A REMONSTRANCE FROM THE eternal GOD: DECLARING several spiritual Transactions unto the Parliament, and Common-wealth of ENGLAND,  
UNTO His Excellency, the Lord general cronwell, the council of State, the council of war,  
AND To all that love the second appearing of the Lord Jesus, the onely wise God and everlasting Fathers, blessed for ever.  
By JOHN REEVE, and LODOWICK MUGGLETON, the two last Witnesses and true Prophets imprisoned for the testimony of Jesus Christ in Old Bridewell.  
Printed in the year, 1653.   

The Contents, containing these several Heads.  

FIrst, of our being sent with a Message unto one John Tanee by command from God.  
II. Of our being sent by command from the Lord, with a Message unto one John Robbins.  
III. Of our being moved by the Holy Spirit to deliver a Message unto some Ministers.  
IV. A discovery of the Lords two last spiritual Witnesses that ever shall speak or writ unto Men by Commission from the true God, until time be no more.  
V. Of the Roman Gentiles being Lords of the Scriptures by conquest ever the Jews.  
VI. Of our being moved by the Holy Spirit to command in general all the Ministers about London and Westminster to lay down their Preaching, because the Lord Jesus gave them no Commission to Preach.  
VII. Of our being sent with a Message unto all spiritual Counterfeits about London.  
VIII. Of our being apprehended, and committed to Newgate for our Faith by the Lord Mayor.  
IX. Of the injustice of one Alderman Andrews.  
X. Of our unjust trial, and Sentence against us for our faith in God, by the Recorder steel and the London Jury, about the 15. of October 1653.  
XI. Of our humble Requests in the behalf of the chosen of God, unto all the chief powers of England.    

Right Honourable, and well-beloved, in the year, 1651.  
BY virtue of a Commission which we received by voice of words from Heaven, through the glorious mouth of the Lord Jesus Christ, the only true God and everlasting Father: The lord upon pain of eternal death commanded us to deliver these Messages following: First, we were directed to go to one John Tanee to convince him of error, which was exceeding great, in obedience to which command we accordingly went unto him, who first affirmed that there was never any personal God; sure he forgot that saying of the Apostle Thomas, who when he had handled the blessed body of the Lord Jesus, he called him his Lord and his God: there are divers other places in holy writ that clearly prove the man Jesus to bee the only God: Likewise he affirmed, that God could not possibly be confined into the womb of the Virgin; I am sure also that if ever he did red these Scriptures, he wanted faith to believe them, where it is written, Is there any thing too hard for God? with God all things are possible: he further said, that that could not bee a God that suffered death, and after that was closed in a Tomb three daies and three nights: I am certain he knows nothing of these Scriptures, where it is written, I am he that was dead and am alive, and behold I live for evermore, and have the keys of hell and death. again, it is written, that he poured out his soul unto death: and that Believers are redeemed by the blood of God: that is, by the life, soul, or spirit of God; because the life, or soul, or spirit lieth in the blood, as it is written: Likewise it was very strange to this John Tanee that God should die, and by his own power raise himself from death to life, and personally ascend into that place of immortal glory beyond the stars, where the persons of holy Angels are resident.  
Sure I am, this man believeth no place of Scripture that proveth the power of that God the Man Jesus, who said to the Jews, I have power to lay down my life, and I have power to take it up again: Also it is written, What and if you shall see the son of Man ascend from whence he came? also he was scene to ascend up by above an hundred Disciples at one time, where it was said by two men in white, why stand ye gazing here? the same Jesus which ye see ascend shall in like manner come again So that of this Man Jesus the onely Lord of life, which the Scriptures throughout bear witness unto, John Tance knew nothing.  
But although John Tantes God which he professed bee an infinite Spirit, without any personal substance; yet he affirmed, that he had a Commission from his bodilesse God, to led the Nation of the Jews unto Jerusalem to make them the onely happy people: but this wee know from that God that sent us, that his God, and himself, and his design must all perish to eternity; for this John Tanee is the last great mystery Babylon, of that lying Notion of the Ranters, that ever shall speak or writ against that spiritual Mystery of the immortal God clothing himself with flesh in the person of a man, sin only excepted.  
