Slanders and Judgments threatned against me I did not matter For this I know the Quakers do beleive that Loe and Cole's Souls is not dead but slipt out of their Bodies and gon you know not where and into a Power you know not what 10. But I said their Souls is where you laid their Bodies they both came into this World together they both dispised the Truth together they both Bodies and Souls received Judgment and Condemnation together and both dyed together and were both Soul and Bodies buried together and shall both rise again spiritual dark Bodies and Souls together 11. Every Seed it s own Body that Seed of Reason which was their Life which they thought was the divine Nature of God but it was the Nature of the Devil and Serpent 12. And the Law writen in their Hearts which you Quakers call the Light of Christ or Christ in you which is no other Christ or Light but the Law writen in your Hearts And the Light of the Law which doth accuse and excuse the Conscience of every Man you call the Light of Christ yea Christ himself 13. For this Light of the Law writen in your Hearts is that which doth cause your Thoughts to accuse when you do evil and to excuse when you do well And when God shall raise them again that Seed of Reason shall rise and bring a spiritual dark Body with it And that Law which was writen in their Hearts here in this Life shall quicken again in that new dark spiritual Body 14. And then shall they and you dispisers of a personal God know that your own Souls which you thought was the Life of God but it was the Life of the Devil and that your selves were Devils and that Law writen in your Hearts which you in this Life called the Light of Christ and that was no other God or Christ but this Light within you 15. But when this Law doth quicken again as I said before it will prove the only and alone Devil to torment you to eternity because you made the Light of this Law in your Hearts to be your only God and by this Light of the Law you do fight against the true personal God who created Man in his own Image and Likeness and hath trampled him under your Feet as Dirt. 16. These things may seem strange and as a Riddle unto you and as a thing impossible but with God all things is possible which his own Will moves him unto 17. And this I say as it was possible for God to write the Law in the Angels Natures and by his secret Determination suffer one of these Angels to become very Man and so the Angels Seed and Nature having conjunction with the Seed and Nature of Eve which was of Adams Nature and so by Generation the Law comes to be writen in every Man's Heart in that ever Man and Woman that is born into this World is partaker of the Angel's Nature of Reason and so comes to have this Law writen in every Man's Heart 18. Man finds it there accusing of him but knows not how it came writen there 19. So it is as strange for you Quakers to beleive that God will raise your Souls again that were dead how they should quicken out of Death by the Power of that God that made all Souls to live at the first In as much as he made all things by the power of his word in the Beginning 20. So by the same power of his word he shall quicken the Souls of Men and Women again out of Death to Life again at the last day and the Law that was writen in them shall quicken also and be alive again in you to torment you to eternity 21. For the Law and your Souls shall never part one from the other for as the Law is secretly writen in your Hearts but originally in the Reprobate So by Gods secret Decree and Power he will revive that Law again in that Reprobate Seed of Reason as in Thomas Loe Josiah Cole George Whitehead William Pen and many of you Speakers of the Quakers and others of your Bretheren who are under the Judgment and Sentance of this Commission of the Spirit You shall find my words to be true upon you and over you to eternity neither shall you be delivered from it 22. For if I had but any thought of Compassion towards you in my Mind it was answered me That there is a necessity that there should be Enmity between the Seed of the Woman and the Seed of the Serpent which hardened my Heart against all Dispisers of a personal God in the form of Man Lodowick Muggleton 23. After this in the same year came another thundering Letter from a Lyon like Quaker being a learned Man brought up at the University his Name is William Pen Here is the Copy of it verbatim LOdowick Muggleton having had a deep and serious Sence of thy insulting Spirt over the Death of that valiant and painful Servant of the most high God Josiah Cole as if it were the ephect of thy solely Curse who alas for these Twelve Years hath in these Nations and Iles abroad in all Straits Difficulties and hard Sufferings been an incessant Labourer for the Lord and so impared his Health that within these Twelve Months or little more have I known him Five times sick and Three even unto Death before he had ever seen thy Face I say being sensible of thy Vaunts And it now being laid upon me Therefore once more I come in the Name and Authority of that dreadful Majesty which fils Heaven and Earth to speak on this wise Boast not thou Enemy of God thou Son of Perdition and Confederate with the unclean croking Spirits reserved under Chains to eternal Darkness for in the everlasting glorious Light thou dispiseth thou art seen Araigned Tryed Condemned and Sentanced for a lying Spirit and false Prophet who having counterfited the Commission and Sceal of that God whom the Heaven cannot contain hath bewitched a few poor silly Souls But their Blood Oh! Muggleton lies at thy Door and the Wrath of the Almighty is kindled against thee and his eternal Power in his Servants the Quakers came whom thou hast past thy envious Curse shall suddenly grind thee to Powder and as formerly so again on the behalf of the God of the Quakers whom I worship I boldly challinge thee with thy Six foot God and all the Host of lucepherian Spirits with all your Commissions Curses and Sentances to touch or hurt me practice your Skill and Power behold I stand in a holy Defiance of all your Enmity and Strength And this know Oh Muggleton with thy God art chained by the Spirit of the Lord and on you I trample in his everlasting Dominion and to the bottomless Pit are you sentanced from whence you came and where the endless Worm shall knaw and torture your imaginary Soul to eternity Written Signed and Seal'd by Commission receiv'd about the First Hour
