neither do I. Now all the Knowledge that I proffs to know of them, is to yield Obedience unto them, in doing of them, or elie to fuffer the Penalty or Punishment of them, this is the greatest Knowledge I have of them; for if my Innocency nor Money will not deliver me, I muft and will fuffer under it; but fince God hath chofen Jobn Reeve and myfelf to be his last Witneffes of the Spirit, I know the better true Power of a Judge. For as Mofes and Aaron were the two first chofen Witneffes of God, fo likewife John Reeve and myself are the two laft that God will ever chufe by Voice of Words to the hearing of the Ear: And as Aaron was given to be Mofes's Mouth, fo Lodowick Muggleton was given to be John Reeve's Mouth. These Things cannot be known but by Faith, neither can any Man tell that God chofe Mofes and Aaron but by Faith. But if it be objected, that Mofes did Miracles: To that I answer, that there is as much need of Faith to believe that as the other, for what cannot be seen must be believed: So believing that God fpake to John Reeve, and that God gave unto John Reeve a Commiffion by Voice from Heaven, by verbal Words, to the hearing of the Ear, three Mornings together, and that I was given to be his Mouth, and by his Voice did I receive my Commiffion, whereby I am impowered to be a Meffenger and Ambaffador for the great God the Man Chrift Jefus, which is both God and Man, who hath chosen me to be at this Day chief Judge, and hath given me a Commiffion fo to be, as Paul said in his Time, meaning himself, and the reft of his Apoftles: We, faith he, are Ambajadors in Chrift's Stead, befeeching you to be reconciled, and the like: So fay I, that I am an Ambaffador in Christ's Stead, to bless them that are reconcil'd unto the true Faith in Chrift, and to curfe and damn thofe that defpifeth or fpeaketh evil of them whom God hath fent. So that God hath made me chief Judge now, to give Sentence upon Men and Women's fpiritual and eternal Eftate; so that I fhall unfold, as fhort as I can, how I may be faid to be the chief Judge, and that I do go by as certain a Rule as the Judges of the Land do, when they give Judgment according to Law. Thefe two Things I fhall unfold a little more clear than in thofe Letters aforefaid. First, that I am chief Judge in fpiritual Matters I prove thus: Because I do believe and certainly know, by the Revelation of Faith,

Faith, that God did fpeak to John Reeve three Mornings together, distinct Words and Sentences, to the hearing of the Ear, in the Year 1651, February the third, fourth, and fifth, and gave him a Commiffion as he did Moses. And Aaron was given to be Mofes his Mouth, fo was Lodowick Muggleton given to be John Reeve's Mouth, fo that John Reeve being the Chief while he was living, but fince the Burthen or Commiffion of the Lord hath been laid upon me; and as Elifba had a double Portion of Eliah's Spirit; fo have I had a double Portion of Revelation of the Spirit in opening the Scriptures fince John Reeve departed this Life. Alfo God faid, that he had chofen John Reeve his laft Meffenger, and that he had given him Lodowick Muggleton to be his Mouth, and the next Words following, that he had put the two-edged Sword of his Spirit into his Mouth, to pronounce Bleffing and Curfing to Eternity, with many other Words which are in publick, therefore I fhall fay no more of them here; fo that John Reeve being dead, I must needs be chief Judge in thefe Days, neither will God commiffionate any more after me to the World's End, because he did fay that he had chofen us his laft. Now I being his last chofen Meffenger, I muft needs be chief Judge of fpiritual Matters, concerning Men and Women's eternal Estate, and what will become of them after Death. If thefe Things cannot be believed by you Quakers and others, I cannot help that, neither doth this Power which God hath given me any ways dishonor or difthrone Chrift of his Office of being the Judge of the Quick and the Dead: For God doth do much like unto an earthly King; for though a King be the chief Judge of those Kingdoms which he is King of, yet he doth commiffionate fome particular Man to be chief Judge, to be in his Stead: Though the King doth commiffionate many more Judges, yet there is but one Particular in every Kingdom, which is called Lord Chief Juftice of England, Scotland, or Ireland, these being three diftinct Kingdoms, they have three diftinct particular Perfons, which are called Chief Judges, and they are fo by Commiffion from the King, befides all other Judges; yet you fee that the King, though he be Chief Judge of all his Kingdoms, yet he feldom or never acts in Judgment himself,

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but doth leave it to thofe which he hath commiffionated for that Purpose.

