A Letter presented unto Alderman Fouke, Lord Mayor of London, from the two Witnesses and Prisoners of Jesus Christ, in Newgate, as an eternal witness unto him; with a Declaration unto the Recorder Steel, and the Lord Chief Justice Rowles, with the whole Bench and Jury; and in general unto all Civil Magistrates and Juries in the World. Iohn Reeve, and Lodowick Muggleton, the two last Spiritual Witnesses, and true Prophets, and only Ministers of the everlasting gospel, by Commission from the holy Spirit of the true God, the Lord Jesus Christ, God and man, in one Person, blessed to all Eternity.
BY vertue of our Commission received by voyce of words from the glorious mouth of the onely true God upon the Throne of Glory the Lord Iesus Christ; we shall make manifest unto men, what the foundation is of the power of the Civil Magistrate, and that he ought not to meddle with spiritual things, which God hath reserved himself, not allowing any man to touch them upon pain of eternal death, but those onely by him anointed for that purpose: First, we declare that the Scriptures were given by Inspiration of the Holy Spirit; therefore except the Mag [...] strates were inspired with the same Spirit as those that speak the Scriptures, they ought not to judge any man by them, but ought rather to yield obedience themselves unto Holy Writ, or they must perish to eternity. Again, we declare from the Holy [Page 2]Spirit, that since God became flesh, no Civil Magistrate hath any Authority from above to bee the Judge of any mans faith, because it is a spiritual invisible gift from God, that gives a man assurance of everlasting life; but the Magistrates Authority is to judge the Civil Lawes of the Land, which is grounded onely upon Reason; but the things of Eternity are from God, who is from Eternity to Eternity, therefore Faith is the Evidence of things hoped for, and reason is judge of things that are visible: As for you that are skilful in the Law of Reason, as soon as you hear an Action to be a breach of the Law, you understand presently what punishment belongs to the Fact; therefore the Apostle saith, the Magistrate is the Minister of God for good to them that do well, and a terrour to the evil doer: Again, wee declare from the Lord, that no Magistrate by his power from the Law of Reason, ought to usurp the Law of Faith into his Authority, because the Law of Reason is utterly ignorant of the Law of Faith, the one being carnal, and the other being spiritual; therefore what Magistrate soever takes upon him to be the judge of us, who are the Messengers of Faith in the true God, they are enemies to the Lord Jesus Christ, and shall surely perish to eternity: Again, from the Lord Jesus wee forewarn you that are Magistrates, before it is too late, that you tread not in the Lord Mayors steps, presumptuously to take upon you to judge this Commission of the two edged sword of God put into our mouths, which if you are left so to do, it will cut you in sunder from the [Page 3]presence of our God to all eternity; for our God is a consuming fire, who did pronounce us cursed to eternity, had we not obeyed his voyce; therefore we perfectly know who ever is left great or small to speak evil of this Commission, which God hath put unto us, by calling it blasphemy, delusion, a devil, or lie, in so doing, they have sinned against the Holy Ghost, and must perish soul and body from the presence of our God, Elect men, and Angels, to all eternity; for God hath chosen us two onely, and hath put the two edged sword of his Spirit into our mouths, as beforesaid, that whom we are made to pronounce blessed, are blessed to eternity, and whom we are made to pronounce cursed, are cursed to eternity, and this power no mortal can take out of our hands, neither will our God any more give such power unto men whilst this World endures: Therefore you that are Judges of this Earth, be wise and learned and meddle with those things which you know in this World onely, and call not your God to account at your bar; for who ever arraigneth a Prophet at his Judgement Seat, it is all one as arraigning his God, for a Prophet commeth in the name and power of his God; therefore he that despiseth the Prophet, despiseth him that sent him. Again, we declare from the Lord Jesus, if any Magistrate pretends to be a Preacher of the Gospel, be having no Commission from our God so to do; if he preach any more after we forbid him, then we have full power to pronounce the sentence of eternal death upon him, and it is so unrevocable: Again, we [Page 4]declare from the Lord Jesus, that the cause why so many Magistrates and Ministers must suffer the vengeance of eternal death, is because with one consent they fight against the true Messengers of God, with the temporal Law invested upon them by men: Again, woe would have been unto us, if wee had come in our own name; but wee know that God sent us, as sure as he sent Moses, the Prophets, and the Apostles, and that great Authority, as to be Judges of blasphemy against the Holy Ghost, wee onely are invested withal: Wherefore you Magistrates that are not yet under this sentence of eternal death from the Lord Jesus, our counsel is, if you desire blessedness in the life to come, that you would not meddle to be the Judges of spiritual things, knowing you have no Commission from the Lord; remember the counsel of Caiphas the High Priest, if it be possible, and prevent the Lord Mayors eternal curse.
