If you had lived in Christs days when he was upon Earth , you ●ould hardly have found his Name recorded in the Law and the ●rophets ; nay it is more probable that I am ordained the Chief ●udge , because my Name is not recorded in Scripture . If there had been such a Name written in Scriptures , that he should be the ●●st Prophet in the World , many would have named their Sons Lodo●ick Muggleton , and that is the cause there is so many Johns , Tho●asses , and Jeremiahs , &c.

Furthermore , in Sam. Hooton's and W. Shepherd's Letter to Mug●eton , pag. 7. wherein they begin thus .

Friend , for so we can call thee , as Christ did Judas , here is some Queries for thee to answer in writing , or else for ever stop thy mouth : ●r what reason did Christ come into the world ?

Christ came into the world to destroy the Devil , which is the Spi●● of Reason , of which Spirit most of the Quakers are of

Is the Spirit of man mortal or not ?

It is Mortal , and doth and shall dye with the body .

How camest thou by this pretended Commission , or how canst thou give 〈◊〉 any reason to beleive it ?

That I have this Commission I prove thus : Because I do know by 〈◊〉 revelation of Faith , that God did speak to John Reeve three morn●●●s together distinct words and sentences to the hearing of the ear , 〈◊〉 51. Feb. 3 , 4 , 5. and gave him a Commission as he did Moses . And as ●●ron was given to be Moses's mouth , so was Lodowick Muggleton ●●●en to be John Reeve's mouth ; so that John Reeve being the chief ●●●ilst he was living , but since the Burden or Commission of the Lord ●●●h been laid upon me : as Elisha had a double portion of Elijah's ●●rit , so have I had a double portion of Revelation of the spirit since ●●●n Reeve departed this life .

By what rule or method dost thou judge and pass condemnation on thy ●●●w creatures ?

〈◊〉 go by as certain a rule as the Judges of the Lord do when they give judgement according to the Law , only I have no Juries , nor accusers , nor witnesses . What Jury had Elisha when he called for fire from Heaven , to fall upon two Captains and their fiftys ? What Jury had Peter when he smote Ananias with his sword ? But to give the Reader better satisfaction , I shall shew how I condemn men and women at a distance . 1. There must be some of my faith who hath heard them speak wicked speeches against me and my Commission , and so thereupon I have sent the sentence unto them . 2. I do never pass sentence upon them , unless I have some writings under their own hands , as I have from you Quakers .

Thus ( Reader ) I have entertained thee awhile with the Errors , Blasphemies , and Irregularities of Lodowick Muggleton ; on which fearing thou shouldst be by this time cloyd , I shall divert thy melancholy , and please thy curiosity , with some of those strange Heresies and ungrounded principles which Muggleton not without some reason in many places lays to the Quakers charge ; so that when they are both deliberately considered in thy serious judgement , thou mayst strike thy hand on thy breast , and wonder how many silly soul● could ever be deluded by such Idle Blasphemous and Irrational Impostors .

Muggleton , before he lets fall his showre of ponderous Arguments on the Quakers , salutes them with this Prologue , to give them time to set themselves in a defensive posture against the intended rage . You are much mistaken if you think to deal with 〈◊〉 Prophet , who hath a Commission from God , as you deal with th●● Priests of the Nation ; because you are faln to a more precise kin● of life then they , and have amazed them with your feinged Ligh● within , you must not think to do so by a commissioned Prophet .

Thou sayst that we deny both the Father and the Son , and that we d●ny the same flesh and bones which Jesus suffered death withall upon t●● Cross .

Ibid. 2. You say that we deny he was laid in the grave , rose againe and was seen by the Apostles ; I challenge thee to tell me , where and 〈◊〉 whom these things were denyed by any of us , or else be thy mou●● stopt for ever after .

According to your charge I shall acquaint you with both the pla●●● and persons . The place East Cheap , at a Butchers house , and 〈◊〉 persons which deny'd them were first the Butcher himself , I think his name was Whitpan ; another of them was Fox the younger , who is now both dead and damned to eternity ; another of them was J. Harwood ; as for the other two , I have forgot them , but one of them was a great Lubbardly Fellow , perhaps you may know him better then I.

Pag. 22. Secondly , as for my Cursing : If it were a sin in me , it must certainly be a greater in you , who have nothing but that fictitious light within you , to warrant you from that just imputation which may be justly thrown on your most damnable Doctrine : and that light within , which you so much brag of , is nothing but the Whimsies and Chymera's of your frantick brains ; insomuch that it differs in you , every one sharing more or less , according to their natural bilities .

3. This light within you is nothing but the Capricio's and Levalto's of your mad brains , in as much as it leads you to actions of Sorcery and Witchcraft before you begin that pretended devotion ; so that you often sit as if you were suddenly struck dumb or bewitcht for two hours space before you utter one word again , pag. 7. Do you blind Quakers think , that the repeating of Scripture texts doth prove my Commission a pretended thing ? Then I say , those Jews which were under the Law of Moses might as well have said , that the Apostles commission was but a feigned thing ; and so they did , therefore they persecuted them for it , as you would me if it lay in your power , as it did in theirs . I shall therefore speak a few words to you Sam. Hooton and Will . Shepherd , because you two have committed that unpardonable sin which will never be forgiven either in this world , or in that to come , in speaking evil of the Doctrine and Declaration of the Spirit and Commission we received from the True Personal God without us , even the man Christ Jesus in Glory .