Moreover, we declare from our God, that this John Tance is the Prince and head of that Atheistical lye held forth by all filthy Sodomitical Ranters, which are now in the world: these are those spoken of by the Apostle Paul that were to fall away from the faith, utterly denying the Lord Jesus and the Holy Scriptures, a little before the coming of the great God: these are those cursed Children of that Dragon Devil Kaine, who say light and darkness are both one, good and evil are both one; so likewise like blaspheming Reprobates as they are, they say that God and devil are both one, from which hellish tenant, with greediness they act unrighteousness, sporting themselves in all fleshly filthiness, as the people of sodom and Gomorrah did, that they may justly bee damned in themselves at the great day of the Lord, because they charged God with all their folly, who as it is written is of so pure a nature, that he can neither be tempted, nor tempt any man to evil: And so much for all ungodly Ranters that despise a personal God, and John Tanee their King.  
The second Message that wee were sent withall by command from God, was to one John Robbins then in the new prison, which was to pronounce a sentence of eternal death upon him for his cruelty towards men, and his blasphemy against the Lord Jesus Christ, for this John Robbins is the last great Antichrist, or man of sin, that was to appear to fulfil that Scripture, spoken of by Paul in 2 Thess. where it is written, who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped, so that he as God, sitteth in the Temple of God, showing himself that he is God.  
For this John Robbins by many people was honoured as a God, for they fell upon their faces at his Feet, and worshipped him, calling him their Lord and their God: likewise, he was prayed unto as unto a God: moreover, he gave them a Law, commanding them not to mention the name of any other God, but him only; and if they disobeyed his laws, by his witchcraft power he plagued their spirits and bodies, in the strangest manner that ever was seen, of which we were eye-witnesses; but after the sentence of death, from the Lord Jesus through our mouths was declared against this Prince of Divels, in this age; he was constrained about the space of two months after to dis-owne his assumed Godhead, through which many were deceived by him, and some brought in their whole Estates unto him, believing on him as their God and only Saviour, unto whom he promised to make the prison doors fly open, and safely conduct them through the Seas into the City of Jerusalem, and there make them eternally happy.  
But this cursed design came to a sudden conclusion as is beforesaid, which the Magistrates power could not accomplish, though they imprisoned him, yet after he had heard the sentence of death denounced against him, for his taking the glory of God to himself, he spake these words and no more, saying, it is finished, the Lords will bee done: and so much concerning John Robbins, who was the King and chief head of all the false Christs, and false Prophets, and Prophetesses, and counterfeit Virgin Mary's, with all other withchcraft appearances, whether Quakers, or Shakers, or whatsoever they be, that go under the notion of spiritual power from God at this day.  
After the delivering of these two messages, by virtue of our Commission, we were moved by the spirit of Jesus Christ to deliver a Message unto some Ministers, to make known unto them, that they have no Commission from God to preach unto the people, but they have taken up a Commission from the letter of the Scripture to preach, and from men onely, which some of them confessed to be true, but some of them that were puffed up with fleshly honour and profit through their Ministry, they would not aclowledge they had no Commission from God to preach, although they could not give a positive answer to any spiritual question to prove themselves Ministers by Commission from the Spirit of Jesus Christ.  
For this we know from the Lord, that the sacred Scriptures were spoken by holy Prophets and Apostles, as they were inspired by the Holy Spirit, so did they speak: therefore none can interpret the holy Scriptures that are so mysterious, according to the mind of God, except he is endued with the infallible spirit of inspiration, as they were that spake the Scriptures; and he that is endued with that blessed spirit hath the life& power of the holy Scriptures shining through his spirit and body, having life eternal abiding in him, and he knows that in the resurrection of the spirits and bodies out of the dust, of all mankind at the last day, he shall visibly enjoy a personal glory in immortality, in that everlasting kingdom of the undefiled Heavens and Earth above the stars, where the glorious person of God, and holy Angels are resident: this is that place of blessedness that is utterly hide from the wise and prudent men of this world; but prepared for those men that spake the holy Scriptures, and those only that yield obedience unto the holy Spirit of Iesus Christ, the onely God all their dayes: and so much concerning that Message unto some of the Ministers of God so called.  
