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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58338	Joyful news from heaven, or, The last intelligence from our glorified Jesus above the stars wherein is infallibly recorded how the soul dieth in the body : also is discovered I. What is that which sleeps in the dust, II. The nature of its rest, III. The manner of its waking, IV. The mystery of the dispute between Christ and the woman of Samaria, as touching the true point of worship, clearly opened : wherein you have drawn up a divine charge against the teachers of the Baptists, with all other teachers publick and private, for counterfeiting the commission of the man Jesus, being therein convicted of spiritual high treason against Christ the great commissioner of heaven and earth : with a true relation of the kingdom of darkness, prepared for the cursed seed of Cain, world without end / written by John Reeve and Lodowick Muggleton ...	Reeve, John, 1608-1658.; Muggleton, Lodowick, 1609-1698.	1658 (1658)	Wing R679; ESTC R32277	41,136	58

pleasure of the Creator for if the body or person of the man Adam had been spiritual in his creation as his spirit was then there would have been no difference between the person of the Creator and the person of the creature Thus the man Adam was made like unto God a pure natural person of all righteousnesse in mortality like unto the spiritual person person of God which is all righteousnesse in glory Again it is written the first Adam of the Earth earthly the second Adam the Lord from Heaven heavenly Thus you that see by that single Eye of Faith you may know that God became flesh or a man as well as Adam who was called the Image of God because God was a spiritual man from Eternity as abundantly beforesaid Now you must understand the reason why Jesus the only God was called the second Adam was this because the body or person of the Lord Jesus was a pure natural body of all righteousnesse in mortality just like unto the body or person of the first Adam before his fall only Christ the second Adam had the spirit of Faith in him above measure and the first Adam had the spirit of Faith in him by measure as beforesaid again the second Adam differed from the first Adam in this he being made a man of sorrows but the first Adam knew no sorrows before his fall and why did he become a man of sorrows it was to redeem the Elect seed of the Spirit of Faith overcome in his image the first Adam by the Reprobate Angel-Serpent as beforesaid Again as for the natures or spirits of the holy Angels in their Creation they were pure Reason quite contrary to the nature or spirit of Faith in God their Creator only in their bodies or persons they were spiritual or swift of motion like unto the spiritual person of God their Creator but if the nature or spirit of the holy Angels had been of of the spirit of pure Faith as they were of pure Reason then there would have been no difference between the person of God their Creator and the persons of the holy Angels in their Creation who are but creatures as well as men wherefore not the holy Angels for they are not of the nature of God as it is written he took not upon him the nature of Angels but the seed of Abraham but Elias as beforesaid by the secret wisdom and counsel and love of God unto man above Angels was exalted upon the throne of glory for a moment to represent the person of God the Father and he was made the protector of my God when God became a child and it was Elias by vertue of his Commission as a faithful spiritual Steward upon the throne of glory that filled the Lord Jesus with those great Revelations of his former glory that he possest in the Heavens when he was the immortal Father and it was Elias that spake those words from heaven saying this is my beloved Son in whom I am well pleased hear him again when Christ was transfigured upon the Mount that his garment glittered with the glory of his transfiguration it was the visible glorious appearance of the persons of Moses and Elias talking with him that were the instrumental Commissioners of that visible glory of the Lord Jesus unto his Disciples who said Master it is good for us to be here for that glory was so great that they would have been building of Tabernacles for a continuance in it Again I declare from the Lord that Elias by vertue of his Commission did fill Elect men and Angels also with Revelation to keep them in obedience until the Lord Jesus was upon the Throne of his glory again so that when the Lord Jesus who was an absolute creature cryed in his agony unto his Father when he prayed unto his Father that that Cup might passe from him if it were possible it being a dreadful Cup for his innocent flesh and blood to drink he being as sensible of pain in his body as we are in our bodies and when he cryed out saying my God my God why hast thou forsaken me and Father into thy hands I commend my spirit I say again from the Lord that Elias by Commission from this man Jesus was that Father that he thus cryed unto in his mortality Elias being then in glory and the chief ground of all those actions and sufferings and cryings out of the Lord Jesus in the condition of a creature unto a Father or a Creator was to fulfil the Scriptures foretold by his Prophets in the time of the Law therefore he said Heaven and Earth shall pass away but my word shall not pass away again but you may say unto me did God