weighed it in my Mind and was loath to forsake it 16. Then I consider'd my Soul was of more value and what would it avail me to be rich in this World for a Moment and to loose my Soul for I was extreamly fearful of eternal Damnation thinking my Soul might go into Hell Fire without a Body as all People did at that time 17. And after much strugling in my Mind I came to this resolution in my self that rather then I would loose my Soul or be damned to Eternity I would loose the Maid And that way that would have made me Rich and that I would be zealous of the Law of God as afterwards I was 18. Here the two Seeds of Faith and Reason did work in me but I knew them not by Name nor Nature at that time nor many Years after 19. But as I did fear it came to pass for the Maids Mother seeing my Mind so changed and so zealous of the Laws of the Scriptures and that I would not keep that way as I thought to do before 20. She would not let her Daughter have me to her Husband so the Maid was perswaded by her Mother 21. And my Zeal to save my Soul perswaded my Mind to let her go so we parted 22. Thus I forsook the World and a Wife which I lov'd in the days of my ignorance for zeal to the Law of God which I thought to be Truth and the true way and so it was 23. But I did not know it till many years after but the Lord God of Truth had respect unto my Person and Zeal at that time and prevented me from falling into that Snare of being rich in this World CAP. V. The Prophet shews his Care his Fear and Zeal in the Law of God and of the working of his Thoughts and heighth of the Puritan Religion 1. SO after I had parted with the Maid and that way that did offend my Conscience I was resolved to live so upright to the Law of God and so just between Man and Man that I thought in time I might procure favour with God and to attain assurance of my Salvation 2. For I was fully possest that there was really Salvation to be attained unto by my Righteousness and that there was a real Damnation to all those that were unrighteous or did not demean themselves so strictly as I did 3. For I was exceeding fearful of Hell and eternal Damnation The very Thoughts of it made my Spirit many times fail within me 4. But by Prayer and my Righteous Practices I did many times recover some Hope and Peace again 5. All this while I did suppose my Soul might go into Hell without a Body and that Millions of Souls were in Hell-Fire without Bodies and that the Devil being a Bodily Spirit did torment those Souls that came there and that the Devil had liberty to come out of Hell to Tempt People here on Earth and go there again but no Soul that he had gotten there could come out of Hell more 6. These things wrought in my Mind exceeding great Fear and stir'd me up to a more exceeding Righteousness of Life thinking thereby that my Righteous Life would have cast out those tormenting Fears but it did not 7. Yet notwithstanding I did continue in my Zeal and was earnest in the Puritant Religion and Practice neither did I know how to find Rest any where else neither did I hear any Preach in those Days but the Puritan Ministers whose Hair was cut short 8. For if a Man with long Hair had gone into the Pulpit to preach I would have gone out of the Church again tho he might preach better than the other 9. But we Puritans being Pharisaically minded were zealous of outward Appearance and of outward Behaviour for we minded that more than their Doctrin 10. For we took it for granted that God was a Spirit without a Body and that Christ Jesus his Son had a Body in form like Man and that he did mediate to God his Father who was a Spirit without a Body and that for Christ's sake this Spirit without a Body did hear us and speak Peace unto us 11. Also I believed that the Devil was a Spirit without a Body and could assend out of Hell when God did give him leave and sugest evil Thoughts of Lust Theft Murther and Blasphemy against God not thinking that these Thoughts and Motions did arise out of Man's own Heart but from a Divel a Spirit without a Body without Man 12. Also I thought those Souls which God did Save were carried up to Heaven without Bodies and should be with God who was a Spirit without a Body and that we should see Christ Jesus in Heaven with his Body with our Spirits that were Saved without Bodies till the Resurrection and then Body and Soul should be United together again 13. Also we did believe that the wicked Spirits should be cast into Hell Fire without Bodies where the Devil and his Angels being Spirits without Bodies should Torment the Souls of the Wicked till the Day of Resurrection and then those Wicked Souls should be United to their Bodies again and be Tormented Body and Soul together with the Devil and his Angels who were Spirits without Bodies in Hell Fire