The next thing we shall declare unto you from the Lord is this, that wee two only are the last men that ever shal speak or writ by Commission from the true God, unto the powers and people, whilst this world endureth; therefore whoever lives to see an end of us, shall suddenly see the dissolution of this vain world, and all the glory thereof; but the day and hour is known only unto Iesus Christ the everlasting Father: Moreover, this we know also, that we two are the last men that ever God will give such heavenly understanding of his divine person any more: for we are those two spiritual Witnesses prophesied of by John in Rev. 11. who to fulfil the Scriptures were appointed to appear in this blind age, to make known unto the Elect a little of that unspeakable spiritual mystery of the immortal God and alone eternal Father, clothing himself with flesh in the person of a man as beforesaid: likewise we know that the only true God the Man Iesus upon the Throne of Glory, to his everlasting praive be it spoken, he hath by his blessed Spirit revealed unto us more spiritual understanding of that glorious mystery concerning himself, then ever was, is, or shall be revealed unto men, until time bee swallowed up into eternity, and without the knowledge of this mystery in some measure, no man can possibly enjoy any true peace unto his soul.  
again, wee declare by voice and inspiration from God that wee are the conclusion of this mystery which God made known at the first unto Adam, in that promise unto him, that the seed of the woman should break the serpents head: revealing also by his blessed Spirit of it to his chosen from thence until Moses and the Prophets, who spake much of this mystery to the Elect in their times, and from thence to the birth of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ, the holy Mystery itself, when Jehovah the everlasting Father in the time of the Law, became a Son Iesus in the time of the Gospel, yea, and a Servant to his Elect Creatures: and from thence to the commission of the Apostles, whose preaching was chiefly of this mystery, because in the knowledge of it only, is the assurance of everlasting life: but as for this Commission of the Apostles it continued about 300 years, before it was by the ten persecutions persecuted quiter out of the world.  
Then after the Roman Gentiles by the sword, to fulfil the words of Christ, had conquered the Nation of the Jews, they took possession of the Letter of the Scripture, which is the Court with out the Temple, spoken of by John in Rev. 11. by which conquest over the Iewes, they have been Lords over the Letter of the Scripture unto this day, ordaining Ministers of their own to bee the Interpreters of the Scriptures, keeping the people in perpetual bondage, making such merchandise of them, that they have lived like Princes by them: Oh I how profitable have these Scriptures been to Reprobate Preachers?  
again, but as for the spirit of life within the holy Temple, God hath reserved it to himself, and he gives it to his elect Jews and Gentiles, from whence they have power within them to obey the letter without them; but the Reprobate worshippeth the letter and his own inventions for his God, but he hath no power from the holy Spirit within the Temple, to yield obedience to the letter without, so much honoured by his lips; and this is the cause in men, why so many must suffer the vengeance of eternal death, because they take upon them to be the Ministers of God and interpreters of the sacred Scriptures, without a Commission from God, they being utterly ignorant of his infallible Spirit, the which blessed Spirit doth enable a man to declare to the sensible understanding of men what the person of God is, and his divine nature; and what the persons of holy Angels are, and their natures, and what the person of the devil was before his fall, and what his person is and shall bee to eternity; and in what condition Adam was created in, and how the came to fall; also what the glory of Heaven is, and the residence of it to eternity; and what Hell and eternal death is, and the place of it to eternity. Moreover we declare from our God, that no man in the world at this time doth clearly understand any one of these six spiritual things, but we two onely, whom the Lord hath sent to declare them unto his chosen ones, appointed unto eternal life: and so much for that truth.  
Then immediately after this there came many people unto us, most of them pretending to know what the Lord had spoken unto us, unto whom we gave a full account, with which many seemed well satisfied: but some of them being wise in their conceits did presume to call our Commission from Iesus Christ, blasphemy, and a delusion of the devil, and such like; for the which in obedience to the command of our God, wee did pronounce them eternally damned for their blasphemy against the Holy Spirit that sent us: And after this manner we continued about the space of one whole year and a quarter, declaring the prerogative power and pleasure of our God, in which time many ignorant blasphemers being moved with envy, they brought themselves under an eternal curse: and so much for that truth.  