the third day rise from the dead by his own power or by the power of his Deputy Elias to which I answer he by his own decree and spiritual compact with Elias and by that spirit of Faith in his innocent body the which Faith died in his pure body and quickned immediately and brought forth at the appointed time that natural innocent body out of the grave a pure spiritual body which naturally at the time appointed ascended into glory for it was impossible for God by death to be held in the grave because his person being pure his pure spirit and death could not remain together because there was no sympathy or agreement or union between them yea they were so contrary it was impossible for them to be together except one of them were absolutely extinguished wherefore death being too weak the Lord Jesus who is the only God of all created life brake through death and hell and the grave and through all the sins of his Elect by the shedding of his most precious blood and so entred into his eternal glory that all those that have Faith in his glorious person may be delivered at the appointed time from sin hell death and the grave and enter into eternal glory with him when he comes in the clouds of Heaven Again the reason why mens bodies in death or after death do rot or stink in the grave and come to dust is because there was sin in their bodies whilst they lived the which sin and death had a sympathy and as it were a sweet communion together whereby death had full power as Lord and King to keep the spirits and bodies in the dust until the time appointed of the Lord of life but on the contrary if men had no sin in their natures or bodies they might life and die and naturally rise again by their own power in their own time as the Lord of life did whose body was too pure to see corruption Thus unto you that have Faith in the Lord Jesus it is not strange that Elias should represent the person of God the Father until the Lord Jesus ascended into the right hand of all power and glory of his Father Elias again then when Jesus was set down in the Throne of

the glory of the Father again Elias then as a glorified creature did return all praise and glory unto the Lord Jesus his Creator so that now it is the Lord Jesus alone by his holy Spirit that revealeth all spiritual and heavenly wisdom to elect men and Angels Elias having now with exceeding joy surrendred up his spiritual and glorious stewardship of representing the person of God the Father unto the right owner and sole Heir of Heaven and Earth and all therein is the Lord Jesus Christ the eternal Father God alone blessed to all eternity I know I have spoken enough to the spiritual Christian of this Truth IX AGain I declare by Revelation from the Holy Spirit that about this fourteen hundred years there hath not been one true Prophet nor Minister sent with a Commission from the Lord Jesus to declare or write or preach the everlasting Gospel of truth and peace unto his Elect Wherefore I declare by vertue of my Commission received by voyce of words from the Lord Jesus that all the Ministry in this world whether Prophetical or Ministerial with all the worship taught by them whether invisible or visible to the people it is all a lye and an abomination unto the Lord both the Ministry and their worship are as acceptable unto my God the man Jesus that sent me as the cutting off of a dogs neck Now unto you that discern truth from the Lord I shall give you light into this truth first I declare that all the true Commissionated Prophets of the Lord in the time of the Law from Moses unto John the Baptist with all the true commissionated Apostles and Ministers of the Lord Iesus in the Gospel they had every one of them in their Commission a power given them to set life and death before men or to declare blessing or cursing unto men which is all one according to their administrations received from the Lord. Again I declare from the Holy Spirit that the Lord Iesus did purpose within himself to send his Messengers three times to the world but three times to this bloody unbelieving world and no more for a witnesse or testimony unto them and to make known unto his Elect that he alone is the only God and everlasting Father wherefore you shall find it written there are three bear record in Heaven the Father the Word and the Spirit and these three are one again it is written there are three bear witnesse in Earth the Water the Blood and the Spirit and these three agree in one Again I declare from the Holy Spirit that those three in earth are the Lords three dispensations given to his Prophets or Messengers beforesaid the Water was the Commissions of Moses and the Prophet● under the Law the Blood was the Commission of the Apostles and those Ministers of the Gospel chosen by appointment from the Lord the Spirit which is the third and last Witnesse by Commission from the Lord are those two Witnesses spoken of in the Revelation prophesied of by John the beloved Disciple of Iesus that were to come in the last age whose Message or Ministery or Prophesie is all invisible and spiritual cutting off or condemning all fleshly formal worshipping of an invisible spiritual personal God taken up by vain-glorious men from the Letter of the Scripture which were the Prophets and Apostles Commissions because they want a Commission from the Lord. Again I declare from the Holy Spirit the Lord spake by voyce of word unto his three Commissioners