given forth from the Spirit of Truth, or from the Spirit of Error and Deceit, or not.

This I would have you to know, though it be too late for your Good, that it is neither the Light in her, nor in you, nor no Man under Heaven at this Day, that can, or ought to judge of the Doctrine or Declaration of a Prophet that hath a Commiffion from God, but ought rather to fubmit and yield Obedience to their Doctrine; for there is no eternal Life to be had but in the Faith of it: For whofoever receiveth a Prophet in the Name of a Prophet, shall receive a Prophet's Reward; which Reward is no less than the Affurance of eternal Life. So on the contrary, he that defpifeth a Prophet's Doctrine, despiseth him that fent him, and fhall receive from that Prophet the Seal in his Confcience of his eternal Damnation.

The firft Thing that you take Offence at is, that we fay that the reprobate Angel had the Womb of a Woman to clothe himself with Flesh also, to bring forth God's Defign: From which you do afk, whether that which is the Devil's Work can be God's glorious Defign, feeing God hath manifefted his Son to deftroy the Works of the Devil?

To which I anfwer, That the reprobate Angel clothing himself with Flesh in the Womb of a Woman, it was God's Defign that the reprobate Angel fhould do fo, for this very Purpose, that there might be a Generation of Men and Women of his Seed brought forth here in this Earth, in the State of Mortality, being born under the Law, it being written in their Seed and Nature; and by the not fulfilling of that Law, which is written in the Serpent's Seed, it is made capable to fuffer the Pains of eternal Death, which is the second Death; and this was God's Defign, that he might destroy the Seed of the Serpent with a fecond Death.

And as for God's deftroying the Works of the Devil, he doth destroy them two Ways; that is, he that is God did lay down his fpiritual and heavenly Glory in the Womb of Mary the Virgin, and fo cloathing himself with Flesh and Bone, fo that he might be capable to fuffer the Pains of Death: Therefore it is faid in Scripture, that this Jefus, which is called the Son of God; but in other Places of Scripture he is called the Very God, as the Epiftle of John, where he faith, This is the very

God

God and Eternal Life. And Ifaiah, where he faith, To us a Child is born, to us a Son is given, attributing to that Child Jefus the Title of everlafting Father, mighty God, and Prince of Peace. There might be more Places of Scriptures named to prove this Thing, as that Saying, that the Fulness of the Godbead dwelt bodily in him, and that Saying in the Revelation, I am Alpha and Omega, the First and the Laft: He that was dead, but am alive, and behold I live for evermore. And as the Angel, by taking Flesh upon him, by entring into the Womb of Eve, brought Sin and Death into the World unto the Seed of Adem, fo God, by clothing himself with Flefh in the Womb of a Virgin, that he might be put to Death in that Flesh, and by his Spirit quickning again in that Flefh, he will deftroy him that had the Power of Death, which is the Devil, and the Devil's Works.

He deftroyed the Works of the Devil in the Seed of Adam, by their having Faith in the Death of God, which Faith purifies the Heart, and is juftified in the Sight of God, and in their own Confcience; and fo the Works of the Devil are deftroyed in the Seed of Faith, which is the Seed of Adam, by believing in the Blood of God, they having their Hearts fprinkled by Faith in his Death; and this did God procure to his own Seed, by clothing himself with Flefh. So on the contrary, he, by his Defign of clothing himself with Flefh, hath procured the eternal Destruction to that reprobate Angel and his Seed; and you being one of the Devil's Sons, I know by your Words, for by your Words you fhall be condemned; for you have plainly fhewed unto me by your Letter what Seed you are of, and who your Father is, even the fame as was Cain's Father; you and he have all one Father, for you were begotten of that wicked one, even that reprobate Angel, which God defigned him and his Seed unto that endless Misery, as is spoken of in that Book which you call a Confufion and a Lie: And not only fo, but you have called many heavenly Mysteries the bottomless Pit of Confufion; as, that God created the Person of the Serpent more glorious than the reft of the Holy Angels.

Alfo you would have it proved by Scripture, that God made Angels fpiritual Perfons; neither can it enter into your Heart to believe that the Serpent was made by the Wisdom

and

and fecret Council of God, to bring forth his Seed to oppose the Creator; and yet you read in the Scripture, that God would put Enmity between the Seed of the Serpent and the Seed of the Woman. From what did this Seed of the Serpent come, but from that reprobate Angel which is always in Oppofition unto the Seed of the Woman, which is the Seed of Adam, which is the Seed of Faith, which is the Seed of God?

The Knowledge of these two Seeds is that which can truly explain the true Meaning of the Scriptures, and open the Gates of Hell, and let in all the Seed of the Serpent who deny a perfonal God in Flesh and Bone glorified: Alfo the Knowledge of the two Seeds doth open the Gate of Heaven unto the Seed of Faith, and lets them enter into that everlafting Glory, where they fhall fee their God Face to Face to their eternal Joy; because God hath a Body and Face, and fo fhall every Seed have a Face of its own. And though the Seed of the Serpent fhall have a Face of its own, yet it shall never fee the Face of God, Angels, nor Man, no, nor their own Face, to Eternity: For as they lived and died in Darkness here in this World, not knowing what the Form and Nature of the true God is, nor the Form and Nature of the right Devil; and so not knowing what Nature and Seed themselves are of, they fhall rise again in that eternal Darkness, never ftirring from the Place they are raifed, to Eternity.