for ever and ever 14. And we did believe that the Angels of God were Ministring Spirits without Bodies as God was a Spirit without a Body so were they and could minister Comforts unto Men without Bodies 15. And we did believe our own Souls to be Immortal and could not Die but did subsist the good Spirits with God in Heaven without Bodies and the wicked Souls did subsist in Hell without Bodies 16. These were some of the Fundamental Principles of Faith and Religion we Zealous Puritans did believe and practice and there is no better Faith in the World to this day in the generality of Professors of Religion 17. These Things was I very well versed in and I grew in great Experience and Knowledge in the Letter of the Scriptures and had a good Gift of Prayer and was very strong in Disputes because my Mind was extreamly perplexed with the fear of Hell notwithstanding my exact life to the Letter of the Law 18. But the fear of Hell wrought in me much Experience so that I did exceed several other Men in that Knowledge which was in those days and tho' I was judged a very godly knowing-Man and a happy Man by others yet I could not judge so of my self but the fear of Hell was oft rising up in me 19. For I never Conceited well of my own Knowledge but thought the Knowledge of other Men did far exceed me because they seemed to be better satisfied in their Minds than I was 20. Yet I thought in my self that in time by my Prayers and Righteousness and exact Walking and hearing of Preaching that I might heal that Wound in my Soul which was made and I knew not for what 21. For I
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
of a people called Puritans some of these Puritans came to talk and discourse with my Master though he was no Religious Man 15. But I being ignorant did perceive they pleaded more for Righteousness and were better versed in the Scriptures then he was so that I liked in my self their Discourse upon the Scriptures and pleaded for a Holy keeping of the Sabbath-day which my Master did not do nor I his Servant 16. But I not knowing my Right Hand from my Left in Religion at that time yet methoughts I had a Love for those People call'd Puritans and could not endure my Companions should speak Evil of them 17. And when young Boys as I was and young Maids would speak Evil and lay many Slanders upon those People call'd Puritans as if they had been the wickedest People in the World with many Scoffs and Jears 18. Yet all this while my Heart did not close with their Reproaches but rather was inclin'd to love those People and to think the better of them thinking in my self Oh! that I might be so happy as them yet I knew not what Happiness was nor what Condemnation was for I knew nothing by my self why I should be Condemned 19. But the Seed of God lay hidden in my Heart which kept me from speaking Evil of things I knew not even from my Childhood which many others of my Age did 20. Like unto those Children that mocked the Prophet Elisha which two she Bares did tare in pieces so many of these mockers of Religion in that my time did come to great Poverty and Destruction in this World but the God of Truth preserved me though I knew him not 21. Also I was smitten with the Plague in that great sickness after King James dyed it was not extream tedious to me for the sore broke and I recovered quickly and hath not had half a days sickness since not this forty Years and more 22. I never bestowed Six-pence in Physick in my Life for my self but what the Kitchen would afford as Water-gruel Broth or such like and I have had my Health and hath been as perfect in Nature from all Distempers and Diseases as any Man in the World ever since CAP. IV. How the secret providence of God prevented the Expectation of the Prophet in his choice of a Wife and in his desire of Riches of the Prophet's Zeal for the Law and a Righteous Life 1. AFter this it came to pass my time of Service grew near out and my Nature had a great desire to be rich in this World that I might no more be Servant to any Man and I thought the Trade of a Taylor would not gain much Riches I having little to begin with and withal I thought I should be too much subject to the humours of People to please them which I had experience of in my Apprentiship 2. So I went to work in a Brokers Shop in Hownsditch who made Cloaths to sell and did lend Money upon Pawns called a Pawn-broker and the Brokers Wife had one Daughter alive and after I had been there a while the Mother saw that I was a good Husband and knew how to manage that way being a Workman better than they and that I was a civil and sober young Man not given to Drunkenness nor no Debauchery 3. She was willing to give her Daughter unto me to Wife and I lov'd the Maid well and thought my self too inferiour for her because she had something to take too and the Onely Child and I having nothing yet the Mother being well perswaded of my good natural Temper and of my good Husbandry and that I had no poor Kindred came after me to be any Charge or Burthen to her Daughter 4. Those things consider'd she thought I might be a convenient Match for her Daughter so she seeing there was some kind of Affection between her Daughter and me she proposed unto me that she would give me a Hundred Pound with her to set up which thing I axcepted on in my Mind but told I was not yet a Free-man of London 5. So she urged me to be made Free as soon as I could also she urged me to be made sure to her Daughter before the Father-in-law and her self 6. So the Maid and I were made sure by Promise before her Mother and Father-in Law and before I was made Free and