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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58336	A divine looking-glass, or, The third and last testament of Our Lord Jesus Christ whose personal residence is seated on his throne of eternal glory in another world : being the commission of the spirit, agreeing with, and explaining of the two former commissions of the law and Gospel, differing only in point of worship : set forth for the tryal of all sorts of supposed spiritual lights in the world, until the ever-lasting true Jesus, the onely high and mighty God, pesonally appear in the air with his saints and angels / by John Reeve and Lodowick Muggleton ...	Reeve, John, 1608-1658.; Muggleton, Lodowick, 1609-1698.	1661 (1661)	Wing R676; ESTC R35141	178,978	220

Adam and Eve after their transgression the which none can deny after so clear a demonstration of the Scripture seeds as this is except they be reprobates then without controversie that Serpent which was cursed for his evil deed was not without her but within her when he received that sentence by the mouth of the Lord and that seed or first-born of Eve called Cain was that cursed Serpent Angel himself clothed with flesh blood and bone in the form of a man 22 Who not being able to endure the sight of righteous Abel that blessed Seed or Son of God answerable unto that curse of enmity denounced against him in the womb of Eve his spirit was restless until he had manifested himself to be that old Serpent murthering lying devil and the father of all Cananitish murthering-minded men and women so frequently spoken of in Scriptures Not as Cain which was of that wicked one and slew his brother in the first Epistle of John chap. 3. He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man and the field is the world and the good seed are the children of the kingdom and the tares are the children of that wicked one and the enemy that soweth them is the devil Mat. 13. CHAP. XXXVI 1 Of the minde of the Spirit in the word Eating of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil 2 No true interpretation of the Scriptures but by immediate inspiration 3 Reason not capable of the mysteries of God 4 but Faith onely 5 No devils but men and women 6 No devil without man tempteth any 7 but the seed or lust of his own spirit WHat is the mind of the spirit by that word eating of the tree of knowledge of good and evil from the light of life eternal to this I answer The most wise Creator called it eating for several respects 2 First you may be sure that the Lord God called it eating that neither men or Angels should know his secrets untill it was his divine pleasure that he might receive the praise and glory alone from all those that he should reveal them unto 3 The spirit of God called it eating because of the civility of that speech for the Scripture language is much like to a modest pure Virgin who is loth to have her secret parts mentioned in the least though they are as usefully in their kinde and as honorable being undefiled as any part of the body 4 And why are they honorable because the onely Lord of all life and glory hath honored them himself by his blessed birth 5 Moreover you know if a spiritual or natural thing be propounded to the understanding of a man or woman of which they have had no experience their spirits feeds upon it and considers the pleasure of it as much as possible may be before they consent to taste of it with the whole man 6 So likewise in the word eating you may know that the meaning of the Spirit of God was this that the soul of Eve should beware of harkning unto any other voice that was contrary unto that divine image or voice of the Spirit of God within her so that if she should hear the voice of a stranger she should not give way in the least unto that voice lest she should be overcome therewith 7 Again if the Spirit of God instead of saying unto Eve thou shalt not eat thereof should have said thou shalt not spiritually or naturally lust after any God or Angel but be content with what I have appointed for thee then indeed there would have been no need of any interpretation upon the words but as beforesaid the wisdom of God saw it most fit to act otherwise 8 Therefore what ever the learned men of this world dream of finding out the invisible things of eternity by searching into the Scripture Records and comparing them together the divine Majesty hath locked up all the principal secrets of the Scriptures in his own spiritual breast that he by any immediate inspiration may dispose of them into the spirits of elect men and Angels most advantagious for his own glory and their consolation 9 Therefore the sacred Scriptures runs not in the line of reason but in the line of faith inspiration or revelation according to those sayings in the Hebrews and other Records 10 By faith the divine work of creation and wonderful mistery of redemption was and is known with the immortal eternal glory and everlasting shame of mens persons in the end of the world 11 But of the contrary you shall never read in any place of Scripture that any man knew the things of eternal glory in the least by any kinde of rational comprehension whatsoever 12 I confess the natural reason of man is a very good handmaid if it be well qualified with the spiritual dame of divine faith for illustrating of the things of God unto weak comprehensions 13 But as for truly understanding the invisible things of God by the highest reason that ever was in man or Angel it is utterly impossible as abundantly beforesaid 14 Why because though the spirit of reason were never so pure yet you may know its nature is but desire onely after the knowledge of the divine nature of that spirit from whence it had its living being 15 But of the contrary spiritual truth or faith being of the very divine nature of God himself in what soul soever that heavenly seed is sown it springeth up in that spirit with variety of glorious consolations in reference unto life eternal by vertue of an intercourse with the eternal spirit from whence it came 16 Moreover I confess that a man that is endued with a Solomon-like gift of natural reason may be able to comprehend all words whether they are spoken in a good form sense or language or no and to be mighty in disputes about the glorious things of eternity 17 But as for his real understanding whether there were any such eternal things or no he hath no certain knowledge of that at all but his bare thoughts onely which equally weighed in that ballance it may be true or it may be false and all this is for want of an infalibility of truth it self 18 Therefore though the divine things of the eternal Majesty be nothing else but spiritual purity of infallible truth in themselves yet unto that rational wise man they are nothing but non-sensical blasphemy or lying tales till his reason is confounded in him by a true and heavenly faith 19 Again if there should be any evil Angels or Devils living in the air and a Devil amongst them called Belzebub the Prince of Devils what need any man trouble himself with the least fear of eternal death whatsoever wickedness is committed by him because if a man is tempted to evil by any Devil but what is in his own nature onely that evil spirit is to be eternally damned and the man to be set free 20 Nay moreover if sin or evil issued not from mans