After this we were moved by the Holy Spirit that sent us, to command in general the eminent Ministers( in the account of the people, about London and Westminster) to lay down their ministry, because there is not a man of them as before said, hath the spirit of inspiration to declare unto the people, what the true God is, that they may bee saved from the wrath to come; wherefore for want of the gift of the Holy Spirit, they teach the people a false God, a false heaven, a false devil, and a false hell: and this is the cause that the people remain in darkness, acting all cruelty one towards another, dying in their sins, and so consequently must bee eternally damned: for we that are the Lords Messengers unto whom God hath given the infallible spirit, do certainly know, that all the Priests, Ministers, or Speakers to the people, in the world, are false and vain, both deceivers of themselves, and of those that love to be deceived by them; therefore they teach the people an immaginary God, which they call an infinite Spirit, not having any bodily substance: Thus instead of instructing the people in true understanding of a spiritual personal God, which to know is life eternal, they teach the people a God of words only: So likewise they teach the people an immaginary devil also, persuading them that the devil is an invisible spirit without a bodily substance, walking, or flying too and fro in the air; and they say this immaginary evil spirit, or devil is he that tempteth all men to that wickedness committed by them: thus they teach the people a devil that is not, nor ever was, like unto the rest of their false and lying tenants: as for this truth which is of a transcendent excellency, in general they are utterly ignorant of it; that is, that no invisible spirit, neither of God, Angels, nor Men, can possible have any living being, without a body or person, nor never had: Thus the people are kept from the knowledge of the true God, and from the knowledge of the right devil; they not thinking in the least, that there is no other devil since the fall of Adam, but a mans own spirit of unclean reason, and wicked imagination: therefore it is written, that all the imaginations of mans heart are evil, and onely evil, and continually evil: what is that but the devil, that hath nothing in it but evil. again, it is written, not that which goeth into the belly defileth a man, but that which cometh out of the man; out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, and such like. again, it is written, when a man is tempted to evil, he is drawn aside of his own lust: Thus it is clear to those that see by the eye of faith, that that devil so much spoken of in holy Writ, is that unsatiable lust, naturally arising from that spirit of unclean reason, and wicked imagination dwelling in the body of man, which tempts wicked men to all unrighteousness; wherefore from the Lord wee counsel you to watch that devil within you, and our souls for yours, you shall never bee troubled with any invisible devil without you; for indeed there was never any such evil spirit, or bodiless devil in the air, as ignorant men have for a long season taught.  
Again, if men and women were convinced, that there are no other Devils but their own spirits, until they are born again by the spirit of Jesus Christ, they would then be afraid to act wickedness one towards another, seeing there is nothing to bee eternally damned, but that which acteth unrighteousness: and there is nothing committeth wickedness but men and women; without all controversy since the fall of man, there are no other Devils but men and women only, so likewise as aforesaid, they must needs teach a false heaven and a false hell, that know neither God nor devil. Again as for the persons of holy Angels, they know nothing of them, nor what condition Adam was created in, or how he came to lose his first estate, onely like children, they make mention of a God, and of Angels, and of a heaven, and of a devil, and of a Hell; but as for the true understanding of these spiritual things and places, they know certainly no more of them than Babes: And so much for all false Priests, Ministers, or Speakers in this world, who are Ministers of the Letter, and by the will of Man; but are not Ministers of the Spirit, by the will of God, and must all perish to eternity, that knows or hearts of the truths of God declared by us, and yet wilfully disobey the commission of the Lord in us  
again, the next thing we shall remonstrate unto you is this, that there was a necessity that God to vindicate his own glory, should give unto us, or some other men, a Commission to go forth to the world, because within these twelve yeers there have been so many in this Land, that have come in their own names, calling themselves Christs, and Prophets, and Virgin Maries, and such like; upon these several sorts which arose to fulfil the Scriptures, we have pronounced the sentence of eternal death, for their robbing God of his glory, who will not give his glory to another, they assuming the titles of God to themselves, yet they lived like Divels as they are, in all carnal and unnatural lusts: Moreover, although lately there hath appeared so many spiritual counterfeits to fulfil the Scriptures, which say, you shall know them by their fruits: yet in general the people are so blind, because their own deeds are evil, that they cannot discern the fruits of these wicked men whether they be good or evil: likewise there are but very few, in comparison of the multitude, that know whether there hath appeared any of these figtrees whose fruits are leaves only; notwithstanding the lying Priests before their eyes attain to great Estates through their skilful merchandizing of the sacred Scriptures: but know this from the Lord, both Powers and People, for you shall know it either for your weal or woe, that God hath chosen us two only to be the spiritual Teachers of his everlasting Gospel, and hath given us power to work all righteousness, and hath given us this great power to pronounce his sentence of eternal death upon all spiritual Counterfeits, and deceiving Scripture Merchants; and it is irrevokable, as sure as there is a God.  
again, if men that counterfeit Commissions from Kings, or States, seldom find mercy, what think you then will become of all those that counterfeit Commissions from the Lord of Heaven and Earth, and Creator of all powers? And so much for all Spiritual Counterfeits, and Scripture lamb-like Wolves, that preach in their own names, or by a commission from man, for want of a commission from the man Iesus the onely wise God and alone Everlasting Father.  
