-< . /-/Y r -i ^ GENERAL INDEX TO JOHN REEVE & LODOWICKE MUGGLETON'S WORKS. INTENDED FOR THREE VOLUMES. Beloved Brethren, The following Books may be considered the whole of the Writings of the Lord's last Prophets, JOHN REEVE and LODOWICKE MUGGLETON as far as the Church is in possession of. We have given the contents of each Book to render reference more easy to those that would willingly be instructed in the know- ledge of the true God and their own eternal salvation. JOSEPH and ISAAC FROST. SAINT JOHN S SQUARE. London, A.D. 1831. CONTENTS OF VOL. I. A TRANSCENDENT SPIRITUAL TREATISE Upon several heavenly doctrines from the Holy Spirit of the Man Jesus, the only true God, sent unto all his elect. COKTEN T S. l'AGE. Of ray Commission received by Voice of Words from the .Spi- rit of the Man Jesus hi glory 1 Of the last great deceiving Anti- christ, and Man of sin, that ever shall be..., 4 Of the unlawfulness for a spiri- tual Christian to war with a sword of steel 9 Of tho Creation beyond the Stars, or of the other .Side of the visible created Heavens, where Sun, Moon, and Stars, that shall all vanish like Smoke together to Eternity 14 Of the creating that reprobate Angel Serpent that beguiled Eve and became a Man. . . . 17 Of tho eternal Creator clothing himself with flesh, and so be- came a pure Man 23 Of the creating of Man, and tho Nature of Holy Angels in their Creation 20 Of Eliah the Prophet ascending bodily in Heavon, to rcpre- I'AQE. sent the Person of God the Father 38 Of all Prophets, or Priests, or Ministers in this World, being false, not knowing the true God ; therefore not sent by the God of all truth, the Man Jesus 42 Of all Heathen Magistrates, and their Heathen Prophets, false Worship or Image. ... 46 Of the Mortality of tho Soul, and how, and when, it became mortal 4!) With what bodies the Elect and the Reprobate shall appear o Iter Death 51 How the Bodies and Spirits of the World of the Elect Be- lievers shall be like unto the glorious Body of God their Redeemer, in his Glory to Eternity 54 i , Of some difference between the i Glory of Men and Angels in j Glory in the Heaven above 5C\ SRLE H CONTENTS OF VOL. I. 3 A GENERAL EPISTLE From the Holy Spirit, unto all Prophets, Ministers, or Speakers in the world. Stack Annex Cage A REMONSTRANCE from the ETERNAL GOD, Declaring several spiritual Transactions unto the Par- liament and Commonwealth of England, unto his Excellency, the Lord General Cromwell, the Council of State, the Council of War, and to all that love the second appearing of the Lord Jesus, the only wise God and everlasting Father, blessed for ever. CONTENTS. PAGE. Op our being sent with a Mes- sage unto one John Tanee, by command of God 1 Of our being sent by command from the Lord, with a mes- sage unto one John Robbins 7 Of our being moved by the Ho- ly Spirit to deliver a message unto some ministers 8 A discovery of the Lord's two last spiritual Witnesses that ever shall speak or write un- to Men, by Commission from the true God, until time be no more 9 Of the Roman Gentiles being Lords of the Scriptures, by conquest over the Jews. ... 10 Of our being moved by the Ho- ly .Spirit, to command in e- ly ,>mn neral, al the Ministers about PAGE. London and Westminster to lay down their Preaching, because the Lord Jesus gave them no commission to preach 12 Of our being sent with a mes- sage; unto all spiritual coun- terfeits about London.... 15 Of our being apprehended, and committed to Newgate, for our faith, by the Lord Mayor 16 Of the injustice of one Alder- man Andrews 17 Of our unjust trial and sentence against us for our faith in God by the Recorder Steele, and the London jury, about the 15th of October, 1653 18 Of our humble requests in be- half of the chosen of God, unto all the chief powers of England 20 a 2 CONTENTS OF VOL. I. A DIVINE LOOKING GLASS; or the Third and last Testament of our Lord Jesus Christ, whose per- sonal residence is seated on his throne of eternal glory in another world. CONTENTS CHAP. 1. PAGE From whence all Writings proceed. 2. A necessity of extraordinary light to satisfy or silence curious questions. 3. The names of the two last Witnesses, and the time of their call. 4. The highest queries concerning the eter- nal estate of mankind. 5. Of the form and nature of God from all eternity, who conti- nually increaseth. G. The person of God is the object of true faith. 7. No reason in God. 8. The purest rea- son in man cannot understand the Scriptures II. 1. What the suhstances of eaith and water were from eternity. 2. A great secret revealed concerning death 6c bell. 3. Concerning the hea- vens above. 4. Earth and witter not eternally glorious. 5. The residence of the Cre- ator. 0. Karth and water uncreated substances III. 1. Of the angels. 2. Their form and nature. 3. Out of what they are made. 4. The serpent which tempted Eve. ,5. The cause why any crea- ture was formed. (>. Who are partakers of the divine nature. 7. No created being capable oi the Essence of God to dwell in it. 1 PAGE. IV. 1. Of the angels further. 2. Of the nature of pure rea- son. 3. Of the divine nature. 4. Wherein they differ. '5. The angels were under the moral law which was writ- ten in their natures. 6. The. Creator above all law. 7. A necessity ofsupplying the an- gels with continued revela- tions from the Creator. 8. Ho that was above all law, made himself under the law, by becoming flesh. 9. Who is Antichrist. 10. No joy in God without a form. 11 Death an enemy to aH kind of life in God, angels & men. 14 V. 1. The cause of the angels fall, and the fruit thereof. 2. The condition of the elect angels. 3. The spiritual na- ture of the fallen angel re- mained, and what names are given to him. 4. An objec- tion, and the answer, con- cerning two vessels. 5. Of the fallen angel and Adam. (J. Xo distinction between God and the Creature, but by names and natures. 7. Election and reprobation proved by divers Scriptures. 22 VI. 1 . Of the Scripture records. 2. Of the ignorance of men that deify or vilify them. 3. The Prophet's prayer in the conclusion 21) CONTENTS OF VOL. I. PAGE. VII. 1. Of the creation of the firmament, sun, moon and stars. 2. Of the earth in the deep waters. 3. The mean- ing of the word create. 4. Why the deep waters are eternal. 5. By what the fir- mament was formed. 6.How the sun, moon, & stars came. 7. Of the distinct and fixed bodies of the sun, moon, and stars. 8. The sun and moon of contrary natures....... 83 VIII. 1. Of the heavens. 2. How many were created. 3. Xo more but three. J. A throne of eternal ravishing glories. 2. A throne of natu- ral perishing glories. 3. An invisible spiritual throne lead- ing to eternity 41 IX. An exact Scripture rule to prove the Man Christ glori- fied, to be Father, Son, and Holy Spirit in one distinct person 43 X. 1. Of persecution of con- science. 2. Of the sin against the Holy Ghost 49 XI. 1. Of the true nature of in- iiniteness. 2. Wherein it lieth, viz. in the not know- ing its beginning or ending. 3. Infiniteness and finiteness are uncapable of equal glory. 4. Against all true reason that there should be three persons in the Trinity. 5. Christ and the Father one undivided Godhead. 6. De- nying Christ to be the only God is Antichrist. 7. How prayers are heard. 52 PAGE. XII. 1. To own or believe any other God but Christ, is a cursed lie. 2. Who are the deceived persons. 3. Con- cerning the true knowledge of God. 4. The deceivers of others under conflicts of mind, described by many and va- rious expressions 58 XIII. 1. Of the language and condition of two sorts of men and women. 2. The one elected unto glory, the other rejected unto shame. 3. The Prophet's declaration there- upon 66 XIV. 1. A moderate discourse concerning civil wars in a kingdom. 2. The people's subjection to the laws. 3. Wherein several objections are answered. 4. Many things of very great conse- quence seasonably declared 7 I. XV. 1. Of the error of errors in men, who say that there is no other God or Christ, but in this creation only. 2. Se- veral objections and answers concerning the death of the soul. 3. The light of Christ in man, is the invisible image of God, which purifieth the inward tilthiness of the flesh and spirit, and presents the certain truth of an eternal life of glory or shame. 4. No need of a new birth, if there be a sufficient light of Christ in generation to conduct to heaven. 5. Children cannot understand spiritual or natu- ral good or evil; so need not Christ's spiritual gifts in the womb for eternal happiness. 6 CONTENTS OP VOL. I. PAGE 6. A great error to believe that the essence of the eternal Spi- rit dwclloth in any man, but in the Lord Jesus only. 7. Two mark? of reprobates . . 84 XVI. 1. Of divers comparisons of the Spirit or Person of Christ, unto the face of the natural sun. 2. No man or angel can be capable of tlio in-dwelling of God's essence, but his own person only. ... 93 XVII. J. No man's salvation or damnation lieth in his own will, but in the prerogative of God. 2. Divers absurdi- ties which follow from tho opinion that Christ is only within men. 3. A question and answer concerning a two-fold presence of God in the creaturo. 4. If the essen- tial Spirit wero united unto creatures, it could not bo in- finite 97 XVIII. 1. A discourse that the Divine Being is clothed with flesh and bone. 2. How God knows all things in the world. 