So is it with the God of Heaven, though Chrift which is God and Man, be King of Heaven, and chief Judge both in Heaven. and in Earth, in fpiritual and eternal Matters, yet he by Commiffion doth choose fome particular Perfon to be chief Judge in fpiritual Things, as Mofes was chofen chief Judge, and Samuel, and Elijah, and Elisha, and divers other Prophets which did govern Ifrael, that were chief Judges in the Worship of God at that Time, as there must also be one particular Man that must be High-prieft; fo likewife Peter was the chief Apostle, and fo chief Judge; fo that fome particular Man must be Chief in all Places of Truft, whether it be under a earthly King, or under the King of Heaven, yet no Dishonour nor difthroning either of them both. So the God and King of Heaven having chosen John Reeve and myself, he hath commiffionated me to be his Meffenger, Minifter, or Ambaffador in his Stead, to fet Life and Death before Men, even as Mofes did to the People of Ifrael; and as Men and Women do receive it, they fhall have Life eternal abiding in them, and fome can witness it at this Day; and as Men and Women doth defpife the Doctrine of Truth, declared by us the Witneffes of the Spirit, they have the Sentence and Seal of eternal Death abiding in them, and many can witnefs that in themselves, but that they will not; yet fome few to my Knowledge hath been forc'd to do it thorough the Terror of Soul: But however, it is not the Fewness of them that do receive it, nor the Multitude of them that despise it, doth make me question e'er the more the Truth of my Commiffion; and though Chrift be the King of Heaven, and the Judge of the Quick and the Dead at the last Day, and fo he is the chief Judge, in that he can raife Men and Women again, and give the Poffeffion both of eternal Happiness and eternal Mifery, according to that Sentence which the Prophets and Apoftles, and we, the Witneffes of the Spirit, did pass upon them in this Life; fo that we fee that God hath made chief Judges in fpiritual Matters, we do no ways difthrone Christ of his Office, no more than the chief Judge of England doth difthrone the King, in that his Commiffion from the King will bear him out, he judging according to the Tenor of his

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Commiffion, fo is it with me, God having made me chief Judge of Mens fpiritual and eternal Estate, what will become of them after Death, and I going and judging according to the Tenor of my Commiffion, I do no ways dishonour my King, but honour him, in that I am faithful to that Truft which God hath intrufted me with, and I am very well fatisfied in the Performance of it; yet this I would have the Reader to know, though I do own myself the chief Judge in fpiritual Matters, yet this I fay, that every true Believer of this Commiflion is a Judge as well as I myself, and may upon Occfiaons, when they meet with defpifing Spirits, curfe them to Eternity, if their Faith be strong enough to bear them up; fo that they do not doubt. For if any shall pass the Sentence upon another, and doubt, the Influence of that Sentence will return back again to themselves: This I have feen in fome Believers of this Commiffion of the Spirit. Some again of the Believers have been fo ftrong in their Faith, that the Sentence which they have paffed upon defpifing Spirits, it hath had as great Effect upon them it was paffed upon as mine hath, and rather greater; fo that every Believer of this Commiffion, whofe Faith is ftrong, is a Judge as well as I, though not chief Judge: But if Peoples Faith be weak, and not strong enough to bear them out in it, I do not tie them to any fuch Thing; but I could wish they were all fo ftrong that the Devils might be met with every where, where the Knowledge of this Commiffion of the Spirit is known and believed. And as the King of Earth hath many Judges in his Kingdom, yet but one chief Judge, in like Manner is it with God the King of Heaven, he hath many Judges of defpifing Spirits in fpiritual and eternal Things, yet but one chief Judge: And as the Apostles were chief Judges in their Time, yet the Believers of them were Saints, and fo Judges. Therefore it is faid, That the Saints fhould judge the Earth; nay, faith Paul, know you not that we fall judge Angels? What is that? That is, you that are Believers of our Gospel, you shall be made by the Power of Faith to judge wife and prudent Angel-like Men, in the Wifdom of Reafon, which came from the fallen Angel's Seed and Nature, indued with piercing, rational God-like Wifdom, therefore called Angels. Thefe are thofe Angels which the Saints in Paul's Time fhould judge: So it is now with me, I being

chief Judge in these laft Days, I have judged many wife Luciferian Angel-like Spirits within this twelve Years, and fo hath fome of the Believers in this Time judged many of thefe Angels; they may be called Angels, because they are of the SerpentAngel's Seed, and hath the highest Wisdom of Reafon in them which their fallen Eftate will afford, but the weak and fimple Seed of Faith must be their Judges; fo that it may be clear to the Reader that understands, that all true Believers of this Commiffion of the Spirit are Judges of Men and Women's fpiritual and eternal Eftate, what shall become of them after Death, yet none to be chief Judge but myself.

2. The fecond Thing is, to fhew that I do go by as certain a Rule as the Judges of the Land do, when as they give Judgment according to Law: To this I fay, that the Judges of the Land they have a Commiffion firft from the King to be Judges.

2. They have the Book of the Law to be their Guides. 3. They must be Men fuppofed to know the Law.

4. According to the known Law the Judge giveth Sentence and Judgment, either to acquit or condemn by the Law.

So it is with me: Firft, God hath given me a Commiffion to be chief Judge.

2. He hath given me the Book of the Law.

3. He hath given me to know the Law.

4. According to the known Law I do give Sentence and Judgment of Bleffing and Curfing to Eternity.

1. That, I have a Commiffion from God to be chief Judge, that I have proved before; if it cannot be believed I cannot help that.

2. That God hath given the Book of the Law, which is the Scriptures, into my Hand, is as certainly true alfo ; for the Scriptures are given into my Hands, as the Prieft's Office was given unto the Hands of Aaron, yet every Man that read the Scriptures doth think to find eternal Life in them, as Chrift faid to the Jews, and as you Quakers and others doth now a days; but thinking will not ferve Turn, for almost all the World hath no other Affurance of eternal Life but thinking: But it is Knowledge and Faith in the true God that gives certain Affurance of eternal Life, which I know no Quaker hath, or can

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