THe 15. of September, 1653. you may remember by vertue of your Warrant wee were brought before you, not being guilty of the breach of any civil Law, the man Jesus our onely God, elect men and Angels, will bear us witness too: but we being accused of words only in relation to a Commission received from our God by voice from Heaven; it was your pleasure to commit us unto Newgate, as the only offenders in this world, notwithstanding I gave you a full account of the Lord Jesus speaking unto me by voice [Page 5]of words, three morning together, commanding me to deliver this his wonderful and strange message unto Magistrates, Ministers, and people, concerning his blessing or cursing them to eternity, according to their obedience or disobedience unto this dreadful message of the Lord: and Sir, you may remember that I told you, that I desired the Lord Iesus that I might not be his messenger of such sharp tidings unto men; and but for this my desire the Lord Iesus by voyce of words did say, that my body should be my hell, and my spirit should be the Devil that should torment to eternity, if I did not obey his command, in declaring his pleasure unto men: and who was I, poor mortal clay, that I should withstand the great and glorious Potter of Heaven and Earth, the Lord Iesus Christ my God alone blessed to all eternity?
Again, Sir, You may remember, you did aske us divers questions concerning our God, and our answer un [...]o some of your questions were judged as blasphemy; but we told you that you had no Commission from our God to be the judge of spiritual things, that are eternal in the world to come; but you by Commission from m [...]n are the judge of temporal things, onely in this perising world: and we onely are the judges, of spiritual things, that are eternal in the world to come, by a Commission from the Throne of Glory, from the glorious mouth of our Lord Iesus Christ.
Sir, if there were any sparke of heavenly light shining in your understanding from the Holy Spirit of Christ Iesus, then you should know in due time [Page 6]that what I have been made to write in this paper, is as true as God is Truth; but now it is too late, your time is past, because my God hath no delight in your person, therefore he hath left you, as he did King Saul, to commit that unpardonable sinne against the Holy Ghost, or Spirit that sent us: First, by your denying the Lord Jesus to be the only God: Secondly, you may remember, like a cursed Blasphemer against the Lord Jesus Christ, God and Man in one person blessed to eternity, you denyed that ever the eternal God became flesh, man, or creature, or that God is in the person of a man at this time in Heaven or Glory.
Again, Sir, you may remember when you were questioned by us, what your God was; your answer was, that he is an infinite Spirit; but you could not describe him to be in any essential form or person: Truly I doe not marvel at your ignorance, because you are the seed of the Serpent Reprobate Angel that was cast out of Heaven, reserved in Chaines of darkness or unbeliefe, that you may worship a God of words onely, instead of the true personal God, untill the Judgement of the great Day: my God, the Man Iesus in glory hath given you your portion already, the penny of this world, your soules chiefe delight: make your life that is put a moment as pleasant as possible you can, seeing it is all the Heaven you are like to enjoy, as sure as there is a God.
Again, Sir, this I know, by revelation from the Holy Spirit, that in the world to come, you shall never see the glorious face of our God the Man [Page 7]Iesus: because before many Witnesses you said that God hath no face at all. Sir, once more unto your own person, because you have blasphemed against the glorious person of our onely wise God the Man Iesus, and against the Sacred Scriptures that renders all glory from elect men and Angels to him alone, both in Heaven and in Earth, and against the Holy Spirit that sent us, and for your unjust committing of us unto your prison of Hell, to satisfie the malice of cursed accusers of your spirit, that you might prevent (if it were possible) the very purpose of God: Wherefore in obedience unto our Commission received from the Holy Spirit, from the presence of our only wise God and everlasting Father, the Man Iesus, elect men and Angels, we pronounce you cursed and dammed soul and body to eternity: this is a seale unto you from the Lord Iesus, and a warning unto all persecuting spirits; until the great and notable Day of the eternal vengeance of my God, then shall your own body be your prison of Hell, and your Angelical proud and envious spirit shall be the Divel that shall burn within your body more intolerable then any natural fire in this World, and your body shall burn more fiery then any natural brimstone; your spirit and body being barr'd close prisoners together in utter darkness, never seeing the face of God, men, or Angels, nor your own face or person, for everlasting, as aforesaid.