I was resolved to have the Maid to Wife and to keep a Brokers Shop and lend Money upon Pawns and grow Rich as others did 7. And the Maids Mother had Five Hundred Pounds more then what she promised me which her Husband knew not of for he was a kind of a Distracted Hare-brain'd Man his Name was Richardson there is many alive at this Day that knew them but for the Daughter I should have had to Wife she is alive at this Day and is worth Seven Hundred Pound a Year 8. But the secret Providence of God prevented my expectation and desire of being Rich in this World in an unlawful way against the Checks of my own Conscience 9. But it came to pass in the 22d Year of my Life not being quite out of my Apprenticeship yet sure to the Maid I went to work as a Journey-man and happened to work with a Puritan in Thomas Apostle London His name was William Reeve John Reeves's Brother 10. He was a very zealous Puritan at that time and many others of that Religion came to him and disputed with me about the unlawfulness of lending Money upon Pawns because they pleaded it was Usury and Extortion and did alledge many places of Scripture against it 11. And I used all the Arguments of Reason I could for it because I had a great desire to be Rich and considering I was ingaged to this Maid and that her Mother would not let me have her to Wife except I would keep a Brokers Shop and lend Money so that I was in great strait and much perplexed in Mind 12. For I lov'd the Maid and desired to be Rich but these Puritan People being well versed in the Scripture words and zealous for Righteousness threatened great Judgments and danger of Damnation hereafter 13. They overpowered my Natural Knowledge and civil Practises in me and made me afraid of eternal Damnation and they pressed the Scriptures so hard upon me which exceedingly perplexed my Mind reasoning in my self that if I did lend Mony upon Usury and Extortion I should be damned and if I would not then I should not have the Maid to Wife 14. So that the love of the Maid and the fear of the loss of my Soul did struggle witin me and dispute within me like two distinct Spirits even as a Woman in Travail with two natural Sons in the Womb so that I was in a great strait which I should cleave unto 15. So after much dispute and reasoning in my self it came to this result I considered the Riches of this World and the Love I had to the Maid and I
was And she said Knock at that Window and my Lord will look out 10. So the Woman parted from us then John Robins put by a Borde of the Window and looked out and John Reeve put off his Hat and held it under his Arm and said Art thou John Robins He said to John Reeve Put on your Hat He said I put it not off to thee but to him that sent me 11. Stand thou 〈◊〉 and hear the Message of the Lord to thee He answer'd and said I will not except you put on your Hat This he said three times Said John Reeve the third time 12. I put not my Hat off to thee but to him that sent me Therefore I charge thee to stand still and hear the Message of the Lord to thee After the third time John Robins said speak on 13. Then John Reeve spake and said Thou maist remember I was with thee about Six or Eight Months ago and thou didst declare unto me That thou wert Adam Melchisadick that met Abraham in the way that received the Tithes of the Spoil and that gave Abraham Bread and Wine 14. Also thou saidst to me that thou wast the first Adam in state and that thou wert the God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ and that thou knewest the Names of all Angels and their Natures And that thou hadst Power over all Voices And that thou wast the Judge of the Quick and the Dead And that Christ was a weak and imperfect Saviour and afraid to dy but thou wast not afraid to dy 15. Also thou didst deceave many People in that thou madest them bring in their Estates and then gavest them leave to abstain by degrees from all kind of Food that should have preserved and strengthed their Natures But thou didst feed them with windy things as Aples and other Fruit that was windy and they drank nothing but Water 16. So that thou hadst full Power over their Bodies Souls and Estates and some were starved under thy Dyet and dyed Therefore look what measure thou hath measured to others must be measur'd again to thee 17. That Body of thine which was thy Heaven must be thy Hell and that proud Spirit of thine which said was God must be thy Devil 18. The one shall be as Fire and the other as Brimstone burning together to all Eternity This is the Message of the Lord unto thee 19. John Robins pulled his Hands off the Grates and laid them together and said It is finished the Lord's Will be done These were all the Words he spake I was both an Eye-Witness and Ear-Witness of it 20. After this it came to pass that about two Months after John Robins did write a Letter of Recantation of all his great matters unto General Cromwell and so obtained his Liberty out of Prison 21. And one of our Acquaintance went to him and asked him how he could do so And he answered and said That after those two Men had passed Sentence upon him he had a burning in his Throat as if he should be burn'd to Ashes and that he had a Voice within him which bid him deny those things he had declared of himself before and he should have his Liberty 22. And said afterwards he should come forth with a greater Power but he never came forth more with any Power at all to his dying Day 23. Thus these two great Heads John Tauny was the Head of that Mistery Babel the atheistical Ranters and Quaquers Princsiple And John Robins was the Head of all false