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    THE last time I was at Deal * awortiiy Unitarian friend of mine gave me an original letter , written upwards of fifty years ago , by a Mugr * gletonian , to a clergyman in Sussex ,

    iyitlv a vi ^ vy of prevailing- o& him to desist from his purpose of destroying * certain Muggfetoniaft books , which it appears , had fallen into his hands as a part of a legacy , and which he had threatened to burn .

    Conceiving that this curious production will afford both amusement and instruction to your numerous readers , pointing out to them the necessity and manifest advantage of exercising reason and common sense in matters of religion , I have taken the liberty of sending you a copy for Insertion . M . HARDING . ¦

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    Letter from John Lbwdtn , a Muggl&mi < i ®* titM Cletgymm , 3 &

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    _ ¦¦ ¦ ^^—^^ Mr . Biustow , I have written this letter to you , in Order * if it be possible , -to- prevent you fuming the books of my late father , ^ yritten Jby the Prophets JReeve and

    Muggleton , which are as sacred altogether as the Old and New Testaments , and of a higher nature , they being no less thaai the third and last testament of the only God , which m ChrisH Jesus out Lord ; and agreeing with and fully explaining the twofirst testaments , which are the law

    and the gospel , in every thing of concernment to the salvation of man . For , had you seea the whole of the writings of these two last witnesses , I am very sure that you could not have found a place iu all their books *

    but what acknowledges and justifies the Holy Scriptures to he the pure truth ; and that they were written by the : holy prophets aad apostles of the only Goa the Man Christ Jesus ; and that the holy prophets and apostles received their commission from

    God so to do * and were endowed with inspiration for that very purpose . But it is very clear to my understanding , that they were not to finish the mystery of God in their commissions . It will be well for them , therefore , that were obedient to the holy prophets and apostles in their time , and to the worship set up by them ; for everyone is to mind the worship of

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    that testament he k under * Awarding tot the Epiatle of St . Joha , there are three that bear record in heaven , the Father * the S ¥ 6 rd a ^ d the M ^/ Ghost , and these three are one . And there are three that bear i $ eoi $ : cH $

    earth , the Water , the Blood apd jfcfce Spirit , and these three agree in one * NW , there is a difference between three being one , and three agreeing in one—the tharee in heavea being but one personal God , though Called

    three * in respect of the three commissions or records on earth . This one personal and majesties ! God , the Man Christ Jesus , did purpose in or from heaven the throne of his „ glory * to bear witness to his three records

    on earth * First , before he had transmuted that glorious and spiritual body , which was from all eternity ^ from the soles of his divine feet to the crown of his divine head in the form of a rpan * He was pleased to bear witness to his first testament or record , ' under the title ofi I am Jehovah , and this

    first testament informs us , that this personal God invested his first-commissioned prophet with power as a God , to divide the Red Sea by his word , and gave Aaron to be his

    mouth ; which ought to be truly believed by every one that expects eter * nal life . I suppose , you will confess these were but men , though they stood in the place of God . This I call God ' s first record on earth , which

    witnessed that there is one glorious God in heaven , who upheld the Is * raelites by his great power , and commanded them to worship him only and no other God besides him , or distinct from him . Now , this form of worship set up by lVIoses , stood till

    the coming of Christ Jesus our Lord . This glbrious , spiritual and personal God , who gave Moses his commission , had power to descend personally from heaven , dissolve that spiritual body , form himself into a child of unspotted flesh , blood and bone , and thus became an absolute man like

    unto us in all things , sinful reason or lying imagination only excepted , and the head of the second testament ox record ; having first taken up into the glorious kingdom of the undefiled heaveps above the stars , the persons of Moses and Elim investing them with the power of being guardians of

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Jan. 2, 1824, page 37, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2520/page/37/