3. Of the manner of God's taking upon him hu- man nature. 4. What the form of God was before he became flesh. 5. No spirit can enjoy happiness or mi- sery without a body 102 j | PAOB. Why God called himself by- a throe-fold name 107' I XIX. 1. Of the true spiritual Trinity in unitity. 2. Of tho one personal divine Majesty. 3. No Scripture mentioneth God to be three persons, only one God and one Person. 4. XX. I. No title of honour ever attributed but to a person. 2. Who it was that Christ prayed unto in the days of his flesh. 8. The Creator distinct from all his crea- tures. 4. Of God's oath con- cerning his transmutation into pure flesh and bono . . Ill XXI. Of a three-fold record of natural witnesses, proceeding from the blessed Person of Christ at his death 115 XXII. 1. Of the three witnes- ses on earth. 2. Of Spirit, water, and blood. 3. The three records on earth are the three commissioners. 4. What tho commissions are 116 XXIII. 1. Of several empty opinions concerning the two witnesses in the Eleventh of the Revelation. 2. What they are. 3. No true witness with- out a voice from heaven. 4. Who are tho two last spi ri- tual Witnesses 118 XXIV. 1. Of the Witnesses' trials and persecution after the publishing of their com- mission. 2. The Prophet's in- terpretation of some verses in the Eleventh of the Re- velation. 3. An objection against the true Witnesses answered 12S XXV. 1. Of the sinful soul of man. 2. Of its mortality. CONTENTS OF VOL. I. PAGE. 3. All souls that are gene- rated are mortal. 4. If men's souls, vreto immortal, they could not he capable of dis- eases- 130 XXVI. 1. Of the nature and place of the reprobate's tor- ment. 2 The last Witnesses' great conlidence concerning the end of the world. S. Without a tongue no speech can be made by God, angels, or men. 4. God is visibly seen by spiritual bodies, as kings are by their subjects. . 134 XXVII. 1. A more full dis- course of the two Witnesses. 2. No true messenger or witness without a voice from God to the hearing of the ear. 3. The three commissions agree all in truth. 4. Differ- ing only in point of worship. 5. There was not nor can there be assurance of eternal happiness, but in the belief of a commission. 6. God owneth no worship in this commission, but what is spi- ritual. The difference be- tween true and false commis- sioners 139 XXVIII. 1. No reason in angel or men can be satisfied in it- self without revelation from the Creator. 2. God created reason. 3. Yet it was not of his own nature. 4. Infinite- ness is to create persons and things differing from his own nature. 5. Though all crea- tures were made by God, yet they came not out of him, PAGE. but by the word of his power. 6. No creature spiritual or natural, can be said to be the image of,God, but man only. 7. It is the property of rea- son to promise obedience to God by his prophets, but perform none. 8. Why the angels are called mighty . . 140 XXIX. 1. Of the creation of Adam. 2. Why God spake in the plural number in the making of man 153 XXX. 1. How God made man in his own image or likeness. 2. The soul of Adam was of the same divine nature of God. 3. Not of the nature of the angels.. 4. Of the created virtues in Adam's soul 5. Adam did not know of his power to stand or fall. 0. The breath of life which Adam had received of God, died 159 XXXI. 1. Of the seed of the woman. 2. Of the seed of the serpent. 3. How sin came into man's nature. 4. No angel cast out of heaven but that one which deceived Eve. 5. No true knowledge of the Scriptures, but in the know- ledge of the two seeds. 6. No speech could proceed from any but from the angel 165 XXXII. 1. The condition of Adam and Eve in their fall. 2. The angel called a serpent. 3. He was more comely in Eve's eyes than Adam. 4. How the fallon angel be- CONTENTS OF VOL. I. PAGE.] came flesh. 5. How God became flesh 108 ' XXXI II. 1. What form the devil was of before he tempt- ed Eve. 2. Spiritual bodies do not change their forms but their glories. 3. Spirits can take up no bodies but their own. 4. The forbidden fruit was not an apple, or any other fruit that could bo eaten with the teeth .... 172 XXXIV. 1. The Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil was no natural tree. 2. What it was. 3. Whence the originality of sin came.. 176 XXXV. 1. The curse was not pronounced upon any na- tural beast, but the fallen angel 179 XXXVI. 1. Of the mind of the Spirit in the word eat- ing of the tree of knowledge of good and evil. 2. No true interpretation of the Scrip- tures but by immediate in- spiration. 3. Reason not ca- pable of the mysteries of God. 4. But faith only. 5. No devils but men and wo- men. 6. No Devil without man tempteth any. 7. But the seed or lust of his own spirit 183 XXXVII. 1. The prerogative power of God is above all law. 2. Why God cursed the fallen angel in the womb of Eve. 3. The angel's na- ture (after his offence) was PAGE. not satisfied without being ruler 188 | XXXVIII. 1. The bodies of angels are capable of dUsolv- ing into seed. 2. The seed of the serpent only damned. 3. Pure reason lost the know- ledge of the creator, and of itself. 4. Cain not the son of Adam, but of the serpent. 5. Cain was brother to Abel only by the mother's side. 6. All that died by the first Adam shall be saved in the second. 7. Those that are not lost in themselves, can never be saved 192 XXXIX. 1. No condemnation but to persons of maturity. 2. No children damned, though they be of the seed of the serpent. 3, He that killeth a prophet, or a righ- teous man, would kill the Creator if he could. 4. No salvation by the power of man's own will. 5. But by the power of God ]J)9 XL. 1. Concerning Christ's coming to judgment. 2. The vanity of that opinion that believes Christ's personal reign upon this earth 203 XLI. 1. The vanity of believ- ing in a God that hath no form. 2. And of them who say, the creator is an incom- prehensible Spirit. 3. Or that there is no God but na- ture only. 4. Or who say, that God's Spirit, and their spirits, are but one spirit. . 210 CONTENTS OF VOL. I. PAGE XLI1.1.A further discourse con- cerning the error of Christ's personal reign. 2. The inter- pretation of the three last verses of the 12th of the Re- velations. 3. Concerning the Dragon and the Woman. 4. Of the binding of the old ser- pent dragon for a thousand years. 5. When they ex- pired. 6. Of the worship of the beast. 7. Of Satan's being loosed out of prison. 8. Who they are that be in the deep- est prisons of raging darkness 216 XLIII. 1. Of the personal glory of Christ's coming to judg- ment. 2. No man hath so much faith as a grain of mus- tard seed, but Christ only. 3. Of spirits finite and infi- nite 224 XLI\ r . 1. Of the great white throne which John saw, Re- velations 20. 2. A mark of a reprobate to desire Mira- cles, to make him believe the truth of a commission .... 227 XLV. 1. The Creator's with- holding of his divine assist- ance was the cause of the fall of our first parents. 2. The ground of all spiritual or na- tural curses. 3. Noah's ark assimulated to heaven. 4. Of the resurrection ...... 233 XLVI. 1. The last commis- sionated prophet come into the world. 2. No calling of the natural Jew* to the pro- j PAGE. fession of the true Jesus. 3. ! Two sorts of Jews. 4. Some remarkable signs of the ap- proaching of the day of judg- ment 237 I I XLVII. 1. Further signs of the approaching day of Christ's coming to judgment. 2. The prophet writes by inspiration. 3. And giveth the interpretation of several .Scriptures tending thereunto 243 XLV1I1. 1. Of the first resur- rection. 2. And what it is, by several questions and answers 247 XLIX. 1. Concerning God's becoming a child. 2. None lives, and moves, and have their beings in God, but the seed of faith. 3. No crea- ture capable to be essential- ly one with God 250 X. 1. Of the second and last dying in the Lord. 2. What it is. 3. Eternal life i* hid in the person of God only. . 253 LI. 1. Eternal damnation is a living death, and a dying life. 2. Three books will be open- ed at the last judgment. 3. Signifying the three com- missions of the law, the gos- pel, and the spirit. 4. The Heathen are judged by the law of their conscience, hav- ing not had the Scriptures. 5. The Prophet's heavenly conclusion 25.. d. ihe ul'tai. and the CONTENTS OF VOL. I. 11 PAGE Worshipers, with the mea- suring of them ] II. Of the court without the temple. Of the treading the holy city under foot, and what is meant thereby .... 5 III. Of the two Witnesses. Who they were. An expla- nation of the commissions of Moses &. Jesus. How these make up but two Witnesses or prophets. Who they are that can only interpret Scrip- ture truly. God's becoming flesh in the incarnation of Christ explained 7 IV. Whence the law came. To whom it was given. Who are under the law, and who are not. Of the weakness and foolishness of reason in the things of God, or faith .... 