Christs false Prophets and false Prophetesses that were in the World at that Day and there were many 24. Now John Robins was that Man of Sin spoken of in Thesalonians Neither will there come any so high after him to the end of the World 25. Thus the Reader may see that these two Powers were brought down in these two days Messages from the Lord. CHAP. IV. When the transcendant Treatis was wrote many People more offended with the Doctrin than the Commission Of the Letter sent to the Ministers and when How the Children mocked John Reeve called him Prophet Prophet and followed him slinging Stones at him and how a Woman hearing this followed the Prophet to his House and was converted to the Faith Of Sentence given upon one Penson and its Effets 1. AFter this there came a many People to Discourse with us and asked Questions about many things in matters of Religion and we answered them to all Questions whatsoever could arise out of the Heart of Men and some few were satisfied and beleived 2. And many dispised it calling it Blasphemy Delusion and Lys and we gave the Sentance of eternal Damnation upon all those that blasphemed against the Holy Ghost 3. After this in the year 1652. John Reeve wrote that Book called A transcendant spiritual Treatis wherein is declared the Words God spake unto him three mornings together to the hearing of the Ear and his Message to John Tauny and to John Robins Which is more largly set down with several Interpretations of Scripture concerning the true God and right Devil 4. Never so clearly made manifest by any as now in that Treatis 5. Many People were more offended at the Doctrine therein than at the Commission 6. After this John wrote a Letter to several Ministers in London and about London which was afterwards printed forbiding them to preach any more after the receipt of this Epistle upon pain of Damnation to Eternity 7. These Epistles were given to the most eminent Presbiterian and Independant Ministers in London and about London For they were in Power at that time 8. After this it came to pass in the same year that as John Reeve was going through Pauls-Church-Yard one that he had given the Sentence of Damnation upon said unto some Boys There goes the Prophet that damns People 9. The Boys hearing this run after him calling him Prophet Prophet and threw Gravel and little Stones at him so he made hast into Pauls and the Boys left him And a Woman named Elizabeth More seeing the Boys cast Stones at him and calling him Prophet she followed him into Pauls keeping a distance from him to see where he would go So she followed him and he came to my House in great Trinity-Lane London 10. And she desired to speak with him being a Prophet for she had a great respect for Prophets So she told those things she had seen and she became a true Beleiver of this Commission of the Spirit 11. After this it came to pass in the same year that I Lodowick Mugleton having occasion to go into Hounds-Ditch to see my Master's Son where I was Prentice as I went through the Minories London there I met with one Morgan Guilliam a Man that had been Prentice with my Master 12. And he would needs have me drink with him that he might have some talk with me for he said he heard strange Things of me So I went in with him into
They made nothing of that 11. So the Time appointed came and there was prepared a good Dinner of Pork and the three came ready prepared to curse us and our God 12. So Proudlove and Remington went from us to those Men and Remington said unto them If you three will go up and curse them and their God you shall have a good Dinner of Porke 13. Then one the stoutest of the Three said unto him pray tell me what is their God that we must curse 14. Remington answered and said That the Lord Jesus Christ is their God and they own no other Father or God but he And now if you will go in they be there and curse them and the Lord Jesus Christ their God you shall have a good Dinner of Porke 15. When they heard this the most stoutest Man of them smote his Hand on his Breast and said If that be their God I will never do it if I might gain the whole World And said That he was sorry and troubled that he should conceive such a thing in his Heart So said the other Two We will do no such Wickedness So they departed without their Dinner of Porke 16. But he that repented himself could not be at quiet in his Mind until such time he had asked us Forgiveness 17. So we forgave him his Sin for that and he remained very kind to John Reeve all his days tho he did not beleive that we were the two last Prophets and Witnesses of the Spirit 18. Also this Remington was called to an account by John Reeve as one in this Plot and he told the truth how Proudlove laid the Plot and that he did but go with him being an old Acquaintance So we forgave Remington and gave Proudlove the Sentence of Condemnation to Eternity CHAP. VII Of the Dispute with Mr. Leader a New-England Merchant and of the Prophet's convincing him how that God had a Body and how God is worshiped in Spirit and Truth with Bodys and that there is no Spirit without a Body 1. AFTER this in the Year 1653 there came a certain Man a Merchant and a great Travellor into many parts of the World and he was a religious Man but had somwhat declined the outward Forms of Worship because he could find no Rest there 2. So he applied his Heart more to Philosophy and the knowledg of Nature more than Religion for he thought he had seen the utmost of Religion and that there was nothing in it 3. Indeed he was a great Philosopher and a very wise Man in the things of Nature His Name was Richard Leader 