that of Adams or else Eve could not possibly have been deceived by him as aforesaid 7 Also his body being spiritual though his nature was carnal there was no let to hinder his descending into her womb to bring forth the Creators secret purpose of two generations coming through the loins of one woman to make an everlasting distinction between the transcendent glory of respection and shame of rejection 8 Though the Angelical Serpent descended into the womb of Eve yet you may know that his ascending nature was utterly lost in that in stead of his ascending upward into that habitation of ravishing glory from whence he was cast he was ignorant of it and of that God and his mighty Angels as if he had never known them in the least 9 For he imagined his Serpentine subtilty to be the onely wisdom then in being and this world to be the onely heaven 10 My beloved brethren in the eternal truth whatever carnal minded men vainly dream of a general redemption by Christ as sure as the Lord liveth there is a Serpentine generation of cursed men and women which glory in all manner of fleshly sporting themselves about a Creator or in possessing of a perfection in this mortallity which with their father Cain are utterly ignorant of the true God his everlasting kingdom elect Angels immortal personal glory or misery or any spiritual thing in the least 11 Doth not the Scripture throughout make mention of two distinct seeds sons or generations of mankind 12 Can Cain and Abel both therefore proceed from Adams loines or be of his begetting upon the body of Eve 13 It is written in the third of Luke and the last verse concerning Christ that he was the Son of Enos the son of Seth the son of Adam the Son of God If Christ Jesus the eternal Son of God according to the spirit was the very son of Adam according to the flesh can any sober man possibly think that there should be any relation of spirit or flesh between Christ and Cain 14 Or that the everliving God upon any account whatsoever should be brother unto a cursed Serpent 15 Though righteous Abel was Cains brother yet their brotherhood came by the mothers side onely and not by the father though Eve was made out of Adams side 16 You know that righteous Abel did represent the glorious person of all righteousness and truth it self who was that holy and innocent Lamb spiritually slain from the beginning of the world in Abel by the heart and hand of murthering lying Cain 17 Moreover is not this answerable unto that of Christ and his brethren you know their brotherhood was by the mothers side onely and not by the father 18 Thus if your eyes be opened you may see in contrariety a harmony between the seed of the woman and the seed of the Serpent 19 Again because of the great opposition that may rise up against this glorious truth through the exceeding pride and unbelief in the heart of most men give me leave to cite a few Scriptures in the 3. chapter of the first Epistle of John you may finde it thus written Not as Cain which was of that wicked one and slew his brother In the 13. Chap. of Matthew it is thus written He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man and the field is the world and the good seed are the children of the kingdom and the tares are the children of the wicked one and the enemy that soweth them is the devil 20 Moreover in the 8. chapter of St. John Christ Jesus the onely God of truth speaketh thus Ye are of your father the devil and the lusts of your father ye will do He hath been a murtherer from the beginning and abode not in the truth because there is no truth in him when he speaketh a lie then speaketh he of his own for he is a liar and the father thereof 21 My spiritual and rational friends which are sober was not Cain the first murdering lying man that ever was born of a woman Seeing no true Christian can gainsay it was not cursed Cain from the beginning that murthering devil and father of lies spoken of by Christ aforesaid 22 In answer unto those carnal Jews which boasted themselves to be of Abrahams seed and were not those lustful murdering minded Jews or Gentiles which our Lord branded with titles of Serpents Vipers children of the devil and such like filthy Cananites which proceeded out of the spirit of cursed Cain that old Serpent Dragon Devil and father of all the damned in this world and not from the spirit of Abraham though they might proceed from his loins according to the flesh through mixtures of seeds in marriages the sons of God saw the daughters of men to be fair and they took of them to be their wives 23 Though the blessed Israelites and cursed Cananites are mixed together by carnal copulation since the Prince of devils became flesh yet you that spiritual may know that the Lord Jesus that made them both knew how to separate them for all their close union and to call them by names answerable to their own natures 24 I confess that all that died in the first Adam shall be made alive in that second Adam the Lord from heaven but what was that whole world that were lost in the first Adam and found again in the second Adam 25 If with a spiritual eye you shall look from the 1. of Genes unto the last of the Revelation then you may clearly see what that whole world is which are appointed unto immortal Crowns of eternal glory by our Lord Jesus Christ behold are they not called a chosen Generation a Royal Priesthood a redeemed People adopted sons of God heirs or co-heirs with Christ blessed children or the lost sh●●p of Israel and such like 26 Did not the glorious Creator and blessed Redeemer himself make a clear distinction between two worlds or generations when he said I pray not for the world but for them that thou hast given me out of the world 27 Can you that are sober imagine or think that there is any spiritual salvation for those men or women which the Savior of the world excludes in his petition 28 Moreover it is written that the Apostle said We know that we are of God and the whole world lieth in wickedness or the devil 29 Behold ye redeemed ones of the most high God is it not as clear as light it self that there is two distinct whole worlds according to that saying then all Israel shall be saved 30 A redeemed world of elect lost Israelites and an unredeemed world of unlost Cananitish reprobates that were never truly lost in themselves and therefore never capable of being found in Christ according to that in the Epistle of Jude where it is thus written For there are certain men crept in which were of old ordained to condemnation ungodly men they are which turn the grace of God into wantonness