I write these Lines unto you Edward Bourne, knowing you to be of the Seed of the Serpent, and appointed to eternal Damnation before you were born; though you know it not, I do know it by your fpeaking Evil of that Doctrine which is declared by us the Witneffes of the Spirit, by calling of it Deceit, Confufion, and Lies, with many inore wicked Speeches against the pureft Truth that ever was declared by Prophet or Apostle; because this is the Commiffion of the Spirit, and the laft Witness of God on Earth.

Therefore for these your hard Sayings against the Doctrine of this Commiffion of the Spirit, in Obedience unto my Commiffion, I do pronounce you curfed and damned, Soul and Body, from the Prefence of God, elect Men and Angels, to Eternity; neither fhall that Light within you, nor any God, deliver you from this Curfe; but, according to my Word, it

fhall

fhall be upon you, because you shall know that God hath given Power unto Man to curfe you to Eternity, and that there is a Prophet of the Lord now in the Land.

August 10' 1662.

Written by

LODOWICK MUGGLETON,

A

One of the two laft Witnesses and Prophets unto the High and Mighty God, the Man Chrift Jefus in Glory. Vale.

A LETTER of Samuel Hooton and W. S. to Lodowick Muggleton.

Friend,

FOR

OR fo we can call thee, as Chrift did Judas, and alfo the flothful Servant whofe Talent was hid in the Earth, who art in the highest State of Inchantment.

Thou haft flandered the Children of the Moft High God, thy Lips hath uttered Lies, thy Tongue hath forged Deceit; thou art a falfe Witness, a Wanderer, a Vagabond from the true Understanding, true Knowledge and Council, under whofe Tongue is the Afp and the Venom, who out-fputters it against the Children of Light, but with it thou art comprehended, and shall be made manifeft, and the Hook (Vah) is put into thy Noftrils, by which thou shalt be held, and 28 (Obed) is thy State, if thou canst read it, which upon thee shall come, and canst thou read (Tame) thou haft polluted thyself, thou haft defiled thyself, thou haft made thyself unclean, and thou art unclean, and art in the highest State of Ranters, from the holy Body, in the polluted Body; and where-ever thou haft an Entrance thou wilt defile; and thou mayft deceive Fools, and them that be void of Understanding, but the Sound and the Weighty thy Spirit hath not, nor never had any Entertainment; for thou art clothed with a Curfe, and not with a

Bleffing,

Bleffing, the Fruits of which is fputtered abroad, and the eternal Sentence of Judgment of the Lord God is fentenced upon thee. And now to the Matter of thy Slanders, and Scandals, and Reproaches, that thou cafts upon the Moft High's Children. First, Thou fayeft, We (that are called Quakers) are guided and led by the Spirit of Antichrift.

Anfwer. This is falfe, for we are in the Spirit of Chrift before Antichrift was, and we have it, and are Chrift's; and fo thy Slanders doth not touch us, but is thy own, who speaks of thyself, and beareth Witnefs to thyfelf; but our Witness is in Heaven, which beareth Witnefs of us, and witneffetli to us, which thou haft manifefted thou knoweft not, who judges with evil Thoughts, and is in that Judgment which is to be reproved; for we have Judgment to fentence and judge fuch Spirits perpetually.

Secondly, Thou fayeft, We are the worst of all, and the moft curfed of all in point of Dorine.

Anfwer. This is false again, and from flanderous Lips: Our Doctrine is Chrift's and the Apoftles, and we that doth his Will do know his Doctrine, and we are in the Power of God that was before Sects was; and thou art the Man that wanders up and down to make Sects, whofe Mouth is filled with curfing, and foweth it; fo thou fhalt reap of the fame, which will enter into thy Bowels, who art the Antichrift out of Chrift's Doctrine and the Apoftles, and an Enemy to it, which faith, Blefs, and curse not; therefore thou art one of the curfed Children the Apoftle fpeaks of, who fpeaks forth the high fwelling Words of Vanity to the alluring of the Lufts of the Flesh, and fo to catch People with thy Bait; but thy Damnation and Judgment lingereth not, nor flumbereth not. Remember thon waft told this in thy Lifetime.

Thirdly, Thou fayeft, We deny both the Father and the Son to be a Perfon in the Form of a Man, and that we deny the fame Flesh and Bone of Jefus, which fuffered Death, was laid in the Grave, which rofe again, which was feen afterwards by bis Apostles and others, which afcended up into Heaven in that same Flesh and Bone, which he fuffered Death.

Anfwer. To this we charge thee, and command thee to mention the Man, and the Place of his Abode, that denied