4. It came to pass when he came out of New-England being persecuted there because he could not submit to their forms of Worship and when he came into Old-England again he heard there were two Prophets now risen up who called themselves The two Witnesses c. 5. So he enquired where he might speak with these Prophets so he was brought unto us and he was very sober in his talk and he propounded his Questions with great Moderation 6. The first Question was concerning God Whether God that created all things could admit of being any Form of himself 7. We answered and said That God made Man in his own Image and Likeness And if Man have a Form then God must needs have a Form himself even in the form of Man else them Words of Moses are not true That God made Man in his own Image and breathed into him the Breath of Life and he became a living Soul 8. Mind the Form of Man was the Image and Likeness of God before God breathed into him the Breath of Life 9. Therefore God must needs be in the form of a Man from Eternity Therefore it was that God said Let us make Man after our own Image and Likeness This was the true Sense and Meaning of Moses and it is dangerous for any Man to deny it 10. Besides said we there is no Spirit can have any Being without a Body neither God Angels nor Man And further that God that is a Spirit without a Body is no God at all 11. For we that are men that have Bodies have power over all Spirits whatsoever that have no Bodies For it is the dark Imagination of Reason in man that hath created to it self Spirits without Bodies which is none of God's Creation 12. When he heard this he considered the things of Nature that no Spirit could have any being without its Body 13. Then he marvelled and said Where have we been all this while that took God for a Spirit without a Body Oh! how have we been in the dark 14. But said he doth not Christ say God is a Spirit and God will be worshiped in spirit and truth And Christ said His Words were Spirit and Life 15. We answered and said Can a Man worship God in Spirit and Trust without a Body He said No. Then said I neither can God accept of any Mans worship except he hath a Body of his own For God hath a Body of his own as Man hath a Body of his own only God's body is spiritual and heavenly clear as Christial brighter than the Sun swifter than Thought yet a body 16. But Man's body is earthly and made of the Earth in the image and likeness of God's own body only Man's body is of the Earth earthly and God's body is the Lord from Heaven heavenly Yet Man's body is the image of God as well as his Soul as Moses did truly mean as he spake 17. For this I say that if Man's Body and Soul had been spiritual in its Creation then when Man's Thoughts do assend up to Heaven his body would assend with it in the twinkling of an Eye 18. For the Thoughts of Man are swift and if his body which is earthly do but put on Immortality then his body would assend with his Thoughts up into the Aire and so to Heaven 19. These immortal bodies can do and at the last day these vile bodies of ours that doth truly beleive shall be made like unto his own glorious body 20. For now our bodies are natural bodies but when these natural bodies shall rise spiritual bodies then shall Immortality take place and these vile bodies of ours that are now mortal yet made in the image of God's own glorious body shall be spiritual and heavenly bodies even like unto his glorious body 21. And because God's body is spiritual and heavenly and cannot be seen by the natural sight of the Eye therefore it was that Christ said God is a Spirit and will be worshiped in spirit and truth 22. Observe For as a Man cannot worship in spirit and truth without a body neither is that any God at all that hath no body of its own neither is a Spirit without a body of its own any Object of Faith or Worship for a Spirit without a body hath no substance And as for those words of Christ being Spirit and Life consider they
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
true Knowledge is never proud 5. For I would make nothing of the greatest learned Man that is upon the Earth if he will dispute of the Scripture in the English Tongue And not persecute with a Sword of Steel to overthrow him by the Scriptures that there is but one true God in the person of a Man who made Man in his own Image and likeness as the Scriptures saith And not Three Persons and one God as all Profesers of Reason do own at this Day 6. Also we being the third Record of the Spirit upon Earth we use no outward visible Forms of Worship But do Worship God in Spirit and Truth as Christ said 7. So that every Record on Earth doth differ one from another in Point of Worship 8. For it is not proper for every Record to Act one and the same thing over and over again And as there is a difference in the Three Titles called Three Records in Heaven of Father Word and Spirit Now these are Three Distinct Titles yet but one God 9. So it is with the Three Records on Earth of Water Blood and Spirit These be Three distinct Records And Three distinct Persons the head of these Three distinct Records And there is Three distinct differances in there visible Worships yet they all Three agree in one 10. In witnessing to that one Jesus Christ to be the very true God and Saviour of all those that believe in that the Word was God And God was that Word And the Word became Flesh and Dwelt among Men He that is called the Alpha and Omega the First and the Last The Begining and the End He that was Dead and is Alive for Evermore 11. This one God doth all the Three Records agree to witnâ—ss unto this one God