10 V. Of the tree of life, and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. The agreement of Adam's form and nature with God's. The difference be- tween the breath of life in Adam, and that breath of life which is in all other creatures. How the invi- sible life giveth form, where- by all forms differ from man's. How Adam was only capable to see the forms and understand the speeches of the two trees 11 VI. How man in innocency could, and did see the face of God, as he was seen of him. Of man's misery by PAGE. knowing good and evil. Of the end of his fall, where- fore it was. How Adam and his seed shall be raised up to a higher degree of hap- piness than the state of inno- cency. How only those of Christ's seed or nature, shall be raised to glory. How the breath of God died in Adam 13 VII. Of the form and nature of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, &c. Of the extent of the curse upon Adam, &c. How the curse and death of Adam and his seed, extended no further than the sorrows and death of this life. How none can be capable of the knowledge of good and evil, but the two seeds of faith & reason 16 VIII. What is meant, when it. was said that the serpent should go upon his belly : & how he feedeth on the dust of the earth, and what that food is. How Cain was the first born of the devil. How the angel's nature may be said to be the elder brother, and Adam's the younger. Of the Lord's judgment up- on both natures 18 IX Of eating the forbidden fruit. How that could not produce seed. How the en- mity lay in the two seeds. What is meant by bruising the head and the heel .... 21 j X. How seed or nature was be- fore form; and how form b2 12 CONTENTS OF VOL. I. PAGE, causetl) seed or nature to ap- pear, and how spiritual bo- dios may dissolve into seed or nature 23 XI. What it was that made Adam know good and evil. How reason is the governor of this world, and not faith. how it may he said that spi- ritual bodies are not in their right region, except they be where celestial bodies are. That Adam in innocency had no reason in him. That all thoughts and motions in man ariseth from the two seeds . . 25 XII. ifow reason (being the angel's nature) was condemn- ed, in the loss of the know- ledge from whence it came. That reason cannot know the mind of God in the Scrip- tures ; and the cause thereof. Of eating the flesh of Christ. An interpretation of eating manna, and the true bread 27 XIII. An interpretation of the water out of the rock. Of the serpent in the wilderness. How there was but two trees of a spiritual nature in the garden 82 XIV. What the two candle- sticks were. In what nature the law was written. Why no law is given, but to the seed of reason 8,5 XV. How Hagor and her sun, and Sarah and her sou. were the types of the two com- missions, and the two seeds. PAGE, Of some revelation of the two seeds, in the raven and dove in Noah's ark. Reason's imagination, concerning God and himself. Faith's know- ledge concerning God and himself, both declared what they are 38 XVI. How Moses in the law may he said to be one of the olive trees. The meaning of the two golden pipes men- tioned by Zechariah 42 XVII. How it was only exter- nal blessings that was given to the obeyers of the out- ward law, and cursings to the disobeyers. How ido- latry, or idolaters, proceeds from the not knowing, and obeying the true God. The difference between voice of words, and revelations from God 44 XVIII. How the principle of G od's being a Spririt without a body, did arise. Diverse queries about the eternal be- ing of God, with the blind- ness of reason therein 48 XIX. How Jesus Christ in the gospel may be said to be the other olive tree. How there is no water of life, hut that which proceeds from the tree of life 52 XX. Of the Cherubims who had the flaming sword to keep the way of the tree of life. What the flaming sword was; and how the CONTENTS OF VOL. I. 13 PAGE seed of faith is preserved thereby, from being destroy- ed by reason 54 XXI. Of the tree of life : the fruits thereof, and the use of them. That Christ gave no commission to his disciples, with power, till he was as- cended, which was only to the twelve apostles. That all spiritual commissions came from heaven 57 XXII. Of the seven churches, and what they are ; and how one of them are enlightened above another, even till the devil is transformed into an angel of light in the last : yet that they have all one and the same God and Devil . . 60 XXIII. Of the seven churches further, shewing four of them have their commissions from man only : and the other three, neither from God or man 62 XXIV. Shewing no spiritual commission but from heaven. What the baptism of John was. How the ordinance of baptism belonged only to the apostles, and to none of the seven churches since 65 XXV. How the apostle's com- mission came from the tree of life, and what that tree was. That the Apostles were the candlesticks, and why so called. An interpre- PAGE. tation of the Parable of the wise and foolish virgins. ... 68 XXVI. Some mysterious say- ings in the book of the Reve- lations opened, viz. the New Jerusalem, the Tabernacle, the angel which carried a- way John into the high mountain, the golden reed. 70 XXVII. When the great city and holy Jerusalem came down from heaven. Of the tabernacle of God being with men, in opposition of the ta- bernacle in the mount. Of the great and high wall which had twelve gates, and at the twelve gates twelve angels, and names written. How the partition wall was broken down, and when . . 72 XXV I II. Of tbe wall with twelve foundations, and what the foundations are, and who set and did bear them up.. 74 XXIX. Of the reed wherewith the city was measured. The equality of the twelve foun- dations. Of the angel which shewed John these things by way of vision 77 XXX. The power of commissi- onated Prophets. How that which hath been done by them, hath been accounted as done by God himself. . . 7!) XXXI. That John the Baptist was the last prophet under the law, declaring the end of 14 CONTENTS OF VOL. I. PAGE the worship under the law, and the coming in of the worship under the gospel . . 82 XXXII. Of the persons who slew the Lord's commission- ted prophets, and Christ him- self; with the woes pronoun- ced against them, which were as lire proceeding out of their mouths 84 XXXIII. How that words of truth raiseth up rage in the seed of reason, and peace & joy in the seed of faith. That all strife between nearest re- lations about spiritual mat- ters, ariseth from the two seeds 87 XXXIV. How fire proceeded out of the mouths of the pro- phets and apostles. The right understanding of the differences in the several com- missions declared 89 XXXV. Of the sun being turn- ed into darkness. And also of the death or darkness up- on the eternal God opened, in explaining the prophecy of J oel, where it is said, the sun snail be turned into dark- ness, & the moon into blood 93 XXXVI. The power of the pro- phet's commission, in shut- ting the heavens that it rain not 94 XXXVII. Of the further pow- er of the prophets 97 XXXVIII. A declaration of PAGE. the difference of commis- sions. How Moses and the prophets were all but one commission 100 XXXIX. The commission of the water, and the commis- sion of the blood declared . . 102 XL Of the commission of the blood further, and how this commission shut the heavens 104 XLI. What is meant by the commission of Jesus turning the waters into blood. How the law was overcome by Jesus, and how sin and death was overcome by his being offered up to death, through the eternal Spirit 107 XL1I. Of the water and blood which came out of Christ's side ; how the law which signified the water was turn- ed into blood 110 XLIII How the commissions were the two prophets men- tioned by John, and how they plagued the earth with all manner of plagues .... Ill XL1V. The interpretation of some sayings concerning John the Baptist. How John the Baptist was the greatest prophet. What is meant by the kingdom of God 112 XLV. Whom the kingdom of heaven was taken from, and unto whom it was given. What is meant by the two CONTENTS OF VOL. I. 15 PAGE. sons wbo were to work in the vineyard 114 XLVI. What is meant by the beast that ascended out of the bottomless pit, and what is meant by the bottomless pit. What is meant by Sa- tan's being shut up a thou- sand years. What the keys of heaven and hell are, and what is meant by satan's be- ing shut up a thousand years in the bottomless pit 117 XLV11 What is meant by ma- king war with the prophets. What is meant by Tophet prepared of old, the pile, fire, and much wood, and the breath of the Lord. Of the death and resurrection of the law with man for eternal punishment 120 XLVIII. The parable of Dives and Lazarus opened. Con- cerning the resurrection and the necessity thereof. What is meant by a drop of cold water to cool the tongue. Abraham's bosom, the king- dom of heaven, Cain's bosom the kingdom of hell 123 XLIX. W4iat is meant by the two dead bodies 120 L. What is meant by the streets of the great city, and why called Sodom & Egypt 128 LI. What is meant by people, and kindred, and tongues, and gentiles. What is meant by painting the tombs of the PAGE. prophets, and garnishing the sepulchres 130 LIl. How the scriptures are the two prophets dead bodies, which the learned men would not suffer to be buried, but have made merchandize of them 131 L1II. Of the Gentiles paint- ing the tombs of Christ and his apostles, as the Jews did those of Moses and the pro- phets 133 LIV. Of rejoicing over the death of the prophets, and of sending gifts one to ano- ther ~. 134 LV. What is meant by three days and a half. What by the spirit of life from God, and what by eternity. How that there can be no true interpretation of the Scrip- tures, but by him who hath the spirit of light from God 138 XVI. The death of Christ pro- cured a greater power to himself than he had before. What is truly meant by the prince of this world ...... 