Then after wee had made it appear to many of the Ministers, that they have no commission from God to preach; and the sentence of death being denounced against them: for their despising to obey the message of the Lord, some of them sent their disciples unto us who being of their own persecuting spirits they came under the sentence of death also: which occasioned the people to come unto us very much for the space of the three monthes following, many blaspheming against the holy Spirit that sent us ●●me under the same curse. Thus wee continued in obedience to our commission declaring the counsels of God unto men, until about the twelfth of September 1653. at which time some of our persecutors which were under the sentence accompanied with the Marshals men with a warrant took us out of our house and brought us before Alderman Fouke then Lord Maior, who after he had examined us he despised the holy spirit and person of the Lord Iesus that sent us and so came under the sentence of death with our Iudas accusers for his cursed blasphemy against the Lord Iesus Christ, and his blessed spirit that sent us. And for his unjust committing us to the common goal of Newgate to try us by the civill Law who did not nor cannot break any civill Law of the Common wealth of England. This is the first magistrate that brought himself to public shane besides an eternal curse which he shall not escape in the day of the Lords vengeance, for his persecuting of the Messengers of the Lord Jesus, and for his meddling with that which in the least belongs not to any civill Magistrate; for the duty of the Magistrate is to be skilful in the civill laws of the Land, and if they find any men to wrong one another in word or dead contrary to those Laws, then impartially ought they to execute Justice between man and man; but they have no Authority to judge us, that are Messengers and Prophets sent from God, who are kept by the Power of God, so innocent from the breach of any civill laws of men, that wee are made examples in the fulfilling of them to the whole world.  
Moreover, we declare from the Lord, that no civill Magistrate ought to call any man to account for his faith concerning God, or the sacred Scriptures, because there is not a Magistrate in the world at this time, that doth clearly understand what the true God is, or the truth of holy writ: yet this Magistrate to fulfil that prophesy in the 11. of the Revelation, concerning his making war with the Witnesses, must needs walk in his Brother Pilates steps, who condemned the Lord of all life, although his conscience made him say, that he saw nothing in him worthy of death or blame: wherefore as sure as Pilate must suffer the vengeance of eternal death, because he preferred his honour among men of more value, then a good conscience towards God: so likewise this Magistrate Alderman Fouke, for his unjust committing of us to prison, who are the Lords Messengers, by his prerogative will, for his honours sake, although his conscience  told him that wee had not broken any of the civill Laws of England: therefore the Lord by us his Messtengers hath set a mark of reprobation upon him, as the Lord marked his Father Kaine, which shall remain with him to all eternity: And so much for that Reprobate Angel, Alderman Fonke, and our Antichristian Accusers.  
The next thing we shall remonstrate unto you, is concerning one Alderman Andrews, who in his Majoralty persecuted one captain Norwood for blasphemy, which no Magistrate ought to do as beforesaid; because the Lord Jesus from Heaven gave him no Commission to bee the judge of mens consciences on earth, concerning blasphemy against God and the sacred Scriptures; for you may know, that the civill Law instructs no man in the knowledge of a spiritual personal God, nor gives him understanding to interpret holy writ, that he might know what is blasphemy against God: yet notwithstanding, this Alderman about the time of our unjust trial for our Faith, caused my two daughters( being but young) to come before him, and he put one of them to her oath, that she should confess unto him whatever he should ask of her: Ye powers of England, wee appeal unto you whether this Alderman acted by your Law, or by his own will? likewise he caused my house to be preached at the same time for books, into which he is not worthy to look: wherefore for his blaspheamous speeches unto one Mr. L●ader a New-England Merchant, against the Holy Spirit that inspired us to writ those heav●nly books, for the consolation of the blessed, in obedience to our Commission that wee received by voice of words from Heaven, we pronounce him cursed and damned soul and body to all eternity: This will be that second Reprobate Angels portion in the day of the Lord Jesus, and the portion of all civill Magistrates that persecute men for their consciences, which have not broken their civill laws: O ye despisers of true prophesy, and persecutors of innocent men, wonder and perish! for so did your forefathers to the holy Prophets and Apostles in their time: And so much for that persecutor, Alderman Andrews.  