though differing all of them in their Several dispensations of outward Worship as aforeâ—aid 12. For every Record Acts his part upon this Earth suitable to the Three Titles in Heaven Moses and the Prophets their parts in the dispensation of Water as being under the Title of God the Father and Creatour of all things 13. Christ and the Apostles Acted their Commission of the Blood under the Title of a Redeemer by his own Blood And he was that Word made Flesh And Dwelt among Men. 14. And now we the Witnesses of the Spirit do Act a Spiritual Record on Earth which is to Worship God in Spirit and Truth Answerable to the Title of Spirit in Heaven 15. In Witnessing to that one Personal God though Three Titles of Father Word and Spirit yet but one Personal God 16. So that the Three Records on Earth do agree in one though they differ in their outward dispensations of worship as aforesaid so that we the Witnesses do Act our part on Earth under the Title of the Holy Spirit in Heaven therefore our Worship is Spiritual and Invisible in the Heart only 17. And now you see I have prov'd by Scripture that the Commission of the Spirit is now Extant upon the Earth and Acted by Men like yourselves even by John Reeve And myself and those that beleive our Doctrin 18. Said I do you beleive me now I have prov'd by Scripture that I am one of the Two last Prophets and Witnesses of the Spirit or last Record on Earth 19. He answered and said that he could not gain say any thing that I had spoken but did aprove of what I had said better than of any that ever he heard in his life but said he could not venture his Salvation upon my Words 20. Then said the Sheriffs Men and the Keeper of the Prison Now Mr. Benet you have met with your Match One that hath Answered you all things 21. Then said Mr. Benet suffer me to ask you one question more 22. What is that said I. 23. Why saith he I have been a long time of the Oppinion that the Soul of Man is mortal and doth dye But I cannot satisfie myself in it 24. I answered and said your Oppinion was true for the Soul of Man is Mortal and doth Dye For nothing doth Live but the Soul for it is the Soul that Eats and Drinks and Walks and Talkes And the Soul that Lives and Dyes For nothing can be said to Dye but Life for if the Body be Dead the Soul or Life is Dead also For the Body and Soul is all one being And if one be Alive both are Alive And if one be Dead both are Dead 25. For both Body and Soul came into the World together For the Soul is begotten by Generation as well as the Body so that they go both Body and Soul out of the World together For that Life that is begot by Procuration must Dye which all Souls are and not by Infusion from God but by that very Law that said Encrease and Multiply 26. Therefore the Soul or Life of Man and all things else that is begotten by Generation must Dye as well as their Bodies 27. When he heard this He was very much taken with my answer and seem'd very Respective to me and so did the Sheriffs Men they show'd themselves very Civil 28. This dispute was upon the Sunday before the Assizes For that began on the Monday following a matter of Four Hours in the Afternoon this dispute was CHAP. XIII The Prophets Argument And Examin'd by the Judge And he Required of the Judge to take Bail the Judge granted it The Maior Aldermen and Recorder that Committed him saw their Folly and Madness and were asham'd of themselves How the Prophet had the Love of all the Prisoners Of his Printing of the whole Book of the Revelation c. 1. AFTER this dispute aforesaid upon the Wednesday following being the last Day of the Assizes I was call'd before the Bar And when I came before the Bar. 2. The Judge asked me if I would be Try'd by this Note of Examination 3. I answered no and said I thought your Honour would have excepted of Bail for my appearance the next Assizes For Mrs. Carter had delivered the Judge a writing to that purpose of mine the Day before and the Judge his Name was Terral 4. The Judge answered and said that he would take Bail but had said to her he would see the Man So when I asked him at the Bar to take Bail the Judge said he would and asked me who they were 5. And I said one is Richard Sudbury He asked where he Liv'd I said at Notingham he asked what Trade I said an Iron-monger Then Richard Sudbury was call'd and the Judge asked him whether he would be bound for my Appearence the next Assizes He said he would then the Judge Commanded him to be set down for one 6. Then said the Judge There must be another then said I there is one Edward Fewterer where Liveth he said the Judge I said at Chesterfield what Trade said the Judge I said a Surgeion then the Judge Commanded Edward Fewterer to be called then the Judge asked him whither
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
