and Elders committed in Christ's time against him in that they said he cast out Devils by Belsebub the Prince of Devils 23. I know this that Judge Rainsford would have said the same to Christ himself had he been in my place for his Blasphemy was great not only against me but against God that sent me which God he knew not 24. Therefore my Anger was kindled against him and desired an immediate vissible Vengeance from Heaven upon him that might have been a vissible Witness whither God did own him or me 25. But there was a secret Voice within me said thy Commission is Spiritual and hath to do with the Spiritual and Eternal Estate of Mankind and that all such Persons are the Seed of the Serpent and are to receive for their Blasphemy against the Holy Ghost their Punishment in the Life to come even Eternal Damnation which is the second Death where the Worm of Conscience shall never Dye nor the Fire of Hell shall never be quenched to Eternity 26. Then I was quiet and willing to bear all they could do unto me even to the loss of my Life CHAP. IV. The Prophet is brought in Guilty of his Sentance and Judgment with the nature of his Sufferings 1. AFTER that Judge Rainsford had made his Speech to the Jury then was the Goler commanded to take me away from the Bar and put into a little Room for a season and after a little space I was called for to the Bar again and Jefferies being then in the Recorders place that Bawling Devil was to give Sentance and Judgment upon me 2. And when I did appear before him a great Fire was between us where they did Burn those in the Hand which were Condemn'd to that Punishment but all that was over before I did appear 3. And this Jefferies Sate in the Judgment Seat as Pilate din against Christ and I stood a Prisoner at his Bar and when he saw my Face the first Words he speak he called me Impudent Rogue because my Countenance did not change nor look sad nor asked any Favour of the Court and said nothing to all their Threats Revilings and Reproaches whereby they Reproached me 4. Then he asked the Jury Is Muggleton Guilty or not Guilty They stay'd a little space before they speak Jefferies asked again is Muggleton Guilty or not Guilty the Jury said Guilty 5. Then he Proceeded in Judgment and said the Court is sorry the Laws of England are so unprovided to punish Crimes of this Nature therefore the Court hath thought Fit to give you but an Easie Easie Easie Punishment 6. You shall be committed and put to stand upon the Pillory in three of the most Eminent Places in the Citty That is one Day in Cornhil near the Exchange London Another Day in Fleet-street near the end of Chancery-lane and the Third Day being on the Market Day to Stand in West-Smith-Field London from the Hours of Eleven in the Forenoon until one in the Afternoon 7. On which said several Days a Writing Paper shewing your Offence to be put upon your Breast and also your Blasphemous Books in three Parts to be devided and with Fire before your Face near the Pillory aforesaid by the Common Hangman then and there to be Burn'd 8. And then to be returned into Newgate in safe Custody until your Fine of Five Hundred Pound be paid and then to put in good Security to be of good Behaviour the time of your Life but none of your own Gang as he call'd them shall be Security for you These are the Words of the Sentance that Jefferies passed upon me the 17th of January 1676. 9. The Paper that was tyed to my Brest every Day I stood upon the Pillory to shew my Offence and cause of this Suffering the Words were as followeth 10. Lodowick Muggleton Standeth hear for Writing causing to be Printed Selling Uttering and Publishing a Blasphemous Book 11. After this Sentance and Judgment was passed upon me I shall Record as short as I can the manner of the Execution of this Sentance and how I did suffer it and bear the Curse of their wicked Wills for they did make that Law which was not Law as Rainsford said before and as Judge Atkins when he saw me Condemn'd contrary to Law he went off the Bench and said there were no fair Dealings with me 12. This Sentance have I Suffered in every Tittle in the greatest Rigour that could be inflicted even beyond their own Law they made me Ride in a Cart as a Thief or a Murtherer Bareheaded without Hat or Cap which never