that he hath sent unto the VVorld yea I know God the Father spake unto Moses as a man speaks unto his friend as it is written and I know that God spake unto the Apostles in the person of the Son as it is written because I know the Lord Iesus spake unto me in the person of the Holy Ghost or Spirit as beforesaid only the two former Witnesses saw the person of God in part visibly but I saw the glory of his person invisibly or within me because I am the Messenger of the Holy invisible Spirit Again Concerning those three bearing Record in Heaven beforesaid the meaning of those words are this God from Heaven in a three-fold name or title bear witnesse by Signes and VVonders unto his three Commissioners according to their several administrations given unto them unto Moses and the Prophets this personal God bare witnesse in the name or title of the Father unto the holy Apostles God bare witnesse in the name or title of the Son and unto us his third last Messengers God beareth witnesse in the name or title of the Holy-Spirit because our Commission is all spiritual we have to do only with the invisible spirits of men concerning the eternal estates of men and womens persons in the great and notable eternal Day of the Lords account therefore instead of natural signes upon the bodies or persons of men and women as in the two former Commssions of the Prophets and the Apostles the Lord Iesus beareth witnesse that he hath sent us by spiritual Signs or Wonders upon the spirits of those that are sealed up through our mouthes unto eternal life and unto eternal death as many do bear witnesse whose eyes are opened at this day in England in this great City of London Again This is a true testimony unto you that have faith in the Lord Iesus that he hath sent us by his Holy Spirit because there is none upon this earth that beareth witnesse unto that man Jesus that was crucified at Jerusalem to be the only God and everlasting Father but we only as Moses the Prophets and the Apostles bare witnesse in their times unto this Jesus to be the only God and alone eternal Father but on the contrary there is hardly a Minister in the world that confesseth an invisible God but they preach unto the people either a God of two Persons or a God of three Persons that is a Monster instead of one true personal God or else they teach the People to worship an infinite Spirit that is every where without a Body or Person but he is fain to borrow his creatures bodies to live in that is a God of words only without any form or substance or an infinite nothing that never can be comprehended nor apprehended in the least by any formed creature a cursed lying imaginary God from mans own unclean blind reason which occasioneth all kind of blood and cruelty to be committed in this wicked world between man and man for if men understood indeed that there is but one only wise God and that this God is a distinct body or person then would men understand that all those that are led by the voyce of the Holy Spirit of God the man Jesus to work righteousnesse in their bodies they lived in they only shall appear with bodies of all righteousnesse like unto their God the man Jesus visibly to behold face to face the glorious body of the God of all Righteousnesse for

ever and ever Amen XVI AGain from the holy Spirit I shall shew you the difference between elect men and Angels in glory the Angels natures or spirits being pure Reason they must always be supplyed by Revelation from the spirit of faith in the person of God to keep their spirits in pure obedience unto their Creator but on the contrary the Believers Spirits being of the very same divine nature of God they are but one voice or spirit speaking all pure obedience within themselves unto their Redeemer to whom alone be all Glory and praise from my Spirit with his Elect men and Angels to all eternity FINIS A Letter presented unto Alderman Fouke Lord Mayor of London from the two Witnesses and Prisoners of Jesus Christ in New gate as an eternal witness unto him with a Declaration unto the Recorder Steel and the Lord Chief Justice Rowles with the whole Bench and Jury and in general unto all Civil Magistrates and Juries in the World Iohn Reeve and Lodowick Muggleton the two last Spiritual Witnesses and true Prophets and only Ministers of the everlasting gospel by Commission from the holy Spirit of the true God the Lord Jesus Christ God and man in one Person blessed to all Eternity BY vertue of our Commission received by voyce of words from the glorious mouth of the onely true God upon the Throne of Glory the Lord Iesus Christ we shall make manifest unto men what the foundation is of the power of the Civil Magistrate and that he ought not to meddle with spiritual things which God hath reserved himself not allowing any man to touch them upon pain of eternal death but those onely by him anointed for that purpose First we declare that the Scriptures were given by Inspiration of the Holy Spirit therefore except the Magstrates were inspired with the same Spirit as those that speak the Scriptures they ought not to judge any man by them but ought rather to yield obedience themselves unto Holy Writ or they must perish to eternity Again we declare from the Holy Spirit that since God became flesh no Civil Magistrate hath any Authority from above to bee the Judge of any mans faith because it is a spiritual invisible gift from God that gives a man