141 i LV1I, How the spirit of life from God in a commission quickeneth that which is spi- ritually dead. That the Apostle's commission of the Holy Ghost was the spirit of life from God. What is meant by the great fear that should come upon men.... 144 16 CONTENTS OF VOL. I. PAGE LVIII. Concerning 2260 days, and the three days and a half. Who is meant hy the Woman that hath the eagle's wings, and what the wings of that eagle were, and the wil- derness she did flee into. What is meant by the Wo- man cloathod with the sun, the moon under her feet, and the crown of twelve stars up- on her head. What the earth was that swallowed up the flood 144 LIX. Who it was that did hear the great voice from heaven 147 LX. Who it was that made Christ's face to shine, and his garments glitter, and who the angels were that watched over him. Of the two prophets ascending into heaven, what is meant by their enemies that shall see them 149 LX1. What is meant by the word earthquake in the com- mission of Moses 152 LXII. A further explanation of the said earthquake. ... 155 LXIII. What is meant by the word earthquake of the gos- pel, with the diverse effects it had upon the invisible spirit, both upon faith and reason, for natural and spiritual earthquakes 156 LXIV. Interpretations of se- veral scriptures concerning earthquakes. What is meant PAGE. by the same hour the earth- quake should be 158 LXV. What the sun was which was as black as sackcloth of hair, and how the moon was like blood 161 LXVI. The revelation of the spirit only knoweth the dis- tinction of earthquakes. . . . 162 LXVI I. What is meant by the city : what by the tenth part of it. What hy the seven thousand that should be slain : what the remnant was that was sore affrighted, and gave the glory to God. How the Jews and Gentiles are called the City of God 164 LXVIII. What is meant by the first and second woes, & when they were past, which did belong to the two com- missions of the law and the gospel 167 LXIX. Of the third woe which could come anon, how it doth belong to the third commis- sion. How the kingdoms of this world are become Christ's and in what manner he will reign 16J) LXX. Of the four and twenty elders, and what they are. The difference of glory in the four and twenty elders. 171 LXXI. Who it was that gave thanks to God. Faith looks at things to come, as in pre- sent being. Of God's putting CONTENTS OF VOL. I. 17 PAGE an end to all time. The glo- ry which shall be given to his prophets and the seed of faith. The end of the king- dom of reason, and the eter- nal destruction of the devil and his seed, with the place of their torment 172 LXX1I. The difference be- tween the temple of God in the state of mortality, and of immortality. The inter- pretation of the two cove- nants 174 LXXI1I. How Christ came by water and blood, explained. Of the three that bare re- cord in heaven, and the three that bear record on earth, and what they are 170 LXXI V. Of the commission of the Spirit, which is the last record in the earth, witnesses' names, and authority and power cerning the spiritual eternal condition of kind 179 The their con- and man- LXXV. All spiritual counter- feit powers brought down by the commission of the Spirit 181 LXXVI. The witnesses of the spiritual commission, their sentence upon false Christs and false prophets 182 LXXVI I, How the two wit- nesses of the commission of the Spirit, may be said to be the two witnesses mentioned in the 1 lth of the Revelation 184 PAGE. ! LXXVI II. As the reed signi- tied John's Revelation, so I Revelation is the reed of the witnesses of the spiritual commission, to declare the deep mysteries of God hid- den in the Scriptures, and to finish them. The spirit of prophecy in the three com- missions of water, blood, and spirit, opened 185 LXXIX. Plow the witnesses of the spiritual commission are like the olive-tree, the candle-sticks, and the spiri- tual light of the world .... 180 LXXX. How, and what fire it is that proceedeth out of the mouths of the witnesses of the spirit, and how they shut heaven, and turn wa- ters into blood 187 LXXXI. How the declaring of the true God, the right devil, and other mysteries, is the finishing of the witnesses of the commission of the Spirit's testimony, and are forerun- ners of Christ's coming to judgment . 190 LXXXII. How the same beast that did arise out of the bot- tomless pit, and did make war against the witnesses of the water and blood, upon the finishing their testimony, hath risen and made war against the witnesses of the Spirit, upon the finishing of theirs 192 LXXXII [. How the Scrip- 18 CONTENTS OF VOL. II. PAGE tures are the dead bodies of the witnesses of the Spirit. None can interpret the Scrip- tures truly, IhiL the witnesses of the Spirit 1D3 LXXX1V. IJow the commis- sion of the Spirit, is as spirit PAGE. and life from God, and mak- eth the dead bodies to stand upon their feet, to the justi- fying of the seed of faith to eternal happiness, and the condemnation of the seed of reason to eternal endless mi- sery 105 END OF THE CONTENTS OF VOL I. THE CONTENTS OF* VOL. II. A TRUE INTERPRETATION of all the chief Texts, and Mysterious Sayings and Visions opened, of the whole Book of the Revelation of St. John ; whereby is unfolded and plainly declared, those wonderful deep Mysteries and Visions interpreted, concerning the true God, the Alpha and Omega, with variety of other heavenly secrets which have never been opened nor revealed to any man, since the creation of the World to this day, until now. PAGE CHAP. I. What is meant by him (hat is, which was, and which is to come; and <>l' (he seven spi- rits, or sewn blessings of the seven churches of Asia .... II. What is meant I y eating i>f the ti e til" life ; and of not i eing hurt by the second PAGE. death ; and of the hidden manna ; and what is meant by ruling with a rod of iron. 7 III. What is meant by not blotting a man's name out of the book of life : and by be- ing a pillar in the temple of Ciod ; and by him that over- cometh 14 CONTENTS OF VOL. II. 19 PAGE IV. What is meant by the se- ven spirits of God ; and how those seven spirits are but one spirit 18 V. What is meant by the throne of God ; and that there is a kingdom above the stars, as there is here below 23 VI.HowJesusChristis called by theSpirit the Alpha & Om ega, and how God was in a two- fold condition, and so made capable to suffer the pains of death 25 VII. The resemblance and like- ness of the seven churches of Europe, unto the seven churches of Asia ; how their ministry doth differ; and how their reward will differ also 33 VIII. A further interpretation of the throne of God in hea- ven ; and of the seven lamps burning with fire; and of the seven spirits of God. .. . 42 IX. What is meant by the sea of glass in heaven ; and of the four beasts full of eyes ; and how Christ is called Da- vid's lord, and David's son ; and the difference of the four beasts in their forms, yet all but men 50 X. The interpretation of the six wings the four beasts had a- piece ; and what is meant by their being full of eyes be- fore and behind , and of their giving thanks, praise, honour, PAGE. and glory to Christ, as he is the Creator 54 XI. The difference of the power of God as he was the Creator and his power as he is a Re- deemer there being a two- fold state and condition in God; what is meant by the book of life, and the seals on the back side 58 XII. How John wept because he could see none in heaven, nor in earth that could open the book of life; how the lion of the tribe of Judah doth prevail to open the book as he is the Redeemer, and not as he is the Creator; and what is meant by the seven horns CI XIII. A further interpretation of the seven horns ; and what is meant by ten days tribu- lation ; and by the seven eyes ; how Christ opened the book of life, as he is a Son 65 XIV. The interpretation of the song of Moses, and of the Lamb ; why Moses's song may be called an old song, and the song of the lamb a new song ; & what is meant by the golden vials & harps 69 XV". The interpretation of the white horse ; and he that sat upon him ; and in what manner he went forth to con- quer; and what the bow in his hand signifies , 72 XVI. What is meant by the c 2 20 CONTENTS OP VOL. II. PAGE red horse, and he that sat thereon 78 XVII. The interpretation of the black horse; and him that sat thereon ; and what is meant by not hurting the oil and the wine ; and what is meant by the oil and the wine 80 XVIII. The interpretation of the pale horse; and him that sits thereon ; and what is meant by hell that followeth him 85 XIX. What is meant by being slain under the altar; and how their blood cried unto G od for vengeance 00 XX. How the heavens may be said to be rolled up like a scroll : and where the place of the reprobates shall be . . 