The next thing we shall remonstrate unto your Honours, will bee the unjust practise of the Recorder steel, and the London Jury at the Sessions time in the Old-Bayly, notwithstanding we gave them a clear demonstration from the Lord Jesus, before our trial, that they have no Commission from Heaven to judge men, or try men for their faith concerning God and the sacred Scriptures: but as aforesaid, they ought to be wise, and learned in the civill laws of the Common wealth of England, and to execute equal justice unto all men; and in so doing they may enjoy the righteousness of the Law and live in peace all their dayes: Is it not a strange thing that most Magistrates cannot be contented with their earthly Authority and honour they are invested withall; but without a Commission from God presumptuously they will sit upon his Throne and rob him of his glory, by taking upon them to judge the Prophets of the Lord, and they will be the Judges of blasphemy against God, and yet they know not what the true God is, or whether there is any God at all, but perishing nature onely? and they will be the Judges of the mind of God in the sacred Scriptures, and yet they know not whether those spiritual Test●ments are the wisdom of the immortal God, or the wisdom of mortal men, which if they had faith to believe that holy writ to bee the wisdom of Jesus Christ, then would they yield obedience to his blessed spirit, which teacheth men to suffer persecution for the name of Christ, but not to persecute any man for his faith, but to show mercy to their greatest enemies, but quiter contrary to the everlasting Gospel of following peace with all men, and holinesse, without which no man shall see the Lord to his comfort: The Recorder and the Jury did pronounce us to be blasphemers, for our declaring the Man Iesus that died at Jernsalem, and arose from death to life by his own power, to be the only God and everlasting Father: for this glorious truths sake, which they call blasphemy, they have committed us to Old-Bridewell, there to remain six months without bail or maine-prize: O ye Parliament and Powers of England! if there bee a man amongst you that hath any light of the spirit of Iesus Christ within you, you must needs aclowledge this sentence against us to be contrary to all your civil laws, and all your engagements you were pleased to make with your Brethren the free-born people of England, and contrary to all equity and conscience in those men that have any true hope of salvation at the appearing of Iesus Christ, who will suddenly come in flaming fire, with his ten thousands of Saints to recompense vengeance upon the souls and bodies of all persecutors of conscience, both great and small, and upon all men that know not God, nor obey the Gospel of Iesus Christ; wherefore because the Recorder of London and the jury beforesaid did rob Iesus Christ of his glory, and like Divels as they are, did condemn the Lord of life that sent us, by blaspheming against his holy Spirit, in obedience to the Commission we have received from the glorious mouth of the everliving God, from the presence of the Lord Iesus Christ, Elect men and Angels, wee pronounce the Recorder and the jury cursed and damned souls and bodies to all eternity: and so much for our unjust trial, and the just sentence of Iesus Christ upon the third Reprobate Angel and his Brethren, those inferior dark Angels who esteemed more of the honour of a man appoynted to perish, than the glory of God and their own eternal salvation,  
Thus according to truth, we have given your honours a brief description of the Commission of the true God committed to our charge, with a Remonstrance of those spiritual transactions we have been carried through by the power of our God, having often been in danger of our lives, by unreasonable men, for his Name sake, because they could not bear this sharp Commission which the Lord put upon us the third, fourth, and fifth dayes of Feb●uary, 1651.  
And now in the last place, in the Name and power of our Lord jesu● Christ that sent us, we shall writ a few lines unto all your Honours serious considerations by way of recital of your engaging your lives, and liberties, and honours, and all that is dear unto you, unto your Brethren the free born people of England, that they should not onely enjoy their civill liberties, but the liberty of their Consciences also towards God, which is of more value then this whole world: upon this account your Brethren did not only writ engagements with you, but they did freely venture their lives and all that was dear unto them against the common Enemy, for the preservation of your persons and posterities, they not doubting in the least of your faithfulness towards them, that were so faithful towards you concerning their liberties, but especially the liberty of their consciences, which belongs not to man to judge, but to God only that knows the heart● you know that the Scripture saith, that Iesus Christ is the only judge both of quick and dead: Therefore we hope you will allow him also to be the alone judge of all mens faith concerning God and the sacred Scriptures: which if you grant him this his royal p●erogative, then you will come to understand that that Magistrate that takes upon him to sentence men for their faith concerning God and the sacred Scriptures, he asurp●th Gods Throne, and robs him of his glory, and so brings upon himself an eternal curse.  
