LODOWICKE See also:MUGGLETON (1609–1698)
, See also:English sectarians, was See also:born in Bishopsgate See also:Street, See also:London
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His See also:father was a See also:farrier, but he himself was bred to be a tailor
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In 1651 he began to have revelations, and to proclaim himself and his See also:cousin See also:John See also:Reeve, whose journeyman he was, as the two witnesses mentioned in Rev. xi
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3
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In 1652 they put out their " See also:commission See also:book " under the See also:title The Transcendent Spirituall See also:Treatise
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An exposition of their doctrines was published in 1656 under the title of The Divine Looking-See also:Glass
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Among other views (besides the See also:doctrine of the divine See also:mission of the authors) this See also:work taught that the distinction of the three persons in the Trinity is merely nominal, that See also:God has a real human See also:body, and that He See also:left See also:Elijah as His vicegerent in See also:heaven when He Himself descended to See also:die on the See also:cross
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See also:Muggleton's opinions gained some notable adherents, but also called forth much opposition
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In 1653 he was imprisoned for See also:blasphemy, and twice (166o and 167o) his own followers temporarily repudiated him
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His attack on the See also:Quakers See also:drew forth See also:- WILLIAM
- WILLIAM (1143-1214)
- WILLIAM (1227-1256)
- WILLIAM (1J33-1584)
- WILLIAM (A.S. Wilhelm, O. Norse Vilhidlmr; O. H. Ger. Willahelm, Willahalm, M. H. Ger. Willehelm, Willehalm, Mod.Ger. Wilhelm; Du. Willem; O. Fr. Villalme, Mod. Fr. Guillaume; from " will," Goth. vilja, and " helm," Goth. hilms, Old Norse hidlmr, meaning
- WILLIAM (c. 1130-C. 1190)
- WILLIAM, 13TH
William See also:Penn's book, The New Witnesses proved old Heretics (1672)
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In 1677 Muggleton was tried at the Old See also:Bailey, convicted of blasphemy, and fined 500
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Reeve died in 1658, but Muggleton survived till 1698
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His collected See also:works, including the See also:posthumous Acts of the Witnesses, were published in 1756; and in 1832 some sixty Muggletonians subscribed to bring out a new edition of The Works of J
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Reeve and L
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Muggleton (in 3 vols
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4to)
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Even as See also:late as 1846 The Divine Looking-Glass was reprinted by members of the then almost See also:extinct See also:sect
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See A
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Jessopp, The Coming of the Friars (1888)
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