be taken or thought to be a Quaker for I do hate the Quakers Principle 23. With that VVhitehead said Thou hatest all Righteousness and spake as if he himself Cole and Fox and others of the Quakers were writing a Book against me to make me manifest which in a little time after it was set forth by VVilliam Pen a Quaker And further said that they would post me up and he slighted my Power and my God and said he would trample my God and my Power under his Feet as Dirt and taped his Foot upon the Ground 24. Whereupon I did pronounce George VVhitehead cursed and damn'd Soul and Body to Eternity and that God within him which he trusted in was cursed also and so I ceased Discourse with him 25. All this while Cole was in his Fit and said not one word but immediately after he uttered these words saith he I have heard of several thou hast cursed but said he I did not beleive had I not heard or seen I could not have beleived that a Man could have spoken so presumptiously 26. Then said I dare you say that I speak presumptiously to George VVhitehead he said he did beleive it was Presumption 27. Then said I on the contrary I do beleive that thou art the Seed of the Serpent and wilt be damn'd and now see whose Faith will be strongest yours or mine for my Faith shall keep you down for ever 28. Under what said Cole 29. Under eternal Damnation said I. 30. Then said he Dost thou ground thy Sentance upon my Belief 21. Yea said I I do for you beleive I speak presumptiously and I do beleive you to be the Seed of the Serpent and will be damn'd to eternity 32. Then said he Dost thou judge this to be a final Sentance upon me said I Yea what should it else be 33. With that Josiah Cole rose up with great zeal for his God within him and said I told thee before that I would try thee and thy God saying that they were seting forth a Writing against me and withal Cole pronounced many Curses upon me with his Eyes dazled with the Witchcraft Power in him being disturbed with my Words it got up into his Head 34. So that VVhitehead and he both came near me with great Threatnings and Judgments upon me being both so full of Curses Cole cursed me into utter Darkness Pit of Darkness Chains of Darkness blackness of Darkness and that he would trample that God of mine that was in the form of Man under his Feet as Dirt and stamp'd his Foot upon the Ground as the other Devil did Cole's Curses were much what like Thomas Loe his Curses in his Letter to me 35. But when Cole had done cursing I said these Words unto him That this Sentance that I had passed upon him should stick by him for ever and that he should never put it out of his Mind neither should he grow Mad nor Distracted to forget it but should be sensible all the Days of his Life 36. And when my God whom you trampled under your Feet shall raise you again at the last Day which will not seem to you a quarter of an Hours time you shall remember afresh my VVords what I said unto you in this Life to eternity 37. Many more Words was between us at that time but these were the Words and Passages of most concernment at that time and a final Judgment and Sentance of eternal Damnation that I gave that Day upon Josiha Cole and George VVhitehead Speakers of the Quakers CHAP. IV. Of Cole's being sick unto Death immediately after the Sentance of his Testimony against the Prophet Of his Death The Quakers God described with the nature of Reason and the Law that is writen in it Of William Pen's blasphemous Letter to the Prophet 1. NOW in some Four or Five Days time after our Dispute I heard that Josiah Cole was sick and going out of the Body For the Quakers do not beleive that their Souls do die but slips out of the Body 2. This caused the Quakers People to visit him very much to know of him whether Muggleton's Words had taken place in him wondering that he should go out of the Body so sudenly after Muggleton's Sentance as Thomas Loe did after his Sentance But he denyed very stifly that my Words had no Power over him but that he had left me in Chains of Darkness 3. Nevertheless he grew worse and worse so that the Quakers were not satisfied except he would go to the Peal in St. John's Street at their Meeting-place and give his Testimony against Muggleton before the People to satisfy the ignorant Quakers else they would judge that his Power in Loe and him was greater than the Ministry of the Quakers 4. So they led him by the Arms to the place aforesaid and Josiah Cole wrote his Testimony as followeth exactly word for word For as much as I have been informed that Lodowick Muggleton hath vaunted concerning my departure out of the Body because of his pretended Sentance of Damnation given against me I am mov'd to leave this Testimony concerning him behind me namely that he is a Son of Darkness and Coe-worker with the Prince of the bottomless Pit in which his Inheritance shall be for ever and the Judgment I passed on him when present with him stands sealed by the Spirit of the Lord by which I then declared to him that in the Name of that God who spans out the Heavens with his Span and measures the Waters with the hollow of his Hand I bind thee hear on Earth and thou art bound in Heaven and in the Chain under Darkness to the judgment of the great Day thou shalt be reserved And thy Faith and Strength thou bosteth of I defy and trample under Foot And I do hereby further declare the said Lodowick to be a false Prophet in what he said to me at that time who told me that from thenceforth I should be always in fear of Damnation which should be a Sign to me that I was damn'd which Fear I was never in so that his Sign given by himself did not follow his Prophecy which sufficiently declares him to be a false Prophet Josiah Cole 5. This was given forth word for word by Josiah Cole about Three Hours before his departure out of the Body the Fifteenth of the Eleventh Month 68. 6. Whoever doth read this last Testimony of Josiah Cole may easily see that the Curse I pronounced upon him by Commission received from the Man Christ Jesus the only wise God blessed for ever in the form of a Man whom he dispised and trampled under his Feet as Dirt. 7. For this very Sin did this Curse of this God pronounced by me take Ephect upon him and Thomas Loe immediately after their cursed Blasphemy against the true God 8. I was zealous in giving Sentance upon them in that I heard the true God was trampled under their Foot as Dirt. 9. As for their Reproaches Lyes