again, wee declare from the Holy Spirit that 〈◇〉, that if you per●orme your Covenant to your B●ethren concerning their consciences towards God and the holy Scriptures, then you shall tread all the common ●●emies ●f this Nation under your feet both by Sea and Land for ever: let all the ●●se-men in the Nation gainsay what we have written, you shall find them 〈◇〉 a Liars, if you make trial of this counsel of the Lords, sent unto you by 〈◇〉 is last Messengers; for you know that it was the Ecclesiast●●ll Tyran●●●f the Bishops Courtsover mens consciences, which was the ●●ef thing 〈◇〉 ●rovoked the religious, conscientious men more faithfully then others, courageously to fight your hottest battels, for the liberty of their consciences, many hundreds of them being slain upon this account, leaving their Wives and Children in a mourning condition behind them: Also you know that the Synod sate about four years in an ecclesiastical manner to prove themselves Jure Divino: but in the end they were all found to be but Jure Humano: that is, they were manifested not to be the Ministers of God, but ordained of men only: Thus this Synod of young Bishops striving to sit in the old Bishops tyrannicall chair, being discovered, they were soon dissolved.  
Wherefore O ye powers of England, seeing you, and the people for liberty of conscience, did join together as one man, and have conquered all ●cclesiasticall Tyrants and Monsters of men, we beseech you let your Bre●hren the free-born people enjoy the liberty of their conscience which they have bought at so dear a rate, and suffer not this ecclesiastical Tyranny to ●eigne in the civill Magistrate, which you have fought against in those that were established from the Kings power in their ecclesiastical Tyranny by a Law, which if you do establish again by a Law, you can never sit upon the Throne in safety, nor enjoy the peace of your consciences, which is of ●ore valu then this whole World; for we that are the Lords Messengers, what ever we suffer, wee must tell you( what ever cursed men tell you to the contrary) that persecution of conscience is the great sin of Rebellion against God, which is as the sin of Witchraft: wherefore that Magistrate which persecutes men for their faith concerning God and the Scriptures, commits that unpardonable sin against the Holy Spirit, which can never bee repented of, and so consequently must perish eternally, as sure as God is God: Therefore O ye Powers of England! be wise and learned, and quit your s●lvs like wise Councellors, by delivering yourselves from that spiritual Babylonish yoke of persecuting men for their faith, and harken no more to the cunning Achitophels, and lying Trenchar-Chaplaines of this perishing world; but harken to the voice of Jesus Christ within you, who is the onely true God, and alone Minister and councillor by his holy Spirit of all men appointed to Salvation; then may you clearly distinguish between the things that are Casars and the things that are Gods.  
Thus we being confident, that if the Lord Jesus that sent us have deligh● in any of your persons, then after the perusal hereof you will never enj●● any ●●e peace more, until you have set at liberty all the prisoners in y●● dominions, that suffer purely for their conscience towards God, they 〈◇〉 being guilty of the brea●h of the civill laws of the Parliament and 〈◇〉 mon-w●●th of England, and in so doing, your Honours Names th●● made the inst●ument thereof, shall refresh or heal the wounds of 〈◇〉 the chosen of God living in your territories, like unto the Balm of Gilead, and you shall be renowned unto the ends of the Earth, above all the Princes in the world: But on the contrary, if you are all left to the hardness of your own hearts, as King pharaoh was, to join with the persecutors of the little ones of Iesus Christ beforesaid, it had been better for you that you had never been born, or that a millstone were hanged about your necks, and that you were all cast into the midst of the sea: These words of Truth were spoken by him that cannot lye, who hath sent us that are his last M●ssengers to give you notice whilst you have time, of his sudden appearing to judge both quick and dead: so desiring our God, if it bee his good pleasure, to make your spirits obedient unto this spiritual Message of his, we remain,  
Your Honours to command, in all righteousness, till death.  
John Reeve and Lodowick Muggleton, in opposition of all gainsayers in the World, are made able, from the Spirit of Jesus Christ that sent us clearly by the sacred Scriptures to remonstrate and prove, that the Man Jesus now glorified, was, and is the onely God and Father from eternity to eternity, and that he is the alone Creator of all things, or forms that are made in both worlds, and this Jesus our blessed Lord and Saviour hath sent us, for this very end and purpose, to pronounce all those that receive this divine Truth, the blessed of the Lord to eternity, and all those that despise this saving Truth, to declare them from the Lord cursed to eternity.  
FINIS.