07 XXI. What is meant by the four angels who had power over the winds; and what by the sealing of the ser- vants of God in their fore- heads 99 XXII. What is meant by the lirst and second angels sound- ing; and of the mountain burning with fire; and what is meant by the third part of creatures that died in the sea 104 XXIII. What is meant by the star that fell from heaven ; and how it burned like a lamp 110 PAGE. XXIV. What is meant by the rivers and fountains of waters being made bitter ; and how those that drank of them died 114 XXV. What is meant by the sun being smitten, that she could not shine, but a third part of her only ; and what is meant by the moon & stars being smitten; and how a third part of them did not shine, nor gave light in the night 117 XXVI. What is meant by the star that fell from heaven unto this earth ; what is meant by the bottomless pit, and the key that openeth it ; and of the smoke that did arise out of the bottomless pit 12* XXVII. What is meant by the smoke of the pit ; and by the locusts that came out of it ; how the saints are called green grass and trees .... 128 XXVI II. What the four an- gels were ; and how men's heads may be said to be like lion's heads; and what is meant by fire, smoke, and brimstone that issued out of their mouths 133 XXIX. What the serpent is ; and how they may be said to be the tail ; and how they may be said to have stings ; and how they do hurt. . . . 137 XXX. How the Papist, Epis- CONTENTS OF VOL. II. 21 PAGE. copal, Presbytery, and Inde- pendent ministry do resem- ble the angels of the churches of Ephesus, Smyrna, Perga- mos and Thyatira; and what judgments did follow 140 XXXI. How the ministry of the Baptist, Ranter & Qua- ker do resemble the angels of the churches of Sardis, Phi- ladelphia, and Laodecea; & how plagues do follow at, and in the sounding of their their ministry 145 XXXII. The interpretation & difference between the dra- gon's ten horns, & the beast's ten horns; and how they may both be said to have se- ven heads a piece 150 XXXII I. No true faith upon earth, but in the time of a commission from God .... J 52 XXXIV.The interpretation & distinction why men may be called a dragon, devil, or serpent ; and how the seed of reason may be said to be in heaven 155 XXXV. How the beast may be said to be like a leopard ; what is meant by his feet being like the feet of a bear ; & his mouth like the mouth of a lion ; and what is meant bv his deadly wound being healed 158 XXXVI. What is meant by the tabernacle in heaven ; and by those that dwell in PAGE. it; how the saints are not called the world ; and how they may know their names are written in the book of life 162 XXXV II. What is meant by the beast out of the earth with two horns, like a lamb, and what the two horns do signify ; and how those mi- racles he wrought were coun- terfeit, and mere shadows . . 166 XXXVIII. What is meant by the image, & how the image may be said to speak. . . . . 171 XXXIX. What is meant by receiving the mark of the beast in the forehead, and in the right hand ; and how they may be said to have the name of the beast, and the number of his name . . 174 XL. The interpretation of the number of the beast; and how he may be said to be six hundred three score and six, and yet but the number of a man 178 XLI. What is meant by the lamb that stood upon Mount Sion ; and what those hun- dred forty and four thousand were who stood upon Mount Sion with him ; and how the voices of the saints are called the sound of waters, and as the noise of thunder 183 XLII. The interpretation how men and women may be said to be not defiled with wo- 22 CONTENTS OF VOL. II. PAGE men ; & in what sense they may be called virgins ; and why the Jews are called the first fruits unto God ; and who the angel was that did fly in the midst of heaven ; and how the everlasting gos- pel was preached to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people 187 XLIII. The difference between the temporal Babylon and the spiritual Babylon ex- pounded ; and how men may be said to drink the wine of the wrath of her fornication 191 XL1V. How Christ is called by the Spirit the Son of Man ; and what is meant by the white cloud ; and the crown of gold upon his head; and what is meant by the sharp side in his hand ; and what is meant by reaping the earth; and how the wine press of God's wrath is trod- den without the gates, or ci- ty of Jerusalem; and what the city is 197 XLV. How the saints of God are capable to stand upon a sea of glass in heaven, as men may upon this earth, they be- ing spiritual bodies 204 XLVI. What is meant by the seven vials of God's wrath poured out upon the earth ; and what angels they were that poured them out; and why they are called the se- ven angels ; and how the angel of the gospel dotli pour PAGE. out his plagues, as the an- gel of the law did 207- XLVII. The interpretation of the waters being turned into blood; and how the waters of the soul of man are turned into blood in the spiritual, as the natural waters of Egypt were 212 XLVI1I. How the seed of rea- son did drink the saint's blood ; and how they must drink their own blood ; and what is meant by pouring out the vial upon the sun ; and by scorching men with fire 217 XL1X. The interpretation of the kingdom of darkness in the temporal ; and what that darkness signifies 223 L. How the spirit of Cain doth run through all wicked He- rods; and how the land of Goshen doth signify true light ; & the land of Egypt, hell, death and darkness.. 225 LI. What is meant by the great river Euphrates in the natu- tural, and in the spiritual ; & how it may be said to be dried up ; and who they are that are called kings of the earth 230 Lll. How these three unclean spirits, like frogs, proceeded from one spirit, and yet by their several operations and workings, they may be called three 235 CONTENTS OF VOL. II. 23 PAGE. LIII. A further interpretation of the dragon, beast, and false prophet ; and how all the worship set up by them is false 237 LIV. An interpretation of the operation of that wisdom that cometh out of the dragon's mouth ; and why it is called by the spirit, an unclean spi- rit, like a frog 239 LV. What the unclean spirit is that came out of the beast's mouth ; and how they are cloathed in scarlet 241 LVI. What is meant by the false prophet ; and how he came to be clothed in sheep's clothing ; and how these three unclean spirits like frogs deceive one another, and all people else 242 LV1I. What is meant by the great earthquake, & by that great hail ; and how every stone may be said to weigh a talent; and how mingled with fire and brimstone . . 245 LVIII. How the spiritual Ba- bylon is compared unto the temporal ; and how false wor- ship may be, and is called mystery Babylon, in opposi- tion to the mystery of God ; with manyother things open- ed; and how, and when the sceptre departed from the Jews, and how the Gentile's worship is idolatrous, and so becomes, or makes up that great city mystery Babylon, PAGE. the mother of harlots; and what is meant by her forni- cation 248 L1X. How the kings of the earth may be said to com- mit fornication ; and how the saints do drink the wine of the wrath of her fornica- tion ; how the scarlet colour- ed beast doth carry the whore ; and how she sits upon the beast ; and what is meant by the beast, and why called a scarlet colour- ed beast 257 liX. The interpretation of the woman, and how she is ar- rayed in scarlet colour, and purple, aud precious stones, with a golden cup in her hand ; and what these things do signify ; and how the wo- man may be said to be drunk- en with the blood of the saints 261 LXI. The interpretation of the beast that was, and is not, and yet is ; and how he may be called the eighth, and is of the seven : with other deep secrets 264 LXII. How the woman may be said to sit upon seven mountains ; and what the mountains are 268 LXIIl. The interpretation of the ten horns ; and what is meant by their having pow- er one hour with the beast ; and how they make war with the lamb; and what u CONTENTS OF VOL. II. PAGE weapons they fight with ; and with what weapons the Iamb doth overcome them 271 LXIV. How the ten horns re- ceived power from the beast to persecute the saints : and how the same ten kings re- ceived power from God to make the whore desolate, to fulfil God's will ; yet all but wicked kings, yet they did his will 274 LXV. How all this seventeenth chapter was shewed unto John by vision, and none could interpret it. but he that hath a commission from God 276 LXVI. The difference between the temporal Babylon, and the spiritual Babylon ; and how this spiritual Babylon is called an habitatian of devils, and a cage of every hateful bird, and a hold of every un- clean spirit; and how the kings of the earth and all nations committed fornicati- on with her 278 LXVII. How the saints may be said to come out of her ; and how she must drink her own blood ; and what is meant by filling her cup and giving it ber double to drink ; and what manner of famine and fire she shall be destroy- ed with ". 281 LXV1II. What is meant by the mercbant's standing afar olF, fur fear of her torment. . . 284 PAGE. LX1X - How the prophets and apostles are bid to rojoice over the destruction of the great city, in that God hath avenged himself on her . . 