assurance of everlasting life but the Magistrates Authority is to judge the Civil Lawes of the Land which is grounded onely upon Reason but the things of Eternity are from God who is from Eternity to Eternity therefore Faith is the Evidence of things hoped for and reason is judge of things that are visible As for you that are skilful in the Law of Reason as soon as you hear an Action to be a breach of the Law you understand presently what punishment belongs to the Fact therefore the Apostle saith the Magistrate is the Minister of God for good to them that do well and a terrour to the evil doer Again wee declare from the Lord that no Magistrate by his power from the Law of Reason ought to usurp the Law of Faith into his Authority because the Law of Reason is utter●● ignorant of the Law of Faith the one being carnal and the other being spiritual therefore what Magistrate soever takes upon him to be the judge of us who are the Messengers of Faith in the true God they are enemies to the Lord Jesus Christ and shall surely perish to eternity Again from the Lord Jesus wee forewarn you that are Magistrates before it is too late that you tread not in the Lord Mayors steps presumptuously to take upon you to judge this Commission of the two edged sword of God put into our mouths which if you are left so to do it will cut you in sunder from the presence of our God to all eternity for our God is a consuming fire who did pronounce us cursed to eternity had we not obeyed his voyce therefore we perfectly know who ever is left great or small to speak evil of this Commission which God hath put unto us by calling it blasphemy delusion a devil or lie in so doing they have sinned against the Holy Ghost and must perish soul and body from the presence of our God Elect men and Angels to all eternity for God hath chosen us two onely and hath put the two edged sword of his Spirit into our mouths as beforesaid that whom we are made to pronounce blessed are blessed to eternity and whom we are made to pronounce cursed are cursed to eternity and this power no mortal can take out of our hands neither will out God any more give such power unto men whilst this World endures Therefore you that are Judges of this Earth be wise and learned and meddle with those things which you know in this World onely and call not your God to account at your bar for who ever arraigneth a Prophet at his Judgement Seat it is all one as arraigning his God for a Prophet commeth in the name and power of his God therefore he that despiseth the Prophet despiseth him that sent him Again we declare from the Lord Jesus if any Magistrate pretends to be a Preacher of the Gospel he having no Commission from our God so to do if he preach any more after we forbid him then we have full power to pronounce the sentence of eternal death upon him and it is so unrevocable Again we declare from the Lord Jesus that the cause why so many Magistrates and Ministers must suffer the vengeance of eternal death is because with one consent they fight against the true Messengers of God with the temporal Law invested upon them by men Again woe would have been unto U● 〈◊〉 wee had come in our own name but wee know that God sent us as sure as he sent Moses the Prophets and the Apostles and that great Authority as to be Judges of blasphemy against the Holy Ghost wee onely are invested withal Wherefore you Magistrates that are not yet under this sentence of eternal death from the Lord Jesus our counsel is if you desire blessedness in the life to come that you would not meddle to be the Judges of spiritual things knowing you have no Commission from the Lord remember the counsel of Caiphas the High Priest if it be possible and prevent the Lord Mayors eternal curse SIR THe 15. of September 1653. you may remember by vertue of your Warrant wee were brought before you not being guilty of the breach of any civil Law the man Jesus our onely God elect men and Angels will beare us witness too but we being accused of words only in relation to a Commission received from our God by voice from Heaven it was your pleasure to commit us unto Newgate as the only offenders in this world notwithstanding I gave you a full account of the Lord Jesus speaking unto me by voice of words three morning together commanding me to deliver this his wonderful and strange message unto Magistrates Ministers and people concerning his blessing or

new life of a glorious encrease both spiritual and natural so that death in its place is as useful for the Creators raising of glory to himself as life is in its place this proves the truth of these Scriptures He poured out his soul unto death again The soul that sins shall die again He c●yed with a loud voyce and gave up the ghost again In the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt die the death again His soul was made an offering for sin again He was put to death in thy flesh and quicked in the spirit I know I have written enough to satisfie in the proof of this truth all spiritual Christians XIV AGain it is written and those that sleep in Jesus shall rise first that is those that fell asleep in the believing of the visible coming of the glorious person of the Lord Jesus in the clouds of Heaven in power and great glory their bodies shall be raised first out of the sleep of death because they were united by faith unto the person of their Lord Jesus who was the first that ever rose from the dead