the Holy Spirit brought into my mind that scripture of Aaron given unto Moses. Again, the Lord spake unto me these words, saying, I have put the twoedged sword of my spirit into thy mouth, that whoever I pronounce blessed through thy mouth, is blessed to eternity; and whoever I pronounce cursed through thy mouth, is cursed to eternity. When I heard these words, my spirit desired the Lord, that I might not be his dreadful messenger. For indeed I thought upon the delivering of so sad an unexpected message unto men, I should immediately have been torn in pieces. Again the Lord spake unto me these words, saying, if thou dost not obey my voice, and go wherever I send thee to deliver my message, thy body shall be thy hell, and thy spirit shall be the devil that shall torment thee to eternity. Then for a moment I saw this hell within me, which caused me to answer the Lord these words, saying, Lord, I will go whereever thou sendest me, only be with me. These were

the Lord's words, spoken unto me the first morning, and my answer unto my God; I being as perfectly awaked when he spoke unto me, the Lord is my witness, as I was at the writing hereof. Again the next morning the Lord spake unto me, saying, Go thou unto Lodowicke Muggleton, and with him go unto Thomas Turner, and he shall bring you to one John Tane, and do thou deliver my message when thou comest there; and if Lodowicke Muggleton deny to go with thee, then do thou from me pronounce him cursed to eternity. These words the Lord spake unto me the second morning, and no The third and last morning, the Lord spake unto me these words, saying, Go thou unto Lodowicke Muggleton, and take such a woman along

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with thee; and then go thou unto one John Robins, a prisoner in New Bridewell, and do thou deliver my message to him when thou comest there. These were the Lord's words the third and last morning, and all the words in the commission of the Lord spoken unto me; only this message of the Lord extends in general to the whole world, because the elect Jews and Gentiles are mixed in marriages through all parts of this earth, for whose sakes only we are sent. But as for those natural unbelieving Jews, that deny that God is come in flesh, those Jews shall never come to the faith of Jesus; we are not sent unto these. The Holy Spirit beareth witness in my spirit of the truth of that which I shall write unto you, that the first words that the Lord spake unto me, the words speaking came into my spirit. and body, with such an exceeding bright burning glory of God-like Majesty, that I did not well know whether I was a mortal man, or an immortal God; so glorious are the words of the immortal God, that the tongues of men nor angels can never express it; my body also was changed at that time for a season in a most dreadful manner to behold, of the which there be many that can bear witness at this time. Again, for your information that are spiritual, the Lord opened the understanding of my fellow-witness, and made him obedient with me in the messages of the Lord, as Aaron's understanding was opened, to make him obedient with Moses in the messages of the Lord at that time; and the Lord hath given him as glorious testimonies by revelation from his Holy Spirit, many a time, of the full assurance of this commission to be from the Lord, as ever the Lord gave to Aaron, to assure him that Moses's commission was from the Lord; only Moses's commis

sion (he being the Lord's first commissioner unto men) was manifested by natural signs, visible upon the bodies of men and women: and, on the contrary, we being the Lord's last commissioners, our commission is manifested by spiritual signs, upon the invisible spirits of men and women, because our message is all spiritual, concerning men and women's eternal weal or woe in the life to come.

CHAP. II.

Of the last great deceiving Antichrist, and Man of Sin, that ever shall be.

AGAIN, that you that are elected unto eternal glory, may understand something of this John Robins aforesaid; I declare from the Holy Spirit, that this John Robins was that last great Antichrist, or man of sin, or son of perdition, spoken of by Paul the Apostle in the Thessalonians, who (as it is written) opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God; so that he, as God, sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God: This is he that was to appear in this last age, a little before the personal visible coming of the Lord Jesus in the clouds, with his ten thousands of saints, in power and great glory, to separate between the persons of the true christians, whose weapons are spiritual faith, that work by love and patience, with all other such like heavenly virtues, from the persons of all lying hypocrites, who call themselves christians, but

they are indeed far worse than heathens, by killing their neighbours with the sword of steel; therefore their damnation will be far greater than the heathen's in theday of the Lord's vengeance. Again, it would be too tedious to write unto you, wherein this John Robins did appear to be the man of sin as beforesaid; so that the Pope is not the man of sin, as men blindly imagine, for want of the spirit of the scriptures: but, on the contrary, I declare from the spirit of the Lord Jesus, that all men that call themselves christians, and yet make use of the sword of steel, in any case whatsoever, the Pope and those men are both christians alike; therefore, to be an Antichrist, or a man of sin, to oppose God, as beforesaid, I declare from the Holy Spirit, that is when a man doth exalt himself in the place or person of God, and doth set up a worship seemingly far more pure than the simple, plain worship of God, and to manage his design, he doth shew many great lying signs and wonders, as thisJohn Robins did, to the great amazement of many deceived by him. It was a spiritual opposing of Jesus, which is the only God, by shewing of seeming spiritual lying signs and wonders, as this John Robins did; yea he shewed such signs as the Popes could never shew, nor never shall shew: wherefore, that you that are the elect may no longer remain in the dark, concerning the last great spiritual Antichrist, I declare from the Lord Jesus, that this John Robins did attribute to himself the titles of the only God: first, he called himself Adam Melchisedeck again, he called himself the God and Father of the Lord Jesus Christ: also he held forth a trinity of persons; as namely, Adam, Abel, and Cain again, he called himself the first Adam, saying, after he had been five thousand six hundred

and odd years in the dust, he was risen from the dead, to deliver his people; then he said that Abel was his son Jesus, the second person of his trinity: then he called Cain the Holy Ghost, and this was his third person of his trinity. This Cain, that was the seed of the serpent, or son of the devil, this was his Holy Ghost. I could write very much of his trinity concerning his wife Eve, so called by him, and of a Jesus he said should be born of her, of his begetting, and of a disciple of his that he called Cain, to make up his counterfeit trinity, but that it would hinder things of more value: again, he declared, that he knew all angels, their names, and their natures; also he said, that he had power over all voices; also he said, that he knew what the spirits of men spake that were in the dust: again, he said, that he was judge both of quick and dead: again he said, that the Lord Jesus was a weak and imperfect Saviour, and afraid of death; but he said, that he had no fear of death in him at all; but this Cain had proved himself an old liar, since his great blasphemy against the Lord Jesus again, this John Robins did declare, that he was to gather the Jews in all nations, and to lead them into their own land, unto Jerusalem; with many more such like things declared by him.

As for his lying spiritual signs and wonders, they were these and such like; unto some that were deceived by him he did present the form of his person riding upon the wings of the wind, like unto a flame of fire; also he did present unto some in their beds a great light like unto a flame of fire over all the room, that they have been compelled to hide their faces in their beds, fearing they should be burned; but when they hid their faces in their bed, the light did appear more brighter than before; also he would