285 LXX. How the seed of reason doth walk in the paths of the scriptures, they cannot find out the true God ; but the seed of faith can find out God in all those narrow paths where he doth walk ; and how the voice of mirth did cease when Babylon was destroyed ; and the blood of prophets and saints is found in her 28G LXXI. How the four beasts and four and twenty elders, and saints do sing praise un- to God for the perpetual downfal of spiritual Babylon 281) LXXII. What is meant by the voice of many waters ; and the voice of mighty thunder- ings ; and how the saints are married unto God 291 LXXI II. What is meant by the white horse ; and by the many crowns that he had on his head ; and of the differ- ence of glory between the work of creation, and the work of redemption ; and how it may be said that no man knew his name but him- self 293 LXXIV. The interpretation of the garment of Christ down to the foot ; and his vesture CONTENTS OF VOL. II. 26 PAGE, dipt in blood : and what is meant by treading the wine fat 296 LXXV. What is meant by the armies in heaven that follow- Christ ; and how they all sat upon white horses : and how Christ trod the fierceness of the wine-press of Almighty God, and yet not his father's wrath 299 LXXV I. The interpretation of the name of Christ written upon his thigh ; and how he may be called king of kings, and lord of lords, in respect of the power of his creation and the power of his redemp- tion ; and how his death got power over sin, death & hell, so that he can dispose of death now as he pleases, for his own glory 302 LXXVII. What is meant by the fowls of heaven ; and what the suppor is they are invited unto; and what it is they must have to supper ; and how the saints may be said to eat the flesh of kings, & of captains & of mighty men 305 LXXVIII. How the temporal power signifies the beast, and the spiritual power sig- nifies the false prophet ; and how they are both PAGE. cast alive into a lake of fire and brimstone ; and what is meant by the remnant that were slain with a sword that came out of his mouth ; with the end of the nineteenth chapter 307 LXXIX. The prophet's prayer and thanksgiving unto Jesus Christ, the only God, who became very man, and yet was very God at the same time 310 LXXX. What is meant by Gog and Magog ; and how the the camp of the saints may be said to be compassed about in all the four quarters of the earth; and what that fire is that came down from heaven 312 LXXX1. How non-commissi- onated men are those that do add unto the prophesy of this book of the Revelation, and to all the Scriptures; and how the plagues writ- ten in that book will be add- ed unto them, for going be- fore they were sent of God 318 LXXXII. How men are said to diminish, or take away from this book ; and how , he hath his part taken out of the book oflife 321 26 CONTENTS OF VOL. II. A TRUE INTERPRETATION of the WITCH OF ENDOR, spoken of in the First Book of Samuel, xxviii. chap, beginning at the 11th verse. SHEWING, I. How she and all other Witches do beget or pro- duce that familiar Spirit they deal with, and what a familiar Spirit is, and how those voices are procured, and shapes appear unto them, whereby the ignorant and unbelieving people are deceived by them. 2. It is clearly made appear in this Treatise, that no spirit can be raised without its body, neither can any spirit assume any body after death ; for if the spirit doth walk, the body must walk also. 3. An interpretation of all those Scriptures, that doth seem as if Spirits might go out of men's bodies when they die, and subsist in some place or other without bodies. Lastly, Several other things needful for the mind of man to know, which whoever doth understand, it will be great satisfaction. THE NECK OF THE QUAKERS BROKEN, or cut in sunder by the two-edged sword of the Spirit which is put into my mouth. LODOWICKE MUGGLETON CONTEXTS PAGE J. In a Letter to Edw. Bourne, a Quaker 3 PAGE. worth to Lodowicke Muggle- OS ton 34 A Letter of Samuel llooton and \V. S to Lodowick Mugglcton 7 II. In answer to a Letter of Samuel Hootonand W. S... J3 A Letter of Richard Fanies- III. In LodovvickeMnggleton's Answer to Richard Farnes- worth's Letter 40 IV. In Lodowicke Muggletou'.s Reply to Richard Farnes- worth's printed Pamphlet.. 5(i CONTENTS OF VOL. II. 27 A LETTER sent to THOMAS TAYLOR, Quaker, in the year 1664, in Answer to many blasphemous say- ings of his in several pieces of paper, and in the mar- gin of a Book. Amongst many of his wicked ignorant sayings, I have given an answer to some of the chief and main things of concernment for the reader to know : The particular heads are seven. I. That Christ could not make all things of nothing. II. That earth and Waters were eternal, and out of that matter God ere ated all living creatures. III. That there was a place of residence for God to be in, when he created this world. IV. How all children are saved, though the seed of the serpent, if they die in their childhood. V. Of the difference between the fruit of the womb, and the fruits of the flesh ; and how they are two several trees, and two several fruits. VI. How the seed of faith, the elect seed, did all fall in Adam, and there- fore made alive in Christ ; and how the reprobate seed did not fall in Adam, so not made alive in Christ ; and what it is that purifies the Quaker's hearts. VII. How Adam and Eve were not capable of any kind of death before their fall : and how their fall did procure but a temporal death to all the seed of Adam ; but the fall of the serpent did procure an eternal death to all his seed, who live to men and women's estates, and more especially to those that doth deny the person and body of Christ to be now living in heaven, above the stars, without a man, as all the speak- ers of the Quakers do. A LOOKING-GLASS for George Fox the Quaker, and other Quakers ; wherein they may see them- selves to be right Devils. In answer to George Fox, his Book, called Something in Answer to Lodo- dowicke Muggletoris Book, which he calls, The Qua- d 2 28 CONTENTS OF VOL. II. kers Neck Broken. Wherein is set forth the igno- rance and blindness of the Quaker's doctrine of Christ within them ; and that they cannot, nor doth not know the true meaning of the Scriptures, neither have they the gift of interpretation of Scripture, as will appear in those several heads set down in the next page following. CONTENTS. PAGE. PAGE. CHAP. 1. IX. How the Quakers aremis- Of a catalogue of damned Qua- taken in the flesh and bone kers 1 ! or' Christ 27 II. Sheweth the ignorance and foolishncs of George Fox . . 8 III. How the Quaker people are altogether ignorant of heavenly secrets, so become the greatest despiscrs of them 1 1 IV. A discovery of the Qua- ker's blindness, which can- not discern whether a man that preaches the Gospel ought to have his commission from Christ without him, or from a Christ within him.. 13 \ 7 . Sheweth how ignorant and dark the Quaker's people are in the knowledge of the right devil. & of the serpent's seed Hi VI. How the soul of man is mortal, and doth die, yet Fox thinks it impossible to prove by Scripture 22 VII, How it was no lie to ac- cuse the Quakers of sin and blasphemy 2(5 V T 1 1 1 . The right devil proved L'(! X. How God hath made the Witnesses of the Spirit judge in his stead 28 XI. Sheweth that the body of Christ's flesh and bone is dis- tinct of itself, and not in the Quaker's bodies, neither are they Members of his body . . 2',) XII. Sheweth by Scripture how Christ dwelleth in his saints, and how it may be said they are flesh of his llesh, and bone of his bone 32 XIII. How Fox is proved a de- vil, because bo cannot give a reason that he is no repro- bate 37 XIV 7 . An explanation how George Fox and other Qua- kers, may be said to appear before the judgment seat of Christ.. .'. 38 XV. A further interpretation concerning the judgment seat of Christ .. .'. 42 CONTENTS OF VOL. II. 29 PAGE XVI. How the sentence and curse bath subdued those witchcraft fits in the Qua- kers 44 XVII. How spirits cannot as- sume what shapes they please neither can there appear any spirit without a body 47 XVIII. How the true God is no bigger than the compass of a man, and no spirit with- out a body, as the Quakers doth vainly imagine 49 XIX. How the Quakers may see themselves to be right devils 53 XX. How the Quakers are more antichristian in their doctrine than the pope .... 54 XXI. How the body of Christ's fiesh & bone is distinct from the Quaker's bodies 56 XXII. That which killed the righteous and the just, it was the spirit of reason, the devil in man that always did it... 59 XXIII. A difference between reasonable and unreasonable men, and a further discovery that reason is the devil .... 62 XXIV. How the soul of Christ died, & the ignorance of the Quakers discovered in the death of their own souls . . 67 XXV. It is proved that Christ, the only God, is not in this world at all, in his person or essence PAGE. . 69 XXVI. How men cannot wor- ship God in spirit and truth, without bodies ; and how Muggleton never was in the spirit of Solomon, nor never shall be 72 XXVII. A great stir the pro- phet Muggleton hath to keep the Quakers spirits out of Christ 77 XXVIII.How Fox justifies the Magistrates persecuting of me in' Derbyshire 79 XXIX.How the curse of Mug- gleton shall remain upon Fox to eternity 80 XXX. How the curse and sen- tance of Muggleton shall be over, and upon the spirits of the Quakers to eternity. ... 81 XXXI. How the law written in the Quakers hearts, is that Christ they could have spoken in, had they never seen letter of scripture nor man that pro- fesseth it 82 XXXII. How their confidence will fail them in the day of trouble . . 84 XXXIII. How Fox shall see no other God or judge, but that sentence Reeve & Mug- gleton hath passed upon him 84 XXXIV. A reproof for Qua- kers for rejoicing in my suf- ferings, and being sorry the 30 CONTENTS OF VOL. II. PAGE. PAGE. magistrates did not punish me phet and minister of Christ, more than imprisonment. ... 