by his own power who raised life in death or out of death therefore he was called the first fruits of the resurrection or of life from death again you that see by faith m●y understand that not the same bodie● that died or fell asleep shall appear any more at all then the body of wheat doth as beforesaid which Paul fitly compareth together in their resurrection where it is written but God giveth it a body as it pleaseth him and to every seed his ●wn body that is as beforesaid that grain or body of wheat that died quickened a new life out of death and brought forth in a glorious manner in due season many bodies of the same form of that that dyed and yet that body that died appeared no more so likewise it shall be with all that died in the faith of Jesus not the same bodies or persons they lived in and died in shall appear again any more but that spirit of faith mixt with pure love and all other spiritual vertues that were in their former bodies by the which they died unto the power of sin and lived unto the power of righteousnesse that divine seed of faith sowed in the former body died with the first body immediately quickned a new life out of death by the decree of the Lord Jesus for you know there is no time now unto God nor unto them that are dead and so brought forth a spiritual body in its ●orm like unto that in the dust yea of a body of pure righteousness the same nature of that holy spiritual faith that raised it out of death yea a glorious body brighter then the Sun in its strength and as swift as thought yea bodies of such a bright burning glory that no persecuting Canaanites can behold and live because our spirits and bodies according to our faith and shall be made like unto the glorious body of God the man Jesus the which no man in mortality with his natural eye can behold and live then shall all the Elect in the twinkling of an eye both those that slept in the dust and those that are alive at that time whose bodies also shall be changed like unto those that slept then I say they shall all ascend together as one body to meet their Head the Lord Jesus in the Aire and with their King they shall enter into his Kingdom of eternal glory where that new Heaven and new Earth are beforesaid there with holy Angels to behold the glorious face of the only wise God and everlasting Father the Lord Jesus Christ with new glorious songs and praises unto their Redeemers that was dead as it is written to redeem us by his precious blood from eternal death and now behold be liveth for evermore therefore we eternally live with him XV. AGain I declare by revelation from the Holy Spirit that when the Elect are thus glorified they are absolutely of the very same glorious nature both in spirit and body as God is as God and they were both of one nature in mortality sin only excepted wherefore as the spirit of faith and love infinitely in the glorious person of God overfloweth as a fountain continually with revelation of new Heavenly wisedom from whence flows new joys and glory to himself and the holy Angels so shall every Believer according to his degree in glory be as a Well springing up unto everlasting life of revelation of new wisedom from whence flows new joys and glory within his own person like unto his God only they shall naturally returne the glory and praise unto their fountain the Lord Jesus for this their exaltation upon the glorious Throne of his own likenesse for it is the righteous actings and sufferings that was in the innocent body of the Lord Jesus when the was in mortality that by his infinite wisedom is made naturally that glorious fire to kindle new Revelation of Heavenly wisdom with in his body for the increase of his glory to all eternity as beforesaid so likewise all those righteous actings and sufferings for truth sake that were acted and suffered in our former bodies by the appointment of our God shall be conveyed into our new spritual bodies that are like unto our God and shall be that glorious fire naturally to kindle revelation of new wisedom from whence flows glorious new songs and praises unto our Redeemer the fountain of all our glory for everlasting world without end as abundantly beforesaid then shall these Scriptures be fulfilled to him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne even as I also overcame and am set down with my Father in his throne Again and he that overcometh and keepeth my words unto the end to him will I give power over the Nations and be shall rule them with a Rod of iron as the vessels of a Potter shall they be broken to shivers even as I received of my Father and I will give him the morning star Again him that overcometh will I make a Pillar in the Temple of my God and he shall go no more out and I will write upon him the name of my God and the name of the City of my God which is new Jerusalem which cometh down out of Heaven from my God and I will write upon him my new name Again he that overcometh shall inherit all things and I will be his God and he shall be my son Again henceforth I will not drink of this fruit of the Vine until that day I drink it new with you in my fathers Kingdom Again and from Jesus Christ who is the faithful witnesse and the first begotten of the dead and the Prince of the Kings of the Earth Unto him that hath loved us as washed us from our sins in his own blood and hath made us Kings and Priests unto God and his Father to him be glory and dominion for