86 hath power to open the book of conscience 94 XXXV. How it doth belong unto mortal men, that are chosen of God, to interpret scripture, & not unto Christ himself 90 In the last place, I shall say- something as to the Quak- ers principle and practices A letter to Sara Coppin,quaker 102 XXXVI. How every true pro- | Do. to Richard Chair> quaker 107 THE ANSWER to WILLIAM PENN, Quaker, his Book, entitled/* The New Witnesses proved old He- reticks" Wherein he is proved to be an ignorant spatter-brained Quaker, who knows no more what the true God is, nor his secret Decrees, than one of his coach-horses doth, nor so much \for the Ox know- eth his owner ty the Ass his masters crib, but Penn doth not know his Maker, as is manifest by the scriptures, which may inform the reader, if he mind the inter- pretation of scripture in the Discourse following. I. That God was in the form, image and likeness of man's bodily shape, as well as his soul, from eternity. II. That the substance of earth and matter was an eternal, dark, sense- less chaos, and that earth and matter was eternal in the original. III. That the soul of man is generated and begot by man and woman with the body, and are inseparable. IV. That the soul and body of man are both mortal, and doth die and go to dust until the resurrection. V. That to fulfil the prophecy of Esaias, God descended from heaven into the virgin's womb, and transmuted his spiritual body into a pure natural body, and become a man child, even the child Jesus, Emanuel, God with us. VI. That God by his prerogative power, bath elected the seed of Adam to be saved, and hath pre-ordained the seed of the serpent, such as Pcnn the Quaker is, to be damned, without any other inducement, but his own prerogative will and pleasure. CONTENTS OF VOL. III. 31 VII. A reply to the discourse between Penn and me. VIII. What is meant by the armour of God, the wilderness, and the wild beasts I fought with in the wilderness. An ANSWER to Isaac Pennington, Esq. his Book entitled, ' Observations on some passages of Lodo- dowicke Muggleton's Interpretation of the 11th chapter of the Revelation" ; also some passages of that Book of his, entitled, ' The Neck of the Quakers Broken;" and in his Letter to Thomas Taylor. Whereby it might appear what spirit the said Lodo- wicke Muggleton is of, and from what God his com- mission is ; as by what authority his spirit is moved to write against the people called Quakers. Written to inform those that do not know the antichristian spirit of false teachers, in these our days. By LODOWICKE MUGGLETON. END OF THE CONTENTS OF VOL II. THE CONTENTS OF VOL. III. A STREAM from the TREE OF LIFE; or the Third Record vindicated being the Copies of several Let- ters and Epistles wrote by the two last Witnesses of Jesus Christ ; wherein Truth rides triumphant, and imagination is confounded. PAGE. A Copy of a letter to W. Mad- gate, proving that God takes no immediate notice PAGE. To Walter Bohenan on the same subject 9 32 CONTENTS OF VOL. III. PAGE To James Whitehead, answer- ing six queries 17 To Colonel Phaire, concerning eating the flesh of devils ; as also explaining the mustard grain, Luke xiii. 19 25 To Edward Fewteril, concern- ing witchcraft 30 A discourse hetween John Reeve and Richard Leader wherein philosophy is con- founded 38 To Thomas Tomkinson, relat- ing, in part, the prophet's suf- ferings for declaring truth . . 48 An Epistle to a Quaker, shew- ing the blindness of those people 49 An Epistle of the prophet Mug- gleton's, proving his power to give sentences ; also ex- plaining how the devil entered the herd of swine .57 PAGE. To Christopher Hill, containing his own, Thomas Martin, William Young, and Eliza- beth Wyles's blessing 63 To Alice Webb, containing the six principles, and her bless- ing 64 To a friend concerning true and false preachers 66 An epistle concerning spirits 69 To Isaac Pennington, Esq. con- cerning God's visibly appear- ing in flesh 74 The death of Moses unfolded 80 An epistle, proving Christ had inherent power to die and live again, without assistance from any in heaven, or on earth 81 To Ann Adams, shewing the peace of a pure life 87 SACRED REMAINS; or a Divine Appendix; being a Collection of several Treatises, Epistolary and Public, originally written above fifty years, by the Lord's last immediate Messenger, John Reeve ; and now after careful examination by the most correct Copies, communicated for the consolation and es- tablishment of the Church of Christ, by their bre- thren, whose faith in these, and all other his irreman- dable Declarations, doth (and by divine protection will) remain unshaken to eternity. CONTENTS OF VOL. III. 33 PAGE Queries sent to Mr. Sedgwick, by the Prophet John Reeve 1 Mr. Sedgwick's Replies 3 The Prophet's Answer to Mr. Sedgwick 7 Of the one personal uncreated glory 25 The Prophet John Reeve's An- swer to a Letter sent him by Esquire Pennington 36 John Reeve's Epistle sent to the Earl of Pembroke . . . . 47 PAGE. J. Reeve's Epistle to his kinds- man 5] What was from eternity 62 A general Treatise of the three Records or Dispensations . . 73 A cloud of unerring witnesses plainly proving there neither is nor ever was any other God but Christ Jesus the Lord. . 94 Scriptures proving that Christ Jesus is the only God 97 A BOOK of LETTERS, or Spiritual Epistles: being Copies of 168 Letters, written by the two last Prophets & Messengers of God, John Reeve & Lodowicke Muggleton ; containing variety of spiritual Reve- lations, and deep Mysteries, manifesting to elect seed the prerogative power of a true Prophet; who by virtue of their commissions, did truly give blessings of life everlasting to those that believed their decla- rations ; and to all despising Reprobates the curse or sentence of eternal damnation. Collected by the great pains of Alexander Dalmaine, the elder, a true believer of God's last commission of the Spirit ; in- tended at first only for his own spiritual solace ; but finding they increased to so great a volume, he leaves it to his posterity, that ages to come may rejoice in the comfortable view of so blessed and heavenly a treasure. 34 CONTENTS OF VOL. III. SUPPLEMENT TO THE BOOK OF LETTERS ; being the copies of twenty-three Letters, written by John Reeve and Lodowicke Muggleton. THE ACTS OF THE WITNESSES OF THE SPIRIT, in five Parts; by Lodowicke Muggleton, cue of the two Witnesses, and true Prophets of the only high, immortal glorious God, Christ Jesus; left by him to be published after his death. CONTENTS. PAGE. (HAP. 1. '; : Prophet sheweth first, that Mioses and the Prophets did record strange and wonderful things; as also their Revela- . ions which we are bound to believe 1 ii. The Prophet makes a re- hearsal of the Acts of the Apostles in the New Testa- ment, and of the Lord Christ ; and how that they were writ- ten for the comfort of the seed of faith : after which he enters upon the third Record, and shews the cause of his writing some of the most prin- cipal Acts of the Witness of the Spirit, under tiiis third Record 3 111. Of the birth, parentage, & trade of the two witnesses. Sz how the Prophet's nature led them forth to all sobriety, hating drunkenness, and of their inelit.ing to the princi- ples of those called Purit- ans, and of their hein per- suaded from judging case;- "1 PAGE. conscience before they knew the truth TV. How the secret providence of God prevented the expec- tation of the prophet, in his choice of a wife, and in his desire of riches, of the pro- phet's zeal for the law, and a righteous life V. The prophet shews his care, his fear, and zeal in the law of God, and of the working of his thoughts, & height of the Puritan religion 14 VI. After the prophet hath gi- ven a description of his mar- riage, of his wives, and of his children, from the twenty- sixth year of his life, to the thirty-eighth ; he then shews the alteration of the religion in the Puritan people, and of confusion that was amongst them. 15 VII. The prophet shews his gr at dissatisfaction and loss in religion, even almost to CONTENTS OF VOL. III. 35 PAGE despair ; yet in the conclu- sion resolves to hold his inte- grity, to do justly, and keep from actual sin, but mind religion no more, but left happiness and misery to God's disposal 17 VIII. The prophet gives a des- cription of John Tane, & John Robins, being counted greater than prophets, and sets forth their appearance and wonderful actions .... 10 IX. Of the prophet's applica- tion concerning these won- derful things, and of his qua- lification 22 X. The prophet shews of a me- lancholy that came upon him and afterwards of two mo- tions arising in him, and speak as two living voices.. 21 j XI. The prophet's further rea- soning in himself, how hard- ly God dealt with Lira; and of his reasoning against Adam ; and shews how a contrary seed, or voice in him, repelled his argument 26 : XII. The prophet raiseth ar- PAGE guments more, to give him some hope that he might es- cape hell ; but another mo- tional voice gave answer, which quite frustrated all his hopes again 28 XIII. The prophet's submitting to God's prerogative power, immediately wrought in him peace and quietness of mind, even to all admiration in wis- dom, and ravishing excellen- cies ?,2 XIV. Of the time of the pro- phet's revelation ; his satis- faction in it, and his resolu- tion to sit still now, and be quiet from disputes about re- ligion. Yet shews that pro- vidence ordered it otherwise. Of the Prophet Reeve's re- velation of the raven and dove 3.) XV.Shewing how John Reeve's revelation gave him satisfac- tion, and full resolution to sit still and be quiet, never meddling about religion more. but contrary to the resolu- tions of them both, a little while after, were made the greatest medlers of religion of all the world 38 THE END OF THE FIRST PART. SECOND PART. CHAP. I. Of the commission given Prophet the iggh ton's children PAGE e2 blessed by the ProphetReeve, the great wisdom given unto Sarah Muggleton 41 36 CONTENTS OF VOL. III. l'AGE. II. The transactions of the se- cond morning; & how Tho- masTurner went wit h thePro- phets to John Tane's, and of .John Reeve's Message to him ; and how John Tane and his design perished, and came to nothing 43 III. Of the transactions of the third morning; and of the message of the ProphetReeve to John Rohins 45 IV. When the transcendant Treatise was wrote, many people were more offended with the doctrine than the commission. Of the letter sent to the ministers, & when. How the children mocked John Reeve, called him Pro- phet, Prophet, and followed him, Hinging stones at him ; and how a woman hearing this, followed the Prophet to his house, and was con- verted to the faith. Of sen- tence given upon one Penson, and its effects 48 V. Of one Jeremiah Maunte, a great friend to this com mission ; and of a damned man and his fury; and how- John Reeve entreated the people thathe might lie down and expose himself to his fury, with the ( fleets of that suhmission- And of one .lames Barker, his hypocrisy to get the hicssing of John Reeve, and how he was cursed by Lodowicke M ug- gleton, with the eiVeets of that cur-!.' .')! PAGE. VI. What the Ranter's God was. And how them and their God was damned by this commission. And of the resolution of three of the most desperate to curse the prophet Reeve and Muggle- ton's God 56 VII. Of the dispute with Mr. Leader, a New England merchant ; and of the pro- phet's convincing him how that God had a body; and how God is worshipped in spirit aud truth with bodies ; and that there is no spirit without a body 58 VIII. Of one Mr. Cooper, a great disputant, and how- convinced ; and how a true ministry is known from a false. Of his conversion ; and how he passed sentence of damnation upon fifteen of his companions ; and of his trouble for so doing without commission ; and of a minis- ter's censuring him to be be- witched 61 IX. Of one captain Stasy, a friend to the two witnesses, and of their dispute with a minister, proving that God was in the form of man. And of the minister's blas- phemy, and John Heeve's passing the sentence upon him, & that he should never see any other God but that sentence; and how John Reeve was threatened with a warranl from Cromwell, or tin' council of state: & how CONTENTS OF VOL. Ill PAGE. 37 John replied, that if they despised as the priest had PAGE. done, that he would pro- nounce them damned .... 64 THE END OF THE SECOND PART. THIRD PART. PAGE. I. Shewing how five men got a a warrant from the Lord Mayor, and brought the two Witnesses before him : of their accusation : of their ex- amination : and of their an- swer to it with boldness. . . 67 II. Shewing John Reeve's an- swer to the Lord Mayor's questions, and John Reeve's question to the Mayor, what his God was, with the May- or's answer; & John Reeve's replication to it. Of the two Witnesses commitment to Newgate 70 I II. Shp.wing how the prisoners brought irons ; required mo- ney of the two witnesses ; they having none, took one of their cloaks for a pledge. How long they were prison- ers; the boards were their bed. And of the wickedness of some of the prisoners, which had a design to have hanged them ; and how pro- vidence preserved them 72 IV. Of the two witnesses being brought to their trial. How John Reeve would not suffer the Mayor, a damned man, to speak ; how the jury PAGE. brought them in guilty ; and of the Recorder's sentence upon them. And of several other transactions 76 V. Of John Reeve's travelling to Maidstone in Kent, where he met with some enemies, and gave them the sentence; upon which they got a war- rant against him. Of the no- tice he had and departed. Of his Treatise, called Joyful News from Heaven. After the writing of which he died 78 VI. Of Laurence Claxton, what Books he wrote of his ex- alted pride ; the Believers complain of him ; the Pro- phet forbad him for writing any more. How he humbled himself. The Prophet for- gave him. And of his death b0 VII. Shewing how the Prophet caused, ' The Divine Look- ing Glass,' to be re-printed. Of the Prophet's printing a book of the Interpretation of the xi. of the Revelations. And, the Quaker's Neck Broken. Of bis Travels to Nottingham ; and the trans- actions that passed there ; & then to Chesterfield 82 88 CONTEMTS OF VOL. III. PAGE VIII. The Prophet travels in- to Cambridgshire and Kent ; and of his marriage to his third wife ; and of his second journey into Derbyshire; & of his being brought before the Mayor of Chesterfield. Of his examination by the Priest ; and of his commit- ment 86 IX. Shewing that the Prophet proved before the Priest, Mayor, and Aldermen, that Christ was the only God. The Priest made no replica- tion against it, but fawning upon him with fine words, to ensnare him against the go- vernment. The Prophet's wisdom discovered it. Of his commitment 90 X. The Priest gave that charac- ter of the Prophet, of a wise and sober man. The Pro- phet gave the like character on Pendor. Of a dispute be- tween the Prophet, and two of the ollicers of the town, & PAGE. the keeper of the prison, and the sheriff's men. The Pro phet proves three Records on earth, to answer the three Records in heaven ; all this in the gaol })3 XL Shewing the interpretati- ons of the two past Records on earth, of water & blood, being undeniably unfolded.. 90 XII. The interpretation of the third Record on earth, the Record of the spirit, & who it is acted by 99 XIII. The Prophet's arraign- ment, and examined by the judge ; and ho required of the judge to take bail, the judge granted it. The Mayor Aldermen, & Recorder that committed him, saw their fol - ly and madness, and were ashamed of themselves. How the Prophet had the love of all the prisoners. Of his printing of the whole book of the Revelations, &c 103 THE END OF THE THIRD PART. FOURTH PART. PAGE. I. The Prophet's travels into Kent. Of Judge Twisden ; and of the Prophet's Letter to him. Of the increase of believers 100 II. Of one Captain Wildye, an honourable man. And of one Mrs Cowyle, of her faith PAGE. and obedience of her hus- band, and of her son. a uni- versity scholar; and of his being convinced by the Pro- phet, both as to the ministry, law and physic 109 III. The Prophet's Answer to Thomas Luc's Letter. His CONTINT* OF VOL. III. 39 PAGE. sentence, with the effects of it the Prophet's dispute with George Whitehead and Jo- siah Cole. With his sentence passed upon them both. ... 1 15 IV. Of Cole's being sick unto death immediately after the sentence of his testimony against the Prophet. Of his death ; the Quaker's God described ; with the nature of Reason, and the law that is written in it. Of William Pen's blasphemous letter to the Prophet 121 V. The answer of Lodowicke Muggleton to William Pen, Quaker; his proud, presump- tuous & blasphemous letter 126 VI. Of the Prophet's travels in- PAGB. to Cambridgo,Leicester,Not- tingham, and Derbyshire, to visit friends there 130 VII. The prophet's house searched for books. The searcher's civility. The pro- phet acknowledges their kind- ness, and after sent them a gratuity. A second search for books* where several were taken. Of a great rebellion that happened upon the pro- phet's absence 133 VTII The three first assertions answered ] 38 IX. The fourth, fifth aud sixth assertions answerered .... 224 X. The seventh, eighth and ninth assertions answered . . 148 THE END OF THE FOURTH PART. FIFTH PART. PAGE. I. Of one Sir John James's oppression of Widow Brunt, and of her death; theProphet left her executor; and how he would not sell his birth- right, but arrested Sir John James's tenants. Of his great troubles and trials. . 153 II. Of the bill of indictment, & of the cruelty of the judges 157 III. The counsel against the Prophet pleads with fear and PAGE. horror; the Prophet's coun- sel pleads, and through fear, did wrong his cause ...... 162 IV. The Prophet is brought in guilty ; of his sentence and judgment; with the nature of his sufferings 166 V. Shewing how that the Pro- phet in a short time saw his desire (unto God) in part ful- filled 171 40 CONTENTS OF VOL. III. VI. Of the Prophet's deliver- ance out of prison. Of the price and value that was PAGE. PAGE. made of him ; the rewards to the two seeds at the last day 176 A True Account of the Trial and Sufferings of Lodo- wicke Muggleton, one of the two last Prophets and Witnesses of the Spirit, left by our friend Powel, who witnessed his trial and all his sufferings, there- fore he gives a more full and particular account of the whole proceedings than the Prophet has left on record. [See the end of Vol. III. FINIS. R. BROWN, PRINTER, 26, ST. JOHN STREET, C'LEKKENWELL. UNIV. fiF CALIF, LIBRARY, LOS AMc II I II llll II I III A ' Q01 055 365 9